Soylent Green

[Jeratain]

Okay, I am looking for this movie. I want to know if it is as good as people have made it out to be in the past.

Has anyone seen Soylent Green before? Please don't ruin the plot for me (I already know the ending but I'd rather not know too much).

But is the film good? I tried searching for it at my local video store and they didn't have it that night, so I'll have to find it again another night.

 

[CurtSibling]

Weird movie.
There is a cool grindcore band by the same name.

 

[insurgent]

It's a good film. Its vision of the future is rather interesting, but it's not "LOTR-good". I watched it on TCM, and I say, if you have that - then just wait till it is broadcast there, it won't be long...

 

[col]

Its an Ok film - though the 'surprise' ending can be seen coming a mile off.
Edward G Robinson is particularly good but Charlton Heston not bad.
IIRC from a Harry Harrison novel - Make Room, Make Room.

Gave a whole new meaning to the phrase "humping furniture"

 

[insurgent]

Originally posted by col
Gave a whole new meaning to the phrase "humping furniture"

If only...

 

[Yoda Power]

Its a nice movie, i watched it on TCM too.

 

[napoleon526]

Mmmmm.....Soylent Green.....

 

[joespaniel]

Hey, it solved two of the worlds problems - hunger and overpopulation.

Originally posted by napoleon526
Mmmmm.....Soylent Green.....

Especially the snozzberry flavored ones.

 

[Jeratain]

Hmm... which channel was TCM? Turner Classic Movies or something?

 

[Archer 007]

I've never seen the movie, but from what it sounds like, are they eating people? If so, sounds pretty cool.

 

[Jeratain]

Originally posted by archer_007
I've never seen the movie, but from what it sounds like, are they eating people? If so, sounds pretty cool.

Shhhh! I still haven't seen it

 

[Greadius]

TCM is Turner Classic Movies, as you asked.

I saw it on that station too... it was okay. To be perfectly honest, you can get just as much from the concept by watching the Simpsons parody.

 

[Sultan Bhargash]

The most accurate depiction of the future I have ever seen portrayed in the movies.

Not so great as a film (rather boring if I recall), but again, dead on accurate in its vision. Oh, hurry up and rent it so we can spoiler it for you...

 

[napoleon526]

Originally posted by Greadius
TCM is Turner Classic Movies, as you asked.

I saw it on that station too... it was okay. To be perfectly honest, you can get just as much from the concept by watching the Simpsons parody.

There have been several episodes that flash forward to the future, and Homer orders Soilent Green. I think it happened in the episode with the Itchy and Scratchy movie, and years later Bart is the chief justice of the supreme court, he and Homer go to see the movie. Homer asks for Soilent Green at the concession stand.

 

[Greadius]

I'd forgotten about that. I thought there was one in the "House of Horrors" that did a more direct parody. Perhaps I'm thinking of "Omega Man" (which, is a better movie btw).

Who did a parody of Soylent Green?

 

[Sultan Bhargash]

Omega Man- now you're talking! Supposed to have been a remake with Schwartzenegger but not so far.

 

[Immortal]

Soylent Green was mediocre at best for me, I loved the ol "SOYLENT GREEN IS *****" speech. But then when I saw the movie I was more then a little disheartened.

 

[ferenginar]

A classic movie but no cinematic masterpiece, it paints a very grim picture of our future, which may turn out to be far more accurate than the sugar coated views we often get. It is not alone in providing this grim picture but offers a rather unpleasant solution.
As such it provides governments and big business with a warning on how they should behave.

futurama often refers to soylent green

ferenginar

 

[Sultan Bhargash]

I see lots of dark future movies but they are often about wide open wilderness of barbarians; if not, the inevitable fallacies of flying cars and people still smoking cigarettes two hundred years or more from now creep in (Blade Runner, 5th Element). Soylent Green is the only film I have seen which shows us overpopulation in its realistic form, a form on its way and already basically here for the denizens of the tri-state area around NY. There is limited wealth, limited food, limited space in this world, and we will fill it up.

 

[Remorseless]

Good movie, but I agree: Omega Man was better. Both better than Logan's Run (although Jenny Agutter made it worth the money!). Interesting that Charles "I Love the NRA!" Heston was in so many futuristic, skewed movies (he was in the original Planet of the Apes, a true classic - "Get your hands off of me, you damned dirty ape!"