SCIENCE! Movie: "Logan's Run"
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.
"Fish, and plankton, and sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here. Ready! Fresh as harvest day!" Box was so cool.
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Or the wacky robot that is all about freezing people.
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.
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.
Ahem:
Box was the robot.
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.
Make sure to watch Spaced, as well! It's all on youtube!