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

Fucking hack. Fan service = ride on the nostalgia of the ...
Azure lodge
  12/18/15
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Azure lodge
  12/18/15
What about cloverfield?
turquoise locus
  12/18/15
Not a reboot.
Azure lodge
  12/18/15
Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...
turquoise locus
  12/18/15
He wasn't given the godzilla franchise and told to run with ...
Azure lodge
  12/18/15
Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.
turquoise locus
  12/18/15
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Haunting background story
  05/28/25
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Azure lodge
  06/08/25
credited analysis
concupiscible yellow really tough guy
  06/08/25
its called a macguffin and has been around since the beginni...
Talented overrated tanning salon
  06/08/25


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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:08 AM
Author: Azure lodge

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=2:#29407126)



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:10 AM
Author: Azure lodge



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM
Author: turquoise locus

What about cloverfield?

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:12 AM
Author: Azure lodge

Not a reboot.

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:14 AM
Author: turquoise locus

Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:16 AM
Author: Azure lodge

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.

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:18 AM
Author: turquoise locus

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: Haunting background story



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: Azure lodge



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: concupiscible yellow really tough guy

credited analysis

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Date: June 8th, 2025 4:16 PM
Author: Talented overrated tanning salon

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)