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Fun Stuff => ENJOY => Topic started by: mberan42 on 12 Feb 2009, 13:15
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IT'S PEOPLE!
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ROSEBUD WAS HIS SLED!
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IT'S PEOPLE!
Listen Hatcher, you've got to tell them. SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE)
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Subject: Re: Soylent Green (may contain people)
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This just reminded me, he's dead.
IT TURNS OUT SHE WAS A GUY
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I like to wear this shirt and see if I can spoil movies for people.
Ultimate Spoiler Shirt :P (http://www.threadless.com/product/844/Spoilt#zoom)
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You're doing it wrong, mate. You must direct-post the image to be a true asshole (also I'm doing this cause you sniped me by like three minutes).
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hey, so has anyone actually seen the movie soylent green?
that part near the end when sol goes to die and they show all the pictures of how the world used to be... i cry at that part every time.
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I've seen it twice and found it mildly disturbing.
I also remember a song with the line Soylent Grün ist Menschenfleisch from the years when I'd go to Goth / Industrial parties. That song always filled the dancefloor!
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hey, so has anyone actually seen the movie soylent green?
that part near the end when sol goes to die and they show all the pictures of how the world used to be... i cry at that part every time.
That's an intense scene. Thorn honestly never knew that the world used to be beautiful. Well, a lot of it anyway.
I always thought his name was Saul, but I looked it up and you're right; it's Sol. I have been educated!
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I own the movie. However, the only time I watched it I was drinking steadily throughout and wasn't paying much attention. I do remember yelling "IT'S PEEEEEOOOPPPPLLLLEEE!!" in a drunken stupour at the end, though.
Maybe I should actually watch it sober one of these days. That, and Logan's Run.
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Maybe I should actually watch it sober one of these days.
Yes.
That, and Logan's Run.
No.
Honestly though, I always thought Soylent Green felt hella long. I mean, I hate to play to the whole "People today have such short attention spans!" stereotype, but it kills me how there's so many movies from the '70s always managed to meander along and make an hour and a half film feel like three hours.
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So how many ways were there to eat Soylent Green anyway?
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i agree alex.... i haven't watched it in quite a while, but i remember feeling like the movie is a few memorable scenes with long stretches of low action between them. seeing the overpopulation, the people in line for soylent green, thorn stealing the food, thorn and sol eating the food, sol dying, thorn discovering that soylent green is people. that's the whole movie, pretty much.
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Passion Of The Christ - Jesus dies.
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So how many ways were there to eat Soylent Green anyway?
There were 3 different kinds: yellow, red and green. The former of which was only released just prior to the action of the plot.
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Yeah, Yelley, I blame the fact that they were really trying to get the audience to really catch onto just how screwed the planet and setting was. When you combine that with the meandering style of shooting that was common in the '70s in general, you end up with some ridiculously long movies. I mean, hell, did you guys know that the original Rollerball (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball_(1975_film)) was over 2 hours? Same issues; long, virtually silent scenes, an emphasis on evil corporations all punctuated by the use of shock value to further the movie's message. Then again, the '02 remake of Rollerball is a half hour shorter but apparently features one of the the guys from American Pie avenging LL Cool J, so you win some, you lose some.
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I also remember a song with the line Soylent Grün ist Menschenfleisch from the years when I'd go to Goth / Industrial parties. That song always filled the dancefloor!
:wumpscut: - Soylent Green (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS66F9sKGfk)
I've never actually seen Soylent Green, but I have read the book it's based on (Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison).
The fun thing to do with this thread would be to post spoilers to movies without mentioning the movie and see how many people pick up on it. Or maybe that wouldn't be fun at all!
The man he sees die at the start as a kid is actually himself from the future.
His girlfriend becomes a hooker, his mother goes insane, his best friend rots in some hell-hole Texan jail and he gets his arm sawn off. Say no to drugs.
The ballet school is run by witches.
The visions of his dead daughter are premonitions of his own death.
Everyone dies on a raft full of monkeys.
Everyone dies, but they manage to turn the sun back on.
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I also remember a song with the line Soylent Grün ist Menschenfleisch from the years when I'd go to Goth / Industrial parties. That song always filled the dancefloor!
:wumpscut: - Soylent Green (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS66F9sKGfk)
I've never actually seen Soylent Green, but I have read the book it's based on (Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison).
The fun thing to do with this thread would be to post spoilers to movies without mentioning the movie and see how many people pick up on it. Or maybe that wouldn't be fun at all!
The man he sees die at the start as a kid is actually himself from the future.
His girlfriend becomes a hooker, his mother goes insane, his best friend rots in some hell-hole Texan jail and he gets his arm sawn off. Say no to drugs.
The ballet school is run by witches.
12 monkeys, Requiem for a Dream, Suspiria. The last one you mentioned I know of, but can't remember the title.
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Second-last one is Aguirre: Wrath of God.
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The last one is Sunshine.
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The man he sees die at the start as a kid is actually himself from the future.
fuck I got this on the tip of my tongue =( I probably won't get that one though.
Any help?
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Help's three posts up.
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Also, "La Jetee"(sp).
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Honestly though, I always thought Soylent Green felt hella long. I mean, I hate to play to the whole "People today have such short attention spans!" stereotype, but it kills me how there's so many movies from the '70s always managed to meander along and make an hour and a half film feel like three hours.
In the 70's, there was exactly one way to see a movie: At a movie theater. There was no home video; no DVDs, no VHS... no one owned movies. Yeah, they showed heavily edited, commerical-interrupted, formatted-for-TV movies on TV, but you weren't watching the actual movie; you were seeing something slightly better than a decent summary of it.
There were also no multiplexes with 8 or 10 or twenty screens. Screens were big. Fucking big. Movies were an experience. You watched the story unfold, it engrossed you, and you saw shitloads of detail that you don't get on TV, even in HD on someone's "big" HDTV. You think that HDTV even compares to the size of a movie screen in the 70's? You think "high def" even compares to the near-infinite detail of 70mm film? Heh heh, right.
Yeah, 70's movies took their time telling the story, because it wasn't just about the story; it was the whole experience. The scenery, the details, the acting performances. You hear people say all the time that they watched a movie for the nth time, and saw something they never noticed before. That's because it's harder to notice things when they're only two inches high on your screen, the camera angle changes every half second, and there's a fucking loud techno or metal track blasting you the whole time.
Also, it's generally true. People today do have shorter attention spans. Congratulations on reading this.
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I've seen 70 mm film; it's pretty OK. I could also see a drive in theater screen from my grandparent's house growing up; it was one of the longest operating ones in Minnesota. I've seen plenty of '70s movies on dollar ticket days on full sized screens in their full glory thanks to run down but still good small town venues. Many of those movies are still longer than they have any right to be. Rocky was two hours long. Fucking Rocky. He's a good-hearted mook from Philly! We get it. Likewise Saturday Night Fever is hella long and juggles multiple plotlines. It is almost inevitable that you will not give a shit about at least one of the plot threads in that movie, which is one of the many reasons why it is has been consigned to the period piece gulags by most people rather than really remembered for the performances. And in all honesty, there's many movies around now that are just as long as those from the '70s, although I would argue that most of them are paced a helluva lot better. Film is actually in a fairly decent place right now; I would argue that it was the '80s and '90s that actually really suffered, and I would blame that on Heaven's Gate, the economic slowdown of the '80s and the move away from the expensive director driven productions that submarined United Artists than say, people's attention spans.
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I also remember a song with the line Soylent Grün ist Menschenfleisch from the years when I'd go to Goth / Industrial parties. That song always filled the dancefloor!
:wumpscut: - Soylent Green (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS66F9sKGfk)
I've never actually seen Soylent Green, but I have read the book it's based on (Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison).
The fun thing to do with this thread would be to post spoilers to movies without mentioning the movie and see how many people pick up on it. Or maybe that wouldn't be fun at all!
The man he sees die at the start as a kid is actually himself from the future.
His girlfriend becomes a hooker, his mother goes insane, his best friend rots in some hell-hole Texan jail and he gets his arm sawn off. Say no to drugs.
The ballet school is run by witches.
The visions of his dead daughter are premonitions of his own death.
Everyone dies on a raft full of monkeys.
Everyone dies, but they manage to turn the sun back on.
12 Monkeys
Requiem For A Dream
Suspiria
Not sure
Not sure
Sunshine?
EDIT: Oh nevermind. These have already been solved.
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Argh that is so painful to watch. It needs to be bigger and slower.