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

Fucking hack. Fan service = ride on the nostalgia of the ...
diverse cheese-eating karate potus
  12/18/15
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diverse cheese-eating karate potus
  12/18/15
What about cloverfield?
Drab prole ceo
  12/18/15
Not a reboot.
diverse cheese-eating karate potus
  12/18/15
Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...
Drab prole ceo
  12/18/15
He wasn't given the godzilla franchise and told to run with ...
diverse cheese-eating karate potus
  12/18/15
Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.
Drab prole ceo
  12/18/15
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Sickened trump supporter yarmulke
  05/28/25
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diverse cheese-eating karate potus
  06/08/25
credited analysis
Boyish gaping
  06/08/25
its called a macguffin and has been around since the beginni...
big glassy cruise ship degenerate
  06/08/25


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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:08 AM
Author: diverse cheese-eating karate potus

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: diverse cheese-eating karate potus



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM
Author: Drab prole ceo

What about cloverfield?

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:12 AM
Author: diverse cheese-eating karate potus

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: Drab prole ceo

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: diverse cheese-eating karate potus

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: Drab prole ceo

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: Sickened trump supporter yarmulke



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: diverse cheese-eating karate potus



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: Boyish gaping

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: big glassy cruise ship degenerate

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)