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Is one twisted movie. In a very big way, I was told to come over to a friends house and we were watching a funny movie. NOT FUNNY. Soylent green, although poorly made by current standards, is a twisted movie, which is often okay, or even good, but not in a movie this crappy. If you have not seen it, do not, unless you are prepared for something very very odd, and a little weird, and possibly mind damaging.

It however, could be a totally awsome, (yet still twisted) remake of a movie.

So who else has seen it, and what are your impressions?

Is one twisted movie. In a very big way, I was told to come over to a friends house and we were watching a funny movie. NOT FUNNY. Soylent green, although poorly made by current standards, is a twisted movie, which is often okay, or even good, but not in a movie this crappy. If you have not seen it, do not, unless you are prepared for something very very odd, and a little weird, and possibly mind damaging.

It however, could be a totally awsome, (yet still twisted) remake of a movie.

So who else has seen it, and what are your impressions?

I wouldn't eat Soylent Green if i were you...

I wouldn't eat Soylent Green if i were you...
"Soylent green is people!..."*camera zooms on bloody hand*

Is one twisted movie. In a very big way, I was told to come over to a friends house and we were watching a funny movie. NOT FUNNY. Soylent green, although poorly made by current standards, is a twisted movie, which is often okay, or even good, but not in a movie this crappy. If you have not seen it, do not, unless you are prepared for something very very odd, and a little weird, and possibly mind damaging.

It however, could be a totally awsome, (yet still twisted) remake of a movie.

So who else has seen it, and what are your impressions?
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!

Changed my whole view on Vivaldi...

"Soylent green is people!..."*camera zooms on bloody hand*

I actually thought it was a bloody good film. One of Charlton Heston's better apocalyptic numbers (he made a good few in the late 60s/early 70s)

I liked the story, although twisted. There were just some things, both acting, and writing, I thought could have been pulled off better. When I finished watching it, it struck me as a movie signifacanlty lesser than the sum of it;s parts.

If I remember correctly, I cried when the deer were projected onto the walls.

Man, that was a long time ago.

For me Soylent Green shall always be overlayed by Soylent Cola...

Fry: What if the secret ingredient is people?!
Leela: We already have that, it's called Soylent Cola.
Fry: Oh. So how is it.
Leela: It varies from person to person.

Whenever I want to cheese off the wife, I start making comments on "changing the furniture". :)

I wonder who fought up the name soylent green (attention span snaps to porn pressure)

(the average man thinks about sex every 17 seconds :) )

Whenever I want to cheese off the wife, I start making comments on "changing the furniture". :)
Mmmm. Strawberry Preserves....

Is one twisted movie. In a very big way, I was told to come over to a friends house and we were watching a funny movie. NOT FUNNY. Soylent green, although poorly made by current standards, is a twisted movie, which is often okay, or even good, but not in a movie this crappy. If you have not seen it, do not, unless you are prepared for something very very odd, and a little weird, and possibly mind damaging.

It however, could be a totally awsome, (yet still twisted) remake of a movie.

So who else has seen it, and what are your impressions?
Awsome movie all though it din't strike me as all that twisted.

I thought it proposed a very good dilemna that, although not in that particular way has been introduced to our society.

Personally I always prefered the original novel.

I saw it before. Charlton Heston was quite good iin it, but then again, what isn't he good in? In any case, while the story may have seemed creative by today's standards, it was avant garde by that day's. I me, the environmentalist movement was much bigger in those days than today. And I hate how they made the seventies live on forever. Thank God that decade is history, where it belongs.
The last line, "Soylent Green is people!", however, is a classic. It was rated by AFI as (I think) the sixtieth best movie line ever.

Personally I always prefered the original novel.
It's not one of Harrison's best, though the digs Edward G. Robinson shared with Heston seemed pretty palatial compared to the hovel Sol and Rusch had in the book.

It's not one of Harrison's best, though the digs Edward G. Robinson shared with Heston seemed pretty palatial compared to the hovel Sol and Rusch had in the book.

Its a fairly pedestrian one, I'll give you that, but I like the way it remains gritty throughout and doesn't try and shock us with some taboo-breaking banality like the film. Soylent Green as portrayed in the film would have minimal effect on food supplies, and changes a fairly serious if downbeat novel about real concerns into a sub-Twilight zone sideshow bore.

I saw it before. Charlton Heston was quite good iin it, but then again, what isn't he good in?
Oh, me! me! I know this one! I know this one!
The Order (not the ok Order, the crappy Order) with Jean-Claude "I Don't Need to Steenking Talent" Van Damme. Although, to give him credit, he (Mr. Heston, not Van Damme someone needs to drag Van Damme out into the woods and shoot him in the knee caps until dead) does the best with what he's got.

Thank God that decade is history, where it belongs.
You can't be something, and occupy something. That would mean that the decade was occupying itself, and that wouldn't be possible without a time machine, a shrink ray, and that submarine from the Fantastic Voyage.

Thank God that decade is history, where it belongs.

yeah, i sure am glad to be living in this one instead!

(...someone needs to drag Van Damme out into the woods and shoot him in the knee caps until dead)Not to seem morbid, but I don't think that'd kill him - not unless maybe he bled to death as a result. But rather than resort to murder, why not just let him continue publicly killing himself at the box office? I can see it now - *gravelly-voiced announcer* Jean-Claude Van Damme is B.J. McKay - and this *cut closeup of chimpanzee mugging for camera* is his best friend Bear *cue theme music*

Hey, if they'd film "The Dukes of Hazzard", how long can it be before they mine "Fantasy Island", "Love Boat", or even the afore-mentioned "B.J. And The Bear"?

(Yeesh. B.J. And The Bear. 25+ years later and snippets of the theme music haunt me to this day)

It's People!... It's Ppppeeeeoooopppplllleeee!!!!!!!!

Not to seem morbid, but I don't think that'd kill him - not unless maybe he bled to death as a result.
Actually, yes, the point is that it wouldn't kill him straight out. First he'd bleed to death, or go into shock, or starve, or something. It would be long, it would be painful, and it would be deserved.
But rather than resort to murder
"Resort", who is "resorting"? Murder should be the first and only option condsidered in relation to that 'orrible, mean faced man.

There was a whole spate of those type of films, another weird one was Logan's Run. That spawned a TV show....

I actually liked the movie, but did feel a little sick when I found out what Soylent Green really was.

Soybeans and lentils and people too---mmmmm....

I love people soup.

And a lentil cracker with strawberry preserves.

Hey furniture, bring me some NOW!

There was a whole spate of those type of films, another weird one was Logan's Run. That spawned a TV show....
That was another good movie.

side note.... I saw it in high school, we rented it off the 25 cent rack. I got kicked out of school for three days the following monday for running through the lunch room with my 4 best friends and my boyfriend at the time screaming in our best Charlton Heston voices "It's People, it's people"
the other kids had no idea what we were talking about but I am sure the cafeteria lady did she chased us down and dragged us to the office. My mom came to pick me up and she couldn't stop laughing, the principal kept getting madder and madder and she kept laughing harder and harder. Sooo funny.