Looking up 40 minutes after #monsterdon ended, realizing I've been continuing to talk about the movie for 40 minutes 👌

@jonny Well, that, and I don't think Computer cared much about it. I don't see it having a sexuality or anything of the sort. It'd be much more focused on the big picture.

"Hm, they like the sex. Is it affecting city systems. No. Well, that's fine, have fun with that."

#monsterdon #LogansRun

What I want to know is: Did the movie Logan's Run in any way influence the creation of the Cats musical? #monsterdon

(Like, possibly by getting a bunch of people to read TS Eliot)

Can we also make #DrunkMonsterdon a thing? It may already be, anyway.

#Monsterdon

@trixter Pretty sure that's how I saw it and : a lot. They cut a lot. Also the gay man who smiles at Logan on the Circuit was a big surprise when I saw it uncut.

#monsterdon #LogansRun

🤔 I feel like this movie was run *a lot* on the Sci-Fi Channel in the 90s — I didn’t watch it but I remember seeing ads. How much boobie did they have to cut and how much did they just blur? #monsterdon

@bunnyhero yep, the Logan's Run TV show is also on Internet Archive! #Monsterdon
https://archive.org/details/LogansRunSeries

YES! There is a real font! https://www.myfonts.com/collections/logan-five-font-the-northern-block

Edit: the one above is not quite right, apparently the actual one used for the computer displays is [Edit2: I have not found a good link for it that does not to be some kind of spammy linkfarm. The name of the font is Huit Medium]

#Monsterdon #LogansRun

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@jonny Oh no, he's explicitly not. He's a descendant of some other survivor group - the last one that he knows of.

#monsterdon #LogansRun

@moira makes perfect sense with everyone actually having bugs in their life clocks and stuff too. and so many runners being able to escape - like you can read that either as a sort of continual testing or as it just malfunctioning being able to track them. did the movie explain how the old man got out there or not? i might have missed it. i assumed he was just like actually a successful runner #monsterdon

@Configures However, you're right, it is both incredibly white _and_ kinda eugenicist.

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@jonny Exactly, that kind of thing. It really fills itself out once you realise the key thing.

#monsterdon #LogansRun

@sean @Taweret

I saw this in the theater in the 1970s. Or rather the first 15 minutes. Spent the rest of the time puking in the bathroom. (not because of the film, but food poisoning).
They refunded my dollar.

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@moira so like at the end when it's crashing, it isn't really crashing, it's just like making a very clumsy state transition into open city.

then also the fact that nobody remembers anything about the past and the city has no kind of education or training to get them ready to go outside is also a bug, normally it would be doing that but there was like some weird error when it looped through the first cycle of the carousel program that crashed the education system. maybe that's what the abandoned zone for rascals and misbehaving youth was supposed to be - a school #monsterdon

i admit i have way too much headcanon about a movie that really just isn't all that good.

#monsterdon #LogansRun

@blogdiva Maybe the POC survivors had their own dome over near Anacostia #monsterdon

after all this? went on to found Logan’s Roadhouse #monsterdon

@Taweret They'll be fine at first as they cannibalize all those bodies in cold storage. I assume there are tens of thousands in there #monsterdon

In person commentary: This doesn't pass the Bechdel test because Holly & Jessica only talk about Logan and then we're out of named female characters.

#Monsterdon

There isn't even a need for carousel anymore, because it's been so long (with so many pointless deaths) that the world _is_ habitable again.

City has achieved its goal.

#monsterdon #LogansRun

@Lazarou That sounds like a humans problem

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@Newpa_Hasai ahhh I see, yeah that makes sense, thanks

Though I wouldn't expect that most people are doing that...? 🤷

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Thank you permission for the Old Possum.
#Monsterdon #LogansRun

At the end, we couldn't hear the old guy over the music, but I'm pretty sure he was shouting, "The girls think I'm cute! I'm getting laid! I'm getting laid!" Logan was grinning, but these people have casual sex! He'll die of a heart attack before dawn. This was a sad, sad ending.

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@Taweret@octodon.social a superb #Monsterdon everyone!

PLEASE! Observe social distancing zoomers! Us old people like our privacy.
#Monsterdon #LogansRun

You can only support so many people at a time in this semi-closed ecosystem you've got, and the _entire thing_ is a breeding pool.

The _entire thing_.

Carousel is a test of whether you're fit to enter adulthood _outside_, once that's possible again.

But Computer never registers outside as being inhabitable again, because so many things are now broken.

#monsterdon #LogansRun

i might have to read the book now (that's how i felt after DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS too) #monsterdon

1) The outside sensors have been down for centuries because people just _forgot about them_ and didn't bother - much like Box and his fish, or later, birds, or later, runners.

2) But why have outside sensors? All kinds of reasons, including testing for

habitability.

So let's say the world is fucked and this is a vault, but not a vault-tec vault, a serious one.

At first, the outside world is going to be _real hard_ to live in. So you make a straining system for the people who go outside _first_.

And that test is carousel.

#monsterdon #LogansRun

@Lazarou I thought cats have evolved beyond the need for pants

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Didn't think I was going to end tonight's #monsterdon with 'ok it's about time I read those TS Eliot poems'

I kind of love that movie. Thanks all for watching along! Thanks @Taweret for hosting! I've got to get busy memorizing more T. S. Elliot. #monsterdon #LogansRun

a) what an interesting movie. there wasn't one second of that film where i wasn't missing #Monsterdon commentary because i was glued to the movie. b) what???

If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie event. See the post at the top of this thread for more info.

They go back into the ruins of the city to find food and water and whatnot and find half a dozen be-carosel'd nerdlings floating helplessly halfway up the blender bottle like "...A little hand here please?" #Monsterdon

As always, thanks @Taweret for hosting!

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I have one final comment on the plot of #LogansRun #monsterdon

@Lazarou It all hinges on whether they manage to invent pants

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Who doesn't love a computerized system that, when challenged with reality, destroys its known universe? Who designed it to explode? There was no QA whatsoever.

#Monsterdon

"Ya live by the dome, ya die by the dome." -old dome saying #Monsterdon

The End
(Explosion)
#monsterdon

This movie ended exactly where it started.

#Monsterdon #LogansRun

Bad news, old man! Now you have to share your city with a bunch of helpless 22 year olds, and you bet your ass they're whiny as hell

#Monsterdon

Also Pete's gotta train a couple thousand kids to survive in the post-atomic horror, he's gonna have a busy retirement. #Monsterdon

they had no mythology about why they were reliquidating themselves when they turned 30? they just did it because the computer said so and never bothered to create a myth about it? that is the least believable part of the movie bc people would have made up some shit to explain that in like the first day #monsterdon

@lytta@hachyderm.io I hope he makes it back to his cats.

#Monsterdon #LogansRun

Anyway, none of these people know how to grow food.

#monsterdon

And that is how we built a society based of Cats
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oh good the old guy actually gets to see a bunch of people. he's the one whose ending I care about here #monsterdon

Everything we’ve ever known is destroyed. Our life of debauchery is over. We’ll grow old and ugly. Our bodies will fall apart. There will be consequences. But, hey, we’re free. #Monsterdon

Cats must have gotten into the computer. #monsterdon

So, why did our entire arkology explode and collapse, destroying our entire civilization?

Well, we put a guy into the interrogation machine, but he knew about cats and old men.

#monsterdon

"well, we were going to show you all the young people, but we accidentally blew them up" #monsterdon

HAH, I didn't notice that "Exit" sign in my first vieweing of this movie.

The burdens of filming a movie in a mall.

#Monsterdon

Wait is Logan logical-paradoxing the computer? Wow I'm kind of impressed by this plot development (and not at all by the way in which it's being presented)

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I keep yelling “WHAT IS EXPLODING?!” Because what exactly is exploding?! #Monsterdon

We were in the Dallas mall, then the bombed out mall from next year, now the Antarctic mall #monsterdon #logansrun

Logan broke the AI it is hallucinating #Monsterdon

Suddenly Logan can’t miss. #Monsterdon

"People have never seen a cat?" My feelings too old man. Utter disgust at people who have never pet a cat.
#Monsterdon #LogansRun

state what you found MARYLAND OKAY WE FOUND MARYLAND

#monsterdon #LogansRun

ChatGPT disagrees

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How to Win Friends and Influence People with Maniacal Screams by Logan 5. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Talk about your life passing before your eyes.

Hooray fun with matte paintings and weird waterfall set?
#Monsterdon #LogansRun

"...you sit upon a carousel of lies!"

#Monsterdon #LogansRun

Soylent Greeen is People!

#monsterdon

#monsterdon In retrospect, they probably should have had plan.

Why am I so angry? I will tell you: because #monsterdon is ever so slowly reeling me in, and I am a free agent, and can control what I participate in.

Must . . . control . . . fist . . . of . . . hashtag.

So Ustinov was only like 55 years old in this movie and they are treating him like he his ancient this is making me feel like a fossil #Monsterdon

#monsterdon I mean, really... why go back. Stay in paradise. Fk em.

Wow, uhhh, the "accidents" tab at this place's Wikipedia page is really something. #Monsterdon

And then they were ground to paste by a turbine. #monsterdon #LogansRun

I just tried to hold my breath for the underwater scene and passed out twice. #Monsterdon

Back inside the WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON complex, at last

#Monsterdon

"People have never seen a cat?"

Truly a dystopia.

#Monsterdon

Okay death at 30 is one thing but NEVER seeing a cat? Barbaric!! #monsterdon #LogansRun

@JenYetAgain

i think (?) the ice caves were like the frozen food refrigeration area of when that part was a fish farm #monsterdon

And then they were chopped to bits by the water turbine. The end.

#monsterdon

HOW do you know about tidal energy production to the point where you can recognize it on sight but then NOT know anything else about it #monsterdon

"I think it's our only chance," he says without looking for any other chances.

#Monsterdon #LogansRun

Are we there yet, papa smurf?
Not far now
Are we there yet, papa smurf?
Not far now
#monsterdon

DC-California

#monsterdon

This beach is uhhhhh somewhere, I guess?

*Maybe* this could be down in the Outer Banks or something?

#Monsterdon

I really half expect at any moment Peter Ustinov is just going to start singing Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! #Monsterdon

"How far away is it?" Not that far really. It's just a model. #monsterdon #LogansRun

@lytta Sky burial, but cats

#Monsterdon #LogansRun

"Should we get going soon?"

"As soon as it gets light"

What makes you think the sun, that you've never seen before, will ever come back

#Monsterdon

Surely, if people see this mumbling old man they'll understand the virtue of old age!

#monsterdon

Oooh! Fighting with a tattered American flag. This is cinema!
#Monsterdon #LogansRun

I love that Pete's just bumbling around in the background of this scene :D #Monsterdon

@swelljoe This must be making up for all the plot development that went missing from other #Monsterdon movies

#Monsterdon #LogansRun
#Lost

Some some dude is upset a woman made his friend change? 🙄

#monsterdon

@blogdiva "Stop the Steal!"

He would be one of those too, he's a cop! #monsterdon

We beat the shit out of him with an American flag. "Don't you get it, Francis? This is FREEDOM." #monsterdon

"Oh hey. I met the man in this painting. he's like twenty feet tall. Very quiet chap. Likes to sit down."
#Monsterdon #LogansRun

it's ok, you'll be RENEWED!

#Monsterdon
#Logansrun

omg be careful of the cats!!

#monsterdon