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"Logan's Run", from Tuna
When I first saw this
movie, I thought it was pretty good. Over the
course of the past 25 years, special effects,
technology and set design have improved so much
that some of these earlier SF efforts, like this
one and Zardoz and Solaris and the original Star
Trek now look to be primitive and are so tied to
the design concepts of their time that they seem
to take place in the past rather than the future,
like those articles about the future in the
1950's issues of Popular Science, which presumed
that all the world would look like the Art Deco
District on Miami Beach, or the artwork in the
old Cincinnati Train Station.
Logan's Run was made
only a year before Star Wars, but its art design
is more related to Star Trek.
The dated feel is
further exacerbated by the fact that the future
hasn't followed the path it expected, so it now
makes less emotional impact. Remember that 1984
used to be a chilling book because we could see
so much of it actually unfolding in the Soviet
Union? Now how do you relate to it? Same with
these 60's and 70's movies about the future. Now
that baby boomers are old people, they just don't
see society developing a need to discard old
people. Wonder why. Not me. I'm still true to my
1960's ideals, and still don't trust anyone over
30. Of course, now I don't trust anyone under 30
either.
On the other hand, it's
an easy watch, and it's interesting to look back
at the past and see their conception of the
future. Plus, the human body hasn't changed, and
Jenny Agutter still looks as naked as ever. Tuna's thumbnails for this movie Jenny Agutter (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22)
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