Lara Logan

Logan's Run
$14.98
Ah, 1975. Black Sabbath releases "Sabotage." Saigon falls. (Incidentally, this also just happens to be the year of my birth.) Finally, Michael Anderson's sci-fi epic "Logan's Run" is filmed (primarily on location in Dallas, Texas), though the film would see release the following summer, just in time for the bicentennial.

I first saw this movie in a showing on WTBS when I was in high school. That was the better part of 20 years ago, and until I recently bought the DVD, I had not seen it since. I am happy to report that this film, now nearly 35 years old (like me, sigh), has aged remarkably well. It seems to be heavily influenced by classic '60s "Star Trek," but that was a show so far ahead of its time as to be timeless, and so is "Logan's Run." It has all the basic qualities of "Trek" -- it is beautiful to look at, and seeing it on the print I viewed it on DVD is especially revealing. It possesses that lustrous technicolor image quality that you just don't see in movies anymore. And it presents sights that you just didn't see in motion pictures up to that point in the pre-"Star Wars" era. This was back at a time when all special effects had to be manually crafted from scratch, whereas today's video game like computer generated effects can have a less imaginative and more sterile quality to them. It came as no surprise that this film won a special Academy award for these very visual effects that I refer to.

Not only are the special effects beautiful to look at, but just like vintage "Star Trek," it presents legions of young, gorgeous women in extremely short skirts (and sometimes much less), not the least of which is then 22-year-old British actress Jenny Agutter, co-starring as Jessica 6. Here she was a mesmerisingly beautiful girl, and her quaint English charm and mannerisms don't hurt a bit. My eyes were glued to the screen every moment she was on.

Sci-fi movies were not too common during the first half of the '70s, and "Logan's Run" was truly revolutionary, and while influenced by "Trek" it proved to serve as an influence for a fair share of pictures of its own in the years to follow. For the sets, 1980's "Flash Gordon" comes to mind. And I've never heard this stated as such, but I think that some plot points from "Logan's Run" would serve as an influence to John Carpenter for his 1981 futuristic sci-fi actioner "Escape From New York" (another favorite of mine). The very fact that Logan (Michael York) will cease to exist if he doesn't complete his mission recalls Snake Plisskin's essential plight in "Escape." Finally, the restricted quadrant that the two leads enter early on in "Logan's Run," which is actually an abandoned cathedral, reminds me of Carpenter's Manhattan Island of the near future in "Escape," as they both are crumbling areas of lawlessness away from civilization, filled with roaming bloodthirsty criminals (in Carpenter's film they were dubbed "the Crazies").

All in all, with its amazing effects, great acting and sense of fun and adventure, "Logan's Run" is a classic through and through and comes highly recommended to any fans of the old "Star Trek" or any other vintage sci-fi.

Point of Impact [VHS]
$92.98
Story line great but a pure porno flick.DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS ONE

Charlie Rose - Lara Logan / David Ignatius / Shah Mahmood Qureshi (October 6, 2009)
$24.95
Lara Logan, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for CBS News || David Ignatius of The Washington Post discusses his recent trip to Pakistan || Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Foreign Minister of Pakistan
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Logan's Run
$9.99
Ah, 1975. Black Sabbath releases "Sabotage." Saigon falls. (Incidentally, this also just happens to be the year of my birth.) Finally, Michael Anderson's sci-fi epic "Logan's Run" is filmed (primarily on location in Dallas, Texas), though the film would see release the following summer, just in time for the bicentennial.

I first saw this movie in a showing on WTBS when I was in high school. That was the better part of 20 years ago, and until I recently bought the DVD, I had not seen it since. I am happy to report that this film, now nearly 35 years old (like me, sigh), has aged remarkably well. It seems to be heavily influenced by classic '60s "Star Trek," but that was a show so far ahead of its time as to be timeless, and so is "Logan's Run." It has all the basic qualities of "Trek" -- it is beautiful to look at, and seeing it on the print I viewed it on DVD is especially revealing. It possesses that lustrous technicolor image quality that you just don't see in movies anymore. And it presents sights that you just didn't see in motion pictures up to that point in the pre-"Star Wars" era. This was back at a time when all special effects had to be manually crafted from scratch, whereas today's video game like computer generated effects can have a less imaginative and more sterile quality to them. It came as no surprise that this film won a special Academy award for these very visual effects that I refer to.

Not only are the special effects beautiful to look at, but just like vintage "Star Trek," it presents legions of young, gorgeous women in extremely short skirts (and sometimes much less), not the least of which is then 22-year-old British actress Jenny Agutter, co-starring as Jessica 6. Here she was a mesmerisingly beautiful girl, and her quaint English charm and mannerisms don't hurt a bit. My eyes were glued to the screen every moment she was on.

Sci-fi movies were not too common during the first half of the '70s, and "Logan's Run" was truly revolutionary, and while influenced by "Trek" it proved to serve as an influence for a fair share of pictures of its own in the years to follow. For the sets, 1980's "Flash Gordon" comes to mind. And I've never heard this stated as such, but I think that some plot points from "Logan's Run" would serve as an influence to John Carpenter for his 1981 futuristic sci-fi actioner "Escape From New York" (another favorite of mine). The very fact that Logan (Michael York) will cease to exist if he doesn't complete his mission recalls Snake Plisskin's essential plight in "Escape." Finally, the restricted quadrant that the two leads enter early on in "Logan's Run," which is actually an abandoned cathedral, reminds me of Carpenter's Manhattan Island of the near future in "Escape," as they both are crumbling areas of lawlessness away from civilization, filled with roaming bloodthirsty criminals (in Carpenter's film they were dubbed "the Crazies").

All in all, with its amazing effects, great acting and sense of fun and adventure, "Logan's Run" is a classic through and through and comes highly recommended to any fans of the old "Star Trek" or any other vintage sci-fi.