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Cyrus Remebers Fondly (and Somewhat Lecherously) "Logan's Run"
“Logan’s Run” Blu-Ray
I don’t care about the doubters, “Logan’s Run” is FULL of win. Back in the far-flung days of yesteryear (1976) when they made movies about the future (23rd century) they liked to have something to say rather than just ‘KILL ALL THE ALIENS! don’t miss the one wearing the hat...’ This movie may be dated as hell, have sets that look like ‘The World of the Future’ World’s Fair exhibits, and effects to match, but all wonderfully so. I proclaim it retro-gold. GOLD, I tell you. Listen up.
The film begins with a background scrawl (as sci-fi tended to do back then):
“Sometime in the 23rd century...the survivors of war, overpopulation and pollution are living in a great domed city, sealed away from the forgotten world outside. Here, in an ecologically balanced world, mankind lives only for pleasure, freed by the servo-mechanisms which provide everything. There's just one catch: Life must end at thirty unless reborn in the fiery ritual of Carrousel.”
When not engaging in public orgies, drug fueled bacchanalias, or watching the ‘resurrection’ executions, Logan 5 (Michael York) performs his job as a Sandman, a storm trooper cop who hunts down and kills ‘runners’, the over 30 folks who are trying to burn their death cards. When Logan finds an Ankh necklace on one of the runners, he is ordered by the central computer to become an undercover runner himself to track down the mysterious “Sanctuary” that runners speak of. After convincing the only chick in town who won’t have sex with him (a stunningly, puberty inducingly hot and occasionally nude Jenny Agutter) to show him the way, the search is on even as he starts to realize that the old system is kinda messed up. Logan’s old best friend Francis 7 (Richard Jordan), a sandman himself, follows them through the rabbit hole where everybody discovers what really happened to the rest of Earth. Some being happier about it than others.
Man, I love this movie. It’s like my early twenties covered with lots of silver lycra and pastel togas. “Logan’s Run” is smart, fun, and oh-so gloriously seventies in all the best ways. It’s sex, drugs, and maybe not rock ‘n’ roll, but you won’t mind so much, as the score by Jerry Goldsmith is one of the best sci-fi movie soundtracks ever recorded, weird and memorable. There’s oh-so much to like here now but you can see why at the time it might have all been just too silly for a lot of audiences and/or critics. “Logan’s Run” is actually benefited by its datedness, making it all too easy to look past the over-blown performances, kind of bad effects, and illogical premise. It’s the very definition of good camp.
I wish Warner Brothers had bothered fixing up the picture to go along with the nice sound upgrade, because it looks like they barely did a damn thing to it. They certainly didn’t include any extras worthy of mention. Despite all that, if you don’t already have this in your collection, you most certainly should, as “Logan’s Run” is a BUY. Hopefully the powers that be will put together a better version by the time the remake comes out (assuming it ever finally does).
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Comment by HarmAvoidance0 on December 1, 2009 at 5:34pm -
I watched part of this a while ago, I guess i'll have to see it all the way through.
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Comment by hal-9000 v2.0 on December 1, 2009 at 2:38pm -
i litiraly watched logans run last week I know im only 28 and was born in 81 but thair wasnent that much sci-fi arround on cable back in the day and this was one of my favorites i cant wait to see what it looks like on blue ray
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Comment by Cyrus on December 1, 2009 at 11:55am
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STAN: Supposedly, the director of the TRON prequel is also working on a low budget remake for WB but I'll believe it when I see it, as folks have been trying to get a remake underway since the early 90s.
MisterKeitel: None worthy of mention. There's a very short featurette made at the time that looks like crap and offers nothing worth seeing. There is, in fact, a commentary by Michael York, the director Michael Anderson, and the costume designer Bill Thomas that I should have mentioned.
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Comment by MisterKeitel on December 1, 2009 at 11:26am -
Ooopppsss! Sorry. Just looked it up. The names of the two writes of the original novel were actually William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson.
There were three books in all, but I only read the first one. It was more of a road trip. In the novel Logan's age-phobic society was not confined to a complex of sealed domes but existed in cities all over the world connected by DisneyWorld-like transportation system called MazeCars. It's more lke the Fugative where Logan, who is turning 21 (the age limit in the book) is on the run from his from his former commerades in the Sandmen, looking for a save zone called Sanctuary run by a legendary and semi-mythical person named Frances who, as 40, is the oldest person living on planed Earth. I most remember two chapters. In one he had to "bed" ten women as some form of guantlet. In another he and Jessica were running for their lives in some kind of bizzare 19th-century Civil War recreation done with robots who used real, live ammo to blow each other up.
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Comment by MisterKeitel on December 1, 2009 at 11:14am
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Ditto. I remember really loving this movie. Though, I thought -even as a kid- that the City's central computer's act of blowing itself up when Logan didn't give it the answers that it wanted was way too Star Trek - as in way too easy of a Deuce Ex Machina (sp?). But overall, I really have fond memories of this movie. And I agree with other comments that I would be very supprised that the new Logan's Run they are making would have all the orgies, happy naked people, drug use...etc that was possilbe to stick in a movie during the 70's.
So, there are no extras? That's a bumber? An audio commentary from the director, or the surviving stars (Jenny, Michael and Richard. Farrah and Peter are no longer with us.) or the novel writer, Phillip K. Nolan, would really be welcome from me.
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Comment by KeithG on December 1, 2009 at 11:00am -
I love this movie. I still quote it, "It is my job, to freeze you!" And the best part is, the silver robot is clearly reflecting the movie crew back to the camera. You can actually see a person sitting in a chair looking towards the cast. I do believe he has a beard. Glorious Camp.
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Comment by Stan on December 1, 2009 at 10:08am -
a head? Ooops...sorry..
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Comment by Stan on December 1, 2009 at 10:07am
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You know, of all of the crappy remakes that Hollywood is putting out it's a suprise that no one has thought to remake Logan's Run. I remember seeing the making of featurette on the standard dvd and how they were hailing the special effects as a head of their time.
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Comment by marcusbrody on December 1, 2009 at 7:17am -
This movie has been in my collection ever since it's been possible to have it. LOVE this movie.
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Comment by rocco burntire on December 1, 2009 at 1:46am -
I wrote an incredible story about a futuristic world and the main character is trying to escape his predetermined job as a juice salesman in an evil mall fruit juice kiosk....I call it..Logan's Berry
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