Sentences with phrase «macguffins at»

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-.

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.

-- that isn't a MacGuffin at all.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

It's a remarkable maneuver, turning a big, purple, helmet - wearing brute who is acerbically referred to as «Grimace» at one point in the movie, into the believable force around whom this MacGuffin - laden film revolves.

We are all, on screen and off, chasing our own MacGuffins, and there is emotional value — or, at least, a whole lot of shareholder value — in never quite getting enough of what we want.

A lot of fans expect that Avengers: Infinity War will therefore make the Soul Stone its all - important MacGuffin; however, the more we see of the sequence of events in Infinity War, the more we're convinced that the Soul Stone may not end up being a major part of the story at all.

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

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

«My daughters were always looking at a video about this sloth trying to pull itself out of a cradle, so as I was writing the book, it worked into kind of a MacGuffin [plot twist] in the book,» he recalls.

Developed in association with writing experts and pioneering technology researchers at MMU Digital Innovation Lab and fffunction, MacGuffin is the product of specialist research and innovative technology:

In 2015, the script for «Meeting MacGuffin» made it into the Quarter Finals (Top 40) at the renowned Cinequest Screenwriting Competition.

As of July 2017,» Meeting MacGuffin» has won the following awards: BEST ANIMATED FILM (Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival), BEST WRITING AWARD (BOOM!Film Reviews), BEST SHORT at ANIMAZE.

«Meeting MacGuffin» was released on February 2nd, 2017 and has screened at the Brooklyn Film Festival (June 2017); Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival (July 2017); Academy Awards ® Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, Los Angeles, (August 2017); ANIMAZE - Montreal International Animation Film Festival (August 2017).

At the same time that the viewer is often put in the position of a kind of detective, oftentimes narrative itself ultimately becomes a kind of MacGuffin, important not so much for itself but for the formal and conceptual moves it makes possible.