Sentences with phrase «n't macguffins»

One more improvement on MCU's formula: the Infinity Stones aren't MacGuffins anymore.

-- that isn't a MacGuffin at all.

Not exact matches

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.

Jeanine's box isn't quite a MacGuffin, but the payoff surrounding it — and the related climax — deserve eye rolls that might make even a teenager embarrassed.

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.

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

Madonna plays Amber Leighton, the rich - bitch wife of an entrepreneur (Bruce Greenwood, in an understated turn frankly better than anything he's done in American pictures up'til now) whose business is chemicals, a profession intended to draw his conservatism in neon lights: Not only does he prove to be a capitalistic pig, but his profit comes from a dangerous - sounding line of products that would be the MacGuffin in any other film, too.

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.)

Thanos has a dream, a dream to one day collect the Ultimate MacGuffin ™, Infinity Stones (Mind, Soul, Power, Reality, Space, and Time), and eradicate half of the known — and probably unknown — universe, not out of hatred or malice, but out of religious or ideological fanaticism.

The magical MacGuffins are spread across the universe and following them isn't always easy.

Smith and Robbie have been split up by the screenplay for reasons that don't make much sense, and suddenly, Nicky's working a long con on a decadent Formula One honcho (Rodrigo Santoro) trying to steal the guy's secret race engine MacGuffin.

In fact, pot is so unimportant, beyond being a plot device, it's not even entirely clear if the Macguffin pill is for medicinal use or recreational consumption.

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.

The convoluted chain of endless Macguffins isn't quite so convoluted and a little less endless.

It felt like we should stick with our one MacGuffin for the country and explore that, let that be the important thing because, frankly we didn't need to have another piece like that,» Coogler explained, adding, «[Marvel Studios] never really was interested in putting a stone in there, either.»

Taken collectively, these artifacts are the mother of all MacGuffins - plot devices that drive the narrative, but may or may not have much to do with the true message of the story.

He's Midnight Special's emotional core and plot MacGuffin wrapped into one whole, a seemingly alien child plagued with all kinds of peculiar powers he can't control.

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.

Nearly every conflict is solved by some all - powerful story macguffin, usually in the form of infinity stones, but even then they don't accurately portray what the stones can do either in the MCU or the comics.

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.

For Coogler, the miraculous material was enough for viewers to get stuck into: «It felt like we should stick with our one MacGuffin for the country and explore that, let that be the important thing because, frankly we didn't need to have another piece like that,» adds Coogler.

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.

The MacGuffin doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and neither does the action: all swish pans and quick cuts.

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.

«There are a lot of new concepts... there's a lot of new mythologies that we didn't to clutter up by telling you about other MacGuffins.»

A lot of fans expect that Avengers: Infinity War will therefore make the Soul Stone its all - important MacGuffin; however, the more we see of the sequence of events in Infinity War, the more we're convinced that the Soul Stone may not end up being a major part of the story at all.

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

He pointed out that the audience doesn't care at all about the MacGuffin.

That's not to say that Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag doesn't offer all the hallmarks of the stab - happy series; there's white hoods, sneaking missions and ancient MacGuffins aplenty.

She doesn't have much of a role outside of being a living macguffin, but she puts up a good fight during the brief period she's with you.

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..

At the same time that the viewer is often put in the position of a kind of detective, oftentimes narrative itself ultimately becomes a kind of MacGuffin, important not so much for itself but for the formal and conceptual moves it makes possible.