Eldergays, tell me about Logan's Run

Not by me.

Kaftans!

"Are you going to carousel?"

The original book was a bit darker - the death age was 21, not 30. Mind you, I liked the idea of the dial-a-shag computer - The Circuit. Sort of like an advanced Grindr.

'The Circuit' delivers hotstuff to Logan

'Carousel' looks a bit like Cirque du Soleil

I don't think Michael York was ever considered hot.

I don't think they should ever do a remake. There was something about the 70s look to the movie that made a mediocre film somewhat better than it was supposed to be.

I thought Michael York was at his peak hottest in Three Musketeers. I remember Logan's Run more for Farrah Fawcett. It was the first time I had seen her and I thought, wow, who is that actress?

He was a darling.

Jenny Agutter and Farrah Fawcett cat fighting !

So Farrah had the Charlie's Angels 'do in Logan's Run. it's enormous.

The film had the first use of holograms in film.

I love Logan's Run. Great movie. They even tried to make it a TV series I believe.

There WAS a tv series, R14. Gregory Harrison (Trapper John, Md.)was Logan.

Amen, r4. But far better than Grindr. Just grab the Circuit remote, flip through a few choices, and voila! You've got your dial-a-shag right there in your living room, ready to go. No BS back & forth texting games, no awkward phone calls. Yeah, that would be nice.

I remember seeing that movie as a prepubescent boy and getting a boner during the scene in which the robot has all those naked Runners frozen in storage. Any male nudity, even blurred due to being encased in ice, was enough to give me wood. What did the robot do with all those naked peeps? Were they his personal art collection?

The TV show was actually pretty good.

Great score!

OP Logans Run is something you catch if you are a moron and under 30-usually fatal. so sorry

I liked [italic]Eddie Macon's Run[/italic] better.

The "city" was actually a Dallas shopping mall.

I really liked it. I have the trilogy around somewhere. Haven't read it.

Can't remember if Logan was nonchalant about the male guest from the Circuit ....

I remember it seemed incredibly long by the time it ended.

R12 - I think Farrah was doing CA and Logan's Run at just about the same time.

I remember as a kid when this came out, they played up Farrah in the advertising because of CA. A friend who saw it said it was a ripoff because Farrah was barely in it.

Logan's Run was about the future when people get killed at age 30 to control population. One of the city's cops finds out and goes on the run with some chick. Good movie. You should educate your dreary millennial or x-gen brain to some of the good shit they don't make anymore. all you know are comic book superhero blockbusters by marvel

Bump for Michael York playing bi-sexual Brian Roberts in Cabaret on TCM at 8pm tonight.

York, very young, was a beautiful freak. He'd fit right in with the freaky hipster faces of today. Not a stud.

He was considered a bit fey back in the day.

This film was meant to catapult Michael York and Jenny Agutter into A-list stardom. Oops.

York wasn't a classic beauty or a hunk, yet he was a bit of a sex symbol in his day.

He was handsome in an unusual yet photogenic way, charming, intelligent, cultured, funny, and had a very open and likable quality. He wasn't a pinup, he was the kind of man you wanted for yourself.

[quote]You should educate your dreary millennial or x-gen brain to some of the good shit they don't make anymore. all you know are comic book superhero blockbusters by marvel

Yeah, Logan's Run is right up there with Citizen Kane.

The carousel scene freaked me out. They just float around and explode one by one. It would be awful to be the last one, seeing your friends die.

I watched it when it first came out way back when and liked it. Rented it awhile back and realized it was the biggest pile of shit. Renew!!!! Renew!!!!!

The writer of the book, George Clayton Johnson, was oddly hot and sexy back in the day. I used to see him back then (c. 1976) at the ComicCon in San Diego around when the film first came out.

It's where Obama got his ideas for his death panels!

R32 - not really. The people of the City were trained from childhood to think of the Carrousel and "rebirth" as the ultimate goal in their hedonistic care-free lives. As far as they were concerned, they'd go up, they would explode and they would see their friends again in the next incarnation. Think of it like the way suicide bombers do - they know it could be a little frightening, but they're so convinced that there is something better waiting for them on the other side that they just on and do it.

The one that really interested me from the film was the concept that the world of the City was more or less a glorified and more highly-contained version of the society in Brave New World - a society devoted to decadence and hedonism and *nothing* in-between. It seems to be the "perfect" society - no crime, legalised drugs, free sex with both genders, class based on the colour of your clothing - but it's all as shallow and artificial as the one in Brave New World.

Apparently the remake is still happening and this time they're going for a female lead this time, god help us.

Yeah! They's haids blowed up good! They's haids blowed up REAL good!!

I saw this film in san francisco with my best boyfriend and then we went to the baths. I recall being put off by york's fat nose. I thought it was a rather silly film since we were already living the kind of life portrayed in the film and 30 was ten years into the future. We were young and thought all big cities were like san francisco.

When I see pictures of Michael York I don't feel attracted to him, but when I watch clips from Logan's Run (I reference it for work regularly) I find him really hot because he's better on film and oh my, that voice takes over me!

I'm watching it on TCM, and I could barely remember watching it on tv probably a year after it played in theaters. The miniature model special effects are impressive for the time and laughable by today's standards. The whole "shopping mall tarted up to represent the future"set design concept reminds me a bit of "The Wiz". I remember thinking York was a bit of a cutie, but watching it today Michael Anderson jr (played the laser plastic surgeon doctor) pings from outer space. For 1976 the technology still has that Irwin Allen giant computer esthetic of the 60s (Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

All in all an ambitious yet limited budget production of a thought provoking story about the future of society, and ageism in general.

Anyone ever read the book it is based on? Is it worth a read?

There is a definite gay subtext in the film with his partner being so attached and almost in love with him.

If Gandalf turn you on, R34, then why not. For me that would be a hard PASS.

With both LR and Planet of the Apes, I remember in any outdoor scene that they must be somewhere in the western part of the USA. The outdoors looked nothing like the wild terrain around Washington, DC or, in the case of Planet of the Apes, NYC. Too dry, rocky and barren, not lush and green.

Yeah, but isn't PLANET OF THE APES supposed to be a couple thousand years after a complete nuclear holocaust, R43. Couldn't the terrain change in that time?

I would venture to guess the films were filmed in Hollywood.

MY God, she was never more beautiful than in this movie.

I had this towel. I used to lay on it in the living room, pretending I was on the beach. I would give anything to have it back. They show up sometimes on Ebay but go for ridiculous prices.

YOUNG Michael York - the Michael York of England Made Me, Cabaret, Accident, and that really early one where he plays the policeman, was the star every gay wanted to have sex with. There's no cross-sector equivalent in movies today.

By Logans Run he'd become middle aged and luvvie. He was in Lost Horizon for God's sake. The staging of Logan's Run movie was considered naff too. Unlike Soylent Green. But neither of them had the immense impact of Bladrunner, where you knew you were seeing something different from the very first frames. I can remember the first screening of bladerunner in a crowded there and there was chattering over the credits, and the first visual appeared and there was suddenly abolutely silent in the house into the end credits.

York is so hammy at the end. YOU DON"T HAVE TO DIE, YOU CAN LIVE!!!

Jordan's Francis was so studly, it's too bad he didn't show more skin...

Good grief, I wouldn't have thought that the domed city miniature was this big based on its appearance in the film...

I remember being so annoyed as a child when they had to get naked....and only she did.

And the TV Francis, Randy Powell, had that amazing hairy chest that he never got to show off on the show...

[quote]'The Circuit' delivers hotstuff to Logan

I always wondered why(well, not always) the "Circuit" didn't have a search by sex or type feature. It was all so random.

Wasn't "Logan's Run" the film "Ross" from "Friends" said was the sexiest movie ever made?

The deleted "ice sculpture" scene:

I liked Michael York in that dark comedy movie, Something For Everyone, he did with Angela Lansbury where he - spoiler alert - turns out to be an overly ambitiousl sociopath who kills several people who are in his way to accomplish his goal. It also features him making out with another guy.

I was a child when I first saw it, but I got one of those weird incipient sexual crushes on him. The voice likely contributed.

What exactly was that ice robot supposed to be, talking about fish and photoplankton? That really threw me off.

Yes, some people thought Michael York was attractive. I did!

The movie was considered good, cool at the time. Not sure if it was one for the masses, though.

[quote]back then (c. 1976) at the ComicCon in San Diego

It was around then?

Someone up-thread mentioned that the book Logan's Run was part of a trilogy. Does anyone know the plots of the other two books and/or read them and care to give a critique? Also, I wonder if there was any consideration to making a sequel or two based on those books.

Yes, the sequel was called "Logan's Runs" and it chronicled issues of sanitation and diet Logan 5 faced once reaching outside.

Thanks for that pic R51, love all that "how it was made back then" stuff.

Shit movie and look how shitty the effects were. Star Wars came out a year later and nobody gave a shit about this turd anymore.

Where did he run to?

He ran to catch a bus, Rose.

Oh good, it's our biannual Logan's Run thread.

Farrah Fawcett was the worst thing in it.

If you're going to be in the Dallas area on Tuesday, December 13, Logan's Run will be playing at The Magnolia Theatre.

Michael York was hot when there was such a thing as a cultured upperclass preppy sex symbol. Like Lawrence Harvey. Usually British. Not sure if that's a concept that still around?

Of course they're still around R70, ain't you ever seen an episode of EAST ENDERS

No. I don't watch tv.

York might've been lukewarm after 6 hours of boozing, right before the lights came on, if you weren't at all picky.

It's a fun movie with pretty people in it. I remember seeing my Grandpa's Playboy that had a piece on the orgy scene and feeling VERY excited about that.

Michael York was cute but Richard Jordan was hot.

Farrah was gorgeous here...and an awful actress.

And, Michael York WAS A list at this point...well, A - List. From 1972 to 77 he was a big thing.

I seem to remember Logan and the girl encountering Peter Ustinov and a herd of cats. Or did I hallucinate that part?

Shitty movie.

Michael York did indeed make this 13 year old hormones light up.

[quote]I seem to remember Logan and the girl encountering Peter Ustinov and a herd of cats. Or did I hallucinate that part?

No, you didn't imagine it. Logan and the girl make their way out of the city and after a trek, they find themselves in an abandoned, overgrown city which turns out to be Washington, DC. They find Peter Ustinov in the US Capitol where he'd been living with his cats.

I am currently watching the TV series on DVD. It’s cheesy as hell but Gregory Harrison and Randy Powell are still so fuckable in their polyester track suits.

RIP Donald Moffat!

low budget shit.

It was OK. It was an interesting concept and could have been really good, but it was just ok. I remember people laughing in the theater at Farrah's "acting" as she had become a TV star by then. The movie changes quite a few things from the book, and I'm not sure it was for the better. Still, I'll watch it if it comes on just for nostalgia. As R64 pointed out, the next year Star Wars, and I'd add Close Encounters of the Third Kind, both came out and blew Logan's Run out of the water.

I didn't see this movie until I was solidly middle-aged, and thought it was good, solid, suspenseful sci-fi. And yeah, Michael York was hot! He wasn't classically beautiful even at his peak, but he's a good talented actor, and always comes across as intelligent, sophisticated, sexy, and subtly charismatic. My kinda man!

I missed my chance to see it during the original release, (or maybe my mother stopped me because I was 13 or 14), which means I didn't see it as part of the zeitgeist. It was meant to fit in to the era of the "Generation Gap" and "Never trust anyone over 30", and I wonder if it hit audiences with the "Yes that's how it is" gut-punch feeling you get in a really good film that includes timely social commentary.

A world in which everyone over the age of 29 is persecuted? Sounds like DL!

But, R83, everyone tells him he doesn’t look older than 23.

It's fairly good until Logan and Jessica escape the dome, at which point it shifts gears and meanders endlessly. And yes, within a year, Star Wars and Close Encounters made this look like a relic.

Loved it as a kid & am sorta interested in seeing as an adult...but maybe not based on some comments here

I played with myself while this was on tv once.

R87 = Sally Draper at it again

Talk about the epitome of gay culture. Everyone must die at 30.

Compared to "Star WArs" and "Close Encounters" it looks cheap and primitive, but like a lot of good cheap sci-fi, it's smart and suspenseful, and feels oddly true. It shows a society where shallowness is given free reign, and it's both strange and totally familiar, as if every looks-obsessed asshole we ever knew got reincarnated and is working as a Sandman.

It's a good film rather than a great one, but still oddly timely. Because it's not like shallow assholes have gone away.

Such a sexy bloke!

R47 I had a glossy magazine, whole thing was color pictures, called Farrah’s Hair or something. The only text I remember were the detailed layouts on the cut, etc.. If only I still had it to sell! Damn. $

Preferred Richard Jordan

Out of memory...

the studio involved - MGM? - lost a ton on it. It may look low budget - and though it certainly was no cleopatra! - they still lavished bucks on it - especially on special effects and miniatures - and when it did poorly at the box office - they took a hit (wasn’t this film one of the main contributors to MGM selling off the hotel in Vegas? Like I said - out of memory - which is a bit fuzzy!)

In spite of the dough, LR’s art direction was curious - didn’t seem to have a very unified vision? It looked cheap and unreal - and as others have said - Star Wars and CE3K both came along soon after and made it look ridiculously obsolete. Star Wars dirty realism (who would have thought? A future that looked gritty and lived in and used - as opposed to clean and out of a box) set a new standard. LR just looked like a glossy, widescreen colour version of Things to Come or some other Golden Age movie version of what the future would be like. Dated from the get-go.

The Logan’s Run story itself is pretty silly too and the world-building doesn’t make a lot of sense when you think about it.

York was tall and lean and unconventionally handsome - and when in motion the camera loved him. He had a more a runway model look than a standard Hollywood hunk - and he had a beautiful voice and could act well within a certain range. I always think a modern equivalent is someone like Robert Pattinson. When you first saw him in that Harry Potter movie - he really stood out. But not standard Hollywood handsome by any means.

So yeah - York was a very big deal for quite a few years - has been in a lot of movies since as well - a really good career by most standards. Still works and turns up in movies unexpectedly. And Jenny Agutter too. She started very young - was not the standard Hollywood beauty! - but had several years as a name before eventually settling into smaller parts in movies and a lot of TV in the UK.

Jordan never made it to the A-list - he had a couple of big flops - this and Raise the Titanic - and seemed to get lots of tv mini series work there for a while. And Farrah went on to be the superstar - briefly! - through CA - and that poster!

And didn’t Heather Menzies - when played Jessica in the tv version - as well as a Von Trapp child in Sound of Music - die recently?

I haven’t seen Logan’s Run for years - and now I’m thinking maybe it’s width revisiting just for nostalgia’s sake...

Donald Moffat who played the android sidekick on the TV show died a few weeks ago.

Heather died last December.

Gregory Harrison- you in danger, girl!

Gregory Harrison, Heather Menzies and Randy Powell at Comic-Con ‘77.

Jeff Bridges and that is all you need to know.

Watch it again R94, classic sci-fi. I always thought the robot was talking about plankton because it thrived in high C02 levels after nuclear war and allowed the food chain to survive. (My least favorite sequence in the movie.)

That’s outta sight r96! Thank you for finding that!