Silent Running
by Douglas Trumbull
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Actor: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Jesse Vint, Mark Persons, Ron RifkinDirector: Douglas Trumbull
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-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-21
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Silent Running
DVD Review: on dvd
Summary: 5 Stars
if you love this movie then you will appreciate that is is now on DVD. sort of weird but then it always was.DVD Review: The worst movie period.
Summary: 1 Stars
The worst movie, very slow with a poor acting. Unless your a greenpeace nut don't bother.......
DVD Review: Blast from the Past
Summary: 4 Stars
I remember seeing "Silent Running" when it first came out, when I was 10 or 11. Seeing it again, I realize almost every scene was etched in my memory. No other movie has combined such outstanding special effects with the melancholy of a solitary character.
Obviously, this was a product of the eco-movement of the 60's and 70's, so it's about how by the year 2001 all the vegetation on Earth is gone, and what's left is exiled to space. I was set to experience it as the extreme product of environmentalist wackos.
But the beauty and the eeriness of it holds up well. Just pretend it's about the following century, with the situation starting in 2101. That's easy to do, with the casual use of artificial gravity, the sophistication of the drones, and the implied terraforming that has made Earth all temperate with no use for forests.
As an aside: No one comes away with Bruce Dern's Freeman as the favorite character. (He's made his mark playing anti-social types.) Everyone's favorite characters are the drones! They are endlessly fascinating. Try not to scream over the fate of poor lil' Drone #3. And get into endless debates about whether Drone #2 was in good enough shape to leave with Drone #1.
DVD Review: silent cool movie
Summary: 4 Stars
very cool movie for it's day and it still holds up today! great space movie about things to come. even better if your a "green tree huggger"!DVD Review: Flawed by having almost no story
Summary: 2 Stars
If SILENT RUNNING were literature instead of a film, it would be accused of being a short short story masquerading as a novel. Its greatest claim to fame is having been made by 2001 special effects guru Douglas Trumbull. And there is no question that this is visually the most interesting SF film between 2001 and STAR WARS. Like 2001 it was a SF film that was not intended to go directly to a drive in double bill. It was intended to be taken seriously.
There is no question that this is a film with good intentions and it was certainly made with great attention. And Huey, Dewey, and the posthumously named Louie are among the most beloved and fondly remembered movie robots (I suppose most people know that the robots were performed by multiple amputee humans). But the brute fact is that there simply isn't much of a story. And what little story there is, is pretty danged bleak. It is surprising that there is so little in the way of interesting story -- well, heck, that there is so little story at all, interesting or otherwise. This was a talented trio of writers. Michael Cimono and Deric Washburn would later win an Oscar for DEER HUNTER, while Steve Bocho would reinvent television with HILL STREET BLUES and other projects.
In the end, SILENT RUNNING ends up being a visually less interesting distillation of the duller parts of 2001. I will add that Bruce Dern is very good in what is essentially the only role in the movie (though I was amazed to see that I literally couldn't recognize Ron Rifkin in his small role). I suppose students of SF should see it because of its "classic" status, but to be honest, it is not a terribly interesting film.
Description of Silent Running
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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