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

Fucking hack. Fan service = ride on the nostalgia of the ...
chrome rambunctious twinkling uncleanness
  12/18/15
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chrome rambunctious twinkling uncleanness
  12/18/15
What about cloverfield?
Opaque adventurous church
  12/18/15
Not a reboot.
chrome rambunctious twinkling uncleanness
  12/18/15
Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...
Opaque adventurous church
  12/18/15
He wasn't given the godzilla franchise and told to run with ...
chrome rambunctious twinkling uncleanness
  12/18/15
Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.
Opaque adventurous church
  12/18/15
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Rusted sandwich
  05/28/25
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chrome rambunctious twinkling uncleanness
  06/08/25
credited analysis
fiercely-loyal indecent rigor
  06/08/25
its called a macguffin and has been around since the beginni...
electric idea he suggested
  06/08/25


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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:08 AM
Author: chrome rambunctious twinkling uncleanness

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: chrome rambunctious twinkling uncleanness



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM
Author: Opaque adventurous church

What about cloverfield?

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:12 AM
Author: chrome rambunctious twinkling uncleanness

Not a reboot.

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:14 AM
Author: Opaque adventurous church

Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:16 AM
Author: chrome rambunctious twinkling uncleanness

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: Opaque adventurous church

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: Rusted sandwich



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: chrome rambunctious twinkling uncleanness



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal indecent rigor

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: electric idea he suggested

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)