Silent Running (1972), trailer

In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's plant life being kept in a greenhouse on board a spacecraft.
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[@TheBrotherofcats]

Loves this movie. Saw it back when it came out and it was psrobably the first film to make me cry. But man, the hype in the trailer. Beyond the Stars. Hell, they barely got to Saturn.

[@ListerTunes]

According to Joel Hodgson's interview on Art of the Title, this movie was the basis for a lot of the premise behind Mystery Science Theater 3000. The domes, the one guy and robots, the evil bosses on Earth... interesting to know this inspired something completely different.

[@rbolo29]

ListerTunes MarciCow Biosphere 2[near Tucson-AZ]was made from this movie and thought up on a ranch near Sante Fe, NM.

[@myswanktrendz]

Lister Tunes, your last sentence in your post immediately had me think of Monty Python's ... "And now for something completely different..." lol

[@AlkisenSuper]

Truly a beautiful movie.

[@SLBysusparidas]

Awesome, this Movie inspired an entire Kingdom in Super Mario Odyssey for Nintendo Switch.

[@MarciCow]

Wonder how many people who became strong environmentalists in the 80s saw this movie as children.

[@rbolo29]

MarciCow Biosphere 2[near Tucson-AZ]was made from this movie and thought up on a ranch near Sante Fe, NM.

[@myswanktrendz]

I am watching this movie as I type. I find the concept for this film was advanced and beyond its time. I also applaud whomever the author of the book is, as well as the person who brought the book to life via screenplay.

[@j.jasonwentworth723]

The "Silent Running" book (I forget the author) was written after, or concurrently with, the release of the film, but didn't seem to have been planned (unlike "2001: A Space Odyssey," which was pre-planned to be a simultaneous film *and* novel, with different endings in each one). The "Silent Running" book had a 'feel' about it that was sort of like a one-panel comic I saw in an issue of "Omni" magazine, which lampooned science fiction novels whose covers said/say, "Soon to be a major motion picture." It showed an outdoor, lighted movie theater marquee sign for an SF movie called "Space Feud IV," with words beneath the title that said, "Soon to be a major novelization!" :-)

[@myswanktrendz]

@@j.jasonwentworth723 wow, very interesting facts

[@ianfindly3257]

THIS old flick has the WEIRDEST and most memorable ROBOTS in movie history!

[@JohnStopman]

Yeah, and Star Wars copied them :-D

[@myswanktrendz]

John Stopman - I agree, and I definitely got a SW vibe from the robots. I also think it is smart of a director/producer etc. to make the robots appear 'cute' in order to make the audience have a vested interest in what happens to the robots.

[@ConTrollerNorth2]

I have fuzzy memories of watching this with my dad in the early '80's. I do remember feeling sad about it for some reason. I've had no idea as to what the title was until now but I've never forgotten about the guy on a planet with 3 droids. Thanks.

[@j.jasonwentworth723]

It wasn't a planet; Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern's character) was on a huge American Airlines space freighter (one of three), named the Valley Forge. I wouldn't be surprised if "Silent Running"--with its theme of preserving terrestrial life forms in space--also inspired the space colony movement (which Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill at Princeton University started in 1969, with a seminar question to his advanced students: "Is the surface of a planet the best location for a growing, technological civilization?" [The answer, to their--and his--surprise, was "No"; rotating colonies, made of lunar and asteroidal metals and minerals, can have 1 g--Earth surface--gravity, and free-fall conditions, side-by-side, making travel to and from them far cheaper than travel to/from the Moon and other planets]).

[@ConTrollerNorth2]

@@j.jasonwentworth723 10-4

[@myswanktrendz]

Dafullclip- no doubt you remember crying. My son and I watched it when he was 8 and he was devastated by the first robot death.

[@ConTrollerNorth2]

@@myswanktrendz 10/4

[@nicolamcguinness8689]

Rest in peace Alex Easton

[@hawaiiguykailua6928]

god bless the 70's and there "no boundary untouched" catalog of cheesy, yet epic, movies:)

[@AndrewLawsonjughead67]

This is an ecological preservation and protest movie It rocks 😎

[@battlestarmarc]

Great film, 70's style. Space ships in this film was used in Battlestar Galactica as agro ships.

[@jonathanolson978]

I thought those looked familiar!

[@DorCarlosFury]

Beautiful film !

[@darthkhakis1480]

One of the greatest movie of all time.......

[@BoopSnoot]

I hate you forever. Some jerks recommended this to me as one of the best sci-fis ever, and its the most boring POS I have EVER watched, and that's including TV series. The *ONLY* way someone can enjoy this is if they are a green-peace hippy, and even then they probably don't like watching it but just like the political message.

[@ingeonsa]

or a stoner LoL

[@myswanktrendz]

Bond Cama, lol, just as your post is a tad exaggerated. ;)

[@nhmooytis7058]

Loved this movie!

[@Turboy65]

The interior scenes were filmed aboard the decommissioned Korean War era aircraft carrier Valley Forge before it was scrapped. Of course, it was dressed up with some more modernistic setwork.

[@1984wakingminds]

Yep! I love that movie! Great actor.

[@marissadower-morgan3313]

we are almost here

[@berner]

Could totally see Ryan Reynolds playing the lead in this

[@imcoolpramesh]

I came here from Carbon Based Lifeforms - Photosynthesis

[@weldonwin]

A sci-fi movie, where an angry hippie murders three guys with a nuke

[@jayyyzeee6409]

They had it comin'.

[@cheeers1]

Just read an article where Gene Krantz says it's his favorite space movie

[@coffeemachtspass]

Well, now that I know Joan Baez will be singing a song, I just have to see the movie.

[@ytgc-royalewarex5190]

Underrated movie

[@thegodlessvulcan]

Interesting seeing Dern in a hero roll(although he murders his crew). Usually he's a heavy.

[@jeanbiroute]

Thank you for the spoiler. I was going to watch the trailer to see if I would watch the movie. Now I don't have to watch the movie

[@Turboy65]

One thing that makes this movie more tolerable is to mute the audio every time Joan Baez sings.

[@BloodWolf2k7]

They should do a carbon copy remake of this with modern effects.

[@AlkisenSuper]

Nope.

[@myswanktrendz]

Weulf - That would make for an excellent movie. The premise for this movie is timeless.

[@daveelson3708]

No

[@douglashagan6718]

we must leave the planet escape pod in ten secounds

[@creestooz]

What about the forests?

[@j.jasonwentworth723]

Dewey is still tending to them, in the last bio-dome, which Freeman Lowell jettisoned before blowing up the Valley Forge. Feeling guilty about killing his two crewmates (he had repetitive nightmares about doing it), and knowing that the fleet commander would discover what he had done when his ship rendezvoused with the Valley Forge, Lowell decided to jettison the last bio-dome with Dewey onboard, but *without* a nuclear demolition destruct unit in it (Hughey [Hewey?] was too injured--after Lowell had accidentally hit him with one of the onboard electric scooter-cars--to tend to the last forest), and--as Hughey watched nervously--Lowell armed one of the nuclear demolition charges in an outer compartment on the Valley Forge, then detonated it, obliterating the ship and both of them.

[@Turboy65]

....and a few years after all the forests are gone, the population suffocates due to lack of oxygen....

[@j.jasonwentworth723]

I guess the folks on Earth used hydroponically-grown Chlorella, or something like it, to produce oxygen from the carbon dioxide they and all other animal life exhale; what a sad world that would be, with no trees! In the movie, the food onboard the Valley Forge (and her sister ships in the fleet) is produced synthetically, and Freeman Lowell's crewmates don't understand his preference for garden-fresh vegetables, which he grew in the bio-domes attached to the ship. (That is one reason why space colonies are a great idea; they can produce large crop yields--even enough to make exportation to Earth practical--from small areas of land [lunar soil, which is very fertile], as well as via hydroponic and aeroponic agriculture.)

[@glomibabel1894]

first film in revolution special effect: star wars. me: no: you have silent running and space oddisey lol

[@ytgc-royalewarex5190]

Not to forget Forbidden Planet, a movie that released in 1956

[@glomibabel1894]

@@ytgc-royalewarex5190 but forbidden planet hadn't good special effects

[@UNSTABLE111]

I mean you are entitled to your opinion and these are very fine movies...but you can't deny how great the set design in star wars is..as well as the dynamic special effects. ..return of the jedi has the best Aerial combat sequences that uses miniatures

[@v2ike6udik]

1:00 11/9 9/11 Saturn. And now you know.

[@Turboy65]

This is a movie about insanity vs. insanity. If you were to make it much more STUPID instead of the thoughtful movie it is, it'd fit right in today in 2021.

[@Aleister_Donny]

The Star Report.

[@santoshkumar-gj5gh]

Please remake this movie.

[@paridox4ever]

same movie but with better cameras at least

[@shotech1]

about to get

[@Skulldini]

@Jon Disnard "The sci-fi was pretty good for 1972" .. . so just WHAT is the implication there huh? . . that sci-fi in 72 was TYPICALLY INFERIOR or something?

[@zymaymyn]

2:53 Ask for Babs

[@stevenlupanko2983]

Omg this looks 💩. It's like a homage to the clinically insane. That music is worse than the sound of music 🎶. I'd need heavy sedation to get myself through this.

[@Nudnik1]

star wars copied robots

[@gile849]

Noooo man

[@mannbrand]

George Lucas was inspired by the robots of this film to create R2D2.

[@TheKonga88]

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[@michaelbond8639]

#fsol :)

[@kicksnarehat4393]

future sound of london

[@myswanktrendz]

@@kicksnarehat4393or London is... "f**king sh** out of luck.? Lol

[@stever.8648]

Tree hugger

[@smokingbrush2498]

and your point is?

[@aeropilot4419]

Snail lover

[@akualung]

Broccoli tickler