Actually, it's pretty cheesy. But for some reason, I always liked watching it when it would come on one of the local late movie channels. You'll defiantly get some laughs out of it if your ever bored and some time to kill.
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#4588516 - 01/04/2204:29 AMRe: We made it to 2022! Do not forget that Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
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Originally Posted by oldgrognard
Movies sent in the far off future like 2001 and Soylent Green are here.
I can just imagine people watching 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time and at least cracking a smirk when they see the PAN AM logo on the shuttle that Heywood Floyd travels on to the space station and later lunar base.
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I can just imagine people watching 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time and at least cracking a smirk when they see the PAN AM logo on the shuttle that Heywood Floyd travels on to the space station and later lunar base.
The real irony is that Pan AM was defunct a full decade before the movies time line.
Movies sent in the far off future like 2001 and Soylent Green are here.
I can just imagine people watching 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time and at least cracking a smirk when they see the PAN AM logo on the shuttle that Heywood Floyd travels on to the space station and later lunar base.
majestic music.
#4588527 - 01/04/2211:36 AMRe: We made it to 2022! Do not forget that Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
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Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
majestic music.
Indeed it's so iconic that it is absolutely impossible for me NOT to think of 2001 whenever I heard the Blue Danube.
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#4588620 - 01/05/2202:52 PMRe: We made it to 2022! Do not forget that Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
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It was a good few years there for dystopian sci-fi. Even if you never saw the movies, the Planet Of The Apes final reveal and Soylent Green's premise are cultural DNA now. 2001, Rollerball, Silent Running, Dark Star, all these are great (but lesser than the aforementioned) examples of the genre
In other news, we are not only into Soylent Green time, we have passed the time when Roy Batty was born and past the time when Marty McFly had to fix the future.
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#4588621 - 01/05/2203:02 PMRe: We made it to 2022! Do not forget that Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
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Originally Posted by DM
It was a good few years there for dystopian sci-fi. Even if you never saw the movies, the Planet Of The Apes final reveal and Soylent Green's premise are cultural DNA now. 2001, Rollerball, Silent Running, Dark Star, all these are great (but lesser than the aforementioned) examples of the genre
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There's nothing dystopian about 2001. In fact it's the total opposite as it portrays a prosperous and stable future.
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#4588624 - 01/05/2203:14 PMRe: We made it to 2022! Do not forget that Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
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Originally Posted by Nixer
How else is China gonna feed everybody?
1.4 billion people now and counting!
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Originally Posted by wormfood
Originally Posted by Nixer
How else is China gonna feed everybody?
Wish sandwiches?
In the current day West they're called Unicorn & Rainbow sandwiches.
Be careful of taking this into politics.
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#4588683 - 01/06/2203:54 PMRe: We made it to 2022! Do not forget that Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
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Was not a bad movie. Essential viewing for any sci-fi fans.
Now watch "Andromeda Strain," "THX 1138," and "Logan's Run."
#4588684 - 01/06/2203:59 PMRe: We made it to 2022! Do not forget that Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
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Originally Posted by Mr_Blastman
Now watch "Andromeda Strain," "THX 1138," and "Logan's Run."
Andromeda Strain is great. I was riveted throughout the entire film. Logan's Run is very good too and I can stare at a young Jenny Agutter all day long anyway.
I admit that it was very tough getting through THX 1138 when I first saw it. A lot of the story just made no sense to me and the pacing was glacial even by my standards.
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#4588685 - 01/06/2204:01 PMRe: We made it to 2022! Do not forget that Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
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Yep, THX is slow. I first saw the film sometime in the early to mid 80s when I was a kid and was captivated by the weirdness. We had a great local video store in town.
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Originally Posted by Mr_Blastman
Yep, THX is slow. I first saw the film sometime in the early to mid 80s when I was a kid and was captivated by the weirdness. We had a great local video store in town.
I watched it with an ex girlfriend and about 30 minutes into the movie she said "I'm sorry but I have no clue what's going on". LOL
One of these days I may give it a second shot and see if my impressions change at all.
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#4588704 - 01/06/2208:10 PMRe: We made it to 2022! Do not forget that Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
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Now watch "Andromeda Strain," "THX 1138," and "Logan's Run."
Andromeda Strain is great. I was riveted throughout the entire film. Logan's Run is very good too and I can stare at a young Jenny Agutter all day long anyway.
I admit that it was very tough getting through THX 1138 when I first saw it. A lot of the story just made no sense to me and the pacing was glacial even by my standards.
It's funny, I think most guys remember Jenny Agutter from Logan's Run more than they remember Farah Fawcett in the movie.
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Originally Posted by LB4LB
It's funny, I think most guys remember Jenny Agutter from Logan's Run more than they remember Farah Fawcett in the movie.
I can easily see that since Agutter had the much larger role and in my opinion Fawcett was attractive but I never quite understood why she was such a big deal. I guess I'm trying to say that I think she was overrated?
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#4588746 - 01/07/2206:27 AMRe: We made it to 2022! Do not forget that Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
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I can easily see that since Agutter had the much larger role and in my opinion Fawcett was attractive but I never quite understood why she was such a big deal. I guess I'm trying to say that I think she was overrated?
Blasphemy! Oh, you'll smoke a turd in hell for that!
You line up Fawcett & Agutter side by side, I'm choosing Agutter every time.
Disclaimer: I've had a lifelong crush on Agutter
I believe it was the outfit she was wearing when she showed up on the virtual dating machine. I think every red blooded young boy had that image in his mind for a very long while.
#4588870 - 01/08/2210:46 PMRe: We made it to 2022! Do not forget that Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
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You line up Fawcett & Agutter side by side, I'm choosing Agutter every time.
Disclaimer: I've had a lifelong crush on Agutter
I believe it was the outfit she was wearing when she showed up on the virtual dating machine. I think every red blooded young boy had that image in his mind for a very long while.
If you saw the unedited British version, you would see her get out of it and be completely naked. As in, full frontal nudity naked
That's not why I like her though. She has a certain something that appeals directly to me. You might not find her that attractive in an image, but in movement she is my ideal.
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#4588871 - 01/08/2211:03 PMRe: We made it to 2022! Do not forget that Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
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Whos Jenny Agutter? I like Jennifer Lopez in Selena. But shes old now. I remember Farrah.in a magazine my friend snuck out from his Dad's room. Old should not be naked in a magazine.
#4588872 - 01/08/2211:26 PMRe: We made it to 2022! Do not forget that Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
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Don't forget "Forbidden Planet", with Anne Francis and some guy who made few other movies you may have seen and a dire warning about mankind's imagination let lose.. We were warned.
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Count me as one of those who had absolutely no clue that Leslie Nielsen did serious drama until they discovered "Forbidden Planet".
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#4589011 - 01/11/2202:02 AMRe: We made it to 2022! Do not forget that Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
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Count me as one of those who had absolutely no clue that Leslie Nielsen did serious drama until they discovered "Forbidden Planet".
It was quite a shock for me when Leslie Nielsen did Airplane. Up until that point I would have never thought of him as a comedic actor. I remember him as the Captain of the ship Poseidon in the movie The Poseidon Adventure and he was also the Bad Guy that Barbara Streisand killed in the movie Nuts.
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