Sometimes, these stories are set on unique, often futuristic versions of Earth.
Some other times, however, they bring audiences to a different spot in space entirely.
There, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.
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InWay of Water,Pandora feels grander, more lived-in, and more alive than ever before.
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3, coincidentally, may just be the best in the series.
3is the perfect way to close off what may be Marvel Studios' best trilogy.
It’s set decades after the Nostromo incident from the original.
As expected, violence ensues.
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They only find two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.
Along came exceptional Canadian filmmakerDenis Villeneuveand proved the naysayers wrong.
It’s a sprawling, epic odyssey through the richly-constructed desert planet of Arrakis.
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