Sentences with phrase «macguffins for»

All in all it served its purpose and set up a Macguffin for a sequel if they wan na go that route.

It felt like we should stick with our one MacGuffin for the country and explore that.

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.»

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.

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.

The Lagiacrus is also the MacGuffin for the thin story in Monster Hunter Tri.

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.

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.

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»).

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.

The 2D platforming and endless quest for collectibles and MacGuffins, alongside the varied environments and memorable characters, makes this feel like a game straight from the 90s — in a good way.

There's a mystery in play — a missing girl, a celluloid MacGuffin, an auto - industry conspiracy — but it's all bedrock for Gosling, the Inspector Clouseau answer to L.A. Confidential, and Crowe, a bruiser straight man who scores just as many laughs, to parade across.

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.»

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.)

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.

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.

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.

In fact, pot is so unimportant, beyond being a plot device, it's not even entirely clear if the Macguffin pill is for medicinal use or recreational consumption.

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.

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.

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.

Yet the thin MacGuffin - driven plot, involving Walter's search for a missing film negative, is ridiculously contrived.

Bowser appears and immediately makes a lunge for the titular Sticker Star, the MacGuffin that ends up empowering him and a bunch of other baddies who then wreak havoc off - screen (including kidnapping Peach, of course), and Mario is tasked with defeating them both by tradition and his latest companion.

The technical aspects of the film are explained in such a way that most should be able to figure out what's going on (The black box is the MacGuffin, so all you have to know is that it's important enough to kill for).

Infinity War dealt with the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy battling against Thanos, who (with his lieutenants / children the Black Order) was out to collect those superpowered MacGuffins the Infinity Stones for his Infinity Gauntlet in order to erase half the life in the universe.

There are no less than half a dozen MacGuffin's floating around in «Part 1» as Harry and his friends quest for a seemingly endless number of objects in order to destroy ultimate baddie Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), who in turn is questing for an entirely (maybe?)

He has literally two proper scenes; the first is to justify demoting Cruise's character and sending him into battle in order to cover his own ass (somehow) and thus set the story in motion, and the second is to give Blunt and Cruise the MacGuffin when they finally decide that they've been faffing about for long enough and should probably get act three started.

For better or worse, Thor: Ragnarok is a Marvel movie, complete with magical MacGuffins, synergistic superhero cameos, a villain less interesting than the heroes, and an overlong CGI - heavy climax featuring giant aircrafts.

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 three lords of the kingdom: the enormous Lord MacGuffin (Kevin McKidd), the surly Lord Macintosh (Craig Ferguson) and the disagreeable Lord Dingwall (Robbie Coltrane), are with her every step of the way, to offer guidance and some extra comedy for the audiences.

As for the roots of Catherine's madness, I won't say they are MacGuffins, but the loss of her father and end of a romance are clearly little more than starting points for something much more subtle and far more interesting.

As it turns out, the search for Mina is a classic MacGuffin.

Meg and Sarah manage to escape into the panic room, but when Meg asks what they want, in true thriller style, a MacGuffin appears — what the robbers are looking for is something in the panic room itself.

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.

A myopic focus on chasing the MacGuffin is a recipe for Pyrrhic victory.

that will have visitors searching a replica town for the series» wish - granting Macguffins.

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.»

If you're a writer, MacGuffin offers a platform for your voice to be heard (literally) by people all over the world.

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

Whereas older games just had you awakening sages or collecting seals for some undefined reason, the MacGuffins you're going for here make a lot of sense, and actually change your equipment and give you new places to go.

You will also receive a Limited Edition Kickstarter Superfan T - Shirt, and digital keys to ALL THREE previous games — the Quest for Glory Collection, MacGuffin's Curse, and Jolly Rover.

The Legend of Zelda series is one of Nintendo's most storied franchises for a reason: It has provided over a dozen amazing journeys to Hyrule, introduced us to lovable (and evil) characters and a ton of musical instrument - themed macguffins.

In other words, the story in Shadow of the Colossus is not just some MacGuffin carelessly planted to provide some loose context for gameplay, the way the Princess was used in the original Super Mario Bros..

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.

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

The focus on the dissolution of the white cube is a MacGuffin; while the smaller galleries are forced to close, the space for viewing art is concentrating into the larger galleries and foundations, spaces that now seem to be posing as public museum spaces.

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.

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.

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.