Soylent Green is People

[Bozo Erectus]

If you havent seen Soylent Green, your assignment is to rent it. Then, explain why Soylent Green isnt our future.

Next, assuming youve seen it, explain how the many billions of Earth can be fed, after Soylent Green is revealed. Whats the alternative?

Also, explain why Sols death isnt the best death youve ever seen.

 

[GoldEagle]

If you havent seen Soylent Green, your assignment is to rent it. Then, explain why Soylent Green isnt our future.

Next, assuming youve seen it, explain how the many billions of Earth can be fed, after Soylent Green is revealed. Whats the alternative?

Also, explain why Sols death isnt the best death youve ever seen.

It looks like someone is a little too lazy to do a report

 

[Narz]

I don't do assignments I don't get paid for. That's why I dropped out of school.

....so, you have paypal?

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Damn, by assignment all I mean is think. If youve seen Soylent Green, explain why it isnt our future. Either it is, or it isnt. Pretty straightforward stuff.

Reports? I wouldnt ask for help with a 'report' like this one. This ones a cake walk, to paraphrase Cheney.

 

[JtheJackal]

It isn't our future because birth rates have dropped probably because of the rise of birth control and over population isn't as much of a threat as it did earlier in the 20th Century.

 

[Mr. Do]

How can it make sense that in order to feed a population you take members of that population and feed them to each other. These were not vats of human flesh being grown up, these were people that had lived long lives. It's like a pyramid scheme, and could not possibly work except in the shortest of terms.

 

[Warman17]

The problem is people who die from disease can't be eaten, and old people don't have good nuritional value. What we need are healthy yound people to be slaughtered for food. Is that what happens in Soylent Green?

 

[Mr. Do]

The only people that the movie shows are definitely sent to the soylent plants are people who are voluntarily euthanised- which seems to be mostly old people. Again showing how silly it is. There is also a part in the movie where rioters are apprehended and scooped up into trucks, but we don't know if they're all killed and turned into food.

 

[bhsup]

It isn't our future because Charlton Heston is too old to play that role now.

Seriously though, that was the "The Day After Tomorrow" type movie for its period. Sensationalistic environmental warnings with no bearing on the reality of the planet. Great flick, though, but nothing more than that.

 

[Yuri2356]

If you havent seen Soylent Green, your assignment is to rent it. Then, explain why Soylent Green isnt our future.

Conservation of Energy.

Next, assuming youve seen it, explain how the many billions of Earth can be fed, after Soylent Green is revealed. Whats the alternative?

Those algea farms that they allude to in the film sound like a good idea. even if the oceans have been poisoned, we can still produce envinronments to grow the stuff in while we work on detoxifying the planet.

Also, explain why Sols death isnt the best death youve ever seen.

Insufficient number of hookers.

 

[Turner]

Okay, who else thought of Frank Black's vocal password when they saw the thread title?

I haven't seen the movie, but it's on my 'must-see' list. I'll see if I can't watch it this weekend.

 

[ummmm........]

Who's Frank Black? The Millenium guy?

 

[Turner]

Yeah, him. That was a cool show.

 

[ummmm........]

I remember it dimly, but I guess I missed all the episodes with his password . . .

 

[punkbass2000]

If you havent seen Soylent Green, your assignment is to rent it.

Is it gory?

Next, assuming youve seen it, explain how the many billions of Earth can be fed, after Soylent Green is revealed. Whats the alternative?

Do we need an alternative?

 

[Bill3000]

Next, assuming youve seen it, explain how the many billions of Earth can be fed, after Soylent Green is revealed.

Um, the secret behind Soylent Green is as much of a secret as Luke's father.

 

[MobBoss]

Heh, its not gory. I have seen it several times. Its one of several Charlton Heston class B sci fi movies that he made back in the day. His most famous was Planet of the Apes, but there were other good ones as well. Along with Soylent Green, I also recommend a viewing of the Omega Man. Its another post apocalypic bio-warfare story that is pretty interesting.

 

[Bartleby]

It's obviously not our future, Planet of the Apes is so much more realistic.

Also, Boo! because I was planning on using Soylent Green in the Movie Stills Quiz, and now it'll be too obvious.

Edit: Sol's death isn't the best beacuse the death of Zed, at the end of Zardoz, is better.

 

[bhsup]

I also recommend a viewing of the Omega Man.

I cannot think of the name of it, but there is a very similiar movie with Vincent Price. "Last Man On Earth" or something like that...

 

[ComradeDavo]

"Soylent grün ist Menschenfleisch!"

I love that film And the Wumpscut song based on it

It's vision of the future is certainally disturbing!