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

Fucking hack. Fan service = ride on the nostalgia of the ...
Salmon bearded selfie
  12/18/15
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Salmon bearded selfie
  12/18/15
What about cloverfield?
insanely creepy iridescent orchestra pit
  12/18/15
Not a reboot.
Salmon bearded selfie
  12/18/15
Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...
insanely creepy iridescent orchestra pit
  12/18/15
He wasn't given the godzilla franchise and told to run with ...
Salmon bearded selfie
  12/18/15
Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.
insanely creepy iridescent orchestra pit
  12/18/15
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henna hyperventilating halford
  05/28/25
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Salmon bearded selfie
  06/08/25
credited analysis
Curious preventive strike karate
  06/08/25
its called a macguffin and has been around since the beginni...
Azure appetizing boltzmann whorehouse
  06/08/25


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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:08 AM
Author: Salmon bearded selfie

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3073734&forum_id=2Elisa#29407126)



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:10 AM
Author: Salmon bearded selfie



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM
Author: insanely creepy iridescent orchestra pit

What about cloverfield?

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:12 AM
Author: Salmon bearded selfie

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: insanely creepy iridescent orchestra pit

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: Salmon bearded selfie

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: insanely creepy iridescent orchestra pit

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: henna hyperventilating halford



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: Salmon bearded selfie



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: Curious preventive strike karate

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: Azure appetizing boltzmann 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)