Logan’s Run [Blu-ray]
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Logan’s Run [Blu-ray]
Logan’s Run [Blu-ray] Reviews
I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Logan’s Run fan, if such a thing exists, and was overjoyed to see the film released to DVD. The transfer looks great, and the letterboxed format preserves the lovely cinematography.The acting is, by and large, pretty good. Michael York, Jenny Agutter and Richard Jordan are all in fine form. Peter Ustinov chews scenery in his portions of the film, but isn’t that what you put him in a movie for?The visual effects won an Oscar back in ’76, pre-Star Wars. I would place their quality somewhere above Marooned, but below 2001:a Space Oddyssey. The Aerial view of the city that opens the film looks really cheesy, but the Carrousel sequence is downright eerie. It is even more remarkable when you learn that the whole sequence was done in-camera, on-set with no compositing aside from the white beam of light that emanates from the ceiling. The compositing and matte paintings are breathtaking.The film takes a lot of flak for its costumes and for looking like it was shot in a shopping mall. I think the costumes are moot–who know what we’ll be wearing in the future? These people live in a hedonistic, weather-free society. It stands to reason that they would be very revealing and purely cosmetic for those very reasons. As far as the look of the sets goes–this is a materialistic, consumer-mad, hermetically sealed society that the film portrays–of course its going to look like a shopping mall.The film is not exactly an accurate representsation of the events in the book (something I wouldn’t mind seeing someday). Budgetary, time and technological constraints would made doing so impossible at the time. Still, it holds up well on its own merits.One last note: Am I the only one who finds the love story angle of this movie touching? It’s interesting to see two people experiencing love for the first time, especially in the world portrayed in Logan’s Run, where people don’t have lasting emotional ties to one another.What the love story kind of implies is that this is the first time in hundreds of years that people have thought and felt in terms of strong emotions for each other. In an era like our own where the word is bandied about so much as to be meaningless, it’s refreshing to see a future where its meaning is rediscovered.
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