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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569799998
Format: AC-3, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 1766
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1973
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The is the year 2022. Overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society's leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green - an artificial nourishment whose actual ingredients are not known by the public. Thorn is the tough homicide detective who stumbles onto the secret so terrifying no one would dare believe him.
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Rating: - what is Soylent Green?
This movie is pretty good. it is the year 2022 & real food is only for the people in charge. The regular people are fed Soylent Green. They don't even know what real food taste like. The people are not free. If they fight back, they are killed. In the end of the movie you find out just what is Soylent Green.
Edward G. Robinson is great in the movie. It was also his last. He died soon after.
Rating:  - The price of strawberries in the year 2022
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. Still worth watching.
Planet of the Apes
Rating: - A timeless classic!
In the year 2022, the greenhouse effect has poisoned the Earth. The world is grossly overpopulated and there are practically no natural food sources left. Vendors in the street markets sell Soylent Red and Soylent yellow (made from soybeans), but the Government controls and hands out rations of Soylent Green on Tuesdays. Supposedly made from high-energy plankton, Soylent Green is often in short supply for the high demand. People stand in food lines all day waiting for water and processed foodstuffs. Real food is unheard of.
Detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) lives in a tiny, seedy apartment with his "book", Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson). A "book" is like an assistant, picking and assigning cases and performing research. To reach the streets, he must step over the dozens of homeless bodies camped out on the stairs of the apartment. Sol assigns Thorn the homicide case of William R. Simonson (Joseph Cotton). Simonson lives in a posh apartment complex complete with "furniture", which includes a woman. His "furniture's" name is Shirl. Shirl and Simonson's bodyguard Tab Fielding (Chuck Conners) were out shopping when the murder occurred inside the apartment. (Check out Shirl's "new" video game)
The murder is a puzzle to Thorn, who believes Simonson wasn't just murdered but assassinated. He steals two books from Simonson and has Sol research them. (He also steals real food, booze, soap, a towel, paper, and pencils - items not available to the general public) ... Read More
Rating:  - Let's Hope 2022 Isn't Really Like This
In the wake of Charlton Heston's death, I decided to have a marathon viewing of his films. I rewatched many of my favorites and sought out some of those I had never seen.
I knew the plot of "Soylent Green" and had seen bits and pieces of the movie over the years, but until recently I had never sat down and watched the whole thing. Obviously it seems very dated now (it was made in 1973), but in some ways it is oddly prescient. Set in 2022, it depicts a world devastated by climate change where food is scarce and people eat processed meals produced by the Soylent company.
Heston plays a detective who investigates the murder of a Soylent executive, and I have to confess it's not his best performance. The innate nobility Heston brought to his heroic roles worked against him in this case, and I couldn't buy him as a callous, shady cop. He steals items from crime scenes and casually beds a witness. The whole time I watched it I found myself thinking, "Charlton Heston wouldn't do that." The supporting cast is unremarkable except for Edward G. Robinson who (in his final role) is funny and poignant as Heston's cranky partner who constantly talks about the good old days.
The future as visualized in 1973 is distractingly cheesy. The sets look like cardboard and the effects are primitive. In one scene a woman plays a "modern" video game that looks like first-generation Missile Command. The script is heavy-handed, but explores some intriguing ideas. I already knew the twist ... Read More
Rating:  - Soylent Green is......not that Spectacular.
A modern review of Soylent Green presents a paradox: the central theme is more relevant than ever, but some stylistic and narrative touches make the film hard to take seriously in the 21st century.
The film places us in a portentous vision of the future where mankind struggles to survive in Earth's rapidly deteriorating natural environment. Lettuce is a rare treat, meat is reserved for the super-rich, and most people live in broken down cars in makeshift 'shanty towns' or sleep in stairwells or on the street. This fragile existence is maintained by an extensive authoritarian government which strictly rations the limited resources at hand. One such resource is Soylent Green, a wafer-like miracle food credited for rescuing mankind from imminent starvation.
The New York City of this miserable future is home to 40 million people, including one perpetually sweaty Charton Heston. As a city police detective, Heston is fortunate enough to have a small apartment (more like a room) he shares with his older roommate (played by E.G. Robinson in his last role). When the head of the Soylent Company is murdered, Heston is sent to investigate. The case leads to a startling discovery, one which launched this film into the annals of movie legend.
For those that don't know the secret ending, the film holds the promise of a WTF! moment that alone makes it worth watching. For the rest of us, the film offers a impressively accurate assessment of a future in which the state of the environment ... Read More
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