Sentences with phrase «on macguffins»

Yes, we've seen this mad dash to get one's hands on a MacGuffin in many, many action flicks before (Hello, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers, X-Men, and anything else with a Marvel / DC label), but it seems a bit excusable here since such storytelling devices are ingrained in what Star Trek is all about.

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We also get a zombies - on - a-plane episode and a tense foray into the terrain of «The Stand» or «The Andromeda Strain» in a zombie - infested medical laboratory where Gerry and a buzz - cut, one - handed female Israeli soldier (the terrific Daniella Kertesz) must search for the highly implausible secret MacGuffin that will fix everything.

Thanos is on a quest to collect all six of the Infinity Stones, one of the longest - running MacGuffins in movie history.

There's the diminishing returns of seeing the exact same procedure of some new mythical MacGuffin that suddenly every pirate on the seas is determined to get.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Though the film does a better job of capturing the spirit of the «Hitman» franchise with violent, stealth - based action sequences, it's bogged down by a cheesy and predictable script that shackles its titular character to Hannah Ware's human MacGuffin for no other reason than because Agent 47 would be an emotionally detached bore on his own.

The technical aspects of the film are explained in such a way that most should be able to figure out what's going on (The black box is the MacGuffin, so all you have to know is that it's important enough to kill for).

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.

Davian wants a MacGuffin from Ethan and his mates and is willing to do a little over-acting to get it, causing much globe - trotting to exotic (and curiously deserted) locales where Ethan can do wind sprints while his buddies talk to each other on headsets and stare at computer monitors.

In 2018, the train keeps rolling on, with part one of Avengers: Infinity War, which judging by the title will see Thanos taking all his Infinity Gems (those all - powerful glowing plot MacGuffins) and probably trying to blow up the universe.

Thor, already one of the more inscrutable Avengers, decides he'd much rather be introspective on his own and jets off to a secret Asgardian cave, where he dips into a wading pool and has visions of Infinity Stones, the various multi-colored deus ex machinae that have been MacGuffins in so many Marvel movies thus far.

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.

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

The depth of the worldbuilding in Final Fantasy XII is unrivaled within the series: the plot hinges on detailed histories of several countries, political bureaucracy, military hierarchies, and several different types of magical MacGuffins.

The Infinity Stones have become the central MacGuffins of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with many of the films focusing on the hunt for specific gems.

The Clothespin Freaks and nearly - reassembled new humans called Homeys are guided by «LF», an animated sign and proud owner of a Lost & Found bureau.They travel through caverns completing their reconstitution on the way to meet Gormal MacGuffin, a wise blue - eyed groundhog with expertise in climate change and water conservation.

«Meeting MacGuffin» was released on February 2nd, 2017 and has screened at the Brooklyn Film Festival (June 2017); Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival (July 2017); Academy Awards ® Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, Los Angeles, (August 2017); ANIMAZE - Montreal International Animation Film Festival (August 2017).

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.