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| Soylent Green | 
 enlarge | Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Dick Van Patten, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 2582
Format: Ac-3, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 97
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD019157D
UPC: 012569799998
EAN: 0012569799998
ASIN: B0016I0AJG
Theatrical Release Date: 1973
Release Date: March 25, 2008
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 03/25/2008 Rating: Pg
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 Classic movie. January 7, 2009
I saw this movie years ago when it was first released. I purchased it because it is a a pop culture icon for films of this genre. It's kind of a must have for your film library. If you're young and have never seen it, you need to watch it so you'll know what someone means if they make a reference to "soylent green".
Thought Provoking December 31, 2008
Primarily due to overpopulation with associated environmental degradation, the earth has degenerated into a noisome place of crowded poverty. People's diets are reduced to processed wafers the most desireable of which is Soylent Green, presumably processed from oceanic algae. The implication is that the seas have been so degraded as to produce nothing better.
Thorn, a tough detective, ultimately discovers the true nature of 'Soylent Green.' The most memorable and poignant scenes of the movie are when Heston as Officer Thorn is invited to have a hot-water shower... 'Use as much water as you want.' Thorn, who has never had the experience of a hot water shower, is deeply affected. Another scene is when Thorn breaks into a ministry building in which people are euthanized. His best friend, Solomon [Edgar G. Robinson], has volunteered for euthanasia because 'I've lived too long.' The death ceremony involves projections of scenes of an earth now gone...flowers, streams, meandows, forests, wildlife. Leather-tough Thorn is moved to tears by the beauty of things gone forever. Potent...all the more potent because it's an all too realistic view of the future humanity faces because we are breeding like bacteria in a nutrient broth bottle. The calamitous end result is entirely predictable.
Ron Braithwaite, author of novels--'Skull Rack' and 'Hummingbird God'--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico.
What is Soylent Green? It's ... December 31, 2008
Soylent Green still works even if you know the secret of what soylent green is. It is a well acted dystopian fiction that gives you the feeling of being immersed in the post-apocalyptic famine riddled society it portrays. At its dark heart it is a detective story with Charlton Heston trying to figure out why a rich Soylent Green corporate has been assassinated. He pilfers whatever he can along his investigation and brings the goodies back to his home where a friend of his, Edward G. Robinson, enjoys the once in a lifetime chance to eat meat and drink alcohol. The ending was a shocker for its time. Definitely worth watching, especially for the scene with the scoopers.
sylent green December 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a very serious movie. It is about overpopulation of people, pollution and corruption (very much a part of the Bush adminitration). Don't bother to read the book "No Room, No Room" it is nothing.
The movie makes a sense of need,security and wanting of the old days and the "Good Life". It is sad, horrifying and terrible what happens but probably very "true to life" in the very near future.
The movie is accurate but outdated because of the old cars used (they should be newer in the year 2020) along with the old videogames and style of the city itself. But the story is very strong and accurate of what the near future will most probably be like. Food shortage takes the cake here.
It is sad to see Edward G. Robinson in his last performance here and yes He dies in the movie too.
So beware man...keep killing the trees keep killing the animals keep burning that gas and oil but... we will all pay for it soon.
One of the most accurate of the Science Fiction movies.
One of my top ten!
Please see it!
gary
soylent green December 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
its a old movie but it was new when i was young it tells me not much has changed since then an i hope the next group of young people are better and less greety then my generation and understand the movies message.
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