Logan's Run. thirty-nothing
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
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Stam Fine looks at Michael Anderson's 1976 Sci-Fi film, Logan's Run. In the future, people live idyllic lives until they hit 30. It's like Instagram. Then they die, like MySpace. Stars Michael York as Logan, Jenny Agutter as Jessica- two fugitives looking for a mythical place called Sanctuary. Also stars Peter Ustinov, Richard Jordan and Farrah Fawcett. - Розваги
the concept of carroussel and jenny agutter's almost dress are enough to make this movie much more than a vague memory for this 60 year old man, I can assure you of that
I agree.
Although at the time I was far too young to fully appreciate Jenny Agutter's appearance in Logan's Run, I DO remember feeling strongly drawn to her in a way I didn't fully understand at the time.
I could tell with an unusual degree of certainty that there _was_ something that we needed to be doing with one another, and while I may have been a little vague on the specifics of what that 'something' was exactly, I remember feeling absolutely certain that we should have been doing a hell of a lot of it.
Same here, i always liked Jenny's almost dress. Great movie.
Jenny ❤
Ustinovs "Oh My!" when Jenny Agutter asks to cop a feel.....tremendous.
They're never seen old actors, just young extras.
I saw this in the theater w/my mum, and when Jenny Agutter dropped her fur, my mom jumped up and covered my eyes! I was 12 years old, she was 50. I was mortified, lol.
I bet more parents did harm to their kids with those reactions than actual nudity would ever have done. Imagery of naked women didn't harm us, it was the flustered parents with reddened cheeks scrabbling around frantically trying to hide it that left us kind of screwed up!
@@markpostgate2551 Did more harm in the sense of developing a sense of self-restraint and propriety. Harm, indeed. As a child of the 21st century, I can conclusively identify the "hippy" countercultural age and this sort of perverted idea as responsible for the appalling situation in which we, your heirs and successors by cultural investiture, find ourselves.
I love this film, especially the concept, set design, and wardrobe. This futuristic world was both utopia and creepy nightmare rolled into one.
I always liked Michael York as Logan - a part of the system, but questioning the system - and had a major crush on Jenny Agutter in her role as Jessica.
I wish they made more SciFi films like this.
Jenny Agutter was smoking hot!
I'd forgotten just how beautiful Jenny Agutter was.
Side-by-side, she easily outshined Farrah Fawcett
I agree! I was 13-14 in '76, and was girl-mad since at least age 6 (NEVER went through the "Girls? Eeew" phase). Through the late 70s, I'd see how so many of my buddies thought Farah Fawcett was the bee's knee's, some having her poster. She never induced a twitch or a stir in me. But I found Jenny to be delectable.
I've NEVER forgotten how beautiful Jenny was. I saw the film in the theater in 1976 when I was 14 and fell in love with her. It's worse now that I'm 60! Lol
Of course men are going to prefer Jenny over Farrah in this movie, she did the nude scene after all.
@@murraykelm5691 and she's more attractive, unless you like big teeth
I loved this film back in the day!!!
Great!
The movie had some faults and some of the special effects were not that great but I would still say this is one of my favourite movies of all time, loved the lead rolls from Michael York and Jenny Agutter.
It's a really marvellous movie, and I remember seeing it at a Drive-In with my parents when I was 6! The fact that it has stayed with me for so many years is testament to the script, actors and originality of film making. It also touched upon the "what ifs" of so many themes which haunt us now. The risk of pandemics and wars wiping out humans, the obsession with youth, consumerism, hedonism and technology - which as always comes at a price. It's a great movie and the cast of Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan and Peter Ustinov are particularly strong. It really is movie that you enjoy but also "makes you think", a rare combination then as now.
I’m well past carousel time but I still love this movie
Ever since I first saw this as a teen I've been waiting for scientists to invent that machine that sends a young scantily-clad Jenny Agutter to your home. Why doesn't it exist yet? Ah well, I'll just watch Equus for the millionth time while I'm waiting.
"They can put a man on the moon, but not Jenny Agutter in my room."
@@StamFine They can put a man in space, but not Jenny Agutter on my face.
"Development Hell is like regular Hell but with more movie producers."
I think that regular Hell gets 99.99% of the producers.
I was startled whilst watching this vid, when I realised that the much lusted after Jenny Agutter from Logan's Run, has been Head Sister Julienne in Call the Midwife for the last decade.
lol
You should look up Walkabout.
@@nchia yes, I know she's naked in that.
@@SG-jw8mo I never figured out the ending, so confusing! I should look it up.
@@nchia I've only seen clips.
One of the coolest guns in sci-fi along with Space 1999 and Star Trek.
As a child of the 70's/80's it looks like they all live at the mall. And as a kid we did!
"Let's go to the Malllll!" - Robin Sparkles
Loved the novel. Cheesy New Wave.
Loved Logan's Run - btw, just discovered your channel and have been binge watching. Keep up the great content!
Thanks!
Me too.
Me too!
Well done Stam. For those who have never seen Logan's Run, its still a treat. I hope that good SF will guide a remake on the order of Minority Report.
Who doesn't hate a bullshit restocking fee! :) That being said, I loved this movie. Fun idea having the costumes match the persons time of life with younger people wearing yellow, people in their early twenties wearing green and those in the last few years of life wearing red.
Logan run shows the kids are feral and the adults avoid them, sending them feral. Ty great work as always.
A fair assessment. And indeed Logan's Run was the prototype for the new spectacle of science fiction which exploded the following year with Star Wars.
A little late to the comment party, but Michael York was also excellent as D'Artagnan in the Three Musketeers & Four Musketeers (with a young Christopher Lee as Rochefort)
I absolutely love the fact that the only reason that Logan and Jessica don't end up frozen like all the other runners... is because Logan is the first runner who brought a gun. The first runner with the means and opportunity to bring a gun. Their survival and subsequent freeing of their society all hinged on that one simple detail that somehow always seems to pass unnoticed.
I liked it way back when and I still like it today. 👍
Oh...Jenny.
So.... thirty years of sensual hedonism and then ZZZAAPP! instant death? Sign me up!
I doubt that one year olds are experiencing sensual hedonism. Ditto eight year olds. Having watched the movie, I ignore such thoughts before age 15.
@@RonJohn63 You jumped to one year olds very quickly. Odd.
@@8BitNaptime you wrote "thirty years of sensual hedonism", didn't you? In a society where people live until age 30, that includes... well, you _should_ know who that includes.
@@RonJohn63 You took a clearly humorous comment and analyzed it with your ... predilections. Weirdo.
@@8BitNaptime I analyzed the logical consequences of *your* comment.
_YOU_ are the one who wants toddlers to live lives of sensual hedonism.
My kids certainly didn't live lives of sensual hedonism!!
I was in grade school when Logan's Run came out. I read the book, and I feel movie feels more alien and distopian than the book.
yes - I'm not the only one who thought it was like tinder (or grindr) with a teleport function!
This was my go to movie to fall asleep to for months back in the day.
Not only did I love this movie, but I have never driven into a lake ;)
This movie made people aware way ahead of time about Artificial Intelligence. Life was controlled by a computer with a life span of only 30. The computer's voice was female. This movie was shot in the DFW area with use of the old Zale's building, Fort Worth Water Gardens, Oz Restaurant & Nightclub, and the Apparel Mart/Dallas Market Hall.
Released on June 23, 1976, One girl in the movie was Ashley Cox. Her mother thought it was a man's name. She didn't like it. Throughout school Ashley went by the name of Debbie. She was born November 1, 1956. After her father died, she went back to the name of Ashley. At the end of the movie she's the one her touches the old man's face at the water garden. In December of 1979 she was a centerfold/playmate in Playboy Magazine. That was a year and a half after making the movie. She was 5'8" tall. She loved her hometown of Grand Prairie, Texas.
When people talk about A.I. today, just remember that Logan's Run was way ahead of it's time in 1976.
The Carousel scene still creeps me out.
Richard Jordan, who played the ATF agent in "The Friends of Eddie Coyle".
I learned to appreciate thighs and stuff
Logan's Run WAS remade but during pre production the rights were lost in legality and the film became "The Island" starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johannsen.
I remember seeing the Island and thinking how much it felt like Logan’s run.
LOVE this movie and love jenny as Jessica OMG X , much love everyone
"Regular Hell, but with more movie producers." I don't see how that's possible.
While that Logan's Run reboot is stuck in Development Hell, its influence can be seen in other "Runner" movies like In Time and The Island.
The dome city is "Sanctuary". The only place life could exist. The "ANKH" was the key to get in the city post catastrophe.
So, I’d be long dead in this world?
Go to Africa; its the same feeling. everybody is under 30
Love this movie
Another movie I love.
This movie is straight up💯🙌🏼
The original novel, published in 1967, is a bit different, though the same basic plot. William F Nolan and George Clayton Johnson were prolific authors, with Johnson having written for The Twilight Zone, among other things. The book was a commentary on the emerging youth culture and the population explosion brought on by the Baby Boom. Vietnam figures in a bit, as a war led to this society, where life ends at 21. In the novel, Logan's clock starts blinking, that it is his Lastday and he decides, of his own accord, to locate and destroy Sanctuary. This takes him on a cross-country journey, along a sort of underground railroad, leading to Cape Canaveral. The guns that the Sandmen carry are styled after Old West Colt Peacemakers, with 6 chambers that hold different cartridges, with different functions. Logan has to abandon his gun after an alarm goes off, because of his Lastday. Sanctuary is run by a mythical figure, known as Ballard.
The film upped the age and had the computer assign the mission, rather than Logan deciding himself. In the novel, he is a hardened Sandman, until late in the story. In the film, he already questions things. There is no Carousel in the book. You went to a sleep center, on Lastday, and were euthanized. Balalrd sort of became the Old Man and the creation of the domed city led to a change in the journey, as it is now about going outside the city, via lost sections of the city, like the underwater plankton processing, Cathedral (where the Cubs are exiled), and the passage through Box's refrigerated areas. Leaving the city alters their lifeclocks, while the book has them continue.
The movie is sort of a dividing line between the more cerebral sci-fi films of the late 60s and early 70s and the more whiz-bang shoot 'em up sci-fi that followed on Star Wars' heels. It has elements of both, but with a more literary sci-fi foundation, while Star Wars is more pulp sci-fi/space opera.
William F Nolan wrote two sequels to Logan's Run: Logan's World and Logan's Search. The former features Logan returning to the city to find medicine for his young son, after Sanctuary has decayed. Logan's Search finds him plucked into an alternate world, where he basically lives out the same story, though more like the film. Marvel Comics had a 7-issues series, with the first 6 adapting the film and the last issue adapting Logan's World, but using movie continuity. Initial sales were decent, but they dropped off by the end. However, the experience helped Marvel land the adaptation of Star Wars, which was a major boost to their revenue, when comics were in a major slump. The 7th issue also features a back up story with Thanos (the villain in Avengers Infinity War and Endgame), which was weirdly out of place. An unpublished story was repurposed for Star Wars, later in its run.
This movie amazed me as a kid when I saw it. Started my love affair with Farrah! I have to watch this again.
Thing is this is the only Michael York film I can remember. But Jenny Agutter well there was Walkabout too :D
There was ONE other big budget SF movie still in production when Logan's Run came out:
_Close Encounters of the Third Kind_.
Star Wars beat it to the theaters by only a couple of months.
There did seem to be a schism in the genre. Everything was either big budget stuff like Star Wars, Close Encounters, Star Trek, and then the ultra low budget films for drive-ins or video, most of which used Mad Max or Terminator as a template.
I think that was planned, back when a trip to the movies meant an hour of shorts before the main attraction there was a five-ten minute piece about an up coming movie called, Close Encounters of the third kind (if you were seeing Star Wars) just before you got a break to go and buy more chips and drinks.
The reason may have been George Lucas thought Close Encounters was going to be a bigger movie than Star Wars and swapped 5% of Star Wars for 5% of Close Encounters with Spielberg.
Close Encounter wasnt really "true" Sci-Fi, to me anyway.
it was more a suspense drama. the Sci-fi element was just the last 15 minutes for the most part.
Great review! I remember so many 70's shows that no one else seems to, Ark 2, Jason and Star Command, a fantasy one with teenagers, a one called Phoenix with an alien that get recharged by his medallion. I remember Logan's Run series but didn't see the movie until later. It was the cut version without the sex section with neon people parts!
I used to watch Ark 2 every Saturday morning.
The sexiest movie ever made.
For all the criticism this movie gets vs. Star Wars, Logan's Run was ACTUAL science fiction - talking about the implications of technology and the choices made around in ways that Star Wars never was. Star Wars was just mythology dressed up with spaceships, laser swords and ray guns.
Look at them running around malls without masks and social distancing! No wonder they all died at 30!
Loved that city model with small car bring sucked through a plastic tube. That image stuck with me for decades 👍
Carousel in 2274 Vs Spring Break 2021. The result is the same.
@@StamFine the only thing missing is Teleport Tinder
I'm sure it's being worked on. Just stay out of the beta.
They literally lived a mentally deprived and comfort coddled infantile existence in an isolation pod bubble.
No outside travel , no new people, plants , dirt ,insects , animals or new contactts of any kind.
They'll have no acquired immunity to the outside world and no practical life skills or medical knowledge after they leave the city.
The old man and his library books are their only chance at managing to survive with a large enough population to maintain genetic diversity.
I feel like the film The Island owes a lot to Logans Run.
just 1 part of it. a couple running away from dystopia world = is common.
It is a fine movie, considering the year, you can't compare it with more recent movies. I remember when I watched it, it had a wow effect. You've been too hard m8.
I've often heard the comment "before Star Wars changed everything". I've never really known exactly what that meant. After watching this video, I'm still none the wiser.
Before Star Wars, sci fi films had smaller budgets, less action, a few big effects but not wall to wall and generally aiming to be more towards speculative fiction, often based on books. Studios didn't expect huge returns from SF, so budgets were usually modest. After Star Wars, there were a lot more action adventure SF films with lots of effects, bigger budgets and much larger box office expectations.
@@StamFine thank you 😊
Another change that _Star Wars_ brought about in cinematic SF:
Prior to Star Wars, there was a good deal of cinematic SF that was all about creating a realistic future, in much the same way as written SF tries to do. After Star Wars, reality was tossed out on its ear in favor of pew pew pew.
@@rogermwilcox Yup. A lot of major studio sci-fi from before Star Wars was dystopian future stuff like The Omega Man or Soylent Green, which featured Charlton Heston, who was the king of that stuff. There were also NASA-based dramas, like Marooned and Capricorn One, which was already in production when Star Wars hit. And there were films like Westworld, or adaptations of existing science fiction works like The Illustrated Man, Solaris or Barbarella, which often skirted around the need for space effects or featured pretty dodgy ones.
Star Wars radically changed the landscape, with perfectly realistic effects - a la 2001: A Space Odyssey - but the relentless pacing of a modern action film like Duel or Jaws. I saw Star Wars when I was 8 and it completely blew my mind. People left the theater flipping out. We’d never seen anything like it. It was like a Space:1999 episode, but with 60 minutes of effects shots and on cocaine.
Good film. 70's style.
TV series was good. Wish it lasted longer.
logan 5
Logan, in 1976: "Look, Jessica, this interrogation room will be converted into a Border's bookstore in a few years!" And that hedonistic pleasure center will become a Starbucks!"
Jessica, in 1976: "Logan, this is my favorite mall! But why call it Starbucks? Sanctuary is a much catchier name."
"There is NO sanctuary.There IS no sanctuary.....
Show me a sci-fi movie of the past few years done as well as this then. UA-cam reviewers talking s**t as usual. This is one of the best sci fi films ever made.
How come this film hasn't been on TV for years?
The Island was a carbon copy of logan`s run :)
That.was.hilarious...Thank.you..I.think.very.highly.of.this.film..Another.ovie.I.really.hope.does.not.get.remade.
The robot named box has a silver Xbox like logo on its chest....Weird! Finally watched this classic today.
6:12 "killed? Why do you use that word?"
Bit of newspeak language policing there. If we use the approved words for things they won't seem so bad; "it's not torture; it's advanced interrogation techniques".
That darn restocking fee.
Very soft spot for this film. York not bad trading on his looks perhaps, but holds the line. Agutter decently steady and moralistic.... almost a harmless lefty. But for me: Richard Jordan steals the day. His pain painfully evident, and in real life died far too young.
But Sir, all these videos; You are a genius! Thankyou from the bottom of my heart.
Not sure if you've done a video on Zombie Flesh Eaters, and/or BBC's Survivors, ( if ZFE's would be your genre?), but would love to see your approach and humour to such.
Again, well done, and thakyou.
Keth
I still don't know why they didn't make a Logans run vs Planet of the Apes vs The Six Million Dollar Man... Because that would be Kool!
SHOPPING MALLS!
Mall commentary at 7:07 is gold
You better believe it... This is our near future 🔮
Very funny s#it, Stam.
6 years ago on a Facebook page about old sci-fi movies I made a joke that this movie was shot earlier today and some guy got angry at me saying no it was shot 30 years ago and I said no it turned 30 years old today so it got killed. He didn't approve of the joke
I approve of the joke ! :)
Need "BS Restocking Fee" merch.
Jenny Agguter was a beautiful woman. Is she still going strong? I hope so.
I just googled her. She's 18 years older than me and she still looks absolutely beautiful. Good onya Jen. XX
I've been waiting for a modern update to this movie for years but I've given up. Apparently Hollywood would rather keep going back to the man vs machine trope instead of a fresh idea begging for a modern reimagining.
I wish Apple TV made a remake series.
I hope someday you take it upon yourself to review "The Love Machine", in which the ankh, with Ms. Susann's remarkable PR skills, became a necessary fashion accessory all during the 1970s.
Actually, it would be fun for you to review all of the films based on Jacqueline Susann's novels.
I wished there was a sequel were the people of that doomed city have to learn ho to fend for themselves.
The book had two sequels and that is sort of the premise, in the second book, though the city wasn't domed, in the original novel. The entire country was a playground for the youth society.
That was the premise of the Marvel Comics Logan's Run series back then. The first issues give a synopsis of the film, then it picks up with Logan having to take leadership of the newly displaced young people.
and now we have Hunger Games
The closest movie to a Logan’s Run remake was The Island with Ewan McGregor and Scarlet Johansson .
It's red it flashes black...Logan's run still gets referenced a fair bit in pop culture. I particularly remember an episode of Community which suddenly turned into Logans Run with the security wearing Sandman outfits.
I definitely think this would have got a sequel if Star Wars hadn't put Sci Fi movies on steroids just a year or so later. There's also the movie 'The Island' which if you approach as a reinterpretation of LR you can really see as a modern reboot. Heck Ewan McGregor & Scarlet are even called Lincoln & Jordon. Close enough for a couple on the run.
The Simpsons had pop stars and TV hosts with Logan's Run jewels a couple times, no doubt a commentary on the high turnover and disposability
The buildings look like "A" in Atari!
Have you noticed how every TV show made these days seems to have 20 producers or executive producers credited. Seems Hollywood is teeming with executive producers.
The scenes with the old man drag on too long, and the ending is weak,but it's still a decent sci-fi 1970s movie.
Actually the movie Time with Justin Timberlake i think that is the name, took the idea from Logans Run
The idea that Hollywood reboots/remakes movies more today really doesn't hold water. There's a movie called The Spoilers that was made once a decade between the 20's and the 50's. The Front Page was made about four or five times, including two versions where one of the main characters was gender swapped.
What we have today that they didn't in the past is easy access to the original, which makes comparison much easier and the ability to re-watch and gain emotional attachment.
Back then,a when a movie's run ended, it wasn't seen again until television was introduced and they were cut up for the screen dimensions and commercials.
No movies since based on the book? Wasn't that JT movie with the clock on their wrist pretty much this movie with the extra element of time being currency as well?
Michael Bay's The Island is almost a Logan's Run film.
@@StamFine I'd agree there, but when that, I want to say "Time's up" movie came out I just remember everyone comparing it to logan's run.
That red chick was right she is forty.
Supercomputers that crashed were a regular feature of Consciousness Revolution era science fiction as the writers, and many of the audience of the day, were well familiar with DIVIDE QUOTIENT OVERFLOW error messages and the subsequent system crash.
Furthermore, the plot device is logical. Any epistemically closed dystopia dependent on algorithms is going to encounter an anomaly that does not compute. Kirk and Spock were good at inducing such anomalies. The closest parallel is the Landru episode of Star Trek involving a more benevolent tyranny.
I fear that today's developers of artificial intelligence are insufficiently aware of the inevitability of such anomalies.
If it's the 70s and Jenny Agutter is in it, we'll see some nudity. I saw this as a kid and too it seriously. As an adult, it's kind of camp and dated but ti still has a bit of something good. I read the novel, not only is life ended at 21 instead of 30, there is no domed city. The whole world is living in hedonism and Logan is taken all over the world in his run.
Michael york = Basel Exposition
Sandmen don't run.
With all the casual sex happening, why was nobody becoming pregnant the old-fashioned way?
Probably both control in their food.
Jennifer was (and still is) hotter than Farrah.
One thing is true in this film the age discrimination. That isn't scifi but reality today.
1936 version similar
Godamn stam. Some of these comments on here. Bloody crazy people.
Michael Bay’s The Island “borrowed heavily” from Logan’s Run.
Am I the only one who loved how the world of Logan’s Run kept children locked out of the way of adults? Rotten noisy smelly little s#!ts! Very Star Trek Borg.
Fun review :D The costume design was rubbish unfortunately - all those fucking gauzy flowing tunics like something out of a school play, really held it back.
Watch the film not this.
Going to heaven or hell if you have faith or not is a dogturd concept.
The young are so intent in being cynically comic they MISS emotions. Who wants to talk about someone's feelings when it's not just as funny as being a dick?
When we watch Logan and Jessica, we begin to watch a human bond form. Love. When I watch Luke and Leia -- I feel NOTHING. Because feelings are too 'crass' for cynicism.
Did you notice the feminism in this story? Where Logan had no power of Jessica until she permitted it? Most male reviewers are too distracted by Agutter's thighs to notice this.
Did you notice that there was something far more tragic when Logan fights and kills his BFF versus Luke fighting Vadar?
I'm not saying this reviewer is really being a dick. And I appreciate that he enjoyed it. But if you take the male ego thing down a notch, you might even notice a better film than you're willing to admit.