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

Fucking hack. Fan service = ride on the nostalgia of the ...
Medicated beady-eyed property
  12/18/15
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Medicated beady-eyed property
  12/18/15
What about cloverfield?
frisky market trust fund
  12/18/15
Not a reboot.
Medicated beady-eyed property
  12/18/15
Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...
frisky market trust fund
  12/18/15
He wasn't given the godzilla franchise and told to run with ...
Medicated beady-eyed property
  12/18/15
Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.
frisky market trust fund
  12/18/15
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hairraiser corn cake
  05/28/25
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Medicated beady-eyed property
  06/08/25
credited analysis
Violent swollen therapy
  06/08/25
its called a macguffin and has been around since the beginni...
yellow charismatic striped hyena gas station
  06/08/25


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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:08 AM
Author: Medicated beady-eyed property

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: Medicated beady-eyed property



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM
Author: frisky market trust fund

What about cloverfield?

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:12 AM
Author: Medicated beady-eyed property

Not a reboot.

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:14 AM
Author: frisky market trust fund

Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:16 AM
Author: Medicated beady-eyed property

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: frisky market trust fund

Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 1:13 PM
Author: hairraiser corn cake



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: Medicated beady-eyed property



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: Violent swollen therapy

credited analysis

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Date: June 8th, 2025 4:16 PM
Author: yellow charismatic striped hyena gas station

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

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