Sentences with phrase «own macguffin»

The card was hermetically sealed in translucent plastic and it went straight into my mom's closet, where it was going to accrue enough value to be the MacGuffin in a heist film.

The typical Hitchcock MacGuffin was the question: Why do the strange attacks occur?

But from the perspective of saving species, it's a MacGuffin: a plot device that may impel the tired conservation narrative forward but is hardly a pragmatic strategy for preserving biodiversity.

This hard drive, of course, is firmly a MacGuffin.

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.

By the time I reached the conclusion of the architecturally scaled final tome, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with its multiplying MacGuffins — seven Horcruxes, three Deathly Hallows, two turtle doves — I confess I was glad to be done.

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.

Against the advice of the wise old wand - maker Ollivander (John Hurt), Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) set out to kill Voldemort, which they can only do by finding and destroying the four remaining Horcruxes (a series of antique gewgaws in which the Dark Lord has embedded bits of his soul — essentially, wizard - speak for «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.

Daley and Goldstein, who started off as actors, have co-directed one previous feature, the 2015 holiday - road reboot «Vacation,» but the sign that they're instinctive filmmakers, with a bold sense of comedy structure, comes in the sequence they stage, with serpentine ingenuity, at the home of a crime boss (Danny Huston) who has the film's MacGuffin — a Fabergé egg — locked in his safe.

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.

Even Thor seems a bit nonplussed by the big story of all these movies, referring to the convenient MacGuffins that keep showing up in this franchise as «colorful, glowing Infinity Stone things.»

He's effectively the MacGuffin of the film.

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.

To achieve that, he wielded the Infinity Gauntlet, and the six infinity stones (Marvel's grand MacGuffin) to simply wish them away.

Of course, this is the MacGuffin and a double cross is afoot.

Bahrani renders reading passive without any sense of irony, reducing books to a bland MacGuffin.

The film does temporarily fall into the trap of playing out like a video game considering the task of moving from one Horcrux to another: Items that are nothing more than MacGuffins at their most basic level (see: «Sucker Punch «-RRB-.

All in all it served its purpose and set up a Macguffin for a sequel if they wan na go that route.

The mystical MacGuffins, the buried temples, the gun - waving mortal danger.

While the gameplay is absolutely top notch, the story leaves much to be desired and is chock - full of MacGuffins.

Yet for all the set - pieces he directs the hell out of — an opening hunt; a piranha attack — it's only in its elliptical final throes that the film eclipses its surface pleasures, as the eponymous city shifts from narrative goal to vaporous MacGuffin.

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.

The whole briefcase story exists as little more than a MacGuffin.

You're curious, you're engaged, you know what the MacGuffins - du - jour are, and why they're important.

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

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

The MacGuffin becomes so clearly spelled out that the film can dance off in many directions as Lucy's expanding capacity keeps elevating her abilities.

The 2D platforming and endless quest for collectibles and MacGuffins, alongside the varied environments and memorable characters, makes this feel like a game straight from the 90s — in a good way.

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.

Then comes the unwanted betrothal: To keep peace in the kingdom, it is Merida's «fate» to marry the firstborn son of one of the three lords, Macguffin, Macintosh and Dingwall (respectively, Kevin McKidd, Craig Ferguson and Robbie Coltrane).

The macguffin bringing it all together is the Infinity Gauntlet, added to the Marvel Universe by writer Jim Starlin, creator of the groovy - chinned purple thanatophile Thanos.

The use of flashbacks, via a series of videotapes shot before Jessabelle was born, and placed throughout the narrative like Hitchcockian MacGuffins, reveal the father — now a drunk prone to displays of anger — as a happy and prosperous guy with a beautiful wife.

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.

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.»

It felt like we should stick with our one MacGuffin for the country and explore that.

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.

MacGuffins, character growth, and Thanos - centric post-credits all build to this expansive and expensive war.

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In an interview in August, actor Kevin McKidd (Trainspotting, Kingdom of Heaven) spoke about how he voices both the young and old MacGuffins.

The movie, co-written and directed by Troma graduate James Gunn, is so self - conscious of its familiar plot machinations that it calls out this MacGuffin with a jab from Quill, who says the orb gives off a «shiny suitcase, Ark of the Covenant, Maltese Falcon kind of vibe.»

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

The MacGuffin here is the two - diamond award which supposedly every insurance company desires.

The Infinity Stones have been the interconnecting MacGuffins that keep the plot moving within individual Marvel movies.

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.

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.)

Future big bad Thanos and the franchise's distracting MacGuffins, otherwise known as the Infinity Stones, were relegated to the end credits of Ragnarok.

The MacGuffin at the center of the heist is an external hard drive belonging to the diner's mobster owner Yuri Mikhalev (Ronald Guttman) and believing to hold severely incriminating evidence.

The MacGuffin / kid who Cable is after (played by Julian Dennison) is no ordinary kid and appears to have mutant powers and a really bad attitude.

The idea of these messages is simply a MacGuffin that, in this instance, holds the key unleashing the deadly force of CIA field agents across the globe to kill anyone they've been assigned to without question.