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30 is the new dead! At least, that's the case in 1976's Logan's Run, where the future looks like a Disco Mall, Farrah Fawcett lives, Star Trek makes a cameo and there's this bonkers thing called Carousel.
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More About Logan's Run: Logan's Run is a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Published in 1967, the novel depicts a dystopic ageist future society in which both population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by requiring the death of everyone reaching the age of 21. The story follows the actions of Logan, a Sandman charged with enforcing the rule, as he tracks down and kills citizens who "run" from society's lethal demand-only to end up "running" himself.
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@joelellis7035 6 лет назад

I think you got the movie synopsis a bit wrong. Logan didn't actually become disenfranchised with the society. He was actually one of it's biggest proponents being a sandman. He was actually sent on a secret mission to root out a runner network that was concealing runners within the society. As a consequence, his crystal was artificially accelerated so he could pose as a runner. He then got caught up in the raid on the network, and due to his secret mission, no one else knew that he was not a runner, and probably was by design meant to be expendable. In true humanistic fashion, he did not want to be expendable and found value in his own life. This led to his conversion from a proponent of the society to to an antagonist of it. Also the experiences on the outside that helped him see the truth. Essentially how once one is exposed to Truth, they are forever changed.

@robertgrundy5510 3 года назад

Couldn't watch it all - the interminable hand-waving is very irritating and was driving me mad.

@maryjean0601 2 года назад

@Joel Ellis, Great synopsis and also your closing, everlasting message: Once exposed to unadulterated Truth, everything is forever changed (the way one sees things, thoughts and actions can change when Truth is accepted). That applies every day, every person. Thank you.

@darkglass1 6 лет назад

He did not become disillusioned and decide to run. The city AI sent him to investigate and destroy "Sanctuary." He became disillusioned while on this mission and learning the truth.

@dafonz56 6 лет назад

Plus the computer didn't say that he would get that time taken from him back. That gave him some pause in that scene.

@stebaer 5 лет назад

Yes I know and even look at my review on The Imdb site.

@Fandango541 6 лет назад

I received a ticket to the preview showing of this movie back in 1975 that took place in a movie sound stage located on the remains of the backlot of MGM! Yup, I really did. It was an amazing movie for its' time and when the comment cards were handed out, nearly 100% of the audience wrote down that they really liked the movie. It was unbelievably cool to be on that old backlot. All of the outdoor scenes of the capitol in DC, the streets of the city, even including the reflection pool were all shot on that backlot. They even allowed us to view the miniature model of the indoor city used in the movie. The next year, after the famous MGM auction it was all gone, torn away and condos had already started under construction. It is an experience I will never forget!

@barkatthemoon100 5 лет назад

Very cool! Lucky you!

@queenmaryellen 4 года назад

We're you in the movie business too?

@jonoeschger1552 4 года назад

David Loehmann How about the giant steps? I remember them from Time Machine & Twilight Zone.

@bettyveronica460 4 года назад

"I'm not worthy!' "Bows*

@ObsessedCollector 4 года назад

PLEASE TELL ME you saw the PRE RELEASE version!! With the chase scene BEFORE the nursery, The extended ARCADE scene and all the other goodies that got cut before the national release. I'd love to hear your opinions on the ORIGINAL cut!

@dennislogan6781 6 лет назад

I live in Fort Worth, Texas where the final scene was shot at The Water Gardens. Still there today. Plus my last name is Logan so I have 2 reasons to like the film.

@catlee8064 6 лет назад

Ok Logan wasnt unhappy with the system....he was sent on a mission to locate sanctuary...and then became unhappy.

@__ZANE__ 6 лет назад

You're right brother. And, you're the only one here who seems to have caught that fact. I think it's hard for people to understand just what Logan's character is thinking. When i was a kid, i thought he was unhappy, and then as an adult, i was more able to pickup on things like him turning on his homing beacon at the rebel headquarters. And, then realizing he was actually an infiltrator!

@kaosnkunfusion8739 6 лет назад

I thought the way Jessica entered, and her discontent with society, that was the start of his conversion.

@jacquelines.2027 6 лет назад

You beat me to the comment! I’m 43 and it’s one of my favorite movies

@thefurrybastard1964 6 лет назад

This guy seemed to get a lot of things wrong.

@billcampbell9886 6 лет назад

The movie was good, but the book was better; the story made more sense than the hack job presented in the movie.

@davidmorgan6896 6 лет назад

Ridiculous to say Michael York is recognizable because of Austin Powers. He'd had a run of success leading up to Logan's Run with Cabaret and Three and Four Musketeers and was emphatically an A-lister.

@epiendless1128 6 лет назад

Not to mention being the guy who fired the first shot in the Earth-Minbari war! (Poor guy.)

@JJfromPhilly67 5 лет назад

@@epiendless1128 Yup! I was thinking that too. York made a great King Arthur.

@DVincentW 5 лет назад

Curb Your Enthusiasm as himself I thought was hysterical.

@markzappasodi 5 лет назад

I think that this guy's prime audience is younger people who are more likely to remember him from the Austin Powers movie than anything else.

@tropicvibe 5 лет назад

Michael York has an impressive list of movie, tv, and voice credits too numerous to list here yet deserved more recognition and top billing as he's a very good actor. I wonder if this movie had any influence on another pretty good sci fi, "In Time".

@thunderpaw6541 6 лет назад

Jenny Agutter in the '70s! mmmmmmmm... Nothing more needs to be said.

@SaturnCanuck 6 лет назад

If you like Jenny Agutter (like I do) I suggest you watch "Walkabout" (1971). Three words -- Full Frontal Nudity.

@zenboy21 6 лет назад

The source of many of my young fantasies....

@grassygnoll3345 6 лет назад

Sorry, dial up 70's Jenny Agutter. Hmmmmmmm......................

@desperatemohammedantheworl5833 6 лет назад

16 year old Jenny Agutter full frontal nude in walkabout... Oh god, I need to visit the bathroom...

@oriolesfan61 6 лет назад

The Ice Cave scene. OMG

@colinp2238 6 лет назад

When I was a teenager Jenny Agutter used to disguise herselfvas my right hand.

@tracywilliams7929 5 лет назад

colin Paterson You are terrible! Lol

@christopherwest8230 5 лет назад

LMAO, so true!

@biggee8111 5 лет назад

HAHAHAHAHA!

@markzappasodi 5 лет назад

Hysterical comment. 😂

@wolfgangbuck841 6 лет назад

Logan's Run was awesome.

@Chordonblue 5 лет назад

The books were even better. It would be amazing to see those done in a film today, although the 'pound of flesh' scene would be a little much... :O

@Chalor. 5 лет назад

This movie has surely been on RiffTrax/Mystery Science theater 3000. It's reeeealy bad.

@Offensive_Username 4 года назад

Still is.

@blowfishes 6 лет назад

The ending where everyone leaves the city is virtually recreated towards the end of the film The Island.

@donaldmeatheney4523 6 лет назад

I loved this movie it's the only movie in my life I actualy payed to see five times. I am sceptical of a remake ( JJ Abrams hands off ). I would like to see something like a pre-quill of how this society came to be.

@brucecarter7418 6 лет назад

Guys, it's "lifeclock", not "timeclock"...

@timflannery627 5 лет назад

Palmflower

@glenobrien7838 5 лет назад

I got 8 Lifeclocks made from the original molds

@michaelbowie3269 4 года назад

Brother!

@maxmason6779 3 года назад

Pretty sure this "kid" was reading a script & hasn't actually seen the film.

@DarienAllen 6 лет назад

Initially he was ordered to run. He didn't become disenfranchised til later in the run.

@gsmith1135 6 лет назад

Nice Catch...i was just thinking this too as i watched it.

@Imsuper656 6 лет назад

No, he was forced to find sanctuary without his consent after the city computer knew he'd found the "ankh" medallion. His "Life clock' was reset and the computer refused to tell him if it would be restored once he found "Sanctuary". In the end he betrayed the underground network, THEN he ran!

@LeaVibes63 6 лет назад

Thank you for taking the time & trouble to create this retrospective. Very much appreciated! :-)

@jayface6639 6 лет назад

Logan's Run, the movie that shows transporter tech combined with Tinder.

@christinaluna2055 5 лет назад

Somebody text Tinder before Tinder

@jma00a1 6 лет назад

Logan5 was at first sent by the computer running the city undercover to find sanctuary.

@kennethlarocque2605 6 лет назад

jma00a1 they even changed his age marker to red so that he would be believed.

@JustWasted3HoursHere 6 лет назад

Yeah, in the TV series, Francis meets the "Elders" and they send him off to intercept Logan and Francis. This _should_ have opened Francis' eyes, since the very idea of old people has been stamped in his head from birth as being an abomination. But, he just goes long with it as though it's no big deal. In the movie, Francis' motivation makes a lot more sense.

@christrenning785 5 лет назад

I'm not sure the reviewer actually watched the film, the synopsis was so inaccurate - oh the shame.

@micwclar 5 лет назад

I think the reviewer read the Cliff Notes and the back of the DVD to prepare. Obviously hadn't either read the book or watched the film.

@TairnKA 6 лет назад

I'm not a fan of remakes, despite the improvements in filmmaking technology, most are not up to the original.

@michaelproctor8100 6 лет назад

In the original novel your life was over at age 21, for some reason the movie made it 30.

@stepchildofsoul 6 лет назад

Michael Proctor, I remember! The reason this came to be was because kids lost faith in adults to run things responsibly, pretty relevant today...

@ph1gm3nt 6 лет назад

Agreed, I’ve read all the Logan books and it was 21 and out. I think (but can’t prove) Hollywood used 31 and out because of a greater selection of actors that would be between the ages of 21 and 31 without us having to swallow that some guy with grey in his hair is 21. I didn’t care much for the movie version of the Sandmans gun. My recollection of the book, the sandmans gun looked like a six shooter, each cylinder capable of holding a different round. I have a vague memory of Francis saying to Logan that he liked to shove the barrel into a Runners stomach then fire off a homer round into him.

@madquest8 6 лет назад

They based the Comic version of Judge Dredds gun on the book version, which is why it has all the different types of ammo including the Homer (heat seeker). The book trilogy was great!

@EdWensell 6 лет назад

It was the mantra of the 60's/70's. Don't trust anyone over the age of 30.

@luisderivas6005 6 лет назад

The reason the deep sleep date was shifted to 30, was simply that the actors hired for the film couldn't pass for 21 year olds.

@Nautilus1972 4 года назад

The last plant in Wall E has much more in common with Silent Running.

@reuvengayle2546 6 лет назад

Does anyone realize that thousands of them would all die within days from starvation and thirst.Not knowing how to live without the computer taking care of them.

@jamesooten3659 6 лет назад

Reuven Gayle + This is one of the theories explored in the sequel novels. The party society finds out real quick how pampered they were. Electricity is gone. Meals, drugs, and alcohol appearing at the push of a button are gone. Public transportation and networking are gone. No one lived long enough, so life skills and education were not taught. In the book, that's why the main computer crashed so easily - the people who built the whole network had died and no one was trained to repair it. No one knew how to make anything, they just knew how to use it. After the initial elation wore off, Logan was no longer a hero. He was hated. He was hated even more because he and Jessica actually made it to Sanctuary, which was an old NASA space station orbiting Mars. So while society lived in squalor, Logan was living with technology far away and above the society that he "liberated." He returned after Earth cut the supply lines to Sanctuary. Back on Earth, news of his return spread and roving gangs scoured the countryside looking to kill him and his family for what he'd done. In the series of novels, Logan goes from being a part of the oppressive system, to being a rebel, to being a hero, to being perceived as a villain, only to journey back to being a hero again. It's a dark ride, but so representative of living life. The creator of Logan's Run, William F. Nolan, grew so discontented with how his character was portrayed in the movies, the TV series, and the comics that he stopped all publication of the books. When the books were re-released, all 3 novels were in an omnibus that you could only order from him. Not only that, but you had to write him a letter saying why you wanted the book. My 1st request was denied, but I got it with my 2nd. On the inside of the front cover, was a quote hand-written by Mr. Nolan that I'll never forget: "Logan is a hero of iron, forged in fire, who runs on feet of clay." Priceless!

@epiendless1128 6 лет назад

Fortunately, Logan can show them where there's a cave full of protein..

@JJfromPhilly67 5 лет назад

Why can nothing end in hope...

@GOTTshua 5 лет назад

@@jamesooten3659 Do you still have the book with the quote in it?

@Chordonblue 5 лет назад

@@jamesooten3659 Same lesson learned about lending money to family/friends. Either don't, or simply give it with no expectation of return.

@dcanmore 6 лет назад

So you are saying Logan's Run influenced Blade Runner and Minority Report? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was published only a few months after LR and Minority Report was written in 1957! If anything Logan's Run was heavily influenced by A Brave New World.

@writerpatrick 6 лет назад

I believe he said the financial success of Logan's Run encouraged the production of Blade Runner.

@Bman-zn5jz 6 лет назад

dcanmore : He may have meant the way the movies were shot they took on an appearance of Logan's Run. I also find that people can come up with similar ideas roughly the same time but each portrayed in a slightly different way. Then people begin to argue that this or that is a rip off of the others.

@JustJohnny 6 лет назад

There is no remake. There is no remake. There is no remake.

@MrJohnnysaintjohn 6 лет назад

I wouldn't like a remake. Leave it alone. Like a classic album of music.

@twjung 6 лет назад

Originally the cutoff age was 21 but they couldn't get any actor's that looked young enough for that to be believable so they upped the age from the book. They are in the domed cities because they are hiding from the fallout of nuclear war (The Little War) and Sanctuary was an abandoned space colony near Mars, which was changed in the movie but never explained.

@doxielain2231 6 лет назад

He was told by the computer to run in order to find where the Runners were going.

@Imsuper656 6 лет назад

He was forced by the computer once it was aware he'd found the 'Ankh' medallion and it altered his 'life clocl' and refused to tell him if he'd have reset back. He then betrayed the underground network who agreed to help him!

@andbrittain 6 лет назад

I saw this film at the drive in on 17 mile rocks rd. Oxley Brisbane when it 1st came out, I was about 10 - I loved it. Had one of the comics too. I'm not sure how I arrived at this interpretation, but I thought the city and computer had been built originally to protect mankind from a toxic ecco disaster outside and over the ensuing years the outside environment slowly recovered but the computer was unable to comprehend this fact. So the whole premise was ironic, the machine just kept running it;s set up program - to kill people at 30 in an attempt to preserve the species when it no longer needed to. People had been inside so long they had forgotten where their civilization had come from how it had come about in the first place, they had no history, and no concept of what was outside the dome, I took it as a tale of technology gone wrong - technology being a case of two steps forward, three steps back. People had become unwitting slaves to the machine, It's kind of a warning film. With complex AI and robotics being an ever growing aspect of our world it is more relevant today than when it made. Hard to believe no one has remade it yet, seems ripe for a re make.

@jamesooten3659 6 лет назад

Andrew Brittain + That's a very keen summary, better than the original movie and more concise than the book. It's amazing what a child's mind is capable of without any adult input. We understand so much early on, but lose that sense of wonderment as we grow older. Yes, this is long overdue for a re-make, but it can't be just an action flick or a dark gritty dystopian thriller. We've had too many of those. No, the re-make has to be an intellectual thinking man's movie, without losing that edge of rebellion and escape at all costs. Something that leaves you unsettled and bewildered at the same time, and you leave the movie secretly wanting to see it again.

@debussy10 5 лет назад

My interpretation is identicle to yours, so we must be right!

@Urydium 6 лет назад

My favourite film of all time but i have no faith in a remake

@WilliamAndersonGameDesigner 6 лет назад

You got the intro wrong... Logan's time clock was advanced so he could go undercover as a Runner to locate where Runners were escaping to. :-)

@davidlawrence1803 5 лет назад

William Anderson yep you are absolutely right and the host of this peace did not even mention it. That was a major plot point in the film.

@TheAshMcG 5 лет назад

So true....that was one thing somewhat true to the original story, Logan was a reluctant runner to expose runners. In the book I don't think his life clock was advanced...he just wanted to be known for destroying sanctuary.

@jdsantibanez 6 лет назад

One of my favorite movies ever. I fell in love with Jenny Agutter. If they ever remake it, I hope they don´t film it in a mall again!

@steveb0503 6 лет назад

JD SANTIBÁÑEZ She WAS a freakin' goddess, wasn't she (still not too shabby as an older broad) - they need to take cell samples before she dies (on the outside chance that they can one day clone her).

@wolfgangbuck841 6 лет назад

JD SANTIBÁÑEZ Jenny was so fine! Still beautiful

@jdsantibanez 6 лет назад

steveb0503 I completely agree!

@XantroyX 6 лет назад

steveb0503 What do you mean "was"? She's STILL my fantasy woman!

@scottmantooth8785 6 лет назад

not much else going on at the malls these days...

@QuantumRift 6 лет назад

Ah, brings back memories. Saw this at the drive-in the summer of 1976....great film!

@mossadon 6 лет назад

Excellent overview of this classic and presented at "i HAVEN'T done 4 cans of redbull!" speed.. . . Which is refreshing. A nice 10 minute video we can relax with and take in the points being made. Bravo. Fast becoming a great channel, y'all. keep it up !

@michaelburke750 6 лет назад

ahhhh It's a Life Clock not a time clock and that's about as far as I got watching this... smh

@julianmunoz8829 5 лет назад

One of my favorites. When I saw this, it was in the Cinerama Theater in Los Angeles that is domed shaped. I left the theatre renewed!

@device 6 лет назад

I actually have two pretty great inter-related stories about how I come to see this film after months of trying and failing, leading to seeing it at long last on a double-bill with Annie Hall in a Colorado drive on, AFTER having to accept an industry preview of another sci-fi film in place of LR (which I had been promised!) instead I was taking to see another science-fiction film, which was to win that year‘s Academy Awards for special effects (Logan‘s run won in 1976). That film: Star Wars, which blew my 11-year-old mind, and was doubtless responsible for becoming a director, a job I didn’t really know existed at the time...

@creeper58272 5 лет назад

I grew up with Logan's Run! A movie ahead of its time

@XantroyX 6 лет назад

Logan's Run is my ALL time favorite movie, but you know that's a Hunger Games pic on your thumbnail right? Couldn't have put a nice picture of Jenny in there?

@MrJest2 6 лет назад

Best thing about Logan's Run for me was that I saw it as a double-feature... and the "second" film was 2001. Even though it was almost 10 years old at the time, it was the first time I'd seen it, and on a big screen to boot. Fantastic movie experience! Small quibble with this video - I suppose you can technically say Logan was "disenfranchised by the system"... but it wasn't his choice. He was *assigned* to do his "run" by the computers that ran the City; he was perfectly content living as he was and would presumably have willingly gone to Carousel when his time came naturally. The first thing he asks the computer when his life clock is reprogrammed is if he'll get his time back when he's done with his assignment... only to be met with a noncommittal silence.

@antonnym214 4 года назад

I loved the series! I was heartbroken when it was cancelled. It looked pretty good for the budget, but I always felt it deserved a better budget. Farrah and I shared a great grandmother, so we were fourth cousins. This was the first feature film I saw her in, and I thought she was fantastic!

@darskinner 5 лет назад

Very good. Logan's Run is my first DVD I ever bought now going to watch again to see "live long and prosper" boy. Thank you

@lisaspikes4291 6 лет назад

One of my favorite movies! I’m always surprised that lots of people haven’t seen it.

@Novusod 6 лет назад

I hope they never remake this movie. The original is already pretty much perfection. I wouldn't mind a prequel though that explains how the domed cities came to be.

@Tony-1971 6 лет назад

There was talk of a female being cast as Logan in the remake, which would instantly kill it for me personally. I agree with you, the original is pretty much perfection. I hope they never remake it. Movies coming out of Hollywood now are terrible.

@BrightBlueJim 6 лет назад

I have to disagree. The production values just don't stand up today, and are hard to ignore - really poor models and set decorations. A remake is a GOOD idea.

@Imsuper656 6 лет назад

"perfection'...No, good yes.

@dafonz56 6 лет назад

WW III

@TitoTimTravels 6 лет назад

I would like to see it made right. Follow the book. Domed city? Where did that even come from? 😀🍹🇵🇭

@gregbenwell6173 6 лет назад

I read the book as a child of just 14 years old!!! And yes you died at 21 in the book!!

@chuckfriebe843 4 года назад

I was 11. Was my fav book of all times. I read the book 14 times.

@BESTVOFICIAL 5 лет назад

Logan's Run is a SyFy Masterpiece. And your analisys brilhant!

@brianmcwhorter2867 5 лет назад

One of my all time favorite sci-fi movies! I saw it in the theaters when it came out.

@Belgarath1ca 6 лет назад

I remember watching it when it first came out. So I can understand how Sci-Fi is impacted. I say leave it alone. So many decent Sci-Fi movies/television series have been wrecked by remakes. I have read the books as well, so I do have some idea on the impact of a remake. If they do remake it.. Make it into a full television series, like Handmaids Tale and Westworld. That is the only way I see justice on the orginal.

@ClassicStreetIron 6 лет назад

A remake needs to be which follows the book and not the original movie.

@peterterwilliger8190 6 лет назад

If they have the guts.

@apollion888 6 лет назад

"Kelp from the sea!" Is that what the crazy silver robot yelled? It's been so long, cool video

@MrJest2 6 лет назад

"Protein from the sea" is what I recall, although kelp was in there somewhere in it's description of things harvested. That was one broken down 'bot!

@moondancer6852 6 лет назад

It's called a Life Clock, not a Time Clock. Flashing red means it's time for Renewal, everyone who is up for Renewal flashes red, as seen in the opening five minutes. Did you even WATCH this movie? The costumes are colored based on AGE... Logan and Jessica do NOT convince the people of the city anything... they are laughed at and arrested. The city blows up and they have no choice but to go outside. It's the Crazy Horse monument, not mountain. "No matter how you spin it, Logan's Run is a true Sci-Fi classic that we couldn't be bothered to do ten minutes of research on, so we have some comments from IMDB and WikiPedia waved them in the direction of the camera just before filming."

@UncleLance67 3 года назад

Three things every sci-fi fan should know about Logan's Run: 1. It tied for for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in '76 with King Kong 2. At the very end some guy does the Vulcan salute in front of Peter Ustinov's face (thank you for mentioning this) 3. The girl who played Mary 2 went on to be the voice of Penny in Disney's The Rescuers, and the girl who "liked her coffee black" in Airplane!

@Phatman2167 6 лет назад

SYFY Wire. Where they talk about movies, that were poorly translated from the books they were made from, and can't even discuss the movie properly.

@maryjean0601 2 года назад

I loved the original back in the day. Looking at it today, it still holds up with writing, directing, suspense and action.

@avader5 6 лет назад

There is no sanctuary!

@TheAshMcG 5 лет назад

In the book (which I loved) they found it.....It would have been very hard to translate the book. Two very different visionary tales... I liked the book better but the movie was entertaining.

@dysmodule 5 лет назад

But they found cats! Anywhere where’s cats there’s sanctuary!

@jpitch61 6 лет назад

why do they keep remaking movies that don't need remade? leave it alone

@cybercapri 6 лет назад

I am old enough to have seen this movie when it was first released as a child and I am here to say it was awesome them and even more awesome today, in 2018...

@SuperFreedomRock1 4 года назад

Grew-up in the 70's and this was played more than once on the "Saturday Matinee" movie features they'd have every week on network TV, when we had 4 channels, including PBS. Stuck with me the rest of my life, pre-Star Wars, along with Space 1999. Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica were kind of silly later on, but I enjoyed them also. Love this whole era of sci-fi.

@computerjantje 3 года назад

Yep my youth as well. During my childhood I did build the Eagle (space 1999) with Lego all the time. The Galactica also was a beautiful ship

@stevenshipe3739 6 лет назад

Read the book. The 1976 film ruined the premise the book was even written for. In the novel, Logan decides to run when he reaches his last day, but his reason for doing so changes over the course of the story. In the film, the computer speeds up his life clock and instructs him to do it. While I still like the film, it's nowhere near as good of a story as the novel.I have no faith that Hollywood would even be interested in making a faithful adaptation of the book in this day and age. At it's heart, it is a social fiction story with futuristic trappings. It's not a mindless action/adventure/science fiction romp.

@serpenthydra 6 лет назад

The problem with being faithful is that what works on page doesn't always translate to film. Perhaps these were ideas explored in short lived TV show. That format certainly allows for that kind of arc to exist, although again adaptation is needed to create content beyond the book's perspective... Compromise is a key theme of life it seems...

@Imsuper656 6 лет назад

They weren't explored in the TV show!

@JustWasted3HoursHere 6 лет назад

*Read the book. The 1976 film ruined the premise the book was even written for.* Maybe it's because I saw the movie before I read the book, but in my opinion, this is one of those rare instances where the movie is actually better than the source material. As you read the book you can definitely see the places where they borrowed from it (like some parts of "Box"), but for the most part the movie just took the very basic premise of the book and went in their own direction.

@paulch8665 6 лет назад

The sequel book, Logan's World. if you can find it, is quite fascinating. Sanctuary is revealed to be a space station orbiting Mars. DS breaks the supply chain forcing the few remaining occupants (basically Logan and family) to return to Earth. The Domed City is only a piece of the worldwide system being run on a version of what we would now see as the Internet but was essentially the defense department supercomputer network headquartered in Crazy Horse mountain.

@JustWasted3HoursHere 6 лет назад

Interesting! I saw the trilogy set on Amazon recently. Might check it out.

@Jacana2k6 6 лет назад

I know Michael York was the bigger star of Logan's Run. I just wish Jenny Agutter got a similar credit for recognition. So many roles but nerd fans may have seen her in Avengers as one of the shadow World Counsel members. An even better showing, she is in Capt America Winter Soldier as the female World Counsel member that Black Widow impersonates to sneak into Shield HQ.

@XantroyX 6 лет назад

Michael Strange And she still looked better than Scar Jo. Shoulda kept that mask on.

@kaosnkunfusion8739 6 лет назад

I just had to re-watch that!

@josephhinkofer5995 6 лет назад

She was in the movie 'An American Werewolf In London' which she had a costarring role with David Naughton.

@CptDunsel 6 лет назад

I had to laugh years ago when LR would appear on TV and you would hear an announcer say "And now, back to 'Logan's Run" starring Farrah Fawcett!"

@funkyalfonso 6 лет назад

I was her age when she was in 'The Railway Children.' Crush and that voice.

@wikigrrrl8482 5 лет назад

The 60s: "Don't trust anyone over 30." After the 60s: "Don't trust anyone under 30."

@kimopuppy 4 года назад

I love anything Logan's Run! When I saw Logan's Run I talked my friends into going to see it with me but by this time it was at the Drive-In and by this time Farah was a huge hit so she got top billing. I've read everything Logan's Run

@EdwardTravels 5 лет назад

Logan’s run is a great film. It would be great if someone could find the deleted scenes. Hopefully someday it will be remade it’s a story worth telling again

@2112Nightshift 2 года назад

The jewels in their hands were 'life clocks' not time clocks. Logan wasn't disillusioned at first, he was sent on a mission to find sanctuary and became disillusioned as a result of character growth of completing said mission. Great movie.

@thomasrose38 6 лет назад

Show Logan's Run Around 1980 immediately I was hooked haven't seen it in over 15 years but still a classic to me

@raymondkizer1216 5 лет назад

The tv series never did well in the ratings because CBS never got behind it to promote it. The network would routinely interrupt/pre-empt LR’s time slot by showing some sort of network special or simply move LR to another time slot. A tv series cannot build an audience if it is constantly undergoing scheduling changes. Yes, I realize the show had lackluster writing and character development, but that could have been corrected. CBS simply did not support this show and after 14 episodes…it simply faded into television history.

@roybixby6135 6 лет назад

Logans Run - I love any film that makes you think more than just mind numbing entertainment...

@hankmessaros1835 4 года назад

I love Logan's run and the TV show and would love to see a remake of it

@melissagies3624 6 лет назад

I like the original and I don't think it needs a remake! Some things should be left as they are!

@Phatman2167 5 лет назад

It needs to be remade, but closer to the book.

@c28baby 6 лет назад

"THE CRYSTAL! IT'S CLEAR!"

@thudthud5423 6 лет назад

I've always thought that, in 1976 "Logan's Run" was considered to be the "Mountain of Sci-Fi" - the blockbuster that all others were compared to for its plot and special effects. Then, a year later a little movie called "Star Wars" appeared on the big screen and the "Mountain of Sci-Fi" found itself looking like a grasshopper next to an elephant.

@zembryoz 6 лет назад

Orwellian? Dude, do some actual reading. Logan's Run doesn't have ANY Orwellian themes. It's literally derived from a completely different book - Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

@anonb4632 6 лет назад

Mᴇᴢᴋᴀʟ Mᴜᴢɪɴɢᴢ Nineteen Eighty Four mentions historical revisionism, the culling of un-persons etc which are similar to Logan's Run.

@stebaer 6 лет назад

Well one source as I'd heard somewhere is that Logan's Run is America's answer to 1984 & meaning like that book from Britain,of which was maybe 3 or 4 times made into a movie,If it's in the mind that's what makes it hard to bring to the screen and both the Movie & TV screen alike. In The Logan's Run Book Francis is a good guy and is sanctuary but please do read both the book & the Malibu graphics comics alike to see how and without me giving too much away.

@Phatman2167 5 лет назад

Logan's Run has absolutely NOTHING to do with 1984.

@DVincentW 5 лет назад

@@anonb4632 Historical revisionism, the culling of un-persons etc which are happening in real life.

@anonb4632 5 лет назад

DVincentW We're not at the point where there is a mass slaughter of people over a certain age in the west, although the assisted suicide crew are encouraging that. It's lurking in the background but not as blatant as it is in Logan's Run.

@northamericanman75 2 года назад

I'd watch Logan's Run just for the scenes with Box and his Battlestar Galactica look. "I'm ready! And you're ready! It's my job, to freeze you!"

@avarielblackwing6613 6 лет назад

The best part of the original Logan's Run story to me, as a kid, (book, not the movie) were the Sandman (DS) Guns themselves. They had, I believe, 6 different ammo types which produced wildly different effects: Homer (heat seeker that fires off all your pain receptors at once... think of STNG's Varon-T disruptor), Tangler (metallic sticky net that shrinkwraps you), Nitro (grenade-like blast), Vapor (gas charges that required you to insert nose filters first), Ripper (close-range armor-shredder), and Needler (knockout drug... too bad that one didn't have an EverLove dose option! Hello, Greygirl...). As a kid, I SO wanted that gun!

@supportthebandsstopfakecop1679 6 лет назад

A couple of corrections. The city computer places Logan 5 on the run. The computer changes his time clock. And gives him a mission to find sanctuary (an area outside the dome, supposedly accepting runners.)

@roul4842 5 лет назад

I just watched Logan's Run with my mom and brother. I think I might read the novel sometime if I can find it.

@Loagun 5 лет назад

And Logan's Run the movie which is based off the novel of the same name borrows heavily from Brave New World - a dystopian novel written in 1931 by English author Aldous Huxley. There are also parallels too Anthem written in 1938 by Russian author Ayn Rand. I love them all. Great suggestions for anyone looking for other similar storylines as Logan's Run.

@clepak 6 лет назад

I remember I loved this show when I was a kid. It is weird watching it now (due to tech that makes new scoff movies realistic) but it is still one of my favorite movies

@RonnieWeinman 6 лет назад

i'v been waiting twenty plus years for a remake of the great back when story

@eastlynburkholder2591 6 лет назад

The actor who plays Logan's partner named Francis almost steals the show. He is that good as a supporting actor.

@davemorgan6013 6 лет назад

Logan's Run was also an obvious influence on the Maze Runner series (probably more on the movies than on the books, though).

@GypsyHeart2012 6 лет назад

Really great film for its time...and now a great time capsule of the 70s.

@williamtanck1363 6 лет назад

I remember seeing this when I was a kid at a drive in.

@jeffnettleton3858 6 лет назад

To be clear, George Perez has written his own material; but, on Logan's Run, he was just the artist. Gerry Conway wrote the first issue of the comic and David Anthony craft the other 5 issues of the adaptation (which went through issues 1-5, with a new story in issues 6 and 7). Perez was assisted by inker Klaus Janson. Issue 6 also featured a back-up story with Thanos and Drax the Destroyer, who can currently be seen in Avengers: Infinity War.

@jeffnettleton3858 6 лет назад

whoops that was "the other 4 issues". The first 5 issues adapt the movie, while 6 and 7 loosely adapt elements of Logan's World, within the movie's world. Sales were moderate and it was cancelled after the 7 issues.

@jamesooten3659 6 лет назад

Jeff Nettleton + There is also an issue of Marvel Fanfare that focused on smaller stories about various characters rather than one issue-long story. My comics are in storage right now and I don't remember the issue number. However, it featured Black Widow, Elektra, Triton from the Inhumans, and a story set in the world of Logan's Run. It focused on another Sandman (not Logan) chasing a runner. It was a surprize because was not on the cover. I guess BW and Elektra were enough of a draw to sell that issue. Good story and art, though.

@kathyodom5372 5 лет назад

I saw "Logan's Run" when it first hit theaters. I was 15.

@suzannemenuet947 6 лет назад

Great video. Just 1 point: Logan 5 didn't decide to run. He was assigned the task to find sanctuary by the computer he works for.

@SupesMe 6 лет назад

One of my favorite genres, I read all the books & comics. One day I'd like to have a Working replica of the Guns

@mikeyoung9810 6 лет назад

I saw the movie in the theater and loved it. For the time it was amazing special effects, Michael York was well known then and I've been in love with Jenny Agutter ever since. I watched the series too but it was never as good. Nice video and behind the scenes info. Thanks.

@Mitch2171 6 лет назад

Also "The Island" with Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor - both of their characters are named like the leads in Logan's Run and the people live in a sealed world when they dont need to and are killed when their time is up as determined by the city leaders via "winning" their way to The Island

@mikegrossberg8624 6 лет назад

To be precise, the denizens of "The Island" are CLONES. They're NOT killed off at a certain age, they're used as replacement parts for the wealthy people who paid to have them created

@serenasmuckers9310 5 лет назад

I would definitely enjoy seeing a remake with today's technology in filmmaking. Some additional trivia: the interior scenes of the Dome City were shot inside of the former Cinderella City Mall in Denver Colorado. The closing scenes at the end of the movie were shot at the Fort Worth Water Gardens in Fort Worth Texas.

@BigHosMan 6 лет назад

Great film! Jenny was a doll!! Some of the coolest side arms ever! Whoosh

@RDjax78 6 лет назад

As always another great review. The Island was strongly influenced by "Logan's Run" as well as "1984". V for Vendetta, and Equilibrium had elements as well.

@johnwatson3948 6 лет назад

Interesting I hadn’t thought about how other SF followed a similar theme. Gary Morgan who played rebel leader Billy is a great guy and great Logan’s Run story-teller - have a video of him when he was doing stunts on our movie in the 1990’s.

@SchizoMelody 6 лет назад

There are for additional comic book adaptations of Logan's Run and Logan's World that you didn't even mention!

@smokymountainmodeler3054 6 лет назад

Don't mess with perfection. Look what happened when they made remade Blade runner. Just saying.

@chrisstarring2991 3 года назад

It was a sequel, but it still sucked.

@Prospero761 6 лет назад

I've been hoping for a more faithful to the novel version for years.

@SpockBorg5 6 лет назад

This is one adaptation that was better off straying from the source. Being killed off at 30 was more believable than being forced to die at 21. The movie age limit takes into account the time it would take to fully educate and train an individual, and still have time to lead the hedonistic lifestyle depicted in the movie. Oh by the way don't bother with snowpiercer, depressing ambiguous endings aren't worth 2 hours of your life. Premise was stupid anyway. Not the fact that current ice age goes through another cold period, but the fact that this particular group survivors didn't migrate to a warmer equatorial region when they had the chance, but instead chose to remain in a northern mountainous area where they would be experiencing the worst of the deep freeze.

@blowfishes 6 лет назад

It could also be said that many of the elements of Logan's Run that this video credits as being influential to modern films could be accredited to THX 1138...

@anonb4632 6 лет назад

Blowfishes RU-vid Logan's Run was released earlier. The ideas can be found in SF novels long before that.

@blowfishes 6 лет назад

Anon B Just did a check on a few sites and apparently Logan's Run had its US release on 23 June 1976, whereas THX 1138 had its US release on 11 March 1971...

@anonb4632 6 лет назад

Blowfishes RU-vid I was thinking more of the book but you are right about the film releases. The ideas were floating around before that...

@scottmantooth8785 6 лет назад

agreed THX 1138 was an amazing film on first viewing

@peterisnardi1197 5 лет назад

They forgot CITY OF EMBER as being derivative of LOGAN'S RUN...

@47barolo 4 года назад

Just watched this movie last night on DVD from the library. Logan was a spy for the City computer in order to find and "destroy Sanctuary". There were 1056 runners unaccounted for, and the computer wanted to find out there they were going and destroy it. Turns out they were frozen by Box, but the computer did not know this. There was no sanctuary, and so, when the computer found this out in Logan's interrogation, it self destructed Star Trek style (as when Kirk makes computers blow up by asking logical questions it cannot answer :~) ) Logan winds up falling in love with Jenny Agutter (who wouldn't?) who, on a scale of 1-10, is a 500 in this movie. Pretty fun movie for its day. Richard Jordan is cool as Francis.