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Movie Reviews of Soylent Green
Movie Review: "People were always rotten.."
Summary: 5 Stars
There is little to add to what has been said about this classic science fiction/future history film, made in 1973 , set in 2022 and so relevant to what was happening then and what is happening now. The story is well known, the characters equally so. A world which has run out of food, captured in a green house effect, a policeman (Heston), his "book"(fact checker and sleuth) (Robinson) and a corporation which controls both the food source and the government. But there is a line in it, spoken by Robinson, which seems to sum it all up. "People were always rotten." In the film the government, the science,the law enforcement agencies have all colluded to create a nightmare future of deprivation, fear and despair. It was clear enough in 1973, when I first saw the film, that it was beginning to happening and it seems clearer today that it is continuing to happen. Nothing has changed in human behavior to make the future any rosier. If anything, people have got more rotten and more blinkered. A viewing of Soylent Green should have been made mandatory for all politicians and climate change skeptics. It is now too late.
How amazing it must have felt to have been the creators of a film that was so prescient and to be the Cassandra of the times that no one has really wanted to hear. It was based on a book by Harry Harrison But the final story bears little relationship to the original. Harrison commented after the production that he felt bewildered after it all, at what had happened to his story, but that what had been created was really worth the change.
A remarkable film that deserves multiple reviewing, up there with the best of science fiction and the best of doomsday film. But perhaps it is too late to do anything now other than watch the film and despair.
Movie Review: engaging sci fi
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie serves as a warning of what could happen to our people and our planet. A corrupt, ruined, stripped planet, with all the hot weather effects warned about by our current scientists. As it has been said, "Power corrupts, and absolute power courrupts absolutely". This has been one of my favorite sci fi movies. It was made before all the fancy special effects movie makers have at their disposal now. More good acting, less made up graphics. The cast was superb, the story flowed well, and it was quite beliveable. The corruption that surfaced throughout the film was both horrifying and likely in those conditions. This movie shows an extreme division between the "haves", and the "have nots". There are only a select few enforcers, not unlike the SS, who are themselves "have nots" and the corruption of their group springs from that lower position. All in all, a horrifying and convincing "possible future" for our world, given the direction it's going these days. Hopefully, in the year this movie was to dipict, things won't be that bad. But time will tell. News at eleven.Movie Review: Charlton And The Cracker Factory...
Summary: 5 Stars
SOYLENT GREEN is one of my favorite slabs of early 70s sci-fi. Charlton Heston (Planet Of The Apes, The Omega Man) is a hard-nosed NYC cop named Thorn. It is the year 2022, and the earth is a polluted, overpopulated wreck. Thorn investigates the murder of a powerful, rich man (Joseph Cotten) only to be sucked into the middle of a huge corporate / government conspiracy involving the world's dwindling food supply. Most of the first part is to get us accustomed to our freaky future, and to slowly build the mystery and suspense. This culminates in the fabulous finalé, where Thorn discovers the hideous, unspeakable truth about SOYLENT GREEN. This is classic, dystopian sci-fi! Heston is at his grimacing, snarling best. Edward G. Robinson (The Stranger, Double Indemnity, Red House) makes his last role a memorable one. Chuck Conners (Tourist Trap) adds some menace to the procedings, and red-hot Leigh Taylor-Young sizzles in her role as Shirl. My God, what a hottie! Ahem, get this one now...Movie Review: The price of strawberries in the year 2022
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of those bleak future movies where there is a finite amount of resources and an unbalanced distribution of them. The one good point is that food processing as been perfected to the point that we get tasty blocs of colored nutrients. The best one, publicized as being made from plankton Soylent Green.
Detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) is tasked with investigating a homicide in a ritzy section of town. During the investigation, he, with the help of his friend Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson,) discovers a dirty little secret.
Shocking for the time of the movie release. Nowadays we would take it in our stride. This film is still worth watching.
Planet of the Apes
Movie Review: Classic Sci Fi - Stands test of time
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this as a teen and enjoyed it, so I watched it again and still enjoy it - even though I was never a Chuck Heston fan. Edgar G. Robinson's last film, a small part, but played well.
Tells a tale of an overcrowded planet that can no longer produce enough of anything to maintain decent standards of living - except, of course the filthy rich. Talk about Global Warming! Chuck is a detective who is trying to solve a murder, but stumbles onto something much more sinister. Will he triumph over the forces of evil?
Good plot twist at the end. This kind of movie reminds you that the story is important, not the special effects. That's why it's still entertaining to this date. A true classic Sci Fi movie, if you haven't seen it, its worth a look and it is still meaningful even today.