Props to you dude for finding this movie and sharing your reaction. So many memories. If you're interested in continuing down that 70s rabbit hole you need to react to "Logan's Run" next, it fits perfectly.
During filming,, Legendary acting icon Edward G. Robinson was actively dying of cancer,, He would pass away only 2 weeks after filming was completed..R.I.P. Edward 🙏❤️
lots of interesting 70's scifi to watch, Silent running, Phase IV, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Rollerball, Westworld, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers and Zardoz
The classical music is Beethoven 5th symphony pastoral...I've always loved Charlton Heston and his movies...watch The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes, Omega Man. Great reaction!
Thanks for doing this gem - its tragically overlooked these days - part of the low-key, thoughtful scifi of the 60's-70's - if you have not already seen it, you might enjoy Rollerball (1975), it has some interesting things to say. Just to clarify, in this ramshackle world, cheap consumer computers are rare - as the detective's "police book" Sol fulfills the equivalent clerical function, researching records, making inquires, communicating with other "police books," etc.
Personal consumer computers were not invented until the year after this movie was made. Cell phones are very rare in _2001: A Space Odyssey_ , and communications satellites are extremely rare in movies from the forties.
“Tuesday is Soylent Green Day” means that from Wednesday through Monday, only Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow are available. If you want Soylent Green, you can only buy it on Tuesday.
Soylent Green was definitely ahead of its time at release. Where is the world aheaad today?........we can only ponder. Another Sci-Fi film is "The Andromeda Strain' - 1971 film. Suggest adding to your future watch list.
Watched this film when i was 14 years old many decades ago and it had a major effect. A lot of the things in it are coming and getting closer every year.
Great reaction! Yeah the furniture was unsettling. In the 70s we were worried about over population and ecology. It seems like a quaint thing now, but for a time it really mattered.
We are maximizing for population control right now. Maximize drug use, abortion, "alternative lifestyles", puberty blockers, delayed childhood/delaying having children because feminism & "Degrowth" economic policies / pushing societal stresses (climate change etc), "Net Zero" climate policies, encouraging ppl to eat themselves to death (body positivity), near constant state of war, bringing immigrants en mass into this culture of population reduction etc. They all reduce net population growth.
There was a really stupid, leftist inspired book called "The Population Bomb" during that time. It predicted that the population would get so out of control that it would trigger global catastrophe. As with so many leftist-inspired theories, it's was 100% wrong.
I tried this recipe for Soylent Green copy recipe I found: Ingredients 1 1/2 cups gluten-free flour 1/4 tsp onion powder 1/4 tsp garlic powder 1/4 tsp salt 4 tbsp (1/2 stick) butter/margarine a mysterious amount of water food coloring (10 drops green, 10 drops yellow) Mix it all together in a bowl with a spoon or blender whatever you want, & then roll it out on a table or dough sheet & cut into squares. I don't know the exact size of Soylent green in the movie but they look to be minimum twice the size if not a little more than regular square crackers.
When I first watched this as a teen in the 90s, I thought it was corny and I still do, but the concepts they came up with 50 yrs ago are still sound. If a corporation could use dead people to make wafers and feed them to people, they would. Awesome reaction. Not many do this one, so I appreciated it. Fahrenheit 451 is also a decent watch if you haven't seen it. It's one of the reasons I have a paper book stash.
Now that Officer Thorn was able to get the information to his colleagues, there is hope now that people know what's going on in their society and the environment.
In the seventies we were given a book to read and discuss in our San Diego High by our teacher in Social Studies, Dr. King. “ The Population Bomb.” We had about 3,800,000,000 people then, it’s now up to 8,000,000,000. Unless we as a species do something soon, it will continue to increase geometrically. With all the negative consequences for generations to experience. I ask you, “how stupid are people?”
Actually, the scientific models suggest "The Population Bomb" was 100% WRONG. World population is predicted to level off and decline within 100 years. Populations in countries all over the world are leveling off. That book wasn't written for our benefit. It was written to manipulate people into obeying leftist government policies.
Soylent Yellow 20223 Movie, Picks up where this one left off, if you remember the Soylent Yellow also mentioned in this one, that''s what Part 2 is about, it is a direct Sequel by Michael Bay.
A classic dystopian sci-fi. Glad you didn't know the shock ending in advance. Has good re-watchability even so, Definitely great writing: it's one of those rare film adaptations that is actually much better than the original novel...
Charlton Heston starred in some great movies during the late 60s and early 70s. If you're going to watch Planet of the Apes, I recommend watching the entire 5 movie series. Some are better than others, but give them a watch and make up your own mind. Also, "The Omega Man" (the second movie based on the novel "I Am Legend"... the first was called "The Last Man on Earth" and starred Vincent Price. The third, you probably know of already, "I Am Legend" starring Will Smith). Other movies from this era worth checking out are "Logan's Run", "The Black Hole" (Disney's FIRST PG rated movie, ever), Rollerball, Death Race 2000, Battle Beyond the Stars, and I'm sure there are plenty more you would enjoy if you like Sci-Fi movies from that era. If you haven't seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, I can recommend that one as well... along with its sequel, 2010: The Year we Make Contact (different director, different pacing, but also based on an Arthur C. Clarke novel).
Not so fast. Last time I checked, the current population of the New York City Metro Area was around 38 million. That 8 million figure only counts those within the formal local limits of NYC. In my lifetime, the global population has gone from 3 billion something in the 50s, to over 4 billion in 1975, to over 8 billion now. For whatever ideological or political reasons, certain people are invested in pushing the idea that we are in the middle of a population collapse, but the number of people in the world isn't falling, it's still rapidly increasing. Only the RATE OF INCREASE has slowed. By the way, the notion that we won't have enough workers to support an aging population completely ignores vast productivity increases from modern tech. That's a distribution problem that is political/economic, not a hard constraint on limited resources like most of the damage to ecological systems that results from population increase.
It also about greenhouse gases where there are no more crops to feed the population across the world bc the change of temp, he says summer all year long!
The big joke on the public is tat history proves the greatest proliferation of life in Earth's history happened when the planet was very hot and greenhouse gases were much higher than they are now.
Yeah, I saw this when I was about 10 years old at the movie theater. And we knew that the world was going to be an extremely dystopian Place........ They weren't far from Right were they
They were wrong. We're arguably in a golden age. Have you ever assumed hunger would be a part of your year? Do you think living to 38 would a pretty good run. Are you worried that a simple infection might kill you. Being in a golden age makes it hard to recognize that you're in one.
I once was gifted a book about science fiction movies (I forget the title but I wish I still had it) and there was a chapter on this movie. It was based on Make Room, Make Room which dealt with America's overpopulation problem with the Soylent Green addition being solely that of the film to the author's disapproval. However, as we live in a time where the ridiculous and outrageous is accepted as normal, the idea of government feeding the people themselves is not as outrageous a concept. I also remember Saul's character in the book being too strong a character to resign himself to suicide but in the movie, it does play wonderfully for someone who has seen the world go too insane with no chance of reversal wishing to do out re-experiencing the wonder life once was.
The "overpopulation problem" theory was wildly overblown. It never happened and never was going to happen. I think of "soylent green" in a reboot as the idiots on the political left forcing everyone to become vegan, whcih ultimately causes all the problems they thought they were solving by eliminating meat consumption. chiefly famine and mass starvation.
Your book - might it have been _Omni( Magazine)'s Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies_ (Dolphin/Doubleday, 1984)? I cherish my own copy of it, and I know that it has an article about the film's history from one who knows all, Harry Harrison (author of the novel the movie was based on). He doesn't have much liking for the film industry - and certainly not for the central "terrible secret" they worked into it - but he did enjoy meeting the actors (especially Mr. Robinson) and the competent way the movie presents this grim future world. 🤓
@@goldenager59 Could very well be. One of the chapters was Harlan Ellison's scathing criticism of Outland. Yes, that was one book I should have held onto that was sacrificed to downsizing.
@@bighuge1060 Ah, you too found that Ellison essay one of the highlights, eh? The man definitely had opinions - and ways of expressing them at once devastating and hilarious! 😁
11:19 room and board is so expensive, and jobs so scarce, that unmarried women are selling themselves into slavery as “furniture.” Her contract is with the building manager, not with the dead man. If she can’t ingratiate herself with the next tenant, there are a hundred thousand other young girls ready, willing, and able to step into her job. Her future is precarious, dependent entirely on keeping the building manager and her tenant happy with her.
Charleton Heston was all into making these dystopian fantasies late 1960s-early 1970s: "Planet of The Apes", "Beneath The Planet of The Apes", "The Omega Man", "Soylent Green". He plays a type of anti-hero in all of them, a jerk and very unlikeable in some ways but also bothered by his moral compass. A common denominator in the plots is the nasty surprise ending.
The sequel should be the whole world is manipulated into going vegan and instead of solving the problem it leads to mass famine, war and disease. The only people who survive are raising a small farm on a isolated island complete with animals for consumption and they are the only ones left with strong, healthy bodies.
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Props to you dude for finding this movie and sharing your reaction. So many memories. If you're interested in continuing down that 70s rabbit hole you need to react to "Logan's Run" next, it fits perfectly.
During filming,, Legendary acting icon Edward G. Robinson was actively dying of cancer,, He would pass away only 2 weeks after filming was completed..R.I.P. Edward 🙏❤️
lots of interesting 70's scifi to watch, Silent running, Phase IV, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Rollerball, Westworld, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers and Zardoz
My brother, refusing to eat meatloaf: "Soylent Green is Peeeeeeople!" My mother was not amused.
The taste varies from person to person.
Ha! (points finger at you) I get it! 🤣
Go in Peace and Walk with God. 😎 👍
I had a t-shift that said that: Soylent Green: The Taste Differs form Person to Person. :)
The story is the beauty of it. Cant judge it from the time it was made or the way it was made. Classic SyFy.
Glad you watched it , nice reaction
The classical music is Beethoven 5th symphony pastoral...I've always loved Charlton Heston and his movies...watch The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes, Omega Man. Great reaction!
Thanks for doing this gem - its tragically overlooked these days - part of the low-key, thoughtful scifi of the 60's-70's - if you have not already seen it, you might enjoy Rollerball (1975), it has some interesting things to say. Just to clarify, in this ramshackle world, cheap consumer computers are rare - as the detective's "police book" Sol fulfills the equivalent clerical function, researching records, making inquires, communicating with other "police books," etc.
Personal consumer computers were not invented until the year after this movie was made. Cell phones are very rare in _2001: A Space Odyssey_ , and communications satellites are extremely rare in movies from the forties.
Seen this movie at the drive-in theater when it came out. I was 10 years old and wouldn't eat anything green because of it.
“Tuesday is Soylent Green Day” means that from Wednesday through Monday, only Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow are available. If you want Soylent Green, you can only buy it on Tuesday.
Soylent Green was definitely ahead of its time at release. Where is the world aheaad today?........we can only ponder. Another Sci-Fi film is "The Andromeda Strain' - 1971 film. Suggest adding to your future watch list.
I'm something of an optimist. I choose to believe we've averted such a nightmare of a world.
Watched this film when i was 14 years old many decades ago and it had a major effect. A lot of the things in it are coming and getting closer every year.
It's still eerily relevant.
Great reaction! Yeah the furniture was unsettling. In the 70s we were worried about over population and ecology. It seems like a quaint thing now, but for a time it really mattered.
We are maximizing for population control right now. Maximize drug use, abortion, "alternative lifestyles", puberty blockers, delayed childhood/delaying having children because feminism & "Degrowth" economic policies / pushing societal stresses (climate change etc), "Net Zero" climate policies, encouraging ppl to eat themselves to death (body positivity), near constant state of war, bringing immigrants en mass into this culture of population reduction etc. They all reduce net population growth.
There was a really stupid, leftist inspired book called "The Population Bomb" during that time. It predicted that the population would get so out of control that it would trigger global catastrophe. As with so many leftist-inspired theories, it's was 100% wrong.
I tried this recipe for Soylent Green copy recipe I found:
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups gluten-free flour
1/4 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp salt
4 tbsp (1/2 stick) butter/margarine
a mysterious amount of water
food coloring (10 drops green, 10 drops yellow) Mix it all together in a bowl with a spoon or blender whatever you want, & then roll it out on a table or dough sheet & cut into squares. I don't know the exact size of Soylent green in the movie but they look to be minimum twice the size if not a little more than regular square crackers.
When I first watched this as a teen in the 90s, I thought it was corny and I still do, but the concepts they came up with 50 yrs ago are still sound. If a corporation could use dead people to make wafers and feed them to people, they would. Awesome reaction. Not many do this one, so I appreciated it. Fahrenheit 451 is also a decent watch if you haven't seen it. It's one of the reasons I have a paper book stash.
*and get away with it. Corporations >can< today, but _don’t_ because they can’t get away with it.
We'll deserve such a fate if we really do let it get to that point, that's all I have to say. That and, thanks so much for tackling this one! 😎
Now that Officer Thorn was able to get the information to his colleagues, there is hope now that people know what's going on in their society and the environment.
Oh wow, i didnt know you did movie reactions too! Awesome!
In the seventies we were given a book to read and discuss in our San Diego High by our teacher in Social Studies, Dr. King. “ The Population Bomb.” We had about 3,800,000,000 people then, it’s now up to 8,000,000,000. Unless we as a species do something soon, it will continue to increase geometrically. With all the negative consequences for generations to experience. I ask you, “how stupid are people?”
Actually, the scientific models suggest "The Population Bomb" was 100% WRONG. World population is predicted to level off and decline within 100 years. Populations in countries all over the world are leveling off. That book wasn't written for our benefit. It was written to manipulate people into obeying leftist government policies.
Classic film! 😱🦇😱
The Sol bits are soo sad. In real life this actor died after the movie, and he knew it was coming. This makes the moment much sadder.
Soylent Yellow 20223 Movie, Picks up where this one left off, if you remember the Soylent Yellow also mentioned in this one, that''s what Part 2 is about, it is a direct Sequel by Michael Bay.
A classic dystopian sci-fi. Glad you didn't know the shock ending in advance. Has good re-watchability even so, Definitely great writing: it's one of those rare film adaptations that is actually much better than the original novel...
Charlton Heston starred in some great movies during the late 60s and early 70s. If you're going to watch Planet of the Apes, I recommend watching the entire 5 movie series. Some are better than others, but give them a watch and make up your own mind. Also, "The Omega Man" (the second movie based on the novel "I Am Legend"... the first was called "The Last Man on Earth" and starred Vincent Price. The third, you probably know of already, "I Am Legend" starring Will Smith).
Other movies from this era worth checking out are "Logan's Run", "The Black Hole" (Disney's FIRST PG rated movie, ever), Rollerball, Death Race 2000, Battle Beyond the Stars, and I'm sure there are plenty more you would enjoy if you like Sci-Fi movies from that era. If you haven't seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, I can recommend that one as well... along with its sequel, 2010: The Year we Make Contact (different director, different pacing, but also based on an Arthur C. Clarke novel).
Priest is overwhelmed and is blind 2 i think.
Not so fast. Last time I checked, the current population of the New York City Metro Area was around 38 million. That 8 million figure only counts those within the formal local limits of NYC. In my lifetime, the global population has gone from 3 billion something in the 50s, to over 4 billion in 1975, to over 8 billion now. For whatever ideological or political reasons, certain people are invested in pushing the idea that we are in the middle of a population collapse, but the number of people in the world isn't falling, it's still rapidly increasing. Only the RATE OF INCREASE has slowed. By the way, the notion that we won't have enough workers to support an aging population completely ignores vast productivity increases from modern tech. That's a distribution problem that is political/economic, not a hard constraint on limited resources like most of the damage to ecological systems that results from population increase.
Thanks for doin this one!
It also about greenhouse gases where there are no more crops to feed the population across the world bc the change of temp, he says summer all year long!
The big joke on the public is tat history proves the greatest proliferation of life in Earth's history happened when the planet was very hot and greenhouse gases were much higher than they are now.
@@davestang5454lots of plant life , but no man
Funny thing is soylent green almost sounds nice, in warhammer 40K they eat out of ration cans labeled corpse starch.
Yeah, I saw this when I was about 10 years old at the movie theater. And we knew that the world was going to be an extremely dystopian Place........ They weren't far from Right were they
They were wrong. We're arguably in a golden age. Have you ever assumed hunger would be a part of your year? Do you think living to 38 would a pretty good run. Are you worried that a simple infection might kill you. Being in a golden age makes it hard to recognize that you're in one.
Strongly recommend early 70's films The Andromeda Strain and The Parallax View. Oh, and Fahrenheit 451.
I once was gifted a book about science fiction movies (I forget the title but I wish I still had it) and there was a chapter on this movie. It was based on Make Room, Make Room which dealt with America's overpopulation problem with the Soylent Green addition being solely that of the film to the author's disapproval. However, as we live in a time where the ridiculous and outrageous is accepted as normal, the idea of government feeding the people themselves is not as outrageous a concept. I also remember Saul's character in the book being too strong a character to resign himself to suicide but in the movie, it does play wonderfully for someone who has seen the world go too insane with no chance of reversal wishing to do out re-experiencing the wonder life once was.
The "overpopulation problem" theory was wildly overblown. It never happened and never was going to happen. I think of "soylent green" in a reboot as the idiots on the political left forcing everyone to become vegan, whcih ultimately causes all the problems they thought they were solving by eliminating meat consumption. chiefly famine and mass starvation.
Your book - might it have been _Omni( Magazine)'s Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies_ (Dolphin/Doubleday, 1984)? I cherish my own copy of it, and I know that it has an article about the film's history from one who knows all, Harry Harrison (author of the novel the movie was based on). He doesn't have much liking for the film industry - and certainly not for the central "terrible secret" they worked into it - but he did enjoy meeting the actors (especially Mr. Robinson) and the competent way the movie presents this grim future world. 🤓
@@goldenager59 Could very well be. One of the chapters was Harlan Ellison's scathing criticism of Outland. Yes, that was one book I should have held onto that was sacrificed to downsizing.
@@bighuge1060
Ah, you too found that Ellison essay one of the highlights, eh? The man definitely had opinions - and ways of expressing them at once devastating and hilarious! 😁
How does Soylent Green taste?
It varies from person to person.
11:19 room and board is so expensive, and jobs so scarce, that unmarried women are selling themselves into slavery as “furniture.” Her contract is with the building manager, not with the dead man. If she can’t ingratiate herself with the next tenant, there are a hundred thousand other young girls ready, willing, and able to step into her job. Her future is precarious, dependent entirely on keeping the building manager and her tenant happy with her.
Charleton Heston was all into making these dystopian fantasies late 1960s-early 1970s: "Planet of The Apes", "Beneath The Planet of The Apes", "The Omega Man", "Soylent Green". He plays a type of anti-hero in all of them, a jerk and very unlikeable in some ways but also bothered by his moral compass. A common denominator in the plots is the nasty surprise ending.
This movie has a lot of Star Trek alumni: Celia Lovsky (Amok Time), Roy Jensen (Omega Glory), Whit Bisell (Trouble With Tribbles). 4:30
👀❤️🎥
No sequel, he dies.
And you had to hide the video in a purple filter?
The sequel should be the whole world is manipulated into going vegan and instead of solving the problem it leads to mass famine, war and disease. The only people who survive are raising a small farm on a isolated island complete with animals for consumption and they are the only ones left with strong, healthy bodies.
nothing like watching a blur - unwatchable
Silent Running (1971) would be up your street.