Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

cinemajesty "Silent Running" a movie directed by special effects photographer Douglas Trumbull, produced in the season of 1970/1971 at some remote airfield hangar in Van Nuys, California and starring heart-out-acting Bruce Dern as an space traveling environmentalist, who suffers a nervous breakdown by killing off his entire crew in order to ignite robots to do their jobs and eventually sending his long-time cared for botanic forest under a dome into deep space before ending the mission with complete annihilation of the spaceship, which had been designed to escape Earth in such a desolated state that visuals from "Mad Max" (1979) to "The Road" (2009) pop into my mind, where it supposed to be believed that not even one leaf grows on a tree anymore.Director Douglas Trumbull puts his entire anger, disappointment and sorrow into a picture about the state of the America's union since 1865 with another war raging in Vietnam a hundred years later, while scrupulous industrialized capitalists earning for their retirement in the 1990s despite all warning signs of a polluted world in constant decay; a picture, which runs along within a brotherhood of dystopian Science-Fiction-Films of the early 1970s as "THX 1138" (1971), "The Omega Man" (1971) or "The Andromeda Strain" (1971) directed by Robert Wise, which is arguably the most accomplished one with an nerve-wrecking split-second key-to-key-hole finale. All pictures utilized the elements of research, science and fictional story-telling to give their emotions of contemporary environmental as well as governmental issues a visual playground.If "Silent Running" can be watched closely enough, preferably in an auditorium with 70mm film print, it is possible to find ingredients of the later much more audience-attracting contents as "Star Wars" (1977) or "Close Encounters of The Third Kind" (1977), which serve to this day as role models of workday escaping motion pictures, where no controversy has been allowed, which may go beyond the choice between a soda drink and a cup of coffee toward the way back from the movie house to home to hit a midnight grocery store to indulge further into a synthetic food-chain and forget about the picture the next morning, yet wishing to watch it again a year later in hope of feeling the same escapology emotions to block out the core of a universal contradiction between nature versus industry.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

davidpetersonharvey I saw this at school during a summer program. The school would let the kids come in and watch several movies for a few coins as part of a summer program (to keep us out of our parents' hair, presumably) and this was part of the lineup.Personally, I was blown away and the details have stayed with me. When I saw the movie again as an adult some years ago, I got the same message, felt the same feelings, in short, it has stayed with me in a way few movies have ever done. The only other movie to affect me this profoundly in my childhood was "Star Wars." I don't know how it will stand up to modern audiences. Probably not as well as the Star Wars franchise has. But this movie will be an important part of my childhood memories and my creativity as an adult as long as I have memory.

SnoopyStyle In the future, Earth has become an artificial world. The world's forests are in large pods in spaceships. They are on their way to replant the earth. Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) is a caretaker on the spaceship Valley Forge. His three other crewmates are callous to his natural ways. People no longer grow food. Then they receive orders to nuke the plants and cancel the trip. Lowell decides to revolt and kill his crew. Other ships wonder why the Valley Forge has not destroyed its forested pods.The story doesn't make sense. It may make poetic sense but this future world is ludicrous. Sometime these kinds of weird non-sense stories fill the old sci-fi publications. The problem is that they are not necessarily meant to be completely logical. One can ignore the illogical premise but as a movie, one can't ignore the lack of any tension. After killing the crew, the movie really goes nowhere. This could be adapted into a poignant Star Trek episode but it's not that compelling as a full-length release.

michaelt-culligan Was it the early Seventies when the world was first made aware of the potentially devastating environmental disaster that civilisation was spiralling towards? Certainly, when you place this 1972 movie alongside the lyrics of Joni Mitchell's 'Big Yellow Taxi,' there is a case to be made for it being the time when "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot." The movie has a lot going for it. To begin with, there's a performance from Bruce Dern that is worthy of comparison with Gene Hackman's Oscar-winning performance that year in a way the other nominees simply were not. He provides a passionate and intelligent performance in which he is hardly ever off-screen and makes the viewer share his anger at the treatment of his mission. Then, too, there is the rarity of a science-fiction film which does not attempt to overwhelm the viewer with unnecessary special effects – one in which the drama is driven by the character and the scarily believable story. If you are looking for a film about environmental concern that works on every level, then forget about Al Gore's worthy but dull contribution and watch this beautifully-realised film. Then watch it again... and again. It really is that good!