*LOGAN'S RUN* Movie Reaction FIRST TIME WATCHING

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  • @jenmurrayxo
    @jenmurrayxo  Pƙed 29 dny +47

    Have you check out my other 1970's movies:
    1970's Playlist: czcams.com/play/PLQHhQlj8i5drsQGfFSKqYoo0ai-nUbTQq.html

    • @tomhoffman4330
      @tomhoffman4330 Pƙed 29 dny +3

      I think I've watched every Classic that Jen has Reacted to, so far...đŸ€”

    • @1981_Reacts
      @1981_Reacts Pƙed 29 dny +7

      Rollerball from 70s next another great dystopian movie.

    • @georgeheilman4243
      @georgeheilman4243 Pƙed 28 dny +7

      I'd also recommend George Lucas's first film THX-1138, which has quite an interesting approach to a conformist society and some thrilling chase scenes of its own.

    • @johncampbell756
      @johncampbell756 Pƙed 28 dny +3

      I watched the TV show before I saw the film.
      The book is from 1967 around when the "Don't trust anyone over 30" thing started.

    • @mikethemotormouth
      @mikethemotormouth Pƙed 28 dny +1

      When's National Lampoon's Animal House(1978)?

  • @AstroXeno
    @AstroXeno Pƙed 29 dny +286

    Finally someone is reacting to this- Yes, Star Wars set a new bar in 1977, but Logan's Run did win the Oscar for visual effects in 1976
    You'd probably like Rollerball, too.

    • @Unitedaerthe
      @Unitedaerthe Pƙed 29 dny +25

      Yes and someone who I think will appreciate it for what it is and how advanced these special effects actually were for its time....
      It's the thing I appreciate so much about Jen, she takes in consideration the times in which it was made, she doesn't compare it to the Advanced special effects we have nowadays......
      She shows respect 💚đŸŒș

    • @jodonnell64
      @jodonnell64 Pƙed 28 dny +38

      Yes! Rollerball! The one starring James Caan, not the crappy remake.

    • @Pixelologist
      @Pixelologist Pƙed 28 dny +6

      The leap in quality of the visual effects work from Logan's Run in '76 to Star Wars in '77 is........astronomical. Looking at the two films now, it's hard to believe they were made in the same DECADE, let alone within a year of each other.

    • @positivelynegative9149
      @positivelynegative9149 Pƙed 28 dny +16

      I've seen a handful of reactions to this, but not a single one of Soylent Green (1973).

    • @eurofritz4617
      @eurofritz4617 Pƙed 28 dny +12

      @@Pixelologist makes you realize how good 1968's 2001 a Space Odyssey and 1972's Silent Running look (+ I love Huey, Dewey and Louie)

  • @glenngalloway6191
    @glenngalloway6191 Pƙed 29 dny +229

    Soylent Green is another futuristic dystopia from this era. As for the music, It's one of those things where it's good, then becomes the groundwork for similar sci-fi scores by less talented composers, then becomes 'hacky' or 'formulaic.' Then eventually it fades from being used at all, until it hopefully gets rediscovered. It's like difference between 'old junk' and 'antiques.'

    • @Charles_Bro-son
      @Charles_Bro-son Pƙed 29 dny +20

      @@Audulf-of-Frisia Indeed, Soylent Green is a movie buff's must see!

    • @jannneumann5766
      @jannneumann5766 Pƙed 28 dny +4

      Clockwork Orange too..

    • @kunserndsittizen2655
      @kunserndsittizen2655 Pƙed 28 dny +3

      @@Charles_Bro-sonand SOYLENT GREEN 2: THEY DIDN’T CHANGE THE RECIPE

    • @3DJapan
      @3DJapan Pƙed 28 dny +2

      This whole time I was thinning about Soylent Green.

    • @joelwillems4081
      @joelwillems4081 Pƙed 28 dny +2

      Soylent Green was only set in 2023. Obviously we didn't destroy all life and trees.

  • @08191906
    @08191906 Pƙed 28 dny +143

    Jenny Agutter...❀❀❀. I crushed on her big time as a 13 yr old boy.
    Years later she was the PERFECT choice as the female counsel member in The Avengers & Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

    • @TheMarcHicks
      @TheMarcHicks Pƙed 28 dny +27

      Pretty sure every male who grew up in the 70s & 80s crushed hard on Jenny Agutter....I know I did 😉.

    • @darrenmacdonald1499
      @darrenmacdonald1499 Pƙed 28 dny +26

      She was also nurse Alex Price in "An American Werewolf in London". And yes, I also had a crush on her.

    • @TylerD288
      @TylerD288 Pƙed 28 dny +6

      She's was in a pretty decent Magnum, PI episode too.

    • @GeraldH-ln4dv
      @GeraldH-ln4dv Pƙed 28 dny +12

      She co-starred in the Australian movie Walkabout along with the late David Gulpili, a YolƋu indigenous person who was also in Crocodile Dundeee and other films like the Last Wave. Wonderful movie that was a box office flop but consistently makes top lists of critics like Roger Ebert. Well worth watching if you can find. It is definitely NSFW, due to nudity.

    • @TheMarcHicks
      @TheMarcHicks Pƙed 27 dny

      Most recently Jenny Agutter is best known for being in the British TV series Call the Midwife.

  • @RG-uj1tf
    @RG-uj1tf Pƙed 29 dny +146

    The part where the old man (Peter Ustinov) is talking about cat names is actually quoted from poet T.S. Eliot's 1939 poem "The Naming of Cats" from the book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats". This epic tome was later adapted to become the smash Broadway musical, "Cats".

    • @rromano158
      @rromano158 Pƙed 29 dny +7

      Beat me to it!

    • @t.j.payeur5331
      @t.j.payeur5331 Pƙed 28 dny +2

      Awesome..you saved me the task...

    • @cbretschneider
      @cbretschneider Pƙed 28 dny +3

      That was Peter Ustinov! I didn't notice that before. Such a great actor.

    • @StuartistStudio1964
      @StuartistStudio1964 Pƙed 28 dny +2

      I used to have a copy of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and I love the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage production.

    • @randy7831
      @randy7831 Pƙed 26 dny +1

      I saw the musical in Toronto, it was great

  • @Dularr
    @Dularr Pƙed 29 dny +149

    Silent Running 1972 - ecological space flight. Known for proving audences could care for non-verbal, non-huminoid robots, years before R2-D2.

    • @stormcrow7838
      @stormcrow7838 Pƙed 28 dny +8

      That movie was so shocking.

    • @Dularr
      @Dularr Pƙed 28 dny +9

      @@stormcrow7838 the making of documentary was amazing

    • @car103d
      @car103d Pƙed 28 dny +7

      Also inspired Stanton, the director of Wall-E (the console display in the escape pod has the same design of the Valley Forge main screen)

    • @eurofritz4617
      @eurofritz4617 Pƙed 28 dny +5

      as a kid those robots were so cool

    • @Gregory......
      @Gregory...... Pƙed 28 dny +7

      I have this movie burnt on DVD.
      I always thought it was sad at the end, where Bruce Dern sends the last Forest Dome off into Space.
      Putting the last Robot in charge of keeping the forest alive.
      The last scene of the movie shows the Dome floating away into that vast lonely Universe, and that Robot watering some plants.
      Knowing that Robot was going to be alone forever.

  • @deadkennedy9140
    @deadkennedy9140 Pƙed 25 dny +6

    "Will they skinny dip?"
    Every audience member over 50..."It's Jenny Agutter, of course they'll skinny dip"

  • @user-ul8qs5oh2c
    @user-ul8qs5oh2c Pƙed 24 dny +16

    We had both already seen the movie, but my wife "made" me re-watch Logan's Run on my 30th birthday. The next year on her 30th I didn't get her a birthday cake. Instead, I had a cake made where they drew a hand on it in frosting, and in the palm was placed a red jolly rancher as the life clock. Written next to the hand was "Run, Sarah! Find Sanctuary!"
    She loved it.

  • @Pixelologist
    @Pixelologist Pƙed 28 dny +47

    Ahhhhhh.....Jenny Agutter. One of my earliest movie crushes. Between this and An American Werewolf in London...I was smitten.

    • @SilentBob731
      @SilentBob731 Pƙed 28 dny +4

      Yup, back in the day she made me so much the Smitten Kitten.đŸ˜»

    • @jeffreyetherton3185
      @jeffreyetherton3185 Pƙed 24 dny +1

      Probably because you watched her in walkabout!!

    • @dallassukerkin6878
      @dallassukerkin6878 Pƙed 23 dny +2

      :smiles: I think this is a very big club indeed :D

  • @vermithax
    @vermithax Pƙed 29 dny +70

    "There we go. Logan's light jog."

  • @mego73
    @mego73 Pƙed 28 dny +41

    The kid shouting "muscle!" Points to another deleted scene, explaining that those derelicts use a drug called "muscle" it super energizes kids, but is fatal to adults. The kid was threatening Logan with forcing him to take "muscle".

  • @WmTRiker
    @WmTRiker Pƙed 26 dny +24

    One of the biggest differences between the novel and the movie is that, in the novel, life was capped at 21, not 30. This change was made for the movie because the principal actors they hired were "too old" to pass for the ages their characters were supposed to be. In 1976, when this film was made, Michael York (Logan) was 34 and Richard Jordan (Francis) was 39. Jenny Agutter (Jessica) was 24 at the time and could probably have passed for a late teenager. After all, John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John were 24 and 30, respectively, in 1978 when "Grease" was released and they played high school seniors,

    • @DocMicrowave
      @DocMicrowave Pƙed 25 dny

      heh, you beat me to it. Was going to say the same thing.

  • @Christof742
    @Christof742 Pƙed 24 dny +12

    Girl, how did you even find this movie!?!? This movie is way beyond its years, and watching your reaction to this in 2024 was a blast!! Thank you so much for finding this!

  • @jamescutler8055
    @jamescutler8055 Pƙed 26 dny +14

    I was 11 when this came out. I will still sit and watch it all thr way through today.

  • @Whalewraith
    @Whalewraith Pƙed 29 dny +70

    I was obsessed with this as a kid in 76. I used to insist on wearing all black. You used to get away with not wearing the school uniform back then if you just ignored them. My nickname ended up being funeral.
    FYI, they are not bad shots, just cats playing with there food. In the books it's 21.
    A boy and his dog is cool, its basically 70's Fallout with a very young pre Miami Vice Don Johnson.

    • @peterwalsh2470
      @peterwalsh2470 Pƙed 28 dny +1

      what a fun story, funeral.

    • @billbabcock1833
      @billbabcock1833 Pƙed 28 dny +5

      👍 on A Boy and His Dog.

    • @chuckleezodiac24
      @chuckleezodiac24 Pƙed 27 dny +2

      right on, bro. i used to always wear all blue. kids used to call me, "The Blue Martian."

    • @juliapigworthy
      @juliapigworthy Pƙed 14 dny +2

      My toddler brother and I had matching sandman pyjamas back in the day, although they were light grey with a black chest stripe rather than the other way around.

    • @peterwalsh2470
      @peterwalsh2470 Pƙed 14 dny

      @@juliapigworthy hehe, did you go around pointing a toy gun at your mother yelling "runner!!"

  • @melenatorr
    @melenatorr Pƙed 29 dny +75

    The Ankh is an Egyptian hieroglyph. It means life, and so is a very appropriate symbol here. Almost everyone in my generation would have known this symbol and its significance almost immediately: the 1960s and 70s was filled with this sort of research (all done in libraries and bookstores, and special orderings from tiny bookstores, while you waited anxiously for the delivery).

    • @user-xj7hq1pp3x
      @user-xj7hq1pp3x Pƙed 28 dny +6

      It was a popular bangle to wear on necklaces, earrings, and bracelets over the passing decades too. I had one!

    • @gumbomudderx7503
      @gumbomudderx7503 Pƙed 28 dny +4

      I was born in 79 and grew up in the 80’s. I only knew of this emblem because of Vinnie Vincent in Kiss lol

    • @spacedinosaur8733
      @spacedinosaur8733 Pƙed 24 dny +2

      Along with Pyramid power to extend the abilities of your mind

    • @IanFindly-iv1nl
      @IanFindly-iv1nl Pƙed 24 dny

      It figures prominently in another flick called The Hunger too.

    • @xheralt
      @xheralt Pƙed 21 dnem +3

      "ANKH IF YOU LOVE SANCTUARY!"

  • @dcanmore
    @dcanmore Pƙed 29 dny +69

    this was followed up by a TV series which saw Logan and Jessica have daily adventures in the outside world looking for sanctuary. A different cast of course and the adventures were basically running into various human factions (good, evil, weird) while being pursued by a team of Sandmen. The old man companion of the movie was replaced by an android.

    • @user-xj7hq1pp3x
      @user-xj7hq1pp3x Pƙed 28 dny +7

      It has a horrifically bad opening themesong with laser beam sounds in it 😂 I tried showing it to my brother, but he couldn’t stand it! And he’s a sci-fi enthusiast who loves all the classics 😼

    • @dcanmore
      @dcanmore Pƙed 28 dny +3

      @@user-xj7hq1pp3x yeah it was pretty bad, even for the era.

    • @Tony1771-yj8mc
      @Tony1771-yj8mc Pƙed 25 dny +3

      I was born in 1966. As a kid I watched Logan's Run each week when it was on. The movie had played on tv or the theater beforehand (can't quite remember) so I was already interested in that universe when the series premiered. I haven't seen the series since it went off air though. Probably wouldn't interest me now. The movie is still pretty good to me. For some reason I keep thinking this was a few years before Star wars, but I'm reminded again it was only from the year before.

    • @timmooney7528
      @timmooney7528 Pƙed 25 dny +1

      @@dcanmore TV series sucked. Instead of society being run by computers, their society was ruled by a secret society of older men. Each week they would visit a different dystopian society.

    • @AI_Image_Master
      @AI_Image_Master Pƙed 25 dny +2

      @@timmooney7528 Sort of like today where 2 elderly gentlemen battle for control.

  • @chetstevensq
    @chetstevensq Pƙed 29 dny +88

    Might recognize Jessica (Jenny Agutter ) from An American Werewolf in London. Now, RENEW!

    • @Whalewraith
      @Whalewraith Pƙed 29 dny +11

      Walkabout & the Railway children where the breakout roles.

    • @radwolf76
      @radwolf76 Pƙed 29 dny +5

      She also had a small role in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

    • @Whalewraith
      @Whalewraith Pƙed 29 dny +3

      @@radwolf76 & The Avengers assemble.

    • @TylerD288
      @TylerD288 Pƙed 28 dny +3

      *RENEW! RENEW! RENEW! RENEW!*

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver Pƙed 3 dny

      At the first carousel scene, the girl sitting beside Logan 5 looks a lot like Jessica 6.

  • @garymussell6543
    @garymussell6543 Pƙed 29 dny +69

    This was the last sci-Fi hit before Star Wars m which totally changed the genre.

    • @Mokkari77
      @Mokkari77 Pƙed 26 dny

      The director Michael Anderson had directed in the 50s THE DAM BUSTERS a British WW2 movie and if you watch the climactic bombing sequence most of the dialogue is practically taken verbatim by Lucas for the Death Star attack sequence. Here's a comparison video: czcams.com/video/lNdb03Hw18M/video.htmlsi=M2WK_A36ows_ucb9

    • @Col_Fragg
      @Col_Fragg Pƙed 25 dny +1

      "Logan's Run" is the better film.

    • @Cheepchipsable
      @Cheepchipsable Pƙed 25 dny

      @@Mokkari77 That Lucas was such a magpie...

    • @IanFindly-iv1nl
      @IanFindly-iv1nl Pƙed 24 dny

      Well, 2001 a space Odyssey came almost an entire decade before SW. THAT's the movie that REALLY pioneered what we know as the MODERN sci-fi flick.

    • @viceversar-do1cn
      @viceversar-do1cn Pƙed 21 dnem

      Hey, I've always found that SOME of the $h!t in THIS flick looks as awesome and dazzling as anything in Star Wars - like particularly the robot Vox 16:34, the "clean-up" scene 3:45, and "Carousel" 2:13, all very visually striking moments which I think hold their own to high and mighty SW. Also, SW and THIS flick aren't exactly the SAME KIND of thing. THIS flick is a FUTURISTIC story where's SW is a SPACE ADVENTURE, so not THAT similar really.

  • @numbersasaname2291
    @numbersasaname2291 Pƙed 28 dny +32

    Jen is the right reactor to finally see this movie. She IS the one reactor sharp enough to get the underlying story and appreciate the movie for what it is.
    BTW, Jenny Agutter (‘Jessica’ in this film) is also part of the MCU, starring as the member of the World Council who kicks Redford’s butt and reveals herself to be Black Widow in disguise.

  • @user-po3ev7is5w
    @user-po3ev7is5w Pƙed 25 dny +12

    This is an ICONIC flic. I'm of that generation and my wife and I, if we kill a bug or something and toss it outside, will joke, "Renew!"

  • @t0dd000
    @t0dd000 Pƙed 29 dny +36

    It's amazing that Farrah Fawcett's "look" is that iconic, even to a younger generation.

    • @AquariusTurtle
      @AquariusTurtle Pƙed 27 dny

      Didn't she like trees in Cannonball Run?

    • @timmooney7528
      @timmooney7528 Pƙed 25 dny +2

      Every teenage boy had a poster of Farrah in their room in the mid 70's. I think Foreman on the 70's show had a poster of Farrah in his room.

    • @Cheepchipsable
      @Cheepchipsable Pƙed 25 dny

      Well she never changed at all from what I could tell.

  • @angelohernandez6060
    @angelohernandez6060 Pƙed 29 dny +66

    A few other films from that era are "Damnation Alley", "The Omega Man" and "Soylent Green". The Omega Man was remade later with Will Smith with the original written title "I Am Legend". It also had an even earlier film starring Vincent Price called "The Last Man On Earth".

    • @Unitedaerthe
      @Unitedaerthe Pƙed 29 dny +6

      The omega man still gets to me to this day, when I was little that movie terrified me,
      Lol but also had me thinking about how to be prepared,
      I was so impressed even at a young age how well he set himself up to survive and try to be safe.......

    • @cliffgraham9892
      @cliffgraham9892 Pƙed 29 dny +2

      Omega Man was based on a novel by Richard Matheson, another case where you can pick which is better - the movie or the novel- much like Battle Royale (which Jen should check out if she hasn't already. the last man on earth inspired the Living Dead world. George Romero saw the movie and wondered how the world got to that state and wrote night of the living dead.

    • @stormcrow7838
      @stormcrow7838 Pƙed 28 dny +1

      @@KW-ew7ll That movie was so shocking.

    • @jannneumann5766
      @jannneumann5766 Pƙed 28 dny +1

      Omega man!!!

    • @angelohernandez6060
      @angelohernandez6060 Pƙed 28 dny

      @@KW-ew7ll
      Yes! That's a great one!
      Except for that crappy hippy Joan Baez song!

  • @DocMicrowave
    @DocMicrowave Pƙed 25 dny +5

    Some fun facts. Micheal York (Logan) was 33 when the movie was made. Richard Jordan (Francis) was 38. And Jenny Agutter (Jessica) was 24, playing a 17-year-old. One of the reasons they raised the age limit from 21 in the novel to 30 for the movie is because the main actors were so old and would not be believable as people under 21.

  • @Alumrockpro
    @Alumrockpro Pƙed 25 dny +11

    This film turned me into a Goldsmith fan. 47 years later and I’m still rockin’ out to that score.

  • @technofilejr3401
    @technofilejr3401 Pƙed 25 dny +12

    24:11, I love this moment when Logan and Jessica declare their love for one another and consider themselves a couple. For the first time in hundreds of years people from the dome rediscover marriage.

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver Pƙed 3 dny

      Logan is only vaguely impressed. Jessica tries to sell it to him.

  • @jppcasey
    @jppcasey Pƙed 29 dny +32

    I can't believe you're doing this movie. This is awesome!

    • @xzonia1
      @xzonia1 Pƙed 28 dny +2

      Same! I was so happy when I saw this tonight! X)

  • @VOTOG-ic6hm
    @VOTOG-ic6hm Pƙed 28 dny +8

    Jenny Agutter is also the nurse in An American Werewolf in London.

  • @Gav-mj6lx
    @Gav-mj6lx Pƙed 28 dny +8

    Instant gratification, obsession with youth and perfection, with entertainment and spectacle to control the people. Dystopia wrapped in colour and beauty. I bloody love this film.

    • @jayeisenhardt1337
      @jayeisenhardt1337 Pƙed 28 dny +2

      same things throughout time
      society says indulge, religion says moderation
      a few millennium later we still haven't changed

  • @joeb5316
    @joeb5316 Pƙed 28 dny +13

    That rambling of cat names is a poem by T.S. Eliot, 'The Naming of Cats."

  • @melenatorr
    @melenatorr Pƙed 29 dny +19

    He is quoting from TS Elliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", which was the inspiration for the musical "Cats".

  • @melenatorr
    @melenatorr Pƙed 29 dny +26

    The Old Man is Peter Ustinov: actor, writer, raconteur, and all around charmer. You simply must some more movies with him: "Hot Millions"; "Spartacus"; "Quo Vadis"; "We're No Angels"; and his outings as Hercule Poirot.

    • @dudermcdudeface3674
      @dudermcdudeface3674 Pƙed 28 dny +1

      Prince John in the Disney cartoon of Robin Hood.

    • @TimothySmiths
      @TimothySmiths Pƙed 28 dny +1

      For sure his Poirot films, Evil Under the Sun being my favorite of his.

    • @HandofOmega
      @HandofOmega Pƙed 28 dny

      Would've been funny if he'd only spoken "cat"...😅

    • @long-timesci-fienthusiast9626
      @long-timesci-fienthusiast9626 Pƙed 28 dny +2

      I`m also a fan of the 2 comedies (Hotel Sahara, 1951) & (Viva Max, 1969).

    • @Tardisius
      @Tardisius Pƙed 26 dny +1

      "I'm Sparticus"...=))

  • @manservantchris
    @manservantchris Pƙed 29 dny +31

    ❀ a sci fi classic.

  • @gerstelb
    @gerstelb Pƙed 26 dny +7

    Francis is played by Richard Jordan, who was Duncan Idaho in the 80s adaptation of “Dune,” and was the politician who jokes about stealing candy from babies in “The Hunt For Red October.”

  • @dennisk207
    @dennisk207 Pƙed 18 dny +4

    Me watching Logan's Run on TV as a kid in the late 1970's: "30 seems sooooooooooo far away"
    Me watching Jen's reaction to Logan's Run in 2024: "30 seems sooooooooooo far away" đŸ˜„
    glad you reacted to this classic.

  • @corvus1970
    @corvus1970 Pƙed 23 dny +6

    "Can't trust Francis."
    Deadpool wholeheartedly agrees with this sentiment.

    • @scotthewitt258
      @scotthewitt258 Pƙed 16 dny

      At least not in the movie.
      Been ages, but I think the book has a twist, IIRC.

  • @darthavon6988
    @darthavon6988 Pƙed 29 dny +30

    There are 3 novels: Logan’s Run, Logan’s World, and Logan’s Search. The novel is very different, biggest example being you die at 21. Worth the read though.

    • @Dularr
      @Dularr Pƙed 29 dny +4

      There is also a unpublished screen play called Jessica's Run. They have been try to get the reboot made for years.

    • @Dularr
      @Dularr Pƙed 29 dny +2

      The studio switched the age to 30, because of the underage sex.

    • @cvonbarron
      @cvonbarron Pƙed 29 dny +1

      The first one is the best, but, it's not regarded as a classic of science fiction.

    • @Dularr
      @Dularr Pƙed 28 dny +1

      @@cvonbarron the novels were really about cashing in on the movie.

    • @cvonbarron
      @cvonbarron Pƙed 28 dny +5

      @@Dularr The orignal novel was published in 1967, so the movie was based on it, but the 2 sequel novels were about that, so you're correct about that.

  • @mikedavis979
    @mikedavis979 Pƙed 24 dny +10

    A well-done remake of this movie would be so awesome!!!

  • @anstra7028
    @anstra7028 Pƙed 28 dny +8

    What I really like about your channel and you is that you also watch old classic movies. That's what makes a true cinephile. There is still so much to discover from the 20s, 30s, etc. Your reactions are genuine, heart-warming and funny

  • @handfuloftrains4781
    @handfuloftrains4781 Pƙed 28 dny +7

    "Logan's Light Jog." You kill me, Jen.

  • @anorthosite
    @anorthosite Pƙed 22 dny +3

    Ustinov acted for another 28 years !!! Wow. He had mixed European and Ethiopian ancestry, and spoke several languages. Truly "A man for all seasons".

  • @rmhartman
    @rmhartman Pƙed 28 dny +5

    The bit about cats having three names is from T.S.Eliot's book, "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats". Which was also adapted into the Broadway show "Cats".

  • @TheWebcrafter
    @TheWebcrafter Pƙed 25 dny +6

    19:58 - OLD MAN - Portrayed by Veteran actor, Peter Ustinov [RIP 2004 at 82] Also known for portraying Agatha Christie’s famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, on no less than six occasions. Death on the Nile (1978), Evil Under the Sun (1982), Thirteen at Dinner (1985 TV movie), Dead Man's Folly (1986 TV movie), Murder in Three Acts (1986 TV movie), and Appointment with Death (1998). He also voiced ‘Prince John and King Richard in Disney’s Robin Hood (1973).

  • @csako2668
    @csako2668 Pƙed 28 dny +4

    Jen - Jenny Agutter, who played Jessica is remembered from another classic nerd fan favorite, An American Werewolf in London. Early on she was a player in a want-to-be pseudo-doc-naturalist art-house film titled Walkabout. A bit of controversy came from it as at the time she was a young teen and appeared nude in a swimming scene. A good documentary was done that covers the whole making of the film, with interviews. I always like seeing her in the movie she made

  • @captainchaos3667
    @captainchaos3667 Pƙed 23 dny +3

    "Logan's Slow Saunter", "Logan's Light Jog" 😂

  • @hankhank5370
    @hankhank5370 Pƙed 26 dny +7

    There are three books in the "Logan's Run" series: "Logan's Run", "Logan's World", and Logan's Search". I read all three of them about twenty-five or so years ago and believe that they are a worthwhile read.

  • @70sMusicLady
    @70sMusicLady Pƙed 29 dny +14

    I've been a huge Michael York fan since he played Tybalt in the 1968 film "Romeo and Juliet". Another classic you should watch.

    • @richard63
      @richard63 Pƙed 29 dny +1

      Did you ever see him in Great Expectations ?

    • @70sMusicLady
      @70sMusicLady Pƙed 28 dny +4

      @@richard63 No, haven't seen that. Have seen him in "The Three Musketeers" and the "The Four Musketeers", "Jesus of Nazareth" and "Cabaret" among others. Sad about his illness.

    • @tim_davidson6344
      @tim_davidson6344 Pƙed 28 dny +4

      Yes, he is a very good actor. I thought he was great in "The Three Musketeers" and "The Four Musketeers" (1974). I remember him also in "Cabaret".

    • @bluebird3281
      @bluebird3281 Pƙed 28 dny

      another famous cat

    • @jayeisenhardt1337
      @jayeisenhardt1337 Pƙed 28 dny

      Dang! Another one I forgot about, liked him in that too and have it sitting on my shelf.
      getting old, memory is the second thing to go. . . I can't remember the first

  • @Watcher3223
    @Watcher3223 Pƙed 25 dny +2

    10:19
    Fun fact: the actress who plays the runner in this scene also played the voice of the computer.
    Another cool thing to point out is Jerry Goldsmith's score. Note how inside the city, the sound has a lot of synthesizers, but a conventional orchestra is used for the outside scenes.
    The difference between the artificial world and the natural world.

  • @leftorright04
    @leftorright04 Pƙed 28 dny +4

    24:32-24:49 - The Water Gardens in downtown Ft. Worth, Texas. Beautiful place.

  • @jarrodnewman0514
    @jarrodnewman0514 Pƙed 29 dny +8

    I love LR. I watched this every time it played on TV back in the late 80s through the 00s.

  • @Liminal_Space23
    @Liminal_Space23 Pƙed 29 dny +23

    Soylent Green is another great classic futuristic / dystopian movie starring Charlton Heston. You should check it out!

    • @Tardisius
      @Tardisius Pƙed 26 dny +1

      Soylent Green is .......Protein.....or something that starts with 'P'...=)

    • @tracy4290
      @tracy4290 Pƙed 23 dny

      @@Tardisius Indeed! "Soylent Complete Nutrition Meal Replacement Protein Powder" (And they even have a green flavor!) 😉😅

    • @tracy4290
      @tracy4290 Pƙed 23 dny

      Based on the (wildly different) book "Make Room! Make Room!" by Harry Harrison.

  • @sca88
    @sca88 Pƙed 27 dny +3

    Saw this at the theater with friends as a kid. We were all in love with the beautiful Jenny Agutter. She later appeared in 'An American Werewolf in London', one of my favorites.

  • @radwolf76
    @radwolf76 Pƙed 29 dny +22

    So, it seems that there's some kind of teleportation technology involved that we don't have yet, but I love that this movie invented Swiping Left & Right.

  • @ElectricKnight.
    @ElectricKnight. Pƙed 28 dny +6

    Speaking of the score - You should watch Forbidden Planet (1956)! It's a landmark classic sci-fi movie, both in cinema, and in electronic musical score.
    Also, The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) is a fantastic sci-fi story and film.
    I suspect you would love both of these movies. ❀❀❀

  • @crose7412
    @crose7412 Pƙed 28 dny +8

    17:56 "Freaky to live your whole life under a dome" like Truman Burbank.

  • @woeshaling6421
    @woeshaling6421 Pƙed 28 dny +4

    "Logan's light jog" Jen turning more into mystery science theater 3000 every reaction

  • @CrassMufumbu
    @CrassMufumbu Pƙed 28 dny +11

    Looker 1981 from Micheal Crichton is excellent and way way ahead of its time.

    • @w1975b
      @w1975b Pƙed 25 dny +1

      I hope she'll react to it.

  • @Barbu_Deluxe
    @Barbu_Deluxe Pƙed 28 dny +4

    I love the fact that you’re always watching classic movies with a context on music and visuals. So many reactors quickly calls them « cheesy » movies and compare sfx to nowadays sfx. I get the idea but a good story and good actors will always be above all the rest !

  • @beyonderbill3409
    @beyonderbill3409 Pƙed 28 dny +8

    I love this movie. If I remember correctly, this movie was the first time holograms were used in a movie. I could be wrong tho. When it came out, everyone loved it, and praised its amazing special effects and miniatures...
    For about 5 minutes.
    A little less than a year later, a little movie called Star Wars came out and everyone forgot about Logans Run.

    • @daverhoden445
      @daverhoden445 Pƙed 25 dny

      Star Wars? I think I might have heard of that one. LOL

    • @beyonderbill3409
      @beyonderbill3409 Pƙed 25 dny

      @@daverhoden445 Really? I'm surprised, actually. It was a small independent film.

    • @scotthewitt258
      @scotthewitt258 Pƙed 16 dny

      It was the first movie use of a hologram.

  • @samswords9993
    @samswords9993 Pƙed 26 dny +7

    There was a phrase among hippies "don't trust anyone over 30." That may have contributed to part of this story.

    • @patricktilton5377
      @patricktilton5377 Pƙed 7 dny +1

      That's what Taylor told Lucius near the end of PLANET OF THE APES.

  • @TheWebcrafter
    @TheWebcrafter Pƙed 25 dny +2

    1:44 - LOGAN'S PARTNER - FRANCIS 7 was portrayed by American actor Richard Jordan [RIP at 56]. He also portrayed 'Duncan Idaho' in David Lynch's epic sci-fi movie, 'Dune' (1984).

  • @ChrisReise
    @ChrisReise Pƙed 28 dny +4

    27:05 Keep your eyes open for that one person greeting the old man with the Vulcan salute.

  • @cvonbarron
    @cvonbarron Pƙed 29 dny +6

    The novel is the same basic premise, but, there are a number of differences. The biggest difference is that in the novel the lifespan of people was 21, not 30. Also there's a significant twist regarding Francis's identity and the location of sanctuary. I won't spoil it here you should read the novel. It's actually part of a trilogy.

  • @TheWebcrafter
    @TheWebcrafter Pƙed 25 dny +2

    8:00 - JESSICA 6 - Portrayed by veteran British actress, Jenny Agutter. Also known for the 1970 film 'The Railway Children'. In 1971 she also starred in the critically acclaimed film 'Walkabout' about two white schoolchildren left to fend for themselves in the Australian Outback who come across a teenage Aboriginal boy who helps them to survive. More recently, Agutter is known for BBC TV's Call The Midwife and MCU's 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' as 'Councilwoman Hawley'.

  • @supersynth818
    @supersynth818 Pƙed 28 dny +4

    Zardoz (1974) is my favourite movie of that era and genre. It's absolutely wild while including several deep sci-fi themes. Also it famously got Sean Connery mucking about wearing a speedo thing.

    • @rcrawford42
      @rcrawford42 Pƙed 28 dny +1

      A friend describes Zardoz (and Highlander) as coming from Connery's "will work for Scotch" phase.

    • @patricktilton5377
      @patricktilton5377 Pƙed 7 dny

      @@rcrawford42 He was tired of churning out Bond movies, and wanted to do different roles, even if they didn't pay as much. Props to him as an actor willing to take risks!

  • @TylerD288
    @TylerD288 Pƙed 28 dny +3

    Jen! You're awesome for reacting to this! Almost no one does, thanks! This film has some of the best 70's Sci-Fi music, sets, and costumes for sure. So glad you enjoyed it, Jen!

  • @RobertStallings-kx5ug
    @RobertStallings-kx5ug Pƙed 28 dny +19

    Jen, you are correct. Michael York (Logan) played Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers films. If you'd like to see more of his work, you should consider reacting to "Cabaret" (1972), "The Three Musketeers" (1973), and "The Four Musketeers (1974).
    You've previously seen Richard Jordan (Francis) in "The Hunt for Red October” (1990). I think you'd also appreciate his performance in "Gettysburg" (1993).
    Peter Ustinov (Old Man) worked for Britain's MI5 intelligence service before embarking on a long and distinguished acting career. Some of his most memorable film performances can be found in "Quo Vadis" (1951), "Spartacus" (1960), and "Topkapi" (1964).

    • @barreloffun10
      @barreloffun10 Pƙed 28 dny +1

      The Three and Four Musketeers are great movies!
      You should definitely read the book, then do a book review video.

    • @w1975b
      @w1975b Pƙed 25 dny

      Michael York was also in The Island of Dr. Moreau.

    • @larrystuder6378
      @larrystuder6378 Pƙed 25 dny

      Michael York plays Tybalt in Zefferelli's 1969 movie version of Romeo and Juliet, a very visually beautiful film.

    • @angelohernandez6060
      @angelohernandez6060 Pƙed 25 dny

      @@RobertStallings-kx5ug
      Quo Vadis, isn't Patrick Stewart in that also? Or am I confusing it with " I Claudius"?

    • @Cheepchipsable
      @Cheepchipsable Pƙed 25 dny

      Riddle of the Sands.

  • @mikealvarez2322
    @mikealvarez2322 Pƙed 29 dny +11

    Movies about a dystopian society drew a lot of attention back in the 70s. The main resson was because we were approaching 1984. Maybe we need some new dystopian movies as we really nearing a 1984 dystopian society.

    • @jayeisenhardt1337
      @jayeisenhardt1337 Pƙed 28 dny

      The ones that made the warning back then ended up selling it as a good thing later in life.

  • @rowdydog
    @rowdydog Pƙed 28 dny +2

    I believe that Logan's Run, was the first movie to have a hologram in it. It was when Logan was being interrogated and his head was rotating on the computer screens. I can't remember how money they paid for those few seconds.

  • @brom00
    @brom00 Pƙed 29 dny +6

    Jen, I'm so happy that you're back to the 70's for some great dci-fi. Loved Logan' Run as a kid. Of course it was still a while before I hit 30. Played the soundtrack like crazy The writer of the novel wrote several more Logan books. There was also a short lived TV series based on the film in '77. I'm hoping you also watch Soylent Green and Silent Running in the near future.

  • @harryrabbit2870
    @harryrabbit2870 Pƙed 25 dny +3

    Not many people react to this, so, well-done Ms. Jen. Subscribed. Great reaction to an underrated movie.

  • @botz77
    @botz77 Pƙed 28 dny +7

    You need to watch The Three Musketeers with Michael York. Not the other versions. The one from 1973. You'd love it.

  • @Shadowace724
    @Shadowace724 Pƙed 29 dny +4

    There was a Logan's Run TV series after the movie, I was pretty young but seem to remember that I liked it. Fun reaction Jen.

  • @tofersiefken
    @tofersiefken Pƙed 28 dny +4

    I love all the "Cats" poetry the old man was reciting from T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats".

  • @BeeWhistler
    @BeeWhistler Pƙed 28 dny +2

    There is a certain eerie something about pre-Star Wars 70s scifi. Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, Silent Running, Omega Man, etc. These always seemed to be played on late night tv when I was a teenager and it was a surreal experience to watch those trippy flicks alone in the dark
 or with my dad wandering in for five minutes to stare and then wander out. He’d probably seen them in theaters, the nerd.

  • @PE4Doers
    @PE4Doers Pƙed dnem

    I was 21 when I saw this movie in the theater with my Best friend. We were both single (very single, not even having girl friends yet - what can I say other than we were nerds) and just starting our careers. We walked out of the theater and hypothesized whether something like this could ever happen. Jumping ahead almost nine years (now both us married - to women), and I called him the evening of his 30th birthday (I still had six weeks to go until I reach that ancient age), and the first thing I asked him was "What time is your Carousel starting? I want to be there on time. Also, has Sophia (his wife) found a replacement yet for the next two years?". Needless to say, this made a permanent impression on both of us when we watched it. Unfortunately, the sound in a NYC movie theater in 1977 wasn't as impressive as theatrical music is today. He is now retired and living in Staten Island, NY, and I am retired as well in Nassau County NY. I think I'll give him a call tonight and catch up. Maybe tell him we were both successful avoiding our Carousels.

  • @curator23
    @curator23 Pƙed 28 dny +5

    "Dark Star" should be on your watch list. John Carpenter's first film.

  • @SueSnellLives
    @SueSnellLives Pƙed 29 dny +5

    YAAAAASSSSS QUEEEEN!!!
    Up next: The Omega Man and Soylent Green 💚 😎 🎉

  • @goldbrooks
    @goldbrooks Pƙed 19 dny +1

    "Logan's Light Jog " lol I love it đŸ˜‚đŸ‘đŸœ

  • @jean-paulaudette9246
    @jean-paulaudette9246 Pƙed 28 dny +1

    Micheal York (Logan) did indeed play Basil Exposition. My favorite role of his was D'Artagnon in the Three Musketeers/Four Musketeers (1973-4).

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor5462 Pƙed 28 dny +2

    18:10 "Sanctuary was the freezer that Box presided over. No one had ever got past Box before this.

  • @rogerward1462
    @rogerward1462 Pƙed 29 dny +3

    I was 12 when this came out. My first actress crush. Lol. Westworld came out around the same time.

  • @bobdude42
    @bobdude42 Pƙed 28 dny +2

    "Whatever it is, it's warm", a quote that lived inside my group of friends for way too long...

  • @TorontoJon
    @TorontoJon Pƙed 24 dny

    17:08 Fun fact: Box, the robot character, was played by American actor, Roscoe Lee Browne, and he was also the narrator for 'The Story of Star Wars' LP vinyl record (also available on cassette, 8-track tape, and right here on CZcams). He also starred in the original 'Super Fly' (1972), numerous other movies, and even in an episode of 'The Cosby Show'. :)

  • @duanehennon9415
    @duanehennon9415 Pƙed 29 dny +4

    "Never trust anyone over 30" Jack Weinberg
    "Once was the thought inside my head
    that before I reached thirty, I'd be dead
    but somehow on and on I go
    I keep on rollin' with the flow" Charlie Rich
    30 was a milestone back in the day

    • @jodonnell64
      @jodonnell64 Pƙed 28 dny +1

      "Hope I die before I get old" - Pete Townshend

  • @bigsteve6200
    @bigsteve6200 Pƙed 26 dny +3

    Charlton Heston, The Omega Man.

  • @yaddamop6309
    @yaddamop6309 Pƙed 27 dny +1

    CBS aired this after its theatrical run and it was a huge ratings hit. Not long after, it was a TV series that lasted a year. I can't remember if there was merch connected to the series/movie (I want to say yes there was) but I DO remember the impression it made on me as a teenager. That world --- WOW! I'm a big fan of Jerry Goldsmith, too. He and John Williams were THE top tier, high in-demand, "go-to" composers in the 70's-2000's. Everybody wanted them to score their movies. Sadly, Jerry Goldsmith died at age 75, on July 21, 2004 (20 years ago this month), leaving John Williams as the last man standing. Both knew each other and both enjoyed each others' works. Thanks, Jen, for a truly amazingly fun afternoon today! Memory Lane.👍

  • @MrAdik861
    @MrAdik861 Pƙed 27 dny +2

    "THX 1138" is another good dystopian movie. And it was directed by George Lucas himself, years before he began his work on "Star Wars". And as far as I see, no one reacted to it yet on CZcams! 🙂

  • @ptsteelers
    @ptsteelers Pƙed 29 dny +4

    Love the whisper... "subscribe"
    :D

  • @Ian-xx1xb
    @Ian-xx1xb Pƙed 29 dny +12

    Just stopping by to wish everyone a wonderful premiere and live chat 👍 Watching a movie with a banging music score along with Jen is always a treat 👌 and it adds so much to the reaction 🙂 enjoy everyone đŸ„łJen's not only the best she's also the ducklings dream đŸ”„đŸ’™đŸ”„đŸ’™ don't forget to hit that like button 👍

    • @tomhoffman4330
      @tomhoffman4330 Pƙed 29 dny +2

      Hey Ian👋Sorry You can't Join Us today...

    • @Ian-xx1xb
      @Ian-xx1xb Pƙed 29 dny +2

      @@tomhoffman4330 cheers Kevin you know how much I love Jen's premieres and I hate missing them but it's ok just have a doubly good time in my stead 🙂

    • @kevinlewallen4778
      @kevinlewallen4778 Pƙed 29 dny +2

      @@Ian-xx1xb Thanks for the undeserved shout-out you gave me, Ian. Get some rest!

  • @robby1816
    @robby1816 Pƙed 25 dny

    12:54 This is trippy.
    Welcome to the 70's, a great time to be alive.

  • @TheGeeMan
    @TheGeeMan Pƙed 5 dny

    I love that one of the guys at the end put up the Mr. Spock hand sign as a joke.

  • @captmurdock
    @captmurdock Pƙed 29 dny +5

    "Wait for the wind...my birds sing, and the deep grottos whisper my name....Box....Booox...Booooooxxx."
    The novel is different, definitely, but still good. I knew one of the authors personally. Good reaction.

    • @peterwalsh2470
      @peterwalsh2470 Pƙed 28 dny

      I want to hear an F1 engineer use this reference now when telling his driver to pit.

  • @stygggian
    @stygggian Pƙed 28 dny +3

    There was a short-lived TV show about this as well.

  • @paulhammond6978
    @paulhammond6978 Pƙed 22 dny +1

    So... they still know their TS Eliot in this future world. That's his poem from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats that talks about cats having three different names, and one of them being the secret one that only the cat knows.

  • @quitwastinmytime
    @quitwastinmytime Pƙed 28 dny +1

    One of the great films. I love that the lonely old guy becomes the savior because he's the only person left who knows how to be human. Also, the last human surrounded himself with cats. This film surely was a metaphor for the loneliness of modern society. Certainly inspired by H.G. Wells' Eloi, or maybe it was the Morlock's. The truth is that we are both and who had a better life - the Morlock's living in the shade or the Eloi living in the sun but being used as cattle? Many would consider Logan's life a utopia with the "dial a hook-up" and all. It's interesting because at first I thought he was summoning some sort of artificial hook-up but it proved to be an actual human and changed his life. Actual humans always mess up a good thing, don't they?

  • @harveylee51
    @harveylee51 Pƙed 29 dny +8

    i had to run myself to this premiere🏃
    Logan's Run is a cult classic for a reason i think deservedly so
    i just love the look of 70'S sci fi even if it does seem cheesy at times
    this movie won the Oscar for best special effects one year before Star Wars would have that same honour .
    YOU CAN LIVE YOU CAN LIIIIVE !!! that's going to be my anthem today 😄 lol !!
    Thanks JEN i hopein future you'll watch more 70's SCI FI
    enjoy the weekend ! 🙌 ❀

  • @ChristiofromMauritius
    @ChristiofromMauritius Pƙed 28 dny +1

    This is the movie that introduced me to dystopia. I've watched it several times in french as L'Ăąge de Cristal.

  • @KirkOrion666
    @KirkOrion666 Pƙed 24 dny +2

    That robot "Box" haunted my childhood nightmares. And Jessica my day dreamings.

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver Pƙed 3 dny

      'Ankh' has several translations, one of which is 'nourishment'.

  • @Raven5150
    @Raven5150 Pƙed 29 dny +13

    The age of Abe in the memorial is barely 40 but that would be older than anyone Logan ever met

    • @actaeon299
      @actaeon299 Pƙed 28 dny +2

      He also had a rougher life. Which would have made him look older, than a 40 year old in that city, if there had been a 40 year old.

    • @davidwoolbright3675
      @davidwoolbright3675 Pƙed 28 dny +1

      No. The memorial depicts him at 56. The age of his death.