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Soylent Green (1973)
Soylent Green is... oh, never mind.
Well, this is the future and I'm sorry to report it does not look good for women. Just about every female in this film is either a hag or a whore. Some are even called "furniture" because they are included with apartments, like shag carpeting or toilets.
The year is 2022 and the world is a hot, sweaty, overcrowded mess. We've run out of everything, including food and apparently room. People are packed in like sardines and a baby is always crying somewhere, just off camera. Everyone dresses in gray. The men wear pillbox hats and the women all wear those little triangular shaped kerchiefs that were popular in the 60's. (I had a corduroy one.) As for the riot police, the fact that they put little visors on them does not disguise one whit the fact that they are wearing football helmets. Do I seem obsessed with this movie's head wear? Then I should mention that Edward G. Robinson wears a beret.
Charlton Heston (who wears a cap and little scarf tied around his neck to soak up the sweat) plays a cop who looks like he's been basted in Mazzola Oil. He struts around making sure that the masses don't kill one another when the delivery trucks run out of the vibrantly colored food chips which are all the government has to offer in the way of sustenance.
Charlton really doesn't do much other than stumble upon the fact that Soylent Green is really
. I won't tell you what Soylent Green is really made of because that would be a spoiler, but since this movie is 40 years old, you probably already know.
There is only one reason to watch this movie and his name is Edward G. Robinson. Other than that, don't miss the scene where the woman screams like a banshee AFTER being shot in the head.
Revenant (2012)
Not Bad
I rented this movie the other night. I hadn't heard of it so I had absolutely no expectations. From the opening credits it was obvious this was going to be a little low-budget indie flick. It turned out to be a very low key little ghost story with a really small storyline, tiny cast and no special effects.
A writer named Paul and his girlfriend Stella move into a house that is rumored to be haunted. Paul wants to use his experiences in the house as the basis for a book. Stella skips out at the first sign of ghosts, but Paul stays on, determined to finally finish something for once in his life. As the incidents escalate, Paul seeks out information from former tenants in order to validate what he is experiencing and finds only one who is willing to speak with him, a woman named Sue. It's obvious that Sue's been through hell, judging from the fact that she's a nervous, twitchy mess.
As small a movie as this one is, made on what must have been a shoestring budget, it still managed to deliver the scares. As for the use of the sheets, was it cheap and kind of dopey? Absolutely. But when you have no money in your budget for makeup, you do what you can. And it was still fairly effective nonetheless. And the right musical chord at just the right time goes a long way in delivering a good old fashioned jolt.