Official Score = 3 1/2 Devils[/caption]When I was younger there was a show on TV called, ‘Millennium’. This show really kicked ass, I mean it had some amazing star power to it, including, Lance Henriksen (The Terminator), Terry O’Quinn (Stepfather), Meghan Gallagher (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Bill Smitrovich (Independence Day)… Just to name a few!
Now this show initially had to do with a group of ex-law-enforcement officials that investigated some of the worst of the worst when it came to crimes! And later on when Frank’s access to the, ‘Millennium Group’ was raised (The Millennium Group was the name of the organization that the lead character in the show was a part of...) Anyway, when his access in the group was raised, he was given a special voice print pass code that was a some sort of, ‘Movie reference’.
One of the co-stars (and people who Frank (The lead character in the show) worked with in the show) had the password ‘Open The Pod Bay Doors Please, Hal’, and Frank’s was, ‘Soylent Green is people’… Now I had found this particular reference to be rather amusing, if anything because I had heard it before but had never actually seen the movie that this reference was made from!
Of course that was till a few years ago when my friend and ABM CEO, Matt Dowling, had actually told me about this movie (at the time I was starting to delve real heavily in to 70s movies), and I thought it sounded like fun and picked it up to watch!
And boy what a movie this was! I mean besides the fact that it starred Film Legends like Charlton Heston (Planet Of The Apes), Edward G. Robinson (this movie would prove to be his final role), and not to mention Chuck Conners (Summer Camp Nightmares), Brock Peters (Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home), and Joseph Cotten (Baron Blood), to name a few… The story, both in how it was written and also in how impactful it was on the screen would blow your mind and really make you think!
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Detective Thorn (Charlton Heston) and his old friend, Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson) are on the case and will stop at nothing to find out what is wrong with, 'Soylent Green'![/caption]The reason that I mention this you see, is that this movie tells the story of a dying Earth, a planet where the pitfalls of what mankind has been doing to the planet on an environmental level has become to much!
Now during this time there has become a major class divide in that those that are even comparatively moderately wealthy live in swanky and cool apartments where they can sometimes eat a piece of meat or eat a piece of a vegetable…
On the poor side though, there is a Detective by the name of Thorn (Heston) who, while taking care of the old man (Robinson) comes across a conspiracy that ends up having planet wide implications when he investigates the murder of a rich man!
You see this rich man happens to be working for the, ‘Soylent Corporation’ a company that is feeding the world using food that is supposedly coming from the ocean’s floor!
If it is, is the statement, ‘Soylent Green is people’ just the rantings of one of the mad men that is caught up in the conspiracy, or is Soylent Green really people…
If you want to known, you’ll have to check it out… And trust me when I say that you won’t be disappointed if you do!
http://youtu.be/SVpN312hYgU
