This movie is highly underrated.
Soylent Green is a one-of-a-kind movie. The future depicted in the movie is nothing at all like today, but that's what makes it so much fun.Many complain that it looks too much like the 70's, but that's how it is supposed to look: like society hasn't advanced since the 70's.
I thought the setting was very moving and unnerving, I will even go so far as to say some scenes in this movie really disturbed me. Along with the music and gritty characters, I was really moved.
I thought Charlton Heston did a good job of playing Thorn, a NYC detective assigned to a high-profile murder case. Joseph Cotten did well portraying William Simonson, one of the top executives of the Soylent corporation. Leigh Taylor Young did well as Shirl, Simonson's "furniture". Brock Peters did a good job of playing Hatcher, Thorn's snooty boss. The best performance by far was Edward Robinson as Sol Roth, Thorn's elderly roommate/friend/co-worker who was around back when the world was good and hates what it has become.
The movie is very very gritty. Mean/heartless characters, rock-bottom settings, and all sorts of fun post-apocalyptic type of things.
This is a very smart movie. Sci-fi fans should have this on their list.
9/10
Soylent Green is a one-of-a-kind movie. The future depicted in the movie is nothing at all like today, but that's what makes it so much fun.Many complain that it looks too much like the 70's, but that's how it is supposed to look: like society hasn't advanced since the 70's.
I thought the setting was very moving and unnerving, I will even go so far as to say some scenes in this movie really disturbed me. Along with the music and gritty characters, I was really moved.
I thought Charlton Heston did a good job of playing Thorn, a NYC detective assigned to a high-profile murder case. Joseph Cotten did well portraying William Simonson, one of the top executives of the Soylent corporation. Leigh Taylor Young did well as Shirl, Simonson's "furniture". Brock Peters did a good job of playing Hatcher, Thorn's snooty boss. The best performance by far was Edward Robinson as Sol Roth, Thorn's elderly roommate/friend/co-worker who was around back when the world was good and hates what it has become.
The movie is very very gritty. Mean/heartless characters, rock-bottom settings, and all sorts of fun post-apocalyptic type of things.
This is a very smart movie. Sci-fi fans should have this on their list.
9/10