I always use this film as an example of how much Star Wars changed the look of Sci Fi/Sci Fantasy. This came out one year before Star Wars, and it's a good representation of what pre-Star Wars Sci Fi films (except 2001) looked like.

@carlossaraiva8213

2 жыл бұрын

In terms of looks for movies set in the future the real watershed was not Star Wars but Blade Runner. That is the movie that created a clear divide in SF film aestetics.

@bretcantwell4921

Жыл бұрын

@WVR Spence (WestVirginiaRebel) a really interesting fact is that the apocalyptic Damnation Alley was released by 20th Century Fox the same year as Star Wars and was supposed to be the summer blockbuster.

@loganbradford2343

11 ай бұрын

I'm actually named after this story lol. Very interesting bit of film history

Much of what the old man says about cats is from T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", the book that was used as the basis for the musical "Cats".

@greenglasful

2 жыл бұрын

Yup

The first time I watched this movie "start to finish" was the day before my wife's 30th birthday. She seemed to enjoy the movie and didn't get too angry about the obvious joke I played on her by choosing that movie that day.

@erictaylor5462

2 жыл бұрын

The first time I saw this move I thought 30 was pretty old (I think I was 12 or 13). Last Thursday I celebrated my 52nd birthday! My *YOUNGER* sister's kid is 31! WTF man!

The old man is played by British actor Peter Ustinov. The budget for Logan's run was between $7-8 million, Jen. The producers managed to save $3 million by filming most of the movie in Dallas.

@LogicalNiko

4 ай бұрын

Yep the buildings and the water fountains are places still around in the Dallas area.

Logan's Run was indeed based on a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, Jen. 🙂Although in the book, a person's death date was 21 years of age, not 30.

@jean-paulaudette9246

2 жыл бұрын

Their plans and efforts make a lot more sense for younger people than for those a bit more mature...at the time I first saw this, I was young myself, so saw little inconsistency. Looking back, they are often acting as very inexperienced people.

@williamjones6031

Жыл бұрын

The reason the age had to be changed is because they couldn't find enough actors without legal casting issues.

Despite its low budget, it won or should I say, tied the Oscar for Best Visual Effects with King Kong 1976. Also Happy New Year and RIP Betty White.

@ReelReviewsWithJen

2 жыл бұрын

That’s amazing! I have seen King Kong 😬 Happy New Year to you! 🎉 I know so sad to hear 😭

I hope that : Soylent Green (1973), is on your watch list very soon.

This is definitely a classic. It spawned a TV series of the same name but with different actors. The actor playing Logan, Michael York, has had a long and distinguished career. I first saw him in The Three Musketeers (1973). He was also in the Austin Powers movies.

@larrystuder6378

6 ай бұрын

Another notable role for Michael York was Tybalt in Zefferelli's Romeo and Juliet.. it's a beautiful film, I highly reccommend it for somebody to react to...

I saw this movie when I was 10 . I thought the sandman’s gun was the coolest thing . When it first came out on VHS years later I realized Jenny Agutter Was the coolest thing in the movie . Very good review .

@DimensionDevices

2 жыл бұрын

Same deal with An American Werewolf in London... Or indeed any film with Jenny Agutter in it.

@eddhardy1054

2 жыл бұрын

Guys I totally agree...about both the gun and Jenny Agutter (& An American Werewolf in London) 😉😊

@jimperry6463

2 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing an ad in a contemporary sci-fi magazine (Starlog?) for a functional prop Sandman gun that used butane cartridges for the flame effects. And it was expensive.

@vytallicaq.6881

2 жыл бұрын

I had that same experience watching Gilligan's Island.🤣 As a kid I was most impressed with Gilligan since he was like a big kid which made him more relatable to me. Then, years later after puberty hit and I was watching the reruns, I realized that show was really all about Mary Ann.😍Funny how that works!😋 But yeah, Jenny is one of the most beautiful creatures in history! Also thought Anne Lockhart from Battlestar Galactica was gorgeous. Her and her mother June had to be the most beautiful mother/daughter duo of all time!

@hifijohn

2 жыл бұрын

According to York the guns didn't always work, there was no special effects used they really did fire those flames, they worked on small gas cylinders.

This is the first movie I saw that showed how rapidly nature would recapture civilization. I gotta say, the wildlife invading our cities during the relatively short covid lockdown reminded me of Logan's run. I don't know if you have seen Babylon 5, but Michael York is at his best in one of the episodes - A Late Delivery From Avalon. - with a username like mine, could I be biased? "Yes" lol

@spacedinosaur8733

2 жыл бұрын

Babylon 5 was great, loved seeing Walter Koenig as Bester.

@johnw8578

2 жыл бұрын

The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.

I remember from the book that after the apocalypse, a computer system was put in charge of the civilization and it calculated that cellular decay started at 20, so logically all physical problems must start at that point. So if it didn't let the population age past that point then it could maintain a healthy society in perpetuity. In the movie, of course, they upped the age to 30. (Which does seem logical in my opinion.) I believe most of the film was shot on soundstages, but the waterfall fountain scenes at the end were definitely shot on location in a park in Texas. The cityscape scenes were definitely a model.

The people in the dome were told they were being "renewed" in carousel, so they didn't know they were being killed.

Jenny Augutter is currently acting as the head Nun on Call the Midwife. Her earlier fame, was in the Australian film Walkabout, in 1971. She is also notable for being the Nurse in American Werewolf in London.

@MLJ7956

2 жыл бұрын

She was good as the foster mom in Child's Play 2 & she also had a bit part as the doctor in Sam Rami's: Darkman.

@scottstevens7639

2 жыл бұрын

One other very high profile role for Ms. Agutter was in the MCU. She was a high ranking politician in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” (and very briefly in a couple other films). She was the one who was eventually revealed to be Black Widow in disguise.

@hankstaines6568

2 жыл бұрын

She was also in the tv series Spooks.

@charliepotatoes001

7 ай бұрын

@@scottstevens7639 It's cool that her short action sequence in "Winter Soldier" as Black Widow in disguise meant she still had a good physique for her age.

Francis 7 is played by Richard Jordan, who played Duncan Idaho in the original 1984 version of Dune, Jen. 🙂

Loved this movie for years - and I had watched it multiple times before I realized each person is dressed in the colour of their hand crystal. A person who's palm is still green dresses in green, etc. That's why all the runners are in red: their clock has run out.

@technopirate304

2 жыл бұрын

Wow I never knew that. Thanks for sharing.

Logan's Run was based on the 1967 novel of the same name written by William F. Nolan and George Clayton. In the novel, society requires the death of the individual by age 21, not 30. At the time actress Farrah Fawcett was married to actor Lee Majors, best known as Colonel Steve Austin from the 1970s sci-fi/superhero TV series The Six Million Dollar Man (on which she guest-starred repeatedly), and who subsequently starred in the TV series The Fall Guy. Those cylinders of film you see rotating with Logan's head are actual 3D holographs, images recorded on film with a laser, the first use of such in a theatrical feature film.

Of course that futuristic city set was all miniatures, Jen. 😆They weren't using CGI back then.

Gorgeous matte paintings in this. Love the scene with the overgrown ivy everywhere.

@ReelReviewsWithJen

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I love the Matte Paintings, so cool! Thanks for watching!

I guess the old man, played beautifully by Peter Ustinov here, was the sole kid of two runners who made it 70 years ago or so. Decendants of house cats are possibly still all over the ruins, since cats can pretty much feed themselves if push comes to shove, so no wonder Washington has them.

This is my favorite movie, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. Take this as a compliment, I got so hot listening to your commentary , you do an excellent review and observations. Thank you! Robert

The rotating animated head of Michael York in the "surrogation" scene was a real 3D hologram. I've seen similar ones in science museums.

Enjoyed your viewing very much! I believe this was Farrah's film debut, so she wasn't a big name yet. It wasn't stated, but I think all the people frozen in storage by the robot were all of the unaccounted-for runners the computer had Logan searching for...my theory, anyway. Loved this film when it came out, though not all of the effects have aged well. :)

Yes Logan's run is a book. Three short books actually. Logan's Run, Logan's Search, and Logan's World.

This was filmed in Fort Worth, Texas, I believe at a department store, or shopping mall that hadn't opened yet. The water fountains are were filmed at a water garden there. Michael York kept the robe, and still has it to this day.

At the time the movie Logan's Run was made, the carousel stunts and special effects were the most technical and expensive stunts/special effects ever done in a movie.

The novel is a surprisingly short book, but it does have a much more elaborate sequence during their escape with more robots rather than just Box in the film. Also the age limit is much lower: only 21! There was a tv series that continued Logan and Jessica's exploration of Outside along with an android, in which they encountered different groups of humans in various societies - although still being pursued by sandmen. In a different continuity, the novel has two follow ups: 'Logan's World' in which he is on a quest to find life saving medicine for his son retuning to Earth from a space station and going back to the ruined dome. The other I can't tell you about as I don't have that one (both are pretty rare). The music was by Sci-Fi score legend Jerry Goldsmith and fun fact: parts of the dome interior where shot at a newly built shopping mall. At the time pre Star Wars, Logan's Run was the biggest Sci-Fi craze since Planet of the Apes. Aside from the books and a comic series there was a lot less merch than other film franchises although the themes were more adult orientated so maybe because it was less kid friendly... nice review btw 😃

@cathyvickers9063

8 ай бұрын

You need to reread Logan's Run. There's no dome. The entire world is populated by young people overseen by the Thinker, a computer built prior the Little War. But Thinker is slowly breaking down, creating places that it no longer monitored. Ballard, the founder of Sanctuary whose defective palm crystal never changed to Lastday, realized that these "dead zones" were the perfect stages on the "underground railroad" ending at Canaveral, where a ship waited to take Runners to Sanctuary. Box was a cyborg who was dumped in the Antarctic penal colony, where he went insane. The only other robots I can think of are the caregivers in Nursery.

I saw this when released. The movie went through many re-writes and differs from the book it was based on, so I'll give my interpretation of the story of the movie. This facility was designed and built as closed ecosystem that would be self-sufficient and capable of supporting a new society. It was powered by the tides of the ocean, and farmed and processed fish and other seafood to feed the residents. The freezer facility was to balance the variations in food production to store excess to be used in leaner times. It had an initial limit to the population it could support, and people could leave or the facility could expand. Its mission evolved from a separate planned society to that of a lifeboat/ark for humanity. It had initially only a small sample of humans who chose to join with no regards to genetic diversity - only with those who came together and were willing to leave normal society behind and build a new one. The facility started at a certain capability, and may then have been expanded as the initial population grew. The fall of civilization occurred due to any number of reasons - take your pick. Without outside resources, the facility could not be expanded much more. The systems of the facility had an adaptation mechinism to adjust the population and parameters for it to survive until it was feasible for some residents to leave and survive outside it and possible expand the facility as civliztion rebuilds. However, whatever occurred lasted a lot longer than the system creators ever planned for. Maybe radiation, maybe chemical contamination. It lasted longer than the system could handle, and the system could not detect when it would be safe again. Over those thousands of years, the system's adjustments became more harsh. The population had maybe grown from a fairly small number to approach the capacity of the facility. Reproduction suppression became insufficient. A maximum age was implemented, maybe initially at an old age, e.g. 70. Over the years the age was lowered and lowered. The reproduction suppression was increased. Adjustments to the rules of the society were adjusted to handle the necessary changes, and included handling of resistance to the rules. Eventually, the society reached a point where the population could be sustained. The society could repair most things, but the basic facility-wide systems began degrading. Maybe the nutrients from the ocean could no longer support the fish farming. More adjustments for the survival of the society were needed. That included a reduction in population, and using those reduced to supplement the fertilizer/food production. What was in the freezer was no longer fish, but human flesh. The facility and its systems were not initially designed to handle the changes, so it became less and less capable in keeping up with supporting the population. Maybe the different systems were not coordinated so each was doing its adjustments and not specifically aware of the others. The population that could be supported continued to be reduced. The society-controlling system probably was searching for answers, inclulding why the numbers were not balancing-out. For people to leave and survive it couldn't be due to desire, the possiblity, or just hope. It had to be a high threshold that the systems were not aware of that possiblity - except maybe some hidden process that was triggered that caused some kind of self-destruction of the authoritative system. This left the population free to form a new society with new rules, including leaving the facility. I would think that the basic facility was not destroyed, and could be used as a base to then expand the new society and new facilities.

"Logan's Run." Only the greatest motion picture ever made!

I was 9 years old when this came out and it blew my mind. Jenny Agutter might be one of the most beautiful women who have ever lived. Happy New Year Jen!!!

@ReelReviewsWithJen

2 жыл бұрын

She’s amazing! Happy New Year to you too! 🎉

The poems the old man in Washington was reciting is from T.S. Eliot, which poems were used in the musical stage play Cats (NOT the movie. actually idk if they put all that in the movie. I didn't make it ten minutes into that garbage. the play itself started in 1981 and was released on VHS in 1998 and was absolutely brilliant)

You might enjoy the Andromeda strain. Silent running is a good one as well. Really like your channel.

You know, the Sylvester Judge Dredd film along with the 2012 Dredd film make Logan's Run look like a beach people show.

Richard Jordan, Duncan in Dune, MJ Fox's rich uncle in Secret of my Success, Dirk Pitt in Raise the Titanic, and Secretary of Defense in Hunt for Red October. General Armistead in Gettysburg. Great actor.

"A boy and his dog" 1975 ;)

A lot of people don't realize that "Logan's Run" spelled backward is "Nur Snagol."

@Bfdidc

2 жыл бұрын

Ssshhh! Do you want to upset the fabric of our society?!

@BigDave423

2 жыл бұрын

If you say five times in front of a mirror an old man with a bunch of cats shows up to your house. 🤪

@blastradius9136

2 жыл бұрын

You cracked the code!!!😁

This is a classic, and has some interesting sci-fi ideas at its core. It's based on a novel, which spawned two book sequels. The movie didn't get one for whatever reason. (Maybe poor reception at the time?) It certainly achieved cult status later on. Yes, It's pretty iconic for the period with great sets and characters. Several of the actors were either known already or went onto long careers after. There was a short lived Logan's Run TV series later in the 70's, that continued Logan's adventures in another format. One thing that this film inspired was a number of children named "Logan" borne of fans of the film. (I know one, hehe)

I can't believe no one has mentioned that most of the interiors of the dome were filmed at the Dallas Market Center mall. I saw Logan'r Run in the theater when it was new. It seemed a little cheesy in parts, even then, but we were just happy that someone had made a new large-scale sci-fi movie. Here is on of several "making of" videos: kzread.info/dash/bejne/X3miy9xmltebl7Q.html

@thunderstruck5484

2 жыл бұрын

I think that water fountain is in Fort Worth also

Outside the dome, cats have three names, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Those spinning heads are what we called holograms in the 70s. All the runners were caught by Box and frozen.

I liked how you called certain scenes spicy that was our pg back in those days.

The book is well worth reading. The book’s narrative is followed only loosely in the movie ... and the ending is COMPLETELY different.

This is one of my classic sci-fi favorites. I grew up watching this. Michael York (Logan) is a great British actor. He's been in a number of movies and TV shows.

The actor who played Logan is also the voice of Ares the God of War in an episode of Justice League Unlimited.

It was well publicized at the time that this marked the first time actual holograms in a feature film. The interior of the domed cities was a HUGE miniature that too up an entire soundstage. It was actually beautifully detailed but the cinematography did it no favors! It was originally much longer and more adult, but was re-edited to be shorter and less erotic. The editors took out a LOT of The Love Shop scene. All the cuts are missing so there'll never be an expanded cut... This, to me, is one of composer Jerry Goldsmith's finest scores, combining electronics and orchestral music to spectacular effect!

@TerryNationB7

2 жыл бұрын

The domed city miniature really does look fantasic to me, especially with the monorail-type transport whizzing around. I've never been a small scale train enthusiast but I'd love to make a futuristic version that looked like Logan's Run. I agree with you about Jerry Goldsmith's score. I think my favourite work of his is for Capricorn One (1977).

@justinplayfair4638

2 жыл бұрын

@@TerryNationB7 that score for Capricorn One is phenomenal! The stark opening credits and Goldsmith's epic title track pretty much blew me out of the back of the theater. I think he did his best work in the 70's!

@group-music

Жыл бұрын

My favourite Goldsmith scores are Logan's Run and Alien.

There is actually a trilogy of Logan books-Logan’s World,and another whose name eludes me at this time-but only Logan’s Run was made into a movie.When I clicked on this to watch it,an ad for THX-1138 came up and I thought “Hey,Jen likes science-fiction and this movie is historically important since it was made by George Lucas before he made Star Wars.Maybe she’d like to review it.”Interested?It has that 70s science fiction movie aesthetic if you like that.Also,thanks for reviewing Logan’s Run,for always having a new video to help keep me from going out of my head(Covid cases at my nursing home are increasing rapidly,so I’m getting a little panicky),and for your channel in general.Happy New Year.

@ericjanssen394

2 жыл бұрын

The best review I've seen for THX-1138 is, and I quote, "It's like watching WHITE paint dry."

@pathatfield2543

2 жыл бұрын

@@ericjanssen394 that’s clever and funny.I would say it’s a bit better than that though,at least on a visual level(excluding,of course,the scene where the main characters are moved into a white space).

Great movie always enjoyed watching, thanks again for sharing your thoughts and reaction

I've got this on DVD. It's a very interesting movie. Farrah Fawcett was married to Lee Majors (TV's Six Million Dollar Man). Michael York, our main sandman, has appeared in 163 movies. He was also in the 1977 sci-fi movie The Island of Dr Moreau. Would love your reaction to the 1978 film Coma. Directed by Michael Crichton, based on the Robin Cook novel. It features Michael Douglas, Genevieve Bujold and Richard Widmark. Thanks for the hard work and happy new year.

@trhansen3244

2 жыл бұрын

Coma is a fine movie. I haven't read the novel, though.

@jean-paulaudette9246

2 жыл бұрын

I think my favorite of Micheal York is "The Three Musketeers" (1973-4)!

@jamesharper3933

2 жыл бұрын

@@jean-paulaudette9246 Yes, those are very good too.

@kevinerose

2 жыл бұрын

I believe the female actress was in the movie "An American Werewolf in London".

@film-maniac

2 жыл бұрын

As well as an uncredited role in Sam Raimis DARKMAN...as a nurse. Most recently in some of the Marvel movies (Winter Soldier being the first.)

Fish, plankton, sea greens! Protein from the sea!

I’m gonna guess that I’m one of the few that have read the book… this movie was huge for me when it came out, I was 12, and read and reread the book several time, saw the movie probably 10 time in the theatre. The book is quite different, particularly the ending.

@TheAshMcG

11 ай бұрын

I love the book, and how they used concepts in the book but modified them for a movie format. They both stand on their own and are wonderful works of Sci Fi.

The movie was based on a book written in the 60s. It was rather different, with the termination age being 21. After the movie, there were two sequel novels, Logan’s World and Logan’s Search. Both are good reads, if you can find them on eBay. The city scenes were filmed at a mall in Texas.

@w1975b

2 жыл бұрын

The exit/entrance pool of water is a real location and some people actually drowned in it. I think it was changed so it's not as deep now, although people can drown in just a few inches of water. Fort Worth Water Gardens.

Personally, I hold *Logan's Run* to be a prime example of seeing a good movie version first and reading an even better novel afterwards. The details that Nolan and Johnson deck their future out in (like glass ornaments on a Christmas tree) in no way detract from the easy-to-follow text and headlong pace of the plot...and the stage is the whole world, not simply a single city and its surroundings. I've yearned for a worthy and faithful adaptation for many years now...perhaps this will be the decade we can all get to experience it. 😉 P.S. Nolan and Johnson's Dedication to their book takes up two whole pages in tribute to all the fiction that inspired them as youths, and reads like a Who's Who of pop culture in the 40's and 50's. It's almost worth buying the book just to read the list - a key to a black hole of dreams in the Internet age! 😃

Considering how everything is being remade these days I am shocked that this has never been remade.

@ReelReviewsWithJen

2 жыл бұрын

Right? I was definitely expecting a remake too

@sydneymeanstreet

2 жыл бұрын

@@ReelReviewsWithJen There has been talk of a remake since the early 2000s. For a long time the writer behind the Bioshock games, Ken Levine, was attached to the script. Last I heard he departed the project around 2015.

"An old man. All frozen. There is nooooo sanctuaryyyyy . . ." :D

Jenny Aggutar most famously played the eldest daughter in "The Railway Children"

ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER MADE.... TOO MUCH TRUTH HERE....!!!!

Jenny Agutter, who played Jessica-6, also appeared in films like Child's Play 2, and she was a member of the Council in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Carousel sequence is exclusive to the movie. Basically, whoever makes it to the top, gets a shot at Renewal (Rebirth, if you will). In the novel, you report to a place called a Sleepshop, which is essentially a gas chamber.

Farrah Fawcett was married to actor Lee Majors in the 70's. He was famous for starring in the TV series "The Six Million Dollar Man", an iconic sci-fi property in and of itself, based on the novel "Cyborg". And later he starred in a show called "The Fall Guy" about a stuntman.

Michael York, who plays Logan, was also in the Austin Powers movies, Jen. He played Basil Exposition with British Secret Service. He was also D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers.

@w1975b

2 жыл бұрын

he was in The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) also starring Burt Lancaster

@ronbock8291

2 жыл бұрын

…and he was Mercutio in Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet. A great Shakespearean actor in his day.

@44excalibur

2 жыл бұрын

@@w1975b Thanks for reminding me. I forgot about The Island of Dr. Moreau.

@goldenager59

Жыл бұрын

@@ronbock8291 Close, but not in the gold. His character in that one was actually Tybalt. In Zeffirelli's previous Shakespeare film, 1967's *The Taming of the Shrew,* York played the secondary role of Lucentio, suitor to Kate's sister Bianca. They did want him to play Romeo in the next film; I can't recall exactly why the role-change, but I think York himself requested it because it was much more dynamic and charismatic. (If that's the case, I can't say I blame him; heroes are great, but a story is only as good as its villain, and Shakespeare gave us some of the very best. Besides, Leonard Whiting did seem to fit the image of "sensitive boy deep in love" more believably, where York's more angular features would seem to work against it.) 😎

@ronbock8291

Жыл бұрын

@@goldenager59 yeah, if I’d paused for a second I would’ve remembered that. Olivia Hussey was one of my very earliest screen crushes, that movie made a huge impression on me when I was young. Taming of the Shrew I saw later and didn’t really like it, Burton was good in it, as was Cyril Cusack, who I love, but Liz Taylor wrecks it for me.

This movie probably was the first movie I saw as a kid (or maybe The Road Warrior?) that made me so enamored by post apocalyptic settings in stories and films. I would love to see a remake of this, but I’d also be very afraid it would turn out horrible given the track record on most remakes.

This was the first big-budget si-fi movie by a major studio. It was a gamble based on science fiction shows like STAR TREK and TWILIGHT ZONE being popular on television as well as the popularity of science fiction literature. It paid off and its success enabled STAR WARS being put into production and released the following year and that was such a success it overshadowed this movie which is why few people have heard of it today.

I've been watching this movie since the late 70s and never put the tick tock sound of the Computer and time running out together. Kudos for seeing it in your first viewing Jen. 👍

When I was a child I never saw this movie, but I did see the TV movie remake/pilot and series. It was so cool to me at the time, especially the sandman guns. I saw this movie a few years later and realise they couldn't show some of this stuff on tv, hence the tv movie remake. I always loved the relentless pursuit by Francis and his goons (in the series). Its interesting that in the movie there were no lasers for the guns, but there was for the cosmetic surgery machine. This was released a year before Star Wars. Imagine being 70 - 80 years old and having a a mob of hot young people wanting to touch you. LOL.

Cheese & Rice Indeed, Cool Reaction As Always Jen, You Have A Happy New Year Sweetie 🥰

@ReelReviewsWithJen

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! You too! 🎉

I love the look of Logan's Run, from the clothing colours based on age (and occasionally profession) to the look of the domed city, plus the voice of the computer. They made so many sci-fi movies in the 1970s that had interesting ideas behind them though many feel so very 70s in their look/sound (I'm thinking of Soylent Green (1973), Silent Running (1972) along with Logan's Run). I'm usually not a fan of remaking movies but sometimes I'm in favour of it.

@kentclark6420

Жыл бұрын

And Zardoz.

There are two books, Logan's Run and a sequel, Logan's World. In Logan's World things get a lot more....Mad Max. The movie is a pretty faithful adaptation of the books, but there are obviously some creative choices the director made The old man was born outside the dome, but long after the fall of civilization. He was educated by his parents, so is pretty primitive. Sanctuary as rumored, doesn't exist. Michael York, who starred in this was a very popular leading man in this era. He played D'artagnon opposite Raquel Welch in the Three Musketeers and Four Musketeers. He starred in the Island of Doctor Moreau and a few more.

@Adam-bp7kw

2 жыл бұрын

There is a 3rd book. Logan’s search

Carousel was done with people on wires that were suspended between 20 to 60 feet in the air. Many got hurt from the wire rigs and the small explosive device placed on them. The movie is based on the first of 3 books.

@spacedinosaur8733

2 жыл бұрын

And the stunt people got all tangled up the first time they tried to use it.

Classic novel. The author's name escapes me. Logan is played by Michael York, the great British actor.

This film budget originally for 5 million actually ballon to 9 million and this was the last big budget sci fi movie before Star Wars came out the following year which change science fiction movies forever. Those were miniatures and some scenes like the mall was shot in a actual mall in Dallas and the water fall where Logan Jessica and the old man was shot at Fort Worth. In the book the age is 21 and instead of a carousel they went to a place of euthanasia to put to death with gas. Jenny Agutter was also in the movie An American Werewolf in London (1981) playing a nurse. And Michael York was in this Mike Meyers’s Austin Power movies. Always enjoy your KZread videos. There was a short live tv series based on the movie on CBS network and lasted only 15 episodes back in 1977. And the old man parents could have runners and he supposed to be a 100 years old

Michael York was also the star of the Oscar-winning Caberet. Worked into the 2000s. You might remember him as Austin Powers boss in those films.

Yes, Farrah Fawcett was married to Lee Majors, The Six Million Dollar Man himself, when she starred in Logan's Run. 😆

I love this movie but I would love to see a remake of it, one that is more faithful to the book, specifically the age limit of 21. Ryan Gosling was supposedly going to be in a remake but it never got made. Farrah Fawcett gives an amazing performance in _The Burning Bed._ Michael York (Logan), would go on to play Austin Powers' boss in the movie series.

Take a shot each time Jen says "Oh, my."

the power couple of their day.. Farrah Fawcett and Lee Majors (aka the Six Million Dollar Man). Love this movie. Some great sf concepts explored. This is one movie worthy of a modern remake. There is a big dash of Brave New World thrown in here, not to mention early imgining of the internet and 'very social media' lol. You should look into Michael York's vast filmography. As a kid I became obsessed with the Ankh symbol after this, leading down the Egyptian rabbit hole. The Island certainyl gave off Logan's Run vibes in the first part before Michael Bay did what Michael Bay does

@pathatfield2543

2 жыл бұрын

There is also a movie from the 70s called Parts:The Clonus Horror(or,alternately,simply The Clonus Horror) that Michael Bay’s The Island practically remakes.It,in my opinion,is worth seeing because it gets into some of the more thought-provoking aspects of the subject matter.Just expect a bit of 70s “cheese”(in parenthesis because I actually hate that term,though I’ll use it for the sake of being on the same page).

@taoist32

2 жыл бұрын

You could research these type of movies and see common patterns from Metropolis (1940’s) to the present. All these movies are based between the years 2030-2040. The dome is a huge symbol used in these movies to represent man’s world (Eden) vs Mother Nature (reality). There is also mention of two classes, the hidden and the masters (what we call elites). The hidden is us, the world population that works to support the system. The elites are the ones who created the system or run the system (ex: sandmen vs runners). Brave New World, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Prisoner (British tv show), Blade Runner, The Matrix, Dark City, Soylent Green, Demolition Man, etc. all show elements of these patterns.

I think this movie is prime for a remake along with “Soylent Green”, “The Andromeda Strain” and “Capricorn 1”.

@kosh6612

2 жыл бұрын

they actually did a recent series remake of Andromeda Strain. Capricorn 1 was a great movie, though I suspect in the current "conspiracy climate" it would never get made. Hangar 18 or Saturn 5 (also with Farrah Fawcett) would be great for this channel

@damiangardiner147

2 жыл бұрын

A remake has been In development hell for over 25 years now and would be closer to the original novel. Last I heard Bryan Singer was hired to direct but that was at least five years ago now

My understanding of sanctuary was that the robot ran out of fish to freeze so he started freezing runners instead so there was no sanctuary

@ReelReviewsWithJen

2 жыл бұрын

Yikes that’s terrifying 😬

@Greenwood4727

2 жыл бұрын

its all protein.. spare food bank

@vincentlyon7448

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. The implied cannibalism shook me as a kid

I saw this when I was 9 (I managed to sneak in); this is where sci-fi was going before Star Wars...This is basically humanity starting over from scratch. The budget was $7mill (in 1975-76 $$), and it brought in about $25mill. There were two books, IIRC, although there might be a third. There was no sequel, but they did try to do a TV show...stick to the movie. Originally, the maximum age was 21, and there were seven cities around the world (I think; it's been a VERY long time since I read it). Children are "born" in artificial wombs; that's where Logan and Francis are at the opening, looking at the newborns. The clothes are all color-coded: Yellow is for children, Green for teens to very early 20's, and red are for c.24-30. The water feature is the Ft Worth, Texas Water Gardens; the non-backlot/sound stage sets are mostly the Dallas World Trade Center and the Ft Worth Galleria; Sandman Headquarters was the back side of the old Mobile Oil office tower near downtown Dallas

The concept of this movie was way more complex than Star Wars ~ but star wars overshadowed it because, well ~ people are gung ho for bang bang shoot em up save the princess from the spooky dude in black stuff. The female computer in Logan's Run is *FAR MORE DISTURBING* than some dude in a black cape called Darth Vader.

Logan's Run was the first film to use Dolby Stereo on 70 mm prints. Nine entire sound stages were used at MGM in Culver City, California, hosting a miniature city among the largest of its kind built to date. Most everything else was was filmed in Dallas, Texas, including the Apparel Mart at Dallas Market Center (The Great Hall), Oz Restaurant and Nightclub (The Love Shop) and Pegasus Place (Sandman headquarters), the Fort Worth Water Gardens, and the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Houston. The Sewage Disposal Plant in El Segundo, California was used for the underground escape sequences.

@Fred_L.

2 жыл бұрын

The Fort Worth Water Gardens, the place used e.g. in the very last scene, had been built just in the year before filming there, so when the film was released most people wouldn´t be able to recognize the modern/futuristic monument either.

@44excalibur

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fred_L. Robocop was also filmed in the Dallas/Fort Worth area for the same reason.

Thanks, Jen. Nobody's doing that one. I thought I was over Jenny Agutter, maybe one of my first movie-actor crushes. Just a couple tidbits... You may have noticed the appearance of the interior of the domes to a shopping mall, because it WAS a shopping mall. The score was done by one of the great film composers, Jerry Goldsmith. Matthew Yuricich was one of the great matte painters. One of the great old-time actors, Peter Ustinov, played the old man. He was not a second-rate B-movie actor. They tried to make something of quality. Unfortunately, at the time, as much as I wanted to be overwhelmed by the city, I wish they'd slowed down the water a bit because the waves gave the small size away...obviously a model. However, the model of the city WAS really neat. That was so much fun. I actually saw that in the movie theater when I was a kid, and the big screen helped it a lot.

@ronbock8291

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yes, Jenny Agutter. She was everything to me back then.

@christopheryochum3602

2 жыл бұрын

@@ronbock8291 :)

Jenny Agutter, Nurse Alex Price in 'An Amercan Werewolf in London'. Currently appears on tv's 'Call the Midwife'. Happy New Year Jen.🥳

@jean-paulaudette9246

2 жыл бұрын

Jenny Agutter! Be still, my heart!

@ReelReviewsWithJen

2 жыл бұрын

Oh man! Yes I remember her now! I haven’t seen Call The Midwife but I loved American Werewolf in London!

@craigvancil4410

2 жыл бұрын

@@ReelReviewsWithJen She also plays Councilwoman Hawley in the Marvel cinematic universe. Black widow used her face as a disguise and kicked some ass in Captain America: winter soldier.

@jean-paulaudette9246

2 жыл бұрын

@@craigvancil4410 That was such a wonderful cameo. I still think it would have been better if it turned out the Councilwoman was a straight as$-kicker, rather than the Romanoff reveal, but there ya go.

@w1975b

2 жыл бұрын

I commented the same thing about AAWiL before seeing your comment.

What I find interesting is that this film and Star Wars were basically being produced at the same time, yet the quality of effects were so different from each other. One was cutting edge, and the other used more traditional methods of filming... one became a classic, and the other became a cult classic.

I just wanna say you always brighten my day🤗

@ReelReviewsWithJen

2 жыл бұрын

So kind! Thank you so much!

@KIKO-xy8ix

2 жыл бұрын

@@ReelReviewsWithJen you're such a pleasure to see 🤩

The bright reds and greens were worn according to where you were in age! Reds were 20 and up and greens were under 20. Saw this in the theater, I was a teenager!

@ReelReviewsWithJen

Жыл бұрын

Thats cool! I wonder if it’s like that in book, thanks for watching!

@cathyvickers9063

8 ай бұрын

​@@ReelReviewsWithJenNot really, no. A lot was invented for the movie to make it more spectacular.

One of my favourite movies when I was a kid and it still is

"Farrah Fawcett-Majors...she must have been married at this time." Yeah, she was married to Lee Majors, who played the Six Million Dollar Man. They were, essentially, the BenLo couple of the 70s.

23:15 I saw this movie as a kid, then later, I saw this fountain in real life. It was pretty cool actually.

Massive movie hit in the UK when I was a kid! TV series was huge too! 👏🙏❤️

A lot of "Logan's Run" was filmed in Texas. Mainly Dallas and Fort Worth. The area where sea water was used to power the city was filmed at the Fort Worth Water Gardens.

Love this movie! One thing - just like "Soylent Green" has about 1% in common with the classic novel "Make Room! Make Room!" (I absolutely love BOTH the book AND the movie) - "Logan's Run" has about 1% in common with the Logan Trilogy of books (and again, I LOVE both the movie AND the books). In the book, they go to be euthanised at age 21 (not 30), and know there's no "renewal" or "Carousel". Society is also crumbling due to the lack of experts able to keep all their technology functioning. The entire globe is connected by the tubes, there are lots of open air cities, etc. Anyhow - Logan's Run is a great, fun movie. Actually a rather thought provoking, too. Thanks for another great video, Jen! OH! SOYLENT GREEN!!!!!!!! Would LOVE to see you react to THAT!

My husband and I still joke about going "on the circuit". lol

I saw the movie when it was in theaters when I was 10. Part of the movie was filmed in the Fort Worth (Texas) Water Gardens. We would go there quite often as kids.

Loved this movie when I was young. Knowing human nature from the last few years, folks would probably be "sure, we only lived to 30, but we lived in luxury and didn't work. You ruined everything Logan".

As hard as it may be to believe, the special effects (campy as they are by today's standards) win the Academy Award for Special Effects in 1976.The building where they met the old man was supposed to be the US Senate. Think of it - no one lives past 30 and cats inherit the Earth :-D

@spacedinosaur8733

2 жыл бұрын

"Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.” ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

I love this movie! I remember when it came out, some people loved it but a lot of people thought it was too weird. Have you seen THX 1138? It's another old school sci-fi movie with unusual sets and strange ideas about the future.

@group-music

Жыл бұрын

It's also George Lucas' first film before he made Star Wars.

In the late 60s-early 70s a lot of distopian sci-fi movies were coming out. Omega Man, Soylent Green, Westworld, A Clockwork Orange, Silent Running. Then 1977 came and everything changed.

@w1975b

2 жыл бұрын

Now we have The Hunger Games, Divergent, etc. Still with the dystopia :(

Just finished watching this re-view of Logan's Run. I'm going to re-watch it just so I can hear you Jen go.. Oh! My!!!!! Your charm and personality make your videos entertaining and worth watching. Best wishes 2022!

@31:52, as a lifelong Black sci-fi fan that mono-ethnic future is a trope that I've see a lot in older sci-fi properties. However, casting for genre movies and tv shows began to get better in the late 70s/early 80s because activist brought attention to it. They asked the question like "If science fiction movies are portraying the future why aren't there any people of color in movies like Star Wars?" So long story yes the demographics of this films cast is definitely a characteristic of its production time. The late comedian Richard Pryor famously once joked about this trope in one of his comedy sketches. I won't reiterate what he said but it was freaking hilarious.

During the end crowd scene when they surround Peter Ustinov someone in the crowd gives the Star Trek Vulcan salute.

@ReelReviewsWithJen

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! I haven’t seen Star Trek but I know what that salute, thanks for watching!

@27:25, yep everyone is free and homeless. The old man is going to have a lot of roommates over at the Senate building. He is also going to have to teach all of these young whippersnappers how to grow food, hunt and fish. @33:55, if you stop and think about it Logan and Jessica did find Sanctuary. Sanctuary is the natural world outside of the domes and it is a beautiful garden. It's wild and untamed but there is fresh air, water and probably plenty of plants and animals for food. The first few years will be rough for the former dome citizens. But humans managed to survive on Earth for over 200,000 years without industrialization. Perhaps they can get it right this time and live in harmony with nature. Last thought Sanctuary could also be interpreted as the reintroduction of love and families to the world. They will need these concepts if they are going to survive.

If there ever is a "rapture" with people floating up... I'm going to be the jerk on the ground shouting "RENEW!!! RENEW !!! "