Sentences with phrase «with macguffins»

Usually the villain wants it too, and their conflict over who will end up with The MacGuffin forms the basic spine of the story.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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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.»

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.

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.

Hugo Armstrong generally does a good job, but he is saddled with the worst sort of info dump, reading from a magically placed MacGuffin / book that happens to discuss just the sort of craziness in which they find themselves.

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.

It felt like we should stick with our one MacGuffin for the country and explore that, let that be the important thing because, frankly we didn't need to have another piece like that,» Coogler explained, adding, «[Marvel Studios] never really was interested in putting a stone in there, either.»

Taken collectively, these artifacts are the mother of all MacGuffins - plot devices that drive the narrative, but may or may not have much to do with the true message of the story.

Its MacGuffin something to do with a dead sister and an evil studio executive played with a suspicious but unsurprising level of ease by Corbin Bernsen, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is really just an essaying of noir set - pieces remixed with a hipster attitude in an increasingly ironically - dubbed City of Angels.

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 MacGuffin of Night Moves is the same as the microfilm - bearing South American juju from North by Northwest or the bird statue beneath the opening titles of The Maltese Falcon — some kind of clay effigy pregnant with some kind of contraband, representative in 1975 of the extent to which film has been entirely co-opted by the way audience expectations govern movies.

He's Midnight Special's emotional core and plot MacGuffin wrapped into one whole, a seemingly alien child plagued with all kinds of peculiar powers he can't control.

So we have quite a few MacGuffins in this movie that have different relationships with two different people; Doctor Strange is a bearer of an Infinity Stone and he has been charged with protecting that Infinity Stone.

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.

Infinity War dealt with the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy battling against Thanos, who (with his lieutenants / children the Black Order) was out to collect those superpowered MacGuffins the Infinity Stones for his Infinity Gauntlet in order to erase half the life in the universe.

Alfred Hitchcock coined the phrase «MacGuffin» to describe an object in a movie that drives the action, but is ultimately unimportant when compared with how the characters react to it.

Much like Batman with his cellular sonar - device in The Dark Knight, the God's Eye MacGuffin in Furious 7, Samuel Jackson's cellular brainwave chip thingy in Kingsman, and any number of lazily written movie characters described as hackers, Nathan achieves access to all camera / microphone devices in order to collect & synthesize your data, your self, your you.

The screenplay makes sure everyone's motives about the MacGuffin are clearly and repeatedly stated, lest anything like actual characters form in the absence of constant exposition (Even Aguilar's romance with a fellow Assassin, played by Ariane Labed, is only established about midway through the story in the past).

For better or worse, Thor: Ragnarok is a Marvel movie, complete with magical MacGuffins, synergistic superhero cameos, a villain less interesting than the heroes, and an overlong CGI - heavy climax featuring giant aircrafts.

The characters» motivations beyond the suitcase MacGuffin are pretty much absent: They're fatally shallow, with grave consequences.

The three lords of the kingdom: the enormous Lord MacGuffin (Kevin McKidd), the surly Lord Macintosh (Craig Ferguson) and the disagreeable Lord Dingwall (Robbie Coltrane), are with her every step of the way, to offer guidance and some extra comedy for the audiences.

For Coogler, the miraculous material was enough for viewers to get stuck into: «It felt like we should stick with our one MacGuffin for the country and explore that, let that be the important thing because, frankly we didn't need to have another piece like that,» adds Coogler.

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.

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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She doesn't have much of a role outside of being a living macguffin, but she puts up a good fight during the brief period she's with you.

Most waves simply require the squad to clear the area of hostiles, with waves 3 and 6 mixing it up a bit by requiring the squad to upload data by activating a computer and holding the point until it finishes, or having one or two squad members crouch over a MacGuffin, unable to fight until that's complete.

Hit Self - Destruct: Murder Charge Some really interesting, well - written game - related fiction - I once tried to do something similar with Graves & MacGuffin and an early IC - related piece of fiction, to less effect, I think.

He had been working with the villain since before the start of the game, wiped his Spirit's memory to prevent them from stopping him and even manages to use the game's camera to hide him giving a MacGuffin away.

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.