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Originally Posted by trackercowe
Except for you know, never doing a bad movie in his career... So there's that 
Mission Impossible, Star Trek, Super 8, Cloverfield, Lost, Alias, Fringe, heck he even wrote Joy Ride which was a pretty solid movie back in the day. Maybe he doesn't have the spectacular track record some directors do, but comparing him to Michael Bay is asinine. The only thing they have in common is that they both worked on Armageddon (a 31/32 year old Abrams wrote it). |
Abrams has never made a great movie either, he's pretty overrated.
Abrams' Star Trek movies lack any sort of depth, the only depth they have is from the original series. The Mission Impossible he did pales in comparison to the next one in the series and after that it's a whole bunch of meh.
JJ Abrams has a lot more in common with Michael Bay then some of the best directors currently working. He's no Alex Payne, he's no Darren Aronofsky, David O' Russell, Christopher Nolan, Ben Affleck, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Coen Brothers, David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino or Kathryn Bigelow etc etc etc.
These are directors who are capable of telling amazing stories, some with incredible Sci-Fi back rounds but telling them with heart, passion and a friggin backbone. His stories make money, they're flashy as all hell but lack and sort of depth and emotion. His Star Wars movies are going to be flashy, lots of cool light saber battles.. but you won't care about the characters. But like his two Trek movies I'll be there opening weekend, desperately hoping I'm wrong.
Maybe Michael Bay is too harsh... Brett Ratner is a good comparison. Ratner's pretty crappy too but he's also had a couple decent movies like Red Dragon and Rush Hour.