Sentences with phrase «what macguffin»

Jim Hinks explains, «Publishers have always sought new ways to connect readers and writers, and that's what MacGuffin is all about.

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

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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.

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.»

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.)

April 16, 2018 • They're the major MacGuffins of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — but there's a lot of them, and you need a scorecard to keep track of which does what.

But it's hard to discern what anyone, from moviegoers to the Knights themselves, is supposed to get out of these displays; the whereabouts of the movie's MacGuffin, maybe, but cataloging dozens of bloodless stabbings proves a surprisingly ineffective method of tracking a powerful metal non-apple.

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).

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.

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.

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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.

Meg and Sarah manage to escape into the panic room, but when Meg asks what they want, in true thriller style, a MacGuffin appears — what the robbers are looking for is something in the panic room itself.

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.