Logan's Run

[ER]

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.

[pacman000]

'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.

[ER]

'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.

[Svengoolie 3]

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

[pacman000]

'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.

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

[pacman000]

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

[FatFreddysCat]

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).  

[Svengoolie 3]

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.

[BoyScoutKevin]

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.

[Svengoolie 3]

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

[FatFreddysCat]

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.

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

[Ted C]

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.

[Svengoolie 3]

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.

[Ted C]

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.

[RCMerchant]

The robot towards the end was pretty dam stupid looking.