Sentences with phrase «just macguffins»

Pokémon are not just macguffins to be captured, they are citizens of the city.

The plot, despite its topical references to politics and terrorism (specifically the Bush / Blair connection), is really just a MacGuffin.

It could be argued that these elements are just MacGuffin.

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.

In other words, the story in Shadow of the Colossus is not just some MacGuffin carelessly planted to provide some loose context for gameplay, the way the Princess was used in the original Super Mario Bros..

Not exact matches

Her newly appointed henchman Skurge (Karl Urban) is equally flat, while the flaming MacGuffin we meet at the start of the film is just same - old CGI nonsense.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

To casual fans, these shiny rocks appear to just be magic MacGuffins, side quests intended to occupy our heroes until they battle their next villain.

The MacGuffin of Rememory is a device that allows for just that: A person puts some sensors on his or her head, and without any of the filters that our minds have placed on memories, the machine records an objective account of what the person actually saw and heard at a given moment in his or her life.

The Cosmic Cube — an interstellar MacGuffin / source of infinite power that just handily happens to fit inside an attaché case — is being poked and prodded by SHIELD scientists under the beady eye of Sam Jackson's Agent Nick Fury.

Whereas older games just had you awakening sages or collecting seals for some undefined reason, the MacGuffins you're going for here make a lot of sense, and actually change your equipment and give you new places to go.