Sentences with phrase «many dystopian stories»

Spielberg's adaptation of the popular dystopian story from Ernest Cline fell to second with $ 25.1 million, while the new Universal Pictures comedy «Blockers» opened in third place.

Most of the dystopian stories are characterised by governments or religions using some or all of these 10.

I have written a short dystopian story satire of meat eating.

Familiar faces return and everyone gets a proper sendoff, which is crucial in dystopian stories.

2018 will usher in the next great dystopian story, courtesy of author Philip K. Dick, Sony Pictures Television and Amazon Studios.

Fahrenheit 451 has been promoted as a dystopian story because dystopia has become a fashionable notion tossed around without a sense of what it means.

A Trump inspired short dystopian story.

He writes: «In this dystopian story, teachers are evaluated by standardized test scores and branded with color - coded levels of effectiveness, students are abstracted into inhuman measures of data, and educational value is assessed by how well forecasted «growth» levels are met.

I'm not big on dystopian stories either.

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In a world full of danger, MaddAddam is a dystopian story of community and love.

Canadian author El Akkad drew from his years as a war reporter to craft this disquieting, dystopian story that brings the realities of war to our own doorstep.

An artful mix of suspense, fantasy and social critique, Emily Schultz's The Blondes puts a feminist twist on the dystopian stories that have been crowding fiction shelves for the last several years.

Dystopian stories about how Earth's environment will be unlivable in the future are plentiful.

It's a dystopian story set in an alternative version of 21st century Europe.

It's difficult to manage a blurb for sci - fi dystopian story in five hundred characters or less so that it can be used for Kindle Scout.

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As with many Dystopian stories, the opposite side the coin, the wealthier districts, are full of skyscrapers and bustling businesses.

Her early exposure to the destructive powers of Mother Nature and Hollywood dystopian stories fueled her young imagination.

The second text is from the never to be published manuscript «Construction of One» aka «Construccion de Uno» (2005 onwards), a dystopian story that follows a group of workers as they reoccupy a former factory and attempt to completely resolve all relations of production and consumption.

In this series, the writers envision futuristic timelines where technologies currently available are taken to their extreme, resulting in disturbing, dystopian story lines, some of which have since come to fruition in one way or another.

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On shelf after shelf in the Indigo bookstore downstairs, they're peddling the same story, that of a dystopian future where teens are forced to fight to the death for the amusement of adults.

The story of Detroit as a dystopian wasteland has a certain twisted appeal, at least for those of us who don't live there.

The plot, which is a parody of a dystopian science fiction story along the lines of Tron or The Matrix, focuses on an unexceptional mini-figure construction worker, Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt).

It's a story with eerie echoes of science - fiction novels like J.G. Ballard's «The Crystal World» and Stephen King's «Under the Dome,» though I confess that an early shot of a meteor crashing into a lighthouse put me briefly in mind of a dystopian Nicholas Sparks.

With as much as they have riding on their shoulders, the fact that Minecraft: Story Mode hasn't turned into a heavy, Walking Dead-esque slog is a testament that you can still work through some deep subjects without needing to crush your audience beneath the heavy stone weight of dystopian reality.

«Insurgent,» rated PG - 13, continues the story of Tris and Four and their dystopian world.

And certainly, as far as stories about a dystopian future go, it can't get much bleaker than director Ridley Scott's imagining of Los Angeles in the (then) far future of 2019.

Ana Lily Amirpour follows up her alt - cult sensation A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT with her sand - blasted, dystopian love story THE BAD BATCH; Maren Ade delivers what will be the most uncomfortable film of the festival, the desert - dry black comedy TONI ERDMANN; and Julia Ducournau's directorial debut, RAW, takes us on a cannibalistic coming - of - age shock ride that resonates long after its stunning finale.

It's like a collection of short stories — most dystopian, some not — trying to pass itself off as a novel.

The story revolves around a legendary Warrior Priest (Paul Bettany) from the last Vampire War who now lives in obscurity among the other downtrodden human inhabitants in walled - in dystopian cities ruled by the Church.

Most dystopian books tell the same story.

Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw and John C. Reilly star in Yorgos (Dogtooth) Lanthimos's off - kilter love story set in a dystopian future.

It's a rather ambitious gamble: a clever ruse to lull the audience into thinking the film is just another, if not dystopian, then historical horror story.

And though Akira seems like an even darker story, with its dystopian techno - horror themes and grand - scale action, Waititi has proved that he knows how to dig for the humanity of movies big and small.

The story revolves around a legendary Warrior Priest from the last Vampire War who now lives in obscurity among the other downtrodden human inhabitants in walled - in dystopian cities ruled by the Church.

Actor - turned - screenwriter Hampton Fancher came next, as he built out the screen story by adding its noir elements; filmmaker Ridley Scott (Alien) contributed his staggering cinematic vision for a dystopian near - future and ever deeper layers of meaning, aided by late - coming screenwriter David Webb Peoples.

Now — just months after shooting the dystopian action flick «Divergent» and the cancer love story «The Fault in Our Stars» — he's up to more than 117,000.

George Miller returns to an updated Mad Max dystopian environment but plays out a bold, brilliant new story.

The logline for her next film reads «A dystopian love story in a Texas wasteland and set in a community of cannibals».

For those unfamiliar with the comic, the overall plot of the story essentially centers on the characters in the past being warned about and — trying to avoid — a very unappealing dystopian future.

Ana Lily Amirpour returns to the director's chair with The Bad Batch, a dystopian love story set in a cannibalistic Texas.

The story takes place on a dystopian Earth and stars Tom Cruise as a drone repairman who holds the future of mankind in his...

The story is set in a dystopian future where society has been separated into twelve districts.

«Dredd,» based on John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra's classic «2000 AD» comic «Judge Dredd,» tells the story of hard - nosed future cop Judge Dredd, who has the ability to act as judge, jury and executioner in the dystopian Mega-City One.

Propping up the dystopian hero's story is a clumsily conceived, confusing «faction» system that makes so little sense it can cause spontaneous combustion if meditated on for extended periods of time.

The clip features an appearance by Tessa Thompson (Thor: Ragnarok) and sets the scene for a dystopian Afro - Futurism story sure to entice fans who have been following the saga of Monáe's android alter - ego, Cindi Mayweather, since 2007's Metropolis Suite 1 (The Chase).

The story centers around a secret, members - only hospital in a dystopian future that caters only to criminals, which sounds like a possibly delightful twist on John Wick's joyfully convoluted assassin hotel idea.

The film is a dystopian love story set in a Texas wasteland, but beyond that, there are no plot details.

With an involving story, realistic setting and well executed action scenes, Children of Men is one of the best Dystopian movies out there.