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JJ Abrams movie "reboots": fan service + mystery box chasing = PROFIT!

Fucking hack. Fan service = ride on the nostalgia of the ...
trip frisky filthpig
  12/18/15
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trip frisky filthpig
  12/18/15
What about cloverfield?
Wonderful death wish cuckoldry
  12/18/15
Not a reboot.
trip frisky filthpig
  12/18/15
Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...
Wonderful death wish cuckoldry
  12/18/15
He wasn't given the godzilla franchise and told to run with ...
trip frisky filthpig
  12/18/15
Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.
Wonderful death wish cuckoldry
  12/18/15
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provocative selfie library
  05/28/25
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trip frisky filthpig
  06/08/25
credited analysis
underhanded toilet seat
  06/08/25
its called a macguffin and has been around since the beginni...
Excitant mediation stead
  06/08/25


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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:08 AM
Author: trip frisky filthpig

Fucking hack.

Fan service = ride on the nostalgia of the original, bring back some original characters, have them wink at the audience and be charming, then often die to "make room" for the "new blood"

Mystery box chasing = there's some object that the good guys and bad guys both strive for, it's the maguffin, there's no underlying theme in the movie other than this mystery box chasing, and the mystery box is ultimately hollow and meaningless, he talks about it here: https://www.ted.com/talks/j_j_abrams_mystery_box?language=en

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:10 AM
Author: trip frisky filthpig



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM
Author: Wonderful death wish cuckoldry

What about cloverfield?

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:12 AM
Author: trip frisky filthpig

Not a reboot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3073734&forum_id=2)#29407151)



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:14 AM
Author: Wonderful death wish cuckoldry

Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3073734&forum_id=2)#29407161)



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:16 AM
Author: trip frisky filthpig

He wasn't given the godzilla franchise and told to run with it. The prime example of reboots he does this shit to was star trek.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3073734&forum_id=2)#29407176)



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:18 AM
Author: Wonderful death wish cuckoldry

Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3073734&forum_id=2)#29407179)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 1:13 PM
Author: provocative selfie library



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: trip frisky filthpig



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: underhanded toilet seat

credited analysis

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3073734&forum_id=2)#48997106)



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Date: June 8th, 2025 4:16 PM
Author: Excitant mediation stead

its called a macguffin and has been around since the beginning. ljl JJ is trying to literally reboot a trope.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3073734&forum_id=2)#48997323)