Comments on: Summer of SciFi: Logan's Run

By: Brian Brown

Brian Brown — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:21:58 +0000

As I said, my gateway into sci-fi/fantasy was L. Frank Baum's Oz series. I remember my mom reading them to me to start with and eventually I would read a page and then she would read a page.

Movies and TV were always secondary to the worlds I imagine in my head growing up.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:34:33 +0000

Ahhh brings back memories.
Guilty as charged, of making replica sandman flame gun as a kid in the 70s. That is before Star Wars came out. I can even recall the short lived series. It was not to bad for a 70s series. Still like the movie today.

But I'd never read the books so I'm not affected by the adaptation.
I had found http://www.stellar-database.com/non-ISDB/LogansRun.html
for comparisons a while back. Don't know if it's accurate but it definitely makes a reboot that is closer to the original book appealing.

By: TallGrrl

TallGrrl — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:33:49 +0000

This movie was the very first time I experienced "The movie isn't the same as the book".
To this day it's one of my favourite sci-fi books.
I'd read the book and I was SO excited that there was a movie.
That excitement was dashed on the rocks.
I remember sitting there in the theatre absolutely *fuming* because they left out so much and put in some silly stuff. Dn't get me started about the Old Man.
Where was the fireglass mosaic mural of The Burning of Washington, DC?!
Where was the part where Logan was "tortured" with Everlove?
And The Cubs?
Where was the book I'd read? And re-read!
After the movie was over, I sashayed my 8th grade self up to the Box Office and demanded my money back...or a ticket to see something else because that was NOT "Logan's Run".
(I even had my little paperback book with me!)
This movie, to this day, pisses me off because the book was so SO much better.
Some of you might site this as your "entry drug" to sci-fi.
Me? Not so much.
I'd already been reading Bradbury and Asimov (*my* entry drug to sci-fi) and even HP Lovecraft (not sci-fi, but...) so I already knew what I liked and what I expected.
And, I'm sorry...I'm so sorry...this movie wasn't it.

By: Dennis Osborn

Dennis Osborn — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:46:02 +0000

I remember this movie. It was based on a book by Nolan. The other two book in the trilogy were written after the movie was made. In the books, the death date was 21, not 30, and the society was planet wide, not in a single domed city. Events and locations in the book were condensed into the domed city. For instance, an underwater city was made into the maintenance level and an arctic prison was made into Box's domain. The old man was a citizen who life clock malfunction and never turned red at 21. The society was run by a master computer that was blown up just like at the end of the movie. Like most people, I saw and loved the movie before I read the books.