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Metropolis, heavily influenced by the books of H.G. Wells, also stands as the first dystopian film in history.
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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.
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.
The film is set in a dystopian world that makes 1984 look like a walk in the park.
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.
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.
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 205In 2002, Columbia Pictures announced a film adaptation of «Deus Ex,» a cyberpunk dystopian game set in the year 205in the year 2052.
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.
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.
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 film is set in a dystopian...
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.
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.
His appearance in the 2006 film, A Scanner Darkly, based on the dystopian science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, received favorable reviews, and The Lake House, his romantic outing with Sandra Bullock, did not do well at the box office.
Comparisons will immediately be drawn between Divergent and The Hunger Games, as both are dystopian sci - fi film series based on a trilogy of young adult novels written by women, featuring teenage female protagonists in an action - thriller scenario leading a rebellion against a corrupt and manipulative government force, while also engaging in a bit of romance on the side.
This second instalment — in what will be four films from the phenomenally popular Suzanne Collins book trilogy — finds Katniss, haunted by the ordeal of her inspirational victory in the 74th Hunger Games, back in dystopian, post-Apocalyptic Panem's miserable mining community District 12 with her mother, sister and stoic sweetheart Gale (Liam Hemsworth).
The setting is almost dystopian in appearance, and, appropriate for a film made in 1984, it brings to mind George Orwell's infamous vision of the country.
Though the more futuristic stuff isn't too distracting considering Hollywood's current obsession with dystopian sci - fi films like «The Hunger Games,» the decision to cast a 24 - year - old actor in the lead role (playing a 16 - year - old instead of the 12 - year - old that appears in the book) feels wrong for a number of reasons.
The logline for her next film reads «A dystopian love story in a Texas wasteland and set in a community of cannibals».
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lionsgate, Blu - ray, DVD, Digital HD, VOD, On Demand on Friday, March 7), the second film in the young adult dystopian series starring Jennifer Lawrence as Katnis Everdeen, a reluctant warrior and symbol of resistance, improves upon the original film in almost every way.
The film, which is set in a dystopian present, follows angelic gargoyles and satanic demons who are caught in a war for the ultimate power — the secret to immortality — and only Frankenstein's creation holds the key.
While that film took us inside an Australian gangster family, this one is set in a dystopian Outback ten years after what the film terms «the collapse».
The movie is coming in under the radar, being only one of two wide release films out its particular weekend — the other being a small film called «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» — so those who aren't interested in seeing a girl fight in dystopian society might want to seek this out.
As a fan of director Ridley Scott's original 1982 neo-noir sci - fi film, set in a dystopian future in which humans and androids live side - by - side, Deakins was excited about the idea of working on the long - discussed sequel.
We've seen a few images from Bong Joon - Ho's dystopian sci - fi thriller Snowpiercer, but now come a series of character posters for the bedraggled folk riding the rails in the film.
Saturday at Comic - Con is the closest thing to being in one of the many fictionalized dystopian futures of literature and film that keeps the fans coming out to the convention.
Thanks to a background in visual effects, Ball uses a reasonably modest budget (as far as dystopian sci - fi blockbusters go) to create a film that feels quite large in scope and exciting as far as the chases, gunplay, and fights.
Kate Winslet (l.) and Shailene Woodley (r.) are starring in the upcoming dystopian young adult film «Divergent.»
The film will star future X-Man Tye Sheridan as teenager Wade Watts, a virtual treasure hunter in the sort of dystopian world where «knowing a lot about WarGames» is a marketable skill.
A spare, brutal, deliberately paced dystopian adventure, the film marks another in... read more →
3:45 am (14th)-- TCM — Fahrenheit 451 François Truffaut's first foray in English - language film was this adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel, following fireman (that is, book - burner) Montag as he comes into contact with a group of fugitives intent on preserving the knowledge in books even as the government tries to destroy them, and he begins to wonder if perhaps they are right.
Alternating between somber and chimerical makes for an erratic and often heavy - handed ordeal in Canadian filmmaker Patricia Rozema's (I've Heard the Mermaids Singing) latest film, the dystopian drama, Into The Forest.
It offered a dystopian future in which film history was lost, a foreshadow of Hollywood self - destruction.
For Plummer — who is currently filming «Gully,» about a trio of teens running wild in a dystopian L.A. — managing the emotional heft of «Lean on Pete» with the day - to - day baggage of filming illustrates the harmony he strives to achieve between his career and home life.
2014's Maze Runner, the first film in the franchise, was faced with mixed reviews, but more on the positive side as the movie itself was able to stand out more than its competition with its more intense sci - fi dystopian action.
His deliberate pace will ostracise many viewers but it's entirely in keeping with the films meditative themes and allows cinematographer Roger Deakins the luxury of immersing us in this dystopian, retro - future with an abundance of gorgeous imagery.
Ana Lily Amirpour's latest film is an anthropophagous dystopian fairytale, set in a Texas wasteland where society's rejects are just trying to make ends meet... or it would be more appropriate to say meAt.
The dystopian world depicted in Elysium is one that will be familiar to sci - fi film fans.
The second is impossible to miss — a nuclear bomb detonation in near - future London — and while the film delivers a dystopian teen romance in the center of its aftermath, an unnerving atmosphere and surprising brutality actually creates tangible jeopardy and tension throughout.
When you're filing, the whole world files with you Jonathan Pryce plays Sam Lowry, an unexceptional everyman who dreams big but lives as a tiny cog in a bewildering machine in Terry Gilliam's farcical but biting dystopian nightmare — a film he originally struggled to get to screen when executives bristled at its length and bleak ending.