CinemaRatty :: tag: mystical
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...mystical things, and we as viewers can come up with absolutely no explanations
Duelle tells the story of the daughter of the moon, Leni, and the daughter of the sun, Viva, and they're battle to try to extend their visiting time, in the human world, to a period of more than forty days. The key to their goal lies within a mysterious jewel...
...mystical ormaybe extraterrestrial in nature. Some real government top secrets instead of just the typical
Something more mystical or extraterrestrial In a sub! I sincerely hope we get to see Steven Segal save the earth from an alien crisis using his fists alone. This will be intergalactic diplomacy in the spirit of James T Kirk. With luck he...
...mystical godlike entity Diamond Eye, the Warrior of Light to battle the beasts and defend humankind
And more info on our valiant hero
When Rai Koutaro is sent a package from Switzerland, he finds its contents to contain a magical blue diamond ring. This is the King of Arabia ring and is valued at almost 10 Hundred Million Dollars
In time...
...mystical films, there are some slack stretches, like a numbingly long ascent up a spiraling rock staircase that switches between night and day via some vertical pans. But the vast majority of the film is taken up by such striking imagery that it's absolutely mesmerizing, even when it's not quite clear what's meant to be going on. With Anger's...
...mystical, spiritual and haunting as sticking a flashlight under your chin and shouting, "Boo
Now let's look at Kubrick's ending
By dropping the boiler subplot completely we now have a hotel (and it's ghostly inhabitants) not keeping themselves from destruction but ensuring themselves new life, an important distinction. Now it would seem their...
...mystical, which really bugged me. As it seemed out of place in the story, I didn't buy into it
The other area of praise that Hurricane Moon has received is in the characters and their relationships. This, to me, was the low point of the book. After reaching "Green", the book becomes embroiled in the trials and tribulations, relationship-wise,...
...mystical." Regardless of the stated beliefs of its authors -- who aren't all atheists, by the way -- SF works best as a genre about the Big Questions of being and meaning, and any halfway-satisfying answer to those questions has to have a bit of religious flavor. Critic Darko Suvin has argued that any SF story that takes religious concepts...
...mystical streak in a hard-tech setting at a time when that was an extremely unpopular (even derided...) move in science fiction circles. Space:1999 aired in the mid-1970s when people were seeking Star Trek's optimism about the future and a sense of "cosmic brotherhood" where future science could solve all of the worlds' prroblems
What...