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

Fucking hack. Fan service = ride on the nostalgia of the ...
mind-boggling fortuitous meteor
  12/18/15
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mind-boggling fortuitous meteor
  12/18/15
What about cloverfield?
razzmatazz indian lodge messiness
  12/18/15
Not a reboot.
mind-boggling fortuitous meteor
  12/18/15
Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...
razzmatazz indian lodge messiness
  12/18/15
He wasn't given the godzilla franchise and told to run with ...
mind-boggling fortuitous meteor
  12/18/15
Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.
razzmatazz indian lodge messiness
  12/18/15
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buck-toothed cerebral corner philosopher-king
  05/28/25
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mind-boggling fortuitous meteor
  06/08/25
credited analysis
Narrow-minded gas station chad
  06/08/25
its called a macguffin and has been around since the beginni...
Apoplectic police squad
  06/08/25


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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:08 AM
Author: mind-boggling fortuitous meteor

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: mind-boggling fortuitous meteor



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM
Author: razzmatazz indian lodge messiness

What about cloverfield?

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:12 AM
Author: mind-boggling fortuitous meteor

Not a reboot.

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:14 AM
Author: razzmatazz indian lodge messiness

Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...

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



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:16 AM
Author: mind-boggling fortuitous meteor

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: razzmatazz indian lodge messiness

Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.

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



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Date: May 28th, 2025 1:13 PM
Author: buck-toothed cerebral corner philosopher-king



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: mind-boggling fortuitous meteor



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: Narrow-minded gas station chad

credited analysis

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



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Date: June 8th, 2025 4:16 PM
Author: Apoplectic police squad

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...id.#48997323)