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

Fucking hack. Fan service = ride on the nostalgia of the ...
Burgundy Federal Goal In Life Sound Barrier
  12/18/15
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Burgundy Federal Goal In Life Sound Barrier
  12/18/15
What about cloverfield?
cream idiot electric furnace
  12/18/15
Not a reboot.
Burgundy Federal Goal In Life Sound Barrier
  12/18/15
Its kinda a reboot of godzilla...
cream idiot electric furnace
  12/18/15
He wasn't given the godzilla franchise and told to run with ...
Burgundy Federal Goal In Life Sound Barrier
  12/18/15
Yeah. I actually hated the latest Star Trek movie.
cream idiot electric furnace
  12/18/15
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Awkward area coldplay fan
  05/28/25
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Burgundy Federal Goal In Life Sound Barrier
  06/08/25
credited analysis
cerebral indian lodge
  06/08/25
its called a macguffin and has been around since the beginni...
Embarrassed to the bone house police squad
  06/08/25


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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:08 AM
Author: Burgundy Federal Goal In Life Sound Barrier

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: Burgundy Federal Goal In Life Sound Barrier



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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:11 AM
Author: cream idiot electric furnace

What about cloverfield?

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Date: December 18th, 2015 11:12 AM
Author: Burgundy Federal Goal In Life Sound Barrier

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: cream idiot electric furnace

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: Burgundy Federal Goal In Life Sound Barrier

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: cream idiot electric furnace

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: Awkward area coldplay fan



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: Burgundy Federal Goal In Life Sound Barrier



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Date: June 8th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: cerebral indian lodge

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: Embarrassed to the bone house 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=2E#48997323)