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Show life B2 MONDAY • APRIL 2 • 2007 Heather's Cookbook Retro movie review Fruit Pizza The inconvenient truth about Soylent Green 1970s sci-fi classic depicts futuristic perils of overpopulation Jason Pyles Assistant Life Editor You cannot profess to be a true science fiction film lover until you've seen Soylent Green (1973). And 1 mean that. Soylent Green has a devious secret, much like The Sixth Sense (1999), Boys Don't Cry (1999) and The Usual Suspects (1995). Each of these four movies has something in common: Once you know the twist, the film almost isn't worth watching a second time. The year is 2022 and the Earth is grotesquely overpopulated. New York City's population, alone, is 40 million. Pollution and the greenhouse ef- fect have turned the planet fnto a miserable habitat, almost completely barren of plants and animals. Food is no longer a luxury; it's a problem. But the Soylent Company produces foodstuff wafers made from high-energy plankton: Soylent Yellow, Soylent Red, and everyone's favorite, Soylent Green. Tuesdays are "Soylent Green Day" in the street markets but only while supplies last. As soon as Soylent Green runs out, riots erupt. But the NYPD has ways of dealing with the countless rioters: Garbage-truck-like vehicles called "scoops" come along and fill their buckets with people, scoopins them off the streets. Truly, this sequence has to be one of the most memorable moments in film. Soylent Green delivers its story of dread through an investigation. A New York policeman named Thorn (Charlton Heston) is investigating the murder of one of the rich, higherups in the Soylent Company. Thorn's investigation leads him (and us) to unsavory revelations that neither he nor we will forget. The first 45 minutes of the movie slowly drag ; along, but the bizarreness that follows is worth the lull. The movie is sexist (in-house prostitutes are called "female furniture") and anti-government. Ah, the '70s. Soylent Green was also Edward G. Robinson's final performance, and a fine one it is. My eccentric Uncle Butch recommended that I watch Soylent Green, years ago. Sadly, he worked for a nuclear power plant where real-life "scoops" came for him once after he was exposed to nuclear radiation. "They" came in the night wearing their bright yellow hazraat suits, dragged him from bed, buried his clothes, scrubbed him down and isolated him for quite a while - just like in the movies. Uncle Butch never was the same after that. He would always say the words "it's a" after he laughed. But 1 still thought he was cool... he had three thumbs. Ingredients: 1 18 Vi package sugar cookie dough oz package cream cheese, softened cup powdered sugar assorted fruit cut into bite sized pieces ( I like bananas, strawberries, and grapes) Heat oven to 375 degrees. Roll cookie dough out on a pizza pan. Bake 10-15 minutes or until cookie is brown. Allow cookie to cool on pan. Mix cream cheese and sugar together and spread on cookie. Top with fruit. Cut pizza style. Can be served chilled. If you have a good recipe, The College Times would be happy to print it. E-mail us at heatherscookbook@yahoo.com Movie review Wild LukeHickman Life Editor After the success of last year's remake of the twisted, morbid and graphic mutant-hick zombie flick The Hills Have Eyes, Twentieth Century Fox knew they had to milk that rabid cash-cow for a sequel. In theaters now, from Fox's new division over horror movies (Fox Atomic), is the notso-originally titled sequel. The Hills Have Eyes 2, Like many horror sequels that follow a cliffhanger ending, The Hills Have Eyes 2 never concludes the story of the characters left in peril from the previous film. Instead, this sequel decides to open with, what may be, the most disgusting thing you'll never want to see on the big screen: the all-too-real close-up showall birth of a nasty mutant baby. From the get-go you know you won't get any of the cinematic treats its predecessor offered. The Hills Have Eyes, but nobody's looking The Hills Have Eyes 2 follows a group of the worst National Guard soldiers ever seen. When commanded to transport equipment to near-by scientists setting up a desert-wide surveillance system, the company arrives to deliver the goods only to find an empty camp previously attacked by the mutated hillbillies. Now, in an attempt to locate injured survivors, this squadron of wannabe Billy Bad Asses forgets to watch Courtesy photo/Fox Atomic their own backs as they get A Zombie from The Hills Have Eyes 2 peeks over a rocky picked off one-by-one by a clan of guys that resemble it is super predictable and where you can see all the Sloth from GOONIES. cheesy: a mutated cookie- deaths coming from afar Where did this sequel cutter of what a horror and you know exactly how go wrong? Upon seeing movie should be. Most the trailer, you'd think The of the attack scenes show Hills Have Eyes 2 had po- none of the physical attack; tential to surpass the re- you never get to see the make. But after viewing mutants in action (unless one of the worst attempts they're raping someone). Choosing to watch The at revising genre and upHills Have Eyes 2 in the ping the ante, you see that theaters is like being at it fails horribly, feeling Disneyland and hopping more like a slasher movon the super slow ride It's ie. Instead of being susA Small World After All penseful and frightening. &3fci£r '&&*PC&*$-h ledge to see whom he will next attack. it's going to end: with you beingdisappointedandmad that you wasted your time on crap when you could've been on a much better ride. The ASUV5C & The UV Film Society are proud to present Congressman Matheson from the House Energy & Commerce Committee to speak on: ^ Mr Energy Policy April 6 11 :00PM SC 206 B&C Contestants: You must fill out a submission form and drpp your film off by noon, April 6 You can both pick up a form and drop off your film at CS526,BAT13, SC 105. 1 at uviilmsociety.com I 801.863.8652 \ m V |