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Sci-fi July continues and we hope you brought your appetite because we will be tucking into the dystopian classic, Soylent Green. Bon Appetit!
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How does Soylent Green taste?
It varies from person to person.
Thank you, I'll be here all night!
Ellis Hotomani - 👏👏👏
😂😂😂👏
You almost quoted Futurama correctly.
Leela-"They already have a drink like that. Soylent Cola."
Fry-"How is it?"
Leela-"It varies from person to person."
Be sure to tip your waitress.
Any more cannibals in your neighborhood? No, we ate the last one last week...🎡🐱🐉
Edward James Olmos is indeed in Blade Runner 2049. He has a cameo near the start.
I guess the movie was more forgettable than I thought.
To each his own. I personally think it's one of the greatest movies I've ever seen.
oof
And technically Sean Young isn't in it, just her CGI likeness.
For some reason he's dressed as Colonel Sanders
Soylent Green is a cool concept with neat sets, but it drags in the middle. The final scenes are incredible all the same!
This is a really under rated episode of WttB. I came back and watched it today and it makes me want to watch Soylent Green
Good to hear Tona being a part of the conversation, brief as it may have been.
her voice is beautiful
Spielberg later said he regretting making those revisions to E.T. He saw the error of his ways and even railed against the idea of altering a finished film product. He's stated that he will never do it again, and the latest bluray version of E.T. includes the guns again with no content alterations.
“I tried this once and I lived to regret it, not because of fan outrage, but simply because I was disappointed in myself. I was overly sensitive to some of the criticism E.T. got from parent groups when it was first released in '82 having to do with Eliot saying ‘penis breath’ or the guns… And then there were certain brilliant, but rough-around-the-edges close-ups of E.T. that I always felt, if technology ever evolves to the point where I can do some facial enhancement for E.T., I'd like to.” “I realized that what I had done was I had robbed the people who loved E.T. of their memories of E.T. And I regretted that.”
So happy to hear that "penis breath" is back. Hearing those words uttered blew 8-year old Craig's mind. The magic of the movie, man.
Today though?
Near universal acclaim for the Snyder cut of Justice League!
Movie prop I would like to own? Winslow's mask from Phantom of the Paradise!
I can’t believe Spaceballs isn’t as well-received as I thought. It’s one of my favorite movies of all time, and probably the movie I have quoted the most in my life.
Alex Theos definitely a movie that you either like or don’t, I feel like for those who were kids in the 80s love the movie.
It definitely feels like a kids movie and people who weren't kids then won't like it (tho they were) so maybe it's just not for everyone. Hard to get out that kid bubble for sure lol.
You guys are killing me with your Spaceballs talk on Seen It, I wasn't aware so many people consider it less funny than much of Mel Brook's films. The part I always remember is the combing the desert scene with the "We ain't found shit!" line.
No one movie-punches like Charlton Heston.
Saw ET when it came out in 82'. A small child, toddler or preschooler was in the audience. We all know how young children can be in theaters. Every now and then, you would hear an "Ohhh" or 'Ahhh" or delighted laughter coming from that part of the theater. When the sad parts began, this child started to cry and that made it harder for us adults to hold back the tears.
12:30 I’m suprised he didn’t request in his last moments to be listening to the music of the Glenn Miller Orchestra and seeing Cops beating up hippies.
Thumbs up if you got that reference.
Maybe Gandhi has become one of those movies people pass on because of the run time but it's so well executed those 3 hours never feel too long. And almost everything about it is perfect, especially Ben Kingsley's performance. Highly recommended
Very true.
Sol's death scene was very moving on the big screen. The beauty he sees and hears was of the past.
I saw this the week it was released. I think of it often.
Welcome to the basement is an incredible series! I love the personalities, jokes, and critique!
"Why is that lion yelling at me?!" 😂
I am so happy to see you two today! My week has been bleh! Great video. I just recently binge watch the first season of Welcome to the Basement. The others are just as great!
Wow I have been watching this since nanuk of the north.
Hey Matt. I got the Hozier joke. Good one.
I don’t know what you’re talking about. Spaceballs is hilarious.
I saw it in the theater knowing that Edward G had just died. Made a strong impression on me and it becomes more of a documentary in these days of Overshoot.
Movie prop? I want Charlton Hestons' ascot, damnit! Me and a buddy did a double feature of this and Omega Man when ol' Chuckie bought the farm. It was nice to revisit it with you guys.
Also, SEEN IT? : Legend. Tim Curry's' best performance besides Clue.
Matt, the bling on that Western shirt is amazing. When I lived in LA, I used to find the most amazing old shirts with embroidered back panel scenes, but I've never seen the same glitz detailing as yours.
This film was an absolute masterpiece, I loved it
Anyone else noticed the Al Green Let's Stay Together album in the background? I love that album!
Al Green is people!!!
I loved Spaceballs as a kid. It was my introduction to Mel Brooks. As an adult it's slipped down my list of favorite Brooks films, but it's still the most quotable. Matt nails what's so frustrating about Alien: Resurrection. Really every Alien movie after Aliens is almost great, but all of them fail spectacularly and painful for their own reasons. Speaking of; Blade Runner 2049 was my palate cleanser after the disappointing Alien: Covenant.
I concur with Matt on BR2049. Absolutely gorgeous imagery, but it feels like it take a week to watch.
0:10 God, you called it, Matt. Upon asking that question, my immediate thought went straight to that car.
Herkimer Battle Jitney for me.
I want the Batman 1 Batmobile.
In hindsight, having the sports almanac from BTTFuture 2 would be pretty cool, too.
That looks like an interesting movie. I think I'm going to watch it this weekend. you the way you guys rock.
You both are always thoughtful and insightful every episode, but I feel like you really dove in deep on this one. Maybe because dystopia feels the most familiar since the cold war nuclear threat days. Even so, this was a great stream of consciousness.
Fun fact: First videogame in a film ever.
In 1973, I saw Soylent Green, as a six year old, at the Natick Drive In (It's no longer there-in Natick, Massachusetts). When the movie got to the chase scenes in the Soylent Factory, the movie film reel broke down and had to be repaired. A few minutes later, during the second attempt, the film reel broke down, again, at the same place. By this time, everyone there decided to leave, and we all missed the memorable ending. It was decades later before I, finally, saw the ending. This was the first movie I remember seeing.
Matt @ 25:04 - damn, that's great, witty Dick Van Patten referencing (as Chuck Heston might say with the upmost stoicism).
Great episode! I worked in a video store for a while back in the day and made sure to watch all the "classics" like this... But did you say 7 years? Wow!
Intermittent interesting - like so many things on CZcams.
THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS MOVIE!
I can't believe you guys have been doing this for 7 years. To 7 more!
In a follow-up to the shout out my wife and I received on the Old Yeller customer comments, I'm happy to report that we will be having a baby girl in November... and last night, I felt her kick for the first time! Thanks to you both for always providing laughs, great criticism and discussion, and watching some films I just haven't gotten around to in the past. SEEN IT: Critters 2... relatively speaking, one of the best sequels ever? We'll see y'all in two weeks!
I wonder if Solvent Green Day begins when September ends.
Another great one guys. Keep up the great work
I also loved that Ryan Gosling SNL short because Papyrus is the WORST FONT EVER and it's tragic how often it is used.
Wow I must be living under a rock because I've never been spoiled for this movie.
I'm watching this on a Wednesday. Man, I just missed Soylent Green Day! :/
Holy Crap! I just looked at the films released in 1982- that really might be the greatest year for movies ever!
I was at first upset when you both said you didn't like Spaceballs, but you both made very valid points. Thinking back on it, I feel the movie drags a little and I would very so much watch Young Frankenstein or Blazing Saddles. Eyes open, but I still love that movie as a background noise movie.
it's Soylent Green Era! 2022!!
You guys talked about E.T. from my suggestion! Cool. You should really see Gandhi. I've seen it like 10 times and it's still great.
How could you leave Craig hanging like that at the end? That joke was so perfectly set up, it certainly called for a high five! LOL
That prop is Computer Space. The arcade game made by Nolan Bushnel, founder of Atari. Yes it did come in those space age cabinets.
Another fantastic episode! Thanks Matt, Craig, and Tona!
Oh, there'll be
No more Soylent Tuesdays
No more Soylent Tuesdays
No more Soylent Tuesdays
For me!
I love you guys
Heston in “Khartoum”! Best melodrama ever!
I'd love it if you guys could talk about Napoleon Dynamite. It's one of my all time favorite comedy movies.
Couldn't believe u hadn't seen this movie. This is my third fav movie behind The Thing and Empire Strikes Back. The acting causes me to have emotional reaction from the first seen.
Great ep guys!, awesome shirt for Matt, and also thanks for talking about the Ryan Gosling papyrus thing, I had never seen it and I sought it out and it was great! Cracked me up, and I'm going to show my brothers. Also I don't know what the heck is up with youtube, despite dinging the bell for your channel a long while ago, etc, it still doesn't notify me of this episode. It's like YT has it in for you guys or something. Sadface.
I haven't watched Spaceballs in about twenty years. Need to go back & see how it holds up.
Oh fishy, fishy, fishy. Oh.
I wonder where that fish did go.
Left the man hangin'...dayem!
I gave up milk for soy lent. Guess that includes my Charlton Chews..
:)
@07:12 Do you have the time, to stand in the bread line
Watching this in 2022!
A freeze frame from this video of both of you dead was the original cover of Steely Dan's "Two Against Nature" album
I watched Ghandi for school too. You guys should definitely watch it.
I loved Blade Runner 2049, I thought it was absolutely brilliant and I was hooked the whole way through. Wasn't really expecting to enjoy it either, considering I don't like the first Blade Runner at all. There's nothing wrong with the movie itself, but I didn't get around to watching it until my mid 20s, and my whole life I'd heard how the movie was this amazing masterpiece of science fiction. All that hype, coupled with the fact that it barely resembles the book it's supposed to be based on, made for an incredibly disappointing movie.
Thank you, fellows, thank you.
Movie prop I'd choose the Terminator 2 arm. Jar and all.
lol, what an evil laugh 23.58. You could have been us... hehe
Soylent Green is introduced partly because some of the ingredients for Soylent Red and Yellow (seaweed & plankton) are no longer available (Saul finds out that the oceans are dying).
Sleazy Chuck Heston? His character in "Secret of the Incas" was one of the primary inspirations for Indiana Jones. When he's not treasure hunting, he has a side gig as a tour-guide & gigolo. "Money you get from women is the best kind". But if you want to see a more subdued Heston, go watch the small-scale Western "Will Penny" (1967). He's been quoted saying that was his favorite movie role.
It's no longer PC for either liberals or conservatives to talk about overpopulation. Strange, since that's the root cause behind every environmental crisis there is, including global warming. Well, not really strange, since both the wokies and the "free marketeers" are making bank. Nobody wants to upset the gravy train.
Best movie prop? Come on, of course it's the Maltese Falcon. Or maybe the Spinner flying car from "Blade Runner 1984". Makes a DeLorean look like poo.
I thought Blade Runner 2049 was amazing. Definitely not casual viewing but I think it's a movie that rewards intense focus and I appreciate it for that reason.
‘87 was the best year of movies. No contest.
This is the first scarcity food porn film in existence. Like the scene in The Road where they find that underground food storage bunker. In soylent green its the REAL BEEF! Scene.
Watch ENEMY MINE 1985. You will be surprised. SF dystopian, too..
You should really watch Gandhi. I saw it and it was so good it actually inspired a religious awakening in me. It is a long movie but luckily there’s an intermission halfway through.
Plus you’d be watching a Guinness World Record Movie as the scene of Gandhi’s funeral at the beginning of the movie currently holds a World Record for most extras in a movie scene.
Would have been funny if the present this episode was a bottle of Soylent!
Thank you weighing in on Spaceballs! I've felt bad for not liking the movie for years. Guilt be gone!
I'm here to pry that gun from your cold dead hands. - classic
@24:57 - another great line by our host, que Dick Van Patton [who by the way was in 'Space Balls']
I haven't seen it in years so I don't know if my opinion of it has changed at all, but I was a big fan of Spaceballs growing up. I might argue against the notion that Mel Brooks didn't have the same enthusiasm for the subject matter that he had for Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein. In a documentary about Spaceballs, he's quoted as saying, "You only spoof the things you love." Also, I heard that he was a fan of Star Trek, so it doesn't seem unreasonable to conclude he might have a fondness for Star Wars as well (though I doubt he's a hardcore nerd when it comes to those things).
I remember being pretty surprised when I realized that the big revelation in Soylent Green was the end of the movie. I might not have necessarily expected Heston's character to be able to ultimately make any positive change, because that seldom happens in a lot of these seventies movies, but I still felt a little unsatisfied.
Gandhi is pretty good, imo not best picture material but a solid movie from Craig’s beloved Richard Attenborough ;) and it’s got young Daniel day-Lewis as a street thug!
15:28 "...at least rational people are." Sick burn, Mr. Johnson.
That video game is called 'Computer Space' and was the first coin-operated arcade video game created. It is the game that 'Asteroids' would be based on. The guys who made it would go on to form Atari.
I should really watch the whole show before commenting! Sorry! :)
I actually own a blue cabinet version of computer space..... 1 of only 140 known to still exist (there were around 1500 of the single player versions made).....also the white cabinet version is the prototype that Nolan Bushnell took to CES in 1971 and is the only made in white
Wow! That's pretty cool! How were you able to get it? Did you stumble across it? Or was it something you tracked down?
a neighbor of mine who had recently died was a jukebox/electronics repairmen...i went to his house to give my condolences,the only person who was there was his grandson and was getting his estate ready for auction. he asked me if wanted to look around...so i did, at the back of the warehouse was something covered up with a tarp. i took the tarp off and couldn't believe what i was looking at. i asked him about it and he told me i could have it.....true story
Wow! Amazing story! Does it work?
Soylent Green is people! The food’s run out! We’re all going to starve to death! You have to stop taking your Joy! ... But you won’t, will you? You won’t!
I'm surprised you haven't seen Ghandi! It's long, but it really is fantastic. The acting was the highlight, but solid overall.
Dorothy's Ruby slippers...$$$$
If I were just getting a prop vehicle & not an actual time-traveling DeLorean, I'd go with either the Herkimer Battle Jitney or Casanova Frankenstein's Corvette limo. Hand prop though? Han Solo's blaster.
Woopity scoopity
"They bring out the Vivaldi..."
That's Beethoven, 6th symphony.
@17:00 - the only other film i can recall where the executive of a corporation is killed to project the lead character into discovering the truth and exposing it is the Will Smith movie, 'I Robot'
I don't know if you have seen it yet, but if you haven't and you're in the mood for some "Putney Swope panic", I recommend Sorry To Bother You. It even fits with sci-fi July (sort of).
Good news Matt, the CGI meddling of ET is not on any current release. The DVD, BluRay, and 4K UHD releases are all the theatrical version.
Watching this in 2022
that would be one expensive prop Matt
i saw this movie on TV when I was 8 yo, thought it was the greatest movie ever ...until I saw JAWS!!
Hey I got a filming question. So when you guys are watching a movie, do you setup 2 cameras for each of you and just look up at it in the middle of a movie to record these little synopsis points you do while explaining the plot? (Like at 5:43) or is that something you just setup after the fact once you are done? I really like how you guys do it
I’ve had soylent. It’s not bad.
I’m gonna have to pick Smith’s glasses from the Matrix
Kind of missing the point, its a film that revealed the fears of the time, and it reveals their misunderstanding of the future just 50 years from then, and 3 years from us now. The hyperbolic catastrophism pushed theories like the population bomb, and then climate change, all based on projections based on incomplete understandings of the past present and the future. Now we hear the same fears, cast 80 years into the future on how much climate change will cost, 10% of gdp they say, which is unnoticeable based on growth and yet they double down when we can't imagine what technology we will have in 80 years, no more than the people in this film could imagine just 45 years from then. Its a work of fiction, but it was based on ideas in popular circulation at the time, so the fears were even older.
The DeLorean was cool but you have to admit that Toyota truck was pretty bada**.
captainloudpants In high school, a guy one grade above me owned a Toyota truck just like Marty's. That may have been his only defining feature.
There's a pizza place in Salt Lake City that has a great salad option. No one gets it because they called it Soylent Green as a lark.
Did Craig ever show Lorenzo E.T.