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I had a similar reaction seeing Logans Run as a kid on TV (it must have been edited pretty aggressively as the movie is very racy). I had no idea what I had wa
by jordanb 3y ago
I had a similar reaction seeing Logans Run as a kid on TV (it must have been edited pretty aggressively as the movie is very racy).
I had no idea what I had watched but I remember this show about these people who are stuck inside a mall and can never go outside ever. It really affected me incredibly deeply and filled me with melancholy whenever I thought about it.
Finally in College I was renting old sci-fi and watching it, and as I was watching Logans Run I suddenly realized that it was the show I had seen as a child about the people who couldn't go outside.
A lot of 70s dystopian sci-fi hits pretty hard to be honest. Two more that come off as incredibly prescient are The Network (about a media company that will do anything for viewership) and THX1138 (about people who take drugs to control all their emotions, confess their sins to chatbots, and masturbate to porn every night).
- jamiek88 3y ago>about people who take drugs to control all their emotions, confess their sins to chatbots, and masturbate to porn every night Woah. Prescient.
- xen2xen1 3y agoAnd, of course, being a film school movie by George Lucas if I recall correctly.
- ildjarn 3y agoA Boy and His Dog is another one.
- chasil 3y ago...which was written by author Harlan Ellison, also notable for the Star Trek (TOS) episode known as "The City on the Edge of Forever." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_Ellison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_Ellison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Forever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Foreve...
- aidenn0 3y agoAnd the short story that gave me nightmares as a kid: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...
- retrocryptid 3y agoI keep calling it "A Dog and His Boy."
- readingnews 3y ago[dead]