Sentences with phrase «up dystopia»

Thanks to one video sent to Jalopnik, we can see that the future envisioned by LeEco CEO Jia Yueting — the man backing electric startup Faraday Future — is straight up dystopia, with parents held back from their families, never - ending office work and apps that dominate your entire life.

Like something straight out of Philip K. Dick or Harlan Ellison's messed - up dystopia generating brains, The Fall for the Nintendo Switch arrives to scratch all my biggest genre and theme - specific itches.

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How, you wonder as you slink out of the store, did we wind up in this dark retail dystopia?

If I want a real dystopia allegory, I'll just re-read 1984 or maybe pick up Brave New World (because I've never read it and now I'll have to to understand Amusing Ourselves...).

Mad Max — Dystopian; Society is crumbling and fucked up but still exists The Road Warrior — Post-apocalyptic; Society has completely fallen apart and everyone is on their own Fury Road — Post-apocalyptic dystopia; A new, completely fucked up society has emerged from the rubble of the old one.

Derivative dystopia is a muddled, maudlin and laughable mess with a few nice fight scenes to break up the failure.

A humorous send - up of the 21st Century commune as a hedonistic dystopia for spoiled brats who can't cope with the real world.

Like a spoof mash - up of Mad Max and Machete, this nutty action movie throws us into a Wild West dystopia with enough wit and energy to overcome its clunky production values.

Based on the «2000 AD» comic, Alex Garland's script sees Judge Dredd (Karl Urban), totally committed yet unsympathetic law enforcer in a future dystopia, going up against a gang leader who rules from the top of a 200 storey tower block.

«Children Of Men» For a film which is, ostensibly at least, science fiction (it creates one of the most coherent, fascinating futuristic dystopias ever seen on screen), «Children of Men» sums up our War - on - Terror, immigration - panic era better than any contemporary drama could.

And there's the éminence grise Sutherland, the reliable over-50 supporting player who shows up as curdled authority figures, corrupt commander - in - chiefs, conspiracy whistleblowers and the occasional YA - dystopia despot.

Released: February 24 Cast: Sennia Nanua, Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Paddy Considine Director: Colm McCarthy (Outcast) Why it's great: If you're fed up with «young adult dystopia,» and equally over the zombie movie, The Girl with All the Gifts is good news.

Though Sacred Deer makes more of an attempt to resemble real life (The Lobster was set in a heightened dystopia), it's like a warped version of a scary story told to children around a campfire, a cautionary myth in which a seemingly perfect family comes up against an inexplicable force of darkness.

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury, 1953 Another early vision of dystopia, one in which books are outlawed and «firemen» burn them up when they're found.

«On Amazon.co.uk, self - published works regularly show up in the top 100 bestselling books list, which this month includes The Girl Who Never Came Back by Amy Cross, a 30 - year - old self - published writer of paranormal and fantasy, dystopia and erotica; and The One You Love by Paul Pilkington, the first in his Emma Holden suspense mystery trilogy.

It's always happy hour in this slice - of - life dystopia Most games today put you in the shoes of the valiant knightly figure saving the world, or the jaded antihero caught up in global -LSB-...]

The highly anticipated follow up to the 2010 cult - classic NIER, NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim a machine - driven dystopia overrun by powerful weapons known as machine lifeforms.

The highly anticipated follow up to the 2010 cult - classic NIER, NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the mechanoid - driven dystopia overrun by powerful weapons known as «machine lifeforms.»

Since teaming up in 2009, the Korean artists Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho have created a number of multimedia projects for high - profile venues such as Documenta and the Venice Biennale, dealing with utopia and dystopia in a nebular and speculative mode.

Dystopia is currently cool (the current Whitney Biennial serves it up by the bucket), and sometimes the vision is darker than at others.

Solo and group exhibitions include Ged Quinn, New Art Gallery Walsall, West Midlands, UK (2013 - 2014), Landscape 2000, Osnabru ck Cultural History Museum and Felix Nussbaum Haus, Germany (2013 - 2014), Looking at the View, Tate Britain, London, England (2013), Endless Renaissance, Bass Museum, Miami, USA (2012 - 2013), FOCUS, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA (2012), Lust for Life & Dance of Death, Kunsthalle Krems (2010), Newspeak: British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London (2010) touring to State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersberg (2009), Made Up, Liverpool Biennale, Tate Liverpool (2008) and Utopia Dystopia, Tate St. Ives, UK (2004).

Yet, for many Americans, perhaps most of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of «Blade Runner,» «Mad Max» or Cormac McCarthy's «The Road»: a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped of nature.

Booted up «Project Hieroglyph ``, a big shiny movement devoted to chasing dystopia down into the cellar and replacing it with upbeat, optimistic science fiction that could Change The World.