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Old 12-11-2001, 01:30 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Wonderful Sci-Fi Flick They Don't Show Much Anymore.

LOGAN'S RUN: In the future, to curb the dilemma of overpopulation in a future Domed City, the Govrnment fosters the Myth that if you die on The Carousel--at age Thirty--you will be reborn again and have anew young life ! No thirty-one year old-timers.

Anyway, Logan--despite all the special priviledges he's getting as a Policeman for tracking down "runners" who chose not to jump into The Carosel--for "renewal"--either they like they old self or, more likely--they realize it's a scam !

Ahhh! How does the Gov't know you are turning 30, did somebody design a an OS with Spyware, a browser with hidden files....Hmmm--v-e-r-y close.

At birth you are implanted with a chip in your palm that changes colors and flickers to I.D. you. So you jump in the Carousel for -errr, "Renewal"--OR RUN FOR YOUR LIFE !

Well, Logan, somehow--he runs into an attractive 29 N counting Year-old who tells him of a place outside the Dome where the Government-Computers--can't track.

Interesting to watch Logan --little-by-little--and against his profession, indoctrination--as all Citizens receive about "Renewal" on The Carousel-- starts to investigate the scam and slowly begins to have some doubtsabout whether he's doing the right thing.

Worse, Logans palm chip is starting to change colors.
And only a few "wise elder Ones" are allowed to skip a joy ride down the Carousal for "renewal"!

Ahhh! The adventures on the way to the Out-side !

Interesting Cameo by Charlie's Angels Farrah Fawcett Majors as Plastic Surgeon who gets suspicious about operating on a (The Cop or his Girlfriend?) and tries to zap them with surgical lasers.
Don't know if they even had them then !

Won't give away the outcome and don't anybody dare !

ANYHOW, Any other screen Gems they don't show much anymore or at all you'd like to share ?

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Old 12-11-2001, 09:31 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Classic movie that could really be re-done well, unlike Planet of The Apes. "There is no sanctuary".

Check out "Silent Running" with a young Bruce Dern for a good Sci-fi space flick also. It features the original Artoo units that inspired George Lucas.
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Old 12-11-2001, 11:47 AM   #3 (permalink)
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rather check out his daughter , Laura Dern,Toadman.

Err........out of intellectual interest about the heritability of acting talent, sorta of like "The Bernoulli Family".....of mathematicians..

I 've seen it and and there was this other young actor I recall...
HYDROPONICS...

Howsabout "FORBIDDEN PLANET which was a remake of Shakespeare's The Tempest with Freud thrown in!

This ancient civilization "The Krell" build these huge engines --"energey without instrumentality" but are some how disappeared.

Eons later Dr. Mobius, with his intellectual daughter played by blond starlet--help out here--are the only surviver's of the original expedition.

Well Walter Pidgeon lands there --meets with Dr. Mobius, meets with Dr. Mobius' daughter, meets with Robey the Robot--who produces Scotch on demand for the visitors , escpecually Earl Holloman.

Naturally the "force" on the Planet awakens and starts knocking off the Expedition who remain against Dr. Mobius' orders to get the F outta there.

Will only hint at ending but it seems the Krells educational system was to elevate your IQ to two million with this machine; the good Doc had put himself in it and elevated his Conscious mind !

Freud is telling me I should say no more about another wonderful sci-fi flick they don't show much any more.

PSYCHOANALYTICD G

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The best part of Logan's Run was seeing Farrah Fawcett running, wearing only a sheet and some sandles.

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MegalosSkylaki,

The young starlet your thinking of is Anne Francis.

Check this site. ---> http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue39/classic.html

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Logan's Run...
As always, the book was much better than the movie.
But pretty good effects for a flic made almost 30 years ago.

Well...I didn't think much of "Box."
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Old 12-11-2001, 12:27 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Standard Hospital garb for Surgeons with a busy practice.

Hey! What kind of Doc are you ?

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Daffy Computer error.
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Of course,DocHopper may have been "out-takes" shown on late nite Internet...

To advance your medical knowledge even further, check out YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE with a young Sean Young as Dr. Stephanie Brody, who of course, is dying of a fatal disease which only another Intern can cure.

Recommended only for serious Anatomy students !

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Sorry, The Ghost in The Machine struck gain. With apologies to all.

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