Logan's Run is a canonical dystopian film about a future where everybody is young and beautiful and gets ritualistically sacrificed at age 30. The protagonist Logan escapes from the computer-controlled city when he is prematurely aged in order to infiltrate the resistance of people who have reportedly escaped the city prior to their scheduled executions. He discovers that he is the first to do so. (All previous attempts were foiled by a psychopathic robot named "Box" whose timeless charge it is to freeze things.)
Once outside of the city, Logan, along with his necessary female companion, encounters an old man with a lot of cats who has never heard of the city or of any people other than his parents. They take him back to the city to "prove" the habitability of the outside world and "free" the city's inhabitants from their lives of drugs, sex, and carefree youth. The old man is not able to join them because he's too fat (I'm guessing), but Logan manages to destroy the city by presenting the patriarchal computer with what passed for a paradox in the 70's.
Paradox: bane of all 23rd century computers designed before 1977!
This was actually an entertaining movie. It's the movie that Zardoz wanted to be. If you haven't seen it, you should.
There looks to be a remake in production. Extrapolating from the track record for remakes of perfectly good 70's films (**ahem**ahem**), this one will probably suck.
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I want to know what the paradox was
***SPOILER ALERT***
Logan informs the computer that there is no resistance of people who have escaped the city. They were all frozen by Box. This is contradictory to what the computer has already determined as fact but also determines via mindprobe that Logan is telling the truth. That's the "paradox."
So rather than assimilate new information and reconsider its previous position, the computer blows up. Just like many people.
***END SPOILER***
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