Sentences with phrase «as macguffins»

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.

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.

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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.

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.»

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 whole briefcase story exists as little more than a MacGuffin.

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.

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.

The use of flashbacks, via a series of videotapes shot before Jessabelle was born, and placed throughout the narrative like Hitchcockian MacGuffins, reveal the father — now a drunk prone to displays of anger — as a happy and prosperous guy with a beautiful wife.

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.)

Future big bad Thanos and the franchise's distracting MacGuffins, otherwise known as the Infinity Stones, were relegated to the end credits of Ragnarok.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?)

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.

Rounding out the rest of the main cast from Great Britain are Craig Ferguson as Lord MacIntosh, Robbie Coltrane as Lord Dingwall, and Kevin McKidd and Lord MacGuffin.

Clarisse is assigned to track down a magical MacGuffin that can heal the tree, but as she is not the main character, she stands no chance of succeeding.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.»

As well as solving puzzles in different rooms and locations, you can wander around the city and important landmarks, learning more about the area and MacGuffin himselAs well as solving puzzles in different rooms and locations, you can wander around the city and important landmarks, learning more about the area and MacGuffin himselas solving puzzles in different rooms and locations, you can wander around the city and important landmarks, learning more about the area and MacGuffin himself.

You play as Lucas MacGuffin who's attempting to break into the museum in order to grab an expensive amulet to help pay the rent.

The mystery that unravels as you explore every corner of the island is really just a MacGuffin, an excuse to navigate the heady dynamics inherent to a group of hormonal troubled teens.

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.

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.