Sentences with phrase «children fighting to the death»

Miner also compared the process for getting money out of the initiative to «The Hunger Games,» a popular book and movie series where children fight to the death.

Not exact matches

People have been manipulated into believing their religion is their god, and are willing to sacrifice their own children to it, and fight to the death to protect it.

«I will literally fight to my death — my last breathe drawn will be working on these issues, so that not another child grows up to feel as if there is something wrong with them and unfixable, because you can't change this.

How could a totalitarian government keep its people down while forcing some of their children to fight to the death in a yearly competition?

From his youth, fueled by dreams of glory and adventure, to his lonely and mysterious death as a ruler of a vast state, from the tumultuous relationship with his parents - a powerful king and a queen determined to put her child on the throne at any cost - to the rousing brotherly bonds with his closest companions and vast army, as they fought from the sun - scorched battlefields of the Persian Empire across the snow - peaked mountains of India, the film chronicles Alexander's journey to become a living legend, a man who embraced the ideal that power has a destiny.

A veteran action director, McTeigue shoots individual fight scenes well enough, but never provides any modulation or sense of escalating terror — at no point is anyone allowed to crack a smile, and even when the children are threatened with imminent death, the film's pace never seems to quicken.

The first book, memorably adapted last year into a star - making vehicle for Jennifer Lawrence, focuses on the Hunger Games themselves, an event in a dystopian future America in which two children from each of the 12 districts are put into an arena and forced to fight to the death.

She takes her sister's place in deadly games run by the government in which children are forced to fight to the death.

Kent's point is direct and clear and it's a good one: by repressing the tragedy of her husband's death years earlier she has allowed a monster to fester and grow in their minds and in their house, and it will now take over and completely destroy her and her child if she doesn't finally confront it and fight back.

And while the subject matter of children and young teenagers fighting one another to the death may lead some parents to think twice about bringing their own kids to the picture, the movie is sure to top the box office as well as produce sequels (two books remain to be adapted) in the future.

The heir to the «next great franchise» throne is Suzanne Collins» «The Hunger Games», a trilogy of young adult novels set in a dystopian future where children are annually selected to fight to the death during the titular contest.

Parents should know that this film includes diseased and starving animals, children and adults in peril, murder, death of parents, child injured badly, dog fights with animals injured and killed, skeletons, some disturbing images including surgery, brief strong language, and references to dogs mating.

The residents of each are compelled yearly to surrender their teenaged children into a lottery where two dozen unlucky «tributes» — one male and one female from each district — will be forced to fight to their death.

The Hunger Games are an annual series of tourneys that pit children from each «district» against one another in a fight to the death.

They don't want our children to have an education, but we'll fight to the death.»

Some observers likened the scene to the young adult novel - turned filmThe Hunger Games where children are forced to fight to the death for the amusement of the 1 %.

Now she's penned a best - selling trilogy that's also about child performers — except in this trilogy, they fight to the death!

Not Evil presents Innis as the leader of a historic civil rights group fighting to reinstate use of the pesticide DDT, whose ban the film blames for the daily malaria deaths of more than 300 African children.

Whether childbirth injuries result from the negligence of doctors and other medical professionals during a woman's pregnancy or the inadequacy of care during the labor and delivery stages of a child's birth, Jeff Killino is ready to fight for justice from any and all those responsible for a child's birth injury or death.