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Summary: Terrifying in its Plausibility
Review: Charlton Heston plays a NYPD detective investigation the murder of a top-feeder in the corporate pyramid when he stumbles upon a secret that could get him killed. Not that life isn't cheap in the near future: suicide spas, crowd control with dump trucks; you get a chill watching it because aside from the dated clothing and fads it seems more than possible, especially in an already crowded city like New York. Edward G. Robinson, an icon of early gangster pictures, is Heston's roomate/mentor/researcher. I find his performance oddly touching, considering the hard cases he's played in the past.\ The ending was damatic and shocking in the early 70s, but seems almost rational now. Sick, yes? But I wouldn't put it past 'em. Plus I'm fond of strawberries...
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Summary: Top Sci Fi Flick
Review: Edward G Robinson is the best thing about this film....Charleton Heston never did learn to act he simply over acts...but even his acting can't ruin this great film..I'd give it a 5 if it were not for Heston's acting...The "funeral" scene is a classic...and Soylent Green well we all know what that is ...Soylent Green is ......!!!
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Summary: Finally, a classic brought onto dvd...
Review: I don't know what took them so long but Soylent Green is FINALLY on dvd. I havent viewed it yet on dvd but after so long of a wait I'm very excited to see how it will transfer on the dvd. Hopefully they will throw in some extras to make the dvd even better but just the fact that its on dvd is reason to celebrate.In short buy this movie, any Science Fiction fan needs to see this movie. Period.
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Summary: Soylent Green
Review: I am a teacher in the secondary education system. I teach a class on Ethics, Morals, and Legalities. We discuss the issue of cloning and what kind of an impact it would have on the future. I show the movie Soylent Green to my students to give them an idea of what the world would be like if people were able to live forever or at least for hundreds of years. The film has made an impact on each one of my students.
I think it is a very good movie and does a good job of opening our eyes to what might lie ahead for planet Earth.
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Summary: Heston should have made another Planet of the Apes sequel
Review: A good yet very depressing movie. Soylent Green is people. ... Sure overpopulation and corruption will end the human race. Do they have to hit us over the head with the message? I have to say that Heston would have been better off making a few more Planet of the Apes movies. A good twist to the movies would have been if he inadvertantly released the virus that kills all the domestic animals (cats and dogs). So people would turn to apes as pets. Remember this from Conquest of the Planet of the Apes? --This text refers to the VHS Tape edition
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Summary: Edward G's Swan Song!!
Review: It's sad because I loved Robinson's portrayal's as larger than life villans. His performance in this movie was prophetic. Charlton Heston was at the top of his game when he starred in this film. Unfortunately, the plot was slow and teedious. If you can endure it, you'll be quite intrigued by the vision of the future in this movie.
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Summary: You think YOU have problems!
Review: A movie based on Harry Harrison's 'Make Room, Make Room!' the setting is the year 2022, in New York, which teems with millions of starving citizens. Most are out of a job, fight over crumbs and have no fashion sense. Thorn, a cop played by Charlton Heston, robs from crime scenes, beats up people and rarely showers. Women come with apartments, riots are handled with garage trucks and voluntary death clinics are open for business. The fact that dead people are used for food, which allows us to skip the whole- they get buried and turned into dirt, that feeds the plants, which then feeds the animals, who end up on our dinner plates anyway- and allows the government to make them into food directly by processing them and turning them into green wafers, called Soylent Green, seems to be the LEAST of their problems. I'm not saying it sounds yummy, but when compared to the rest of the setting, it almost seems logical!
The bland, soiled and decaying city reminds me somewhat of the London in the movie version of '1984'.
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Summary: AWESOME-A Preview of our Future on Planet Earth
Review: This movie is a warning that if we do not take care of Mother Earth now, we are doomed. This means taking responsibility for cleanliness and being more aware of the ecology. Each of us needs to be aware of recyling measures.......I saw an individual throwing a cigarette out of his car......if the weather was dryer, he would have been responsible for a fire.....Please be more responsible...more aware of all that surrounds...........
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Summary: Almost a possibility
Review: I first saw this movie about 16 years ago. The story stands out from all other movies you'd see about the way things will be. How do we know that some of the "organic" foods we have today aren't made up of human bodies? I own this movie now and watch it every now and then when my kids start whining about something they want and don't have.
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Summary: Right up there with Blade Runner as GREAT SCIENCE FICTION!
Review: There are people who just do not understand science fiction, types who get hung up on petty details like the "authenticity" of the costumes & sets. These people only want to be ENTERTAINED (they've had a rough day) & are incapable of seeing the BIG PICTURE which is what GOOD sci-fi is all about. Not only is Soylent Green great science fiction, it's one of the most humanitarian films ever to come out of the Hollywood factory, showing compassion for human experience, particularly as portrayed by Edward G. Robinson in his brilliant & final film performance as Solomon Roth, a representive of humanity at its most ideal. Roth cherishes the sensuality & spirituality of a life that sadly no longer exists. I've always found the scene with Thorne (a very fine performance by Charlton Heston) & Roth eating a meal scrounged from stolen scraps & contraband by cop Thorne, & savoring each spoonful & bite without comment but on the edge of tears of ecstasy at the very rare blessings of flavor and texture to be a very moving one. Beckettian, almost. Soylent Green contains many such memorable scenes. Roth is a "Police Book": a human research computer. He opts for voluntary suicide using the services of a government-run facility which will grant him twenty minutes of blissful memories before his departure. Tuesday is "Soylent Green" day. When the crowds get out of hand the troops come in with the "Scoops", great big garbage trucks with front-loaders that scoop & dump the mobs into the truck beds. Even the smog is palpable. This is the movie that made me aware of the meaning of the word Dystopia. Most great sc-fi stories project a dystopian vision. Maybe Soylent Green has outdated costumes & sets (I get by that minor obstacle by imagining that the future designers, like so many of their ilk today, simply recycle recent trends), but it works on a very real & human level. It shows the very bleak alternative course we always face if we aren't very careful. It's the OTHER SIDE OF US.
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