LOGAN'S RUN (1976) *** I understand that there are just a few horriffic holes in the plot, that the acting and script rarely warm mediocre, that the plot doesn't even follow a novel that was probably ludicrous in the first place, and that most of the ideas are lifted from somewhere else anyway. Doesn't matter, it's good. Michael York is pretty much himself throughout and Jenny Agutter, though more consistent in most of her other roles, is sweet and good and has some moments and looks good in green. The only acting of merit, and even it only in a variety show of strange mannerisms way, is when Peter Ustinov shows up with all his dumb cats. Watching Farrah Fawcett stumble through a few lines as difficult as "I remember...I remember" is funny in its own right, but terribly more so when you realize that she had a reasonably intelligent nation captivated to the point where she adorned half the walls in the country, and even I had a t-shirt. But the sets are very cool, this is what special effects and such could have grown into that would have been better than computer graphics (ok, yes I notice that it's obviously a toy train track when you look close, and yes the close-ups are clearly a mall in Texas). Some of Jerry Goldsmith's incidental music, particularly inside the city, is excellent, not a direction that contemporary music could have taken to be better, but it was after all already in about the perfect place. They did this to show us how the youth culture might go wrong, thank God they didn't show us the '80s. "Beloved husband, Beloved wife."
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