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Logan's Run (1976) Movie Reaction | FIRST TIME WATCHING | Film Commentary | Would You Run?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2024
- Last Day, Capricorn Fifteens... Carousel Begins.
Will you go to Carousel or will you run?
It's FINALLY here! After many requests for it (and a few technical hitches).
I love this film, with it's wonderful sci-fi story and eerie nature.
Thank you for joining me whilst I watch Logan's Run for the very first time!
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54:26 Review & Trivia
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The lines Peter Ustinov quoted as the old man about cats come from T. S. Eliot's book of poems called "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" most people will know the poems as the songs from CATS The Musical.
I was 12 when this film was released and dragged my mother to take me. The story and scale of the production were mind-blowing and the miniature effects felt like miniatures but were impressive nonetheless. When Farrah Fawcett-Majors appeared, the audience all gasped and whispered, and I said, “It’s Farrah-Fawcett-Majors!”, to which my mother said, “How do you know who that woman is?” I recognized her from commercials and as the stunning wife of Lee Majors from ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’, and there wasn’t a single American kid in 1976 who didn’t love that show.
A few weeks later, Charlie’s Angels aired as a TV movie. It was a huge hit and became a bigger hit TV show that fall. Farrah became a megastar.
Shame that lee majors (a very poor actor)beat farrah
@@karlydoc …I knew James Orr was convicted for beating her and there’s reports about Ryan O’Neal, but I’d never heard anything re: Lee. That would be very sad indeed.
@@christopherleodaniels7203 I read that he beat her when reports of her cancer was in the papers,and the insinuation was that was part of the reason why they divorced.
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"I hate outside!" - everyone born after 2000 🤣
Haha! Very, very true 🤣
@@MoviesWithMarty this is what is going to happen to evolution believe man monkeys, they will be brainwashed by the Ai FAKE GOD of SF BUDHISM reincarnation in to a clone the Indian wheel of life is the modernized in to the carousel.
I don't have that reaction after being trapped in a shopping mall. But the summers can suck in the SE United States, very humid.
I saw Logan's Run in the theater in 1976 when I was 14. Today is my 63rd birthday. Two things that I remember about it at the time were that I didn't understand what was happening to Logan during his interrogation towards the end. I didn't realize that he was busting the computer's circuitry. The second and most important thing was JENNY AGUTTER. She seemed to me to be the most beautiful woman that I had ever seen. I still pretty much believe that 48 years later. She is the main reason that I follow many things about the film. I am a member of 4 different Jenny Agutter sites on Facebook. She has a huge legion of fans. Quite the ideal woman. ❤❤❤️
The old man is played by Peter Ustinov, probably most famous for his role in the movie Spartacus. Great actor.
Love Spartucus. The scene where Spartucus crucifed is beautiful.
It's really strange to see reaction videos sometimes. Kids talking about "who's this guy?" about straight up icons of cinema. As prolific as he was, how in the hell can Peter Ustinov be news to anyone? The Ian McKellen of his day?
Great in Spartacus",but even better as Nero in "Quo Vadis'.
The old man was Peter Ustinov. He had a long, illustrious career on stage and film and won The Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Stanley Kubrick’s film Spartacus (1960) in 1961.
also famous from playing Hercule Poirot.
His Nero in Quo Vadis was as iconic as Joachim Phoenix's Comodus in Gladiator for many years.
One of the best actors ever!
@@JulioLeonFandinho Agreed - a wonderful writer as well. A brilliant, funny man.
Back in the 80's when I went to sci fi conventions, Logans Run was probably #3 in popularity behind Star Wars and Star Trek. Lots of people dressed up as Sandmen and girls in short flowy dresses.
Same here fellow Sci-Fi fan. I went to so many conventions run by Creation Productions in the 90's at hotels in N.Y.C. I saw one or two men dressed as Sandmen. Oh those were the days.
They kept the Sandman title for the movie, but in the book, the Sandmen worked in the section called Deep Sleep, where people would go to be put to sleep. The Sandmen would go after the runners, the ones that wanted to live. Oh, and as someone mentioned, the book had them go to 21 years.
Sandman is an old name given to a fictional character who brings sleep. The idea is that he drops sand in your eyes to cause sleep. The dried tears in the corners of the eye are called sand in this mythology.
Also in the book there were no domed cities but they had the mazecars that could travel across the globe in minutes. But nowhere to hide from the DS, at least nowhere on Earth. They used Argos space station and launched ships from cape Steinbeck. The second book was actually good following up some years later returning to Earth after the fall of the Thinker. The third book was a warped rewrite of the original story in an alternative world controlled by aliens.
Peter Ustinov starred as Hercule Poirot in several Agatha Christie film adaptations in the 70's into the early 80's I believe.
Loved "Death on the Nile"!
I know him best for his role in "Spartacus".
Interesting that Peter Ustinov played both King Richard and the character you clipped saying, "King Richard"; i.e., Prince John. He's been in a lot of stuff and was also a writer and director. You may have seen him in _Spartacus_ or as Hercule Poirot in, among other things, _Death on the Nile._
The introduction to the book says:
The seeds of the Little War were planted in a restless summer during the mid-1960s, with sit-ins and student demonstrations as youth tested its strength. By the early 1970s, over 75 percent of the people living on Earth were under twenty-one years of age. The population continued to climb-and, with it, the youth percentage. In the 1980s, the figure was 79.7 percent. In the 1990s, 82.4 percent. In the year 2000-critical mass.
I love/am terrified about situations like this. Suddenly thousands of people are FREE, and they have no idea how to grow food, or make fire, or govern themselves.
Its Peter Ustinoff, famous British actor,
I saw this in the movie theater in 1976 with my Mom and older brother. I was 7 years old. I was totally enthralled throughout the whole film especially when Jenny Agutter got nude. I can remember eavesdropping on a conversation with my Mom and Dad later on in the day about how she had taken me and my brother to see it and she said she really thought it should have been rated R (it was rated PG). To this day it remains one of my all time favorite films.
Thanks for doing this sadly underappreciated movie.
In the book the death clock goes at 21, but they couldn't find enough actors.
GOOF: No way would Logan close that hatch with that much water going through it.
Peter Ustinov improvised much of his dialogue.
Jenny Agutter played in "American Werewolf in London"
"Genesis II" has awesome miniature effects.
The music was by Jerry Goldsmith, an absolute master of sci-fi and horror scores. He also did Alien, Star Trek and Planet of the Apes to name a few...
Ooooh, this was one of the most satisfying reactions I've watched in a long time! Thank you Marty, for returning me to my fourteen-year-old self. I've showed this to some of my young cinephile friends and they didn't care for the 70s cheesiness of it, but you reacted pretty much the way I did back in 1976. Until Star Wars came out the next year, this movie RULED. The first thing I did was run out and buy the soundtrack album... it was my introduction to Jerry Goldsmith and I've loved his music ever since. I lived in Dallas at the time so I was very familiar with some of the locations. I was particularly fascinated with seeing the Fort Worth Water Gardens in a film with the ocean behind it, since in reality it is smack dab in the middle of downtown Fort Worth. We used to pass the Zale building all the time on the highway. So that all just added to my teenage excitement of the film, and I still enjoy revisiting it from time to time. I do remember seeing it on the big screen that the special effects looked even faker... some of the shots of the domes and miniature city have some depth of field issues and nobody back then seemed to know how to miniaturize water properly like they can do now with cgi. But...still loved it. This reaction is exactly why I love watching movie reactions! Thank you so much.
I was 12 and even though I was Sci Fi crazy, my dad saw the movie poster and even though it was a PG, he thought it looked a little too "adult" for his little girl. I was so upset! My mom felt bad, so she bought me the book and told me not to let my dad see it! It was funny because the book has soft core porn moments! lol I did get to see the "making of" special that they showed a week before the Oscars and then they gave in and let me see it around that time when it came to our local theater again for a week. I remember loving the movie, but being disappointed at how different the sanctuary storyline was. It took me a long time to enjoy the movie to its fullest because of that. I really enjoyed the next two books as well. It's been nice talking with someone my age about this movie!
Thanks for your comments.
The Book is a short read and amazingly brings so much more. So the movie almost stands alone as another version and also a great 70's time capsule.
Loving your reactions and trivia to the older sci-fi films. I would like to suggest 1960 version of “The Time Machine”.
There's a movie called Spirit of 76 where they make fun of the naming style of this movie. Instead of Logan 5, they have names like Heinz 57, and Chanel 5.
Actually, this was early in Farah's career. She is a minor character but she was big when the movie was out so they promoted it has having her. I loved the TV series a lot. There was one episode where a man from the past traveled forward. His project collected data on the coming war for retrieval using their time travel mechanism. His intent was to retrieve the information and return to the past and use that to avoid the war. Logan and Jessica and REM received a message back; the cause of the war was the revelation of time travel. Awesome idea!
Ironically Farrah's career took off and ended at around age 30. She was like the IT girl for about 1 year wasn't she?
In the novel, the palmflower crystal is Yellow from Birth-thru-7, Blue from 8-thru-14, Red from 15-thru-21, with it blinking RED-BLACK-RED-BLACK-etc. on Lastday. When Lastday ends, it goes fully Black, and that's when the citizen is officially declared a Runner and is tracked down and killed by a Sandman.
In the film, there are 4 stages of life for an average citizen: Clear from Birth-thru-7 & 1/2 ... Yellow after that until the end of the 15th year ... then Green after that until the end of the 22nd & 1/2 year ... then on Red for the last 7 & 1/2 years until Lastday, when it blinks RED-BLACK-etc. until it goes totally BLACK.
Sandmen, though, who are raised by the Computer to be set apart from ordinary citizens, are on Red for a full 10 ten years -- a third of their 30-year lifespan -- so presumably they go through their CLEAR-then-YELLOW-then-GREEN phases in just 20 years, rather than the 22 & 1/2 years ordinary citizens experience. If we imagine the City's calendar having 12 'months' named after the signs of the Zodiac ("Capricorn 15, Year of the City 2274..."), then 20 years would equal 240 zodiacal 'months', and evenly divided 3 ways would give them 80 'months' on CLEAR, 80 'months' on YELLOW, 80 'months' on Green, and then 120 'months' = 10 years on RED, etc.
There seems to be a discrepancy regarding when one is deemed a Runner. Logan's lifeclock is 'retrogrammed' so that it begins to blink RED-BLACK-etc. four years before his time should have been up. The female Runner at Cathedral, dressed in RED, has a blinking lifeclock . . . which ought to mean that she isn't a Runner yet, since they're supposed to be able to attend Carrousel as a participant -- all 36 of whom are seen showing their BLINKING lifeclocks when the Computer says, "Identify." Notice that when Francis confronts Logan and Jessica during the Raid on that 'basement'-level are that Logan had mistakenly thought was Sanctuary, Logan's left hand -- with the BLINKING lifeclock -- is positioned close to Jessica's left hand, her lifeclock being on GREEN still ("I go Red next year"); I think that Francis wrongly thinks that it is Jessica whose hand has that BLINKING lifeclock, knowing that Logan's just 26 years old, perhaps thinking that Jessica has turned 30 yet manages to wear Green-colored clothing as a way to try to fool Sandmen into assuming she's still a Green.
In theory, no 'Runner' should be 'terminated' if their lifeclock hasn't stopped blinking and hasn't gone BLACK yet. But the Sandman strike-team hitting that Runner-helping sublevel obviously interprets Logan's "Flare-Up" signal as giving them the authority to wipe out everybody there, regardless of whether or not some of them might not yet have lived a full 30-year lifespan.
As for the female Runner at Carrousel, what if she was telling Logan the truth? What if she really WAS just 22 years old, perhaps less than half a year from turning RED at 22 & 1/2? What if some 'error' had fast-forwarded her lifeclock to make it start blinking RED-BLACK nearly 8 years prematurely? What if the Computer had selected her -- for whatever reason -- to become Retrogrammed, just as it had done to Logan? I imagine futuristic clothing that knows what color to exhibit based on the wearer's lifeclock color, so that a YELLOW outfit automatically color-shifts to GREEN when the wearer turns 16, the same moment when the lifeclock changes from YELLOW to GREEN -- with a similar shift from GREEN to RED at age 22 & 1/2. Maybe this woman actually was just 22, wearing a Green dress . . . and then, suddenly, she was surprised to see her Green dress do a color-shift to Red . . . and then, checking her lifeclock, was shocked and horrified to see that it was no longer on GREEN . . . not just on RED . . . but blinking RED-BLACK-RED-BLACK. I find it odd that Logan -- who had been sent on a Top Secret mission to pretend to be a Runner, find Sanctuary and destroy it, would then be conveniently sent on another mission to hunt down and terminate this Runner in Cathedral -- right when assassins were about to murder him near the Hand at Arcade.
Curious . . .
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This actress also played the voice of the city's computer.
I had no idea! Thank you so much for letting me know Watcher, and for watching! (Funny to say with your username being that)
Great reaction! I've been waiting for someone to do a comprehensive reaction to Logan's Run--finally! Thank you!
Thank you so much, Jon! I'm so glad you love it. I really appreciate it! If you have any suggestions for films, let me know and I'll add them to the list. Its an ever growing list haha. More to come like this in the future, as it seems there's a a huge appreciation for older films!
Thank you so much for watching
@@MoviesWithMarty I don't think anyone's done "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" from 1977, which was sort of a cult hit (it's cheesy but I like it!).
My name is Logan and I was named after this movie.
NICE! What a fantastic name! The film must have had a great impact on your parents. Thank you for watching and sharing!
Since you asked... yes, portions of the movie WERE filmed in a shopping mall; specifically, the apparel mart of the Dallas Market Center in Dallas, TX. When they escape the city, the scene with Peter Ustinov was filmed at the Fort Worth Water Gardens in nearby Ft. Worth, TX (only about 60 km from the mall). The actual Fort Worth skyline is visible in the background of that scene.
I saw Logan's Run back in the day and enjoyed it as a young sci-fi fan. In many ways it captures what sci-fi film was before Star Wars hit the world the following year.
The old man was played by Sir Peter Ustinov an actor of some acclaim well before your or my time. Just like Sir Donald Pleasance.
An interesting thing about Logan's Run is that no matter how weird, unbelievable, and far out everything in the film seems, nothing in it lies outside the realms of possibility in the real world far off into the future. It would be possible for everything seen in the movie to actually happen eventually. Unlike what you see in movies such as Star Wars. Light-sabers and the Force for instance are obviously pure fantasy.
If you loved Logan's Run I would recommend. 'Equilibrium,' and 'THX-1138.' Both great movies that like Logan's Run feature protagonists trying to escape a rigidly-controlled system/society.
I've actually been to one of the filming locations multiple times even before seeing this movie. The Fort Worth Water Gardens was the shooting location for the exterior of 9f the tidal power generators.
Jenny Agutter is in An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Is she! I had no idea, not seen that one yet, but it is on my list :) Thank you Vic
49:20 "should have brought a cat" that could have been a completely different movie, if Logan had rounded up a sack full of farrel cats. For a long walk and a cold swim 🤣
Jerry Goldsmith did an excellent job with the music.
In the city, he makes extensive use of synthesizers. In the outside, he uses a traditional orchestra.
The contrast between the artificial and the natural.
That water fountain is real....somewhere out west like Arizona or New Mexiaco. Still there today.
Thank you. Yeah, it most definitely is real. I wasn't sure whilst watching, but I do check out the trivia and go through details like the fountain at the end too, mentioning where it is etc. I appreciate you letting me know though, it's a pretty interesting location, esepcially with what they had to do to get the look in the film! Thanks for watching!
Personally, I think this film has the greatest computer voice in cinema history.
When I saw LOGAN’S RUN I was 14. My impression then and now was that Carousel was bullshit. It was to give the belief that they could be renewed. I assumed that’s why there were numbers after their names.
My biggest problem with the movie, though it’s still one of my favorites, is when the computer tells him about unaccounted runners and Logan leaps right to: “So no one’s ever been renewed?” My feeling was that the unaccounted runners were ones who escaped the Sandmen and left the city. But that Logan & Jessica were the only ones to get past Box. Logan’s leap of weird logic in that scene still puzzles me.
I saw this when it first came out, I was 16 years old. That was the year I had my first job (at the public library) and got my drivers license so I could go to movies of my own choosing not just what my whole family wanted to see. It was one of my favorites from that year the others being the Dino De Laurentiis produced King Kong, At the Earth's Core with Doug McClure, and Futureworld the sequel to Westword. I also remember that I got the soundtrack album to Logan's Run because the music of the film intrigued me, the mix of orchestra and electronic was fascinating at the time. This was all the year before Star Wars came out which I took my parents and younger siblings to see and started a family appreciation for Science Fiction and Fantasy films. On a side note the only time I was ever bummed out on my birthday was when I turned 30, I hold this move entirely to blame for that.
As I now live in Dallas, I can visit a lot of the exterior sets, because most of the exteriors were all shot in the DFW area. Friggin GOLD....I watched this in the theater when I was a kid.
EDIT, because adulting is annoying.......I saw this in the theater. My 9 y/o self was absolutely fascinated by this movie, because it was easier to understand than _2001._ The idea was just golden for me.
Peter Ustinov was by the time this movie was made was an already very well established screen actor but he become a bone fide film star when he took the role of Hercule Poirot in a series of film and tv film adaptations.
The point is that outside and being free of the domed was sanctuary.
It predicted 'swipe left or swipr right, 40 years before tinder.
I get the feeling you might enjoy watching "Excalibur" (1981). It was influential for the time, but largely forgotten by now.
Another somewhat influential but forgotten film is "Altered States" (1980).
Reverting the age limit to 21? Di Caprio must have insisted hard on that 😂
I was 16 year old when this came out. Still love it.
I was 12 when I saw this in a theater. Totally fell in love with with it. Had all the posters I could find on my wall. Great reaction.
I wondered if the 'renewal ritual' was created to provide food. There couldn't have been enough runners to feed everyone.
This was my introduction to the cats poems...love Peter Ustinov's recitations, Would love to hear him do them all, but then he could turn an instruction manual into a soliloquy.
That was a lot of fun watching that journey with you. I saw that at the drive-in when I was like 8 years old, and I loved it so much I kept begging my parents to take us again and again. Must have seen it like four or five times back then, and it was always the first of a double-feature, the second movie being "Food of the Gods." We always tried to get through that one, but it was so bad we always left early haha.
I was a teenager when this came out. It was very common for people to say, "Don't trust anyone over 30". So I guess this was "what if we got rid of everyone over 30?"
You did it! many of the oldies are worth a view. Ok then, Fantastic Planet at some point will be fun. Zardoz is another... anyway to your show...
Ooh, one more thing.
I don’t recall where I learned this, but the woman runner in Cathedral did the excellent voice of the computer.
If you really want to trip out, try 'Zardoz', with Sean Connery. The most bizarre sci-fi film I've seen.
I am so happy you are reviewing this. I was obsessed with this movie, books and TV Show. I love all of it......Also, nobody is being reborn,they are being killed...In the book they had to go to sleep centers, and end at 21 years of age. That is why they are called Sandmen based on the book. Also they did not really expand on the Cubs and how they came to be like they did in the book. Also the colors tie to the differnt life cycles in the book, colors of the Life Clock change every seven years: yellow (birth-6), blue (7-13), red (14-20), red and black on Last day.
I saw this when I was like a kid ,6 yrs old.
So you can guess my age from that.
Loved it back then was a sci-fi freak.
Now much older not so much a sci-fi fanatic!
Still cool movie for the times.
Kind of like Blade runner but going after unwanted humans instead of replicants!
Marvel fans might also recognize Jenny Agutter as a member of the Council in the first Avengers movie, as well as Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
I didn’t read the book so this is speculation. I think the part that looked like a ship was growing food, bio synthetic food. At one time there must have been something or someone that transported the food to the robot on the elevator. I think the robot’s job was to freeze this food and store it for future use. As time went by these tanks where no longer used and nothing was sent to the robot’s freezer. Since his job is to freeze things he just froze whatever showed up.
Love the fact that you are watching these old classic movies. Not many reactor channels go this far back. They all should. Great stories, great actors and great visuals. A movie I hope you watch is Icve Station Zebra. Not really a sci-fi movie but it fits in the Fantastic Voyage, Andromeda Strain, time frame of the world and the Cold War era of film making.
This was brillilant!!! Its so wonderful watching someone watch this cult classic for the first time. I watched this as a child when it came out, and I keep watching it every so often. It's a brilliant film.
Fahrenheit 451 (1966) is another great futuristic dystopian movie, directed by François Truffaut.
Saw this years ago in the 70's. Now I'm into my 70's as well. I have the flick in my library, never thought it was a Great film but it has become a staple in SF films.
Jennifer Aguter screaming she hates the outside is quite funny and ironic, or maybe its even an injoke, considering the movie that made her know to world audiences is Walkabout, the story of two siblings, a teenage girl and a child boy, who get lost in the australian outback and become friends with an aboriginal teenager. She would something about the unpleasantness of the great wild
What is really crazy in the book the age is 21- so the Logan is like 16 or something... the book has some different things too like super speed travel.
I saw this as when I was 8. Then I had my grandparents take me back 4 more times to see it again in the movies!
I only learned recently that this is one book out of four! The others were never made into movies. Have to try to find the books sometime.
Another CLASSIC film with Jennie Agutter in is American Werewolf in London! HIGHLY recommended!!
I recommend a Film Peter Ustinov Produced, Directed, Co-wrote the Screen Play for and Starred in, "Billy Budd" 1962. A Black and White Film based on the short Novel by Herman Melville! It introduced Terrence Stamp as the title character. It's a Seagoing Tale of the British Navy in the 1800's.
The Old Man, Peter Ustinov, is my favourite Poirot from the 70s and 80s
Logan's Run is an ICONIC sci-fi film. I would suggest "Damnation Alley" as a post-apocalyptic film. "Roller Ball" is another good old film.
Sir Peter Ustinov was an Actor, Director, Writer winner of 2 Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Emmys and BAFTAS! He was in some of the Great Roman Epic Films "Quo Vadis" and "Spartacus"!
The old man is distinguished British actor, Peter Ustinov
Thank you so much, he's a fantastic actor. His voice is so recognisable too. Thanks for watching!
Not sure if someone mentioned it, but the view of the concrete or stone Texas waterfall had a white car pass along the upper left side. Sorry if someone mentioned it already
One movie critic here in America wrote, "This is a science-fiction film made by people who don't understand science-fiction for the amusement of other people who don't care one way or the other." Ouch! But very amusing. Critics in 1976 pretty much pounced on this one, but it was a big hit anyway. I also remember the series, but since it starred different actors I lost interest after the first couple of episodes.
in the book when you turned 21 you went to a booth and got put to sleep, gassed to death, but if you ran a sandman would come and put you to sleep.
I was a teenager when this came out and I loved the futuristic vibe and the idea of people becoming kind of brainless fools! I was into science fiction and there wasn't as many of those types of movies back then. The special effects were good for the time and of course I fell in love with Jenny Agutter being a teenager with raging hormones! Also Peter Ustinov who was the old man was a pretty big star and wasn't really that old at the time! He did a great job and he was eating remember when they first found him! Great job with the reaction, this is still one of my favorite sci fi movies of all time!
the old man is Peter Ustinov played Agatha Greste Poroit Movies and Spartacus Movie too , Jenny played awesome in American Werewolf in London 😇
I love your reaction to the the city model :) I love CGI but those old real models had a "look" about them.
I have a friend that was an extra in the mall scenes in Dallas TX
I'm a sucker for high concept old scifi... and this one is always great. Yeah, the miniatures haven't aged well and there's some goofy compositing during the whole Box segment, but that adds to the charm of it.
Logan in the book, lifes clock blacks out naturally. Sanctuary is also well known to the sandmen, and the escaped runners is also known about. So logan on his ladt day (24hrs to hand yourself to sleep shop), wants his last rush/buzz and legacy of destroying Sanctuary.
I'll never forget the movie OR the short-lived TV series. In fact, as a precocious queer boy I dearly loved Micheal York, then Gergory Harrison, TV beefcake 70's icon.
I have a few suggestions for you of rarely reacted to movies that are some of my favorites:
"Where Eagles Dare" (1968) - Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood.
"The Amateur" (1981) - John Savage and Christopher Plummer.
Thank you so much for the suggestions and for watching Castle! Very much appreciated and I haven't seen either of those, so will definitely add them to the list, they sound fantastic. Where Eagles Dare is definitely one that I've heard of, but don't know anything about either. I've really loved going in quite blind to these. Thank you again!
I first saw this movie in the early 80s when i was around 6 on a tiny Black/white TV.
Later i saw the movie again many times and it stills feels strangely captivating.
It's surprising how big the City Minature really was. It looks way smaller than it really was tbh.
The old man’s nattering on about cats is from T. S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” which is the source material for the Broadway show (and films) _Cats_ .
This is quite a good film considering its budget and original novel its based on,try other great sci -fi films from this period like" Colussus the Forbin Project","Demon Seed","Soylent Green".
Very cool to have a reaction to this! Thank you! :)
You're welcome! I hope you enjoyed the video. Thank you for watching, Tim!
The Island (2005) is a fascinating play on this.
The cat stuff and cat namimg..all that is from TS Elliots poem from which the musical "Cats" is based on.
It's interesting you actually like the "old man" part of the film. I felt like that part of the film totally broke the momentum and brings the film to a standstill. When I rewatch the film, which is one of my favorites, I always jump past that section.
I remember seeing this is the movies. $0.75 I think. I fell in love with Jessica 6, like millions of others. Dude, it's Tinder for the 25 century.
Holy... $0.75?! That's amazing. I miss the days things were that cheap. Oh yes, Jessica 6 is gorgeous! Haha, yes! Thos hologram type transporters in the rooms were odd though, where you can just bring random people to your rooms. Great film though. Thank you for watching!
Also there was a Logan’s Run TV series (1season) that was pretty cool
Sorry one other thing. The original west world. The original planet of the apes. Good fun... Oh his voice was also in the original Spaticus 1957. He was a Roman slaver
In the novel, the palmflower colors make sense: birth = white, 1 thru 7 = yellow, 8 thru 16 = blue; and age 17 thru 21 = red. Last Day your palmflower blinks red-black, red-black. It's the citizen's duty to report to a Sleep Shop for painless euthenasia. If they don't, & their flower turns black, they are a Runner, their black flower will trigger sensors in all Tube stations. There's no City of Domes: the whole world is like that! And the Old Man is a living legend named Ballard; & the cats are lions, tigers, etc whose ancestors lived in the D.C. zoo.
One problem -- there weren't enough actors aged 20 and younger! So, they muddied things up for the movie.
Birth = white. Age 1 thru 10 = blue. 11 thru 20 = green. 20 thru 30 = red. And they wanted something more spectacular than passively reporting for euthenasia, so invented Carousel.
I wish Logan's Run would be remade sticking closer to the book. CGI would make the exotic locations in the book possible; & make the crowds possible.
Btw, Holly was Farrah Fawcett's first acting job. She was a model prior this.
I forgot the yellows! Yellows are still kids. It's more messed up than I recalled.
Saw this in the theater when released in 1976 with my girlfriend. We loved this - and had a great time. The colors, the characters, the set designs, costumes, are all wonderful - for an apocalyptic sci-fi movie. I can't say the film has aged particularly well. There's some very wooden dialog that's easy to spot now. Also, the character of Box is ridiculously cheesy. It's interesting that Logan 5 was hedging his bets until the big explosion, which he ordered, that killed off a whole bunch of runners. They never revisited this plot point, and presumably, Jessica 6 was never the wiser about Logan's duplicity in killing her friends. They should have dealt with this character conflict, instead of sweeping it under the rug. The best line in the whole movie: "Fish, and plankton, sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here. Fresh as harvest day." Even with all its warts, I still love this movie.
It's a shame, because the dialogue in the ice cave sequence that was cut out has Logan explaining all that to Jessica. It was a crucial character moment that was unfortunately cut to keep the PG rating. It can still be heard online, has someone snuck a tape recorder into the preview showing in Dallas.
@@davidfox5383 Very interesting. There's a YT video that has the reconstruction of the ice cave scene. Logan confesses, and explains himself, but he doesn't really apologize for his actions. Jessica takes all the news in stride. After hearing this exchange, I'm just not sure this couple should really be together.
the ENDING is not him getting out but he wanted everybody out and FREE 😊
I saw this in the theater when I was 10. Mind blown, my favorite movie, until the following year.
Very odd that a British person wouldnt know Peter Ustinov. A very well known actor, writer and lecturer.
Hi Marty, so glad you watched this classic. I really appreciated your well-thought-out commentary.
I'll start of by saying, if at all possible, read the novel or story first, because almost every time, the book contains things not in the movie, and most of the time, the book is better than the movie! There was also a book where one of the sayings was never just anybody over 30. It was a very beautiful movie and the acting was great, at least in my eyes. And there was a TV version but didn't say around long. I have the book and met the writer at a SF convention in Portland.
Box's voice was done by Rosecoe Lee Browne, a classically trained actor who made several appearances on tv series in the 1970s and onward. Notably, he appeared at least twice in "All in the Family" and has a great exchange with Archie in an episode where Archie and several others are trapped in an elevator (starting at about 2:23): th-cam.com/video/_l8BDEr5lFg/w-d-xo.html
love, love, love, love, oved this movie!!
Same here! Incredible film. Thank you for watching!
One of my favorites, thank you. The book this is based on is much grander in scale, with the cities spread around the world. I appreciate the break down.
They should do a modern retelling of the story in another movie for this generation. I was 5 when this movie came out, but using modern technology and great CGI could make this movie amazing with the right cast. They could bring back Michael York to play the old guy in the real world.