Sentences with phrase «future about time travel»

Rian Johnson's Looper is a smart and unique science fiction film set in the future about time travel that is controlled by mobsters.

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We won't need to worry about near - light speed travel any time soon, but Halimeh points out that GPS satellites already have to account for minute relativistic effects, so it's possible that future applications of transformation optics will have to pay attention to Einstein's theory.

It also touches on my own theory about how to make Back to the Future work: every time Marty travels into the past, he's making a new alternate universe.

What he was writing about was his semi-Marxist view of the darker side of the human future — how capitalists might turn into Eloi and the proletariat become Morlocks — and the only way available to him to make a story out of it was to pretend that time was a dimension as traversable as any other, and that therefore a machine to travel through it was possible.

That's the satirical thrust of X-Men: Days of Future Past, an enjoyably convoluted time - travel adventure that takes place mostly in a mildly anachronistic 1973, after the end of the Vietnam War and before Watergate, with the President trying to figure out what to do about America's potentially insurgent mutant population.

Movies about time travel always present their ponderables — What sort of future could it be where «disposing of a body is pretty much impossible?»

After a slow start, this film - about a former boy genius (George Clooney) and a current girl genius (Britt Robertson) traveling to a city outside time and space - becomes a delightful and thoughtful exploration of the ways in which the future, the concept and promise of it, function in human life.

X-Men: Days Of Future Past is a movie about the slippery paradoxes and mutable mechanics of time travel.

While its tale of near - future mob assassins uses time travel to generate exciting twists and turns, those popcorn elements are in service of a fundamentally character - driven piece about the self - defeating futility of violence.

By this point, you may well be weary of hearing about «Back to the Future,» given how much press the time - travel trilogy received when the first movie hit the big 3 - 0 earlier this year, but at some point you'll find yourself wanting to revisit the fun of these three films, and that's when you'll want to have a copy of this five - disc set in your collection.

That line comes late in Don Hertzfeldt's 17 - minute futurist comedy about a young girl who is visited through the imprecise science of time travel by her third - generation clone from the future.

The cast and crew of «X-Men: Days of Future Past» talk about time travel, character resurrection and seventies attire in a Q & A session...

The cast and crew of «X-Men: Days of Future Past» talk about time travel, character resurrection and seventies attire in a Q & A session at Comic - Con in San Diego.

This particular event makes it even easier to tie this all to Secret Wars, as it is all about a possible future, time - travel leading to an alternate reality - the stuff the mega-event is apparently made of.

The Ray Bradbury short story «A Sound of Thunder,» an unnerving morality tale about modern man's arrogant disregard for nature, ends with time - traveling dinosaur hunters returning to the future to discover that by stepping on...

Easily the best science fiction movie since Inception, Looper is a highly original time travel movie about hitmen whose targets are sent to them from the future.

The film's cause - effect time - travel paradox — in which the very act of trying to change the past ensures that the future will unfold as it does — can do your head in if you think about it too much.

Best Original Screenplay — 1985 What Won: Witness What Should've Won: Back To The Future or Brazil Witness was a decent action flick about Amish folks versus an evil Danny Glover, but was it really more original than cinema's first Oedipal time - travel comedy or the insane celluloid love child of Terry Gilliam and a typewriter?

Short film A Conversation About Cheating With My Time Traveling Future Self by Pornsak Pichetshote.

In the novel, seventeen - year - old Kate learns that she's inherited a genetic license to time travel when her grandmother shares a strange blue medallion, an even stranger tale about future historians, and the unshakeable conviction that the fate of half the planet lies in Kate's hands.

I'm looking forward to earning more US dividend income in the future; we like traveling to the US and likely always will so I think it would be convenient to get monthly dividends in USD as it avoids having to convert at the right time or worry about avoiding travel if the exchange rate is bad.

It is really a great timing because in our message and chat We were discussing about our future travel plans.

From isometric tactical combat, a time travel (or time reset) mechanic that reminds us of The Sexy Brutale, and a setting incorporating both an alternate future Cold War and the Berlin gay nightclub scene, there's no shortage of reasons we're excited about All Walls Must Fall.

Thursday, he's slated to talk about inexpensive time - travel devices and how the future might not exist.

Having travelled widely in the area, been to Iraq three times and met sadaam Hussein, Syria twice and met the former president, Jordan twice and met the king, plus studied Islam I do Know something About the causes of Islamic fundamentalism, the secular concept, the need to «contain'the forces of evil and stop their spread and that allowing this sort of barbaric fundamentalism to take root will mean we will have to deal with a bigger problem in the future.

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