Logan's Run, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, was how I imagined the future would look like in my old age.
Posted on 05/26/2026 10:30:39 AM PDT by Angelino97
Logan’s Run was the last great sci-fi movie of the the “tinsel/synthesizer” era — camp, fun, brightly-lit movies where production design communicated THE FUTURE with shiny interiors, rainbow colors, boop-zoop sounds, and (in the case of Zardoz and Barbarella) sets that were sometimes literally just tinsel.
In the Hollywood imagination from 1968-1977, it was expected that the third millennium would look like The Cher Show, or that Peter Brook production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream but with even more multicolored robes, wires, and tubes that made cool space sounds.
Logan’s Run is a capstone for this era, a fantastic high note on which the tinsel age would unwittingly end. No movie has done mirrors, neon, or that “extremely shiny airport” type of futurism better — every woman gets her own Sabrina Carpenter wardrobe, and you shuttle from environ to environ in little bubble domes like it’s Epcot.
Farrah Fawcett’s cameo as a medspa beautician is spot-on — her signature smile, flirtatious and innocent but weirdly sinister in its perfection, makes her the perfect symbol for this youth-obsessed world where an entire population’s energy is channeled into consumption and frivolity...
Logan’s Run had the cruel blessing of premiering one year before Star Wars. Cruel because the VFX of Star Wars singlehandedly “aged Logan’s Run a century overnight.” But in obscurer ways a blessing, because the arrival of Star Wars froze Logan’s Run like amber, dooming and preserving it at the same time.
The two represent a sharp divide in aesthetics and sensibilities — mirrors and lights vs. “used future,” middling social commentary vs. distant galaxy adventure, schlock New Age aesthetics (ankhs!) vs. deeper Campbellian mysticism.
Star Wars and Logan’s Run are enshined together as contrasts — one era of sci-fi on its last legs, another just beginning.
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Logan's Run, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, was how I imagined the future would look like in my old age.
Great movie!!! I’ve seen it many times
Jenny Agutter and Farah Fawcett in micro-miniskirts. What’s not to like?
It is a good predictor of what is going on in the Netherlands and Canada.
I’m surprised they haven’t done a remake considering all the other movies they’ve remade. Apparently, its been stuck in development hell for decades.
An oldie but a goody.
I have never actually seen the movie. Used to watch the TV series, though. Different actors.........
an amazing movie. So many other movies that came out were based on it in one way or another.
In the movie, you die at 30. In the book, you die at 21. The book emphasizes that the society originated in the youth culture of the 1960s.
The young majority (Boomers?) overthrew and genocided everyone over 21. The leader of the revolution took his own life at 21, thus inspiring his New Society to do the same.
I also read the sequel book, and saw a few episodes of the TV series. Neither were very good.
Only reason to watch is to see how lovely Farah was.
“Ever read the book?”
No, I haven’t. Now I really want to.
I love reading.
Farah is so over rated
Now Jenny Aguter on the other hand, dam, I would instantly drop everything and run away with her where ever she wanted to go.
Also Gattica
Kate Jackson was my favorite angel.
https://www.reelstreets.com/films/logans-run/
Look at the filming locations in the above link. Carousel was filmed at Dallas Market Center. The Fort Worth Water Gardens was another location. Much of the movie was filmed in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston.
Wasn't that also true of Robocop?
But Jenny Agutter bopping around in her barely-there outfit... *sigh*
Soylent Green is how I imagine the future to be in my old age due to the way that assisted suicide is being promoted.
There was a series in the 70’s also.
She had a very small role and got killed.
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