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This being a classic of sci-fi I thought I'd have a look. Learned the hard way that sometimes just because something is a classic doesn't always mean it's going to be any good. 'Silent Running' was painful to watch. Outright boring. Bruce Dern starred as Freeman Lowell, one of the crew on several spaceships with the last of the Earth's forests in huge domes drifting through space. The reason being that the Earth has become so polluted it can't sustain it's own ecosystem.
On receiving orders to destroy the domes with nuclear charges and return to Earth. Freeman goes on a rampage and kills his fellow crew members leaving only the robot drones to help him maintain the ship and its precious cargo. He then pilots it to away from the others in hopes he'll be able to figure something out. I found him to be EXTREMELY preachy and whiny. Added to that was his excruciating self righteous pompous arrogance.
And he was the 'good guy!?'
All his crewmates wanted to do was go home to their families and he murdered them. After that the story basically goes nowhere. Here's Freeman reprogramming the drones to play poker. Here's Freeman wandering around the ship all alone. Here's Freeman staring into space.
Yawn.
A major plot hole that was never addressed was *why* was it necessary to nuke the forests?
Making it even more painful to watch was Joan Baez's songs placed throughout the movie. I cringed on hearing them while seeing Freeman communing with the forest. Ugh.
I kept hoping one of the cute furry bunnies would bite him.
