Silent Running
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Movie Reviews of Silent Running
Movie Review: A film that couldn't be made today
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is a product of its era. It has effects that were state of the art in 1973, a sound track by PDQ Bach and Joan Baez and a story line about the results of guilt, loneliness and isolation, about being in a "no win" situation and having to betray yourself by action, or by inaction and the results that such a choice will have on a person.
Lots of snide comments are made about this film, and it will certainly not appeal to everyone. It is not action driven and the main conflict is internal to Dern's character. If you want a film that dwells on how pretty it can be watch something else. If you want to see action watch the first Star Wars. If you want to see a film that for a tiny budget and shot in 30 days actually has some guts to say something about how we treat our resources and how we treat ourselves; about how sometimes choices we make for love can be just as damaging to us as ones made for other reasons, how sometimes the choices we have before us lead to nowhere except our own destruction, but that maybe even with all that something "not replacable" can still be salvaged watch this film.
Movie Review: somber but silly, this is still a must-see environmental sci-fi classic
Summary: 5 Stars
I think you really just need to go into this film knowing that it is kitchy and campy and sappy and silly (and at the same time quite profound and wonderful) -- so that none of that gets in the way of admiring the boldness of a filmmaker who would organize a (relatively) big budget sci fi film around such a powerful and blunt critique of our attitudes to the environment. If you just let yourself know in advance that part of what you are going to get is hippies in space, then you can set aside any reservations about that and just appreciate what is both a technically brilliant film, ahead of its time (before Star Wars!), and a surprisingly touching and somber film that faces up to the implications of an increasingly technologized world in which "nature" as we know it becomes at best a relic of the past and at worst an expendable resource.
Besides, for sci fi robot lovers -- and I know you are out there -- the three robots in the film (Huey, Dewey and Luey) proved before Star Wars that even a non-humanoid robot could express feeling on screen and elicit sympathy and humor.
Movie Review: Silent Running
Summary: 5 Stars
I could tell you what the movie is about but it would be my own interpretation. If you see it, it may mean something totally different to you. What I can say is that, the set was very well done. Part of it was done on an actual aircraft carrier. With a few modifications, it gives the movie a very realiztic sence of taking place on a ship. Exteriors of the space ships may look familiar because although they are new and built for this movie, B-movies have recycled them and used them.
Personally, I think the movie doesn't go far enough. I think there was room for a greater plot without effecting the idea of the movie. If you're not into mjovies with political statements, you may not like this movie. But I think this movie has so many levels. Politics is only one interpretation. another is, "what would you do if you had to make a choice between society and what you believed.." The movie may seem long but it depends if it's your kind of movie.
This movie should be in your library if you are the kind of person who likes to think for themselves.
Movie Review: A Nobel Laureate of Films
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie for the first time when it was in theaters. Younger movie fans will find it can't compare with modern film-making in special effects (no movie this old can) and will have no reason to suspect the level of impact it had on teenagers and college students at that time. Despite being pre-Star Wars, the models of the space ships and scenes inside the ship were impressive. The technology and mission felt big and important - impressive - and the autonomous robots Huey, Dewey, and Louie were wonders. Add to that a lead character (Lowell) and his cause played brilliantly against the backdrop of rebellious attitudes of the day. (Just look up Joan Baez, who sang folksy save the children and the earth songs through the movie, in your history books.) Despite being a psychotic megalomaniacal murderer, I have friends who still remember Lowell as a heroic friend of the true earth and the human spirit. I must therefore, give this movie a full five.Movie Review: Great period piece sci-fi.
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this in the theater way back when. Sci-fi has come a long way, but this movie is not without it's charms. Back then it really did seem possible that we could destroy the planet with pollution. And, there wasn't all that much sci-fi going on back in those days during the big gap between 2001 in the late Sixties and Star Wars in the mid-to-late Seventies.
Now, the reason I'm giving it five stars isn't so much that this is a great movie. It is good, but what really makes this DVD worth the relatively low price is all the extras and interviews. It's a trip back in time the viewer can learn from regardless of his/her politics when it comes to environmentalism.
Actually, the main character's willingness to kill his fellow crew members to save the trees and critters was way more disturbing to me now than it was back then.