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hyped garbage

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

In a future world full of tacky decor and polyester, people are only allowed to live into their 30s before being done away with by Sandmen, guys with bad haircuts who chase people around and zap them. Some folks get chosen to participate in a ceremony during which they might get lucky and be allowed to live longer (I think) if they're not vaporized first. Why anyone wants to live past 30 is a mystery, since this version of the future looks like a gigantic shopping mall. Michael York is a Sandman who is sent undercover to find a bunch of runners, people who have escaped their fate. What he finds instead in a kind of "Planet of the Apes" reveal is a world outside of this hedonistic one where people are allowed to get old and enjoy all of the perks that come with that, like heart disease and hemorrhoids. This world is populated by Peter Ustinov, who mumbles lines from T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" before it was a Broadway musical and who deserved an Oscar for keeping a straight face while reciting any of his lines."Logan's Run" won a special achievement Academy Award for its visual effects, even though they look like they were rejected from a "Dr. Who" episode for not being good enough. It also received nominations for Art Direction and Cinematography, which can be explained by the fact that this was the 70s and everything was ugly anyway. It's pretty bad, and a nostalgia for cheezy, retro sci-fi will only take a modern-day viewer so far in overlooking its badness.Grade: C-

I've always found Michael York a little spooky. I remember him from "Cabaret" and Zefferelli's "Romeo and Juliet," among other things. He is handsome but has an odd quality to him. In this film, he grows up in a society where people are living in a bubble. To sustain themselves, it was decided long ago that at thirty it was time for folks to die. It was also decided that there was no life outside the bubble. Logan (York) and Jenny Agutter come to realize that what appears to some to be a transition is actually an execution. They make their way to the other side, but things are not over yet. It becomes important to them to get the message back to their city to make people realize that there is a world where all could survive to old age if they were fortunate enough. What's a little hard to swallow is that a couple of renegades could wield so much power.

Science Fiction is inherently strange, and it seems like the further back you go, the stranger the movies are, perhaps none stranger than Logan's Run. This film is considered by many to be the one of the best science fiction films of all time, so I decide to watch it for the most recent classics review. My first impression, I've seen weird before, but Logan's Run goes way beyond that, to a point of incomprehensible. After a nuclear war, a group of citizens in what was once Washington D.C., live in a self-sustained domed city. Population control is a big problem, so the builders of the city have convinced the citizen's that at the age of 30, they must enter a device known as carrousel, which will decide if they should be renewed or eliminated, the only thing is, no one has ever been renewed. A group of citizens has figured this out and run from carrousel. They are hunted by a group of officers known as sandmen. Logan 5 (Michael York) is one these sandmen, who goes undercover to try to infiltrate the runners, As his time comes closer, Logan 5 realizes they're right and he joins them, hence the name Logan's Run. The premise here is ingenious and at first I thought I'd enjoy this film, but as it went on, the pace slowed, the quality deteriorated, and the story became ridiculous. For example, after exiting the cave, the worst looking robot I've ever seen, named Box, who looks like a child wearing a box, carries on for fifteen minutes about plankton from the sea, and at that point I almost turned it off. Michael York, better know from his Austin Powers fame, stars and is actually very good, (even though it is never explained why this British guy is in a D.C. city, surrounded by Americans). York was entertaining but the rest of the cast was not, in particular Jenny Agutter, who just complained and carried on the whole time. Farrah Fawcett also makes an appears in the film, in a role that amounts to little more than eye candy. In my opinion, she would have made a much more convincing Jessica. Logan's Run starts out as a terrific futuristic adventure and looks like it's going to earn every bit of acclaim it received, but as the film progresses, it just gets worse and worse to the point of being unwatchable.

In the 23rd century, people live a hedonistic lifestyle in a domed utopia run by a super computer. When people reach the age of thirty, they are publicly put through a ritual called Carousel that involves them being blown apart in mid-air (you have to see it to believe it). Some refuse to accept their fate and run away. They're called Runners. The police types sent to track them down are called Sandmen. Michael York plays one of these Sandmen named Logan. He's sent undercover by the super computer that runs things. It wants him to infiltrate the Runners, hoping they will lead him to a supposed safe haven they have called Sanctuary. He meets a pretty runner played by Jenny Agutter and the two find themselves pursued by Logan's closest friend and fellow Sandman Francis (Richard Jordan).A smart, creative, and fun science fiction classic from the '70s. Mocked by many but I love it. It's a great story adapted from the novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. The sets are amazing and the old-school special effects are colorful and charming. I always appreciate the artistry and craftsmanship that went into crafting the visuals for science fiction and fantasy films pre-CGI. Nice Jerry Goldsmith score, too. Michael York and lovely Jenny Agutter are very likable. Jenny has a couple of nude scenes that many will appreciate. Peter Ustinov has an amusing role as possibly the oldest man left living in the world. Farrah Fawcett has a small part here. She's attractive but her acting is not good. It's a very interesting and entertaining movie. Not perfect but what is? If you enjoy futuristic movies like the Planet of the Apes series or Soylent Green, you'll probably like this. It's got robots, lasers, babes, ice caves, and all kinds of fun stuff.