Sentences with phrase «macguffin which»

It's a convoluted affair involving snappy dialogue, multiple factions of unsavoury characters, a MacGuffin which everyone lasts after, and an inevitable showdown that gets increasingly out of control.

Fortunately for all involved, the local professor has invented a device known as the Demon Hand — an absurdly useful MacGuffin which allows Slayers a host of new options such as permanently smashing the limbs off enemies, acting as a grappling hook, or closing poisonous rifts whenever they're located.

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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.

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»).

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.»

The MacGuffin here is the two - diamond award which supposedly every insurance company desires.

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.)

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.

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.

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.

No, Gringo is more like a Coen Brothers movie in which a pot pill is the Macguffin.

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 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.

Kevin McKidd is even able to utilise his home, Doric, dialect as Young MacGuffin, which leads to hilarious and bamboozling attempts at conversation.

The power broker behind Loki in Avengers and Ronan in Guardians, Thanos is out to collect all six of the MCU's all - powerful MacGuffins, the Infinity Stones, which together form a weapon of ultimate power capable of reshaping reality.

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.

In 2018, the train keeps rolling on, with part one of Avengers: Infinity War, which judging by the title will see Thanos taking all his Infinity Gems (those all - powerful glowing plot MacGuffins) and probably trying to blow up the universe.

The Stones have played minor roles as MacGuffins in many Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, and those assorted plot threads are all building up to Avengers: Infinity War, a film in which the ownership and location of the Infinity Stones will become vital to the safety of the Universe.

The MacGuffin at the centre of the film is a renovated pirate gallon named The Golden Fang which floats ominously off the California coastline.

The Surfer's board is shattered into cosmic bricks, which become the magical MacGuffins that Loki and the cast of baddies are after in the story.

Please join us for this talk in which Cooter will speak about his long - term artistic research into the structural agency of objects, and the relationship between the artwork and the MacGuffin.

Borrowing its title from Alfred Hitchcock's explanation of the MacGuffin, the seemingly indispensible but ultimately arbitrary device by which narrative is propelled, Trapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands examines questions of narrative complexity, disjunction, and ambiguity in recent art.