Rewatched TMP last night
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There were other plenty of other visual effects besides the holograms, including miniature work, matte paintings, and composite shots. The hologram scene was noteworthy, but do we know that was the only reason LR received the special award for visual effects?
Agree. All the visual effects.
People just forget Close Encounters altogether, I think. In the late 80s my high school physics teacher gave away a bunch of old Starlog magazines and of course I eagerly read them. But these cryptic references in late-70s/1980-or-so articles to something named CE3K left me just baffled. Some obscure or planned-but-cancelled Star Wars robot? But that didn't make sense in context. (Never assume your audience knows your acronyms, folks.)
Ah, now, my love had never seen Logan's Run up to a couple months ago and I was able to see her watch it for the first time. And I saw it for the first time in a decade-plus. You forget how after a pleasant hour of puttering around the movie goes off the rails, then goes off the rails again, then goes farther off the rails, then gets upended completely when an actual certified actor with charisma and the ability to do line readings gets on stage, then goes off the rails again and then what even is going on? Oh, what a grand experience.
Technically the Logan's Run holograms would be a special effect, not a visual effect, since they were accomplished on set.
That's why LOGAN'S RUN strikes me as a prime candidate for a remake. It's fondly remembered by fans of a certain age, and has lots of cool bits and ideas, but it hasn't aged particularly well and is hardly an untouchable masterpiece. Nostalgia aside, you wouldn't exactly be stomping over sacred ground.
There's room for a new, updated take on the material.
(Let it be duly noted that I own the movie on DVD and watch it every few years, mostly for nostalgia's sake.)
I would give it a try. There are rumors about a remake for years and nothing came out so far?
I don't know who's going to be Logan. Or Jessica, for that matter.......
OK, so what I should also be asking is, whether the holograms figured into its Special Achievement Academy Award at all. Galileo7 claimed that the Oscar had been for the holograms, and I should have questioned that, as well, besides questioning whether it was for those exclusively.
They've been talking about it forever, as in decades now.
My own thought would be to lower the age limit from 30 to 21 (as it was in the original novel) so you could cast younger, more CW-friendly actors and go after the HUNGER GAMES audience.
The movie raised the age to 30 so they could cast older actors, but nowadays you probably want to go the opposite direction, maybe even lower the age to 18 . . ..
Oh no, not you too with that youth mania....
From a marketing point of view it would make sense.
Seriously, the character's age is not really important. If there were a Logan's Run remake, I would go to the cinema. I can't judge what I haven't seen yet.
I'm not especially fond of the Under the Dome kiddies for instance, including Junior Rennie actor Alexander Koch. He's not too young, but too attractive. I enjoy King's original novel with all those crazed characters.
I'm still waiting for Thundarr the Barbarian to get the big screen treatment! Post-apocalyptic wasteland with magic thrown in, it would easily do $500 million!
Oh no, not you too with that youth mania....
From a marketing point of view it would make sense.
Seriously, the character's age is not really important. If there were a Logan's Run remake, I would go to the cinema. I can't judge what I haven't seen yet.
Ah, but in this case, "youth mania" is the whole point of the story, so it actually makes sense to cast younger--just to emphasize that this is a future where nobody is allowed to live past their youth or gain any sort of maturity.
It's all about a youth-centric, hedonistic society in which everyone is young--and mature adults are extinct.
It's a MTV utopia--or dystopia, depending on how old you are.
Bryan Singer's name has been attached to it since the early 2000's. I suppose he'll get right on it after he finishes his Battlestar Galactica remake, which has been in development hell for about as long, lol.
That makes me an old bag with almost 37. Let's face it, I am an old bag.
Which means you were only two when LOGAN'S RUN came out.
I saw it in high school--on its original release.
Good call on lowering the renewal age in nuLR to 18, Greg. I think that could really work.
Thanks Maurice for clarifying that about the holograms.
So the visual effects Oscar mentioned in the imdb was probably for everything else. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/awards 
Agree. Twenty-one was in the novel, but eighteen is better for a nuLR film.
Imagine some pretty young seventeen-year-old encountering a wrinkled old man for the first time. It would be even more of a shock than in the first movie!
That makes me an old bag with almost 37. Let's face it, I am an old bag
Which means you were only two when LOGAN'S RUN came out.
I saw it in high school--on its original release.
It was the first PG movie I got to see in the theater, begged the folks to go see it (I was about to turn eight).
Before it started, I can remember my dad telling me, "You cry and we are leaving...". No tears, however, I think they were a little "oops" when Jenny Agutter stripped naked.
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