Soylent Green. Eat up all of your greens like grandma. 

They've already got a soda like that. Soilent Cola. "Oh......how's it taste?" It varies from person to person.

Nobody knew Robinson was dying. Ed told Heston just before the scene was shot that he was dying of cancer. Charlton and Robinson were good friends and the tears Heston cried where real in the scene. So sad.

Soylent Green was supposed to be a warning, not a prophecy.😷

I saw this movie knowing the ending for years, so what surprised me was not the twist but rather the part with women being "furniture". Such a grim concept, and yet so fitting. Great movie, I like to watch it along Planet of the Apes and The Omega Man, makes a nice Charlton Heston sci-fi evening.

Such a brilliant film. I loved how the scoops showed how society literally treats citizens like dirt. And the spoiler warnings are good. We watched this at a college club meeting once, and my favorite part was one girl who didn't know the twist, and when Heston got to the Soylent plant and she realized what was going on she gasped so loud in horror I couldn't help but smile.

Its a Friday the 13th in the year this movie is set - how wonderful.

I imagine this extended version where Heston is still being carried out and he shouts out spoilers to other movies “Rosebud is his sled! … They all did it! …Keyser Soze is…”

1973 version of 2022: "Soylent Green is made from people!" 2022 in real life: "Tuesday Tacos are made from chihuahuas!" Or something like that. :D I'll see myself out now.

Soylent Green is one of the Trifecta of early 70s Sci-Fi Masterpieces along with THX-1138 and Silent Running :) Not a fan of Westworld or The Omega Man myself but if you want to do what most people do and count everything pre-Star Wars as early 70s Sci-Fi then Rollerball and Logan's Run were both pretty good too.

I LOVE Soylent Green, and no channel ever covers it! I don't know why, because it is classic dystopia, even better than Planet of the Apes (another Heston classic).

One of my all time favorites

Saw this at the cinema. I was about 15 Bloody loved it

This is one of my favorite movies I like to watch it frequently

The opening Montage was like a glimpse into our future.... Don't worry! Everything is fine! 😐

Ah, Mr Fine! This is one of those Heston Sci-Fi romps that shaped my youth, and which I showed my kids when they were a little older than I was when I first saw it, so it wouldn’t wreck their dreams as it did mine. The iconic shot of the hand in the air, the weird way Heston extends the word people when he tells his rescuers, “Soylent Green is made out of peoplllllle!” Glued, riveted and bolted to the inside of my skull forever. And what a great ending to Edward G’s illustrious career! With Chuck Connors, Brock Peters and Joseph Cotton, all heavyweights, lending their acting chops to the proceedings, making this an iconic sci-fi classic, up there with Alien, Silent Running, and of course The Apes movies you covered so well. Now I got that off my chest, I can enjoy your video on the subject. Just so delighted that you picked this of all films!

Sol was played by the late, great Edward G Robinson in his final movie role. Also, a movie that takes place in 2022 with some people in the crowd wearing masks is somewhat prophetic.

This movie has one of the best opening montages ever. I recommend the book, its pretty grim and hits kind of close to home now.

Charlton Heston ends up finding the Statue of Liberty painted green..

Great film, great video! One of Heston's end of the world movies of the early 70s. I personally thought his The Omega Man (1971) was better but Soylent Green is more famous.

I'm surprised and thankful that a remake of Soylent Green hasn't been attempted yet.

Love this film! Thanks for the review. It's set in 2022, so don't forget that next Tuesday is Soylent Green day!

Great movie. When I was a kid this and Tora! Tora! Tora! were two of my favorite movies to watch on TNT. And to think it took over 20 years for me to find out they're from the same director. And if you're wondering how I couldn't know that. I didn't pay much attention to the credits and back in the 90's we didn't have IMDB. Kids these days.

This flick was set in 2022 !!!

Soylent Green or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Serve Man.

"The murder was no bungled burglary - he would know"... that's gold !

Great movie remember watching it for the first time, and the ending is classic!!

"This movie was way ahead of it's time." Jeffery Dahmer. 💀

I’ve eaten worse at MacDonalds.

"Soylent Green is people!" makes it sound like Soylent corp has a kickass community outreach.

Moses when he comes down from the mountain with 2 stone Tablets Says : Soylent Green is People!!!

I grew up in a time when movies like this made you stop and think, in hopes you could do something to help change the world. I'm still trying, we lead by example.. ☮

Its hard to believe that the original book called 'MAKE ROOM MAKE ROOM' by Harry Harrison is even more claustrophobic than the film.

It's not easy, eatin GREEN.

I appreciate your spoiler warning. I employ it myself, because, as you said, a new generation is just coming to these movies and I'd like to give them the same chance to enjoy them as I've had. I think people who don't employ spoiler warnings are either not consciously thinking about it or just really want to share the spoiler. I've lost count of how many people want to talk to me about things in a movie that just came out, but I have not yet seen.

In the 1970s we wore natty hats. This film always made me cry, esp..Sol.

My introduction to this movie was from an old SNL sketch in the 90s about less than stellar sequels such as Soylent White, Soylent Cow Patties, and Soylent Green II

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Finally, a movie reviewer from RU-vid covered this movie this year for this year! Better late than never.

Edward G. Robinson died right after filming his character's suicide scene.

Westworld? Also Logan's Run, The Andromeda Strain, and never forget 2001: A Space Odyssey.

We made "BOSS" films, back in my Day! High school 1972

Always loved this movie! Have watched it every time I've come across it on TV.

Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson were good friends back to The Ten Commandments and had said they wanted to do a movie together again. Robinson was the first choice to play Dr. Zaius in Planet of the Apes and even filmed some tests in the ape makeup but had to cancel because he got overheated in it and that was dangerous for his heart condition. The scene in Soylent Green where he goes to the euthanasia center to die was the last he ever filmed, and he died something like a week later before the movie was released.

An actor friend of mine told me once that Charlton Heston had two ways of acting "Grim" & Grimmer"

Considering the style of acting when Edward G started his career,his performance in this was truly amazing and moving!

Major Plot Hole in this movie. You can’t have over population AND food shortages. You need food to make people.

I always get a bit nervous when you do my favourite films:) Also this film has fantastic opening credits.

I was a personal driver in L.A. in the 1980s, drove Mr. Joseph Cotten many times. I chatted him up a couple of times about this particular film.

THIS Is what's coming people

7:35 I was born in 1972 same year Atari released arcade PONG. In 76 my mother got me Atari Super Pong my very first home video game witch to this day I still have it and yes its still works.

I first watched this movie in the 90s on VHS and was fortunate to go into it unspoiled. I remember really enjoying it. Time for a rewatch!

I thought this film was perfectly fine. The part I don't get is, if there isn't enough food, eat disguised cadavers. makes sense to me. Tabasco sauce makes everything OK.

Planet of Apes, Soylent Green and Omega Man. For these three Charlton Heston is the Post Apocalyptic Man.

Loves me some late-60s/early-70s dystopian science fiction, and this movie is iconic, but if you can't see the twist ending coming by the end of act 2, then you haven't been paying attention.

Remember Tuesday is Green Day.(Soylent)

Remember, recycling is good for you and good for me.

Make room! Make room! Never read the book, but The Stainless Steel Rat series and the Death World series is Harry Harrison at his best. Surprised there is no mention of him in the comments thread.

I still haven't seen the movie but there is a more recent film that had a similar ending. I won't spoil which movie but when it was revealed was a very devastating moment.

Mashup movies I want to See: 1) How Soylent Green Was My Valley 2) The Ballad of The Soylent Green Beret 3) The Soylent Green Lantern Corps 4) Soylent Green 2: Electric BooGaLoo 5) Soylent Green Eyes 6) Soylent Larry & Green Mary 8) Conquest of the Planet of The Soylent. 9) Soylentman III.

I was born in 1970 and saw this movie in 1988. I thought the ending was a twist for the people at the time, but after speaking with an older friend of mine at work, he told me that the commercial was so obviously done that you knew what the twist was long before you even sat your ass in the theater. 😂

I first saw this in February 1975 when it premiered on TV. I was eight, on my way to nine then. The body disposal scene really freaked me out. At that time in Phoenix, Arizona, similar Heil-bodied garbage trucks were picking up trash in our alleys, so that really had me freaked.

Well imo the way this world is going, one day this film will be labelled a 'documentary' sadly........

Mmm! Soylent Green! 🤤

This reminds me of the movie "Snow piercer"!😲😲😲😲

Great movie. I love the furniture...where can I buy it :)

I absolutely went on that soylant guy’s RU-vid channel and dropped the line. It was just too tempting

Have never seen Soylent Green but am aware of its legacy.

I knew the ending of this because of the password of the main character in Millennium.

This and The Omega Man are my two fave Heston 70s movies.

This is a timeless classic, as most of chuck hestons films are

We viewers figured out the climax before Chuck Heston does 😅 (Stam: you’re kind to have double spoiler alerts & I totally agree w your philosophy 🎉)

Maybe Hollywood should do a remake of this. However, a better upgrade would be plastic, gasoline and etc... is made of....

you know that current day atari is infogrames, that bought the name "atari"? the original company is long gone.

Who buys a single stauck of celery that looks 5 days old.

At least this soy product wouldn't lower your T levels.

"like naming a housing development Raccoon City" dude, a bro would totally do that and people will live there.

Of all "apocalyptic" scenarios, over population is the dumbest. It's the only tragedy that is self correcting.

Soylent green is people!

I've seen this movie many times over the years but I'm just now realizing it was a sci-fi endtime fiction story based in the year 2022 in NYC... Go Figure? 😭😭😭😭😭

The Starbucks comment . . . LOL

Is hot due to global warming...

A very groovy movie this one.

Dad.... What dose Solent Green taste like? ...it varies from person to person son!

That was a pleasure as always, thank you

Four arms - LOL Put me in mind of General Grevious....I think you missed a trick there. You'd also have four forearms, which would make some conversations slightly trickier.

😅

I like "Make Room for Daddy" better.

While I don’t think the overpopulation was completely spot on I do see major cities like NYC having people flock there in the wake of environmental disaster in hopes of finding work or a general place that they might be able to survive in. With the world set up so that farming (aside from plankton collection) is such a rarity that would mean that all the land and farming/ranching communities must have died out in some fashion. If something like the dust bowl occurred but so massive and grand that more and more people either got out of dodge while they still could or ended up naively trying to save their livelihood only to most likely die in the process you would end up with a potential rush on metropolitan areas as they’d have more infrastructure by comparison to rural communities. Then as this continues to occur you have overpopulation in tight spots like the cities, people giving up on their farms and livestock all snowballing in a fantastically grim way.

Wait... It's people?!? The furniture?😁

Another masterpiece

I feel you did a disservice on the euthanasia segment. Passing over it so quickly... when Edward G.Robinson is in the thanatorium. It outlines the idea that no one in the city ever leaves. That there is no place to leave to... due to global warming. They never see 'nature' and so the 'Sol' characters immersion... in the 'natural world' caught on widescreen, with Beethoven's Symphony No.6 playing as he is euthanised, is a stunning and poignant cinematic jump... from the dust ridden, decaying city... portrayed in the rest of the film. It's a timeless moment, in a very dated movie.

Love yer stuff

Not gonna lie, sometimes I feel like this movie when I remember how chocolate and tobacco tasted back during the 90s/00s

There was a great SNL sketch in the '90 with Phil Hartman playing the Heston role doing alternate versions of the movie. They also had a clip from the sequel, Soylent Green 2. "Soylent Green is still people! It's still people! They said they changed the recipe but they didn't!". As with most classic SNL sketches it's tough to find online, but if you can find it I highly recommend.

Right up there with "RollerBall", classic.

This movie was based on the book make room make room by Harry Harrison

That’s freakin’ weird! I was watching this last night with my friends, having only just introduced him to your epic channel a few days ago! Excellent content as always.

I saw this in the early 80's. I had managed to avoid any spoilers, so got the full surprise of the ending.

The reason why it's hot all the time in the movie is due to the greenhouse effect. You know, that ecological concern that used to be discussed before climate alarmism became the current new thing. The ending of Edward G. Robinson's assisted suicide at a government clinic was taken from the Logan's Run novel which was why it didn't feature in the movie version of Logan's Run.

Check out Phil Hartman’s impersonation from SNL. Classic.

make room for daddy, HA!! thanks for sharing sir!