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Originally Posted by keg in kc
They've always been the problem. He's great at his end of the job. But the scripts always have issues.
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Personally, I think that Andrew Stanton would have been a better choice for Episode VII.
I realize that
John Carter of Mars wasn't received well, but that's partially because there was too much source material for one single film. That and the fact that they tried to stay true to ERB's vision of Mars, which is different than it would be if it were imagined today.
IMO, he did an excellent job with the actors, especially the interaction of Carter and Tars Tarkas, played by Willem Dafoe. Because of his work in animation at Pixar, he was able to get the humans to emote with their voices only in such films as
Finding Nemo and
Wall-E, which led to very convincing scenes between humans and CGI aliens.
I'm very wary of Abrams ability to get his actors to be convincing when filming in front of a green screen, let alone to CGI characters such as R2D2, etc.