Logan's Run (DVD)

In hindsight, this movie can be credited as one of the first cyberpunk movies ever made, and it's also a testament of how rigid the rating system for movies has become at present. Logan's Run was rated PG back in 1976 and includes nudity (almost full-frontal, no less) from Jenny Agutter in one scene, plus the clothes she wears are pretty much transparent throughout; you'd never see that in one of today's PG-rated films.The next few paragraphs contain spoilers of the plot, so for those of you who haven't seen the movie yet, you might want to skip over. I've never read the novel it's based on, but the premise of the movie is pretty unique, considering. About 300 years in the future, the whole of civilization is contained inside one huge domed city, with the ruins surrounding it the result of some apocalyptic event. Life inside the city is utopic. There are no worries beyond choosing what you're going to do with your free time. There are drugs. There's sex with no commitment (indeed, any kind of emotional attachment is looked on as an aberration). There's getting a different face at the local New You bodysculpting kiosk. Everything is provided for you by the computer mainframe that runs the city. There is no crime, save one. Running.You see, the price for this kind of carefree existence is that your life ends when you turn thirty. In an effort to maintain population control, the mainframe has conditioned people to accept their thirtieth birthday as 'Lastday' and present themselves for a special celebration called Carousel where they 'renew' and start life over. People know when their time arrives when a small crystal imbedded in the palm of their hand begins flashing.Certain individuals rebel against this and they've formed an underground movement with the ankh (the ancient Egyptian symbol of eternal life) as their icon. They don't believe in the myth of Carousel and they choose to run instead. The Sandmen, the only real police force the city has, exist specifically to hunt these Runners down and eliminate them. The main character of the movie is Logan 5, a Sandman, who is perfectly content with his job hunting Runners with his friend, until he meets up with Jessica 6, played by Jenny Agutter, who has one of the underground's ankhs in her possession. The mainframe then chooses him to infiltrate the underground movement and eliminate it from the inside. The incentive it gives him is by taking away his remaining time, forcibly turning him into a Runner. He begins to question everything he's been taught to believe after teaming up with Agutter's character to escape the city. Through their journey, being pursued all the while by Logan's Sandman friend, they discover a rather chilling side to both the city itself and the society within it.Outside the city they come across something they've never witnessed before, a man who's lived long enough to be in his dotage (played convincingly by Peter Ustinov of 'Spartacus' fame). They bring him back to the city, where Logan is captured and brought before the mainframe computer for questioning. The computer cannot reconcile his answers with the information it possesses and self destructs. Logan then reveals the Old Man to the rest of society, letting them know they don't have to die. People are then free to make their own decisions and live life as they see fit. End of story.END OF SPOILERThis movie was one of the first to portray the dangers of what civilization could become. At first glance, everything might seem to be bliss, but the degree to which everything has become impersonalized and controlled and how de-valued the individual has become in the story is really rather frightening. Look at society today. Companies now refer to us as 'human resources' rather than personnel, willing to cut 25,000 jobs here and 50,000 jobs there, calling it a 'business decision' and leaving many people on the verge of homelessness. Political correctness is currently all the rage. Computers are taking a much more prominent role in our personal lives than ever before. With our current 'entitlement' attitude, we pretty much insist on having everything set before us on a silver platter and complain LOUDLY when it isn't. Don't think. Exist. We are now SO content to let others handle our personal responsibilities that Logan's Run has almost a prophetic air to it. The one difference is that our lives don't currently have a time limit.Yet...This vision alone puts it up there as one of the classics of the day. I'm also not taking off any marks for the 1970s special effects. They may seem incredibly dated today, but they were considered good at the time. They just didn't have access to CGI. Also, the dialogue and the acting were par for the course for the time period so I'm giving that high marks, too. The movie was also popular enough to spawn a short-lived television series. The series was rather more cinematic than the movie in scope, considering some of the creatures the trio of adventurers comes across, but it was still entertaining in its own way.All in all, Logan's Run was a movie with a VERY powerful message behind it, and it is one worth listening to. Keep an open mind and you might enjoy it. And before you think of jumping the gun and trashing Logan's Run because it WAS a cheesy 1976 sci-fi flick, movie producer Joel Silver likes this show enough to be pushing to direct a new version of it. Two thumbs up.

Its all good

I love this movie! It holds up after all these years! So much better than the book trilogy! Michael York, Jenny Agutter and Peter Ustinov are perfectly cast! Don't miss this movie!!!

Had not seen Logan's Run in years, finally picked this up. For being one of the last "old school" SciFi movies of the mid-70's it's held up pretty good. The story kinda 'runs out of gas' toward the end, but many stories just kinda do that. If Spielberg or Lucas had never come along it probably would have seemed OK. Fun cast, ok story, nice visuals. Too bad the bar got raised so high shortly after this came out.

I watch Logan's Run every year as a personal birthday tradition. I've avoided Carousel so far, hoping that renewal is still a ways off.

Ah, 1975. Black Sabbath releases "Sabotage." Saigon falls. (Incidentally, this also just happens to be the year of my birth.) Finally, Michael Anderson's sci-fi epic "Logan's Run" is filmed (primarily on location in Dallas, Texas), though the film would see release the following summer, just in time for the bicentennial.I first saw this movie in a showing on WTBS when I was in high school. That was the better part of 20 years ago, and until I recently bought the DVD, I had not seen it since. I am happy to report that this film, now nearly 35 years old (like me, sigh), has aged remarkably well. It seems to be heavily influenced by classic '60s "Star Trek," but that was a show so far ahead of its time as to be timeless, and so is "Logan's Run." It has all the basic qualities of "Trek" -- it is beautiful to look at, and seeing it on the print I viewed it on DVD is especially revealing. It possesses that lustrous technicolor image quality that you just don't see in movies anymore. And it presents sights that you just didn't see in motion pictures up to that point in the pre-"Star Wars" era. This was back at a time when all special effects had to be manually crafted from scratch, whereas today's video game like computer generated effects can have a less imaginative and more sterile quality to them. It came as no surprise that this film won a special Academy award for these very visual effects that I refer to.Not only are the special effects beautiful to look at, but just like vintage "Star Trek," it presents legions of young, gorgeous women in extremely short skirts (and sometimes much less), not the least of which is then 22-year-old British actress Jenny Agutter, co-starring as Jessica 6. Here she was a mesmerisingly beautiful girl, and her quaint English charm and mannerisms don't hurt a bit. My eyes were glued to the screen every moment she was on.Sci-fi movies were not too common during the first half of the '70s, and "Logan's Run" was truly revolutionary, and while influenced by "Trek" it proved to serve as an influence for a fair share of pictures of its own in the years to follow. For the sets, 1980's "Flash Gordon" comes to mind. And I've never heard this stated as such, but I think that some plot points from "Logan's Run" would serve as an influence to John Carpenter for his 1981 futuristic sci-fi actioner "Escape From New York" (another favorite of mine). The very fact that Logan (Michael York) will cease to exist if he doesn't complete his mission recalls Snake Plisskin's essential plight in "Escape." Finally, the restricted quadrant that the two leads enter early on in "Logan's Run," which is actually an abandoned cathedral, reminds me of Carpenter's Manhattan Island of the near future in "Escape," as they both are crumbling areas of lawlessness away from civilization, filled with roaming bloodthirsty criminals (in Carpenter's film they were dubbed "the Crazies").All in all, with its amazing effects, great acting and sense of fun and adventure, "Logan's Run" is a classic through and through and comes highly recommended to any fans of the old "Star Trek" or any other vintage sci-fi.

The story is timeless, die young and leave a good looking corpse. Add in the A.I. aspect, the sci-fi, the intricate sets, and genuinely good acting, and you have a film that stands the test of time.Is it due for a reboot? Yes. Is Hollywood capable of rebooting this film today without making it crap? No.So just enjoy this film as it was made, it's really pretty darn good.

Enfin! je désespérais de revoir ce film avec une vraie version française.Bien reçu, envoi rapide et méticuleux, vendeur efficace et honnête.

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Scariest thing about this movie is you could see this happening

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La vi varias veces en el cine y me gusta el tema, la tengo en cine, beta, vhs, DVD y ahora en bluray