Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

autephecs Watched this after getting onto a scifi kick this past week and reading many recommendations for Silent Running, with a some reviewers stating its as good or even better than 2001.Bad move, this movie is cringy AF right from the opening credits. The FX are the only interesting thing happening here. The praise for this film's delivery of its message must be coming from some very simple minds that do not get embarrassed watching poorly written and overacted scenes conveying simplistic ideas as if they are so deep, man. No scifi aliens here, but plenty of alienation for viewers such as myself.

Adam Peters (60%) An offbeat ecological space movie staring the great Bruce Dern on fine form playing a somewhat deranged character which is truly something you don't see that often in family friendly movies such as this; although his actions are at least understandable given the circumstances. This, despite it being not being a widely known about film, does have a quality feel to it. The model spaceship effects featured hasn't dated about half as much as computer based effects less than half as old. While robots Huey, Dewey, and Louie are very cute, despite the fact that it would take them about two years to get from one end of the ship to the other with those little legs. If you can put up with the 70's folk music soundtrack, a slowish place, and a very unsubtle message, then this is something worth tracking down, and it's a refreshing change to something such as Star wars.

TxMike I was a young adult, married with children, when this movie came out in 1972, but I only saw it yesterday. I found it on Netflix streaming movies. I found it a very interesting study in human values and the extreme one might go to when choices are limited.I have always liked Bruce Dern, and he was great in last year's 'Nebraska' playing an older man in his twilight years. Here he is young, an astronaut caring for almost extinct forests. But I get ahead. It is some future time and apparently Earth has become, or is becoming, uninhabitable. So a mission with several very large space ships and small crews have been sent into some sort of orbit, perhaps around the sun, intent on preserving life. Specifically, forests and the greenery that goes with it. Each large space craft has several transparent domed areas attached, under each dome is dirt and a forest.Freeman Lowell (Dern) is one of four on this particular ship. From all the patches on his suit (Sierra Club, Mount Rainier, etc) we know he is a conservationist and he takes this job very seriously. In his spare time he grows various crops to supplement the space food they are dispensed. Trouble arises when the crew is told they will jettison each domed forest into space and explode each, they no longer want to save them. As Freeman watches each pod in turn be jettisoned then exploded, each time he winces almost in pain, seeing life destroyed with no hope.So he does the only thing that makes sense to him, taking drastic measures.SPOILERS FOLLOW: He decides he will first get rid of the three other crewmen. The first comes easily, in a struggle in Freeman's garden, with a shovel handle across the man's throat. Next he jettisons a forest pod when the other two men are in it, destroying them when it detonates. And finally, he modifies the remaining three drones (robots) to obey him, he teaches one how to take care of the forest, then jettisons them but WITHOUT an explosion. Then he causes his own space ship to explode, with the knowledge that the little robot will take care of the forest for an eternity!

mads leonard holvik I kind of liked this movie. It is always captivating that mankind has destroyed earth, and more so that they are growing trees in orbit to make earth green again. The main character is a nerdy garden freak, and the other guys at the space station make fun of him and run go carts through his flower beds. But he still beats them in poker, and he has a cool hair do. The best thing about this movie is the unconventional plot, where the gardener kill his mates to save the forest. He then kills himself because he gets lonely. Even though people are imperfect, we need each other. That is a nice theme. Even nicer is the final shot of the robots continuing to tend the trees and water the plants. In wait for an improved mankind?