Silent Running
by Douglas Trumbull
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Actor: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Jesse Vint, Mark Persons, Ron RifkinDirector: Douglas Trumbull
Brand: MCA
Cinematographer: Charles F. Wheeler
Producer: Douglas Trumbull
Editor: Aaron Stell
Producer: Marty Hornstein
Producer: Michael Gruskoff
Writer: Deric Washburn
Writer: Michael Cimino
Writer: Steven Bochco
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-21
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Silent Running
DVD Review: Very contemporary, 37 years later
Summary: 5 Stars
"Silent Running" is one of those films that sneaks up on you. Bruce Dern, the only real actor in the film (there are others, but they are more stage dressing), is an established "character actor," and that character is usually crazy. In "Silent Running," everyone seems to think Freeman Lowell (Dern's character) is crazy, which is important to the film, but you gradually come to wonder if, in his own quiet, idiosyncratic way, Freeman may be the only sane human you see. Three robots become important characters and add greatly to the film. Touching, subtle and blunt, the film is visually stunning, and every single thing you see has meaning. Worth watching several times.DVD Review: I really wanted to like this movie, but it is TERRIBLE!
Summary: 1 Stars
After seeing the recent movie "Moon," I read that writer/director Duncan Jones (a.k.a. David Bowie's kid) mentioned this movie as one of the sci-fi movies that inspired the "retro" look of Moon. Since I loved Moon, I ordered this.
I knew it probably wouldn't be up to the standards of 2001, but thought it would be in the ballpark.
WRONG!
The effects are terrible. The lighting is terrible. All the models of spaceships look like models. The script is terrible, childish, amateurish. The "acting" is terrible. The Joan Baez songs are totally hokey. The warehouse in space looks like a warehouse. Most of the instrumentation in the space ship is made of off the shelf oscilloscopes and other electronic test equipment. One magical device is simply a commercial light bulb.
Kubrick's genius is even more apparent after seeing this. The effects of 2001 hold up even 40 years later, while this movie, made several years later by some of the same people, looks like a joke.
DVD Review: Seems so 'dated'
Summary: 2 Stars
At this point, this film seems so outdated and the production quality and 'technology' feels more like a made-for-TV episode than a feature film.
I failed to remember any of this when I first saw the movie years ago, and purchasing to watch again was a big letdown.
DVD Review: Good Movies Do Not Have To Be Expensive
Summary: 4 Stars
Douglas Trumbull was given, along with a few other 'new talents,' a million dollars and no strings to make a movie in the early 1970s. This was an 'experiment' by the studios to see if an indie movie could produce big revenue. Easy Rider (35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) was what got this going. Trumbull had been the special effects supervisor on 2001 - A Space Odyssey [Blu-ray], Candy, and The Andromeda Strain.
Trumbull hired a decommissioned Air Craft Carrier from the Navy, a small group of actors, his father, and some friends and made this mini-classic. It is often called a 'cult' film, but it is much more than that. This was a 'message' movie that still resonates. Bruce Dern was given the opportunity to break out of his 'bad guy' persona here and really excels.
This is not the best SciFi movie ever made, but it is head and shoulders above the average. Interestingly enough despite the critical success of this film, Trumbull was rarely given an opportunity to direct again. He did do 'Brainstorm' in the early 1980s, but is mostly known for interactive 'rides' for which he has received little credit.
DVD Review: silent running
Summary: 5 Stars
great old movie long before computer animation/one or bruce derns best. in its time this was real special effects.
Description of Silent Running
A botanist rebels when given the order to destroy the only plants left from Earth and takes his space freighter to Saturn after killing his fellow crew members.Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: G
Street Date: 10/07/03
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve
After creating many of the innovative special effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Douglas Trumbull tried his hand at directing, and 1971's Silent Running marked an impressive debut. (In addition to creating the visual effects for Close Encounters of the Third Kind and directing 1983's Brainstorm, Trumbull later turned to the creation of high-tech cinematic amusement park rides.) One of the best science fiction films of the 1970s, Silent Running stars Bruce Dern as Freeman Lowell, a nature-loving crewmember aboard the Valley Forge, a gigantic spaceship in a small fleet that carries the last surviving forests of the Earth, which has fallen victim to overpopulation and ecological neglect.
Freeman's name reflects his nonconformist philosophy, which runs counter to the prevailing recklessness of his three ill-fated crewmates, who are eager to jettison their precious payload and return to the bleakness of Earth. Before they can sabotage the forests, Freeman does what he must, and spends the remainder of his mission with three robotic "drones" as his only companions, struggling to maintain his sanity in the vastness of space. Dern is superb in this memorable role, representing the lost soul of humankind as well as the back-to-nature youth movement of the 1960s and the pre-Watergate era. (Appropriately, Joan Baez sings the film's theme song.) A rare science fiction film that combines bold adventure with passionate social conscience, Silent Running will remain relevant as long as the Earth is threatened by the ravages of human carelessness. --Jeff Shannon
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