Three Science Fiction movies to see again

2/11/14 | Vanity

[Usagi_yo]

It's a cold day here in the South, snowing, raining and freezing. So it was a good day to curl up with my Basset Hound and watch some old sci-fi movies. They're dated, but still relevant for today's world.

Soylent Green. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

1973 movie set in 2022 with Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson (his last appearance). The world is overpopulated, polluted, suffering from global warming, short on food and many people are homeless. Charlton Heston plays a detective trying to solve a murder case of an "Important" person. Important being code word for rich elite quasi government business man.

Rollerball. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073631/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

1975 movie set in 2018 with James Caan and John Houseman. The world has evolved into one big global corporate melange. Large global City/States sponsor Rollerball teams. Rollerball is introduced as an innocent seeming game with about as much violence as today's NFL football. James Caan is a player. A good, perhaps too good of a player. John Houseman plays a go between between the game and the corporation full intent on seeing Johnathan fail as an individual -- the slightly submerged theme of the movie.

On the Beach

1959 movie set in 1963 with Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Ava Gardner, Anthony Perkins. Gregory Peck is a commander of a U.S nuclear submarine who's looking for safe harborage some weeks/months after loosing her nuclear missles in a nuclear conflagration with USSR. They eventually find a safe port in Australia and meet some survivors.

All 3 fine movies to see again if you haven't and to definitely see them if you've never. Just keep the understanding that these movies are dated.

[Political Junkie Too]

Does anyone remember Silent Running, also from that era? It was another dystopian future movie.

-PJ

[Sawdring]

Great movies. I would add the original Time Machine to the list. I loved the last scene where one of his friends asks which books would the others bring forward in time to restart civilization.