SCIENCE! Movie: "Logan's Run"

[mario]

This movie is awesome. You should all be ashamed for not having seen it during the appointed SCIENCE! Movie week. Stef and I watched this way back in August on a tiny laptop screen, and though I had seen it previously, I still got a kick out of it. Sure, there's gratiutous nudity and degradation of women and the like, but it's a dystopian future! We're supposed to understand that these things are wrong! Seriously though, does anyone else find it strange how many 70's sci-fi movies appeared to use dystopian futures as an excuse to have such elements on-screen? Certainly it was a handy way to appeal to their target audiences (males age 18-25).

"Fish, and plankton, and sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here. Ready! Fresh as harvest day!" Box was so cool.

[Apathy]

You haven't even mentioned the carousel! Of death!

Or the wacky robot that is all about freezing people.

[Amoeba Boy]

That was by far the greatest fight scene I have ever witnessed. Also one of the most random and inane things I've ever seen in a movie.

If I remember correctly, my favorite bit of SCIENCE! was right after the killed the first runner. Some guy in a little hover cart came by and sprayed the corpse with some gas that made it decompose into nothingness in a few seconds. I really want someone to invent rot gas.

[Stef]

I'm still all about the blinky hand signifiers and the codified dress. When, exactly, does one graduate from yellow into green?

Yesterday I read Vonnegut's Galapagos and it also hinted at a future where people lived to age 30, but also peaked sexually at age 6. I wish Logan's Run had gone into greater detail about whether people were considered to mature earlier, how they were raised, and what the society was like aside from the running and the carousel.

But yeah, Logan's Run rules and I'm totally having a Logan's Run themed party when I turn 30.

[Behemoth]

Wow! A logan's run themed party? Why didn't I think of that when everyone around me was turning 30? I guess I'll have to wait for my 30th birthday. I liked the crazy old dude that lived outside of society and buried his dead.

[mario]

Originally Posted by Apathy

You haven't even mentioned ... the wacky robot that is all about freezing people.

Ahem:

Originally Posted by me

"Fish, and plankton, and sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here. Ready! Fresh as harvest day!" Box was so cool.

Box was the robot.

[Apathy]

QUIET YOU!

Now go see the movie Hot Fuzz. It's even better than Shaun of the Dead was and I wasn't even sure that was physically possible.

[mario]

We did see it, in fact! I'd have to say it's exactly as awesome as Shaun of the Dead. Timothy Dalton made a kick-ass villain.

[Lang]

Though I liked Shaun of the Dead better (I think it's my favorite film... of all time), I still enjoyed Hot Fuzz immensely.

Make sure to watch Spaced, as well! It's all on youtube!