# Soylent Green: Worth Watching? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 21, 2005, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-green-worth-watching/322633 "2005-09-21T01:01:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![priapus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-green-worth-watching/322633/41 "2005-09-22T22:14:06Z")
I much prefer, “You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Goddamn you all to hell!” It doesn’t make much more sense than _Soylent Green_ but at least it has a point to it. Stranger [/QUOTE] Whenever I see or hear that quote I think of Joe Flaherthy ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-green-worth-watching/322633/42 "2005-09-23T02:16:28Z")
There aren’t many science fiction movies (or books) that are later seen as accurate predictions; instead they explore among the many possibilities in our future. Just note that, although the pop-science _Population Bomb_ contained a lot of hyperbole, the ongoing population explosion is still the root cause of most of our other major problems. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-green-worth-watching/322633/43 "2005-09-23T04:40:20Z")
Thanks for the information… being born in the early 70s I missed the population bomb scare, though wasn’t Malthus’s therories about the explanential growth of humanity vrs the arithmetic growth of the food supply a lot older than the 1960s? Either way, I think the film was more about the complete collapse of resources due to over exploitation. I don’t know but that seems less psudeoscience in todays world. I know in certain cases we are renewing certain resourses (Forestry isn’t the scourge some would have us believe) but there are some “renewable” resources that have been almost tapped. World fisheries are apparently gobbling up more than can be renewed. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-green-worth-watching/322633/44 "2005-09-23T07:20:54Z")
A little trivia: The final scene was altered when the original line “Soylent Green is _soybeans and lentils!_” didn’t test well. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-green-worth-watching/322633/45 "2005-09-23T11:16:11Z")
Just a thought, reminded by the thread “Why is poop brown,” why is Soylent Green, well, green? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-green-worth-watching/322633/46 "2005-09-23T11:33:36Z")
I just want to note, as someone who saw this film when it first came out, that this is not merely a film that hasn’t aged well – it wasn’t particularly good _at the time_. (And the payoff line at the end was spoiled for me by a couple of guys at a partyy who were making jokes about “Soylent Green” as they ate the dip.) ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-green-worth-watching/322633/47 "2005-09-23T11:38:36Z")
I ordered Soylent Green, The Omega Man, and The Last Man on Earth all on dvd. May Og have mercy on my soul. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-green-worth-watching/322633/48 "2005-09-23T12:55:05Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > Just a thought, reminded by the thread “Why is poop brown,” why is Soylent Green, well, green? 🙂 [FD&C Green #3](http://www.foodadditivesworld.com/fdc-green-no.3.html). Focus testing revealed that “Soylent Pink”, “Soylent Tan”, and “Soylent Brown” didn’t appeal to customers. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-green-worth-watching/322633/49 "2005-09-23T13:25:45Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > [FD&C Green #3](http://www.foodadditivesworld.com/fdc-green-no.3.html). > > Focus testing revealed that “Soylent Pink”, “Soylent Tan”, and “Soylent Brown” didn’t appeal to customers. > > Stranger We don’t even want to talk about Puce. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-green-worth-watching/322633/50 "2005-09-23T13:42:41Z")
If you love corny movies, then you should be able to sit through this one. But part of the fun is that this isn’t just a corny movie–it is a corny movie that thinks it is being so very, very profound. And the 70’s mentality is interesting. Several posts have already mentioned the very 70’s fascination with overpopulation and pollution --but there’s another interesting 70’s aspect: the newly discovered “womens liberation”. The women in the film are called, literally, “furniture”, so we smart viewers can all applaud our new progressive attitudes. ---
**Author:** ![Foaming\_Cleanser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Foaming\_Cleanser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foaming_Cleanser)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-green-worth-watching/322633/51 "2005-09-23T15:02:58Z")
> [@pool](#): > > I ordered Soylent Green, The Omega Man, and The Last Man on Earth all on dvd. > May Og have mercy on my soul. The Last Man on Earth could have been an SCTV movie episode. Like the car in an ostensibly dubbed Italian movie with Joe Flaherty, the one driven by Vincent “I needed a hearse” Price changes. In the Price flick it switches from a station wagon to a sedan. Fun for the whole family. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-green-worth-watching/322633/52 "2005-09-23T15:21:13Z")
> [@kingpengvin](#): > > Thanks for the information… being born in the early 70s I missed the population bomb scare, Missed it? Hell, you were part of the problem! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-green-worth-watching/322633/53 "2005-09-23T15:58:24Z")
> [@av8rmike](#): > > Worth eating? It varies from person to person. _snerk_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soylent-green-worth-watching/322633.md?page=2)