Watched Logan's Run - what's the big deal with it?
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I hung out with GCJ a few times in the seventies, he used to sleep in the stariways at conventions and he loved having fans hang around. He would tell some wild stories.
He had a sequel to the book planned that was way, way out there. It involved playing card numbers and the meaning of numbers. Logan wore a 3 of clubs and it got weird from there.
One of our members actually did the costume from George's descriptions.
As far as I know Nolan has been trying to sell another sequel for a few years. George had no input on the two book sequels.
He had a sequel to the book planned that was way, way out there. It involved playing card numbers and the meaning of numbers. Logan wore a 3 of clubs and it got weird from there.
One of our members actually did the costume from George's descriptions.
As far as I know Nolan has been trying to sell another sequel for a few years. George had no input on the two book sequels.
Laspector
Master Member
The thing about movies like this is--you just had to be there. If you were a teen in the 70s then you probably got it. If you weren't, you probably wont...Watching a movie like this NOW is never going to have the impact it would've had in the actual time period it came out.
It's like if you were raised on Young Guns, 3:10 to Yuma, and Deadwood, you are probably not going to GET it watching Roy Rogers and Gene Autry.
It's like if you were raised on Young Guns, 3:10 to Yuma, and Deadwood, you are probably not going to GET it watching Roy Rogers and Gene Autry.
I did appreciate older sci fi back when I was a kid in the seventies, the original Godzilla, War of the Worlds, Invaders from Mars, Forbidden Planet, Twilight Zone, lots of stuff that was decades old. All that was old school in the seventies and I was good to go despite FX that were not up to par even in the seventies.
I don't think Logan's Run is simple or quaint Sci Fi. It's not Buck Rogers serial type stuff.
It still has complex characters and issues worth the watch.
No it won't impact anyone like when it was new, but I'l be damned if
it doesn't have an intellectual hook far better then what a lot of what
passes for Sci Fi today.
Some people may just be very visually oriented and if the FX are not up to par, costumes seem silly to them, the whole thing goes in the trash I guess. Their loss.
So what? the FX are not great today and half the movie takes place in a mall.
I love the dynamic between Francis and Logan, these guys are blood brothers and you see them torn apart, and when Francis dies, it's tragic, he's not a villian, he simply was part of that world and could never live anyway else even when outside and free. He's locked into it.
I'll hold this film up easily in a top ten list of best Sci Fi films.
I don't think Logan's Run is simple or quaint Sci Fi. It's not Buck Rogers serial type stuff.
It still has complex characters and issues worth the watch.
No it won't impact anyone like when it was new, but I'l be damned if
it doesn't have an intellectual hook far better then what a lot of what
passes for Sci Fi today.
Some people may just be very visually oriented and if the FX are not up to par, costumes seem silly to them, the whole thing goes in the trash I guess. Their loss.
So what? the FX are not great today and half the movie takes place in a mall.
I love the dynamic between Francis and Logan, these guys are blood brothers and you see them torn apart, and when Francis dies, it's tragic, he's not a villian, he simply was part of that world and could never live anyway else even when outside and free. He's locked into it.
I'll hold this film up easily in a top ten list of best Sci Fi films.
Carson Dyle
Sr Member
Really?... better than Patton and TMP?. Love `em all of course, but, you know, let's be reasonable...
The movie version of Logan's Run is pure cheese, but it's still a terrific story. Granted the generation gap-inspired subtext of a "war" between young and old must seem silly and quaint to modern viewers, but it was a very real societal issue at the time, and LR (the novel) exploited those tensions to great dramatic effect.
I think I enjoy Logan's Run the film more for what it tells us about the 70's than for anything it has to say about "the future."
And, yeah, micdavis, I remember seeing GCJ at those 70's-era sci-fi cons (ComicCon, Equicon-Filmcon, etc). Cool dude, and, yeah, full of great stories.
Man, I would love to have been able to hang out at Cafe Frankenstein back in the day...
Fortunately we don't really have to choose. We get it all.
epoxinator
Well-Known Member
The reason for that 30-second clothes-off-and-then-on-again scene is that, originally in there was a much longer sequence. Box will only tell Logan and Jessica where the previous runners have gone if they agree to pose nude for him, so he can carve their statue in ice: they are the first Runners ever to arrive in his cavern as a pair. While Box is sculpting, Logan and Jessica have a discussion. Logan confesses to her that it was he who called the Sandmen in when they were meeting with the Sanctuary group, and got all the group members killed. Jessica tells him she knew all along.
Supposedly it was cut to shorten the film: there are other significant cuts made throughout the film. Others suggest that they might have been motivated to cut the scene because, with Box having more dialog, viewers could see how bad the mask was on the Box costume.
Supposedly it was cut to shorten the film: there are other significant cuts made throughout the film. Others suggest that they might have been motivated to cut the scene because, with Box having more dialog, viewers could see how bad the mask was on the Box costume.
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