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

Fucking hack. Fan service = ride on the nostalgia of the ...
Hideous pearl gas station
  12/18/15
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Hideous pearl gas station
  12/18/15
What about cloverfield?
Slippery whorehouse
  12/18/15
Not a reboot.
Hideous pearl gas station
  12/18/15
Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...
Slippery whorehouse
  12/18/15
He wasn't given the godzilla franchise and told to run with ...
Hideous pearl gas station
  12/18/15
Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.
Slippery whorehouse
  12/18/15
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Geriatric metal black woman stag film
  05/28/25
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Hideous pearl gas station
  06/08/25
credited analysis
Gaped queen of the night
  06/08/25
its called a macguffin and has been around since the beginni...
Frum state
  06/08/25


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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:08 AM
Author: Hideous pearl gas station

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: Hideous pearl gas station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3073734&forum_id=2Elisa#29407136)



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM
Author: Slippery whorehouse

What about cloverfield?

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:12 AM
Author: Hideous pearl gas station

Not a reboot.

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:14 AM
Author: Slippery whorehouse

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: Hideous pearl gas station

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: Slippery whorehouse

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: Geriatric metal black woman stag film



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: Hideous pearl gas station



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: Gaped queen of the night

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: Frum state

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)