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Well it looks dated. It’s in the future but Charlton Helton wears a kerchief around his throat.~ The ideas of the future are clearly off. So yes, you’d have to have a bit of morbid curiosity about the look. If you’ve seen the SNL skit, it shows the quintessential hazy, dusty overcrowded scene that portrays the movie best. And no, it’s not a classic. It’s neither actor’s best work, but IMO they are two good performances, particularly for Robinson, a character who wants to die being played by a man who is holding the secret that he’s actually dying. I’m not a Sci-Fi geek by any stretch, but I consider myself a more well rounded fan of the genre and of movies for having watched it.
Funny story about Soylent Green; we, as JoCo fans and generally geek knowledgeable folks, all recognize it. We chuckle at the Simpsons and Futurama jokes. But at least in ’94 or so, before Blockbuster was everywhere … I had a real BITCH of a time finding the movie. People had no idea what the hell I was talking about. My girlfriend and I at the time felt like the only two people who knew about it. Then one day we were visiting my parents and mentioned it … and my parents chuckled. Turns out it’s the movie they saw on their first date. Inspired, I took a walk to the little local Mom and Pop store in their neighborhood … and sure enough, they had it. Watched it with the girl and with the parents. And had both a laugh and a tear at the climactic Charlton Heston ending exclamation.
It’s a scene, man.