Sentences with phrase «fiction elements of»

This «underdeveloped» planet adds a nice mix of the science fiction elements of the game and more traditional fantasy style RPGs.

Although Brutal Adaptation could be considered a modern medical mystery, the science fiction elements of the story are too strong not to consider it sci - fi.

A complete practice paper for the GCSE English Language Eduqas Component 2 19th / 21st century non fiction element of the new 9 - 1 GCSE.

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Unfortunately, simply knowing the elements of fiction writing does not mean you will be able to utilize them effectively yourself.

Growing cells in Petri dishes sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but the basic elements of the science are actually decades old.

«Hunger, poverty, poor health, fear, violence and lack of freedoms are not just elements of fiction, but daily realities in our world.

But anyways, a general rule of thumb for distinguishing fiction from non-fiction: if a story contains supernatural elements like magic, miracles and monsters, it is fiction.

«Some find it shocking that a technically gifted group, earning its keep by designing web sites for businesses, could fall prey to aberrational beliefs that blended far - out science fiction with elements of Christianity,» write the editors.

This hybrid form that draws from and combines elements of both the essay and the short story is generally considered one of the identifying characteristics of Borges's fiction.

He sees the vital ingredient of SF as otherness: «A true science fiction story has as its keystone an imaginative element which can not be properly expounded in any other literary form.»

Most of the games in the Final Fantasy series have elements of science fiction.

It may not contain any elements of «hard science - fiction» but it is no less a science - fiction films than the classic films I mentioned in my review.

... even though its increasingly camp elements have aged poorly, it deserves respect as one of the more ambitious, grandiose, and important science fiction adventures of its time.

It plays like a response to the age of fan theories and puzzle box fiction, in which stories are set up to be pieced together, with every element eventually snapping into place.

Critic Consensus: Technically brilliant and emotionally wrenching, District 9 has action, imagination, and all the elements of a thoroughly entertaining science - fiction classic.

In any other fictional film if you have bad characters, underdeveloped elements, and sloppy narrative you simply get a bad piece of fiction.

Despite a narrative structure that counteracts many of the horror elements, and an alien world that won't play by its own rules, «Annihilation» still presents noteworthy production design, eerily escalating tension, and intriguing science - fiction notions that all but demand post-viewing discussion.

The slow, strange rhythm is very unsettling and takes some getting used to, but it's an altogether amazing, sunsuous film; it even has an element of science fiction and some creepy musical numbers, and the soundtrack is as original and peculiar as the imagery.

Even New Geek masterpieces like PULP FICTION and BOOGIE NIGHTS are merely energetically capable recombinations of elements from other, though often specialty - video - store obscure, movies.

The original «Star Wars,» which blasted into theaters in 1977, went through several iterations playing with elements of science fiction, soap opera, and Westerns.

Sure, there are plenty of loose ends and logic loopholes to have to contend with, but with fine performances, a nifty plot, and solid production values all around, Deja Vu overcomes familiar story elements to deliver a lively and interesting thriller for those who enjoy mysteries mixed with fantasy and science fiction elements.

I couldn't help but think that the way Lifeforce was combining science fiction with the supernatural with apocalyptic elements that it was just a ripoff of John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness.

If this were fiction, then no Hollywood studio would pick up the film, as so many elements of the tale are too fantastical to believe.

However, given the difficulty of attempting to pull together all the show's science fiction elements live, including the Doctor's confusing, wibbly - wobbly techno - babble, Davies gave up on the idea.

Many of the elements that made Pulp Fiction such a memorable experience are present in Seven Psychopaths, at least during the first 1 1/4 hours: witty dialogue, humor derived from brutality, bursts of violence, and Christopher Walken.

With Essoe's performance proving to be a thing of complex, emotionally - shattering beauty, even if every element might not work out exactly as I hoped they were going to I was still impressed with their feature, Midnighters a tasty bit of pulp fiction I'm certainly going to be revisiting relatively soon.

A tribute to the Quatermass serials of yesteryear as well as a hodgepodge of other elements, «Lifeforce» is one of the most messily dazzling science - fiction epics of the last quarter - century.

Netflix staged one of the most anticipated events of this summer's Television Critics Association press tour: A panel on Stranger Things, the throwback thriller that channels elements of 1980s horror and science - fiction cinema to depict the mysterious happenings in and around a small Midwestern town in 1983.

It's a punk movie first of all, with a hint of science fiction — two elements that take it right out of the mainstream.

It was a huge catchphrase among science fiction authors and readers back in the 1990s, denoting strange works of fiction that blend realism and fantastical elements.

However in the hands of writer / director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, In Time), the result is occasionally challenging, dealing with both the science fiction elements and the teen angst at the heart of the story.

In its swirl of violence and emotion, the new movie feels like a summation of those two most recent pictures, even as it braids together settings and story elements from Jia's earlier films «Unknown Pleasures» (2002) and «Still Life» (2008), his surreally tinged docu - fiction about the incalculable impact of the Three Gorges Dam project.

Neon takes some pretty big liberties of its own by mixing in science fiction elements and characters, ample humor, and a neon - drenched eighties vibe that even the original 1987 game lacked.

The second, Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine, is a fascinating, more unconventional docu - fiction hybrid that's as much about the events leading up to Chubbuck's suicide and the sensationalism that draws the populace's attention to such real - life horrors as it is, per our own Chuck Bowen, «the element of performance that's integral to documentaries.»

Goya's Ghosts (2006) Mixing elements of historic fact with fiction, the easiest explanation for Bardem's wig - like mess in this Milos Forman film is that it's a period piece set in the late 18th - century.

It perfectly blends the elements of a science fiction blockbuster — A-list stars and amazing special effects — with a powerful and subtle story.

Writer - director Shane Black knows detective movies and pulp fiction inside out, and in this film he takes elements and scenes that have become staples of those genres and changes them slightly, often to hilarious effect.

But more important than any of these elements is a firm understanding of what is fact, and what is fiction.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

A superb pas - de-deux with American cinema, this ultra-violent futuristic film brought the action film genre a touch of class with its masterly combination of Road Movie, Western and Science - Fiction elements.

Most notable among these is the gently playful shoehorning of genre elements into a whispery character study: 40 - odd minutes in, the film casually yawns, stretches and takes up an shaggy - dog mystery plot born of the director's love for detective fiction.

Edgar Wright's latest film, The World's End, arrives on a wave of critical praise centered primarily on how the film's science fiction elements reflect its characters» struggle with middle age.

Others were perhaps anticipating the appearance of a giant monster, but when the science fiction elements do eventually arrive, the devastation that greets protagonist Michelle is courtesy of a bio-mechanical race of sentient aliens - a threat that is almost unrecognizable from the first Cloverfield movie.

Though the Westerns eventually made way for science fiction flicks to be Westerns in space (the «new frontier»), unfortunately, at least in the case of Cowboys & Aliens, the elements cancel out one another.

Todays update involves the casting of Bruce Willis (hopefully it will be the Pulp Fiction, Fast Food Nation, 12 Monkeys Willis and not the Cop Out, Fifth Element, Mercury Rising Willis) and confirms Joseph Gordon - Levitt (who proved a winning combination with Johnson's sensibility in chic - noir Brick).

Yet Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have still managed to carve out their own little niche in the market with this film, a daring fusion of grindhouse genre fiction with indie romance that somehow uses those seemingly opposed elements to transcend and forge a tale about the power and uniting force of love, no matter how star - crossed and unlikely its subjects may be.

The elements were here for a return to previous glory: a science - fiction plot, lots of action and stunts, cheeky one - liners, and a Philip K. Dick - ish storyline.

Someone Make This Into a Movie Part VI - Wanted, by Mark Millar & J.G. Jones The upcoming Wanted movie starring Angelina Jolie seems to have stripped the graphic novel of all its science fiction elements...

This film has elements of science fiction, horror and mystery.

What starts off as an absurdist workplace satire about race gradually becomes, well, a lot more absurd as elements of science fiction threaten to overwhelm the story.