Sentences with phrase «ya dystopian film»

Though it was never going to be a sunny ride, the sheer desperation, violence and madness on display throughout Snowpiercer's 125 minutes make it one of the most dystopian films we've seen in quite some time.

Metropolis, heavily influenced by the books of H.G. Wells, also stands as the first dystopian film in history.

Compared to the other YA dystopian film franchises, the «Maze Runner» series falls somewhere between «The Hunger Games» and «Divergent.»

Chalk it up to worldwide economic and socio - political uncertainty or even global warming, but dystopian films — from the Divergent and Hunger Games series to The Giver and The Maze Runner — are having a moment.

The game isn't over,» President Snow declares in first trailer for final installment of dystopian film

Gifts is definitely not just another teen dystopian film.

After a string of bleak dystopian films such as Divergent, The Hunger Games and The Giver, Tomorrowland is a refreshing take.

The new film Insurgent contains all of the typical ingredients of a dystopian film focused on young adults.

The dystopian film imagines Hong Kong in 2025 with language police, mini Red Guards, radical protest and social alienation rife.

EM Going back to technology, science fiction and speculative fiction seem to be enjoying a recent surge in popular interest — to say nothing of the dystopian films and books that have followed disasters like global warming or the rise of Trump.

Perry transformed Bridget Donahue's space into what felt like a dystopian film set.

Not exact matches

To promote the movie Insurgent, the sequel to teen dystopian blockbuster Divergent, eOne (the film's Canadian distributor), Facebook and the digital creative and marketing agency Spoke - Isobar have partnered to launch two 15 - second looping ads that can be viewed on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.

Sims: The dystopian vision is that you'll be able to watch Netflix, but when someone puts an indie film online, you'll have to pay an extra $ 100 a month to see it.

Back in September, the burrito chain released a stirring short animated film called The Scarecrow that showed a bleak dystopian world created by fast food production industry.

Prof Crook is sceptical of the speculative futures (dystopian or otherwise) envisaged by sci - fi films where an AI «singularity» occurs and machines become self - aware as they transcend the intelligence of their human creators.

Or to create SkyNet and inadvertently send us all into the dystopian future of the Terminator film franchise.

James Dashner, the author of «The Maze Runner,» a top - selling dystopian science fiction series that was turned into a film trilogy, has been dropped by his publisher, Random House, due to his inclusion on a list of authors who allegedly engaged in harassment.

Sept. 19: If you just can't get enough films based on dystopian YA novels, 20th Century Fox's The Maze Runner should provide your next hit.

The film is set in a dystopian world that makes 1984 look like a walk in the park.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 is a 2014 American dystopian science fiction adventure film directed by Francis Lawrence with a screenplay by Peter Join the Revolution.

After Danny Boyle filmed an adaptation of the book (released in 2000), Garland transitioned into screenwriting, with a proclivity for dystopian science fiction.

No matter how exhausted cinema is in its dystopian anguish, this film shows us that there are still independent horizons for the genre in the future.

A wicked post apocalyptic style film set in a dystopian society.

The production design of the shimmer has invited several comparisons to Tarkovsky's Stalker, a film whose influence on production design has most recently manifested in the most unexpected of places — dystopian YA adaptations ranging from Mockingjay to The Maze Runner, which have taken the otherworldly designs of «The Zone» and stripped them of their initial surreality.

Niccol's tech - heavy view of the future strays far from the dystopian wasteland and ultra-flashy perspectives favored by science fiction films.

Autómata is yet another film that would be considered a science - fiction film revolving around a dystopian future.

Much like Woodley herself almost singlehandedly saves these films from being just another overwrought dystopian nightmare.

As we learned in the first film, a dystopian future society divides citizens into factions based on their abilities — except for «divergents», who act as wild cards in the system.

And unlike that bloated 1997 dystopian juggernaut, the film manages to clock in at a surprisingly sleek and multiplex - friendly 88 minutes, and its abrupt but elegant conclusion has the curious benefit of making this extravagantly silly entertainment seem somehow smarter and more enigmatic in retrospect than it does while it's unfolding.

As the grimmer YA - literary cousin to «The Hunger Games» that also pits young people against each other in mortal combat, this dystopian fable set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago treads much of the same ground as the first film with a modest amount of new information and characters.

«The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» By Joan Alperin Schwartz Once more we return to the dystopian world of Panem, ruled by the evil President Snow (Donald Sutherland) The film begins as Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games, along with her best friend and fake soul man, Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) are about to go out on a «Victors Tour» Life is good for both Katniss and Peeta... They live in comfortable houses, have all the food they could possibly want, nice clothing and are the «darlings» of Panem.

Having gone from globetrotting Bond - ish adventure to Michael Mann crime film, Nolan switches genres again into a Dickensian, dystopian epic, as Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) comes out of retirement, aided and abetted by Selina Kyle (an excellent Anne Hathaway), to face off against the mysterious terrorist, Bane.

Ana Lily Amirpour follows up her alt - cult sensation A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT with her sand - blasted, dystopian love story THE BAD BATCH; Maren Ade delivers what will be the most uncomfortable film of the festival, the desert - dry black comedy TONI ERDMANN; and Julia Ducournau's directorial debut, RAW, takes us on a cannibalistic coming - of - age shock ride that resonates long after its stunning finale.

The movie has great time era sets pieces as the film takes the audience from a dystopian future to a realistic version of 1973 that includes wardrobe, hairstyles, and music.

Another film I initially gave a B to before totally revising my feelings on it, Yorgos Lanthimos» dystopian parable on modern romantic relationships belongs in an oddity's museum.

In 2002, Columbia Pictures announced a film adaptation of «Deus Ex,» a cyberpunk dystopian game set in the year 2052.

Adapted from Fanboys screenwriter Ernie Cline's debut novel of the same name, this dystopian sci - fi is absolutely jam - packed with»80s pop culture references, making it one of our most anticipated films of next year.

It makes for populist dystopian SF fare, and serves well as a provocative modern - day blockbuster film on reality TV shows that reflects in a mild subtle way on these diabolical hard times and how gross the public's entertainment tastes have become.

The sci - fi film about a dystopian future in which Earth is attacked by aliens, which starred Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, and Milla Jovovich, managed to rake in $ 263.9 million at the box office despite lukewarm reviews.

You're likely familiar with the film's basic premise by now, a dystopian 26th Century in which the idiots out - bred the rest of humanity.

It's a rather ambitious gamble: a clever ruse to lull the audience into thinking the film is just another, if not dystopian, then historical horror story.

The new science fiction action film from Bong Joon - ho («The Host,» «Mother») defies the odds by turning yet another dystopian future into something thrilling and distinctive.

The powerful dystopian imagery itself (both displayed and evoked through description) is not easily forgotten — particularly the prologues and opening sequences, nor is the idea behind the films, or the many paradoxical narrative loops.

In a bleak, almost dystopian version of 1984, Arthur interviews Slade's former friends and colleagues, allowing the film to dissolve into vignettes that explore Slade's life and career.

2017's festival also reinforced its status as the home of politically charged cinema with a line - up that addressed the refugee crisis (and a bold new step into the world of virtual reality cinema), dystopian social experiments, mental health, and AIDS activists: there were more than enough fine caliber films to chew on for this year's audiences.

That approach includes focusing the spotlight on Evans» character (who leads a rebellion aboard a futuristic train that houses much of humanity in the film's wintery dystopian setting), in order to better utilize his star power as a selling point - in addition to emphasizing the movie's action beats, as accompanied by the expected dramatic musical cues in the post-Inception age of trailers.

The film is set in a dystopian present, where angelic gargoyles and satanic demons are caught in a war for the ultimate power; the secret to immortality and only Frankenstein's creation holds the key.

The Globe nominations were kind to other films coming out later this year: Both «The Wolf of Wall Street,» the account of a win - at - all - costs stockbroker premiering on Christmas, and «Her,» a dystopian tale of severed interpersonal relationships opening Dec. 18, received multiple nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., including selections alongside «American Hustle» for best comedy or musical motion picture.

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I wish I could say this question was neat to ponder in an abstract sci - fi way, but the near future for film looks kind of dystopian, at least as we have traditionally understood the medium.