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Summary: Not bad if you don't think of the book
Review: After reading the novel "Logan's Run" I finally saw the film adaptation just over a year later. I had heard mixed reactions about this movie, but this increased my curiosity over what it was like. I thought I'd better see it for myself.I would compare this movie to David Lynch's adaptation of "Dune". The story has gone through quite a face lift with its transition from book to screen. That isn't necessarily bad, but it could be disappointing to some, especially if they're fans of the novel. Quite a few changes have been made, such as the mandatory age for "sleep". The film also introduces something called the Carousel, where citizens due for termination die publicly, accompanied by cheers from the crowd. In the novel it was only over-population that made it necessary for people to die prematurely. In the film it was war and pollution that forced people to be crammed together in a dome, where space was limited. This vision of the future may look dated, (i.e too clean-looking) but the model of the domed city is impressive, as is the ruinous jungle of Washington D.C. The casting and soundtrack were also good. If you have read the novel first, don't expect too much from this movie, try thinking of it as something separate.
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Summary: Never read the novel but I saw the movie and liked it
Review: I'm not really a big Sci Fi fan, I like Star Trek and Star Wars but that's usually about it and I usually find other Sci Fi movies to be kind of too weird for my taste but interesting enough I liked Logan's Run even though it's a really weird story but I guess one of the reasons I like it so much is because I like Michael York, Richard Jordan, Peter Ustinov and Jenny Agutter and they all gave brilliant performances! Another reason I like this movie is because I have fond memories of my 17 year old brother taking me to see it when I was 11 and usually big brothers don't want to be bothered with their little sisters but besides that it was just a very good entertaining movie and now that I have the DVD I watched it last night in the widescreen version which I haven't seen for years only the full frame version shown on movie channels and It was nice to see it in widecreen and I will definitely be watching it again! Oh, by the way I have never read the novel the movie is based on.
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Summary: Visionarily acute, panoramically diverse
Review: Logan's Run: a world in which full-term pregnancies and live births of infants are a thing of the past. A world in which nobody experiences the debilitating effects of degenerative physical and mental conditions. A world in which interpersonal relations are as simple as changing the stations on a television screen. Idyllic? Maybe, but this world is about to change forever.
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Summary: Renew! Renew! Renew!
Review: LOGAN'S RUN is a thinking person's sci fi outing with all the trappings of 70s cinema. Michael York and Farrah - the names alone tell you this is the height of 70s chic. Unisex haridos and costumes, location shooting in a MALL, models of a city and its transportation that aren't going to fool anyone, and gorgeous matte paintings that won an OSCAR. All wrapped around a cautionary tale of technology gone awry in a culture that only values beauty and youth. The story revolves around domed cities of the future where people live after a nuclear catastrophe ravages the ecosystem. Population control is a concern, and the solution is a 30 year lifespan for all citizens. This is enforced by a custom called CAROUSEL where one hopes to "RENEW" but seems to just explode in a firey death. Michael York plays Logan, a sandman who is assigned to find out what is happening to runners - people who try to escape CAROUSEL at 30 and live on. It's a cult classic that came out a year before STAR WARS, and the odd thing is look at the effects. STAR WARS really made lightyears jumps in how Sci Fi looked! The DVD is a wonderful bargain. You get featurettes, trailers, and a commentary with directors, designers, and Michael York himself. Oddly he takes credit for Farrah Fawcett's career - he claims to have discovered her. It's so much fun to listen to! Differences from the book? In the novel people died at 21, and they were just sent to crematoriums (no eerie CAROUSEL!), and to escape Logan plans to board a spaceship! Seems the whole planet is run by machines. Many differences were made from the novel because of technical concerns. York was too old to be 21, the domed cities were easier to film, and CAROUSEL was a spectacular way of dying! I've heard rumors of a remake - evn one where Leo was involved as Logan, but nothing concrete. Until then enjoy the 70s camp!
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Summary: Setting Back Your Lifeclocks
Review: "Logan's Run" is a big budget sci-fi classic of the 1970s which ranks with "Planet of the Apes" and "The Andromeda Strain". In its day it was the most ambitious science fiction movie ever made and it doesn't fall short of the quality of "Star Wars" if you look at the details and the overall "feel" of the film stock. The cinematography and production values are pretty good, especially the interior sets of the Sandman headquarters, Carousel and the full-sized glass travel pods. One wonders, however, what the filmmakers were thinking in filming real life holograms - which look anything but three-dimensional on the screen. But the combination of the rich Jerry Goldsmith score and the fairy-tale quality of the story (Box is right out a Grimm tale with elements of Frosty the Snowman) help make "Logan's Run" an engrossing, though simple tale of a flawed utopia. Matte paintings of the Lincoln memorial look obviously fake on DVD but one cannot help but admire the classic techniques of illusion in film before the digital era.
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Summary: LOVE IT
Review: I've ALWAYS loved this film, it was a very original film with a good cast. For it's time the effects werent bad until another film not too far behind it called "Star Wars" came out and started a new trend in sci fi films effects etc. Logan's Run will always be a classic to me as the story is timeless and the deep meaning in it can apply to anyone.
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Summary: Dated but interesting sci-fi film
Review: A forgotten piece of futuristic sci-fi that had the misfortune of coming out the year before the groundbreaking "Star Wars", Logan's Run is a well-made, exciting, creative movie that succeeds despite the fact that it has not aged well. Based on the book by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, the movie tells the story of a post-apocalyptic society that lives out its existence in domes, where everything is automated by a central computer so that all of the dome-dwellers can live out their life with ease. However, to prevent overcrowding, no one is allowed to live past the age of 30. To avoid being euthanized, some residents of the city attempt to flee the domes and live out the remainder of their lives; these people are called "runners". Police officers called "Sandmen" are charged with stopping "runners".
Logan, the movie's central character, is a sandman and is played by Michael York. He is given orders by the central computer to track down a group of runners who have not been "put to sleep" and might have set up sanctuary outside of the City of Domes. To do this, the computer advances Logan's life clock (all the citizens of the city have life clocks that tell their ages) to make him appear as if he's 30. Now Logan is forced to run, hence the title.
While the billowing, disco-ish haircuts and outfits might scream "'70s!" to those who watch "Logan's Run", the truth is that there is a lot to like about the movie. For starters, the premise is an intriguing one, and handled well. Giving Logan a succeed-or-die mission gives much of the movie an urgent, claustrophobic feel. York and Jenny Agutter (who plays Jessica, Logan's accomplice in his escape) appear on the surface to be the perfect bland "pretty people" for the shallow society depicted in the movie, but in the course of the movie, reveal their characters' depth and passions. The filmmakers have also crafted a believable world for the characters to inhabit, which is commendable considering much of the film was shot in scenic Dallas and Fort Worth, two places I would describe neither as "scenic" nor "filmworthy".
"Logan's Run" is time capsule of what large budget sci-fi movies were before "Star Wars", but it succeeds, mainly from having a creative plot that draws the viewer's interest and transcends the trappings of the dated 70's designs. By no means the best sci-fi movie of the seventies, but one that is quite enjoyable nonetheless.
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Summary: Setting Back Your Lifeclocks
Review: "Logan's Run" is a big budget sci-fi classic of the 1970s which ranks with "Planet of the Apes" and "The Andromeda Strain". In its day it was the most ambitious science fiction movie ever made and it doesn't fall short of the quality of "Star Wars" if you look at the details and the overall "feel" of the film stock. The cinematography and production values are pretty good, especially the interior sets of the Sandman headquarters, Carousel and the full-sized glass travel pods. One wonders, however, what the filmmakers were thinking in filming real life holograms - which look anything but three-dimensional on the screen. But the combination of the rich Jerry Goldsmith score and the fairy-tale quality of the story (Box is right out a Grimm tale with elements of Frosty the Snowman) help make "Logan's Run" an engrossing, though simple tale of a flawed utopia. Matte paintings of the Lincoln memorial look obviously fake on DVD but one cannot help but admire the classic techniques of illusion in film before the digital era.
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Summary: Logan's Run "...Stop, Runner!!!
Review: I loved this movie as a kid. I marveled at the whole idea of not aging past thirty (being ten years old that seemed, to quote Logan, "...years away.").
I marveled at the costumes (escpecially Jessica's- and I wasn't sure why? Hormones starting to kick in I guess) and the jet black of the Sandmen. And the flash of their weapons (no beam like on Star Trek...I thought that was cool).
Hell, I even watched the short lived T.V version that aired on CBS in 1977 With Gregory Harrison as Logan and Heather Menzies as Jessica(really BAD 70's TV!!!)
As I look at The film now, I feel the over all look of the production was wonderful. IT was the star more than the plot or the actors.
(at about the same time the Gerry Anderson TV show
Space:1999 'suffered' from the same thing).
If writers had adapted the book (which I read years later) it would've been a better movie.
I hear Brian Singer (X-Men and X-2 director) wants to re-make Logan's Run for todays audience -taking more from the original source material.
No doubt it will work...but I still get something out of the 1976 Logan's Run.
Maybe its seeing things through the eyes of a ten year old. Maybe it was beacuse at the time any Science Fiction that wasn't Star Trek was good (even then, how many more times could you watch "The Trouble with Tribbles.")
Maybe because it's SO seventies. It's just...kinda cool.
I do recomend Logan's Run if as nothing more than a peice of overlooked science fiction history.
And If you can find the Books...read those too... "Logan's Run" by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, "Logan's World" and "Logan's Search" Both written by William F. Nolan.
I don't think you'll be let down.
Rating:
Summary: LOVE IT
Review: I've ALWAYS loved this film, it was a very original film with a good cast. For it's time the effects werent bad until another film not too far behind it called "Star Wars" came out and started a new trend in sci fi films effects etc. Logan's Run will always be a classic to me as the story is timeless and the deep meaning in it can apply to anyone.
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