Probably the best scene in the movie: When you realize that everyone died and no one found sanctuary. Instead they fell into the trap of Box, one who has been around a long time. ....
@@mpittard21 Box also doesn't know, or have the capacity to care, how freezing will affect them, he only knows that freezing is good and that it keeps things fresh.
@@mpittard21 Storage for when the populace needed it. But when things changed and he couldn't get all the seafood, he adapted with what next started to come his way.
If you've never before understood why Star Wars was so groundbreaking and mind-blowing, note that Logan's Run, came out just 1 year before A New Hope. So in a year, audiences went from "guy in aluminum foil mask with dryer ventilation tubes for arms, named BOX" to C3PO, R2D2, X-wings, TIE fighters, Star Destroyers, Darth Vader, Tusken Raiders, Stormtroopers, Jawas, lightsabers, etc.
I agree, feels so weird knowing this film came out a year before Star Wars. I think its fair to say that Logan's Run is the last of the old sci-fi with Star Wars starting the new sci-fi era, note how the editing is more slower paced and action rather basic, which Star Wars and Blade Runner both changed.
@ Morris van - Yeah, you can tell someone's age by how they call Star Wars; 'A New Hope'. You were either there or you weren't. But at least they're not saying that Disney/Kathleen Kennedy trash is Star Wars.
What makes this movie so good is the concept and uniqueness compared to other movies like Star wars, etc. It was very different and I always liked Logan's Run.
This is the mosr messed up part of the movie. Imagine going through all the hell of trying to escape only to end up frozen in ice by a crazed robot as your just on the cusp of getting outside. =|
Logan is the first Sandman to learn of Sanctuary The only Sandman to ever run The others who made it as far as Box were just normal civilians with no real weapons to defend themselves Logan has his Sandman gun, if he didn’t, he and Jessica would have been frozen by Box just like all the others It’s interesting that the Runner ‘key’ literally leads directly to Box - there seems to be an integrated system in place to catch all the runners - carousel, Sandmen, Box Is it possible that this ‘system’ was somehow set up eons ago with multiple checkpoints to prevent anyone from ever getting out? Hmmm 🤔 The mystery and unanswered questions are part of what still makes this movie so great after all this time - Classic! Love this film!!
@@systemshocker2875 That's not real CGI. They used a computer to pixilate regular footage and then they painted over that by hand. You aren't seeing anything created by a computer and the image didn't start on a computer.
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But he was a cyborg, and even called himself such in his introduction. It was that which allowed me to suspend my disbelief when seeing Roscoe Lee Browne’s tongue and lips through the foil he was wrapped in.
@@alphanerd7221 Oh, I know. I remember seeing this in the theater in '76. But because of the trailer, we kids all thought the "guy in he Jiffy Pop Popcorn costume" was going to have more screen time. I want to see this on the big screen again!
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Box isn't eating people. Box was designed to help feed the domed city by collecting "fish, and plankton, and see greens, and protein from the sea." It stopped, and people started coming. Apparently his creators didn't think "don't make people into food" needed to be stated aloud.
2:04 I missed the whole "Soylent Green" aspect of this scene the first time I saw this movie, but got the full shock years later when it was shown on TV. A very chilling scene, in more ways than one!
Makes you wonder how much the city leaders knew about their food supply situation. Clearly they must have had gaps in their knowledge. Not only were they unaware that there was no sanctuary, but they had apparently not bothered to send out a team of technicians or sandmen to check out the outer paths from the city and stumble across Box to find out that the escapees were either in cold storage or coming back into the city in the form of foodstuffs. Kind of makes you wonder how that city had managed to survive so long with such stupid leadership.
@@kentvesser9484 In the movie, the City _has no leadership_. It's run entirely by the AI, the humans are overgrown children in an immense, sexually-active creche. And yeah, things do seem to be breaking down. As far as eating bodies, though...that's automatically implied by living in a contained, ecologically-self-sustaining closed system. The organic matter of the dead has to be recycled back into the system, somehow. Even in the larger world, sooner or later mother nature does exactly that, as decay and scavengers do their work, embalming and cemeteries only delay it.
@@kentvesser9484 I'd assume that there are a lot of boxes, becuase theres no way one robot could capture all the food for the city (especialy a robot this immobile, like how did he even manage to kill all those people?) Plus there's no way that there are enough runners (that arent killed inside) to provide enough food maybe the other boxes can still harvest other foods?
@@onibabapapa2659 The runners are not being eaten. All the runners that Box froze are still there in the Ice Cave, the City has forgotten that Box is even there. However, you're right that there have to be other supply chains that are still (so far) functional. The City is still eating, after all. Do they all have a Box-type cyborg as part of the system? Interesting thought, that might even be true.
In the LN novel, Box is a sex-obsessed manual laborer at a Government emergency marine life food storage station near Washington, D.C. Like the Tin Man in the Oz books, he becomes an essentially immortal cyborg when more and more of his body parts are replaced with machinery. Left alone at the station after society collapses, he goes steadily insane, mixing his original mission with self-aggrandizement. Fancying himself a great artist, he gets the Runners who find their way to the site -- which they mistakenly believe to be Sanctuary -- to disrobe and be captured by him in (ice) sculpture, before they are physically captured and stuffed in the bins formerly used for marine life. That's why Logan and his friend are shown naked at the very start of this clip.
You sure? Box was a child murderer in the novel, who got chewed up in a transporter belt accident and got cybernized, and sent to Hell, a frozen wasteland that served as a prison.
I love the robot in Interstellar. He's a throwback to boxy robots of the past, but somehow sleeker and more convincing than the robots of modern Sci Fi.
@@DanFrederiksen i wouldnt call it garbage but i do find it to be one of those movies where it has good parts that dont add up to much of a whole. I find myself watching clips of it on yt but no desire to sit through the whole thing again.
@@thebookwasbetter3650 they had the audacity to tout it as scientifically accurate when it's as scientifically literate as a republican. the very premise that global warming could make earth less habitable than a planet orbiting ultra close to a black hole is beyond moronic. never mind that such time dilation is not even remotely possible in the most extreme cases let alone a nice planet with sunshine and oceans. the movie works as a moody dream, it has zero merit in the real world.
There's a lot more to this scene then just some robot meeting Logan and Jessica. BOX's statement "I'm more than man, more than machine, more than a fusion of the two" implies that there existed some very advanced human technology, created in the 200 years or so prior to the "collapse" that led to creation of the Domed City. And that there are still quite a few bits and pieces of it existing and functioning.
because it's a monument of a bygone era. even today, all those buildings are antiquated architecture and don't reflect current day building styles. 20th century DC doesn't look like 20th century.
The moment I saw this machine I knew something was wrong. An unexplainable vibe I was getting from this machine. My senses proved me right. I would have run immediately and never looked back
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I read the book at the age of 13 (I'm now 51) so my memory of the story isn't perfect. However, as I recall Box was a 14 y/o boy who fell in some machinery and got mangled, being reconstructed as the harvester robot. The film has taken some major liberties with the story, due mostly to reasons of economy and running time. This is easily the best bit, and always makes me laugh.
The Box in the book was a child molester and murderer. He was mangled trying to escape capture for his crimes, and machinery replaced the parts of his body too damaged to be healed. He was sentenced to the prison Hell at the North Pole, which, with his cyborg parts, he finds to his liking. He doesn't become a harvester robot as in the film. He and Logan and Jessica have an... interaction that doesn't go so well for Box, ultimately. In a bargain with Logan and Jessica, they must pose for him as he carves an ice sculpture of the pair, in exchange for a way out of the prison Hell. That bargain was included in the original edit of the film, but for the final edit the scene was removed, both to shorten the film and to remove nude scenes as the couple pose.
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Why remake such a fondly remembered classic? C'mon Hollywood! Stop taking the easy way out! There are dozens of great, classic sci-fi stories and books just begging to see the light of day. Movies that have the potential of being the "Login's Run" for future generations of moviegoers.
You consider this fondly remembered? Maybe for you. You consider this a classic? Far from it, it's deeply flawed with just hints of the smart sci-fi thriller it wanted to be.
For one, the special effects are very out-dated. They're laughable to the point that they can detract from the story. How about a remake where Michael York takes the place of Peter Ustinov? A cast set in their teens would be more true to the novel and more acceptable in the 2020s (when it probably would be released if they start working on it now)...well, that is if it didn't look like a rip-off of the "Hunger Games."
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?” ― Tennessee Williams.
They're freezing from the cold, but they're walking on ice barefooted! And they got out of their clothes cause they were wet. as were their feet. Wouldn't they be sticking to the ice alittle? LOL
Devin Drew Most sci - fi movies ignore details like that. Just like movies set on space stations or starships where artificial gravity appears to be a common thing.
I remember watching this as a kid I assumed that Box was freezing runners and sending them back as food. When he said "they stopped coming and they came so I stored them here" I always assumed the runners were being stored as food since the fish and stuff had stopped. I thought that was a really cool plot twist that the Sandman realized he was eating people the whole time until I watched it again as an adult. Then I was bummed out that they were just frozen and stayed there.
I saw that too but I still consider the "Soylent Green" explanation as my headcanon. Especially since no one works to make ressources in the city, so food does have to come from somewhere.
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@@thibautisserant You don't need to. If Box still exists in a broken supply chain, we must assume other supply chains closer to the City still work. Automated agriculture, recycling, fish farming, etc. If you want to believe Box sends corpses to the City, why are there so many corpses stored in his freezer when there are so few runners? If corpses get sent back, there must be an automated supply chain that does the food prep, because nobody knows about it. It really is easier to assume non-cannibalism.
The nudity in the scene was the highlight of this section of the movie. The action sequence with renewal and chase sequences without much special effects was much better in terms of suspense.
I remember this scene above all else from Logan's run. As a 10 year old there were three movies that really stuck out to me then, Rollerball (James Caan), Logan's Run, and West World with Yul Brynner.
Man, you don't hear much about ROLLERBALL, now! It made a big impression on me when it came out. I made a big effort to get a copy of the story, it was like three pages long, I think it was in a magazine? "Rollerball Murder" it might have been called. The Logan's Run world is very high tech and attractive in its way. They have teleportation, a pink fog as a drug, walk-in surgery.... real working artificial intelligence, little hovercraft as I recall, dashing outfits, rocket pistols, some stuff you can spray on a dead person to just dissolve them (don't get any ON you!).... And Jessica's legs are pretty amazing. Maybe they have special exercises in The FUTURE, or are they surgically enhanced?
If the idea was to confront Logan and Jessica with as bizarre a character and environment as possible (compared to their lives in the city), then I guess they succeeded, but even as a young teenager, I thought this scene was just weird. Like Logan said "It all seemed to make sense before Box."
No. The reason the fish, seagreens, etc... stopped coming was because they were being harvested by the city. Hence "they stopped coming". The people were the runners who thought they were traveling to Sanctuary. Boxes job was to freeze things, so he kept freezing things. Any transport mechanism for what he processed stopped a long time ago as all those people are still there.
I've always thought that Box was simply used as an explanation for how when Logan and Jessica got out of the Domed city that no previous Runners were already there. Box had caught and frozen them all - Logan being armed was presumably the difference maker. Some sources say he was a `guard' but that doesn't fit his own explanation.
Logan's Run I remember watching this movie when it was screened at our local Majestic cinema in the late 70's. Good memories! Sorry about the late comment.
Nah, Box is an abandoned robot. The people in the city don't even know he's there. He's only freezing Runners because they were all that came to him after the food he was made to preserve stopped coming.
@@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225 I really hope so, because if he's a part of the automated food production system of the metropolis - the likes of which many or any would be as ignorant of as they are of the outside world - that would be *problem.*
Hard to believe this movie came out a year before Star Wars and feels like galaxies away. Could you imagine the bored crew of Nostromo (Alien) dealing with that dumb robot.
As cheesy as the effects were in this movie it left a lasting impression on me as a kid. What a great movie! Therrreeeee.....Issss...Nooooo.....Sanctuuuarrry!
+ohsnapiam59 He had a great line in "All In The Family" when he was stuck in an elevator with Archie and several other people and he asked Archie his name: A: "Bunker! As in Battle of!" RLB: "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Bunker Hill."
Okay, check out the effects in the rest of the movie. They're pretty damn impressive. This is the one real slip-up in a movie that has otherwise aged pretty well.
Minus the effects of the frozen birds falling, I actually really like the effects. The sleek/clunky design of Box is effectively creepy in its weirdness. It’s actually a spooky scene too.
Box definitely looks like a costume, but they made it work with strong lighting. Quite a character, and an impressive sight if you don't look too closely.
Soylent Green. Add the Omega Man and were right on track..eerie now , looking back at when these films were made , when I first saw them . How uncanny, how close we are to these "prophesies" materializing - Just never thought I'd be alive to see such horror , overpopulation , food shortage etc
A huge chunk of this particular scene(where Box makes an ice sculpture of Jessica and Logan embracing) was left on the cutting room floor and far as we know is no longer in existence though a clip appears in the trailer.
I love old cheap robot costume suits from old movies, and his voice was awesome. I looked up the voice actor and he passed in 2007, what a cool voice he had. The one thing I hate about watching old movies is knowing all of those actors are dead. 0:58 check out the reflection of a crew dude in the robot. 1:29 another reflection in the robot that shows the crew. In fact in every scene you can see reflections of the crew, lighting and cameras. That's nothing major of course, much newer sitcoms like fuckin' Friends are way worse. Showing mic's and crew, crew in reflections and actors laughing out of place.
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