"Last Sentinel Trailer" Topic

"LAST SENTINEL sf movie is set in the near future, year 2063, where unchecked and rampant climate change has caused temperatures and sea levels to rise catastrophically. Only two large continents remain, and billions die during the mass migration to these higher lands.Surrounded by an endless ocean thousands of miles from home, a skeleton crew of soldiers (Kate Bosworth, Lucien Laviscount, Martin McCann and Thomas Kretschmann) stand as the last bastion, defending their homeland from an invasion by an enemy they have never seen, monitoring for signs of attack and prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause. Their tour of duty ended 3 months ago with no relief in sight. Alone and uncertain as to what fate awaits them, the simmering tension amongst the crew escalates when a mysterious boat drifts into range – is it the help they have been waiting for, or something far more sinister? Oscar nominee Tanel Toom helms."

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Armand

Looks like the tower on Frying Pan Shoals.

(smile)

Armand

Feels more like a psychological drama than a sci-fi thriller. But maybe it's just me, or the trailer.

It looks perhaps slightly less offensively stupid than Waterworld.

If all of the ice in the world melted, the ocean would rise 60-80 meters. So nearly all of what is currently above sea level would remain above sea level. (That doesn't mean it wouldn't be terrible for people and other land-based life.)

In 40 years, huh? Fifty years ago I heard this kind of catastrophe was scheduled to occur about now…actually, I think it was scheduled for about 10-15 years ago.

MJKerner, prediction is never an exact science – Look at the guy who claimed that all the computers would fail in 2000 unless programmers worked to fix them. Apparently, he was sacked from one job there in Canada, because the disaster never happened, so clearly, he wasn't good at predicting things, just good at fixing them.

And look at Sinclair Lewis: In his book "It Can't Happen Here", he had a right wing religious fundamentalist lunatic become POTUS, after promising a return to traditional American values, in the 1940s. Trump didn't become President until much later.
Some things will happen, just not on schedule.

"If all of the ice in the world melted, the ocean would rise 60-80 meters."

When all the ice in a glass of ice water melts, the water doesn't overflow the glass. The same displacement physics would apply to the global ice caps… ;-)

(smile)

Armand

The same displacement physics would apply to the global ice caps… ;-)

ssshhhh, that's not the narrative!

When all the ice in a glass of ice water melts, the water doesn't overflow the glass. The same displacement physics would apply to the global ice caps… ;-)

That's true. However, if you take your ice cube tray out of the freezer and melt the ice and pour the icemelt into the full glass of water, it does overflow.

The kilometers-thick ice sheet on Antarctica and the glaciers on Greenland and Alaska and elsewhere are not in the ocean. They're the ice in the ice cube tray that's going into your full glass of water.