Soylent Green (1973)

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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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. December 31, 2008

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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The movie is accurate but outdated because of the old cars used (they should be newer in the year 2020) along with the old videogames and style of the city itself.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 December 25, 2008

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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. December 16, 2008

Heston and Robinson are magic!

What can I say about my favorite movie. Yes it's cheesy, but most Sci-Fi movies made then were. The best thing about this movie is the interaction between Sol (Eddie Robinson) and Thorn (Chuck Heston). Especially when Thon brings home food from the murdered Soylent director's home. Eddie Robinson was dying when He was making this film. To see them eating "real" food, and acting like they were eating it for the first time was priceless! Also the dying scene were Sol "goes home" (knowing He was dying in real life, was touching) Soylent Green is a classic! November 30, 2008

Solent Green is people!

Classic Scifi, Edward G. Robinson's last role. Good price, free shipping, what's not to like? November 24, 2008

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