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

Fucking hack. Fan service = ride on the nostalgia of the ...
Heady pontificating incel
  12/18/15
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Heady pontificating incel
  12/18/15
What about cloverfield?
sienna well-lubricated regret
  12/18/15
Not a reboot.
Heady pontificating incel
  12/18/15
Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...
sienna well-lubricated regret
  12/18/15
He wasn't given the godzilla franchise and told to run with ...
Heady pontificating incel
  12/18/15
Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.
sienna well-lubricated regret
  12/18/15
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Electric Talking Corner Half-breed
  05/28/25
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Heady pontificating incel
  06/08/25
credited analysis
Sapphire karate institution
  06/08/25
its called a macguffin and has been around since the beginni...
big ultramarine roommate preventive strike
  06/08/25


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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:08 AM
Author: Heady pontificating incel

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: Heady pontificating incel



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM
Author: sienna well-lubricated regret

What about cloverfield?

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:12 AM
Author: Heady pontificating incel

Not a reboot.

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:14 AM
Author: sienna well-lubricated regret

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: Heady pontificating incel

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: sienna well-lubricated regret

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: Electric Talking Corner Half-breed



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: Heady pontificating incel



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: Sapphire karate institution

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 ultramarine roommate preventive strike

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)