This week I watched Logan's Run, which was showing on TCM. I saw this before when I was much younger, and I seem to remember that it was a good sci-fi film. Hence, I was happy to watch it again. However, I was quickly disappointed.
The first thing wrong: the special effects, which are completely ridiculous. From the obvious scale-model city, to a gunfight where the gun seems to only emit sparks, the effects were awful. Not that there's that much wrong with that. A good story could have made up for it.
Ah, the story. A world where everyone over 30 is killed. They evidently have a chance to get "renewed", if they take part in a ceremony where they wear robes, revolve in a circle, and eventually float into the air. Then they are shot. All this takes place in full view of everyone. No one ever renews, but no one has ever realized that. Amazing. Could you imagine, for instance, if today no football team had ever scored a touchdown? And that no one ever noticed?
Finally, the stupid sci-fi ending of all, where someone tells a computer something the computer doesn't expect, and it causes the computer to self-destruct. It doesn't just crash, it explodes. In fact, it causes parts of the city to collapse, even. And then, the people of the city, whose entire civilization has collapsed, decide what they are really in the mood for is going to surface and hugging an old man.
What's worse, it looks like they are remaking it. However, perhaps this time it will be less stupid. Also, I wouldn't mind reading the novel it was based on, I hear the movie is almost completely different from it.
Posted by ahyatt at August 5, 2005 05:05 PM