movie review

ok so this is a few decades late. but i'm using netflix internet dvd rentals to promote my further laziness.

LOGAN'S RUN

first off the dvd sleve said rated PG, but with the several nude scenes i doubt it would make PG with the freaking fcc. for anyone who hasn't seen this yet... it's set in the 23rd century, most likely post apocalyptic, where there is one big city left. people don't get married, and don't reproduce. children are grown/raised in what i would best describe as test tube pod baby clones. oh, and once you reach the age of 30, you get killed.

logan (aka basil exposition aka micheal york) is a "sandman" that tracks down and kills "runners". runners are those that have reached the age of 30 and don't want to go the "carousel"... which is supposed to be a chance to renew their lives... but it just ends up being a big collesuem where people watch the 30 yr olds float up into the sky and explode.

so logan gets a mission from the central computer to act like a runner and find this secret city where the runners supposedly go. he makes his way with the help of a damsel out of the main city to the tunnels/caverns below. which is where this weird robbie the robot guy tries to freeze them like all the other runners that have come past...

well i guess logan was the only runner ever to put up a fight cuz he beats this robot pretty easily. (there was also a scene just before this where they had been thru some water and were all wet, and get to the robot room where its arctic cold, so logan says lets get these clothes off so they dont freeze to us... nice cheap 70's way of showing boobies... hehehe... and there just happen to be a pile of animal skins there to wrap up in...)

well anways after they beat the robot guy thingy they drop the animal skins and run out in their clothes.... WTF? they took the clothes off... anywho... they get outside and end up in warshington DC that has been overrun with plant life... find some really old guy... they've never seen anyone older than 30... get the old dude to go back to the city.. stuff starts blowing up and all the people see the old guy and everyone is happy. the end.

do i reccommend this to anyone? well if you like the old school furturistic views of the 70's sure... but the clothes, sets, etc are kind of dated now... i like the idea of a society that limits its population and peoples ages... kind of different. kind of. if i had been my current age and seen this when it came out i probably would have loved it, but seeing it now... its just ok...