Sentences with phrase «dystopic setting»

Gary Ross played it too safe with the first installment, only vaguely sketching the story's dystopic setting and questionably delivering a bloodless blockbuster about kids forced to kill kids in gladiatorial combat for the reality TV era.

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Did you forget that Terry Gilliam's dystopic classic is set around Christmas?

Pat O'Neill's noir Water and Power uses superimposition, special effects, time - lapse shots and layered imagery to tell a science - fiction inflected story set in the near future, of the struggle for water in a dystopic desert created by Los Angeles» vast water consumption.

In his latest series of paintings and C - prints, Bickerton focused in on the debaucherous side of the Western imagination, crafting dystopic back - alley worlds set somewhere in Southeast Asia and lit by tawdry neon signs, strip clubs, and sex shops and populated by scantily clad, hyper - sexualized bodies, Western transients and sex tourists.