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

Fucking hack. Fan service = ride on the nostalgia of the ...
bearded school toaster
  12/18/15
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bearded school toaster
  12/18/15
What about cloverfield?
mind-boggling obsidian tattoo pistol
  12/18/15
Not a reboot.
bearded school toaster
  12/18/15
Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...
mind-boggling obsidian tattoo pistol
  12/18/15
He wasn't given the godzilla franchise and told to run with ...
bearded school toaster
  12/18/15
Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.
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  12/18/15
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milky vibrant personal credit line
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bearded school toaster
  06/08/25
credited analysis
Garnet Rebellious Menage
  06/08/25
its called a macguffin and has been around since the beginni...
startled whorehouse
  06/08/25


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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:08 AM
Author: bearded school toaster

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: bearded school toaster



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM
Author: mind-boggling obsidian tattoo pistol

What about cloverfield?

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:12 AM
Author: bearded school toaster

Not a reboot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3073734&forum_id=2Elisa#29407151)



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:14 AM
Author: mind-boggling obsidian tattoo pistol

Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3073734&forum_id=2Elisa#29407161)



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:16 AM
Author: bearded school toaster

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=2Elisa#29407176)



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:18 AM
Author: mind-boggling obsidian tattoo pistol

Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3073734&forum_id=2Elisa#29407179)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 1:13 PM
Author: milky vibrant personal credit line



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: bearded school toaster



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: Garnet Rebellious Menage

credited analysis

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3073734&forum_id=2Elisa#48997106)



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Date: June 8th, 2025 4:16 PM
Author: startled whorehouse

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=2Elisa#48997323)