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pan6467 · 07-06-2007, 07:38 AM

Lady Sage and I watched the old Logan's Run movie. I hadn't truly watched it since I was a kid (and I loved it) and LS had never seen it.

The movie was what I remembered, fast paced, a good way to enjoy 2 hours without having to think too hard. Michael York and the cast were pretty believeable and seemed to have good chemistry. This was also Farrah Fawcett's first movie...... and trust me it shows she was a horrid actress. While this was supposedly a special effects movie, the acting and most definately the storyline were fantastic. (Although if people are supposed to get killed when they turn 30, it would stand to reason, the actors should all be under 30.)

I was amazed at what passed for "state of the art" special effects in 1974. Pre-Star Wars Logan's Run was supposedly the greatest special effects movie ever. I can also see why the big movie studios left sci-fi to cheap low rate B movies. Think Buck Rodgers, original Battlestar Gallactica, etc. type special effects.

I mention the special effects because to enjoy the movie you have to free your mind of todays special effects and accept these. Which in this case is not that hard as you can easily immerse yourself into the story and the character development.

I always see this movie as I did when I first saw it, in awe and with the wide open eyes of a little kid, same as with Buck Rodgers and the original Star Wars trilogy.

Overall, I'd strongly recommend giving it a shot, if for no other reason than to see how far special effects have come in the last 30+ years.

For me the movie reminds me of a distant past, a past that in and of itself plays like a badly acted B movie in my head. Yet, it reminds me of Saturday Mornings when our elementary school had movies for the kids that cost 50 cents (and included the popcorn). A past where being wide eyed and looking at the world as something wonderous and beautiful existed. And a past where on Friday and Saturday evenings you would spend the night at a friends to watch the cheapest lowest rated sci-fi/horror movies on the GHOUL, Houlihan and Big Chuck, and so on.

I miss those days, that innocence and wonderment.... this movie brings it back for awhile....

10/10

07-06-2007, 07:38 AM	#2069 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	Lady Sage and I watched the old Logan's Run movie. I hadn't truly watched it since I was a kid (and I loved it) and LS had never seen it. The movie was what I remembered, fast paced, a good way to enjoy 2 hours without having to think too hard. Michael York and the cast were pretty believeable and seemed to have good chemistry. This was also Farrah Fawcett's first movie...... and trust me it shows she was a horrid actress. While this was supposedly a special effects movie, the acting and most definately the storyline were fantastic. (Although if people are supposed to get killed when they turn 30, it would stand to reason, the actors should all be under 30.) I was amazed at what passed for "state of the art" special effects in 1974. Pre-Star Wars Logan's Run was supposedly the greatest special effects movie ever. I can also see why the big movie studios left sci-fi to cheap low rate B movies. Think Buck Rodgers, original Battlestar Gallactica, etc. type special effects. I mention the special effects because to enjoy the movie you have to free your mind of todays special effects and accept these. Which in this case is not that hard as you can easily immerse yourself into the story and the character development. I always see this movie as I did when I first saw it, in awe and with the wide open eyes of a little kid, same as with Buck Rodgers and the original Star Wars trilogy. Overall, I'd strongly recommend giving it a shot, if for no other reason than to see how far special effects have come in the last 30+ years. For me the movie reminds me of a distant past, a past that in and of itself plays like a badly acted B movie in my head. Yet, it reminds me of Saturday Mornings when our elementary school had movies for the kids that cost 50 cents (and included the popcorn). A past where being wide eyed and looking at the world as something wonderous and beautiful existed. And a past where on Friday and Saturday evenings you would spend the night at a friends to watch the cheapest lowest rated sci-fi/horror movies on the GHOUL, Houlihan and Big Chuck, and so on. I miss those days, that innocence and wonderment.... this movie brings it back for awhile.... 10/10 __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"