Soylent Green

Has anybody seen this movie?

It wasn't a great one but it was good and a HELL of a lot better than the book Make Room! Make Room! that it was based on.

However I think this is one of those movies from the 70s that should be left in that era, but noooooooooooooooo! This too is being subjected to a remake, I shudder to think what this new one's going to be like.

I thought it was very poignant that Edward G. Robinson’s final scene in the movie was his final scene ever. He knew he was dying of cancer and passed a short time after the movie was finished. What must it be like to "act" as a dying man when you know that very soon you'll be one for real? Charlton Heston later said he was crying for real in that scene.

He died I think 2 days after that scene, and 2 days seems to come up quite a bit with actors, Jerry Orbach played Lennie Briscoe on Law and Order for the last time TWO days before he died also, what's up with that?

I don't know about Jerry Orbach but I believe E.G.R passed closer to 2 weeks (10-12 days) after Soylent Green finished.

I also can't see a remake being any good because guess what? WE ALREADY KNOW THE SECRET! Soylent Green is PEOPLE! How are they going to expand on that so we'll feel the urge to see a redoing of it? I doubt they will, that's one of the reasons the remake of When a Stranger Calls sucked so bad, because everybody has heard the story of the babysitter and the man upstairs and they never bothered to expand on it like the original movie did so you didn't know the outcome before you went into the theaters.

And exactly what could they do with this big secret that Thorn spends the whole movie trying to figure out, that it won't be something we see coming? For him to die before he can tell anyone the secret and he gets turned into Soylent Green too? If I can come up with that one, you would hope Hollywood would know better than to try it in the hopes of nobody will expect it.