HTF Blu-ray Review: Logan's Run - Page 2

I saw the Vulcan salute, first time i saw this. Funny, that he did it, and worse that we knew what it was.

Some special effects never become dated.

Just viewed this last night, and am pretty happy with the image quality, even though it does seem a bit softer than I had hoped for. I didn't notice the same artifacts that are on the DVD, however the increased resolution did make me notice a few things I hadn't before, like Jessica wearing leotards. :)

One other '70s film that really needs a new release is Outland, as the DVD used the old LD transfer which wasn't great to begin with.

I'd like to see Outland remastered too. But it was released in 1981.

Yeah, that would be late '70s then. :)

I picked this one up as a blind-buy to get over the $25 marker for Super Saver Shipping on Amazon. The minature work with the city exteriors doesn't hold up at all in 1080P, but

 

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Having just recently watched Walkabout on Blu, it was a suprise to see Jenny Agutter pop up again so soon.

As I remember the minatures did not hold up on 35mm, but the rest of the story made up for that.

 

Apparently, most posters here didn't read Nolan's novel.  It's always a problem to explain situations in a movie according to the supposed equivalents in the original novel (see Blade Runner), so I won't do it.

 

I happened to have read the novel before I saw the movie (and I did like the movie a lot, the cheesy effects were somehow acceptable back then).

 

Those who want to know about the differences between the script and the novel, and how (many of) those came into existence, here's a (dated) Logan's Run tribute page, still up, never finished, but still pretty informative. I don't know anything about the author of that site though.

 

 

Cees

I read the book  back in the day. Still have it. Never read the other 2 or 3...that came after it.

 

Wasnt last day 20 in the book?

 

Michael York was pushing it with "looking" 30. For the life of me, i couldnt think of any good male actors in the 70s, that were young 20s, who could carry a film.

 

21, IIRC. The color of the hand crystal changed three times, one color for the first seven years, green for the second seven years, red for the last seven years.

Watched this a couple weeks back. The PQ is what it is, but the 5.1 audio is a real treat, with Jezza Goldsmith's goofy electronic score pulsing out of the rear speakers.

This was one of the catalog titles I was most looking forward to last year, yet re-watching it shortly after it was released left me disappointed.

The Bd is a big improvement over the earlier disc in almost every way, but surprisingly the audio is more impressive than the PQ- which I found odd since the earlier disc is awful now in terms of video quality.

Unfortunately, I just didn't connect with the film this time the way I have in the past.

 

Hopefully when I get around to watching this again in a few years, I'll enjoy it just as much as I used to.

 

I am very happy that I now have most of Jenny Agutters major films in HD (she also has a nice supporting role in The Eagle Has Landed which is available in a very nice looking, region free UK import).

Cees, you'll be interested in this:

 

http://www.tfaw.com/blog/2009/11/19/william-f-nolan-talks-logans-run-last-day/

Great find, Will! Thanks for supplying that link.

 

 

Cees