Beyond the movie was the poetic goodbye between Heston and Edward G. Robinson before Robinson’s death. Together in one of the “Epic” films of an era yet ends here a movie not about people but of what people can become….. Yes, there is great guilty voyeuristic pleasure.

Anyhoo, you either laugh or cry in a lot of situations, and Heston sets you up for that in his movies. I take the same rout as you, Stokes, but the gal that first told me about _Soylent Green_ took the other one and said I *shouldn’t* watch it because it’s so depressingblabblah- which, of course, led me to seeking it out. I was in middle school, though, so I probably got a lot less out of it than I would if I saw it again now. Hm…

*Whether you like his movies or not, Myers definitely is good at satirizing, both subtly and not-so-subtly, a lot of things about pip culture and the film industry in his movies. Like that whole “Oscar Clip” thing, or the montage of overt product placement, or the, “this looks nothing like Southern California” bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI6IlXfUdPE