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

Fucking hack. Fan service = ride on the nostalgia of the ...
Spectacular Den
  12/18/15
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Spectacular Den
  12/18/15
What about cloverfield?
passionate thirsty filthpig
  12/18/15
Not a reboot.
Spectacular Den
  12/18/15
Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...
passionate thirsty filthpig
  12/18/15
He wasn't given the godzilla franchise and told to run with ...
Spectacular Den
  12/18/15
Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.
passionate thirsty filthpig
  12/18/15
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Apoplectic ticket booth dysfunction
  05/28/25
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Spectacular Den
  06/08/25
credited analysis
primrose misunderstood church building cuckold
  06/08/25
its called a macguffin and has been around since the beginni...
Wine rough-skinned fat ankles stage
  06/08/25


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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:08 AM
Author: Spectacular Den

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: Spectacular Den



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM
Author: passionate thirsty filthpig

What about cloverfield?

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:12 AM
Author: Spectacular Den

Not a reboot.

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:14 AM
Author: passionate thirsty filthpig

Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:16 AM
Author: Spectacular Den

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.

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:18 AM
Author: passionate thirsty filthpig

Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 1:13 PM
Author: Apoplectic ticket booth dysfunction



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: Spectacular Den



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: primrose misunderstood church building cuckold

credited analysis

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Date: June 8th, 2025 4:16 PM
Author: Wine rough-skinned fat ankles stage

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)