Logans Run

[classicgalacticalover]

The movie was good, but the TV series BLOWS it away! For me


REM was the reason, you had this"Android" father figure tagging along for the ride who made it all worthwhile. Sad part was it did not get renewed for a second season, and it would have been nice if they DID find SANCTUARY.


so now we will never know....

Amen! I did read somewhere that if the series had continued, Francis would have started to realize that he was being used and would have joined up with Logan,Jessica and Rem. This series had so much potential. And I too hope that Mego releases the series figures. I think that the Mego diehards alone would make them profitable. They could consider doing them as exclusives somewhere.

[Jorge Galvan]

The movie was good, but the TV series BLOWS it away! For me


REM was the reason, you had this"Android" father figure tagging along for the ride who made it all worthwhile. Sad part was it did not get renewed for a second season, and it would have been nice if they DID find SANCTUARY.


so now we will never know....

[Mikey]

^ --- and of course, An American Werewolf in London

[callistofreak]

I just watched a two part Six Million Dollar Man with Jenny Agutter.
It was really good. I forgot what a good actress she is.
Deadly Countdown 9/25/77 about a year after Logan's Run. I think??

[PNGwynne]

I really enjoy the series, too. I'd love some Logan's Run Megos!

[classicgalacticalover]

i was just thinking about looking for the series and buying it. I don't think I have ever seen the tv series

I might be the minority here but I loved the series even more so than the movie(and I love the movie) (Feel the same way about the Apes TV show as well). Good stories from a lot of Star Trek veterans. Great theme music (have the soundtrack!) wonderful actors for the characters. Just tons of goodness to love. If CBS had really given it a chance I think it would have gotten even better as it went on. Still hoping Mego will do the figures from the show.

[Nostalgiabuff]

i was just thinking about looking for the series and buying it. I don't think I have ever seen the tv series

[YoungOnce]

I found this picture on Google, must be from the series.



CCC.

Looks like Amazon has the series on dvd for about 33 bucks... I’m still trying to decide if I would enjoy the series... the movie tied everything up in a satisfactory way. Sometimes a new addition to the story just diminishes the original story ([I]cough cough[I] Last Jedi cough cough.

[LordMudd]

Rather than begin a new thread, I resurrected this older thread on Logan’s Run. The movie is available on Netflix right now and since it’s been twenty years or better since I’ve seen it, I thought I’d revisit this classic.

Though the miniature effects are pretty dated, many of the other effects hold up fine. Then again, I’m a proponent of practical effects anyway for reasons that probably have more to do with sentimentality than suspension of belief.

I enjoyed the story more this time than I remembered enjoying it twenty years ago, and much more than when I was younger still. Like it was said before, this isn’t a Star Wars kind of sci-fi... though it still has a fair share of action. It’s a more cerebral film for sure.

One thought struck me this time as I rewatched... how cool it would have been if when Logan and Jessica emerged into the outside world, if they were greeted by the world of the Planet of the Apes (or better yet, Kamandi), or Mad Max, or one of the other post-apocalyptic worlds. I guess a modern day equivalent might be the Cloverfield stuff or the way the Unbreakable/Split/Glass movies have evolved.

I kept thinking of how mind-blowing it would have been to see Logan and Jessica make their way to a beach and to see the sunken Statue of Liberty about the same time as Charlton Heston and Nova on the same beach.

That should have been a Marvel What If? comic book....

I found this picture on Google, must be from the series.



CCC.

[LordMudd]

This movie still deserves an action figure line.


CCC.

[The Bat]

Still a classic!

[Bruce Banner]

Still love the movie and the TV series. The novel is cool too... lots of concepts and sequences in there that didn't make it into the film adaptation.

[Mikey]

One thought struck me this time as I rewatched... how cool it would have been if when Logan and Jessica emerged into the outside world, if they were greeted by the world of the Planet of the Apes (or better yet, Kamandi), or Mad Max, or one of the other post-apocalyptic worlds. I guess a modern day equivalent might be the Cloverfield stuff or the way the Unbreakable/Split/Glass movies have evolved.
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The Logan's Run TV series is kinda like your wish.

Basically they ride across the country every week meeting new strange civilizations --- with bad guy Francis hot on their trail

[YoungOnce]

Rather than begin a new thread, I resurrected this older thread on Logan’s Run. The movie is available on Netflix right now and since it’s been twenty years or better since I’ve seen it, I thought I’d revisit this classic.

Though the miniature effects are pretty dated, many of the other effects hold up fine. Then again, I’m a proponent of practical effects anyway for reasons that probably have more to do with sentimentality than suspension of belief.

I enjoyed the story more this time than I remembered enjoying it twenty years ago, and much more than when I was younger still. Like it was said before, this isn’t a Star Wars kind of sci-fi... though it still has a fair share of action. It’s a more cerebral film for sure.

One thought struck me this time as I rewatched... how cool it would have been if when Logan and Jessica emerged into the outside world, if they were greeted by the world of the Planet of the Apes (or better yet, Kamandi), or Mad Max, or one of the other post-apocalyptic worlds. I guess a modern day equivalent might be the Cloverfield stuff or the way the Unbreakable/Split/Glass movies have evolved.

I kept thinking of how mind-blowing it would have been to see Logan and Jessica make their way to a beach and to see the sunken Statue of Liberty about the same time as Charlton Heston and Nova on the same beach.

That should have been a Marvel What If? comic book....

[DocDrako]

When I first saw Logan's Run, I didn't really like it that much. But something about the idea of the story (which is different in the book) kept drawing me back. I watched it again and again and over time, it grew on me. Now it's one of my favorite scifi movies. Some of my favorite parts are...

1- The fact that the city computer will basically sentence Logan to death in an effort to find sanctuary.

2 - Logan starts out with the intention of completing the task that the computer assigned him and over time realizes that he doesn't want to die. It's fun for me to try and spot the moment that he decides he really is running.

3 - I like the difference in the two main Sandmen. Logan questions things. Francis doesn't. Logan thinks that maybe the way things are is wrong. and Francis doesn't even think about it. Logan realizes that the Lifeclocks have no power outside the city, and yet when Francis sees it, he refuses to believe his own eyes.

4 - Jessica is hot.

Just a few things I like about the movie. If you want a different slant on the story, read the books. Logan's Run, Logan's World, Logan's Search, and the ebook Logan's Return.