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Soylent Green - Special Collector's Edition (1973) [VHS]

VHS ~ Charlton Heston
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)

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While Soylent Green may be one of the many dystopian visions of the future, the film stands out because it's one of the few titles that addresses current environmental issues head on. Adapted from Harry Harrison's novel Make Room, Make Room, it gives us a nightmarish vision of an over-populated, polluted future on the brink of collapse--a vision that gets uncomfortably closer every year. Charlton Heston as police officer Thorn investigates a murder in between suppressing food riots and uncovers the nightmarish truth about Soylent Green, the new foodstuff being sold to the poor.

The film neatly combines police procedural with conspiracy thriller. Heston's scenes are counterpointed by more elegiac ones in which the centenarian Edward G Robinson as his friend Sol broods on the world he has outlived--his death in a euthanasia chamber is a gloriously lachrymose moment, which he plays to the hilt. Heston, too, is good as Thorn, a morally equivocal cop who loots the apartments of the victims whose deaths he investigates--he's a man just getting by in an impossible world.

On the DVD: Soylent Green on disc comes with a commentary from director Richard Fleischer, the highpoint of which is a memorable description of what it was like to work with the brilliant ailing, entirely deaf Robinson. He is joined by Leigh Taylor-Young whose work on the film as heroine led to years of serious environmentalist commitment. It has a useful contemporary making-of documentary and touching shots of Robinson's 100th birthday party with telegrams from Sinatra and others. The feature itself is presented in anamorphic widescreen with its original mono sound. --Roz Kaveney

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It's 2022. New York City is inhabited by more than forty million people, half of whom are out of work. The cost of living is crippling and death is available on a voluntary basis. Includes the original theatrical trailer.

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Aw, nuts. People were always rotten. But the world 'was' beautiful., 16 Dec 2006
By Gisli Jokull Gislason "Jokull" (Iceland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Soylent Green [DVD] [1973] (DVD)
A bit dated but a very good movie. The basic story is a murder who dunnit set in the not so far future. But this isn't its strong side. It is a movie about a world that has squandered its resources and is crowded with overpopulation. Fresh food is only for the rich and employment for the lucky. Beautiful girls make their living as "furniture" in the houses of the rich while the common unemployed masses sleep anywhere they can. The futuristic view is very dim in a different way from Blade Runner, the world is a bright hot desert and people are obliged to live in overcrowded cities. Life is worth very little. The dialogue is very well written as well and the movie has plenty of memorable quotes. The best ones are between Det. Thorn (Charlton Heston) and Sol (Edward G. Robinson) an old man that remembers the world before the apocalypse. On a side note the main actress Leigh Taylor-Young became an active enviromentalist after playing in the movie and you will think about it too after watching it. Because even if it is a bit dated the message is still clear. Makes you think if you and I shouldn't be doing a bit more to preserve the world for future generations.

All in all a good sci-fi movie, with a well written dialogue and a horrible vison of the future. I give it 4 stars for these are all superior to the story itself, which is mostly dated. A worthy film for many reasons and worth the buy.

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48 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Recycling, when it's too late, 18 Dec 2005
By Sally-Anne "mynameissally" (Leicestershire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Soylent Green [DVD] [1973] (DVD)
In a grim and ugly future, the year 2022, a venal cop (though no worse than the rest and better than most) investigates a murder. It looks like an assassination. Nothing was stolen even though the corpse was rich and his apartment opulent beyond the wildest dreams of the masses of people living in poverty on the streets below. Did some sinister power need to keep this man quiet? What didn't they want him to say? Detective Thorn (Charlton Heston) has the help of his 'book', Sol (Edward G Robinson) who, lacking any high-tech resources such as computers, consults books and his old friends at a sort of information exchange facility. Everything is in short supply except humanity. Food and water is short, accommodation, power, clothing, paper - everything - and every space is filled with the swarming, desperate masses. Thorn finds a couple of weighty tomes in the dead man's apartment and passes them to Sol who almost swoons with delight at the sight and feel of real, solid, beautifully bound books. He takes them to the exchange and he and his friends mine their resources for information. What they find is unbelievable, horrible, repellent. Sol is moved to do something extreme, both to relieve his shattered mind of the intolerable shock and to lead his friend Thorn to irrefutable proof of the terrible truth.

The film was made in 1973 and it must be one of the earliest environmentalist stories to have a go at man-made global warming. Pollution is killing the oceans. The climate has heated the land, making farming unproductive. Winter has been obliterated by the 'greenhouse effect'. The only food most people can get hold of is a kind of biscuit called 'soylent'. It comes in three tasteless varieties: soylent red (ingredients unknown), soylent yellow (soya) and soylent green (plankton). However, as the oceans have been poisoned, the plankton is dying - so what are they really putting in the soylent green?

It's grisly. It's gripping. It's a good film and I recommend it.

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The shape of things to come?, 31 Aug 2006
This review is from: Soylent Green [DVD] [1973] (DVD)
What a fantastic film. No special effects, no gore, no gratuitous sex, just a superb plot brought to life by superb acting and great filming.

The writer's vision of the future for the earth is chilling and he is perhaps closer to an accurate prediction than he could ever have dreamed of. The revelation at the end of the film is a real shocker!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Some people in this forum are placing 'Soylent Green' in the same category as sci-fi classics like 'Blade Runner' and 'Planet of the Apes' but it really does not merit such... Read more
Published 8 days ago by Double Helix

4.0 out of 5 stars A thought provoking film...
This really does get you thinking about the future of our planet. Whilst some of the effects and general filmwork look dated almost thirty years on, there is no doubting that this... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. M. W. Lawson

5.0 out of 5 stars Is that with or without pickles?
Great film, made in the 60s, and it looks as if we are heading in that direction. Now that Mickey D is changing all its' signage to green, watch this and then ask yourself if the... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Planetary Consultant

3.0 out of 5 stars Good. Though I never thought I would agree with....
... the reviews that mark this film down because of period clothing. However, having lived through that era and re-seeing this after twenty or so years, there's some truth to it... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. A. M. HOGG

5.0 out of 5 stars Honest-To-God Pulp Science Fiction
Fred Myrow's music score is the first thing that jumps out, seeing the movie again after a gap of, oh, twenty years or so. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Quackser

5.0 out of 5 stars SUPERB
Although a little dated now, it does not rely on special effects, it relies on great acting and a great story. Very believable, especially in this day an age. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Helpless

2.0 out of 5 stars soylent green
Heston's ambiguous character and deeds are one of the saving graces of this film. I love dystopian themes and this film deals with them in an emotionless way, reflecting the main... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mr. J. DuBock

4.0 out of 5 stars Just around the corner...
Chilling as the denouement is, what's even scarier is the inequality, the overpopulation and the attitudes of humanity that created the situation depicted in the film... Read more
Published 10 months ago by N. Smith

4.0 out of 5 stars The soya beans are sour
This science fiction is typical of a whole period, the very period after 1968. It was the time when the hippies died at the end of Hair, when the flower boys and girls departed at... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Jacques COULARDEAU

5.0 out of 5 stars We are not far from this give it 100 years from now.

What a film!. Everyone should watch & understand what we on earth might end up like.

This Film offers good acting with limited effects, offering none stop... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Frankie

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