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Striking how the depicted future in Logan's Run looks so much like 1970s mall culture. I watched this movie and told myself maybe that was intentional and a more intelligent aspect of the presentation than it seemed, since trappings of past eras are always present in subsequent times. (Victorian London was mostly made up of Georgian structures, our cities today are composed of art deco-style skyscrapers and post-war glass towers and other buildings from the recent past.) But then I remembered Logan's Run takes place in a world entirely created after the devastation of the outer landscape, and I thought how maybe in the '70s malls represented the future and that was as far as imagination carried the makers of the movie. So yes this movie looks like a trip to a mid-70s megamall.

'Twas filmed in Dallas, TX, at the Northpark Mall. The mall is still there, & very popular. (But pricey!) Kinda neat to visit, since it has a great 70's Battlestar Galactica feel.

Ha! No way! I knew it looked like a mall.

Too bad the movie is what people see as logan's run but had next to nothing to do with the book.

Double checking. Wikipedia says it was filmed at Dallas Market Center, not Northpark Center. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Market_Center

Um.... I don't think this it in the public domain... https://archive.org/details/LogansRunMovie  :buggedout:

I loved Logan's Run when I was growing up. I saw it a bunch of times when it was an HBO staple in the early '80s. To this day, whenever I see Michael York in anything, I'm like "Hey, it's Logan-5!"

I even owned all the issues of the short-lived Marvel Comics series -- the first five issues were an adaptation of the movie, with fabulous artwork by the great George Perez. The two issues after it tried to continue with original stories, but it was quickly cancelled after ish #7.

Useless trivial side note, issue #6 of the Marvel comic has become a pricey collector's item because it features a very early appearance by current MCU big baddie Thanos in a back-up/filler feature (unrelated to the Logan story).  

This movie was a major example of a (thankfully)  very brief trend in sci-fi,  the "prism tape" era. For a few years movie and tv sci-fi was dominated by prism tape. High tech and alien settings we're preresented by yards and yards of prism tape.

Tniankfully it was a brief era and the last time I saw prism tape in a SF movie was when R2D2 has a small patch of it in star wars.

It was also a short-lived TV series with Gregory Harrison and Heather Menzies Urich.

There was also some talk of doing a remake, but that idea seems to have gone into "developmental hell," as nothing more has been heard of it for the past 3 years.

all! I can say is read the book ,  guys. You won't believe how pale the movie is in contrast.

If you've ever seen Michael Bay's "The Island" with Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansen, the first half of it is very similar to "Logan's Run," till it turns into the usual Michael Bay explode-a-thon in the second half :D

It occurs to me that Logan's Run could easily be redone, and for all I know, someone is already doing it. Tweak the story a bit to incorporate modern political and ecological crises and you have your setting.

Logan's run could  be easily redone with modern themes if you work in the ideas that  the older generations let the middle and Woking classes be destroyed and driven Into near slavery thru selfishness and short sightedness, plus how the elderly population grew and was draining the  young economically. Awful ways to think but it would make the "no old people" view understandabke.

I was thinking more of a past where corporate greed and government inaction resulted in an environment that was unliveable, and wealthy elites managed to seal themselves into the special domed habitat, leaving everyone else to die. The habitat, however, can only sustain a limited number of occupants, so population controls had to be implemented.

It can also incorporate a concept from the TV series: a small, hidden elite class still exists in the habitat who allow themselves to grow old and manage things from behind the scenes, and they're the ones threatened by the movement of people seeking to avoid mandatory euthanasia at a specific age. They can even know that it's perfectly possible to live outside again, but they keep it secret to keep their captive population of serfs.

The robot towards the end was pretty dam stupid looking.

(https://i.imgur.com/HvSSPwI.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

It was a cyborg,  RC.

OK- it's a stupid looking cyborg!

Yes, agreed.  The alternate 1970s "mall" movie was DAWN OF THE DEAD ... 

http://youtu.be/Yd-z5wBeFTU (http://youtu.be/Yd-z5wBeFTU)   

^ Which was miles above LOGAN'S RUN.

The book doesn't need to be read to make the movie pale. 



Other than PETER USTINOV... BOX was my favorite part of the movie (ROSCOE LEE BROWN).  Cyborg schmorgasborg. 

I reckon I'm the only person who didn't care for it.
I thought it was a mish-mash of old sci-fi under ground society ideas with a payoff I could see a mile away.
Perfect for a TV show (that lasted a very short time, and had no impact. Us geeks are likely the only ones who even know that it ever happened.)
Yes- it had some good actors. It is in the right section. It's a BAD movie.

Read the book, RC. After seeing the movie it'll blow your mind.

There are a couple of things I like about LOGAN'S RUN (JENNY AGUTTER) but, it always struck me as kind of cheapo.  I watched some of it recently and have seen it numerous times; cannot claim to be a fan either.   :thumbdown:

I read the book.
I seen the movie at the theater before you were even born.I read the comic book in the 70's. Do you think I'm some kinda moron?
If you did- you would be right!

http://youtu.be/watO_IRfz4w (http://youtu.be/watO_IRfz4w)

If one was alive in 1976, when the film was 1st released to theaters, one would now realize it was a film that was very much a product of its time and place. Which is why I'd like to see a remake, as to see how now would differ from then. One difference would be the Age of Renewal. In the original film, it was 30, In the remake, it'd have gone back to the age in the book or 21. Which I think makes more sense.

The film, oddly enough or maybe not, had what I thought was one of the greatest gunbattles I ever saw in a film. As Logan and the Sandmen shot it out with each other towards the end of the film.

 :bouncegiggle: You do make me laugh. 

You like peter ustinov? What other movies of his do you like? I liked his poirot movies and quo vadis. His Nero was not really historically accurate, but his protrayel of Nero's insanity was good.

Box was in the novel but completely different.

You can have Peter Ustinov, you could have Peter Cushing, you can have any Peter you wan't- the movie sucks.

I'm truly impressed by all the tidbits of information about the film that are being posted in this thread. It's one of the things I love about the Badmovies folk.

Logan's Run was screened on TV when I was a kid, and the TV series turned up in Australia, too. The people flying around and exploding was pretty freaky! Before I bought the DVD's of both, I (cough) found an online version (cough) of the original movie, and I was surprised at the long, drawn out fight towards the end. As an adult, you see things you didn't as a kid, like how beautiful Jenny Agutter was back then. I haven't watched the TV show yet, but that's on the list of things I'll get around to, in time.

One thing I'll say for for Logan 's run. I liked the look of those sandman's guns.

One of my favorite '70s movies.

Also, Jenny Agutter. Hubba hubba!

Watched the movie as a kid and loved it. Picked up the book as a young teenager and thought it was a bit meh, neither great nor terrible but I was interested in some of the concepts enough to pick up the sequel (Logan's World) to see how it developed but I didn't bother hunting down any of the other books. But yeah, to get back to the film even as a kid I'd have to agree about the stupid looking robot. Then again, as someone who watched Dr. Who avidly as a child it was hardly the worst one I'd ever seen.