Fresh and Exciting

A Masterpiece!

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

People forget that this, coming out two years before Star Wars, was a big hit. Based on the book (and very different from it). Set in the future, Logan is a Sandman, who job it is to terminate those who won't accept a chance on Carousel, when their life is terminated at 30 years old. Michael York and Jenny Agutter are great as the main characters, Logan and Jessica, but Richard Jordan as the betrayed fellow Sandman, steals many scenes. A fine movie that is still worth seeing today.

I was only 3 when this movie was made, so I didn't see it back in the day. The first movie I remember seeing was Star Wars episode IV, A New Hope. So I'm no stranger to 70s sci-fi. Actually, I've seen older sci-fi movies as well. That being said, I thought the majority of the special effects were pretty cheesy. The laser effects were pretty good, but that was about it. The story was also a bit too cheesy for my taste. I'd like to think that a culture so advanced would know better than to exterminate people at the age of 30. After the apocalyptic event (which they never mention specifically what it was) that destroyed the world, you would think people wouldn't do things even more foolish, but they do, apparently. The acting was, at times, rather mediocre. My whole reason for watching it was to understand references made of this movie in TV shows and other movies. Now the references make sense and that's all I wanted. Not planning to watch it again unless I'm bored out of my mind.

. . . for decades, which should come as no surprise since LOGAN'S RUN spews forth from the maw of the infamous MGM Gang, purveyors of that mendaciously racist snooze fest GONE WITH THE WIND. About the only thing that Logan's Road Show has going for it are Jenny Agutter's knockers and the fact that it's about two hours shorter than GWTW. However, Fascist Traitors such as Norquist, Rove, and Bannon have frequently threatened to "drown the American Government in a bathtub." This is exactly how LOGAN'S RUN pictures our hallowed Washington, DC. A swamp has been drained INTO our Capital, and its Black Majority are ALL dead and buried!! The Job-Killing Corrupt Fat Cat "Conservative" Corporate Red Commie One Per Centers now live in a totally homogeneous, uniformly White domed city in which robots have replaced Black Slaves\Servants to do the bidding of lazy masters who cannot be bothered to perform a lick of work. Even the robots lose patience with these insufferable Racist White People, with their Youth-based Lookism Society. A robot named "Box" strips 1,056 of these white folks naked for his Ice Cube Art Collection, while the City Computer Bot finally torches most of the remainder like so many campfire marshmallows.

Mostly pretty silly stuff. It really doesn't dig very deep into any facets of the situation other than, you know, dying at 30 kinda sucks and is like totally not fair man. The ending is a big question mark since the entire premise is invalidated: if there's not enough food how in the world are they all going to live forever in the outside world? In fact, much of what happens in this doesn't hold up to much scrutiny.The miniatures are terribly shot, the costumes cheesy, and the acting hammy, but it's still somewhat entertaining kitsch for the most part."Fish, and plankton, and sea greens, and protein from the sea." Hell yeah.