Logan's Run [Blu-ray]
Starring: Michael York, Jenny AgutterStudio: Warner Home Video
MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release: November 3rd 2009
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DVD Review
If you can stifle the urge to laugh at its pastel unisex costumes and futuristic shopping-mall décor, this extravagant science fiction film from 1976 is still visually fascinating and provocatively entertaining. Set in the year 2274, when ecological disaster has driven civilization to the protection of domed cities, the story revolves around a society that holds a ceremonial death ritual for all citizens who reach the age of 30. In a diseaseless city where free sex is encouraged and old age is virtually unknown, Logan (Michael York) is a "sandman," one who enforces this radical method of population control (but he's about to turn 30 and he doesn't want to die). Escaping from the domed city via a network of underground passages, Logan is joined by another "runner" named Jessica (Jenny Agutter), while his former sandman partner (Richard Jordan) is determined to terminate Logan's rebellion. Using a variety of splendid matte paintings and miniatures, Logan's Run earned a special Oscar for visual effects (images of a long-abandoned Washington, D.C., are particularly impressive), and in addition to fine performances by Jordan and Peter Ustinov, the film features '70s poster babe Farrah Fawcett in a cheesy supporting role. Jerry Goldsmith's semi-electronic score is still one of the prolific composer's best, and Logan's Run remains an interesting example of '70s sci-fi that preceded Star Wars by less than a year. --Jeff Shannon
User Reviews
Oldie but goodie - Rating: 5/5
Logan's Run is a favorite movie of mine from way back. Good storyline and good special effects (for the time). This would make an excellent project for a modern filmmaker to redo. Worth the buy.
Widescreen DVD version precedes this pan-and-scan release. - Rating: 4/5
To those who appreciate seeing a film which was filmed in widescreen, actually presented in widescreen, forget this release of Logan's Run. The 2004 release, with the "rainbow" cover, contains both the original widescreen and butchered pan-and-scan versions, all on one disc. Here is the Amazon URL, since Amazon's "Insert Product Link" doesn't seem to be working for me:
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Shouldn't have lived past 30 - Rating: 2/5
The world of dystopian sci-fi movies contains several peaks and valleys. Some peaks: "Planet of the Apes" (the version with Charlton Heston, not the remake), "The Time Machine" (the George Pal version, not the remake), "A Clockwork Orange," "Blade Runner," "Brazil," and perhaps a few others (I have a nostalgic fondness for "Silent Running," for instance). The valleys are far too numerous to mention, but one of the classic examples is "Logan's Run." Watching it in the theater, at the age of 11, I remember thinking: "What a dopey movie!" It hasn't aged well in the interim. The most compelling dystopian sci-fi is that which bears at least a little possibility of becoming a reality someday ("A Clockwork Orange," for example, is probably already a reality); "Logan's Run" is so far "out there" that it's impossible to take seriously. As an expression of baby-boomer paranoia, it ranks right up there with Viagra commercials. Still dopey after all these years...
Logan's Run - Rating: 5/5
wow , this a very good show , don't be suprise it will happen in the future.
Logan's Run: Still running and still revelant - Rating: 5/5
This movie, while being pre-Star Wars, is still relevant today in the subject matter; ecology, overpopulation, hedonism, governmental control, technologies, marriage, genocide, and many others with very plausible visual depictions of a future "post-apocalyptic" society. The movie's varied subject matter is presented very well in the plot, and really...relatively simple dialogue. The actors are all very believable, yet simple. Some may say that this movie is overly simplistic, shallow, etc, but...and that is a big BUT...when you consider what the movie presents you see great depth. It should be considered a CLASSIC and rated with equal prestige as great literary works like Ray Bradbury's "Farenheit 451" or George Orwell's "Animal Farm"
