Sentences with phrase «chased macguffins»

Characters have chased MacGuffins across the cosmos, wasting two thirds of the film getting from one place to another, and not actually wrestling with their inner demons.

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

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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.

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.

They have to establish the MacGuffin everyone's chasing.

A generic villain named Randall (Sonu Sood) attempts to steal a large, purple gemstone of MacGuffin - ish historical significance, leading Chan and his Indian colleague Dr. Ashmita (Disha Patani) on an international chase across stock locales (Dubai hotel, Indian marketplace, etc.), accompanied by their flirty, expensively coiffured grad students.

We are all, on screen and off, chasing our own MacGuffins, and there is emotional value — or, at least, a whole lot of shareholder value — in never quite getting enough of what we want.

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.

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).