Sentences with phrase «story of an alien»

Under the Skin tells the story of an alien seductress, prowling the streets of modern - day Glasgow seeking out vulnerable, lonely young men with a view to harvesting them for an unseen, unaddressed alien corporation for whom she presumably works.

It's a fantastical story of aliens, spirits, and children told by one breathtakingly gifted artist, and it's utterly remarkable.

This, still, is an oversimplification as writer / director Jonathan Glazer (along with co-writer Walter Campbell) have loosely adapted Michel Faber «s 2000 novel into a story of an alien being come to Earth to harvest humans for sustenance and, in the process, finds compassion for her victims only to find with compassion comes injury.

Like the 1951 film of the same name, this movie tells the story of an alien's visit to Earth to inform the planet's inhabitants that they must change.

The story of an alien on an elaborate rescue mission provides the launching pad for Nicolas Roeg's visual tour de force, a formally adventurous examination of alienation in contemporary life.

It's clear that writers Dante Harper and veteran John Logan want the story of Alien: Covenant to be one of answers and explanations rather than questions and mysteries where some are more warranted than others.

UNDER THE SKIN is the story of an alien in human form.

After watching Stranger Things, for example, members in the UK and Ireland moved on to Dark Skies or X-Men: Days of Future Past, both sci - fi stories of aliens and mutants.

But perhaps that is Glazer's point: since we are watching a story of an alien it's fitting that it unfolds not in a common language but in ambiguous images.

As a vehicle for advancing the meta - story of the Alien franchise, it is far... Read More»

The film tells the story of an alien race, which takes over Earth and its inhabitants.

The story of alien oppression occurs four years after the murderous conclusion of Resistance 2, and casts Joseph Capelli as the leading man.

I like the fact that you get to go back into the story of Aliens and you get a story of what happened between Aliens and Alien 3 on the Sulaco and LV - 426.

Not exact matches

The story of a lovable alien stranded on earth, the movie was an immediate hit, and it earned $ 435 million at the domestic box office, the equivalent of $ 1 billion today.

What would be shocking however is if this alien race had an incredibly similar story to that found in the bible complete with a single god, a jesus, some miracles, some parables, etc.... It would be the similarity of religions between alien races in this hypothetical that would truely shock me and at least make me question if that would be a solid point of evidence for the religious.

re-read the stories of the bible & replace «angel» with «alien» 7 suddenly things make a lot more sense.

Joss Whedon tells stories about heroes, whether they're California teenagers slaying vampires, a misfit band of smugglers saving the galaxy, or a group of superheroes repelling an alien invasion.

(24) But is the story so alien and strange that it has no affinity with the culture and experience of the Tiv people?

In the story of Sodom in Genesis, sodomites are heterosexual men who want to humiliate other ostensibly heterosexual alien males by gang - raping them.

As Winner puts it, «Esther is also a story about exile, about being an exiled Jew, an exiled person of faith, and what it means to live in a place that is foreign, to live in a place where you are foreign, where you and your kinsman are aliens.

Austin How can we tell the difference between your «authoritative revelation of the Spirit» and someone else's memories of reincarnation, alien abduction experience, or ghost story?

More than that, the stories seem alien because we'd rather not face the history of violence which underpins our use of electricity.

But in reading Randolph Loney's stories of his friends on Georgia's death row we are forced to acknowledge a simple truth: those whom we have condemned to die are not «aliens,» but individuals who, in their essential humanity, are connected to all of us.

Thus the story drives home the fact that she was an alien and, what is more, of a particularly hated race and nation.

It seems to me, however, that these old stories speak to us in a surprisingly timely way, once we penetrate to their inner content through the enveloping layers of culturally alien materials.

AtheistSteve Cowboys and Aliens is a great story of redemption Hollywood style.

Indeed (to turn to the second question) it has been proposed that the story of Ruth came into existence chiefly as a genealogical narrative — to preserve or comment upon the ancestry of King David: Ruth is David's great - grandmother (4:17; it is the fuller genealogical table of 4:18 - 22 that appears alien and secondary to the original story).

It would be very interesting to know how people reading this take these stories (of fallen angels, giants, Nephalim, etc.)-- fact, fiction, aliens, legends, imagination literature that served the purpose of explaining part of Israel's past or what?

HUMVN, Machine?He made a funny comment in one of the justarsenal stories earlier.He said Arsenal don't need a new CB.Can someone slap me.I was even shocked at the thumbs up he got.I feel so sorry for Arsenal and fans as well.We are really suffering.Till today how people rate Mertesacker is beyond me.The guy is not even a leader by example.I wonder why Hayden was sold as I think he could have surely done better and if Isaac Hayden solves his injury problems we gonna regret selling him.Even aliens know arsenal needs a CB.Aren't you guys tired of always starting the season short of players in positions where needed.It's like some of you want failure but you don't know you want.Arsenal should complete the squad this season.It's a must.

Funnily enough, the official state - run Ghana News Agency has not taken down its story that the Ghanaian President unequivocally condemned gayism as being alien to the culture of the Ghanaian people.

Stories on hints of dark matter at the dawn of the cosmos, what giant family trees can tell us about human behavior, and how people think they would react to alien microbes

Malevolent aliens make for a stronger story, of course.

«The Odour of Cocktail Cigarettes» and «Nanoware Time» are unusual stories of «first contact» with aliens in that none of the tales assume that we know what they really want.

The story follows the adventures of the heroic blue alien Scorch Supernova and his geeky brother Gary, who find themselves imprisoned with other extraterrestrials in Area 51.

Certainly our strangest story of the year, this item concerns a curious find in Chile's Atacama Desert: an alien - looking 15 - centimeter - long skeleton reportedly discovered inside a pouch in a ghost town.

One of Fermi's SETI - pioneering peers, the physicist Freeman Dyson, once summarized the situation thus: «Our imaginings about the ways that aliens might make themselves detectable are always like stories of black cats in a dark room.

All of which means that story 2, about the astrophysicist Mazlan Othman being named Earth's official alien greeter is TOTALL.......

In this wide - ranging, humorous talk, Seth Shostak takes a look at Star Wars and other science fiction films from the point of view of a skeptical scientist, tells stories about the movies he has been asked to advise, and muses about aliens from space and how we might make contact with them.

The story line follows a group of trespassing seniors who swim in a pool containing alien cocoons.

Code 403 is a story of a teenager who faced an alien invasion; each song has its own story, I will communicate later on this but the use of Theremin for example was perfect to express an alien invasion.

Creepy Stories Of Alleged Alien Encounters.

Steve Boucher shares 2 incredible stories of close encounters with aliens he had as a child and as a teenager 1.

Let's face it, if you've seen one superhero story, you've pretty much seen them all: alien / regular kid affected by supernatural powers / rich person with access to fantastic gadgets rises to meet regular threats from ne'erdowells, learning lessons about the costs of being a hero.

Not to quibble about issues of plausibility in a story about a boy with superhuman powers who arrives on Earth on a spaceship from an alien planet, but the star of Smallville is just too beautiful to be believed.

The trouble lies with the fact that this Cold War world of secrecy, back stabbing and betrayal seems so alien in the internet age that it's quite difficult to involve yourself in the dense, convoluted story.

He told the story of how awful humans are to other humans (I mean prawns), and journeyed through the eyes of a blithering idiot who started out steamrolling over the aliens for the Man, then had a change of heart, completing the transformation by literally turning into one of them.

Unlike many lesser directors would have in his shoes, Jonathon Glazer keeps strictly with the alien's perspective, a decision which seems initially crude and even potentially sadistic and yet as the story (or lack thereof) evolves one can not help but recognize a series of uncomfortable tropes in human behaviour that for better or worse might define us as a species, under the gaze of an alien fly - on - the - wall.

The extraordinary achievement of Under The Skin is that while Laura develops some human qualities, Glazer resists the temptation to turn this alien's story into the story of what it means to be human.

But a good - not - great single - player campaign story for the trilogy conclusion with a less interesting protagonist is easily overcome with a fantastic variety of alien - eliminating weaponry, solid FPS controls that restore gameplay functionality to fan - favorite quality with the reintroduction of the weapon wheel and health bar, and good - not - great multiplayer.

This Island Earth (I'm still not sure how the title applies to the story) starts off with an interesting premise — aliens posing (poorly) as a think tank of sorts to recruit Earth's best and brightest for the scientific good.