Sentences with phrase «movie macguffins»

Call them the Mighty Marvel Movie MacGuffins.

This is no ordinary one - off comic - book - movie MacGuffin: Individual Infinity Stones have driven the plots of Captain America: The First Avenger, Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange, and various other MCU joints.

Not exact matches

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.»

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

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 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.»

The Infinity Stones have been the interconnecting MacGuffins that keep the plot moving within individual Marvel movies.

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 directing duo also knows when to accelerate the action romp with a well - shot car chase on the empty streets and a one - take where the camera pans and swirls around the movie's MacGuffin.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

But it's hard to discern what anyone, from moviegoers to the Knights themselves, is supposed to get out of these displays; the whereabouts of the movie's MacGuffin, maybe, but cataloging dozens of bloodless stabbings proves a surprisingly ineffective method of tracking a powerful metal non-apple.

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

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.

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.

Alfred Hitchcock coined the phrase «MacGuffin» to describe an object in a movie that drives the action, but is ultimately unimportant when compared with how the characters react to it.

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.

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.

It's ridiculous, yes, but movies like this need a MacGuffin that outrageous to make even the tiniest bit of sense.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In all superhero movies, the stakes must be higher than the sky — the fate of the world, control of the most powerful MacGuffin, the future of a way of life.

One piece of vibranium that made it out of Wakanda — and is stolen from a British museum — is the movie's MacGuffin, yielding a snappy fight and chase in South Korea between the vibranium thieves and T'Challa / Black Panther's crew, led by the pike - wielding warrior Okoye (Danai Gurira).

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