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• ONE OF THE GREATS...

  • el debbo
  • 5/23/11

  Should be required viewing in all schools. Heston: fantastic. Robinson: polished performance, especially since he was a dying man when they filmed. He went 'home' about 9 days after the wrap. This is a fine movie, a cult classic.

• Scary And Prophetic SciFi

  • Bruce Reber
  • 3/19/09

  Soylent Green is a SciFi classic that is even more timely in 2009 than it was when it came out in 1973. The frightening depiction of pollution, global warming, scarce food, overpopulation and primitive human brutality of the world in the year 2022 is now only 13 years away, and seems to be an inescapable reality as time passes. I have seen it several times, and I consider it one of the truly visually stunning and thought-provoking SciFi films ever made. I have seen other films that portray the future as utopian, with all of the world's problems resolved and humanity living in peace with one another, but Soylent Green shows a dark, hopeless future where humanity's problems have only worsened and no solution is possible or even attempted. There is no need to remake Soylent Green because the events in the film are happening right now, and Science Fiction has become fact. I watch it every time it's on TCM. Four stars!

• A greatly under-rated movie

  • Paul Jackson
  • 12/30/08

  I first saw Soylent Green in Canada's capital city, Ottawa, Ontario, when it was first released. It didn't quite grab me at the time, but having now seen it often on TCM and believe it is a movie far ahead of its time. I would easily give tis movie four stars out of five. Also, Edward G. Robinson was a very fine and kindly man in real life. And, what more can be said about Charlton Heston!

• Year file made

  • bob
  • 7/19/08

  I would have sworn this movie was made in 1969, not 1973

• Soylent Green a prophesy of the future

  • M prof
  • 9/18/06

  This movie had a strong impact on me as a kid and even now as an adult. I remember how the father was no longer useful to society so he was given a lethal injection. No nursing homes just extermination. That could easily happen in the future. Third world countries have high birthrates compared to the rest of the world with disease and starvation. Whose to say if those green crackers aren't given in the future.

• Soylent Green is ....Good

  • vincent o
  • 4/28/06

  What is Soylet Green? That was the catch line in advertisements for this movie when it came out. It is a solid SciFi story that is even more significant today, and in 50 more years maybe totaly true. Mr. Heston is perfect as Thorn. Edward G Robinsons last film and he goes out in style. No pun intended if you have seen the movie. This is another part of the movie that sadly will come true. Get out the people movers!!!!!

• is this a color?

  • justine
  • 1/25/06

  I always thought Soylent Green was the color of refrigerators back in the 60's

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