If you've never before understood why Star Wars was so groundbreaking and mind-blowing, note that Logan's Run, came out just 1 year before A New Hope. So in a year, audiences went from "guy in aluminum foil mask with dryer ventilation tubes for arms, named BOX" to C3PO, R2D2, X-wings, TIE fighters, Star Destroyers, Darth Vader, Tusken Raiders, Stormtroopers, Jawas, lightsabers, etc.
I agree, feels so weird knowing this film came out a year before Star Wars. I think its fair to say that Logan's Run is the last of the old sci-fi with Star Wars starting the new sci-fi era, note how the editing is more slower paced and action rather basic, which Star Wars and Blade Runner both changed.
@ Morris van - Yeah, you can tell someone's age by how they call Star Wars; 'A New Hope'. You were either there or you weren't. But at least they're not saying that Disney/Kathleen Kennedy trash is Star Wars.
What makes this movie so good is the concept and uniqueness compared to other movies like Star wars, etc. It was very different and I always liked Logan's Run.
This is the mosr messed up part of the movie. Imagine going through all the hell of trying to escape only to end up frozen in ice by a crazed robot as your just on the cusp of getting outside. =|
Logan is the first Sandman to learn of Sanctuary The only Sandman to ever run The others who made it as far as Box were just normal civilians with no real weapons to defend themselves Logan has his Sandman gun, if he didn’t, he and Jessica would have been frozen by Box just like all the others It’s interesting that the Runner ‘key’ literally leads directly to Box - there seems to be an integrated system in place to catch all the runners - carousel, Sandmen, Box Is it possible that this ‘system’ was somehow set up eons ago with multiple checkpoints to prevent anyone from ever getting out? Hmmm 🤔 The mystery and unanswered questions are part of what still makes this movie so great after all this time - Classic! Love this film!!
Probably the best scene in the movie: When you realize that everyone died and no one found sanctuary. Instead they fell into the trap of Box, one who has been around a long time. ....
@@mpittard21 Box also doesn't know, or have the capacity to care, how freezing will affect them, he only knows that freezing is good and that it keeps things fresh.
@@mpittard21 Storage for when the populace needed it. But when things changed and he couldn't get all the seafood, he adapted with what next started to come his way.
@@systemshocker2875 That's not real CGI. They used a computer to pixilate regular footage and then they painted over that by hand. You aren't seeing anything created by a computer and the image didn't start on a computer.
Roscoe lee Brown,excellent voice and actor,fooled Archie Bunker,cooked for that mean son Uv a bitch trail boss,gave spider man a hard time as kingpin,and played a tragic figure in Black like me with Spencer Tracey movie🎉
Box isn't eating people. Box was designed to help feed the domed city by collecting "fish, and plankton, and see greens, and protein from the sea." It stopped, and people started coming. Apparently his creators didn't think "don't make people into food" needed to be stated aloud.
2:04 I missed the whole "Soylent Green" aspect of this scene the first time I saw this movie, but got the full shock years later when it was shown on TV. A very chilling scene, in more ways than one!
Makes you wonder how much the city leaders knew about their food supply situation. Clearly they must have had gaps in their knowledge. Not only were they unaware that there was no sanctuary, but they had apparently not bothered to send out a team of technicians or sandmen to check out the outer paths from the city and stumble across Box to find out that the escapees were either in cold storage or coming back into the city in the form of foodstuffs. Kind of makes you wonder how that city had managed to survive so long with such stupid leadership.
@@kentvesser9484 In the movie, the City _has no leadership_. It's run entirely by the AI, the humans are overgrown children in an immense, sexually-active creche. And yeah, things do seem to be breaking down. As far as eating bodies, though...that's automatically implied by living in a contained, ecologically-self-sustaining closed system. The organic matter of the dead has to be recycled back into the system, somehow. Even in the larger world, sooner or later mother nature does exactly that, as decay and scavengers do their work, embalming and cemeteries only delay it.
@@kentvesser9484 I'd assume that there are a lot of boxes, becuase theres no way one robot could capture all the food for the city (especialy a robot this immobile, like how did he even manage to kill all those people?) Plus there's no way that there are enough runners (that arent killed inside) to provide enough food maybe the other boxes can still harvest other foods?
@@onibabapapa2659 The runners are not being eaten. All the runners that Box froze are still there in the Ice Cave, the City has forgotten that Box is even there. However, you're right that there have to be other supply chains that are still (so far) functional. The City is still eating, after all. Do they all have a Box-type cyborg as part of the system? Interesting thought, that might even be true.
But he was a cyborg, and even called himself such in his introduction. It was that which allowed me to suspend my disbelief when seeing Roscoe Lee Browne’s tongue and lips through the foil he was wrapped in.
@@alphanerd7221 Oh, I know. I remember seeing this in the theater in '76. But because of the trailer, we kids all thought the "guy in he Jiffy Pop Popcorn costume" was going to have more screen time. I want to see this on the big screen again!
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I love the robot in Interstellar. He's a throwback to boxy robots of the past, but somehow sleeker and more convincing than the robots of modern Sci Fi.
@@DanFrederiksen i wouldnt call it garbage but i do find it to be one of those movies where it has good parts that dont add up to much of a whole. I find myself watching clips of it on yt but no desire to sit through the whole thing again.
@@thebookwasbetter3650 they had the audacity to tout it as scientifically accurate when it's as scientifically literate as a republican. the very premise that global warming could make earth less habitable than a planet orbiting ultra close to a black hole is beyond moronic. never mind that such time dilation is not even remotely possible in the most extreme cases let alone a nice planet with sunshine and oceans. the movie works as a moody dream, it has zero merit in the real world.
The moment I saw this machine I knew something was wrong. An unexplainable vibe I was getting from this machine. My senses proved me right. I would have run immediately and never looked back
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I read the book at the age of 13 (I'm now 51) so my memory of the story isn't perfect. However, as I recall Box was a 14 y/o boy who fell in some machinery and got mangled, being reconstructed as the harvester robot. The film has taken some major liberties with the story, due mostly to reasons of economy and running time. This is easily the best bit, and always makes me laugh.
The Box in the book was a child molester and murderer. He was mangled trying to escape capture for his crimes, and machinery replaced the parts of his body too damaged to be healed. He was sentenced to the prison Hell at the North Pole, which, with his cyborg parts, he finds to his liking. He doesn't become a harvester robot as in the film. He and Logan and Jessica have an... interaction that doesn't go so well for Box, ultimately. In a bargain with Logan and Jessica, they must pose for him as he carves an ice sculpture of the pair, in exchange for a way out of the prison Hell. That bargain was included in the original edit of the film, but for the final edit the scene was removed, both to shorten the film and to remove nude scenes as the couple pose.
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In the LN novel, Box is a sex-obsessed manual laborer at a Government emergency marine life food storage station near Washington, D.C. Like the Tin Man in the Oz books, he becomes an essentially immortal cyborg when more and more of his body parts are replaced with machinery. Left alone at the station after society collapses, he goes steadily insane, mixing his original mission with self-aggrandizement. Fancying himself a great artist, he gets the Runners who find their way to the site -- which they mistakenly believe to be Sanctuary -- to disrobe and be captured by him in (ice) sculpture, before they are physically captured and stuffed in the bins formerly used for marine life. That's why Logan and his friend are shown naked at the very start of this clip.
You sure? Box was a child murderer in the novel, who got chewed up in a transporter belt accident and got cybernized, and sent to Hell, a frozen wasteland that served as a prison.
There's a lot more to this scene then just some robot meeting Logan and Jessica. BOX's statement "I'm more than man, more than machine, more than a fusion of the two" implies that there existed some very advanced human technology, created in the 200 years or so prior to the "collapse" that led to creation of the Domed City. And that there are still quite a few bits and pieces of it existing and functioning.
because it's a monument of a bygone era. even today, all those buildings are antiquated architecture and don't reflect current day building styles. 20th century DC doesn't look like 20th century.
They're freezing from the cold, but they're walking on ice barefooted! And they got out of their clothes cause they were wet. as were their feet. Wouldn't they be sticking to the ice alittle? LOL
Devin Drew Most sci - fi movies ignore details like that. Just like movies set on space stations or starships where artificial gravity appears to be a common thing.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?” ― Tennessee Williams.
Why remake such a fondly remembered classic? C'mon Hollywood! Stop taking the easy way out! There are dozens of great, classic sci-fi stories and books just begging to see the light of day. Movies that have the potential of being the "Login's Run" for future generations of moviegoers.
You consider this fondly remembered? Maybe for you. You consider this a classic? Far from it, it's deeply flawed with just hints of the smart sci-fi thriller it wanted to be.
For one, the special effects are very out-dated. They're laughable to the point that they can detract from the story. How about a remake where Michael York takes the place of Peter Ustinov? A cast set in their teens would be more true to the novel and more acceptable in the 2020s (when it probably would be released if they start working on it now)...well, that is if it didn't look like a rip-off of the "Hunger Games."
Nah, Box is an abandoned robot. The people in the city don't even know he's there. He's only freezing Runners because they were all that came to him after the food he was made to preserve stopped coming.
@@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225 I really hope so, because if he's a part of the automated food production system of the metropolis - the likes of which many or any would be as ignorant of as they are of the outside world - that would be *problem.*
I remember watching this as a kid I assumed that Box was freezing runners and sending them back as food. When he said "they stopped coming and they came so I stored them here" I always assumed the runners were being stored as food since the fish and stuff had stopped. I thought that was a really cool plot twist that the Sandman realized he was eating people the whole time until I watched it again as an adult. Then I was bummed out that they were just frozen and stayed there.
I saw that too but I still consider the "Soylent Green" explanation as my headcanon. Especially since no one works to make ressources in the city, so food does have to come from somewhere.
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@@thibautisserant You don't need to. If Box still exists in a broken supply chain, we must assume other supply chains closer to the City still work. Automated agriculture, recycling, fish farming, etc. If you want to believe Box sends corpses to the City, why are there so many corpses stored in his freezer when there are so few runners? If corpses get sent back, there must be an automated supply chain that does the food prep, because nobody knows about it. It really is easier to assume non-cannibalism.
I remember this scene above all else from Logan's run. As a 10 year old there were three movies that really stuck out to me then, Rollerball (James Caan), Logan's Run, and West World with Yul Brynner.
Man, you don't hear much about ROLLERBALL, now! It made a big impression on me when it came out. I made a big effort to get a copy of the story, it was like three pages long, I think it was in a magazine? "Rollerball Murder" it might have been called. The Logan's Run world is very high tech and attractive in its way. They have teleportation, a pink fog as a drug, walk-in surgery.... real working artificial intelligence, little hovercraft as I recall, dashing outfits, rocket pistols, some stuff you can spray on a dead person to just dissolve them (don't get any ON you!).... And Jessica's legs are pretty amazing. Maybe they have special exercises in The FUTURE, or are they surgically enhanced?
Logan's Run I remember watching this movie when it was screened at our local Majestic cinema in the late 70's. Good memories! Sorry about the late comment.
If the idea was to confront Logan and Jessica with as bizarre a character and environment as possible (compared to their lives in the city), then I guess they succeeded, but even as a young teenager, I thought this scene was just weird. Like Logan said "It all seemed to make sense before Box."
As cheesy as the effects were in this movie it left a lasting impression on me as a kid. What a great movie! Therrreeeee.....Issss...Nooooo.....Sanctuuuarrry!
+ohsnapiam59 He had a great line in "All In The Family" when he was stuck in an elevator with Archie and several other people and he asked Archie his name: A: "Bunker! As in Battle of!" RLB: "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Bunker Hill."
The nudity in the scene was the highlight of this section of the movie. The action sequence with renewal and chase sequences without much special effects was much better in terms of suspense.
In the novelization, it's explained that Box was a human sex offender who was converted into a cyborg and given a boring, tedious, repetitive job as punishment. He continued working, oblivious to the collapse of the world outside, until the automated systems that delivered seafood for him to freeze for storage and shipping stopped working. He got bored and made his snow and ice sculptures. Then people started coming through his facility looking to escape the city and a combination of being a pervert who wants to look at naked people on display and a malfunction in his cybernetic parts from centuries of isolation, boredom, and lack of maintenance basically made him go "hey, the fish stopped showing up, I should freeze these guys and make a gallery with them!" It's one of the most convincing "this guy is insane on a level most schizos would balk at" performances ever.
Hard to believe this movie came out a year before Star Wars and feels like galaxies away. Could you imagine the bored crew of Nostromo (Alien) dealing with that dumb robot.
Okay, check out the effects in the rest of the movie. They're pretty damn impressive. This is the one real slip-up in a movie that has otherwise aged pretty well.
Minus the effects of the frozen birds falling, I actually really like the effects. The sleek/clunky design of Box is effectively creepy in its weirdness. It’s actually a spooky scene too.
Box definitely looks like a costume, but they made it work with strong lighting. Quite a character, and an impressive sight if you don't look too closely.
Soylent Green. Add the Omega Man and were right on track..eerie now , looking back at when these films were made , when I first saw them . How uncanny, how close we are to these "prophesies" materializing - Just never thought I'd be alive to see such horror , overpopulation , food shortage etc
Box has been alone so long, he's gone maaaaaddd. AND forgotten the 1st Law of Robotics. BUT, the doesn't even see them as human -- just as "food" (for the city, which will however never be retrieved b/c all info about the cave, Box, and the post-nuke survival support system he's part of was lost long ago. He's also developed an artistic sensibility. Finally, note how he attempts to absolve himself of responsibility ("It's [just] my job"), and reconcile them to being frozen. Quite un-robotlike.
Eh, it's probably just a plot device for him to be like that. However, let's think about it from a different perspective, he may be doing that to people from possible programming corruption from operating for so long. Also, if he's a cyborg, some parts of him would be organic and may not be able to be programmed to obey the Three Laws of Robotics. Also, that may have never been an aspect of robotics in that fictional universe. Of course, being he's not exactly human, he may have not identified people as being off-limits if he wasn't told what humans are. He may have been programmed or created in the absence of people originally in the state of automation he existed in. There's so many possibilities that could work with a possible plot explanation. In the end, it was part of the script and doesn't need to make sense. It's just a reason for them to show naked people and see Jenny naked as well.
Box is not a robot, he's a modified human. Which means the Three Laws mean nothing to him. Not that they are a reliable thing anyway, after all, the definition of terms like 'human' and 'harm' are gameable...
Roscoe Lee Brown is a fine actor, I think he pulled off Box very well even though it was low tech/low budget. It was more his voice, you couldn't see him in all that gadgetry - just like Dark Vader is all about James Earl Jones' voice too. I love how Box's relays clicked as he talked and moved about. Then that classic line, "Fish, plankton, sea greens, and protien from the sea."
No. The reason the fish, seagreens, etc... stopped coming was because they were being harvested by the city. Hence "they stopped coming". The people were the runners who thought they were traveling to Sanctuary. Boxes job was to freeze things, so he kept freezing things. Any transport mechanism for what he processed stopped a long time ago as all those people are still there.
I've always thought that Box was simply used as an explanation for how when Logan and Jessica got out of the Domed city that no previous Runners were already there. Box had caught and frozen them all - Logan being armed was presumably the difference maker. Some sources say he was a `guard' but that doesn't fit his own explanation.
There was something in this movie that predicted the internet. It was like a "circuit" that would bring the images of people up on a screen. That's how Logan found the girl. This was well before personal computers but I thought that was quite a good prediction for its time.
It did not have to predict it Logans Run was written in 1967 and that was the year ARPAnet was being developed science fiction writers always have their fingers on the pulse of new discoveries it enables them to write more plausible futures.
"Overwhelming, am I not?" has to be the baddest-assest introduction to a villain ever.
My standard greeting to women on a first date
@@ytcensorhack1876 Am I too removed from your ken?
Combined with the great voice!
@@sthomas2592 That's Roscoe Lee Brown, also narrated the movie Babe, and played The Kingpin in the 90's Spiderman cartoon
Not really…..it looks like you were pieced together with odds and ends from a crackhouse
If you've never before understood why Star Wars was so groundbreaking and mind-blowing, note that Logan's Run, came out just 1 year before A New Hope. So in a year, audiences went from "guy in aluminum foil mask with dryer ventilation tubes for arms, named BOX" to C3PO, R2D2, X-wings, TIE fighters, Star Destroyers, Darth Vader, Tusken Raiders, Stormtroopers, Jawas, lightsabers, etc.
A good point! I consider Logan's Run to be an interesting piece of science fiction though. Star Wars is not sci fi in the same way this movie is.
I agree, feels so weird knowing this film came out a year before Star Wars. I think its fair to say that Logan's Run is the last of the old sci-fi with Star Wars starting the new sci-fi era, note how the editing is more slower paced and action rather basic, which Star Wars and Blade Runner both changed.
It was just called ''star wars'' in 1977.
@ Morris van - Yeah, you can tell someone's age by how they call Star Wars; 'A New Hope'. You were either there or you weren't. But at least they're not saying that Disney/Kathleen Kennedy trash is Star Wars.
What makes this movie so good is the concept and uniqueness compared to other movies like Star wars, etc. It was very different and I always liked Logan's Run.
"Regular storage procedure, same as the other food. The food stopped coming and THEY started."
That was a spooky statement from Box.
***** Box was crazy for a machine or a cyborg. He also looked like a boxy Cylon with a C3PO head.
This is the mosr messed up part of the movie. Imagine going through all the hell of trying to escape only to end up frozen in ice by a crazed robot as your just on the cusp of getting outside. =|
This is how I act when I'm looking in the coolers at the supermarket!
Logan is the first Sandman to learn of Sanctuary
The only Sandman to ever run
The others who made it as far as Box were just normal civilians with no real weapons to defend themselves
Logan has his Sandman gun, if he didn’t, he and Jessica would have been frozen by Box just like all the others
It’s interesting that the Runner ‘key’ literally leads directly to Box - there seems to be an integrated system in place to catch all the runners - carousel, Sandmen, Box
Is it possible that this ‘system’ was somehow set up eons ago with multiple checkpoints to prevent anyone from ever getting out?
Hmmm 🤔
The mystery and unanswered questions are part of what still makes this movie so great after all this time - Classic!
Love this film!!
This is how I greet all my guests in real life.
"Overwhelming, am I not?"
🤣LMAO
Lolololol that was really good 😊 My fiancée has never seem this we will hopefully see it together soon.
me too i start all introductions with a monologue about sea greens and plankton
@@deanfowles3707 Do you believe in gravity?
Probably the best scene in the movie: When you realize that everyone died and no one found sanctuary. Instead they fell into the trap of Box, one who has been around a long time. ....
However it still never truly defines WHY it is there. ie what was the point to it freezing the food?
@@mpittard21 Long term storage of course. He says this.
@@mpittard21 Box also doesn't know, or have the capacity to care, how freezing will affect them, he only knows that freezing is good and that it keeps things fresh.
@@mpittard21 Storage for when the populace needed it. But when things changed and he couldn't get all the seafood, he adapted with what next started to come his way.
In the Logan's Run Tv series, there really is a Sanctuary with living people there.
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The original X Box
lols
later designs only got bigger
Rejected Xbox Mascot.
Box was played by Roscoe Lee Browne. Growing up, I always thought it was Vincent Price.
Wow, that would've been my first guess.
...Noow I'm hearing it.
That robot is crazier than a shithouse rat. He whipped out those 'freezing weapons' a bit quick too. Maybe they were hidden in a snowman...
No matter the role, Roscoe Lee Brown always brings an air of dignity to it, even if it's a cheesy role
He was great in Visionaries (frankly everyone was, and it should have carried on beyond its 13 episode run)
All due respect to the legendary James Earl Jones, but wouldn't Roscoe Lee Browne have done a great voice for Darth Vader?
He was a tad overdramatic here for my taste.
@@willmfrank, no. His voice is too aristocratic and not menacing enough for Darth Vader.
“Beware the bad cat that bears a grudge”. Favorite Roscoe Lee Brown from Babe.
I always like to imagine that Box isn't mad, just that he finds Jessica biting it on the ice at 3:02 really funny.
Whoopsie-doodle!
We all laughed!
Box is hands down the most HILARIOUS and TERRIFYING thing I've seen in a movie in a looooong time x'D
Been a fan of this movie for a long time and this just occurred to me: "Ice Box".
It just occurred to me too.
NOW you get it! Congratulations :/ (slow clap)
Thank you for your service.
I mean he wasn't mad, he was simply doing his job, just no one came back to turn off the programming.
" My birds! My birds! " Brilliant character actor Roscoe Lee Browne was apparently fond of telling dirty jokes between takes. But what a voice!
I am now worried about my talking fridge. It scares me.
"I am ready! And YOU are ready! It's my JOB!"
My feet would be KILLING me if I were stand on ice barefoot like that!
I love how those furs were just conveniently there when they needed them.
Cheap effects aside, the actor inside Box did a remarkable job of moving like a robot.
it was the seventies, CGI wasn't even invented, hence the old fashioned visual effects
@@ImNotADeeJay well,it actually was. The first movie to utilize it was Westworld from 1973
He was a well known actor
@@systemshocker2875 That's not real CGI. They used a computer to pixilate regular footage and then they painted over that by hand. You aren't seeing anything created by a computer and the image didn't start on a computer.
Roscoe lee Brown,excellent voice and actor,fooled Archie Bunker,cooked for that mean son Uv a bitch trail boss,gave spider man a hard time as kingpin,and played a tragic figure in Black like me with Spencer Tracey movie🎉
Love the ABBA mini-dress Jenny Agutter is wearing. 😄
She was the whole reason to watch this movie. American Werewolf in London was another.
Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man,
that he didn't, didn't already have.
When AI goes crazy and sees humans as a food source 😅😂
Crazy?
Box isn't eating people. Box was designed to help feed the domed city by collecting "fish, and plankton, and see greens, and protein from the sea." It stopped, and people started coming. Apparently his creators didn't think "don't make people into food" needed to be stated aloud.
Coming soon! You can count on that.
2:04 I missed the whole "Soylent Green" aspect of this scene the first time I saw this movie, but got the full shock years later when it was shown on TV. A very chilling scene, in more ways than one!
Makes you wonder how much the city leaders knew about their food supply situation. Clearly they must have had gaps in their knowledge. Not only were they unaware that there was no sanctuary, but they had apparently not bothered to send out a team of technicians or sandmen to check out the outer paths from the city and stumble across Box to find out that the escapees were either in cold storage or coming back into the city in the form of foodstuffs. Kind of makes you wonder how that city had managed to survive so long with such stupid leadership.
Supply Chain management done right!
@@kentvesser9484 In the movie, the City _has no leadership_. It's run entirely by the AI, the humans are overgrown children in an immense, sexually-active creche. And yeah, things do seem to be breaking down.
As far as eating bodies, though...that's automatically implied by living in a contained, ecologically-self-sustaining closed system. The organic matter of the dead has to be recycled back into the system, somehow. Even in the larger world, sooner or later mother nature does exactly that, as decay and scavengers do their work, embalming and cemeteries only delay it.
@@kentvesser9484 I'd assume that there are a lot of boxes, becuase theres no way one robot could capture all the food for the city (especialy a robot this immobile, like how did he even manage to kill all those people?) Plus there's no way that there are enough runners (that arent killed inside) to provide enough food
maybe the other boxes can still harvest other foods?
@@onibabapapa2659 The runners are not being eaten. All the runners that Box froze are still there in the Ice Cave, the City has forgotten that Box is even there.
However, you're right that there have to be other supply chains that are still (so far) functional. The City is still eating, after all. Do they all have a Box-type cyborg as part of the system? Interesting thought, that might even be true.
Me and the boys enjoying plankton and fish and sea greens and protein from the sea
I always thought Box was pretty awesome as far as deranged robots go, too bad he only had like 5 minutes of screentime =(
But he was a cyborg, and even called himself such in his introduction. It was that which allowed me to suspend my disbelief when seeing Roscoe Lee Browne’s tongue and lips through the foil he was wrapped in.
If you watch the original trailer, you would think that he were a major figure.
@@ericmgarrison He's pretty major. That's where the heroes find out everything they had been looking for the first two acts was a lie.
@@alphanerd7221 Oh, I know. I remember seeing this in the theater in '76. But because of the trailer, we kids all thought the "guy in he Jiffy Pop Popcorn costume" was going to have more screen time. I want to see this on the big screen again!
That takes place in the age of capricorn ♑ and aquarius ♒ 2000 years of no sunlight, earth 🌎 ice age. People eat each other, the robot 🤖 tells you.
FOOD.. SEE MY PAGE
The dislikers need to eat some plankton and fish, sea greens and protein from the sea. Fresh as harvest day...
+Gareth Glitter lol
+Gareth Glitter They're weeping for the birds.
It's Burl Ives as a Talking Chrome Gas Pump.
Or need to renew!
Gareth Glitter
Box is all kinds of weird inside and out. IMO the most intriguing robot character from 70s science fiction.
Yeah, no Three Laws Of Robotics instilled into Box.
its my job to freeze you has been in my head for 30 years lol
I love the robot in Interstellar. He's a throwback to boxy robots of the past, but somehow sleeker and more convincing than the robots of modern Sci Fi.
try to come to terms with the fact that interstellar was garbage
@@DanFrederiksen i wouldnt call it garbage but i do find it to be one of those movies where it has good parts that dont add up to much of a whole. I find myself watching clips of it on yt but no desire to sit through the whole thing again.
@@thebookwasbetter3650 they had the audacity to tout it as scientifically accurate when it's as scientifically literate as a republican. the very premise that global warming could make earth less habitable than a planet orbiting ultra close to a black hole is beyond moronic. never mind that such time dilation is not even remotely possible in the most extreme cases let alone a nice planet with sunshine and oceans. the movie works as a moody dream, it has zero merit in the real world.
@@DanFrederiksen Im sure to trust a random youtube comment with 0 likes to critique a movie!
@@therealw04 I'm a polymath genius and truth isn't a democracy. You call yourself catsers.
The moment I saw this machine I knew something was wrong. An unexplainable vibe I was getting from this machine. My senses proved me right. I would have run immediately and never looked back
You are watching CZcams videos, the machine would have frozen you.
Certainly would have done the moment I, er, saw a corridor full of frozen bodies lol.
It's the music. The soundtrack for a scene largely determines the mood.
That takes place in the age of capricorn ♑ and aquarius ♒ 2000 years of no sunlight, earth 🌎 ice age. People eat each other, the robot 🤖 tells you.
FOOD.. SEE MY PAGE
But then you would have missed out on the sea greens! And plankton!
I read the book at the age of 13 (I'm now 51) so my memory of the story isn't perfect. However, as I recall Box was a 14 y/o boy who fell in some machinery and got mangled, being reconstructed as the harvester robot. The film has taken some major liberties with the story, due mostly to reasons of economy and running time. This is easily the best bit, and always makes me laugh.
Oh that's horrifying
The Box in the book was a child molester and murderer. He was mangled trying to escape capture for his crimes, and machinery replaced the parts of his body too damaged to be healed. He was sentenced to the prison Hell at the North Pole, which, with his cyborg parts, he finds to his liking. He doesn't become a harvester robot as in the film. He and Logan and Jessica have an... interaction that doesn't go so well for Box, ultimately. In a bargain with Logan and Jessica, they must pose for him as he carves an ice sculpture of the pair, in exchange for a way out of the prison Hell. That bargain was included in the original edit of the film, but for the final edit the scene was removed, both to shorten the film and to remove nude scenes as the couple pose.
Wow. Fantastic backstory.
The novel was much more involved, and much more raunchy. Remember the flying bikers?
That takes place in the age of capricorn ♑ and aquarius ♒ 2000 years of no sunlight, earth 🌎 ice age. People eat each other, the robot 🤖 tells you.
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This dude freaked me out as a kid...a psycho robot....not evil just psychotic
i like how getting shot gives him a x4 smugness multiplier to his maddened laughter
I love this film. The robot costume isnt the best, but I think its an absolutely chilling performance by Roscoe Lee Browne
Agreed.
Maybe Logan's Run tag line should have been, "Just when you thought it was safe to open your refrigerator!"
In the LN novel, Box is a sex-obsessed manual laborer at a Government emergency marine life food storage station near Washington, D.C. Like the Tin Man in the Oz books, he becomes an essentially immortal cyborg when more and more of his body parts are replaced with machinery. Left alone at the station after society collapses, he goes steadily insane, mixing his original mission with self-aggrandizement. Fancying himself a great artist, he gets the Runners who find their way to the site -- which they mistakenly believe to be Sanctuary -- to disrobe and be captured by him in (ice) sculpture, before they are physically captured and stuffed in the bins formerly used for marine life. That's why Logan and his friend are shown naked at the very start of this clip.
You sure?
Box was a child murderer in the novel, who got chewed up in a transporter belt accident and got cybernized, and sent to Hell, a frozen wasteland that served as a prison.
Robert Haworth I never read the novel, even though I had the book - on - cassette version a long time ago.
That is really interestingz. Thanks for sharing that info. I might just look for the actual book.
I believe the book to be far superior to the movie.
Glad someone else read the book. Ever read the Zardoz book also?
Jessica 6 was hot.
yep! twenty out of a scale from nil to ten...
Shes on "call the midwife" and she's super old now.
@@dondickens2446 She was topless in this clip in the actual movie
"I am ready for you..." lol that sounds so weird coming from Box.
It’s a worry when the freezer starts talking to itself in lockdown.
The internet of things.
Box always reminded me of Sam the Snowman from Rudolph for some reason. Love Roscoe Lee Brown's performance as the character. What a great voice!
There's a lot more to this scene then just some robot meeting Logan and Jessica. BOX's statement "I'm more than man, more than machine, more than a fusion of the two" implies that there existed some very advanced human technology, created in the 200 years or so prior to the "collapse" that led to creation of the Domed City. And that there are still quite a few bits and pieces of it existing and functioning.
+delavalmilker then why did washington DC look like 20th century washington DC
because it's a monument of a bygone era. even today, all those buildings are antiquated architecture and don't reflect current day building styles. 20th century DC doesn't look like 20th century.
and there are no more fish, birds or plankton.
@@Gunner192 no fish or birds, just cats and an old man
Have you read the original book by William Nolan? Its been awhile since I read it, but it's truly great, with an interesting twist toward the end.
I always liked that frozen walrus. ..
They're freezing from the cold, but they're walking on ice barefooted! And they got out of their clothes cause they were wet. as were their feet. Wouldn't they be sticking to the ice alittle? LOL
Devin Drew Most sci - fi movies ignore details like that. Just like movies set on space stations or starships where artificial gravity appears to be a common thing.
Daniel Appleton Yeah I know it was common back then. I just pointed it out for fun.
Daniel Appleton yeah, as if people do not notice the harness wires lol!
When I walk barefoot on ice, it hurts just a LITTLE...
They are also talking to an aluminum foil box. Try not to think too much
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?” ― Tennessee Williams.
Freeze a jolly good fellow!
Martin Wimmer He's Mr. Freeze in a machine body !
Maybe he should run for Governor.
Martin Wimmer :Maybee he should freeze Trump and make him fresh on harvest day.
@@martinwimmer9262 He's certainly got a platform.
Box was in the film for such a short time. I wanted to see more of him and know more about his story.
I heard he was originally. There was a scene where he sculpts them both in the nude cut out from ice. They removed it as it wasn’t family-friendly.
@@jonathanmelia I saw that scene here on CZcams.
@@jonathanmelia family friendly? There's literally a row of exposed breasts in this scene lol.
@@xavierbeurre8064 not to mention the "pleasure chamber" chase scene
There needed to be a chase scene down the frozen people food aisle.
Why remake such a fondly remembered classic? C'mon Hollywood! Stop taking the easy way out! There are dozens of great, classic sci-fi stories and books just begging to see the light of day. Movies that have the potential of being the "Login's Run" for future generations of moviegoers.
PERN!
You consider this fondly remembered? Maybe for you. You consider this a classic? Far from it, it's deeply flawed with just hints of the smart sci-fi thriller it wanted to be.
zooeyhall please don't ask for a remake !!!!!! Logan would be Black transgender, the robot would be a Nazi, and as for Jenny...... Oh please no.....
For one, the special effects are very out-dated. They're laughable to the point that they can detract from the story. How about a remake where Michael York takes the place of Peter Ustinov? A cast set in their teens would be more true to the novel and more acceptable in the 2020s (when it probably would be released if they start working on it now)...well, that is if it didn't look like a rip-off of the "Hunger Games."
Who is remaking this?
Can't believe they pulled this scene off without CGI. Clear inspiration for the T2000 but without CGI. A real accomplishment.
C.G.I. just can't compete with the grand wizardry of practical effects.
original theatrical version had Jessica full frontal, for maybe 1/8 second, since edited
God I love evil laughter.
WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN? WHY IS THE ROBOT LAUGHING?
LOL!
They're walking barefoot on the floor of an ice cave! The moment they enter they comment how cold it is so the floor should be freezing.
"Regular food storage"
Uhh, I think Box is providing Soylent Green to the city, folks.
Nah, Box is an abandoned robot. The people in the city don't even know he's there. He's only freezing Runners because they were all that came to him after the food he was made to preserve stopped coming.
@@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225 I really hope so, because if he's a part of the automated food production system of the metropolis - the likes of which many or any would be as ignorant of as they are of the outside world - that would be *problem.*
Love the dryer vent arms!!
I saw this for the first time today and it was glorious.
Overwhelming, is it not?
I remember watching this as a kid I assumed that Box was freezing runners and sending them back as food. When he said "they stopped coming and they came so I stored them here" I always assumed the runners were being stored as food since the fish and stuff had stopped. I thought that was a really cool plot twist that the Sandman realized he was eating people the whole time until I watched it again as an adult. Then I was bummed out that they were just frozen and stayed there.
I saw that too but I still consider the "Soylent Green" explanation as my headcanon.
Especially since no one works to make ressources in the city, so food does have to come from somewhere.
That takes place in the age of capricorn ♑ and aquarius ♒ 2000 years of no sunlight, earth 🌎 ice age. People eat each other, the robot 🤖 tells you.
FOOD.. SEE MY PAGE
@@thibautisserant You don't need to. If Box still exists in a broken supply chain, we must assume other supply chains closer to the City still work. Automated agriculture, recycling, fish farming, etc. If you want to believe Box sends corpses to the City, why are there so many corpses stored in his freezer when there are so few runners? If corpses get sent back, there must be an automated supply chain that does the food prep, because nobody knows about it. It really is easier to assume non-cannibalism.
That robot is screwed if the floor ever gets bumpy
just like the Daleks!
He's got a built in Zamboni 🤣
@@keithsolley As I kid I always thought that then they went and cheated in the film and made them hover.
😂😂😂
I think it has treads, so it could be fine
As a german, i admire this robots dedication to his job. 🖤❤💛
This film is so relevant in 2020
I remember this scene above all else from Logan's run. As a 10 year old there were three movies that really stuck out to me then, Rollerball (James Caan), Logan's Run, and West World with Yul Brynner.
Man, you don't hear much about ROLLERBALL, now! It made a big impression on me when it came out. I made a big effort to get a copy of the story, it was like three pages long, I think it was in a magazine? "Rollerball Murder" it might have been called. The Logan's Run world is very high tech and attractive in its way. They have teleportation, a pink fog as a drug, walk-in surgery.... real working artificial intelligence, little hovercraft as I recall, dashing outfits, rocket pistols, some stuff you can spray on a dead person to just dissolve them (don't get any ON you!).... And Jessica's legs are pretty amazing. Maybe they have special exercises in The FUTURE, or are they surgically enhanced?
@@leonardpearlman4017 All three films are great- agreed!
Roscoe Lee Browne.
Logan's Run I remember watching this movie when it was screened at our local Majestic cinema in the late 70's. Good memories!
Sorry about the late comment.
"Ah sell sea greens and sea green accessories"
Now this is the plankton char king.
That Box ain't right
"Mumble mumble mumble, 69 Plymouth, mumble mumble doggone Box"
Robot got caught "monologing"...
Very surprised this movie hasn't been remade. It's one of the few that actually deserves a better version.
Remakes aren’t normally better versions. This is an amazing film.
remakes in our 2020's dark age would be pure PC toxicity
if this were remade the frozen nude bodies would be fully clothed
This is actually one of the few movies I actually want to see remade so I can see it with all the modern technology and effects. It would be so cool.
Filming of a Logan's Run remake is supposed to begin this year.
Like the way he starts laughing whilst chasing them. Pleasure circuits were stimulated by an imminent freezing.
the robot probably represents how we get all our food from supermrakets rather than grow it ourselves.
Probably not
Jenny Agutter, cute and sexy. She's aged pretty well too.
Aged Age ?
One of the most wobbly droids ever 😂😂
I really like this film.
That robot is pretty cool.
If the idea was to confront Logan and Jessica with as bizarre a character and environment as possible (compared to their lives in the city), then I guess they succeeded, but even as a young teenager, I thought this scene was just weird. Like Logan said "It all seemed to make sense before Box."
As cheesy as the effects were in this movie it left a lasting impression on me as a kid. What a great movie! Therrreeeee.....Issss...Nooooo.....Sanctuuuarrry!
Love those shiny dryer duct vent arms.
The villain with dryer vent hose arms who can easily be defeated with a shove 😂
The robot's voice sounds like Roscoe Lee Brown. Black Shakespearean actor who was in the great 'Card Game' episode on the Cosby show.
ohsnapiam59 It is Roscoe Lee Browne! www.imdb.com/name/nm0001975/
+ohsnapiam59 He had a great line in "All In The Family" when he was stuck in an elevator with Archie and several other people and he asked Archie his name:
A: "Bunker! As in Battle of!"
RLB: "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Bunker Hill."
“Ahh, there’s the rub”
“The rubbing of the head,
The rubbing of the head,
Hi ho the Derryo the rubbing of the head
He was supposed to play George Jefferson till Sherman Hemsley took the role after he refused it saying he didn't want to play the Black Archie Bunker
The nudity in the scene was the highlight of this section of the movie. The action sequence with renewal and chase sequences without much special effects was much better in terms of suspense.
I love how Logan takes the time to remove his coat before he 'runs'.
In his perversion, this computer has created art that reminds him of the world he lost.
When that robot rolls up on you in the grocery store
"I am READY for you."
In the novelization, it's explained that Box was a human sex offender who was converted into a cyborg and given a boring, tedious, repetitive job as punishment. He continued working, oblivious to the collapse of the world outside, until the automated systems that delivered seafood for him to freeze for storage and shipping stopped working. He got bored and made his snow and ice sculptures. Then people started coming through his facility looking to escape the city and a combination of being a pervert who wants to look at naked people on display and a malfunction in his cybernetic parts from centuries of isolation, boredom, and lack of maintenance basically made him go "hey, the fish stopped showing up, I should freeze these guys and make a gallery with them!"
It's one of the most convincing "this guy is insane on a level most schizos would balk at" performances ever.
Actually really badass for explaining that, thank you!
Hard to believe this movie came out a year before Star Wars and feels like galaxies away. Could you imagine the bored crew of Nostromo (Alien) dealing with that dumb robot.
Bill H They would have scrapped him for cash.
*2 years
It would have been far less of a surprise when it was revealed Ash was a robot...
Fuk u
@@tricesimo Ash would’ve helped Box freeze them all.
Happy 100th Birthday Roscoe Lee Browne!
Love Logan's run
Did you watch the TV series?
A robot that laughs. That's pretty maniacal.
Okay, check out the effects in the rest of the movie. They're pretty damn impressive. This is the one real slip-up in a movie that has otherwise aged pretty well.
Minus the effects of the frozen birds falling, I actually really like the effects. The sleek/clunky design of Box is effectively creepy in its weirdness. It’s actually a spooky scene too.
To be fair the shots of the city are pretty clearly just models, it looks like something out of Thunderbirds.
Box definitely looks like a costume, but they made it work with strong lighting. Quite a character, and an impressive sight if you don't look too closely.
@@leonardpearlman4017 To be fair, we're watching it closer to the screen and in a much higher resolution than the creators ever imagined possible.
@@NarwhalEntertainment Wrong. Resolution on film is better than digital.
Soylent Green. Add the Omega Man and were right on track..eerie now , looking back at when these films were made , when I first saw them . How uncanny, how close we are to these "prophesies" materializing - Just never thought I'd be alive to see such horror , overpopulation , food shortage etc
Box has been alone so long, he's gone maaaaaddd. AND forgotten the 1st Law of Robotics. BUT, the doesn't even see them as human -- just as "food" (for the city, which will however never be retrieved b/c all info about the cave, Box, and the post-nuke survival support system he's part of was lost long ago. He's also developed an artistic sensibility. Finally, note how he attempts to absolve himself of responsibility ("It's [just] my job"), and reconcile them to being frozen. Quite un-robotlike.
Eh, it's probably just a plot device for him to be like that. However, let's think about it from a different perspective, he may be doing that to people from possible programming corruption from operating for so long. Also, if he's a cyborg, some parts of him would be organic and may not be able to be programmed to obey the Three Laws of Robotics. Also, that may have never been an aspect of robotics in that fictional universe. Of course, being he's not exactly human, he may have not identified people as being off-limits if he wasn't told what humans are. He may have been programmed or created in the absence of people originally in the state of automation he existed in. There's so many possibilities that could work with a possible plot explanation. In the end, it was part of the script and doesn't need to make sense. It's just a reason for them to show naked people and see Jenny naked as well.
Box is not a robot, he's a modified human. Which means the Three Laws mean nothing to him. Not that they are a reliable thing anyway, after all, the definition of terms like 'human' and 'harm' are gameable...
Roscoe Lee Brown is a fine actor, I think he pulled off Box very well even though it was low tech/low budget. It was more his voice, you couldn't see him in all that gadgetry - just like Dark Vader is all about James Earl Jones' voice too. I love how Box's relays clicked as he talked and moved about. Then that classic line, "Fish, plankton, sea greens, and protien from the sea."
Interesting that Roscoe Lee Browne was actually in that outfit and if he fell over it would have taken several stout hearted crewmen to lift him up!
Logan's Run is STILL a great movie
Does this scene imply that the people in the domed city have been eating human flesh for years ala 'Soylent Green'?
john deaux yes😷
Yes. Apparently they thought it all tasted like chicken.
No. The reason the fish, seagreens, etc... stopped coming was because they were being harvested by the city. Hence "they stopped coming". The people were the runners who thought they were traveling to Sanctuary. Boxes job was to freeze things, so he kept freezing things. Any transport mechanism for what he processed stopped a long time ago as all those people are still there.
@@RandomAmerican3000 Ok that makes sense. I was confused too....
I've always thought that Box was simply used as an explanation for how when Logan and Jessica got out of the Domed city that no previous Runners were already there. Box had caught and frozen them all - Logan being armed was presumably the difference maker. Some sources say he was a `guard' but that doesn't fit his own explanation.
Roscoe Lee Brown,great actor loved his voice!
The engineers that did NOT get into BostonDynamics.
I kept expecting him to say “Vild, Batmon”
Charlton Heston (Detective Thorn): PROTEIN FROM THE SEA IS PEOPLE!
Logan's Run's answer to Soylent Green😆.
The best part of the whole movie! Box needed more screen time lol
Jenny Agutter was the first naked woman I ever saw. I was a little boy in the theater when she took that dress off. I walked out a young man.
There was something in this movie that predicted the internet. It was like a "circuit" that would bring the images of people up on a screen. That's how Logan found the girl. This was well before personal computers but I thought that was quite a good prediction for its time.
Predicted Facebook right there.
It did not have to predict it Logans Run was written in 1967 and that was the year ARPAnet was being developed science fiction writers always have their fingers on the pulse of new discoveries it enables them to write more plausible futures.
My favorite Jenny Agutter scene. It's very brief. But she looks great!
The first Sci-Fi film of the modern era. I saw it at the cinema when I was 10 years old.