Sentences with phrase «macguffins in»

Thor, already one of the more inscrutable Avengers, decides he'd much rather be introspective on his own and jets off to a secret Asgardian cave, where he dips into a wading pool and has visions of Infinity Stones, the various multi-colored deus ex machinae that have been MacGuffins in so many Marvel movies thus far.

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 Infinity Stones have been MacGuffins in The Avengers, Thor: The Dark World, and Guardians of the Galaxy, and November's Doctor Strange might present the fifth: the Time Stone, except the movie won't reveal that.

Avengers: Infinity War is almost upon us, so now is a good time to start digging into the nitty gritty of the most famous MacGuffins in comics: the Infinity Stones.

It is a huge, intricate cake that shows Thanos, rendered in perfect detail, holding two Infinity Stones (the primary MacGuffins in Marvel Cinematic Universe) in both arms, baked to mark Avengers 4 wrap - up.

So we have quite a few MacGuffins in this movie that have different relationships with two different people; Doctor Strange is a bearer of an Infinity Stone and he has been charged with protecting that Infinity Stone.

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

The card was hermetically sealed in translucent plastic and it went straight into my mom's closet, where it was going to accrue enough value to be the MacGuffin in a heist film.

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.

Gender reassignment surgery is the MacGuffin in this Australian time - lapse family drama about growing up.

Much like Batman with his cellular sonar - device in The Dark Knight, the God's Eye MacGuffin in Furious 7, Samuel Jackson's cellular brainwave chip thingy in Kingsman, and any number of lazily written movie characters described as hackers, Nathan achieves access to all camera / microphone devices in order to collect & synthesize your data, your self, your you.

Yes, we've seen this mad dash to get one's hands on a MacGuffin in many, many action flicks before (Hello, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers, X-Men, and anything else with a Marvel / DC label), but it seems a bit excusable here since such storytelling devices are ingrained in what Star Trek is all about.

Not exact matches

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»).

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.

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.»

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

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.

The MacGuffin becomes so clearly spelled out that the film can dance off in many directions as Lucy's expanding capacity keeps elevating her abilities.

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.

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).

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.»

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

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The MacGuffin is a clean - burning fuel developed by Richard Branson analogue Miles Axelrod (Eddie Izzard, sounding an awful lot like Bill Hader's Branson), who has decided to test the stuff in a series of races set in Tokyo, Rome, and London.

Forgoing the storybook - influenced narrative of its basis in favor of an overly complicated plot, the movie also turns one of the game's core mechanics into an all - purpose MacGuffin.

Utilizing anachronistic gumshoe dialogue in the style of Dashiell Hammett, director Rian Johnson assembled a seemingly clever detective story that uses a «brick» of heroin as the MacGuffin, and a dead girl as a plot device.

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.»

Many elements are cliche - ridden and some of the MacGuffin's are drowned in far too much pseudo-science.

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.

It's a stylish love poem, really, lifting many of the timeless elements that made noirs so powerful in the 1930s through the 1950s, including the hard - boiled detective, the femme fatale, and the MacGuffin (in this case, a diamond).

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.

The MacGuffin keeping the story in motion is a valuable diamond that Miles managed to hide in a construction site before being captured by police two years earlier.

«I think that traditionally in movies there's a MacGuffin, sometimes the MacGuffin is a person, sometimes it's a thing.

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.

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).

The first: Her MacGuffin was one of the Infinity Gems — or, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Infinity Stones — objects of immense power that, when brought together, form the all - powerful Infinity Gauntlet.

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.