Mark Kermode's Cult Film Corner: Silent Running

[@RonRose]

Just picked up the blu-ray a few days ago and gave it a go. I hadn't watched the movie since seeing it in theaters back in the day. Silent Running holds up remarkably-well. The film packs a hell of an emotional punch...straight to the gut.

[@Badthoughts90]

Yay! My heart always swells with joy when there's a new Mark Kermode video.

[@asafisher7407]

so his 12 year old experience of this was my 12 year old experience to grave of the fireflies

[@dogbadger]

I really liked this film as a kid but it is depressingly isolated and sad.

[@toddcoy2802]

There is a mistake in your book. Cliff Potts played the character John Wolf. Jesse Vint played the character Andy Keenan. 3 minutes 50 seconds into the movie the character Marty Barker calls the Cliff Potts character Wolf. "Wolf we've been up here 6 months you know? With another 6 to go. Doesn't that get to you?"

[@sinisterbuthappy208]

cute robots

[@j.b.9260]

Mark was only 30. Wow.

[@chrisjohnston4445]

My Dad took me to see it at the Cinerama Dome. Kinda ironic, huh?

[@joeharney135]

why not make Bio-Domes orbit the earth or make them on the Moon-Bio-Domes instead of traveling thru Space ?

[@udoloh]

strange. there is a clip from the movie. but it looks like a freeze frame. but it has film dirt all over. hm. i might just be trippin.

[@theongreyjoy1947]

Where is the dolče Vita episode

[@fariddamasio7880]

Love Mark. The film sucks. Badly.

[@AlexKidd]

I gave in and watched it after listening to Kermode talk about it for years on end, and yeah, it's no great by any stretch of the imagination

[@Hallzach]

It seems to have escaped you altogether that it's the second greatest film ever made.

[@bartoni79]

@@Hallzach what’s the greatest film?

[@Hallzach]

@@bartoni79 The Exorcist. It's all clearly stated in the video.

[@Whiskel]

Silent Running is a bit pants though....And Bruce Dern is painful in anything.

[@chrisdansey2600]

Sentimental hippie drivel. I bloody HATE this film.