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Epicurus.com - Silent Running
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List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint, Mark Persons
Directed By: Douglas Trumbull
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 9780783255385
Format: Anamorphic
ISBN: 0783255381
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2002-05-21
Running Time: 89
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1972-03-10
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A renegade botanist kills his space-station shipmates to save his garden of earthly vegetation. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 10/07/2003 Starring: Bruce Dern Steve Brown Run time: 89 minutes Rating: G Director: Douglas Trumbull
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Summary: ECOLOGICL MADNESS
Comment: Well over thirty years after SILENT RUNNING's debut, it's message about conservation rings truer than ever, although I still have trouble listening to Joan Baez. The special effects were great for the time. Bruce Dern turned in a very good performance ( he was always good as a villain, or wierdo ), but was upstaged by the robots. The movie is slow-paced, and on the depressing side, but it has interesting issues, and presents a lot of food for thought- so if you're looking for body counts this isn't the movie for you.
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Summary: Great Movie but loose he Baez soundtrack
Comment: I saw this movie when it came out in the theater. Yes I'm that old. The story has stayed with me all that time and the message is clear and true. If we don't take care of this planet we may very well distroy the ecological ability for it to support OUR lives.
The sound track with Joan Baez was the only real distracting thing in the film. When she stared to warble away, I couldn't wait until she shut up and we got back to the film.
Story - Very Good
Acting - Good
Sound Track - Awful
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Summary: TreeHuggers Unite!
Comment: My memory of this movie was much better than the real thing. The movie plods along at a snails pace. The message of saving the earth is sound however, Bruce Derns tortured suffering performance and Joan Baez screeching through half the movie left me with the sound muted.
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Summary: Classic SciFi tale revealing the inside of man's mind
Comment: It's many years in the future. Though the earth maintains a constant 75 degrees there are no forests left. The only place to find a forest is in space, in bio-domes attached to spaceships protecting them. After six months into this experimental effort to save the forests, the Valley Forge and her sister ships are ordered to abandon and nuclear-destruct the forests, then return the spaceships to commercial service. Aboard the Valley Forge is botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern - a very young Bruce Dern) who is the only member of the four-man crew who actually cares for the forests. (He's portrayed very "hippie-ish", including wearing long canvas-type robes and longer hair than the other men) Lowell doesn't just care for the forests, he defends them and lives for them.
With orders received, when the men begin to nuclear-destruct the bio-domes, Lowell goes a little off the edge in defending his forests, and winds out killing all his crewmates. He then steers the spaceship towards an outer ring of Saturn, where the other ships can't follow. Now he's alone with his three (adorable) robots, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. (Louie is accidentally lost during the storm of Saturn's ring) With no more human contact, Lowell's glitchy behavior slowly descends into madness.
It's this major part of the film that intrigues me so. Lowell's decay is slow, but with pointedly increasing markers leading his way to full insanity. The ending is surprising but appropriate. It's said to be difficult for an actor to single handedly carry a show, but Dern manages quite impressively. The special effects are of course a bit cheesy, but while the robots are not high-tech they certainly are adorable and fill their roles in the plot nicely. Unfortunately, there are also a couple of very cheesy Joan Baez "nature" songs in the movie, you'll want to plug your ears or hit mute for those, unless you actually like the 70's "hippie-pop".
'Silent Running' is a must-see Classic SciFi film, even if it's somewhat outdated. It's not the best movie you'll ever watch but if you're a lover of SciFi you should treat yourself to some of the breakthroughs made in the SciFi film industry, 'Silent Running' being a part of that phenomenon. It's also a highly interesting study of the human condition, and how we are designed to be a "herd" mammal rather than loners. Rent first. Enjoy!
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Summary: A Doug Trumbull classic
Comment: Made by fx master Douglas Trumbull after 2001, this actually is a very moving plea for the cause of conservation. An earth so polluted that the last forests are put on great space ships like the Valley Forge to roam the outer edges of the solar system, awaiting the call to return home. Instead the reverse order is given. Bruce Dern kills his companions to prevent them from carrying out the order. Folk score by Joan Biaz
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