Sentences with phrase «setup for»

The game does boast a pretty lengthy and interesting campaign that really is only a setup for what is to come from the multiplayer, which we will get to later.

While the giant cast is generally well served, throwing in a character like Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) seems like little more than setup for the future, with the character never finding a way to justify why he's in the scenes he's in.

That terrible idea is also the setup for Sky, featuring Diane Kruger and Gilles Lellouche as Romy and Richard, a couple who try to mend their relationship by...

Matt Smith's brief (with a capital BRIEF) role is well - acted and an intriguing setup for what may be to come should this movie make enough money.

(The knowing look Edith casts at the painting is the first indication director Guillermo Del Toro provides that this gothic is using that family tree as a setup for an unexpected payoff.)

This is the setup for the magical transformation which eventually transpires in New in Town, a transparent fish - out - of - water romantic comedy which marks the English - language debut of Danish director Jonas Elmer.

It's a sharp, teasing setup for a tale of even higher stakes and steeper falls from grace, set in motion by an early scene of Molly being arrested by the FBI for her alleged involvement in an illegal gambling racket.

This is a sequel not just to the last Cap adventure, «The Winter Soldier», but a follow - up to «Avengers: Age of Ultron» and a setup for the massive «Avengers: Infinity War» two - parter due in 2018.

The setup for John Singleton's latest urban drama is pure western - movie lore.

Overall, the whole thing just felt like an elaborate setup for a sequel instead of a standalone movie.

Her focus on Popeye and the architecture as important elements of the film, combined with the extraordinary chemistry between Warakulnukroh and Bong, makes a beautiful setup for a uniquely playful, yet lightly dramatic story of growth, regret, and human values.

To me it's a good setup for their relationship to build in the sequels.

The opening sequence, in which the ever - fraught Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and his crew put into motion a well - executed plan to free a group of Immunes from a curiously outdated train, is like most things in this series just a setup for another setup.

Short on action and with a plodding plot that seems to only exist as a setup for future installments, the 2015 version of these characters is a little short of fantastic.

Nothing has been announced just yet, but expect it to be a similar setup for The Oscars 2018.

The script's playful tone remains intact throughout, but it never quite clicks the same way, bogged down by scene after scene of exposition that's all setup for the big payoff.

The setup for Margin Call is pretty straightforward: it chronicles the efforts of a powerful investment bank to avoid disaster when they get wind of the impending financial crisis, over a 24 - hour period of time.

There's a setup for, say, a romantic scene, and it comes out as something laughably corny.

But Stuart Baird's atonal direction makes for a dull action slog stained with the psychic rape of Deanna Troi — a scene which becomes merely setup for a battle maneuver.

The cruel and heartless termination is the perfect setup for us to root for this blue - collar boy when he hatches an idea: return to his former workplace and steal a truckload of cash from a central depository buried under the raceway.

The setup for this at the film's start is extraordinary: DP Elisha Christian's camera gives us a series of frontal, perfectly composed shots of Saarinen's austerely palatial Miller House, its rectilinear geometry suggestive of a series of Mondrian grids.

Is this the setup for a grim death - match thriller?

No, that wasn't a setup for a joke.

Needless to say, the setup for the Ben Stiller - directed followup doesn't so much as resurrect its chronically dumb pair of fashionistas Derek (Stiller) and Hansel (Owen Wilson) as it reroutes them through the same jokes.

As you can imagine, this causes the setup for a variety of old person vs. technology gags that all fall terribly flat.

And though arthritis has set in, they still relate to the world as if it were the setup for a slapstick routine — locks refuse to open, a TV (unplugged) goes mysteriously on the fritz.

Mostly, «The Sweet Hereafter» felt more like a season premiere where there's a lot of setup for what's to come, but it wasn't a satisfying conclusion and there was no real emotional payoff to a season - long mystery regarding blood feuds and parent / child tensions.

But hell, if you can't sit through Miike's exceptionally controlled setup for this film to get to its gangbusters second half, you don't deserve it.

To say that I'm looking forward to the Next - Generation Portable's (NGP) dual nub setup for Monster Hunter Portable 3rd is a massive understatement.

There's a main story mode, but really Graceful Explosion Machine comes into its own when you're going mad in search of a high score — the perfect kind of setup for on - the - go gaming.

Fixed an issue in Time Trial where the player could load a ghost's setup for a different car from the player's car if the selected ghost was in the same class as the player's car.

Per this latest trailer and poster for M. Night Shyamalan's After Earth, the setup for the film is Will and Jaden Smith embarking on the most dangerous father / son trip of all - time at the urging of, ostensibly, Will Smith's wife.

All of this seems like the setup for a campus comedy, but not in the world of Neil LaBute, where the sexes have arrived at Armageddon, and the last act involves pain and humiliation.

Uprising follows its predecessor's formula — an underdog pilot joins the Jaeger program and ends up in a rivalry, there's a motivational speech before a big battle, underdog saves the day, and there's a setup for another movie.

This was an awesome setup for the sequel, which came out in 1982.

She has one scene with Superman (Tyler Hoechlin) that's really just a setup for Christian to get jealous and throw his dick around.

Instead, it very much feels like a setup for Avengers 4, which will now be the new «biggest movie event of the century».

Now lets be honest here, there is a standard setup for disaster films which is usually always followed and somehow keeps on working.

«Black Panther» faces a mountain of expectations as it lands in theaters this weekend, from its positioning as Marvel's first feature starring a predominantly black cast to the studio's most anticipated setup for this summer's «Avengers: Infinity War.»

Sounds like a setup for a wild, raunchy ride.

I quite like the setup for this, the way Farmiga talks to him and tells him what to do very nonchalantly, I just hope it lives up to the full potential.

What follows is an extraordinary setup for the middle action of À nos amours, a shrapnel - soft portrait of a teenager (Sandrine Bonnaire, in her film debut) whose sexual awakening coincides with her father leaving the home.

The setup for this thriller is pretty straightfoward: Victor (Colin Farrell), is hired by a young woman (Rapace) to kill underground crime lord Alphonse Hoyt (Terrence Howard) in New York City to settle a personal score.

And pacing problems aside, the scifi-less first third of the film was necessary setup for a Cornetto Trilogy staple: That scene that comes along and punches you right in your tear ducts.

It's really the perfect setup for a space horror and indeed Watney's bloody DIY surgery is cringeworthy to watch, but that's not the film we're watching.

The story's actually only a setup for the brilliant and hilarious combination of movie clips and new footage.

While the setup for Sweetbitter is pretty rote, especially in the first episode, the series quickly picks up steam as it turns more into an odyssey of New York life for a young adult.

At first glance, this is a fantastic (albeit somewhat cliche) setup for a good revenge story, but as you progress through the game, it never really becomes said story.

The setup for the game is that the grim reaper goes to a retirement

The first act is a sappy setup for the rest of the film, and it wasn't long before I