Logan's Run | | Cast : | Michael York, Jenny Agutter | | Director : | Michael Anderson | | Studio : | Warner Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | June 23, 1976 | | DVD Released Date : | June 01, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 10, 2005 | | Summary | Nostalgia | Content
 | Like it - or Hate - if you think about life today, this movie for its time - has it all.
Would love to see it re-hashed for todays movies - i reckon with the special effects available today - this movie would do things.
Glad i brought it for my collection |
| Rating | | | Date | July 30, 2005 | | Summary | This film is why Star Wars rocked the world | Content
| . . . because, before Star Wars, we had to watch befuddled backsewage like this!
Just about the time you think the story is starting to make sense, the rug is pulled out from under you and the plot goes ga-ga. In thirty-odd years, I have never been able to decipher why the dome city self-destructs in the end, or, for that matter, why Farah Fawcett (age 29 and a TV superstar) was given a bit part while Jenny Agutter (age 34 and a bit chubby)was given the co-starring role. But I suspect that whatever was behind that directorial decision also explains why there obviously was no budget for a script.
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| Rating | | | Date | July 28, 2005 | | Summary | brilliant movie | Content
| i just thought the whole movie was well done,and a very cool script.granted it is a little dated by today's standards,but what a movie for it's time. well worth having in your collection. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 27, 2005 | | Summary | Entertaining, if Flawed, SF Adventure... | Content
| Whenever I watch "Logan's Run", I feel a touch of angst, much as I do when I see "Marooned"...both films won Oscars for their special effects, and both films would be overshadowed immediately by the vastly superior FX work of "2001: A Space Odyssey", and "Star Wars". In the case of "Logan's Run", the nearly 'quaint' minature work is patently artificial, and combined with the 70s hairdos, and 'mall' environment, gives the film a 'retro' feel; fortunately, the story and performances are so terrific that the film is still very entertaining, and has achieved 'cult' status, today.
The premise is intriguing; in the 23rd century, civilization has retreated into a computer-controlled, multi-domed city, sealed off from the outside world. Given an impersonal, if hedonistic paradise to live in, there is only one drawback; residents must sacrifice themselves on their 30th birthday, in a quasi-religious ceremony known as Carousel, where, they believe, they might be 'renewed'. A few attempt to escape death, searching for the legendary 'Sanctuary'; the task of executing these 'runners' falls to the 'Sandmen', an elite force of policemen armed with explosive pistols.
It's a great life to be a 'Sandman', which friends Logan 5 and Francis 7 (Michael York and Richard Jordan) enjoy to the self-indulgent hilt...until Logan meets Jessica 6 (Jenny Agutter), a beautiful girl wearing the ankh symbolizing an affiliation to the 'runners', who isn't impressed by Logan's nearly 'rock star' status.
Logan is secretly assigned by the city computer to find the elusive 'Sanctuary' of the 'runners', and 'aged' to 30, thus giving him an excuse to join them...and making him a 'Sandman' target. The tale then becomes a 'cat-and-mouse' chase, as Logan recruits Jessica's aid, and the pair search for Sanctuary, relentlessly pursued by Francis. Logan discovers that the few runners not dispatched by the 'Sandmen' are executed and frozen by a rather clunky robot, Box (the voice of Roscoe Lee Browne)...after defeating him (rather easily), Logan and Jessica (followed by Francis) break free to the outside world, a wild, untamed wilderness leading to a nearly deserted Washington, D.C., where they meet their first 'old man' (Peter Ustinov), a hermit living alone with a large array of cats. The couple, their relationship deepening to love, must face Francis, and return to the city to expose the fraud that everyone is living under...
Casting is EVERYTHING in a movie like this, and the "Logan's Run" ensemble is terrific. York, a youthful 34, combines innocence and determination as Logan, and Agutter, 23, is all wide-eyed idealism as Jessica, looking very comfortable being barely dressed through much of the picture. Even better is Jordan, who, at 37, is as convincing a younger man as York, in a far more demanding role. While Farrah Fawcett, 29, in a small role, is more flash than talent, Michael Anderson Jr., 32, is wonderfully menacing as a plastic surgeon. Ustinov, 55, steals the picture, cranky and cantankerous, yet lovable. While one might quibble that a man who could memorize T.S. Elliot should understand the words in the Capitol better, he provides an element of reality and a character audiences can relate to.
Jerry Goldsmith's remarkable score is certainly a plus, combining traditional and synthetic music, seamlessly.
"Logan's Run" may not be as flashy or 'cutting edge' as "Star Wars", but it is far sexier (with a healthy dose of nudity), more complex, and definitely worth a spot in your film library! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 15, 2005 | | Summary | "logan five, approach and identify." | Content
| one of my favorite things about movies about the future is how everything is always a slightly more rad version of now. i mean, come on! in the future everything is based on radio waves, over-sized computers and shag hair cuts?! probably the best example in this movie is the giant gas pump in the new you plastic surgery clinic. i'm assuming this beast measures not the amount of gasoline that they aren't using to power their non-existent cars, but instead it seems to be measuring the strength of the lasers that miraculously peel away flesh and bone and give guys dark hair because that's what farrah fawcett likes.
all said in love. i rarely make it all the way to the end though. i'm usually losing interest sometime around the skinny dip scene because, well, let's face it - logan's got a flat li'l fanny, and jessica is kind of creepy with that fake-sounding british/cultured accent that people are required to use when they're in movies about the future (carrie fisher comes to mind here).
all in all, an entertaining film that brings up some of the more poignant "what-if" questions that we're currently facing with over-population, pollution and casual drug abuse. |
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