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

Fucking hack. Fan service = ride on the nostalgia of the ...
jade twisted office skinny woman
  12/18/15
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jade twisted office skinny woman
  12/18/15
What about cloverfield?
Offensive Pit Marketing Idea
  12/18/15
Not a reboot.
jade twisted office skinny woman
  12/18/15
Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...
Offensive Pit Marketing Idea
  12/18/15
He wasn't given the godzilla franchise and told to run with ...
jade twisted office skinny woman
  12/18/15
Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.
Offensive Pit Marketing Idea
  12/18/15
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hateful area electric furnace
  05/28/25
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jade twisted office skinny woman
  06/08/25
credited analysis
rusted appetizing affirmative action queen of the night
  06/08/25
its called a macguffin and has been around since the beginni...
Lilac locus
  06/08/25


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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:08 AM
Author: jade twisted office skinny woman

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: jade twisted office skinny woman



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM
Author: Offensive Pit Marketing Idea

What about cloverfield?

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:12 AM
Author: jade twisted office skinny woman

Not a reboot.

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:14 AM
Author: Offensive Pit Marketing Idea

Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:16 AM
Author: jade twisted office skinny woman

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: Offensive Pit Marketing Idea

Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 1:13 PM
Author: hateful area electric furnace



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: jade twisted office skinny woman



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: rusted appetizing affirmative action queen of the night

credited analysis

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Date: June 8th, 2025 4:16 PM
Author: Lilac locus

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)