Logan's Run, re-make, anyone? by chrisisall

NO! The tv series was enough (which I admit to watching, but I don't remember much of it) And who can really replace Micheal York's Logan? He WAS Logan. But that hasn't stopped Hollywood from milking something when there's no need (Charlies Angels, Starsky and Hutch [HATED THAT PIECE OF GO SE] Dukes of Hazzard [wtf?])

Bottm line, Hollywood has decided there are no reason's for fresh new INTELLEGENT ideas so go into the vaults, take out movies that were classics and screw around with the formulae because today's kids aren't possibly smart enough to understand the brilliance of the original.

Snarky of me, but it seems the Hollywood suits are well past their Renewal. They're crystals are red, send them to Carosal.

If I'm a bitch, then life just got interesting

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Sunday, June 25, 2006 2:11 PM

Better yet, let Box have 'em

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Fish, plankton and proteins from the sea Chrisisall

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Sunday, June 25, 2006 2:12 PM

ZISKER

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Sunday, June 25, 2006 2:17 PM

Runner.... Where are you going runner?

A reason to shoot a suit....

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Sunday, June 25, 2006 2:20 PM

I've never heard of a Sandman running, ever!

Had a crush on Jessica when I was a kid Chrisisall

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Sunday, June 25, 2006 2:23 PM

I hear Michael Bay wants to remake Serenity, change Mal to a female, and star Tera Patrick...

Stupid remakes Chrisisall

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Sunday, June 25, 2006 3:19 PM

Your damaging my calm Chris. Please do run, I'm looking for game.

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Sunday, June 25, 2006 3:28 PM

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Originally posted by Misstressahara:
Your damaging my calm Chris. Please do run, I'm looking for game.

I didn't say I was going to run....

*Clutches his ankh* Chrisisall

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Sunday, June 25, 2006 3:40 PM

Those looking for Sanctuary most often do.

RUNNER!

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Sunday, June 25, 2006 4:17 PM

I'm a cub, I never go upstairs...You're a nice old lady.

Green Chrisisall

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Sunday, June 25, 2006 5:00 PM

WILDBILL

I've always had a soft spot for "Logan's Run". After the movie I read the book and it's sequel "Logan's World" (the first voluntary reading of my life).
Making a movie closer to as originally written would, of course, please most science fiction fans and have little mass appeal. Even the morons running movie studios understand this so it'll never happen.

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Monday, June 26, 2006 4:04 AM

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Originally posted by wildbill:
I've always had a soft spot for "Logan's Run". After the movie I read the book and it's sequel "Logan's World" (the first voluntary reading of my life).

Did you like the book better?
And did you read that not-so-good "Logan's Search"?
(If not, don't bother...)

Stuck in Cathedral Chrisisall

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Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:04 PM

FRANCO

Why not remake it? people watch films multiple times and read books over and over.

I have seen remakes that were good and some that were lousy. It's no big deal to me, if I think it will be bad, I don't watch it.

Certainly the first Logan's Run could not be rated so high that a remake would be an insult to the original

The only possible objection I can imagine is the resources spent remaking a film that could have been spent on making Hyperion or even Ender's Game

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Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:17 PM

Oh lord NO! Logans Run was one of the films of my time, like Serenity is for a lot of people here. I'm not saying it's up to parr... well actually it's one of the few that are, but then Logans Run was made when movies actually used intellect over effect. If they remake it you know it'll all be about the flash and bang, that's why Serenity stands out among the go se out there.

Logans Run was character based, CHRACTER! The suits have forgotten how to put character and sci fi together. Either it's epic or cheesy, but never moving or profound. LR had a message that would be lost these days. If they follow the book or original movie then maybe yes, it will be good but as someone once said "I have a bad feeling about this."

Looking for Sanctuary and finding peace isall.

If I'm a bitch, then life just got interesting

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Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:49 PM

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Originally posted by Misstressahara:
Oh lord NO! Logans Run was one of the films of my time, like Serenity is for a lot of people here.

I was 16 when I saw it in the theatre, a full year before that next decent sci-fi flick, what was it...ummm, oh- Star Wars.
I still love Logan's Run. The characters made it work- their ambivilance...

Find Sanctuary and destroy Chrisisall

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Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:09 PM

MSG

you'd think with all those screen writers all over hollywod that one of them might be able to write something original. I can literally feel their IQ's dropping:)

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Saturday, July 1, 2006 8:57 AM

J6NGO1977

Hollywood have run out of ideas so they just keep pouring out sub standard re-makes. Logans Run is a classic (mmmmm Jenny Agutta naked) you cannot remake it. I recently seen the re-make of The Fog and it was diabolical. The only re-make I have liked over recent years is Dawn of the Dead because that was totally re-invented. OK it isn't as good as Romero's classic but I think it's not bad.

It'll be interesting to see the re-make of Logans Run but I don't hold any hopes for it being any good.

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Saturday, July 1, 2006 9:07 AM

CITIZEN

If done well it could be good, it's a film that could pose serious questions and social commentary if it didn't hit Camembert on the cheese scale.

But having said that nearly all remakes are a just crap released to cash in on a name because hollywood has run out of ideas.

But Chris, before you go bad mouthing remakes of 70's cheese I have two words for you:
Battlestar Gallactica

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Saturday, July 1, 2006 9:31 AM

I reckon a remake of Logan's Run is called for. Been quite a spell since the original.

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Saturday, July 1, 2006 9:47 AM

A remake of Space 1999 would be interesting, and it should be called Space 1999. I think that if they pulled it off, it could be a hit. They brought back that battlestar galactica and it worked.

Logan's Run was an excellent flick for its time and making a new one would prove to be very interesting with all the modern special effects. My only concerns with remakes are this: Planet of the Apes. Planet of the Apes especially the 1st and 2nd one were great. Did you see what Hollywood did to the remake of the original? Special effects were good, but the movie itself really was bad.

I dislike when they do a remake of a movie or a television show and turn what was once a serious movie into a comedy. I-Spy comes to mind. I-Spy was a pretty serious TV series, but the movie they made out of it years later was a comedy. Same goes for The Wild, Wild, West, good series but they really messed it up with the movie.

I also know that eventually they are going to get around to this and really blow it…The Six Million Dollar Man, and the Bionic Woman. I know that somewhere down the road they are gonna take both of these classics, and turn them into a comedy when both shows were trying to be serious. This will kill me, but maybe I’m wrong; I hope I am.

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Saturday, July 1, 2006 11:01 AM

BSCPANTHERFAN

All of this talk of remakes makes me want to remind everyone---

FRUITY OATIE BARS ARE PEOPLE! THEY'RE PEEEEOPLE!

Sorry. It's the hollywood purse strings that are playing to the lowest common denominator. The writer's can write whatever they want, good or bad, but if they can't convince a studio to back it, it won't ever get made.

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He's my husband.
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Saturday, July 1, 2006 1:37 PM

J6NGO1977

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Originally posted by ShadowFLY:
A remake of Space 1999 would be interesting, and it should be called Space 1999. I think that if they pulled it off, it could be a hit. They brought back that battlestar galactica and it worked.

Logan's Run was an excellent flick for its time and making a new one would prove to be very interesting with all the modern special effects. My only concerns with remakes are this: Planet of the Apes. Planet of the Apes especially the 1st and 2nd one were great. Did you see what Hollywood did to the remake of the original? Special effects were good, but the movie itself really was bad.

I dislike when they do a remake of a movie or a television show and turn what was once a serious movie into a comedy. I-Spy comes to mind. I-Spy was a pretty serious TV series, but the movie they made out of it years later was a comedy. Same goes for The Wild, Wild, West, good series but they really messed it up with the movie.

I also know that eventually they are going to get around to this and really blow it…The Six Million Dollar Man, and the Bionic Woman. I know that somewhere down the road they are gonna take both of these classics, and turn them into a comedy when both shows were trying to be serious. This will kill me, but maybe I’m wrong; I hope I am.

Ooooh what. Lindsay Wagner I was so in love with her :)I seen an interview with her recently and she still looks beautiful :) Cheesy series but I loved Jamie somies :)

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Saturday, July 1, 2006 2:20 PM

CALHOUN

I dont believe i've seen (or heard) of an original Logans Run movie.. I have the complete TV series on DVD. Did the movie have the same cast as the series? How did it compare to the series?

and as for Jessica.. how can any young lad not have had a crush on her.. how short was her skirt?

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Saturday, July 1, 2006 2:24 PM

CALHOUN

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ShadowFLY wrote:
Saturday, July 01, 2006 09:47

I also know that eventually they are going to get around to this and really blow it…The Six Million Dollar Man, and the Bionic Woman.

They couldnt call it "The Six Million Dollar Man" anymore.. six mill doesnt buy much these days. Maybe the Six Billion Dollar Man.

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Saturday, July 1, 2006 4:08 PM

WILDBILL

Did I like the book better than the movie?

That's a tough call as the movie was good-but-not-great and differed from the good-but-not-great book considerable. I'd like to sound all intellectual but I'll have to say I like the movie better. (I've been considering reading the third book but the reviews are almost all bad.)

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Saturday, July 1, 2006 4:09 PM

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Originally posted by ShadowFLY:
A remake of Space 1999 would be interesting, and it should be called Space 1999. I think that if they pulled it off, it could be a hit. They brought back that battlestar galactica and it worked.

Logan's Run was an excellent flick for its time and making a new one would prove to be very interesting with all the modern special effects. My only concerns with remakes are this: Planet of the Apes. Planet of the Apes especially the 1st and 2nd one were great. Did you see what Hollywood did to the remake of the original? Special effects were good, but the movie itself really was bad.

I dislike when they do a remake of a movie or a television show and turn what was once a serious movie into a comedy. I-Spy comes to mind. I-Spy was a pretty serious TV series, but the movie they made out of it years later was a comedy. Same goes for The Wild, Wild, West, good series but they really messed it up with the movie.

I also know that eventually they are going to get around to this and really blow it…The Six Million Dollar Man, and the Bionic Woman. I know that somewhere down the road they are gonna take both of these classics, and turn them into a comedy when both shows were trying to be serious. This will kill me, but maybe I’m wrong; I hope I am.

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Oh Shadow, your making me cry thinking about it because you know they will. Like I said they're going farther and farther back into the vault looking to remake things because they've run out of stories, ideas, brain cells. Who could forget watching these classics and the adventures they went through, not to mention the agony Steve Austin went through when he had to let go of his love after her accident? Getting teary eyed at the memories, I was a kid and even I got it.

Starsky and Hutch was never a comedy, hell it was one of the groundbreaking shows of that generation. Real cops solving real social issues and the most powerful episode was when Hutch was captured by drug dealers given a lethal overdose and left in a sleazy apt for dead. Starsky panic stricken trying to find him then having to sit with Hutch as he went through the terrible withdrawel pains (this was way before there was a thing called re-hab). I cried in heartbreak having to watch my favorite character (I was going to marry him you see) go through such hell.

And what do they do with it? They make it a FREAKiN COMEDY! And with 2 of my least favorite actors WTF! I was angry beyond belief and have vowed NEVER to watch that piece of motherless (insert worst chinese expletive) crap. Why the two original actors did a cameo I'll never know (but most likely for the money) but I would want nothing to do with it. Take my memories and piss on them. SHAME on you Phoneywood.

Btw, who here can pinpoint the year Phoneywood started to go downhill?

Issues? Maybe a little.

Please, please leave the Bionic woman and her counterpart alone.

If I'm a bitch, then life just got interesting

Wasn't there a really bad remake of The Mod Squad?

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Saturday, July 1, 2006 4:55 PM

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Originally posted by BSCPantherfan:
All of this talk of remakes makes me want to remind everyone---

FRUITY OATIE BARS ARE PEOPLE! THEY'RE PEEEEOPLE!

Bwahahahahahahah!!!!!

Ahhh...BWAhahahahahahChrisisall

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Saturday, July 1, 2006 4:57 PM

I want to see a remake of UFO- remember that seventies classic show??

Chrisisall Straker

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Saturday, July 1, 2006 5:01 PM

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Originally posted by citizen:

But Chris, before you go bad mouthing remakes of 70's cheese I have two words for you:
Battlestar Gallactica

Fair enough to say.
But what about that fine series your country deemed fit to share with the world- UFO?
THAT was a show!
Ed Straker- THE MAN!
I cried my eyes out when his kid got hit by that car! What a tortured dude!
And those moonbase chicks w/the purple hair! Zowie!

If anything needs a remake, THAT'S IT!!!

Chrisisall, an alien UFO pilot

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 2:29 AM

J6NGO1977

I agree Chris UFO is awesome. The theme tune is fantastic :) Also women with purple wigs and tight fitting catsuits do it for me everytime :)

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 2:36 AM

UFO was british? Didn't much get into it, but I do remember the opening to the show with that silver car, the tacky british action music, and some fellow with white hair. Also the caption that flashed 1970 across the television screen. That show was out about the same time as The Prisoner, which I watched instead.

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 2:44 AM

A movie that came out in the mid 80s called Brainstorm. Anyone heard of it? A remake is in order.

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 2:49 AM

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea! I'd like to see them remake that series. I luved the Seaview and that spiffy flying sub.

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 4:30 AM

BSCPANTHERFAN

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by BSCPantherfan:
All of this talk of remakes makes me want to remind everyone---

FRUITY OATIE BARS ARE PEOPLE! THEY'RE PEEEEOPLE!

Bwahahahahahahah!!!!!

Ahhh...BWAhahahahahahChrisisall

I have a t-shirt that has the recycle symbol on it with the saying "property of Soylent Green Biscuit Company" on it. I call it my "old nerd detector", because almost no one who wasn't alive during the 60's knows the reference. I think I will wear it Monday night during our shindig in Anniston, AL.

So who is he?
He's my husband.
Well who in the damn galaxy ain't!

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 3:08 PM

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Originally posted by RiveR6213:
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea! I'd like to see them remake that series. I luved the Seaview and that spiffy flying sub.

They did.
It was called Seaquest DSV

Big monsters an' all Chrisisall

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 3:15 PM

Really? Was it just a name change, but they had the same characters, or was it just another undersea adventure story? Did they have a cool submarine called Seaview and a flying sub?

What I'm asking is Was this SeaQuest a REAL remake of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea? If so, how come I never heard of it?

River

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 3:21 PM

EXODUS

A Logan's Run remake? I have heard bits and pieces about the original movie but a remake has me interested. I might go to Future Shop sometime this week and pick up a copy of the DVD. At last check, they're $7 each.

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 3:25 PM

It's a really good film even though it was made in the 70s. I loved Sci-fi as a young girl and this movie sucks you in. Anyone here remember Starlog magazine? I have a lot of old issues dating back to the 70s.

River

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 3:33 PM

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Originally posted by RiveR6213:

What I'm asking is Was this SeaQuest a REAL remake of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea? If so, how come I never heard of it?

No, just a reasonable facsimile. No connection to Irwin Allen.
No flying sub

, but a pretty cool show (1st season anyway, 2nd got all with the aliens and monsters and such).
I got it on DVD, and it thrills the seven year old in me!
And it stars Roy Scheider, always a plus when at sea...dum dum dum dum...

We need a bigger boat Chrisisall

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 3:41 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by RiveR6213:

What I'm asking is Was this SeaQuest a REAL remake of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea? If so, how come I never heard of it?

No, just a reasonable facsimile. No connection to Irwin Allen.
No flying sub, but a pretty cool show (1st season anyway, 2nd got all with the aliens and monsters and such).
I got it on DVD, and it thrills the seven year old in me!
And it stars Roy Scheider, always a plus when at sea...dum dum dum dum...

We need a bigger boat Chrisisall

Welll its not a re-make then, but I'll check it out.
When I was young I had such a crush on Roy Scheider. I loved him in JAWS and BlueThunder.

River

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 3:45 PM