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Offline Sabre

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« on: January 04, 2007, 01:50:05 PM »
Anyone seen this yet?  Looks interesting (I've always had a facination with "end of the world" scenarios).  However, every plot synopsis and review I've read indicates that no explanation if given for the world-wide and nearly instantainious infertility of all women on the planet.  The only information hinted at is that it occures roughly one year after a flu pandemic.  However, that makes little sense as a cause, since not everyone gets sick, even in the worse pandemics of history.  There is also mention of nuclear war and multiple nuclear terrorist attacks, but even that wouldn't completely sterilize every woman (or every women except one, according to the story) on the planet, not is so relatively short a period of time.  At best it would significantly increase mutations among newborns.

As far as I know (admittedly, I'm no expert), every case of natural extinction is preceeded by a long period of declining birth rates (which, granted, is happening right now among the human population), until the races simply peeters out.  Generally, this is thought to occur as a result of an insufficient population on which natural selection can work to remove deleterious mutations from that population.  It would be nice if the writer could have provided this background info to the audience.  Likewise the movie's ending (won't spoil it for you) is less than satisfactory.

Otherwise, this sounds like an interesting movie, dealing with a scenario where issues we face today have gone out of control.  Lots of action and powerful visual imagery.  Just wondering if anyone here's seen it yet, and what they thought of it.
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« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2007, 03:07:35 PM »
It does look interesting.  And unlike most Hollywood actors, I can actually tolerate Clive Owen.  

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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2007, 03:10:50 PM »
It's an entertainment movie. Accuracy or relevence to the real world is not required.
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« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2007, 03:15:44 PM »
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It does look interesting.  And unlike most Hollywood actors, I can actually tolerate Clive Owen.  



Why can't Hollywood actors tolerate Clive Owen?

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« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2007, 03:17:32 PM »
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Why can't Hollywood actors tolerate Clive Owen?


Ha!  Sorry, I meant that *I* am not a big fan of Hollywood.  However I like Clive's work.

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« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2007, 03:40:53 PM »
it really wouldent matter just one fertile female would doom the human race anyways. at best we would simple die out. at worst we would be a bunch of inbread rednecks. OH THE HORROR.
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« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2007, 03:42:49 PM »
Looks interesting.  Will probably go see it at some point.
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« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2007, 04:28:55 PM »
I remember watching the previews for the movie.

"This just in, the youngest man in the world has died at the age of 18 due to.....

That would be scary.
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