Sentences with phrase «space operas like»

Not exact matches

Curiously, however, there's a bit of a rift, considering how vastly incongruous the likes of space - opera - soldiers are with, say, a Norse god.

it's an action - adventure / sci fi space opera to the likes of the original Star Wars.

It almost felt like a stand - alone movie, and it embraced the space - opera origins it parodied.

Another sequel to a special - effects - heavy hit has emerged to challenge the mighty space opera — and on this second weekend of 2018, to send it screaming from its perch, like a force - endowed farmboy nosediving off a catwalk to reject the influence of his basso - voiced, black - clad father.

He did tell us his band were from Mars... In a lot of ways this rambling, rich psychodrama feels like the last real sci - fi film of the»70s, before the pendulum swung to heroic space opera and stuck.

A joyfully perverse exercise in world - building for a franchise that will only live on in fan fiction, the Wachowskis» space opera was a vibrant throwback to gonzo epics like The Fifth Element, Brazil, and the siblings» own The Matrix.

by Walter Chaw Into the Woods looks exactly like what a legendary Sondheim production would look like were it adapted by that idiot who made Memoirs of a Geisha into a Vegas drag space - opera dragged through a scrim of horrific Occidental Orientalism.

No one really had a clue what George Lucas had up his sleeve, but when his space opera hit screens, it dominated the box office like a juggernaut.

Ever since «Star Wars» rewrote the proverbial rule book, there has been so little room in cinemas for calm, brainy science fiction that anything that isn't space opera seems like a feast — «Arrival» is pretty easy to overrate.

Prologues are very much part of certain genres that are going for an old - fashioned epic feel, like high fantasy, historical saga, and space opera.

Each book preview places both you and the book in a 3D environment that matches the book's category - so reading a «space opera» novel is like floating in outer space, reading a gardening book has you sitting in a tranquil garden, etc..

When your next book comes out, I might check to see where I can get it for free, but I'm not going to say, «Oh well, Kindle doesn't have it so I'll read some other space opera by a guy who likes churros.

I usually don't read that many short stories, but Campbell is a science fiction writer I like, and I've read his space opera series called The Lost Fleet.

I'm crazy excited to be in this space opera anthology with authors like Jennifer Foehner Wells, Rysa Walker, Ann Christy, Annie Bellet... and on and on... 11 bestselling SF authors and every, single one of them is a rockstar.

We all know about misery memoir, chick - lit, sick lit, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, dystopian romance, nostalgia fiction, new adult, adult, space opera etc etc and that amorphous beast we just call «literature», into which falls any book we like but we can't really pair with an obvious partner.

Now it takes the form of these juggernaut hits like Halo and Gears of War that tout themselves to be these dramatic space operas with huge open conflicts and «realistic» human characters.

It evolved from a space opera featuring lizard - like aliens into an alternate history World War I shooter, before eventually evolving into the 1950s - era game that launched alongside PS3.

2 expansions with this like space vikings family soap opera is horrible feeling so sad to be a founder or even to have a collectors edition right now.

Don't get me wrong, I like me a good space opera but the money seems to roll out for good in phenomenal packaging rather than finding great in a plain box.

Perhaps Flotilla is for people (like myself) who grew up on a steady diet of space opera and who enjoyed the capital ship combat in shows like Babylon 5 and the reimagined Battlestar Galactica.

It was made to look like a big, multiplayer space opera, while the final product proved to be more of your standard survival game, where players were left to explore and fight space pirates on their own.

In her new, yet to be titled work she recreates a performance by opera legend Maria Callas, singing the tragic song Suicidio taken from Ponchielli's 1876 opera La Gioconda, using a theatrical illusion that creates a hologram - like image floating in space.

«I explore the nuances of genderqueerness, race, and public and private spaces, and the invisibility of the brown / black body through the use of portraiture and opera - like performances.

Next is the insistence on theming the phone like it's a character in a space opera.