Latest reviews about Soylent Green

firedust37 says "Sci-Fi At It's Best" about Soylent Green

firedust37 — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:00:06 GMT

Despite the 70's feel, 'Soylent Green' holds up well for today's adult audience. Not for the faint of heart, this film is gritty and disturbing.

Life is miserable in the year 2022. Food, fuel, and water are scarce and it is unbearably hot because of the greenhouse effect. Pollution has destroyed the earth's crops and most animals but there are plenty of people left. New York city has 400,000,000 people in it and more than half of them are unemployed. There's not enough food, water, or housing to go around. A yellow smog coats the filthy city. The government encourages and sponsors widespread euthanasia to try and control the overpopulation. Natural foods have become a luxury that only the elite can afford. The rest of the population eat synthetic food produced by the Soylent Corporation.

Even those supplies are severely limited and rationed by the government. Riots on Ration Day are common and people are willing to kill to secure them. Only the strong survive and most of the population...

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walkerme says "Still worth watching" about Soylent Green

walkerme — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:09:28 GMT

Seeing this film for the second time after 30 years, it is not only still relevant but closer to the truth than sci-fi. Bold for its time, since the protagonist choses death over what is tantamount to cannibalism, it was accepted and not reviled by zealots.

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ARTISINA says "A sad commentary on Government control." about Soylent Green

ARTISINA — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:47:09 GMT

I have watched this movie numerous times and it still gets to me. I was a teenager the first time I saw it and it creeped me out badly. The thought of eating humans made me physically ill. Since then I have come to see eating animals in the same way. Eating the flesh of a living, feeling being still bothers me

I did like the thought of being able to choose when to die and being able to watch something beautiful as you slid slowly into the next life.

The difference between the haves and have nots holds true to these days. I see how differently people live and it makes me sad to think that the things I take for granted are out of reach for some people and believe me, I am not even middle class anymore.

This is the type of movie that can open minds and make a profound impact on those that watch it. A real classic.

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GeorgeChabot says "A horrifying vision of the future." about Soylent Green

GeorgeChabot — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:40:11 GMT

Soylent Green (1973)

“It’s not so bad.” Thorn
“Tasteless, odorless crud!” Sol

This is a classic sci-fi movie from the 1970s that still holds its mystique today.

Set in New York City in the year 2022, Soylent Green is a scary look at Earth’s possible future. Forty million people populate New York City which sits under a perpetual heat wave with greenish smog, a curfew, armed men guarding tenement stairwells.

Charlton Heston, as Detective Thorn, NYPD, is assigned to investigate the murder of one of the Directors of the Soylent Corporation, the leading food supplier of the world. Their name is a combination of two major food sources, Soy and Lentil. A further source has been cultivated by farming the seas; ocean plankton, which has been used to make the popular product Soylent Green, little green wafers about the size of a soda cracker.

Thorn finds the murdered director, played by Joseph Cotten (in an excellent though brief appearance), had just been to confession,...

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