Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic fantasies of»
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Like many of those bottom - billed, drive - in movies, The Happening is grounded in contemporary anxieties and explores those fears through an apocalyptic fantasy.
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Indulging in the fantasy of starting over with a clean slate using science equal parts ridiculous and schmaltzy, the destruction is fun to watch in the way that apocalyptic films always are, the only fantasy element that stretches the bounds of credulity when née - Cheney takes responsibility for his bad decisions and apologizes to the nation.
Shyamalan wrote himself into a corner of diminishing returns with his «thrillers with a twist ending» by the time The Village escaped in 2004, and endeavored to push his directorial ambitions in new dirctions with Lady in the Water (a fable), The Happening (apocalyptic horror), and The Last Airbender (grand - scale fantasy).
Mixing a trauma reckoning with dark, apocalyptic fantasy and notes of psychological horror, this commandeering novel's multiplicity is elusively complex yet never complicated: although the many gut - quivering story elements are not clearly defined, they always speak to each other, and Smith wisely leaves much up to the reader.
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State of Decay 2 immerses you in the post zombie apocalyptic fantasy world that many modern TV shows have painted.
His lurid fantasy landscapes painted on stock - market listings draw contemporary analogies between the state of the planet and industrial capitalism, but their dramatic geography originates in the New World vistas of the Hudson River School, just as their apocalyptic storm clouds derive from John Martin.
In juxtaposing the constructed facsimile with discarded items, Hirschhorn offers viewers the space to project their own specific fantasy of apocalyptic desire onto the artwork.
The blurb screams «alarmist millenarian rant» at me, and if I want to read apocalyptic fantasy I've already got a reasonable collection of science fiction...