Sentences with phrase «other macguffins»

This is the first Final Fantasy that ditches the crystals in favor of other MacGuffins, namely the three statues.

«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.»

Not exact matches

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.

What was striking to me about Amour was how much it looks like other Haneke films — with the same macguffins, the same uneasy tracking shots — and yet how different it feels.

Nixon is a footnote — a MacGuffin of sorts — for the other man, who has decided that the state of the United States in December of 1970 has become perilous.

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.

Bowser appears and immediately makes a lunge for the titular Sticker Star, the MacGuffin that ends up empowering him and a bunch of other baddies who then wreak havoc off - screen (including kidnapping Peach, of course), and Mario is tasked with defeating them both by tradition and his latest companion.

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.

Even the Five Wives are surprisingly distinct in personality, each one easily differentiated from the other instead of being a monolithic MacGuffin the real heroes have to save.

This is no ordinary one - off comic - book - movie MacGuffin: Individual Infinity Stones have driven the plots of Captain America: The First Avenger, Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange, and various other MCU joints.

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..

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