Sentences with phrase «brief flashback to»

After a brief flashback to show them being trained up for T.W.O., the game follows the duo as they seek to rescue a Mexican political leader from a drug cartel.

The issue opens with a brief flashback to a sad moment for Howard and Maria Stark decades earlier, where Howard attempts to console Maria after the loss of their unborn child.

At their best, they achieve a dazzling synthesis of individual and collective experience, as in Inherent Vice's most emotionally overwhelming scene: a brief flashback to a rain - soaked afternoon Doc and Shasta once spent looking, per a Oujia board's instructions, for a nonexistent weed hookup in a vacant lot, scored to the cracked grace of Neil Young's «Journey to the Past.»

Desolation opens with a brief flashback to show what spurred Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) to make the attempt to win back the dwarves capitol (hint, it was Gandalf...).

Here's a brief flashback to a long - ago (pre-primary) Klein campaign rally featuring Governor Andrew Cuomo.

The trappings of musical stardom — as seen in brief flashbacks to Marianne's concerts and recording sessions, and heard intermittently on the soundtrack — do more than isolate the characters in a cocoon of luxury.

Aside from brief flashbacks to Captain America: Civil War, the presence of Martin Freeman as Everett K. Ross, and the very last scene before the theater lights go up, director and co-writer (with Joe Robert Cole) Ryan Coogler's screenplay makes almost no mention of characters or circumstances from the larger MCU.

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Flashbacks to Iran are too brief and too muted and Perelman's fast - action fog is pointless.

After a brief prehistoric flashback to the dawn of man, the film quickly deposits us in present - day Taipei, where Lucy (Johansson), a hard - partying American blonde, finds herself lured into the web of a ruthless Korean crime boss named Mr. Jang (the splendidly villainous Choi Min - sik).

The promise is of Wakanda itself — symbolized in a brief, but powerful flashback to a younger T'Chaka (played in his prime by Atandwa Kani, whose father, John Kani, portrays the older T'Chaka both here and in Civil War) checking in on a covert intelligence mission in the United States.

At one point in Covenant there is a brief flashback that shows what happened to the Engineers, but all it did was make me wish we had gotten a movie about that instead.

It is also rumoured that Nicholas Cage will make a brief, flashback cameo appearance — but as we all know, things in Movie Land can change from minute to minute.

Notably, «Civil War» doesn't play Captain America for laughs or treat him as a genial anachronism in the way that the earlier films did; its most crucial flashback to the guy's pre-coma existence (which occasions a brief, impressive turn by Emily VanCamp) exists mainly so that we can hear his inner determination put into words: «Compromise where you can.

Grant, played with weary optimism by Michael B. Jordan (TV's «The Wire,» «Friday Night Lights»), was no saint: He'd served time in jail on drug - related charges (we see this in a brief flashback), frustrating his loving mother (Octavia Spencer, a beacon of strength here); lost his supermarket job for showing up late too often; and wasn't always faithful to his girlfriend (Melonie Diaz) or sufficiently attentive to their daughter (Ariana Neal).

The highlights include Will and Sylvia taking their Robin Hood convictions and Bonnie & Clyde bravado to a private residence, a brief flashback of Will's father, one added chase scene, and more looks at Amanda Seyfried in her underwear.

As you progress through the story you'll get to learn more about Bess and her father via brief playable flashbacks.

Playing Blood Drive without having played through all of the first Corpse Party game and at least chapter 8 of Book of Shadows first is not recommended, but the writers did attempt to accommodate for those players who haven't by giving very brief flashbacks or expository nods to important events from the previous titles.

Whereas backstory in many other RPG's is largely an event that occurs off screen or in brief flashbacks, taking place during two periods of Asbel's life really gives you the chance to see him grow as a character from an amusingly mischievous boy into a mature adult.