From this thread about a restaurant called Logan’s Run, a couple of posters claim that nobody today remembers the 1974 sci-fi movie of the same name. Well, I do and I believe it’s considered to be a classic. It’s about a futuristic society where everyone is executed once they reach the age of 30. I believe there was also a short-lived TV show based on the movie. It was nominated for two Academy awards and won a special award for its visual effects.
So my question is, have you ever heard of the movie Logan’s Run?
I’ve watched it multiple times, although not recently.
I* would *have watched the series but my mother thought it was on too late to watch on a school day and told me I could catch it during the summer re-runs. Then they canceled it and I never saw it, something my mother said she always felt a bit guilty about.
I was in second grade when the movie came out. It was quite popular. On occasion, people would play “Sandmen and Runners” instead of “Cowboys and Indians”. I did not actually see the movie until I was in high school or college. I read the book before I saw the movie. I vaguely remember when the TV show was on the air, but never watched it.
I was out of college (for four years already) when the movie came out, and I lived in Arlington, Texas. My friends and I used to go to the water park in front of the Ft. Worth convention center where the entrance to the underworld was filmed. Cheap fun.
I remember both. I was surprised at the date given in the OP because I’m reasonably sure I wouldn’t have remembered it at that age… the movie is from 1976.
There’s a slew of “trapped in a dome and people above age X die” series on Netflix right now, they made me think of Logan’s Run.
This film was a marvel to my 10 year old self. I can remember sitting in the theater watching it, though I don’t recall many details about the plot. I had a crush on Richard Jordan even though he was the bad guy (I didn’t realize he’d died. At 56 ) and I remember being kind of bored during Peter Ustinov’s big speech (or maybe I just needed to pee).
I find it kind of weird for someone to imagine that no one would remember a (popular) movie from as recently as 1974. Do some people think the world came into existence in the 1990s (or whenever their birth date is)?
Are you kidding? Like my little-kid mind would forget flashes of naked Jenny Agutter?!
I loved it when it came out. I recall trying it a decade or three later and realizing it wasn’t going to hold up, so I shut it off around 30 minutes in.
Yep, I remember it. Michael York, Jenny Agutter … whom I often see playing a nun on Call the Midwife these days, so her early career such as this film is occasionally on my mind.
This phenomenon fascinates me, and it might be deserving of its own thread. I’m 67, and I knew/know plenty about the movies (and music) of my parents’ generation. Today’s kids (term used very loosely), not so much. Maybe because there were fewer of them? Movies, not kids.
Yeah! Madame P. and I saw it three time on dates. It was great! Well, considering there were not that many SciFi movies. And considering I had missed The Planet of the Apes series, but caught the TV series. [I have to think the Ape films are what greenlighted this.] It was certainly better than Zardoz or Yor: Hunter from the Future. Not as good as Krull, though.
But that was by pre-Star Wars, pre-Star Trek movie standards. Now it looks horribly amateurish and simplistic. And badly directed. I haven’t read the books but they are supposedly much better.
Oh, and the group America had a minor hit with a Logan’s Run inspired song, Sandman.
) and I remember being kind of bored during Peter Ustinov’s big speech (or maybe I just needed to pee).