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

Fucking hack. Fan service = ride on the nostalgia of the ...
green newt
  12/18/15
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green newt
  12/18/15
What about cloverfield?
Soul-stirring lilac national security agency
  12/18/15
Not a reboot.
green newt
  12/18/15
Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...
Soul-stirring lilac national security agency
  12/18/15
He wasn't given the godzilla franchise and told to run with ...
green newt
  12/18/15
Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.
Soul-stirring lilac national security agency
  12/18/15
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Maize trump supporter
  05/28/25
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green newt
  06/08/25
credited analysis
autistic center associate
  06/08/25
its called a macguffin and has been around since the beginni...
disgusting lemon space mediation
  06/08/25


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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:08 AM
Author: green newt

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=2E#29407126)



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:10 AM
Author: green newt



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM
Author: Soul-stirring lilac national security agency

What about cloverfield?

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:12 AM
Author: green newt

Not a reboot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3073734&forum_id=2E#29407151)



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:14 AM
Author: Soul-stirring lilac national security agency

Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...

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



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:16 AM
Author: green newt

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=2E#29407176)



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:18 AM
Author: Soul-stirring lilac national security agency

Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.

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



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Date: May 28th, 2025 1:13 PM
Author: Maize trump supporter



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: green newt



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: autistic center associate

credited analysis

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



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Date: June 8th, 2025 4:16 PM
Author: disgusting lemon space mediation

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=2E#48997323)