It's been referenced in so many things and i've yet to see it,it's one of those pop culture things that just passed me by,kinda like never seeing Casablanca or something....anyway I bought it for a fiver off e-bay,will come back later and review it.

Its a good film and i think it still holds up in todays climate.....

Yep it was good and creepy on a couple of levels that had nothing to do with the main one.....*shudders*.


I would have liked to have experienced this cold though,without being aware of the "money line" and all that implies,still I think I would have twigged fairly early,considering that one of the opening scenes it says 40 million people living in NYC!


Zoiks!

Now when this flim first came out, I would have said the premise of the flim was totally unbelievable..could never happen..imagine now in the 231st Century and that idea isn't so far fetched is it in todays climate....?

You got that right!!

Especially considering all the heinous things going on with GM foods and wot not,splicing tomatoes with animal genes and all sorts of crazy ish,we're only a hop,skip and a jump away from Soylent Green World.

Ted Turner predicts 'mass cannibalism' by 2040

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He sounds like lunatic fringe,right?? but he'e probably correct.


Personally I hope to be dead by then.

during the various famines of ethiopia i don't rememer seeing mass cannibalism...but then again, they always had famine relief from the west ( that won't be happening with the bio fuels though).

Another thing which struck me about the film was the casting,that is to see say,it was so evenly cast in terms of race.....and this was 1972...I dont think ive seen a flick in modern times this evenly cast,without it being a big deal or even highlighted.

The original.

Make Room! Make Room - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia!

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I think Rod Serling touched on this subject and in a more concise way in that excellent episode of The Twilight Zone called "To Serve Man"

Nothing there at that link Umbra.

Make Room! Make Room - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Some how the exclamation mark ( ! ) got outside the link. Sorry!

I had to put it in manually. This website doesn't like exclamation marks at the end of an URL.

The story Soylent Green was derived from didn't have the cannibalism twist. But the Twilight Zone story wasn't really cannibalism. Aliens just have good taste.

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