This may not be considered a science fiction classic, but it has a decent following and seems to be getting some remembrance these days. A lone crew member watching a nature reserve goes renegade and enters space by himself after the rest of the crew is ordered home. He is ordered to destroy what he holds dear but he escapes with the nature reserve and 2 robots into deep space. Here he must learn to live alone and take care of the last bit of true nature our world has."Silent Running" is the one of the earliest sci-fi movies that looked this good. Besides "2001: A Space Odyssey", not many films had special effects to this nature. Everything looks real and was well done. That being said, it has it's slow moments and rightfully slow. A man stranded in outer space by himself can only be interesting for so long. Bruce Dern does an excellent job and besides the recent "Moon", it is one of the better movies about isolation in outer space I can think of off the top of my head. It also has a great environmental message without being too preachy. Even though it's from the early 70s, it still holds up today with its decent special effects and its message that rings more true today than ever before.
*3 Lance Approvals*
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