Here's some trivial for you guys, the high pitch sound you hear at the start of the intro titles @ 1:10 is actually the sound of a seal whistling in its sleep. I found a video of the seal and thought the whistle had an old school 70s science fiction laser sound about it so I incorporated it into the intro music :)
I had to re-listen to it. It does sound like some weird laser sound. If I snuck up behind a seal at night and heard that I would run away thinking I was being chased by a UFO.
@@clivebaxter6354 You certainly are entitled to your opinion. Personally I didn't recall any bad acting, Jennifer Aguitar is HOT, and the film was mystical when it was new. It was cutting edge for it's time despite some parts which seem dated, such as the metal man.
@@rockeroller Hot ? you must have very odd standards then, she always came across like a stroppy schoolgirl Blade runner and 2001 were cutting edge, not this run of the mill romp.
@@clivebaxter6354 Logan's Run is easily up there with both of those films because of its themes, that said Blade Runner is beaten by its own sequel in the exploration of the themes central to that franchise and both LR & BR do follow a similar story arc with both main characters being defenders of the status quo having their perception of the world challenged. Blade Runner was 'cutting edge' because of its aesthetic more than anything whereas Logan's Run sits very firmly in the style set in the 60's. Get over that and Logan's Run is a truly excellent bit of Sci-Fi.
@@clivebaxter6354 Agreed. York is wetter than a fishes wet bits, Agutter is only there because she built her entire career on going nude/ wearing very little, the plot is stodgy and slow and Ustinov must have been drunk when he agreed to play the "wise man". All in all a hugely disjointed disappointment.
I was in high school in Dallas in the early seventies. They sent out a casting call to all the area high schools for extras to be in Logan's Run. It said, "If you think you are beautiful, come audition," or words to that effect. This caused uproars as some strutted forward and others jeered. In the end, they took everyone who showed up. The carousal scene was filmed in a shopping center down the road from me. The water fountain in Ft. Worth was featured and hasn't changed. The other venues have all been reborn after they reached the age of thirty.
Surprising when I found out one of my fav SciFi movies was filmed about 275 miles from where I live. I visited DFW a lot back in the mid 70's to mid 80's. Did the extras get paid or just volunteered their service?
I love Logans Run. It's one of my favorite moves along with The Planet of the Apes, Westworld, Soylent Green, The Omega Man, and Disney's The Black Hole. They knew how to make movies back then. Now its all blood and gore.
I've always felt there was a hint of a "garden of eden" angle to Logan's Run. Everyone lives in peace and harmony but when Logan gains the knowledge of what's outside, humanity is banned from the garden and must make their own way in the world.
Well, it's a Utopian vision, for sure. The movie confuses a simple and straightforward story! In the book, people have decided to not even TRY to restrict breeding, but the down side is that you can live to be twenty I think. 21? Then on your last day you go to be gassed, it's not a trick, you know what's going to happen! A few people don't go to the gas, and special police hunt them down and shoot them. That's the social contract and everyone knows it, I get the impression that the number of people who try to cheat is small and the Deep Sleep service is effective and relentless. Well, it's a plan! There are other plans! ( I have a vasectomy, as an example. No kids, no need to shoot me!) We forget that this was roughly contemporary with books like The Population Bomb, people were freaking out about the idea that the world was going to fill up with people and we'd all be eating bark by 1980 or something. So when the world hit like 5 or 6 Billion we were all going to die... and now we're twice that and growing! Personally I think there's like a RIGHT level of population, but almost no limit to the number of persons who CAN LIVE! I also recall "Eco Disaster" novels by (say) John Brunner that really had people worrying, like "The Sheep Look Up" and "Stand on Zanzibar", from 1972, 1968. Judging by the ever flippy comments section, it looks like people have forgotten what the story is ABOUT! At the time I think this could not be ignored.
Other than it's a pretty effed up vision of Eden. The majority accept the status quo and are like sheep. Anyone who dissents are persecuted. Also dying at 21/30? Not Eden. More like a shiny hell
One of my favorite easter eggs from the Austin Powers movies is that when Michael York played the younger version of himself, he had the same hair as in Logan's Run.
@@johannajacob791 It's the usual dumb right winger "the left are to blame for everything, and are always a homogeneous group of evil doers." trope with no proof, or coherent thought but just "UGG, me not left, left bad" thoughts. Not all right wingers are thick. However, there a lot of vocal morons giving Conservatism a bad name by not having any ideological or philosophical grounding beyond not liking figures like Jeremy Corbyn or Joe Biden for vague reasons like they represent the wrong party, and oppose their party or favourite leader.
@@phoneboxchicken4108 trust me, most British people did not want Corbyn policies, as they were implemented in the 1940s to 1980s. They stifled the UK economy and the UK fell behind so many other countries. I am just about enough old to remember Thatcher. Biden is not left, he is fairly centralist.
I saw Logan's Run when it first came out in the theaters. I loved it. And yeah, Jenny Agutar was it! Soon afterwards I read the book, watched the TV series and collected the comics. I was 12 at the time and was a little hesitant to watch it again a couple years ago. I am sure glad i did. Yes, it is dated and the special effects are not all that special, but the story itself is still pretty solid and I couldnt help but smile afterwards. For a little bit, I felt like I was 12 all over again :)
Minor correction. You note in the video that York was the production's original first choice to play Logan, he was not. According to multiple Internet sources, just as William Devane was the original choice for Francis, the producers originally wanted Jon Voigt to play Logan and Lindsay Wagner (soon to be the Bionic Woman at the time) to play Jessica. Both actors were available, but at prices that were too high for the producers' tastes, so they decided to scrap the original choices for the "big 3" (Voight, Wagner and Devane) and go with the younger, cheaper set of York, Agutter, and Jordan ... and FWIW, I think the movie is better for it since, as you note, York and Jordan were already in their 30s, and they were younger than Voight and Devane. That said, your #1 point in the video is absolutely true, this really was the last scifi film of its kind (before Star Wars changed *everything*) ... and I have always enjoyed it.
@@nobody46820 I was a big Lindsay Wager fan when I was younger. Yes, I would've liked to see her in this, but I also like Agutter. Maybe not as pretty as Wagner, but still sensual.
First movie I ever saw twice in the theatre. Watched it on a Friday, fell in love with the story (and Jenny), and convinced my parents to go back and watch it on Sunday. Couldn't get enough of it. Bought a Tshirt with Farrah on it, bought the books, the soundtrack. Started me down the rabbit hole for SciFi. Star Wars the next year completely flipped me upside down. Bought everything I could, including an original movie poster (1977) that I still have. How did they make that movie, what was the process, who did all of those special effects. I loved it so much that I knew I wanted to work in the movies - and have been so since moving to LA in the late 1980's.
"Star Wars the next year " Wow, was it really only a year later? In terms of the cinematography and effects, it seems like a much later film. Must admit though, for me at least, Logan's Run had a longer shelf life. I would watch Logan's Run today, whereas now that I am older than 13, I couldn't bear to watch any of the Star Wars movies. The original is the only one I ever managed to sit through until the end.
Saw Logans Run first at theater. Then Star Bores came out. Saw SW #1, thought it was stupid. Saw a preview of SW #2, the rubber puppet "Yoda," how stupid, no thanks. I hated Soylent Green, THX too. 2001 rules to this day. Then Event Horizon, Alien..
In 1976 I was a Jenny Agutter fan since "Walkabout." Years later at a convention I was able to chat with John Landis. I asked him how he came to choose Jenny Agutter to play Alex in "American Werewolf of London." "Have you ever seen 'Walkabout'?" he asked. "Absolutely," I replied. "That's when I first fell in love with her." He smiled. "That's when I fell in love with her too..."
@@BrianKelsay "Walkabout" is a li'l weird in spots but it's otherwise an awesome movie. Born in December 1955, Jenny was also about 15 when it was filmed...
I adore this film. It occupies spot number 3 in my top 3. The other two being 1: Blade Runner 2: Labyrinth. The reintroduction of the idea of romantic devotion to a social culture that had lost all sense of anything but transient pleasure (as laid out in the graveyard scene where York and Agutter read previously unknown words "Beloved Husband" and "Beloved wife" much to the amusement of the Old Man) really pulled at me. It looks dated, sure, but I really don't mind that. Goldsmiths transition between harsh electro-synth and lush orchestral sweeping strings as the film moves from artificial to natural surroundings is a master stroke of cinematography which goes almost unnoticed until you've seen it for the second or maybe even third time. Hugely underrated, and I'm very glad i have it safely on DVD for the years to come.
wow, the sound does transition from digital to natural fluidity, I can hear the bleep bloops in my head rn from the beginning of the film haha! everything about this movie is symbolic and just beyond amazing!
I was an extra in Logan's Run back in the day! It was great fun, got great food, and actually got paid pretty well. I had a blast being in the film, one of those best memories!
@@donovansullivan5130 yes I want to know too, thanks in advance I was a pale blue (but not in the film, just playing in my cousins' garden , I had found an outfit rather similar to it, that and star trek were our main source of inspiration before star wars and all the toys came out) anybody else had fun like that?
@@philipocallaghan you still are? please explain I'm still a jedi after all these years, just fun at cosplays with children aged from 2 to 90 with the big return of star wars, I now have a collection of lightsabers of all colors but still a big fan of logan's run, maybe that collecting lighsabers comes from my first viewing of logan's run, I was absolutely fascinated by that crystal changing color (and it already was the color red that meant danger)
I remember seeing it at the theater I was 7 and to this day it still evokes an unsettling feeling in me a feeling that the movie was revealing something very true about human nature.
it was revealing the truth, but age 80. at and after that age society doesn't care in the west. And in nursing homes and hospices they feel it better to starve the people to death than look to cure them.
@@karma2.098 Society maybe but not me, my moms 82, she lives with me, it's not easy sometimes but she would give me the world if she could I'll never be able to pay her back for all she's done for me but at least I can try. I live in Texas.
@@jackwilliamson1929 Same but opposite family member. My dad brought me up from childhood. He went out of his way to give me the world. So when he was ill at 81 (living with him for 20 years up until illness) I returned the honour to look after him until he was better. Sadly he went onto transition to be another angel to watch over me 😇🥰
Tidbits on the Marvel comic adaptation: 1. Marvel did not have the rights to the likenesses of the actors, so Logan, Jessica, Francis, etc. bear only a passing resemblance to the movie characters. 2. Most of the comic was based on the shooting script, rather than the finished and edited film. Hence scenes that were cut from the movie are in the comic and costumes have some differences due to being based on pre-production art. This is also the reason why the life-clocks were drawn on the right palm in the comic while they were on the left in the film. 3. After Marvel's five issue adaptation of the film, the comic continued for two more issues, continuing the story of the City-dwellers adapting to the new world outside. However due to miscommunication, Marvel didn't actually have the rights to continue the story, and MGM forced Marvel to cease and desist without finishing the new storyline. One filler story that had already been planned for a future issue was heavily re-edited to remove everything specific to Logan's Run and was later published in Marvel's Bizarre Adventures magazine.
Bonus Fact: Michael York had a cameo in another Sci-Fi classic. He played one of the apes in Spaceballs that viewed Lord Helmet and President Scroob crawling out of the destroyed remains of Spaceball 1, ala Planet of the Apes. His line was, "Shit. There goes the neighborhood."
I showed this movie to my daughters about 5 or 6 years ago when they were in their very early teens, half expecting them to dismiss it as old cheesy nonsense, but they were mesmerised by it. They generally dislike 'old movies' , but Logan's Run had them enthralled. I think one thing going for it is that it's a sort of coming of age story. It's about growing out of childish play and self absorption and facing up to the dangers and responsibilities of the real or 'adult' world.
This was my cousin Farrah's first movie that I ever saw her in; so it holds a special place in my heart. I liked the shiny, happy look of the city of domes, especially compared to the workaday drab, industrial look of Alien (which I also loved!). All good wishes.
But hay it was the 70s where people back then thought 30 yr olds looking convincing enough to play teenagers in movies. Then again they casted a near 40 yr old Black woman as a teenager in Clueless a 90s high school Romcom.
I watched this again recently but with my 9 yr old daughter… she loved it! She reminded me of myself when I first saw it as a kid. This tells me that it doesn’t matter if it’s an old movie and a little outdated, it is a classic and still has what it takes to impress today’s generation.
Excellent video review of an excellent movie disguised as 70s sci fi kitsch. Will love this movie forever. Although not in the same league of some of its more famous late 60's predecessors, it still deserves much love and appreciation. Also, Agutter may have appeared in "An American Werewolf in London" a few years later a bit more conventional and although she may have hated the costume. That costume was straight up the source of many male adolescent fantasies.
Logan's Run is one of those movies that might not be considered a "good" movie, but it will always hold a special place in my heart. I really enjoyed watching it when it in 1976. (I was just 14 that summer.) Be sure to see the Trivia section at IMDb for a lot more interesting bits of trivia regarding the movie. Of the six main cast members, four of them (Richard Jordan, Farrah Fawcett, Roscoe Kee Browne, and Peter Ustinov) have all passed. Only York and Agutter are still with us. (And yes, Agutter was absolutely stunning in this.)
The Logan’s run carousel comes to mind quite often... esp whenever I see the short TikTok videos and the like. Funny how similar people's unhappy and shallow existences are nearly the same.
7:10 The model of the domed city in Logan's Run looks like Walt Disney's original model for EPCOT. They even included a "monorail" thru the building, just like at Disney's Contemporary Resort.
Logan's Run was my first Sci Fi movie I ever saw. my parents were way into these kinds of movies, but I was way too young to hear about the apocalypse lol. I looooooved this movie so much. I work at Marvel Comics now, and i used to have the original Logan's Run comics we produced. they were pretty amazing but everything George Perez did (God rest his soul, he died from cancer earlier this year) was gold, no matter if he worked for DC or Marvel (he was the artist on Crisis on Infinite Earths, if you havent seen that series WHY LORD WHY HAVENT YOU READ THAT SERIES), so it was essential reading. I pulled the comics from our database just now so I can stroll down memory lane :) Thanks for this episode Minty, I appreciate your efforts very much!
Other things I remember different in the book was it wasn’t a “city of domes”, it was the whole world, that’s why Sanctuary was an off-world colony. The guns weren’t plasma throwers, they were guns that fired switchable specialized ammo like Judge Dredd’s lawgiver, and there had been plenty of Sandmen who had run so the guns had screamer alarms built in for if their owners had become runners the alarms on the guns would start screaming and couldn’t turn off(although you could still use them for some reason),I personally thought the plasma guns were cooler but the tv version gun had stun settings as well for a bit more flexibility.
The sound effects may seem "outdated" today, but I think they add to the film's charm. Unlike the screeching, thundering industrial sound effects common in sci fi movies nowadays, the sounds in Logan's Run are more soothing and at times, surreal and dreamy.
Yeah, especially the whooshing of those monorails zipping through those tubes connecting one building to another in the domed city. BART and DC's Metrorail had very modern trains, but nothing beats watching those zippy two-seater cars whooshing through those tubes!
Fun fact: the granite waterfalls location in Logan’s Run was filmed in the Ft. Worth Water Gardens in Ft. Worth Texas, USA. I used to live in the area and visited the location a few years ago. It was absolutely surreal to see a filming location from a movie that was such a huge part of my childhood!!
Sad Fact: The city had to make changes to the water gardens, too many people jumping into the pool at the bottom and being pulled under buy the pumps. After the second death it was drained and sat empty until the law suits were completed, since then changes have be made to prevent people from going under.
@@brianking768 At the time the movie was filmed this was the Zale's Building. Zale's was a big jewelry store franchise in malls at the time. I lived about 5 miles from it in Irving, TX. Oh, another cool fact. The Tandy Towers (better known as Radio Shack) in Fort Worth were used as well. I went to HS with a girl, Pamela Booker, who was an extra in the scenes filmed at the Tandy Towers.
The futuristic guns the 'Sandmen' used in the film were actually just modified butane filled lighters. Apparently they didn't always work on cue and caused a lot of delays in filming. Also the tv series actually sold quite well around the world but by then it had already been cancelled due to it's ratings in the US (incidentally Terminator star Michael Biehn has a small role in the pilot episode). And even as a kid I always found that miniature model of the city to be very unconvincing despite the fact it was apparently the biggest model made for a movie at the time
Definitely agree on the city model being unconvincing. It really sticks out. Even just a couple of years later, they did a much more convincing futuristic city in the pilot episode of "Battlestar Galactica" with a combination of practical sets and matte paintings. And on a television budget.
The big failure of the city model was the water. No attempt was made to make the water look like anything larger than a small puddle. It ruined the scale.
The model looked like something from a 1930s sci fi film. Even the Krell city in 1955 film Forbidden film looked more convincing. If you think that just 6 years later in 1982, Ridley Scott's city in Blade Runner had a massively better model city (although the mood lighting in that may have helped its appearance too). Even so, Total Recall (1990) had an excellent model city. It's difficult to pinpoint exactly why Logan's run model looks so fake. Yes, the water doesn't help but I think the bright lighting doesn't help and neither does the lack of detail. Possibly from a technical point of view perhaps the lense used or even the film stock ? Interestingly director Michael Anderson had a solid history of effects heavy films that used a lot of modelwork so it's odd this film isn't up to standard in that department.
I saw it on TV as a child and have been a science fiction fan ever since. My favourite film because of the futuristic atmosphere. On Soundcloud I uploaded a song of mine with the sound of Logan's Run.
Farrah Fawcett was quite the "It girl" at the time of the release. She was a fixture on ABC's made for TV movies and her ads for Noxema were a milestone in every adolescent male's development. The "Charlie's Angels" pilot had aired in March and her now legendary red swimsuit poster was released almost simultaneously with film. Needless to say MGM publicity made the most of her two scenes in the film
I was fortunate enough to see this at a drive-in. While the effects look dated today on our super clear HD TVs on the huge drive-in screen it was epic!
You remind me of a lot of my friends back in high school. I love stories by true fans. Thanks for the insights. I loved Logan's Run and all those other classic sci fi's from those days.
the concept is what really made the movie get you past the fake or cheesy moments. i feel thry did the best they could with what they had. i was a young'un and remember the sense of wonder it gave me as story unfolded, it was the sci fi of Wizard Of Oz for me. i also considered it very artistic in many ways even as a child i recognized the effort of that craft and may have realized the the full impact of those who created it intended to have regardless of the tech shortcomings
There is a definitive aesthetic to "Logan's Run" and this made a tremendous impression on me as a youth of 10 years old at the time! It sounds a bit trite to say, "This was a Golden Era of Science Fiction" but, for young pre-teenage boys, girls and even older young adults, this movie was visionary! It was a deeply immersive alternate universe of one possible future of humanity and I found it detailed enough to completely make sense (just remember, that's "sense" to a mush-brained 10 year old) and be convinced this may be a future that WILL happen! "Star Wars" by contrast was not a "we humans had better be careful" story because it was not set on Earth or any familiar place. And the movies including Terra Firma are a bit more edgy, scary and intriguing to me -- perhaps more familiar, and of course this began my love of Science Fiction which continues as strong as ever to this day, some 44 years later! I even got a Sci-Fi inspired, original art tattoo on my right hip, just about where Logan's Sandman blaster may have rested on his hip. Thank the powers that be we have made it this far without needing to implement a Carousel "lottery-like" system of population reduction or I would not be able to write this comment ENCOURAGING present day 10 year olds to READ Science Fiction and love the stories which will become the movies to be made in 5, 10 or 15 years time! ... (That's 2025, 2030 and 2035 for those brainwashed into the "New Math" school of thinking!) There are big stories out there and far brighter, more ambitious minds than mine have done amazing film-making such as James Cameron with "Terminator" (1984), "The Abyss" (1989) and "Avatar" (2009) which are also, must see movies! Enjoy!
Ah! You missed my favorite bit o’ trivia. The music. All the music in the movie is electronic, until they break out of the City and then it turns classic orchestral. So, in the high tech, neon and glass city, the sound track matches the visuals. When Logan and Jessica literally see the light of the morning sun, their whole world has a natural appearance and sound.
Loved the movie AND the series. The movie is sometimes forgotten and the series never had a chance. A real shame. I was 12 when the movie came out and you are absolutely right. Just under a year later, EVERYTHING changed.
Oh, yeah, I also liked "Silent Running" with Bruce Dern and those droids named Huey, Dewey, and Louie caring for those plants under a Conservatory dome on a ship heading somewhere. The underlying theme song was sad and made me cry.
If your friend was really mean, they would have gotten it for you on your 29th birthday and watch you have nightmares leading up to your 30th birthday like the rest of us.
In the original novel, the termination age was 21 years old. The follow up novel Logan's World expanded on the outside world where Logan found himself.
Thanks minty, Logan‘s run is one of them best movies of all time and always has been one of my favorites,as west world is also . Found a copy of Westworld in a family video and was Des Moines Iowa before it went bust so it’s a time that is long gone but not forgotten, thanks for bringing the memories back good job MNTY
This is my absolute favorite pre-Star Wars 70s scifi film. Michael York is one of my 70s dreamboats along with Ryan O'Neal, and Jenny Agutter is one of the single most beautiful women ever to grace the silver screen. I will sing Logan's Run's praises forever and ever. It is both old fashioned and modern, both beautiful and gritty, both romantic and brutal, and I love it so much. And idk what anyone says, the Ewan McGregor/Sean Bean/Scarlett Johansson film The Island is a loose but obvious remake of Logan's Run. Change my mind lol.
Well..., there is the "what they think is happening" is not the full story in a futuristic setting similarity. Actually, good observation. I thoroughly enjoyed The Island, perhaps in its fullness (qualifier) better than Logan's Run. However, LR was so unique, I like LR better than The Island through all but the LR ending. Peter Ustinov was acting too much and the concept of the ending was distracting. Logan and Jessica could be shown learning on their own what the situation is with a lesser personality than Ustinov to confirm what they found.
Even down to the naming conventions (i.e. Lincoln 6.) Both are my favorites and your comment clarified why that probably is now that I think about it...
@@studinthemaking not much to tell, it marked my first and only TV/acting appearance ! Unless you count that time I got my camp entertainment pennant in guides! Google Nether Wallop Film Festival - it was Oct 1984. I was 11 I can’t believe all those amazing people were there looking at it now! Jenny and Sir Michael Hordern narrated the history of the village (that went back to the doomsday book) and basically walked around the village and talked about significant areas - the local school children were involved and that’s where I come in. My part was the spirit of the village so I stood with Jenny and Michael throughout, which was pretty cool. I didn’t have any lines as I just represented the community spirit through the ages - I remember what I wore was made by an art student in London - like a big white thing that said spirit of Nether Wallop on it - I remember it being in bronze script and being very impressed it had been made in London The whole area was very historical with Bronze Age forts etc, I didn’t live in the village but up the road in Middle Wallop on the army base Definitely google though as there’s quite a bit of information on it I hope this is a new Jenny thing for you as that’d be cool
I was very young in the 70's and many years later when I got a chance to watch the Logan's Run movie again, there were parts that I remembered that weren't in it. When you said the TV show had a retelling of the movie it all clicked. I would have been much more likely to have seen the TV show than the movie back then. I know I had seen some of the movie, the initial carousel scene especially. Thanks for doing this list!
I wouldn't mind living in a shopping mall inhabited by hot-looking babes like Jenny Agutter and Farrah Fawcett. I wonder if the food court and game arcade would have been free?
As I get older, Logan's run gets better. Sure, I could go for renewal, But I would probably run. But Minty, I can't believe you didn't address the elephant in the room, the Vulcan salute in the end scene. I love the guy who did that bit of cross-franchise chicanery.
For it's time, Logan's Run was a fun movie! However, as said, "Star Wars" so dwarfed "Logan's Run" special effects that it was immediately "yesterday's news!" And just as "The Jazz Singer" changed films in the late 20's, Star Wars" throughly changed the way "special effects" were done in future films! Seeing them back to back you realize how totally different they are!
Really enjoyed this look at Logan's Run! I still have a paperback copy of the book, a DVD, and even have it on Amazon Prime. LOL I loved the "futuristic" look of the props and sets used in those days! Sadly, I've learned the mall where some scenes sere shot is now abandoned, and scheduled for demolition, if it's not already been demolished. Definitely don't want it to be "last day", if I should let slip my true age, whilst in a domed city! LOL Thanks for doing this. :)
I've known about this movie since I was a kid. I finally bought and watched it in 2019 and wow this movie really impressed me. Very underrated and a good movie to watch even today.
I always enjoy watching Logan’s Run. It is one of my top sci-fi movies from that era. I too fell in love with Jenny Agutter. Her costume was perfect!!!!! Thanks for another great movie review Minty!!!
Outland is a brilliant Sci-Fi western (it was a version of High Noon), the models for the colony building, and shuttle has a nice gritty style (that is not out of place in the Alien universe - especially with corporate greed). Outland needs a video feature on your channel Minty.
Seconded. That's one of my favorite movies. Also one of the first DVD's I purchased. Lots of good material there. Lots of good Sean. Lots of good supporting characters.
Absolutely, that's a great movie, and absolutely underrated. It's High Noon in outer space. Matter of fact it was just on one of the Starz channels the other day and I watched it.
I'd forgotten about this movie - but I do remember seeing it when I was a little kid. I agree with you about the appeal of watching this movie in our current era...thanks for the reminder - I'm gonna watch this asap !!
They've been trying to do a re-make for years. But, the drama behind that sounds a lot like the drama associated with the original production... As far as I'm concerned, I don't mind waiting till Hollywood is done with their stupid "WOKE movement." That will only ruin it...
I often explain to younger people what a game changer Star Wars was. The special effects before and after are night and day. "Seeing the wires" and that type of thing was just no longer acceptable.
The subject of culling the population, to avoid overpopulation, was a big subject in the sixties and seventies. Since this film was made we can see the results with societies globally ageing as our leaders bought the concept of population reduction, contemptuously considering and treating their population as livestock.
I really love these 10things videos. They're always a welcome break from the awful things in the news. Keep this up, you're doing so much good for people, I really mean that!
I remember when this came out. The miniature set was all the talk for how amazing and detailed it was. The cars zipping through those clear tubes fascinated everyone. One of my all time favorites.
Yeah, I also loved watching those cars zipping through those tubes connecting the buildings in the domed city. I sometimes wonder whether Walt Disney got the idea for Epcot if he watched Logan's Run before conceiving of Epcot's Future World.
Bravo to you for calling attention to the soundtrack. A good soundtrack definitely enhances a good movie, yet few people realize this. Star Wars and Blade Runner are just two films that depend on their excellent soundtracks to give them something unique. You can recognize excerpts from these films instantly; they don't sound like any other film.
Things I DO know about Logans Run,,its fantastic, I love it. I own a DVD copy, and have seen it many many times, the first time in the theater back in the day,,,now at 66 years old, looking at Jenny still makes me feel incredible,,,,. I am so thankful to have been born when I was,,,,this future that is reality scares me as much as Logans world, but the girls are thankfully still lovely to behold...
I love that you did this video! Logan's Run has always been my fave scifi movie. If it wasn't for this movie I'd never have found scifi. Disney World is modeled after it, and George Lucas based his stormtroopers masks on the carousel scenes costumes in the movie. I was like seven when I saw this movie. The 70's was a fun time for scifi. Planet of the Apes was awesome as well, along with Soylent Green, Brave New World, Westworld, A Clockwork Orange and Coma.
I remember seeing this this movie when it came out. I was 16 then and the age of 30 sounded ancient to me. Now I am 61, living in the future, I would love to go back to being 30.
Fun fact - the novel didn't have the carousel construct from the film, instead, upon reaching 21 and the life clock going dark, the person willingly went to a deep sleep facility. Something along the lines of the 'final memorium' facility in the film Soylent Green. There was also no one City in the book; the phenomenon of deep sleep was world wide, to stem the world population in many cities, connected by underground tunnels. The 70's has a number of films worried about overpopulation. Zero Population Grown (1971) is another fine example, were procreators faced death for violating the birth moratorium.
With the world's population as high as it is now and still rising there is still reason for concern. China did try to limit overpopulation with their "one child" policy, and since couples were prosecuted for breaking it humanity have really taken a step towards such over population steps that people did fear.
I was a kid when they filmed the scenes at the fort worth water gardens....I got to see the scene near the end of the movie where the explosions are going off...it was only one take if my memory serves me well....it was neat to see the fireball !
Awesome video piece, I remember my parents dropping me off at the local Library and I found the paperback book of Logan’s run and I poured through it, That was long before the movie came out, So good on you for mentioning about the book, I definitely know that my parents thought that I was just a little crazy for diving into a book like that;however I really enjoyed both the book and the movie; I am just a little crazy 😝; I really had no idea about the movie budget constraints at the time ; However it really clears up several things now that you’ve gone into them; Stay safe everyone and please remember to keep your hands clean and washed up at all times, especially before you open up any books, Cheers👍✌🏿
And she was one of the members on that shadowy council that secretly runs S.H.I.E.L.D. in those Marvel movies. You can see her in Captain America: Winter Soldier and hear her voice (because the council members' faces are all obscured in darkness) in Marvel's Avengers when they order Nick Fury to initiate a nuke strike in Manhattan.
@@stevepiner2094 That’s probably about how old I was. My parents were divorced and I remember my father took me to see it. He always took me to better movies than my mom. My mom took me to see Gone With the Wind when I was a child. It was long and boring. My father took me to see the Sound of Music. Obviously way better for a child since it had children in it. My dad wasn’t great but he did do some awesome things for me
When you realize that only a SINGLE YEAR separated the release of Logan's Run from Star Wars, you should truly understand how Ground Breaking George Lucas's creation actually was.
@@j.dragon651 I wholeheartedly agree and I've always loved that quote. Here're a couple others: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." - Isaac Newton 1675 "Bernard of Chartres used to compare us to dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants. He pointed out that we see more and farther than our predecessors, not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature." - John of Salisbury 1159
Logan's Run was epic. The lead actress was amazing (she also knocked it out of the park with "American Werewolf" about 10 years later). Note that her character's greatest innovation - no bra - was utilized by Lucas in creating "Star Wars" just a year or two later. Also worthy of note: all the actors over 30 in the principal cast were male, all the actors under 30 were female.
I am not convinced Lucas got the idea from Jessica's costume. Lucas's argument for no bras seemed to be connected with the weighlessness in space, even though everyone walks around under seemingly normal gravity on even such small crafts as the Millenium Falcon.
It wasn't an innovation. It was just the edgy fashion of the time. I don't think anyone in their twenties at the time thought twice about it. It made the look today-forward rather than all the sci-fi babes in uplift bras of the Sixties.
Not to be pedantic, but American Werewolf in London was five years later... And Jenny Agutter, a beautiful woman with a voice that melted my adolescent heart, was terrific as Nurse Alex Price.
I remember seeing this at the drive in theater. But as a 4 year old I couldn't stay awake as it was the late feature. So I have only have memories of various parts of the movie.. Only later when I got it on dvd did I realize how much I missed of it.
Thanks for making this vid Minty. It made me happy for some reason. I remember watching this movie late on a Saturday night (I think). That was 40+ years ago.
I'll have to look 👀 into her films! Oooo, la la!!! I was 13 yrs old when Logan's Run came out! I spent my newspaper route $$$ going to the theater. I watched that movie 3 times in a row. Then, twice more that week!
Even as a kid seeing this on original release I knew that whole city was a toy model. The interiors looked like our local mall. Still an enjoyable picture and more "realistic" than the fairly slow Westworld (which looked like Fantasy Island gone wrong). Michael York was always good.
The mall is The Dallas Market Center just a couple of blocks from where The Galleria would be built just a few years later. Dallas Market Center was new and not occupied by retailers at the time of filming. Also the fountains at the end are in Fort Worth, TX.
Bonus fact... The water they dive into at the end to get back into the city, is the Water Gardens in Fort Worth Texas. Where several years ago, some kids drowned in it. The city made it shallow to prevent anything like that happening again. It's still there today, but too shallow to dive into. Plus, you're not supposed to get into it.
There are many fountains all over the wold you're not supposed to climb into, especially the world famous Trevi Fountain in Rome. If you get caught climbing into that fountain, you'll be arrested and required to pay a big fine. Tourist police officers are all over the place, using their whistles, shouting, and running to stop tourists from entering the fountain.
important oversight. at least in the movie people don't know carousel is basically an electric chair. people think they ascend to a higher state of being. some figure out and RUN.
Yeah, that's kind of a major important aspect of the film. Logan was a company man, proud of his work and position, when he was chosen to seek out knowledge, and once he started learning, he became woke. It took him from being a stooge to being a revolutionary. He was content with the order of things before, blindly believing what the powers that be told him, but once he saw one lie for what it was, he began thinking for himself.
I’m 53! I absolutely love old classic science fiction. The fact that we can see strings in movies such as this and others such as the black hole, only make the movies more endearing. I love the old-school look of these movies and, I watch them when they were first introduced. Yes, I did also watch the series that was on TV. I was in love with it. I am now a cult movie collector. Collecting stuff such as Battle be on the stars and of course the aforementioned the black hole. I also collect other types of genres, but Syfy is where it’s at. Good video!
I really loved the little girl who was hiding out because she was smart. Her family took her out of acting so she could have a normal childhood. Also the young lady who asked if Peter Ustinoff's wrinkles hurt. Both had wonderful characters and I hoped to see them in other works.
"... science fiction movies had become about dysfunctional futuristic societies, full of death and destruction often caused by corruption of technology and/or government." Yeah, that'll never happen.
I'm old, so I saw all of those or most of them in the theaters and I loved this video. Thank you for reminding of that interesting dystopia trend in Science Fiction of the 70s. Do you remember Andromeda Strain and Phase IV about the smart ants taking over scientists trying to study them? Two other goods ones from that time you should check out if you haven't already. Cheers and thank you again sir for this.
Dystopian movies are making a come back,it seems like in the 70s ,there are constantly Doomsday films about the environmental disaster and Nuclear war,or some zombie outbreak..Logan’s Run was a fun film to watch,still love it,...Beautiful film..👍👍👍👍
