Logan's Run Film Analysis

On 1976, the film Logan’s Run was released into theatres based on the novel of the same title. Since the release, the film has gotten multiple good and terrible reviews regarding its plot and its special effects. The film won a Special Effects Academy Award and was nominated for Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration. After watching Logan’s Run, it was evident that the special effects used in the film were terrible if you were to compare it to todays special effects. Since it was mostly computer based back then, it was clear which scenes were added through computer such as the scene of when the frozen cave was collapsing, where I saw blue pixelated curves around the boulders and rocks. There was also the time when the director
didn’t hide their equipment intelligently and so the camera was able to spot the origin of the effects. This was the time when Logan and Francis were chasing a “runner” near the beginning of the movie and gunshots were bursting out of the railing on the ground beneath the actors. But since technology and special effects have grown so much in the past couple decades, it would be more fair to based my opinion off the plot of the film.
Sometime in the past, The New York Times wrote that the film is less interested in logic than in gadgets and spectacles and I couldn’t agree more. Some elements of the plot were interesting and creative like the time when Jessica dropped the key in the pond which would eventually lead to Francis’s death. But overall I found that the director focused more on silly futuristic technologies and innovations such as the time of the introduction of the robot who tried to freeze “runners”. Although the movie started off well, I felt like the storyline really when downhill afterwards.