You know there is an actual Soylent Green produced by a company of the same name. And it's base is seaweed not plankton. The inventor watched this movie.
The funny thing is all those lab grown real meats? Are based on growing human cells and flavouring them. Because they don't know how to grow cow meats, but they already have advanced knowledge in growing human cells. Soylent Green is already here.
I remember watching this when it came out in 1973. I was thirteen and I did the math in my head and figured out that in 2022 I’d be 62. Then it dawned on me that I would be the Edward G. Robinson character! 😲 At 13, it was kind of a weird concept…but now here I am. 😂
@@eragon4249 "slowly"? As far as we are aware even the KT extinction (big rock fall, TPK) event took a few hundred thousand years to loose species as fast as we currently do.
Waiting in line at Space Mountain, Disneyland, (exit around the back) I commented that did my companions notice that all these people were going in but _nobody_ was coming out and maybe crates of Soylent Green were shipped out at the end of the day. "You've got to tell 'em! Soylent Green is made of tourists!" Then we got to the big catwalks leading to the ride vanishing into a spinning tunnel and we just stopped dead with a "Whooooah!"
I'm a fast food worker living in a 2 bedroom apartment, and I have them in my freezer. You sir, are lying. Don't try buying a huge house and don't have a bunch of kids if you want to keep your money.
The reboots for Soy Lent Green are called "alternative meat" & "plant based" foods which you can buy at the grocery stores. Or the Film "American Carnage" where the kids recycled in to food after being worked to death thru EAT_U (Elder Adults Tolerance Understanding ).
What I remember the most about this movie was, with how bad everything had become, the police could get away with just about anything. The worse it got, the more corrupt they became... and no one could stop them.
The whole "humans as livestock" thing just never made sense to me, and made it hard for me to suspend disbelief. There are lots (LOTS) of animals that are way more efficient to farm than humans. Humans do not make ideal prey animals for this reason. We don't reproduce rapidly...pigs can have dozens of piglets in a single litter. Humans almost always bear offspring one at a time. Human pregnancy takes almost a year. And it takes many many years for humans to mature. That's a lot of resources invested for very little return. It would make sense for Vampires, due to their dietary restrictions. But not as a conventional food source for ordinary humans. Even Algae farming is going to consume far fewer resources than farming people.
You're right but the things is you already have billions of those matured products walking down the street and a lot of them aren't going to be missed by the same masses
@@rosaamarillo2110 Yup on Omega Man. Even though Planet of the Apes was set in the future, it was the distant future and not really a dystopian setting. Just a changing of the guard from man to apes. It was a man out of time movie.
I hope not. There are already too many similar films, and I think this one should remain a classic instead of the insult of a crappy modern day Activist filled hollywood dumpster movie that we'd get in the 2020s.
@Alte.Kameraden a classic no one under a certain age knows of. The movie scared the shit out of me when I saw it and it wasn't the twist. It was the food scarcity, corporate greed/power but in all honesty, when Heston laughed/cried eating a meal we take for granted.
There's a game called "They Are Billions" which uses this premise. A zombie apocalypse starts because some sort of disease is passed through the human corpses that were processed into food. The mega cities are then over-run as billions of people turn into zombies.
Yesss...that's like the Creutsfeld Jacobs disease... It's a prion that's causes it and come from cows who were fed protein from dead cows. Came from GB. Prions can not be killed, even temperature has no effect.
The physics of this system just don't add up. Breeding people like livestock, you also have to feed them for many years before they are harvested, The calories they consume over their lifetime is always going to exceed the calories their body can yield when processed into Soylent Green.
Even rats aren't in the movie, my Theory is, they add some artificial nutrients to that thing and add few algae as flavoring, so the production will be stable and we don't know where the poop go.
@@ArmandoEnfectana-bp6jo if those artificial nutriens are the thing that makes it worth while, then why not just consume the artificial nutriens in the first place?
They aren't breeding them for food. The synopsis is wrong. They are just using the remaining resource, dead bodies, for food, as it stops the masses from rioting and them wealthy, to prop up the inevitable death of the human race. To maintain the illusion of hope for a few more decades before extinction.
By the way, Soylent Green was the last movie Edward G Robinson was in. He passed away not long after the film was finished. Makes watching his death scene even harder...
This movie hits so much harder now. This is honestly probably our future. Except instead of a city, it's a bunch of parking lots and Walmarts and its the prisons that get turned into Soylent. Then the cops just invent reasons to fill the prisons.
Especially China and the USA. It's not just more CO2 per capita, also the EU decreased its emmisions by around 30% in 25 years, China increased it to a higher level than europe, and for the US It's twice the CO2 per person compared to the EU 🤷♂️
Bill has sent you on false trajectory. CO2 is photosynthesis = food production. With reducing the area used for farming by 20 % he will also increase food prices dramatically. And a step further to the goal he publicized himself: Reducibg population GROWTH.
I always wondered how the people in Soylent Green were entirely unable to outrun trucks that traveled at maybe half a mile per hour - basically crawling speed.
I saw this movie when I was a kid and never forgot it. It creeped me out and I see a lot of the same corruption and evil in the world we live in today. Maybe the movie wasn't that far fetched after all.
This film has one of the most memorable trailer I've ever seen. I take that trailer as an example for saying that in the '70 they didn't really get what trailers should be. Very funny though, still citing as meme "WAHHHHHT IS THE SECRET OF SOOOYLENT GRIIIN"
@@benrodir2 Just take any artificially created problem and you can immediately confidently say that it is supported by politicians. Trans in sport,racism,religion,wars
No, this time it's the internet and social media propaganda. Just look at things, the people are more dumb and gullible than ever before and at such a fast rate.
I’ve read a couple of sources that claim that Edward G Robinson knew he didn’t have long to live while he was working on this film and that Charlton Heston was the only other member of the cast & crew who knew how sick the former was. The scene where Robinson’s character agrees to be euthanised and a grief stricken Heston watches helplessly through the screen becomes much more poignant for this reason.
@@jekksoskb8147 World Economic Forum aka the people who push some of the worst agendas such as "own nothing be happy" which is an inherently awful idea.
lol no we aren’t. We produce more food than ever, we have cleaner air than existed when this movie was made, and we aren’t overpopulated. This movie predicts NYC would gave 40 million people in it by now… it has 8. Only around 1 million more than when the movie was made.
@@cawheeler27 We produce very low quality food depleted of trace minerals and wait until the borders (soon) will be completely open for the flux of 3rd land people to enter. We are living in overpopulation controlled by people that hate everything about civilization: the criminality is more brutal than in the 70s but they have demoted criminal law, so that apparent the criminality is less than in the 70s. I suggest you to start travel, live with the locals and see with your eyes the third world. Its eye opening to the soul.
In case anyone is wondering, the vehicle in front of the tent at 6:42 is a Brubaker Box. They were made in very small numbers, and are just modified Volkswagen Beetles.
This was always a great, classic movie. The thing is we are moving in this direction - especially with all the chemicals and artificial this and that in food - one day this may not be a story, but pretty close to - or be - reality.
@@cawheeler27 Until the greenhouse effect like in the movie sets in (global warming, anyone?) and there is no more lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, oranges, etc. except for the ultra rich. You and me get artificially flavored soylent "lettuce". 😀At least it's not made from people, thankfully.
Amazingly there is, or at least was, a company in the last several years called soylent that made nutritional shakes. They claimed they had everything in them the human body needs to thrive and there were people that went a year or more consuming nothing but soylent shakes. The coment sections were full of people warning them that soylent was made out of people.
This is so strange I was at McDonald’s yesterday and this old guy at the table next to mine was telling these folks about this movie. I joked that Soylent Green will probably be on the dollar menu soon And here it shows up on my feed!
It’s funny how we now know that underpopulation, not over population, will be the primary issue of the future due to the ongoing global fertility collapse.
I went through a phase of watching a bunch of 70s movies (born in 87). I was taking a course not long after, and at some point in the course, something (unfortunately I don't remember what) prompted me to half yell out "soylent green is people!" I got a lot of strange looks from my classmates, and when I explained I was told that I was "worldly" for knowing such an "obscure" film *sigh*
Saw props from the movie on ebay just a few years back. Tin cans with the green waffers inside. Basically painted tin cans for the movie with thin balsa wood chips painted green to be the Soylent Green.
I remember i saw a list of spoilers that spoiled the end to soylent green and watched the whole thing and its so good you can really enjoy everything about the movie while knowing how it ends
I always wondered why this wasn’t remade. Back in the day I thought George Clooney could have played the Heston role and Heston played the Edward G. Robinson role.
@@digitalcurrents Why on earth do we have to do either? My chickens cost nearly nothing to raise and feed my family. I dont want your bugs and lab grown cancer meat.. Good lord
The Film "American Carnage" is a remake, where kids are recycled in to food after being worked to old age thru EAT_U (Elder Adults Tolerance Understanding ).
I remember seeing this movie as soon as it was released. It was actually the first movie I watched in Basic Training at Ft. Dix, NJ. at the theater at Ft. Dix. with a few new friends in my platoon. Imagine how many times we repeated lines and Solent Green, wearing green 24/7.
The actor who played the older roommate Saul had a terminal illness at the time he was filming, which must have made it both hard and important to play a last role about a person facing end-of-life.
It's funny how the turns have tabled. Excessive birth is now mostly a thing of third-world countries, while all the developed and quite a bunch of developing nations have under 2.0 births per family (in fact, to just *sustain* the population it have to be ever so slightly above 2 on average). The coping for now is to allow migrants, but that destroys local culture. The problem is, the conomy was never oriented towards the ever lowering demand. When modern societies were building their busyness models in the XIX-XX centuries, it was envisioned that the world's population would steadily INcrease, allowing for as steady a growth of economy. We are not exactly facing those problems yet, but as the viable consumer (ppl who can afford to consume goods and services en masse) population slowly but surely declines, the economic impact in, say, 50 years may be very... intersesting to see.
@@rebeccaconlon9743 I think when you're less afraid of the slippery slope, you feel more confident moving forward. You're ok having three because you know it won't turn into ten.
Lol, a dystopia movie about a society that has ruined it's environment to an unrepairable state. This movie wouldn't even make a splash if made today. Heck, half the current fans would say it's preachy.
Anyone remember when Phil Hartman spoofed this on SNL as different iterations of what soylent to use for the movie? "Soylent cowpie is people! People!!" XD
This, Rollerball, Logan's Run, these films from the seventies were just dark in such a different way from say Mad Max. All though pictures a future that is too familiar in certain ways.
once when i was like seventeen a bunch of frends and I watched this after having had a monumental sesh... and we sat through like three hours of the movie because we heard the line where the guy running through the streets goes " soylent green is people! soylent green is people!" it was the last line in the movie, i watched it all for the las line. that was torture. the film is AMAZING but SLOOOOW
@ericbrown8916 it's a good drink. Just so thick. It's the consistency of it that ruins it for me. But it has good flavor and nutritional value especially if you are a vegan
@@ectomorph4987 That's cool, I appreciate that real life isn't always like the internet memes. I prefer whey protein, myself, avoid soy, but maybe it doesn't make as much of a difference as I thought.
This was one of my favorite 70s sci fi disaster movies. I became more aware of our environment and also, that the people at the top, are not that nice. This movie “molded” my beliefs. At the time, I never even thought of it. This movie is also a perfect example of how science fiction can become fact. Nobody seems to listen until it’s too late. Next in the horizon is A.I. and killer robots. But I wonder if they’ll be humans around to reminisce of the sci fi movies that predicted it.
Human meat is very addictive,it's also a sweet meat. The Barber of deville is a true story and that woman did sell meat pies she had crappy pies in the beginning when she started adding human meet nobody could get enough so you'd know if it's soylent greens also there was that team that crashed in the team that crashed in the Alps and ended up eating their dead friends
Human flesh is actually hard to digest. Pork is closest to human flesh, and must be prepared carefull lest it make us sick. Only extreme want of other protein sources causedthe start of the very few cannibal societies in the planet.
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You know there is an actual Soylent Green produced by a company of the same name.
And it's base is seaweed not plankton.
The inventor watched this movie.
It’s actually people and seaweed flavor
Wasn't it a book first?
@@rebeccaconlon9743
Yup.
'Make Room, Make Room.'
The funny thing is all those lab grown real meats? Are based on growing human cells and flavouring them. Because they don't know how to grow cow meats, but they already have advanced knowledge in growing human cells. Soylent Green is already here.
Are you sure its plankton/seaweed?
I remember watching this when it came out in 1973. I was thirteen and I did the math in my head and figured out that in 2022 I’d be 62. Then it dawned on me that I would be the Edward G. Robinson character! 😲 At 13, it was kind of a weird concept…but now here I am. 😂
Wow…. Life’s a funny thing friend.. 👍🏻
What advice would you give a 30 year old self?
The beyond burger food made out of bugs ,planet slowly being torn apart
In real life greater NYC does not have 40 million people
@@RayQ101 Always think with your big head.
Nowadays nobody is worrying about overpopulation, because no major country has a TFR bigger than 2.0. Even Chinese population is shrinking.
Pretty difficult to want to have a child when the average person can’t afford it anymore
Especially the chinese - since the held to the 1-child-policy for decades.
Even places like UK or germany have less of a problem than china.
True, despite shrinking populations our nature is still slowly dying
I wonder if humanity will go extinct.
@@eragon4249 "slowly"?
As far as we are aware even the KT extinction (big rock fall, TPK) event took a few hundred thousand years to loose species as fast as we currently do.
I remember watching this in the 70s. We used to quote lines from it often in school.
I still say Soylent Green is People at least twice a month 🤣😂
Waiting in line at Space Mountain, Disneyland, (exit around the back) I commented that did my companions notice that all these people were going in but _nobody_ was coming out and maybe crates of Soylent Green were shipped out at the end of the day. "You've got to tell 'em! Soylent Green is made of tourists!"
Then we got to the big catwalks leading to the ride vanishing into a spinning tunnel and we just stopped dead with a "Whooooah!"
Well, Soylent Green predicted one thing fairly accurately. Due to today's price of meat, a beef tenderloin is unattainable for most people.
lol... bullshit
Honestly beef was always resources intensive and unsustainable. It SHOULD be expensive and we should remove the free subsiding from it
There’s an awful lot of people living on the street too.
I'm a fast food worker living in a 2 bedroom apartment, and I have them in my freezer. You sir, are lying.
Don't try buying a huge house and don't have a bunch of kids if you want to keep your money.
Beef was expensive when my dad was a kid in the 1940s… but people still buy it so I guess it’s not that expensive…
I'm surprised there hasn't been a reboot of this movie.
there is a scene in the movie Cloud Atlast that depicts this. Search it.
They'll ruin it. Some movies are better left NOT remade.. 🤝
@@Hmongboi228 They would ruin it if they cast will smith.🤣
"Soylent green is Non Gender conforming people"
The reboots for Soy Lent Green are called "alternative meat" & "plant based" foods which you can buy at the grocery stores. Or the Film "American Carnage" where the kids recycled in to food after being worked to death thru EAT_U (Elder Adults Tolerance Understanding ).
What I remember the most about this movie was, with how bad everything had become, the police could get away with just about anything. The worse it got, the more corrupt they became... and no one could stop them.
Oh, mean like now. Police get away with everything.
Nothing new there
You mean like now ?
So... As expected.
that's called "The Third World", this is what the overlords have in store for America. And it coming in fast 🥲
Harry Harrison said that when they pitched the movie, they told the movie executives that it was about cannibalism.
It is, the humans are processed into food
@@aaamogusthespiderever2566 Fun Fact: Put together a large population of starving people and they are going to resort to Cannibalism.
The whole "humans as livestock" thing just never made sense to me, and made it hard for me to suspend disbelief. There are lots (LOTS) of animals that are way more efficient to farm than humans. Humans do not make ideal prey animals for this reason. We don't reproduce rapidly...pigs can have dozens of piglets in a single litter. Humans almost always bear offspring one at a time. Human pregnancy takes almost a year. And it takes many many years for humans to mature. That's a lot of resources invested for very little return. It would make sense for Vampires, due to their dietary restrictions. But not as a conventional food source for ordinary humans.
Even Algae farming is going to consume far fewer resources than farming people.
The concept is population reduction and feeding the people who are alive at the same time
You're right but the things is you already have billions of those matured products walking down the street and a lot of them aren't going to be missed by the same masses
@@caryfrancis8030 This could be the reason the UK and Western Europe are attracting people to come here from poorer countries. Are they food ?
@@adrianparker-e9f I'm not saying I eat people, Im not saying I dont eat people.
@@caryfrancis8030 That's right. How do we know what's in our food ?
Early to mid 70’s was a great time for dystopian future movies. Heston was in two of them.
The Omega Man!
other one involved monkeys......
@@rosaamarillo2110 Yup on Omega Man. Even though Planet of the Apes was set in the future, it was the distant future and not really a dystopian setting. Just a changing of the guard from man to apes. It was a man out of time movie.
@@deejay4837Are you referring to The planet of the apes franchise 🤔
@@deejay4837that was in the 60s.
Have a delicious hot slice of Soylent Green.
No thanks, I'll just stick to SPAM.
But what if SPAM is really people?
@@GODDESS1966 Then it would taste better!
@@MurfBX It can't taste any worse!
SPAM IS PEOPLE!!!!! SPAAAMMM IISSS PEEEOOPLEEE AAAAARRRGGGG!!!!
Nah man, im going to boston technical school for some of that pink stuff. Peeps say it makes you pink, i say blurghdr….
Edward G. Robinson’s last film. He passed away shortly after they finished filming.
have you tried eating the poor people burgers they are great this time of year🤣🤣
@@raven4k998 Yeh, I find them a little chewy.😁
Yes it probably helped him on his way. Being grateful he lived a life of opulence.
This movie needs a remake because some aspects of it are no longer science fiction.
I hope not. There are already too many similar films, and I think this one should remain a classic instead of the insult of a crappy modern day Activist filled hollywood dumpster movie that we'd get in the 2020s.
@Alte.Kameraden a classic no one under a certain age knows of. The movie scared the shit out of me when I saw it and it wasn't the twist. It was the food scarcity, corporate greed/power but in all honesty, when Heston laughed/cried eating a meal we take for granted.
In this era, they would ruin it.
@@DistrustHumanz most likely, buy there are some directors I'd take a chance on.
@@JanssenOlthoff Hell no, nobody these days can make anything like this, the actors of today are way to feminine looking and don't match the setting.
There's a game called "They Are Billions" which uses this premise. A zombie apocalypse starts because some sort of disease is passed through the human corpses that were processed into food. The mega cities are then over-run as billions of people turn into zombies.
Yesss...that's like the Creutsfeld Jacobs disease... It's a prion that's causes it and come from cows who were fed protein from dead cows. Came from GB.
Prions can not be killed, even temperature has no effect.
O-yea 😮
That game....I've lost the title before, thanks for reminding me 👍
So human mad cow disease?
@@rebeccaconlon9743 Yes..
Prions disease i’d bet, it is like a zombie disease that can actually come from cannibalism
The physics of this system just don't add up. Breeding people like livestock, you also have to feed them for many years before they are harvested, The calories they consume over their lifetime is always going to exceed the calories their body can yield when processed into Soylent Green.
Even rats aren't in the movie, my Theory is, they add some artificial nutrients to that thing and add few algae as flavoring, so the production will be stable and we don't know where the poop go.
Yep
@@ArmandoEnfectana-bp6jo if those artificial nutriens are the thing that makes it worth while, then why not just consume the artificial nutriens in the first place?
They aren't breeding them for food. The synopsis is wrong. They are just using the remaining resource, dead bodies, for food, as it stops the masses from rioting and them wealthy, to prop up the inevitable death of the human race. To maintain the illusion of hope for a few more decades before extinction.
But they work in the meantime. Their value-added in work sustains the society and makes it worthwhile to raise them.
By the way, Soylent Green was the last movie Edward G Robinson was in. He passed away not long after the film was finished. Makes watching his death scene even harder...
Krigesmen " Yay, and they changed the name some time ago. Soilent green was to "friendly" . We call it corpse starch now!"
LMAO I KNEW IT
Fun fact regarding Soylent Green, this is where the band Green Day got their name - "Tuesday is Soylent Green day".
This movie hits so much harder now. This is honestly probably our future. Except instead of a city, it's a bunch of parking lots and Walmarts and its the prisons that get turned into Soylent. Then the cops just invent reasons to fill the prisons.
I am old enough to remember when this movie came out, what breaks my heart is it 2024 and we are on track to destroying everything.
or on track to let gov and big corp to control everything.
It’s leftist parties destroying everting,
Free market helps people and nature.
Especially China and the USA. It's not just more CO2 per capita, also the EU decreased its emmisions by around 30% in 25 years, China increased it to a higher level than europe, and for the US It's twice the CO2 per person compared to the EU 🤷♂️
Bill has sent you on false trajectory. CO2 is photosynthesis = food production. With reducing the area used for farming by 20 % he will also increase food prices dramatically. And a step further to the goal he publicized himself: Reducibg population GROWTH.
Yes, me too. I was 10 and it upset me very much at the time. Its all so disturbing.
"New York 2022"
Wow, they were off only by 2 years
I always wondered how the people in Soylent Green were entirely unable to outrun trucks that traveled at maybe half a mile per hour - basically crawling speed.
When you're in a crowd. It's hard to move fast. It's like leaving a sporting event.
@@amberlopez7477
There is that I suppose.
I saw this movie when I was a kid and never forgot it. It creeped me out and I see a lot of the same corruption and evil in the world we live in today. Maybe the movie wasn't that far fetched after all.
Why does cheddar cheese look like skin
Charlton Heston is responsible for at least two of the most iconic lines in all of sci fi cinema.
This film has one of the most memorable trailer I've ever seen.
I take that trailer as an example for saying that in the '70 they didn't really get what trailers should be.
Very funny though, still citing as meme "WAHHHHHT IS THE SECRET OF SOOOYLENT GRIIIN"
Fear is how they control the masses.
It’s a sin to be a weak man. Boomers are the generation of sin as much as anyone else because of that.
just like "whole ocean is dying and world is warming" yet same people saying that are buying ocean level houses in Martha's Vineyard. Fear is control.
@@benrodir2 Just take any artificially created problem and you can immediately confidently say that it is supported by politicians. Trans in sport,racism,religion,wars
No, this time it's the internet and social media propaganda. Just look at things, the people are more dumb and gullible than ever before and at such a fast rate.
The recent pandemic is evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. How well the government's used Fear.
Like '1984', too real for confort😢
Old projectionist here,this film has haunted me from the first day I saw it,
I’ve read a couple of sources that claim that Edward G Robinson knew he didn’t have long to live while he was working on this film and that Charlton Heston was the only other member of the cast & crew who knew how sick the former was. The scene where Robinson’s character agrees to be euthanised and a grief stricken Heston watches helplessly through the screen becomes much more poignant for this reason.
So basically this movie is the WEF's wet dream.
What's WEF
@@jekksoskb8147 World Economic Forum aka the people who push some of the worst agendas such as "own nothing be happy" which is an inherently awful idea.
Cultured meat cells are being researched and developed to get a cheaper alternative to raising animals. Will long pork be on the menu? You bet!
They are going for bug protein ,they want insect like minded population,its also humiliation of peasants by elite.
We don't need a remake of this movie. We are gradually living it.
Facts
lol no we aren’t. We produce more food than ever, we have cleaner air than existed when this movie was made, and we aren’t overpopulated. This movie predicts NYC would gave 40 million people in it by now… it has 8. Only around 1 million more than when the movie was made.
not really
@@cawheeler27 We produce very low quality food depleted of trace minerals and wait until the borders (soon) will be completely open for the flux of 3rd land people to enter. We are living in overpopulation controlled by people that hate everything about civilization: the criminality is more brutal than in the 70s but they have demoted criminal law, so that apparent the criminality is less than in the 70s.
I suggest you to start travel, live with the locals and see with your eyes the third world. Its eye opening to the soul.
Due to far green left🏳️🌈 in the west
In case anyone is wondering, the vehicle in front of the tent at 6:42 is a Brubaker Box. They were made in very small numbers, and are just modified Volkswagen Beetles.
Love to watch your channel. You explain the movie in a short time with scenes from said movie and I dont waste 2 hours of my time.
that's the magic
This was always a great, classic movie. The thing is we are moving in this direction - especially with all the chemicals and artificial this and that in food - one day this may not be a story, but pretty close to - or be - reality.
You can just… not buy that. They still sell real food in stores. I buy it all the time.
@@cawheeler27 Until the greenhouse effect like in the movie sets in (global warming, anyone?) and there is no more lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, oranges, etc. except for the ultra rich. You and me get artificially flavored soylent "lettuce". 😀At least it's not made from people, thankfully.
Amazingly there is, or at least was, a company in the last several years called soylent that made nutritional shakes. They claimed they had everything in them the human body needs to thrive and there were people that went a year or more consuming nothing but soylent shakes. The coment sections were full of people warning them that soylent was made out of people.
This is so strange I was at McDonald’s yesterday and this old guy at the table next to mine was telling these folks about this movie.
I joked that Soylent Green will probably be on the dollar menu soon
And here it shows up on my feed!
Dunno man looks like LA, New York and San Francisco.
GREAT MOVIE Charlton Heston Rocks!
@@BobSlob-nv1rt Yep, and it’s cool that he played with E.G. Robinson. Those two also played in “The Ten Commandments” 😀
The scoops are on their way!
It’s funny how we now know that underpopulation, not over population, will be the primary issue of the future due to the ongoing global fertility collapse.
If there's already an issue with fertility should they really be pushing so hard for abortions?
4:08 nothing was stolen from the property lol
Until the cops showed up
@@jacksmith7726I mean it’s fair
We have soylent green today, that's what I call impossible burgers
I think you can actually buy Soylent Green today.... but without the 'special' main ingredient!😂
Its called "alternative meat" & "plant based" foods which are made from people.
I went through a phase of watching a bunch of 70s movies (born in 87). I was taking a course not long after, and at some point in the course, something (unfortunately I don't remember what) prompted me to half yell out "soylent green is people!"
I got a lot of strange looks from my classmates, and when I explained I was told that I was "worldly" for knowing such an "obscure" film *sigh*
Saw props from the movie on ebay just a few years back. Tin cans with the green waffers inside.
Basically painted tin cans for the movie with thin balsa wood chips painted green to be the Soylent Green.
People wearing masks in 2022 is the most unrealistic part of the movie.
I remember i saw a list of spoilers that spoiled the end to soylent green and watched the whole thing and its so good you can really enjoy everything about the movie while knowing how it ends
I always wondered why this wasn’t remade. Back in the day I thought George Clooney could have played the Heston role and Heston played the Edward G. Robinson role.
Cannibalism was shocking back in the 70s. Today, many people would rather try cannibalism than switch to synthetic meat products.
In this era, they would ruin it.
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Why on earth do we have to do either? My chickens cost nearly nothing to raise and feed my family.
I dont want your bugs and lab grown cancer meat.. Good lord
The Film "American Carnage" is a remake, where kids are recycled in to food after being worked to old age thru EAT_U (Elder Adults Tolerance Understanding ).
@@bobshanery5152 If it's so cheap, why have chicken prices soared to all-time highs?
Great film .Solent green is people ...great line.
I do remember this movie, this and Omega Man scared the shit out of me!
I have not ever seen this movie, maybe I should.
I keep hearing about it a lot.
This definitely needs and deserves a remake.
Thanks for sharing, i remember watching this with my father...
I remember seeing this movie as soon as it was released. It was actually the first movie I watched in Basic Training at Ft. Dix, NJ. at the theater at Ft. Dix. with a few new friends in my platoon. Imagine how many times we repeated lines and Solent Green, wearing green 24/7.
Its a crow bar. Not a meat hook. The more you know!
The actor who played the older roommate Saul had a terminal illness at the time he was filming, which must have made it both hard and important to play a last role about a person facing end-of-life.
Man this is good...had to stop so I could watch the movie!
We need this in the English channel.
This movie impressed me. Since I first saw it in the early 80s, I was and I am sure this will happen.
Sorry Ron but the average person can’t really afford a kid anymore, they solved this issue quite fast
Awesome review/recap
I love this movie….chilling even to this day.
It's funny how the turns have tabled.
Excessive birth is now mostly a thing of third-world countries, while all the developed and quite a bunch of developing nations have under 2.0 births per family (in fact, to just *sustain* the population it have to be ever so slightly above 2 on average). The coping for now is to allow migrants, but that destroys local culture.
The problem is, the conomy was never oriented towards the ever lowering demand. When modern societies were building their busyness models in the XIX-XX centuries, it was envisioned that the world's population would steadily INcrease, allowing for as steady a growth of economy. We are not exactly facing those problems yet, but as the viable consumer (ppl who can afford to consume goods and services en masse) population slowly but surely declines, the economic impact in, say, 50 years may be very... intersesting to see.
Not coping, but corrupt government replacing western populations.
Consumerism, fractional banking and other nonsensical BS is forced upon us.
The last time I was in hospital, as they were wheeling to the thestre, as I was keaving the esrd I yelled " SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!"
Nobody got it.
This was a great movie. I remember it. "Soylent Green is people!"
Would black people be "Soylent Black" and white people "Soylent White", then? And Chinese people............?😮😮😮
Absolute Classic, yet a possible future reality 😮
This is based on a short story.
The reason things get so bad is that birth control is outlawed.
People always forget that part.
The irony being the birth rate increased when female birth control was introduced
@@rebeccaconlon9743 I think when you're less afraid of the slippery slope, you feel more confident moving forward.
You're ok having three because you know it won't turn into ten.
What a cringe premise
Just like MAGA they want to make abortion illegal. So they have a food source lol.
My license plate frame says "tuesday is doylent green day".
Delicious Soylent green 😋
Does it taste good?
It varies from person to person.
Nice!
Lol, a dystopia movie about a society that has ruined it's environment to an unrepairable state. This movie wouldn't even make a splash if made today. Heck, half the current fans would say it's preachy.
Great film
SUCH A BLOODY BRILLIANT MOVIE...
2022... well I guess we dodged that bullet.😊
...for now.
Because it is inevitable.
In a sooner or later. This might happen without anyone of us noticing it. 😢
They were about 50 years off but I think it's coming soon.
Classic. Reboot needed, but with care.
Love the movie
they should remake it. Big potential
“ Tell um, Soylent green is people “ !
Soylent Green is the WEF (World Economic Forum)
Soilent Green is People!
Yes... But it tasty!😋
People: "Litterally scooped up into a dustbin truck on a regular basis" Police: "Soylent green is made from people!" People: "Duh..."
Anyone remember when Phil Hartman spoofed this on SNL as different iterations of what soylent to use for the movie? "Soylent cowpie is people! People!!" XD
Oh boy, I love Historical Science Fiction.
Thats one way to control the population
Possibly the most prescient movie/book ever produced. From Harry Harrison's "Make Room, Make Room", the movie was loyal to the novel.
This, Rollerball, Logan's Run, these films from the seventies were just dark in such a different way from say Mad Max. All though pictures a future that is too familiar in certain ways.
Soylent Green is people.
once when i was like seventeen a bunch of frends and I watched this after having had a monumental sesh... and we sat through like three hours of the movie because we heard the line where the guy running through the streets goes " soylent green is people! soylent green is people!" it was the last line in the movie, i watched it all for the las line. that was torture. the film is AMAZING but SLOOOOW
Ny needs this now
I wonder if the Robots movie was loosely based off this premise, with how the outmodes are scooped up and recycled into upgrades.
My friend drinks soylent lol
Hay. Don’t mock my drink.
@ericbrown8916 it's a good drink. Just so thick. It's the consistency of it that ruins it for me. But it has good flavor and nutritional value especially if you are a vegan
Does he look like the Soyjack meme..?
@joeblow229 nah. Super geeky but athletic dude who's into rock climbing, games and calisthenics. Interesting guy
@@ectomorph4987 That's cool, I appreciate that real life isn't always like the internet memes. I prefer whey protein, myself, avoid soy, but maybe it doesn't make as much of a difference as I thought.
The ACTUAL Soylent is Soy-Lentil. That's in the book though it's clear that very few people actually read anymore...
Some film's fade after 10 Year's OR even Worse 5 Y , and some film's WILL NEVER STOP LOOKING GOOD , GREAT ;
*So way ahead of its time.*
Yeah! Who wants an Impossible Burger?
This was one of my favorite 70s sci fi disaster movies.
I became more aware of our environment and also, that the people at the top, are not that nice. This movie “molded” my beliefs. At the time, I never even thought of it.
This movie is also a perfect example of how science fiction can become fact. Nobody seems to listen until it’s too late. Next in the horizon is A.I. and killer robots. But I wonder if they’ll be humans around to reminisce of the sci fi movies that predicted it.
4:04
He is supposed to be a police officer.
But yet he steals from a rich person he
is supposed to serve. What the hell?
The musk, the queue, the rationing of food, its not far away from the truth in a film made in 1973.
Where are you that your food is being rationed? Do you need help?!
Human meat is very addictive,it's also a sweet meat. The Barber of deville is a true story and that woman did sell meat pies she had crappy pies in the beginning when she started adding human meet nobody could get enough so you'd know if it's soylent greens also there was that team that crashed in the team that crashed in the Alps and ended up eating their dead friends
Human flesh is actually hard to digest. Pork is closest to human flesh, and must be prepared carefull lest it make us sick. Only extreme want of other protein sources causedthe start of the very few cannibal societies in the planet.
They predicted 2022 in New York America fate in Hollywoods eyes