Remember This Movie?

@celticeagle (189793)
Boise, Idaho
February 19, 2025 8:41pm CST
Remember the 1973 movie "Soylent Green"?. It had Edward G. Robinson and Charlton Heston in it. It was about a futuristic densely populated New York City whose residents are starving. Also about a mystery about a murder and looking into a large corporation called Soylent. This company produces a wafer-like food substitute made primarily from pulverized human remains. Well, I found online a drink called 'soylent protein shake'. Would you buy this product?
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86568)
• United States
20 Feb 25
And it’s in a green bottle! Bad marketing!!
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
20 Feb 25
Absolutely! Would you drink that? I wouldn't.
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
20 Feb 25
@akalinus ......Too weird for me. I don't think I could.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
20 Feb 25
Yes, I remember the movie. Dad wanted to watch it and so we kids watched it, too. And yes, Pretty buys the Soylent Protein shakes. I tried one and they aren't bad at all. She and her friends were joking about the Soylent shakes when they first came out.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
20 Feb 25
@akalinus Yes, they watched the movie together in college for one of her classes.
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
20 Feb 25
@DaddyEvil Even knowing it was a movie, I still would not buy that stuff. I also look on some foods with suspicion. Things shown in movies or read in books often become reality. How do we know that some strange concoction is not made of people? Yuck!
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
20 Feb 25
Does Pretty know what Soylent Green was about?
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vanny
@vandana7 (102698)
• India
20 Feb 25
I would if 1. I liked proteins...I don't. My reports say I have more than enough. So I will stick to nice carbohydrates... 2. I never saw that movie, but ...I am glad your Dumb Blond President did something about illegal immigration. It results in excessive manufacture of kids back of home in India. Nobody is ready to believe that their kids have no future. Now, the reality will sink...and stink. LOL. Somebody had to rub it in...Even Musk needs that reality check. Fortune is not forever.
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vanny
@vandana7 (102698)
• India
20 Feb 25
@akalinus Yeah,, the kids will leave him helpless without anything in old age
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
20 Feb 25
@vandana7 Most likely, if they are anything like my kids were. "Ma, I need money."
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
20 Feb 25
He has 13 known kids. His fortune will slip away, one expense after another.
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Marie
@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
20 Feb 25
That is a good movie. I loved Charlton Heston. I haven’t seen the shakes.
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
20 Feb 25
I liked the movie but can't stand Charleton Heston. I haven't seen the shakes either but thought naming it that was rather weird.
Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
20 Feb 25
They were trying to get people to buy this on Swagbucks. Can you believe that? I would not touch it if I were starving. Soylent is people. I read the book but did not see the movie.
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
20 Feb 25
How can a person really know what is in it?