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

Fucking hack. Fan service = ride on the nostalgia of the ...
Aromatic talking lay sandwich
  12/18/15
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Aromatic talking lay sandwich
  12/18/15
What about cloverfield?
crystalline self-absorbed psychic
  12/18/15
Not a reboot.
Aromatic talking lay sandwich
  12/18/15
Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...
crystalline self-absorbed psychic
  12/18/15
He wasn't given the godzilla franchise and told to run with ...
Aromatic talking lay sandwich
  12/18/15
Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.
crystalline self-absorbed psychic
  12/18/15
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aphrodisiac cruise ship
  05/28/25
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Aromatic talking lay sandwich
  06/08/25
credited analysis
Diverse disrespectful set
  06/08/25
its called a macguffin and has been around since the beginni...
Big slimy reading party school cafeteria
  06/08/25


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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:08 AM
Author: Aromatic talking lay sandwich

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: Aromatic talking lay sandwich



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM
Author: crystalline self-absorbed psychic

What about cloverfield?

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:12 AM
Author: Aromatic talking lay sandwich

Not a reboot.

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:14 AM
Author: crystalline self-absorbed psychic

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: Aromatic talking lay sandwich

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: crystalline self-absorbed psychic

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: aphrodisiac cruise ship



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: Aromatic talking lay sandwich



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: Diverse disrespectful set

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: Big slimy reading party school cafeteria

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)