Sentences with phrase «macguffin of»

The two are attempting to take over the world by stealing the all - powerful Triforce, a magical MacGuffin of power, wisdom, and courage that plays a leading role in every Zelda game.

The plot kicks into autopilot almost immediately, as the goons, corrupt cops, chase them around the city, another on - the - straight - and - narrow detective (Taraji P. Henson) tries to find out the details of the misunderstanding to help the Fosters, and the hunt for the MacGuffin of a flash drive brings the Fosters to all kinds of semi-kooky characters.

The MacGuffin of Rememory is a device that allows for just that: A person puts some sensors on his or her head, and without any of the filters that our minds have placed on memories, the machine records an objective account of what the person actually saw and heard at a given moment in his or her life.

The MacGuffin of Night Moves is the same as the microfilm - bearing South American juju from North by Northwest or the bird statue beneath the opening titles of The Maltese Falcon — some kind of clay effigy pregnant with some kind of contraband, representative in 1975 of the extent to which film has been entirely co-opted by the way audience expectations govern movies.

Perhaps Wilkinson is an author working on a book about the «Child with Apple» painting (seemingly the MacGuffin of the movie that ties all the characters together) and perhaps during the 1960s he was interviewing the now older Zero Moustafa as he's really the only living person to have been around during its theft.

Nixon is a footnote — a MacGuffin of sorts — for the other man, who has decided that the state of the United States in December of 1970 has become perilous.

He's effectively the MacGuffin of the film.

That said, the Macguffin of getting her involved — Luthor had stolen a photo of her that she was trying to get back — makes absolutely zero sense, as what she eventually chases down is a digitized scan which has been copied at least three times (and probably more) by the end of the film.

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.

The Infinity Stones have become the central MacGuffins of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with many of the films focusing on the hunt for specific gems.

Not exact matches

But from the perspective of saving species, it's a MacGuffin: a plot device that may impel the tired conservation narrative forward but is hardly a pragmatic strategy for preserving biodiversity.

This hard drive, of course, is firmly a MacGuffin.

We also get a zombies - on - a-plane episode and a tense foray into the terrain of «The Stand» or «The Andromeda Strain» in a zombie - infested medical laboratory where Gerry and a buzz - cut, one - handed female Israeli soldier (the terrific Daniella Kertesz) must search for the highly implausible secret MacGuffin that will fix everything.

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»).

Characters have chased MacGuffins across the cosmos, wasting two thirds of the film getting from one place to another, and not actually wrestling with their inner demons.

Daley and Goldstein, who started off as actors, have co-directed one previous feature, the 2015 holiday - road reboot «Vacation,» but the sign that they're instinctive filmmakers, with a bold sense of comedy structure, comes in the sequence they stage, with serpentine ingenuity, at the home of a crime boss (Danny Huston) who has the film's MacGuffin — a Fabergé egg — locked in his safe.

Her newly appointed henchman Skurge (Karl Urban) is equally flat, while the flaming MacGuffin we meet at the start of the film is just same - old CGI nonsense.

Even Thor seems a bit nonplussed by the big story of all these movies, referring to the convenient MacGuffins that keep showing up in this franchise as «colorful, glowing Infinity Stone things.»

Of course, this is the MacGuffin and a double cross is afoot.

Bahrani renders reading passive without any sense of irony, reducing books to a bland MacGuffin.

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-.

While the gameplay is absolutely top notch, the story leaves much to be desired and is chock - full of MacGuffins.

Yet for all the set - pieces he directs the hell out of — an opening hunt; a piranha attack — it's only in its elliptical final throes that the film eclipses its surface pleasures, as the eponymous city shifts from narrative goal to vaporous MacGuffin.

As you'd expect from the director of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, the time travel in Richard Curtis» «last film» is more of a Macguffin and not central to the story.

Pokémon are not just macguffins to be captured, they are citizens of the city.

Thanos is on a quest to collect all six of the Infinity Stones, one of the longest - running MacGuffins in movie history.

Then comes the unwanted betrothal: To keep peace in the kingdom, it is Merida's «fate» to marry the firstborn son of one of the three lords, Macguffin, Macintosh and Dingwall (respectively, Kevin McKidd, Craig Ferguson and Robbie Coltrane).

The macguffin bringing it all together is the Infinity Gauntlet, added to the Marvel Universe by writer Jim Starlin, creator of the groovy - chinned purple thanatophile Thanos.

The use of flashbacks, via a series of videotapes shot before Jessabelle was born, and placed throughout the narrative like Hitchcockian MacGuffins, reveal the father — now a drunk prone to displays of anger — as a happy and prosperous guy with a beautiful wife.

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.

Since the movie needed an all - powerful Macguffin anyway, he said it made perfect sense to just use the Cosmic Cube, which had already been set up in Thor, while the presence of a young Howard Stark as a key ally for Cap brings in what Markus could only describe as «that Tony Starkness.»

There's the diminishing returns of seeing the exact same procedure of some new mythical MacGuffin that suddenly every pirate on the seas is determined to get.

In an interview in August, actor Kevin McKidd (Trainspotting, Kingdom of Heaven) spoke about how he voices both the young and old MacGuffins.

The movie, co-written and directed by Troma graduate James Gunn, is so self - conscious of its familiar plot machinations that it calls out this MacGuffin with a jab from Quill, who says the orb gives off a «shiny suitcase, Ark of the Covenant, Maltese Falcon kind of vibe.»

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.)

Future big bad Thanos and the franchise's distracting MacGuffins, otherwise known as the Infinity Stones, were relegated to the end credits of Ragnarok.

The MacGuffin at the center of the heist is an external hard drive belonging to the diner's mobster owner Yuri Mikhalev (Ronald Guttman) and believing to hold severely incriminating evidence.

The idea of these messages is simply a MacGuffin that, in this instance, holds the key unleashing the deadly force of CIA field agents across the globe to kill anyone they've been assigned to without question.

But, like Universal's ill - fated 2017 reboot of The Mummy, a denial of its villainous MacGuffin tends to cast a hunger for the dark shadow resolutely missing from a story which promises to be steeped in adventure but is instead only tiresome.

Thanos has a dream, a dream to one day collect the Ultimate MacGuffin ™, Infinity Stones (Mind, Soul, Power, Reality, Space, and Time), and eradicate half of the known — and probably unknown — universe, not out of hatred or malice, but out of religious or ideological fanaticism.

Also of interest in the casting call is the plot of the movie, which if accurate would confirm speculation that Captain America: Civil War's macguffin, so to speak, is the idea of a Superhuman Registration Act.

The chief problem of the film lies in a confusion between irony and idolization; Glyn's arch narration, superfluous as it is, provides the film its only cattiness, the staid Agatha Christie parlour game functioning as its unusually disinteresting MacGuffin — its «meow.»

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.

Crisis number two, the veritable Macguffin - like plot of the movie hits quickly.

A generic villain named Randall (Sonu Sood) attempts to steal a large, purple gemstone of MacGuffin - ish historical significance, leading Chan and his Indian colleague Dr. Ashmita (Disha Patani) on an international chase across stock locales (Dubai hotel, Indian marketplace, etc.), accompanied by their flirty, expensively coiffured grad students.

No matter how fake the slimy creature from Seoul's Han River might look, his computer generated presence is still a well laid MacGuffin to probe state's interference and the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few.

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.

The convoluted chain of endless Macguffins isn't quite so convoluted and a little less endless.

You can also hunt wildlife and canvas for all manner of collectible macguffins, and all of these activities earn you additional experience points and «salvage,» a nebulous blanket resource that represents useful things you find in crate deposits or off of felled enemies.