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

Fucking hack. Fan service = ride on the nostalgia of the ...
Blue dog poop mexican
  12/18/15
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Blue dog poop mexican
  12/18/15
What about cloverfield?
ocher cracking brethren
  12/18/15
Not a reboot.
Blue dog poop mexican
  12/18/15
Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...
ocher cracking brethren
  12/18/15
He wasn't given the godzilla franchise and told to run with ...
Blue dog poop mexican
  12/18/15
Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.
ocher cracking brethren
  12/18/15
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Emerald Yarmulke
  05/28/25
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Blue dog poop mexican
  06/08/25
credited analysis
provocative hell
  06/08/25
its called a macguffin and has been around since the beginni...
Canary overrated mental disorder field
  06/08/25


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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:08 AM
Author: Blue dog poop mexican

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: Blue dog poop mexican



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM
Author: ocher cracking brethren

What about cloverfield?

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:12 AM
Author: Blue dog poop mexican

Not a reboot.

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:14 AM
Author: ocher cracking brethren

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: Blue dog poop mexican

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: ocher cracking brethren

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: Emerald Yarmulke



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: Blue dog poop mexican



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: provocative hell

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: Canary overrated mental disorder field

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)