Sentences with phrase «other dystopian»

The other dystopian thing is that Facebook owns Oculus one of the main big VR environments — with regards to the book, it'd be like not only did the bad guys win — they get to set up the OASIS (the VR environment) in the first place.

There is little to set the plot apart from other dystopian online future books other than the realistically juvenile nature of the online speech.

The diegesis of Elysium seems a bit familiar when compared to other dystopian worlds, but much of the technological props, production design, and visual effects that Blomkamp uses are amazing; the director definitely owes props to his practical design and CGI teams.

Other dystopian tales featuring mankind settling elsewhere in the universe because Earth has been destroyed include After Earth, Oblivion and WALL - E.

Not exact matches

I read the book (along with her other awesome dystopian work, Oryx...

Viggo Mortensen, star of The Road, insists its dystopian possibility is closer than we think: «Fly over this country or any other in the world, and you can become quite alarmed and sad at the sight of so much deforestation, scarring of the land, and toxic contamination.»

Here are some short reviews of some other enjoyable series similar to «The Hunger Games,» in case you, too, like «Dystopian.»

Other aspects of getting dressed in this Dystopian world would be dramatic, creative, layered, draped and monochromatic.

I love those dystopian sci - novels too, any others you'd recommend?»

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 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.

The Globe nominations were kind to other films coming out later this year: Both «The Wolf of Wall Street,» the account of a win - at - all - costs stockbroker premiering on Christmas, and «Her,» a dystopian tale of severed interpersonal relationships opening Dec. 18, received multiple nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., including selections alongside «American Hustle» for best comedy or musical motion picture.

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.

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.

Compared to the other YA dystopian film franchises, the «Maze Runner» series falls somewhere between «The Hunger Games» and «Divergent.»

The YA book is another dystopian future tale (is there any other kind?)

The sky is blue — well, blue enough for a dystopian reality — there are birds flying by, wind blowing in the trees, and you're waiting for the inevitable moment when a train is going to hit you at a murderous velocity — as if a train hitting you at any other speed isn't deadly.

The other finds star Suki Waterhouse getting into a rusty car somewhere in the desert that is Amirpour's vision of a dystopian America.

Based on a novel by Ernest Cline and co-adapted by him too, the story unfolds in the inevitably dystopian future of 2045, where rubbish - strewn trailer parks are now arranged vertically and where our young hero, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan)-- like so many others who live in «the Stacks» — prefers to spend his days immersed in the Oasis rather than confronting the misery of real life.

, reduces the audiences» understanding of the oppressiveness of this dystopian world with characters other than Katniss.

OK, so it's not entirely surprising that Katniss isn't overjoyed in the middle of a war in a dystopian future where kids regularly have to fight each other to the death, but she's certainly even less happy with the situation in this clip than she could be, which is no small feat, considering.

On the one hand, most people seem to agree that he did an admirable job of translating Suzanne Collins» popular dystopian sci - fi thriller into cinematic form; on the other hand, some of Ross» stylistic choices with Hunger Games (specifically, the disorienting shaky cam / editing approach) left many viewers feeling disgruntled.

This time, plucky Tris (Shailene Woodley), her hunky boyfriend, Four (Theo James), and their ragtag band of buddies dare to climb the wall that surrounds Chicago in this dystopian near - future to see what's on the other side.

I do n`t just read books that are dystopian, or mystery, or whatever other kind of genre, because I think these are somewhat arbitrary tags placed on a book in order to figure out what bookshelf it belongs to.

I think the reason I decided to write dystopian fiction for my first novel, is nothing more than the story I wanted to tell fits into that category better than others.

Something else to notice: both had to use dropshadows to make the text stand out — something it's usually better to avoid (in other genres) but since dystopian fiction covers can be a little aggressive, it works here.

Since then, The Moon Dwellers has outsold and drawn more hype than any other of his 13 published books, and has risen to the top 10 of many YA dystopian lists on Listopia, finding a place amongst bestselling books such as The Hunger Games, Delirium and Divergent.

So if you're like so many others who are obsessed with YA dystopian novels like The Hunger Games, Delirium, and Divergent, and haven't yet read the growing phenomenon that is The Moon Dwellers, now's your chance to do so FOR FREE.

Huxley (1894 - 1963), on the other hand, was born into a prominent English family, wrote elegant satirical and dystopian novels like Crome Yellow and Brave New World, and embraced the new frontier of hallucinogenic drugs, most explicitly in his extended essay on mescaline usage, The Doors of Perception.

It may have its direct predecessors, but Gibson's tale of hackers, street samurai, conspiracists, and shadowy artificial intelligences against virtual reality, dystopian urban Japan, and a variety of other international and technological backdrops remains not just archetypal but, unusually for older technology - oriented fiction, exciting.

With its widespread cast of characters, some of whom seems destined to cross each other's paths, Year One is the beginning of a thrilling dystopian saga.

You'll also find deals on other Scholastic dystopian YA e-books (yeah, Hunger Games is just the tip of the iceberg).

This Dystopian Thriller has a «Touch of Romance» and reviewers say «we get to see love in action, as we learn just how far Kelsey and Luke are willing to go for each other».

From Big Brother to doublespeak and a host of other concepts, Orwell's dystopian view of political corruption remains a significant work even today.

This dystopian novel is included in many other lists, naming only Top 100 Kindle bestsellers of 2017.

When I first started my time in the beta I was impressed with how alive the world around me felt, running through the dystopian landscape and seeing other players engaging in random firefights with both mutants and aliens all help you feel like your part of a bigger resistance.

The primary cast of characters along with the various factions that the player interacts with all seem to compliment each other nicely within this highly stylized dystopian world.

Set in a dystopian future world, EPOCH casts players as a lone combat robot doing battle with other mechanized creations across a ruined cityscape.

Unlike a lot of other futuristic, dystopian titles, Horizon: Zero Dawn avoided the focus on brandishing firearms and instead put a focus on bow and arrows, ropecasters, and other primitive weapons and traps.

The Surge maintains the same core formula while fundamentally changing the setting, which is now a dystopian future where Earth nears the end of its life and overpopulated cities face environmental diseases among many other issues.

Melanie Gilligan's dystopian drama, The Common Sense, tracks the impact of a new immersive technology that enables individuals to tap into the sensation of others over 15 short episodes.

For her first solo exhibition in L.A., Cameron - Weir expands the scale of her dystopian sculptures, which fill the sprawling 14,500 - square - foot space with a curved adobe wall affixed with neons, a hydrotherapy tub brimming with white sand, and other works that eerily blend the natural and the artificial.

Historical works by Hans Haacke, Robert Breer, Otto Piene, and Gianni Colombo, amongst others, are displayed alongside reconstructions of lost works and realizations of dystopian mechanical devices invented by figures like Franz Kafka.

Others present science - fiction fusions of the human, natural, and technological, imagining unknown dystopian futures.

Some artists offer optimistic, utopian angles, others look at the present - future with a dystopian pessimism, and many offer a blurry hybrid.

Some people say its reminds them of a dystopian Christmas, others notice that the exhibition shows that «there is nothing more permanent in the world then the temporary things».

While some works seem dark and dystopian, others are tinged with notes of humor and levity; others still feel sweet, or elegant.

«Portugal doesn't have net neutrality, so it ended up with a dystopian cable - style internet» is also a bad argument for other reasons.