I own the movie on BR. I saw the 2 hour TV movie that began the series and watched every episode when it aired. I own all 3 books and have read them multiple times.
I don’t think this is correct; AFAIK the movie was only released as PG. Do you have a cite?
Wasn’t lost on me. Up 'til then, same-sex attraction was a mental illness and a quick ride to hell. In the future, it’s no big deal. I totally brought that up with mom. I still can’t believe she didn’t know I was gay 'til I came out to her at age 30.
I was aware that there was a sci-fi movie named Logan’s Run. I didn’t know what the plot/topic was.
It must have been PG. My cite? My Mom let my brother and me go see it and there’s no way she would have let us go to an R-rated movie.
logans run was a part of mgms late 60’s early 70’s sci fi renaissance along with westworld rollerball…and a couple oif others…
when turner himself owned tnt they used ot have mgm sci-fi weekend and those were among the first 3 or 4 that they’d show and they even had the series on for a bit too
I can’t really provide a cite. As I wrote, the makers of Logan’s Run never acknowledged the similarities. And the makers of Glen and Randa didn’t file a lawsuit.
But I’ve seen both movies and the similarities are too much to be a mere coincidence. It also helps to have read the book. There’s a lot of differences between the movie and the book version of Logan’s Run. And pretty much everything that’s in the movie version of Logan’s Run and isn’t in the book, is in Glen and Randa. In fact when I first saw Glen and Randa I thought it was a cheap ripoff of Logan’s Run - until I found out it had been made five years earlier.
I’ll admit now that I did screw up in my previous post. For some reason I thought Glen and Randa was a British movie. It’s American.
Are you kidding? I still lust after Jenny Agutter.
Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity
There never was a cat of such deceitfulness and suavity…
I’ll have to chase it down. Sounds like the kind of thing that’s either on Netflix or Hulu’s back list - or not available at all.
And what about the other ending, where Farrah’s character shows up in the classroom at the end?
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No. You did not.
Geeze, how many times do we have to have these threads?
You’re confusing LR with Glen and Randa. A totally different movie!
Just gotta say I love this place sometimes.
Didn’t care for the movie, but I cared for that part. Age 16.
Yep, 21 in the books. And in at least one of those “dome” series I mentioned in my previous post, people die when they turn 22.
If the first book is interesting and decent ( that is an interesting concept backed by just okay writing ), the second is lesser but okay. The third is execrable IMHO.
An excellent description, I’d say. But it has a much more elaborate world than the movie, by an order of magnitude. If that if for no other reason, I could see it making for an interesting remake. Though they probably would have to keep the expanded age 30 cutoff for both practical and logical in-story reasons.
Oh and like so many others Jenny Agutter was my first…something. I was prepubescent at the time, but that scene fascinated.
Speaking of age, 30 was the new 21, and these days, 40 is the new 30. If they take the age back to 21, it’s YA fiction. Take the age up to 40.
The scene that comes to mind, for no good reason, is when the ‘biker gang’ on flying jet broomsticks catches up with the pair - “Footfella, hey!” has stuck in my mental vocabulary for decades now.
Spider Robinson wrote a short story where a ten-year-old boy gets a good look at a topless (and unconscious) woman. The adult with him makes a scornful remark that he can’t possibly be old enough to be interested, and he replies, “Yeah, but in a few years I think I’m going to want to remember this.”
Yes, in fact it is sitting on my DVR right now for a rewatch (it was on TCM a few weeks ago).
I’m 49 and I saw the movie many times. Since we got cable in my area pretty early and despite our lower middle class status we had HBO in 1976. I probably saw the uncut version multiple times. And then I also watched the TV show. Never read the books.
I just looked it up, I remembered very clearly who was in the movie but didn’t remember at all that Gregory Harrison was the star of the TV show.
Also of note was that at the time of its release, 30 was becoming a much more significant to those boomers born in in '46.
A few years ago I watched LR with a friend and we wondered about Richard Jordan and what else he’d been in. We drew a blank, but the very next night we put in Lynchs Dune and there he was: Duncan Idaho! Total coincidence.