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• fun sci-fi even for the younger generation

  • Cassie
  • 4/22/12

  This movie came out the year my mum graduated from high school and I first saw it when I was in jr. high as a re-run. Although I never caught the title of the movie, it's one that I've always remembered and watch everytime it comes on. Even though the movie was done in 1976, it's still intriguing to watch-even for someone who is 30! To this day, this is a favorite of mine!

• Dazzling 70's Sci-Fi

  • Bruce Reber
  • 11/9/09

  I saw "Logan's Run" right after it came out in the summer of 1976 when I was 18 and had just graduated high school. It's a visually stunning story set in the year 2274, when the remnants of the human race who have survived nuclear war, pollution and overpopulation live in a environmentally perfect domed super-city, where all needs are satisfied and everyone lives for nothing but pleasure. However, there's just one problem with this Utopia; no one is allowed to live past the age of 30. Those who want to live to be old have just two options: renew themselves and be born again in the ritual called "Carousel", or become a runner and try to escape from the city. As it turns out, neither one of these is possible, since the "Sandmen" kill all runners and later it's discovered that no one has ever been renewed on "Carousel". I like the scenes where Logan tries to get a new face at the "New You"and is nearly killed by the plastic surgeon Doc and his laser surgery machine, Logan and Jessica escaping from the city via a huge deep freeze run by the half-man half-machine named Box, and them discovering that "Sanctuary" is Washington DC, desolate and overgrown with weeds and inhabited by one old man and his cats. I also like the final scene where Logan, Jessica and the old man return to the city and prove to all the young people that a world exists outside the dome, and that they really can live past 30. Very good Sc-Fi for it's time, though some of the effects seem a bit dated.

• Good movie, much better book.

  • AndrewBoyd
  • 12/13/08

  I loved this film when I first saw it as a kid at the local drive in. It was the movie that first turned me on to Science Fiction. Later however, upon reading the original novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, I couldn't believe how much better it was than the movie! I would highly recommend checking out the novel and its sequels: Logan's World and Logan's Search. Either are available on various online stores. Their is also a remake in the works, scheduled for a 2010 release which promises to be much truer to the original 1967 novel!

• Similar? Only one I can think of . . .

  • Gale of Sacramento
  • 8/21/08

  "Genesis II" by Gene Roddenberry always had a similar feel to me to "Logan's Run." I love those '70's-style movies. They always had a modern, cool style that, although may be dated now, felt like a true adventure.

• Anything similar?

  • Dr. W. Haberer
  • 1/31/06

  Here's a question for those of us who have seen Logan's Run-- Do you know of any movies that are similar in look or in feel? Best, Walter.

• Way cool film.

  • Dr. W. Haberer
  • 1/31/06

  I loved this movie when I saw it as a first run film in the 70s at a drive in in San Diego. The film's vision of the future is darkly fun and makes you kind of wish you could visit. It was filmed in a shopping mall, which became the world of the future. Logan becomes a runner and tries to escape the world through labarenthine passages long forgotten in the infrastructure. I want to see it again, thinking about it. I really do love this film-- If only there was a sequal! Best, Walter.

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