{"id":2085,"date":"2020-07-14T15:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T21:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2020-05-29T22:36:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T04:36:03","slug":"movie-logans-run-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/14\/movie-logans-run-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Logan’s Run (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 1976
\nRating: PG
\nLength: 119 minutes \/ 1.98 hours<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s landscape of CGI and superb practical effects, it\u2019s a little difficult to watch movies like Logan\u2019s Run<\/em> (1976). Sure, there are a few good bits (like dissolving bodies), but there are a lot of effects that look low-budget by today\u2019s standards. Wires clearly hold up flying people, a robot is obviously a man in a boxy costume, and a futuristic society seems to be housed in a mid-1980s shopping mall. About the only reason I don\u2019t necessarily deem Logan\u2019s Run<\/em> a B-movie fit for a Mystery Science Theatre 3000<\/em> ribbing is because it was the best technology they had at the time.<\/p>\n

Of course, I say this was the best special effects of the day, knowing full well that Star Wars<\/em> (1977) would come out a year later. If anything, this movie shows the enormous leap in special effects that Star Wars<\/em> provided the film industry in comparison. And while the plot of Logan\u2019s Run<\/em> is relatively simple, certain elements appear to be pulled from Planet of the Apes<\/em> (1968). Both seem to show how the future bodes for our society and, more specifically, one that settles on killing anyone over 30 years old.<\/p>\n

Despite how poorly it has aged, Logan\u2019s Run<\/em> is still a pop culture reference that appears from time to time. From direct references in The Simpsons<\/em> and Family Guy<\/em>, the idea of an age limit was also adapted in a slightly different way (to middling success) in In Time<\/em> (2011). There\u2019s no denying its hedonistic appeal, if for no other reason than its ability to show that perhaps we shouldn\u2019t trust everything a computer tells us. Of course, the utopian\/dystopian dichotomy will always be present in media, but Logan\u2019s Run<\/em> has a reasonably good take on the theme for what it is.<\/p>\n

The best special effects of 1976, I give Logan\u2019s Run<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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