I really love older movies.

I especially love older Sci-Fi movies that try to envision an incredible future while still being surrounded by what to them was present-day,  and what to us is the distant past.

Things were obviously quite different in the seventies,  and that definitely comes through in some of the Sci-Fi movies from that era. 

The fact that they did not have CGI effects or advanced technology to improve the overall visual quality of the movie meant that they had to rely on a good story and great acting.

 I can think of quite a few movies from the seventies and early eighties that I'm absolutely in love with,  and I have to say that Logan's Run is in the top ten.

So without further ado,  let's take a look at Logan's Run.

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Logan's Run is about a group of people that are living in some kind of enclosed dome in which they all live in harmony and everything seems to work very well.

There is a tube based transit system that is very fast,  and everyone seems to be living a very satisfying existence.

There's also a class-based system that is never explicitly mentioned. 

It's possible that the book that this movie was based on has some more information about it, but what I can tell you from watching the movie is that some people are wearing red clothes,  other people are wearing green clothes,  some people are wearing yellow clothes,  and then there are the sandmen that are dressed all in black.

I'm not sure if the red,  green,  and yellow clothes that people wear are indications of different class levels or not. It might just have been a scheme to introduce a varied color system for the people to enjoy the movie more.

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Some of the best movies from the seventies and early eighties involve a sort of utopian world that isn't as ideal as it seems.

 Logan's Run takes place in such a world. Even though everyone is happy and living a fantastic life,  there is one incredible catch.

No one can live past the age of thirty.

 In order to ensure that all of the citizens abide by this rule each person is implanted with a chip in their hand.  The movie shows babies with chips in their hand too so we have to assume that they are implanted at birth or near there.

When your chip starts flashing red you know you are nearing the end of your life cycle.

At that point you have to sign up for something called Carousel.

 Carousel is a sort of ceremony where people that have flashing red chips get together while a light shines above them in a sort of Colosseum with an audience that cheers for them to be renewed.

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Renewal means that you get to live again. No one knows if you will actually be renewed or not,  but it is assumed by almost all of the citizens that many people actually are renewed in this fashion.

 I should mention at this point that my favorite author is Philip K Dick.

Dick loves to write about dystopian futures. I love to read about them so it works out rather well.

Many of the tales from the seventies are actually worlds that are only utopian on the surface,  but actually hide something sinister underneath such as the world of Logan's Run.

PKD wrote a book called The Unteleported Man in which an ideal society is supposed to exist on a faraway planet.

Only the best and brightest,  or the people that have earned it,  will eventually get teleported to that planet.

It is everyone's hope and dream that they can be teleport to that planet one day..

However, a certain individual has a terrible thought. What if there actually is no planet and no teleporter?   

What if it's all actually a plot by the government to get rid of troublemakers and the teleporter is actually a disintegration device?

Wouldn't it be a lot easier to just create a ray that disintegrates people than to create an actual teleporter? 

How did we actually find that far away planet anyway, and how come no one's ever heard from the people that supposedly went there?

You can imagine how that book might go.

It's actually a lot like this movie.

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You see,  you are given two choices when you're about to turn 30. You can either go to the Carousel and take your chances of being renewed. Remember that everyone thinks a lot of people are actually being renewed even though they have no evidence.

You can also run. There are policemen that are called Sandmen that are always on the look for runners. People that run are heading for a way out of the city.  Most people don't actually think that there is a way out of the city though.

 Sandmen think that they are the good guys who are defending people from making a terrible choice when they could just go to Carousel and be renewed.

The city is controlled by a computer and it is the computer that tells people what to do.

The computer eventually tells Logan to go find the place called Sanctuary because the computer thinks that a lot of people actually are escaping and that they have found a gathering place outside of the city. This is shocking news to Logan because he doesn't think that there actually is an outside world.

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The computer sends Logan on a chase to find the Sanctuary. In order to do this, it changes his age so that his light begins to blink. 

However,  the computer is unable to realize what this would actually do to a person when he would realize that his life may actually end soon if things don't work out.

 Logan ends up being earnest in his attempt to escape,  finding a female partner who is rather beautiful.

It's a fantastic chase full of all kinds of beautiful colors and amazing scenes..

This movie will really keep you on the edge of your seat. I would put it up against any movie made today despite the fact the visuals aren't up to today's standards.

Having said that,  it actually does have some really cool visuals.

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Check out this robot. Overwhelming is he not?

Seriously though,  I really think anybody that likes science fiction even a little bit will really love this movie.

It remains my top ten  science fiction movies and I will definitely watch it many more times before the year is over.

 Logan's Run is awesome and it still runs relevant today.