Sentences with phrase «macguffin does»

As The Observer says, «If MacGuffin does take off, mining this data for insights into human attention might be one of the smartest things any publisher has done in some time.»

The MacGuffin doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and neither does the action: all swish pans and quick cuts.

Alfred Hitchcock noted — counterintuitively, when you first hear this — that the specifics of the MacGuffin don't really matter at all to a movie.

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The typical Hitchcock MacGuffin was the question: Why do the strange attacks occur?

By the time I reached the conclusion of the architecturally scaled final tome, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with its multiplying MacGuffins — seven Horcruxes, three Deathly Hallows, two turtle doves — I confess I was glad to be done.

Against the advice of the wise old wand - maker Ollivander (John Hurt), Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) set out to kill Voldemort, which they can only do by finding and destroying the four remaining Horcruxes (a series of antique gewgaws in which the Dark Lord has embedded bits of his soul — essentially, wizard - speak for «MacGuffins»).

The film does temporarily fall into the trap of playing out like a video game considering the task of moving from one Horcrux to another: Items that are nothing more than MacGuffins at their most basic level (see: «Sucker Punch «-RRB-.

You're curious, you're engaged, you know what the MacGuffins - du - jour are, and why they're important.

Madonna plays Amber Leighton, the rich - bitch wife of an entrepreneur (Bruce Greenwood, in an understated turn frankly better than anything he's done in American pictures up'til now) whose business is chemicals, a profession intended to draw his conservatism in neon lights: Not only does he prove to be a capitalistic pig, but his profit comes from a dangerous - sounding line of products that would be the MacGuffin in any other film, too.

This film stars Sandra Bullock (While You Were Sleeping, Love Potion No. 9) as Angela Bennett, a beta tester for various software programs who comes upon a computer disk which has a flaw that allows access into the top secret files in the mainframe of a defense computer or some such (It's a MacGuffin as Hitch would call it, I don't need to know what it does, only that it's important and people want it.)

Hugo Armstrong generally does a good job, but he is saddled with the worst sort of info dump, reading from a magically placed MacGuffin / book that happens to discuss just the sort of craziness in which they find themselves.

Smith and Robbie have been split up by the screenplay for reasons that don't make much sense, and suddenly, Nicky's working a long con on a decadent Formula One honcho (Rodrigo Santoro) trying to steal the guy's secret race engine MacGuffin.

That Signs is easily the most derivative of Shyamalan's films doesn't seem to be of much of a concern for the director, as the chronic sloppiness of his alien MacGuffin this time around (his ghost and superhero MacGuffins are handled with far more consistency and respect in his previous work) seems to point to Shyamalan's desire for us to focus on his messianic zeal to convey his manifest message.

It felt like we should stick with our one MacGuffin for the country and explore that, let that be the important thing because, frankly we didn't need to have another piece like that,» Coogler explained, adding, «[Marvel Studios] never really was interested in putting a stone in there, either.»

April 16, 2018 • They're the major MacGuffins of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — but there's a lot of them, and you need a scorecard to keep track of which does what.

Taken collectively, these artifacts are the mother of all MacGuffins - plot devices that drive the narrative, but may or may not have much to do with the true message of the story.

Its MacGuffin something to do with a dead sister and an evil studio executive played with a suspicious but unsurprising level of ease by Corbin Bernsen, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is really just an essaying of noir set - pieces remixed with a hipster attitude in an increasingly ironically - dubbed City of Angels.

Though the film does a better job of capturing the spirit of the «Hitman» franchise with violent, stealth - based action sequences, it's bogged down by a cheesy and predictable script that shackles its titular character to Hannah Ware's human MacGuffin for no other reason than because Agent 47 would be an emotionally detached bore on his own.

It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that «special one» Tris is the key to unlocking the film's MacGuffin, which apparently doesn't even appear in Roth's novel, because there isn't a single original idea in the movie.

Nearly every conflict is solved by some all - powerful story macguffin, usually in the form of infinity stones, but even then they don't accurately portray what the stones can do either in the MCU or the comics.

He puts Lara through her paces to help him find the lost MacGuffin, something consistently done better in the «Indiana Jones» films.

Davian wants a MacGuffin from Ethan and his mates and is willing to do a little over-acting to get it, causing much globe - trotting to exotic (and curiously deserted) locales where Ethan can do wind sprints while his buddies talk to each other on headsets and stare at computer monitors.

For Coogler, the miraculous material was enough for viewers to get stuck into: «It felt like we should stick with our one MacGuffin for the country and explore that, let that be the important thing because, frankly we didn't need to have another piece like that,» adds Coogler.

«There are a lot of new concepts... there's a lot of new mythologies that we didn't to clutter up by telling you about other MacGuffins.»

He pointed out that the audience doesn't care at all about the MacGuffin.

Her work — fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction — has been published in literary journals including PANK, HTMLGiant, Black Warrior Review, Aux Arc Review, Jabberwock Review, Coe Review, The MacGuffin, and Dos Passos Review.

That's not to say that Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag doesn't offer all the hallmarks of the stab - happy series; there's white hoods, sneaking missions and ancient MacGuffins aplenty.

It's a solid MacGuffin that has served innumerable stories well, and it mostly does for this game.

She doesn't have much of a role outside of being a living macguffin, but she puts up a good fight during the brief period she's with you.

Hit Self - Destruct: Murder Charge Some really interesting, well - written game - related fiction - I once tried to do something similar with Graves & MacGuffin and an early IC - related piece of fiction, to less effect, I think.