Silent Running (1972)
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Existential Solace
Like Tom Hanks in "Cast Away", I found Bruce Dern comforting as a quiet audience surrogate, with robot companions that (like Wilson) earn affection and sympathy despite being silent. Production design here is enchanting. The only misstep is grating songs.
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"Reason for the future sucking: All plant life on Earth has been made extinct. Only a few specimens have been preserved in enormous, greenhouse-like geodesic domes attached to a fleet of American Airlines space freighters, just outside the orbit of Saturn. Year it takes place: The far off future."
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"20.11. 2022 Douglas Trumbull certainly knows how to create impressive special effects but he can't really direct a movie. "Silent Running" has somewhat interesting scenario but the film doesn't have a gripping story. It hardly has any story at all. It tells about a lonely scientist who desperately tries to protect precious plants saved in a gigantic greenhouse. The film tells that the Earth has become some kind of a weird dystopia where all the original nature has been destroyed. You'd think th"
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"A movie that has everything โ if by everything you mean Bruce Dern as a long-haired homicidal intergalactic treehugger playing poker with droids, talking to bunnies, and feeling really passionately about salad. The directorial debut of visual effects wiz Douglas Trumbull, Silent Running is a deceptively grim environmentalist allegory about a conservationist who balks at destroying the greenhouses heโs immaculately maintained aboard a giant space freighter. Though in the moral right, Dernโs"
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"In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard aspacecraft."
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" SILENT RUNNING Kathy. Total Score: 8 points. "