The lines Peter Ustinov quoted as the old man about cats come from T. S. Eliot's book of poems called "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" most people will know the poems as the songs from CATS The Musical.

I was 12 when this film was released and dragged my mother to take me. The story and scale of the production were mind-blowing and the miniature effects felt like miniatures but were impressive nonetheless. When Farrah Fawcett-Majors appeared, the audience all gasped and whispered, and I said, “It’s Farrah-Fawcett-Majors!”, to which my mother said, “How do you know who that woman is?” I recognized her from commercials and as the stunning wife of Lee Majors from ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’, and there wasn’t a single American kid in 1976 who didn’t love that show. A few weeks later, Charlie’s Angels aired as a TV movie. It was a huge hit and became a bigger hit TV show that fall. Farrah became a megastar.

@karlydoc

Жыл бұрын

Shame that lee majors (a very poor actor)beat farrah

@christopherleodaniels7203

Жыл бұрын

@@karlydoc …I knew James Orr was convicted for beating her and there’s reports about Ryan O’Neal, but I’d never heard anything re: Lee. That would be very sad indeed.

@karlydoc

Жыл бұрын

@@christopherleodaniels7203 I read that he beat her when reports of her cancer was in the papers,and the insinuation was that was part of the reason why they divorced.

36:30 "I hate outside!" - everyone born after 2000 🤣

@MoviesWithMarty

6 ай бұрын

Haha! Very, very true 🤣

@user-gd9em2zw9i

2 ай бұрын

@@MoviesWithMarty this is what is going to happen to evolution believe man monkeys, they will be brainwashed by the Ai FAKE GOD of SF BUDHISM reincarnation in to a clone the Indian wheel of life is the modernized in to the carousel.

@charlesvan13

28 күн бұрын

I don't have that reaction after being trapped in a shopping mall. But the summers can suck in the SE United States, very humid.

The old man is played by Peter Ustinov, probably most famous for his role in the movie Spartacus. Great actor.

@Photonface

7 ай бұрын

Love Spartucus. The scene where Spartucus crucifed is beautiful.

@CEngelbrecht

3 ай бұрын

It's really strange to see reaction videos sometimes. Kids talking about "who's this guy?" about straight up icons of cinema. As prolific as he was, how in the hell can Peter Ustinov be news to anyone? The Ian McKellen of his day?

@richardscanlan3419

2 ай бұрын

Great in Spartacus",but even better as Nero in "Quo Vadis'.

Back in the 80's when I went to sci fi conventions, Logans Run was probably #3 in popularity behind Star Wars and Star Trek. Lots of people dressed up as Sandmen and girls in short flowy dresses.

The old man was Peter Ustinov. He had a long, illustrious career on stage and film and won The Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Stanley Kubrick’s film Spartacus (1960) in 1961.

@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh

Жыл бұрын

also famous from playing Hercule Poirot.

@JulioLeonFandinho

10 ай бұрын

His Nero in Quo Vadis was as iconic as Joachim Phoenix's Comodus in Gladiator for many years. One of the best actors ever!

@melenatorr

6 ай бұрын

@@JulioLeonFandinho Agreed - a wonderful writer as well. A brilliant, funny man.

They kept the Sandman title for the movie, but in the book, the Sandmen worked in the section called Deep Sleep, where people would go to be put to sleep. The Sandmen would go after the runners, the ones that wanted to live. Oh, and as someone mentioned, the book had them go to 21 years.

@jontastic

Жыл бұрын

Sandman is an old name given to a fictional character who brings sleep. The idea is that he drops sand in your eyes to cause sleep. The dried tears in the corners of the eye are called sand in this mythology.

@DL30Creations

Жыл бұрын

Also in the book there were no domed cities but they had the mazecars that could travel across the globe in minutes. But nowhere to hide from the DS, at least nowhere on Earth. They used Argos space station and launched ships from cape Steinbeck. The second book was actually good following up some years later returning to Earth after the fall of the Thinker. The third book was a warped rewrite of the original story in an alternative world controlled by aliens.

Ooooh, this was one of the most satisfying reactions I've watched in a long time! Thank you Marty, for returning me to my fourteen-year-old self. I've showed this to some of my young cinephile friends and they didn't care for the 70s cheesiness of it, but you reacted pretty much the way I did back in 1976. Until Star Wars came out the next year, this movie RULED. The first thing I did was run out and buy the soundtrack album... it was my introduction to Jerry Goldsmith and I've loved his music ever since. I lived in Dallas at the time so I was very familiar with some of the locations. I was particularly fascinated with seeing the Fort Worth Water Gardens in a film with the ocean behind it, since in reality it is smack dab in the middle of downtown Fort Worth. We used to pass the Zale building all the time on the highway. So that all just added to my teenage excitement of the film, and I still enjoy revisiting it from time to time. I do remember seeing it on the big screen that the special effects looked even faker... some of the shots of the domes and miniature city have some depth of field issues and nobody back then seemed to know how to miniaturize water properly like they can do now with cgi. But...still loved it. This reaction is exactly why I love watching movie reactions! Thank you so much.

@LaBlueStateGirl

Жыл бұрын

I was 12 and even though I was Sci Fi crazy, my dad saw the movie poster and even though it was a PG, he thought it looked a little too "adult" for his little girl. I was so upset! My mom felt bad, so she bought me the book and told me not to let my dad see it! It was funny because the book has soft core porn moments! lol I did get to see the "making of" special that they showed a week before the Oscars and then they gave in and let me see it around that time when it came to our local theater again for a week. I remember loving the movie, but being disappointed at how different the sanctuary storyline was. It took me a long time to enjoy the movie to its fullest because of that. I really enjoyed the next two books as well. It's been nice talking with someone my age about this movie!

@user4923

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comments.

Loving your reactions and trivia to the older sci-fi films. I would like to suggest 1960 version of “The Time Machine”.

I love/am terrified about situations like this. Suddenly thousands of people are FREE, and they have no idea how to grow food, or make fire, or govern themselves.

I saw this in the movie theater in 1976 with my Mom and older brother. I was 7 years old. I was totally enthralled throughout the whole film especially when Jenny Agutter got nude. I can remember eavesdropping on a conversation with my Mom and Dad later on in the day about how she had taken me and my brother to see it and she said she really thought it should have been rated R (it was rated PG). To this day it remains one of my all time favorite films.

Thanks for doing this sadly underappreciated movie. In the book the death clock goes at 21, but they couldn't find enough actors. GOOF: No way would Logan close that hatch with that much water going through it. Peter Ustinov improvised much of his dialogue. Jenny Agutter played in "American Werewolf in London" "Genesis II" has awesome miniature effects.

Great reaction! I've been waiting for someone to do a comprehensive reaction to Logan's Run--finally! Thank you!

@MoviesWithMarty

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Jon! I'm so glad you love it. I really appreciate it! If you have any suggestions for films, let me know and I'll add them to the list. Its an ever growing list haha. More to come like this in the future, as it seems there's a a huge appreciation for older films! Thank you so much for watching

@jons.105

Жыл бұрын

@@MoviesWithMarty I don't think anyone's done "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" from 1977, which was sort of a cult hit (it's cheesy but I like it!).

Peter Ustinov starred as Hercule Poirot in several Agatha Christie film adaptations in the 70's into the early 80's I believe.

@jamesalexander5623

Жыл бұрын

Loved "Death on the Nile"!

@joelake7986

9 ай бұрын

I know him best for his role in "Spartacus".

This was brillilant!!! Its so wonderful watching someone watch this cult classic for the first time. I watched this as a child when it came out, and I keep watching it every so often. It's a brilliant film.

Its Peter Ustinoff, famous British actor,

I saw Logan's Run back in the day and enjoyed it as a young sci-fi fan. In many ways it captures what sci-fi film was before Star Wars hit the world the following year.

The old man was played by Sir Peter Ustinov an actor of some acclaim well before your or my time. Just like Sir Donald Pleasance.

The Island (2005) is a fascinating play on this.

The Book is a short read and amazingly brings so much more. So the movie almost stands alone as another version and also a great 70's time capsule.

Since you asked... yes, portions of the movie WERE filmed in a shopping mall; specifically, the apparel mart of the Dallas Market Center in Dallas, TX. When they escape the city, the scene with Peter Ustinov was filmed at the Fort Worth Water Gardens in nearby Ft. Worth, TX (only about 60 km from the mall). The actual Fort Worth skyline is visible in the background of that scene.

19:33 This actress also played the voice of the city's computer.

@MoviesWithMarty

4 ай бұрын

I had no idea! Thank you so much for letting me know Watcher, and for watching! (Funny to say with your username being that)

Actually, this was early in Farah's career. She is a minor character but she was big when the movie was out so they promoted it has having her. I loved the TV series a lot. There was one episode where a man from the past traveled forward. His project collected data on the coming war for retrieval using their time travel mechanism. His intent was to retrieve the information and return to the past and use that to avoid the war. Logan and Jessica and REM received a message back; the cause of the war was the revelation of time travel. Awesome idea!

@ckobo84

Жыл бұрын

Ironically Farrah's career took off and ended at around age 30. She was like the IT girl for about 1 year wasn't she?

Logan in the book, lifes clock blacks out naturally. Sanctuary is also well known to the sandmen, and the escaped runners is also known about. So logan on his ladt day (24hrs to hand yourself to sleep shop), wants his last rush/buzz and legacy of destroying Sanctuary.

Personally, I think this film has the greatest computer voice in cinema history. When I saw LOGAN’S RUN I was 14. My impression then and now was that Carousel was bullshit. It was to give the belief that they could be renewed. I assumed that’s why there were numbers after their names. My biggest problem with the movie, though it’s still one of my favorites, is when the computer tells him about unaccounted runners and Logan leaps right to: “So no one’s ever been renewed?” My feeling was that the unaccounted runners were ones who escaped the Sandmen and left the city. But that Logan & Jessica were the only ones to get past Box. Logan’s leap of weird logic in that scene still puzzles me.

It predicted 'swipe left or swipr right, 40 years before tinder.

Reverting the age limit to 21? Di Caprio must have insisted hard on that 😂

You did it! many of the oldies are worth a view. Ok then, Fantastic Planet at some point will be fun. Zardoz is another... anyway to your show...

I saw this when it first came out, I was 16 years old. That was the year I had my first job (at the public library) and got my drivers license so I could go to movies of my own choosing not just what my whole family wanted to see. It was one of my favorites from that year the others being the Dino De Laurentiis produced King Kong, At the Earth's Core with Doug McClure, and Futureworld the sequel to Westword. I also remember that I got the soundtrack album to Logan's Run because the music of the film intrigued me, the mix of orchestra and electronic was fascinating at the time. This was all the year before Star Wars came out which I took my parents and younger siblings to see and started a family appreciation for Science Fiction and Fantasy films. On a side note the only time I was ever bummed out on my birthday was when I turned 30, I hold this move entirely to blame for that.

I've actually been to one of the filming locations multiple times even before seeing this movie. The Fort Worth Water Gardens was the shooting location for the exterior of 9f the tidal power generators.

An interesting thing about Logan's Run is that no matter how weird, unbelievable, and far out everything in the film seems, nothing in it lies outside the realms of possibility in the real world far off into the future. It would be possible for everything seen in the movie to actually happen eventually. Unlike what you see in movies such as Star Wars. Light-sabers and the Force for instance are obviously pure fantasy. If you loved Logan's Run I would recommend. 'Equilibrium,' and 'THX-1138.' Both great movies that like Logan's Run feature protagonists trying to escape a rigidly-controlled system/society.

Peter Ustinov was by the time this movie was made was an already very well established screen actor but he become a bone fide film star when he took the role of Hercule Poirot in a series of film and tv film adaptations.

There's a movie called Spirit of 76 where they make fun of the naming style of this movie. Instead of Logan 5, they have names like Heinz 57, and Chanel 5.

That water fountain is real....somewhere out west like Arizona or New Mexiaco. Still there today.

@MoviesWithMarty

29 күн бұрын

Thank you. Yeah, it most definitely is real. I wasn't sure whilst watching, but I do check out the trivia and go through details like the fountain at the end too, mentioning where it is etc. I appreciate you letting me know though, it's a pretty interesting location, esepcially with what they had to do to get the look in the film! Thanks for watching!

The old man’s nattering on about cats is from T. S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” which is the source material for the Broadway show (and films) _Cats_ .

I was 16 year old when this came out. Still love it.

I was 12 when I saw this in a theater. Totally fell in love with with it. Had all the posters I could find on my wall. Great reaction.

The point is that outside and being free of the domed was sanctuary.

As I now live in Dallas, I can visit a lot of the exterior sets, because most of the exteriors were all shot in the DFW area. Friggin GOLD....I watched this in the theater when I was a kid.

@TheMajorActual

11 ай бұрын

EDIT, because adulting is annoying.......I saw this in the theater. My 9 y/o self was absolutely fascinated by this movie, because it was easier to understand than _2001._ The idea was just golden for me.

Jerry Goldsmith did an excellent job with the music. In the city, he makes extensive use of synthesizers. In the outside, he uses a traditional orchestra. The contrast between the artificial and the natural.

49:20 "should have brought a cat" that could have been a completely different movie, if Logan had rounded up a sack full of farrel cats. For a long walk and a cold swim 🤣

One movie critic here in America wrote, "This is a science-fiction film made by people who don't understand science-fiction for the amusement of other people who don't care one way or the other." Ouch! But very amusing. Critics in 1976 pretty much pounced on this one, but it was a big hit anyway. I also remember the series, but since it starred different actors I lost interest after the first couple of episodes.

Fahrenheit 451 (1966) is another great futuristic dystopian movie, directed by François Truffaut.

I get the feeling you might enjoy watching "Excalibur" (1981). It was influential for the time, but largely forgotten by now. Another somewhat influential but forgotten film is "Altered States" (1980).

I saw this film 🎥 when it came out in;1976.My mom liked the movement of the actor’s,and the flying around that they did.

That was a lot of fun watching that journey with you. I saw that at the drive-in when I was like 8 years old, and I loved it so much I kept begging my parents to take us again and again. Must have seen it like four or five times back then, and it was always the first of a double-feature, the second movie being "Food of the Gods." We always tried to get through that one, but it was so bad we always left early haha.

I saw this when I was like a kid ,6 yrs old. So you can guess my age from that. Loved it back then was a sci-fi freak. Now much older not so much a sci-fi fanatic! Still cool movie for the times. Kind of like Blade runner but going after unwanted humans instead of replicants!

The Old Man, Peter Ustinov, is my favourite Poirot from the 70s and 80s

I saw this as when I was 8. Then I had my grandparents take me back 4 more times to see it again in the movies!

Another CLASSIC film with Jennie Agutter in is American Werewolf in London! HIGHLY recommended!!

In the original novel sanctuary does exist and Francis is a good guy who helps Logan and Jessica escape. Also, in the original novel.Logan is a villain protagonist who changes during the story into an antihero until he fully becomes a hero by the end. The original novel evrn got two sequels but aparently each becomes more trippy, weird and implausible with each story.

complete side note: great hair.

@MoviesWithMarty

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, sir! 😅 I hope you're well

This was my introduction to the cats poems...love Peter Ustinov's recitations, Would love to hear him do them all, but then he could turn an instruction manual into a soliloquy.

This movie is actually based on a book but there were some changes. 1. In the book they had much shorter lives... They had to increase the age in this movie because the actors were in their late 20s. 2. There was no carousel in the book they just put people to "sleep" with drugs. That's why the guys chasing runners were called Sandmen..they helped you get to sleep!

@romannoellocsin9950

2 күн бұрын

Actually, it's not just drugs. In the novel, when someone turns 21, they go to a place called a Sleepshop, which was basically a glorified gas chamber.

Love the fact that you are watching these old classic movies. Not many reactor channels go this far back. They all should. Great stories, great actors and great visuals. A movie I hope you watch is Icve Station Zebra. Not really a sci-fi movie but it fits in the Fantastic Voyage, Andromeda Strain, time frame of the world and the Cold War era of film making.

The old man is distinguished British actor, Peter Ustinov

@MoviesWithMarty

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, he's a fantastic actor. His voice is so recognisable too. Thanks for watching!

Sorry one other thing. The original west world. The original planet of the apes. Good fun... Oh his voice was also in the original Spaticus 1957. He was a Roman slaver

Marvel fans might also recognize Jenny Agutter as a member of the Council in the first Avengers movie, as well as Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Ooh, one more thing. I don’t recall where I learned this, but the woman runner in Cathedral did the excellent voice of the computer.

Logan's Run is an ICONIC sci-fi film. I would suggest "Damnation Alley" as a post-apocalyptic film. "Roller Ball" is another good old film.

The music was by Jerry Goldsmith, an absolute master of sci-fi and horror scores. He also did Alien, Star Trek and Planet of the Apes to name a few...

I am so happy you are reviewing this. I was obsessed with this movie, books and TV Show. I love all of it......Also, nobody is being reborn,they are being killed...In the book they had to go to sleep centers, and end at 21 years of age. That is why they are called Sandmen based on the book. Also they did not really expand on the Cubs and how they came to be like they did in the book. Also the colors tie to the differnt life cycles in the book, colors of the Life Clock change every seven years: yellow (birth-6), blue (7-13), red (14-20), red and black on Last day.

I was a teenager when this came out and I loved the futuristic vibe and the idea of people becoming kind of brainless fools! I was into science fiction and there wasn't as many of those types of movies back then. The special effects were good for the time and of course I fell in love with Jenny Agutter being a teenager with raging hormones! Also Peter Ustinov who was the old man was a pretty big star and wasn't really that old at the time! He did a great job and he was eating remember when they first found him! Great job with the reaction, this is still one of my favorite sci fi movies of all time!

love, love, love, love, oved this movie!!

@MoviesWithMarty

9 ай бұрын

Same here! Incredible film. Thank you for watching!

Saw this years ago in the 70's. Now I'm into my 70's as well. I have the flick in my library, never thought it was a Great film but it has become a staple in SF films.

I wondered if the 'renewal ritual' was created to provide food. There couldn't have been enough runners to feed everyone.

I have a friend that was an extra in the mall scenes in Dallas TX

Before you start, I'm still running!

@MoviesWithMarty

10 ай бұрын

RUN, RUNNERRRRR :D

Jennifer Aguter screaming she hates the outside is quite funny and ironic, or maybe its even an injoke, considering the movie that made her know to world audiences is Walkabout, the story of two siblings, a teenage girl and a child boy, who get lost in the australian outback and become friends with an aboriginal teenager. She would something about the unpleasantness of the great wild

I enjoy your indepth analysis of the films, and the trivia. I saw this in the theater when it was released, and thoroughly enjoyed it. The imaginative sci-fi and future society concepts, and the logical solutions to an "impossible" scenario - the fall of civilization and how can humanity be saved. The dome city is a lifeboat for humanity with its mostly-closed enviroment and community until such a day that the rest of the world is safe and habital again. With limited resources similar to a generational spaceship, the community mostly lived for the next generation and needed control to make that happen(pleasurable existence with measured drugs, casual sex, no attachments/family, rebirth/immortality, and sandmen to enforce the rules). The energy to sustain them was the tides that would still occur with the moon and oceans, and the food via fish farming lasted as long as the ocean provided nutrients. When the fish ran out, plan B was to send people into the processing to replace the fish. I'm not sure if there were 2 competing controlling computers, or the one lied some to Logan about what happened to the runners that got away. I think this facility started as an alterntive to normal society, and then evolved into the closed system lifeboat for humanity. Hard choices were made/programmed into the computer for population control and use of limited resources; and over time harder choices were made to keep it going. For these types of movies, you need to just enjoy them for what could be made and not dwell on the limitations of budget and technology; and how much of a story can be told in this medium (i.e. not a novel, series, or holodeck).

My name is Logan and I was named after this movie.

@MoviesWithMarty

10 ай бұрын

NICE! What a fantastic name! The film must have had a great impact on your parents. Thank you for watching and sharing!

I have a few suggestions for you of rarely reacted to movies that are some of my favorites: "Where Eagles Dare" (1968) - Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. "The Amateur" (1981) - John Savage and Christopher Plummer.

@MoviesWithMarty

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the suggestions and for watching Castle! Very much appreciated and I haven't seen either of those, so will definitely add them to the list, they sound fantastic. Where Eagles Dare is definitely one that I've heard of, but don't know anything about either. I've really loved going in quite blind to these. Thank you again!

I love your reaction to the the city model :) I love CGI but those old real models had a "look" about them.

Say, Marty, you might be able to do me a huge favor. There's a TV movie that is very much in keeping with the techno-optimist design of this movie. It's called City Beneath the Sea and it was made by Irwin Allen, the man behind Lost in Space and various disaster movies. It has an outrageous plot, involving gold, a dangerous but powerful miracle element, and a gigantic asteroid hurtling toward Earth. It's hopelessly corny but I love its whole sense of "Maybe this can be the future!" You may choose not to share it, but I hope you can find and enjoy it.

@MoviesWithMarty

Жыл бұрын

Hello William! Oh yes, that sounds amazing. I shall check it out, if I can find a decent copy of it and may in fact bring it to the channel if I can! Stay tuned (I'll try to let you know either way) - I love this kind of request and hunt for something from way back. Thank you so much and thanks for watching too

@williamblakehall5566

Жыл бұрын

@@MoviesWithMarty I do warn you, you've been doing a great job watching movies which are consistently good, and I really can't call this "good." The charm, I find, is that while I'm usually not into nostalgia, this sort of thing takes me back to a time of wonder (plus endless tedious melodrama). While I'm thinking of it, I've another oddity, another TV movie in mind: "Earth II" -- no, not the shortlived 1994 TV show, but a failed TV pilot episode from 1971 starring Gary Lockwood of 2001 fame. It's about a large space station struggling to exist as an independent nation high above a conflicted Earth. Perhaps together, City Beneath the Sea and Earth II (easily the better of the two) could be a The Future Just Isn't What It Used to Be double feature.

Jenny Agutter is in An American Werewolf in London (1981)

@MoviesWithMarty

9 ай бұрын

Is she! I had no idea, not seen that one yet, but it is on my list :) Thank you Vic

Very cool to have a reaction to this! Thank you! :)

@MoviesWithMarty

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome! I hope you enjoyed the video. Thank you for watching, Tim!

I only learned recently that this is one book out of four! The others were never made into movies. Have to try to find the books sometime.

Sir Peter Ustinov was an Actor, Director, Writer winner of 2 Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Emmys and BAFTAS! He was in some of the Great Roman Epic Films "Quo Vadis" and "Spartacus"!

The city people were eating the frozen runners. In the video clip that you showed, the robot confirms that "the other food stopped coming and they started".

@thisismyname007

4 ай бұрын

That steals an idea from Soylent Green! 😂😂😂. Or I could have said “gloms Soylent Green.”

This is quite a good film considering its budget and original novel its based on,try other great sci -fi films from this period like" Colussus the Forbin Project","Demon Seed","Soylent Green".

What is really crazy in the book the age is 21- so the Logan is like 16 or something... the book has some different things too like super speed travel.

If you want to see more of Jenny Agutter, watch Walkabout (1971). You'll see a WHOLE lot more of her. ;) Equus (1977) is another one you might want to check out.

@MoviesWithMarty

11 ай бұрын

:P Haha I can imagine... thanks for the suggestions! I'll definitely look into checking them out. I have a feeling "Walkabout" was the film I kept seeing images for when looking up images for the thumbnail/poster. Thank you Lurker!

I didn’t read the book so this is speculation. I think the part that looked like a ship was growing food, bio synthetic food. At one time there must have been something or someone that transported the food to the robot on the elevator. I think the robot’s job was to freeze this food and store it for future use. As time went by these tanks where no longer used and nothing was sent to the robot’s freezer. Since his job is to freeze things he just froze whatever showed up.

in the book when you turned 21 you went to a booth and got put to sleep, gassed to death, but if you ran a sandman would come and put you to sleep.

I recommend a Film Peter Ustinov Produced, Directed, Co-wrote the Screen Play for and Starred in, "Billy Budd" 1962. A Black and White Film based on the short Novel by Herman Melville! It introduced Terrence Stamp as the title character. It's a Seagoing Tale of the British Navy in the 1800's.

I'm a sucker for high concept old scifi... and this one is always great. Yeah, the miniatures haven't aged well and there's some goofy compositing during the whole Box segment, but that adds to the charm of it.

the ENDING is not him getting out but he wanted everybody out and FREE 😊

Runners don't want to renew. They are the smart ones who want more life 😊

Logan's Run was made in to a series.

Hi Marty, so glad you watched this classic. I really appreciated your well-thought-out commentary.

logan's run was a great film.

The cat stuff and cat namimg..all that is from TS Elliots poem from which the musical "Cats" is based on.

I remember seeing this is the movies. $0.75 I think. I fell in love with Jessica 6, like millions of others. Dude, it's Tinder for the 25 century.

@MoviesWithMarty

10 ай бұрын

Holy... $0.75?! That's amazing. I miss the days things were that cheap. Oh yes, Jessica 6 is gorgeous! Haha, yes! Thos hologram type transporters in the rooms were odd though, where you can just bring random people to your rooms. Great film though. Thank you for watching!

In the novel, the palmflower colors make sense: birth = white, 1 thru 7 = yellow, 8 thru 16 = blue; and age 17 thru 21 = red. Last Day your palmflower blinks red-black, red-black. It's the citizen's duty to report to a Sleep Shop for painless euthenasia. If they don't, & their flower turns black, they are a Runner, their black flower will trigger sensors in all Tube stations. There's no City of Domes: the whole world is like that! And the Old Man is a living legend named Ballard; & the cats are lions, tigers, etc whose ancestors lived in the D.C. zoo. One problem -- there weren't enough actors aged 20 and younger! So, they muddied things up for the movie. Birth = white. Age 1 thru 10 = blue. 11 thru 20 = green. 20 thru 30 = red. And they wanted something more spectacular than passively reporting for euthenasia, so invented Carousel. I wish Logan's Run would be remade sticking closer to the book. CGI would make the exotic locations in the book possible; & make the crowds possible. Btw, Holly was Farrah Fawcett's first acting job. She was a model prior this.

@cathyvickers9063

9 ай бұрын

I forgot the yellows! Yellows are still kids. It's more messed up than I recalled.

Also there was a Logan’s Run TV series (1season) that was pretty cool

I first saw this movie in the early 80s when i was around 6 on a tiny Black/white TV. Later i saw the movie again many times and it stills feels strangely captivating. It's surprising how big the City Minature really was. It looks way smaller than it really was tbh.

great review. really like the trivia section.

@MoviesWithMarty

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! It's lovely to know that people like the trivia section. It adds a little something to the videos

I'll never forget the movie OR the short-lived TV series. In fact, as a precocious queer boy I dearly loved Micheal York, then Gergory Harrison, TV beefcake 70's icon.

It's interesting you actually like the "old man" part of the film. I felt like that part of the film totally broke the momentum and brings the film to a standstill. When I rewatch the film, which is one of my favorites, I always jump past that section.

Not sure if someone mentioned it, but the view of the concrete or stone Texas waterfall had a white car pass along the upper left side. Sorry if someone mentioned it already