Doubt your word about what exactly? You've given me, for the most part, nothing but your opinion. Why would I doubt that you mean what you say, however misguided I believe it to be? You like a horrible movie. That's your right.Expo67 said:
As to the Michael York interview: Nothing he can ever say would sway my opinion that he turned in a terrible performance in a terrible film. He and Agutter alternated between wooden and melodramatic. Farrah and the rest of the minor characters were uniformly horrible as well, and the only decent performances in the whole were by Ustinov and Jordan, with an honorable mention to Browne, who turned in a decent performance despite being hampered by that awful robot costume.
The comparisons are many. Both are silly looking, look haphazardly thrown together, and the end results are not at all convincing. Both are so obviously guys in bad suits that suspending one's disbelief is nearly impossible. Just as you can see the flesh and blood wrists of the actor in the roboape costume, you can repeatedly see Browne's real mouth through gaps in the robot's mask. Both are horrible design, which have been poorly executed.
It might interest you to know that being trained for the stage often doesn't automatically mean that one can act worth a damn on the screen. Ustinov had been around long enough to know how to reign in his performance for the screen. York and Agutter, not so much. They both turned in performances that might have passed muster in a classical stage melodrama, but were totally unsuited to the far more subtle visual medium of film.
No. They didn't. And, they weren't given much to work with, but that doesn't excuse the fact that their performances weren't at all good.
WHAT THE CRITICS HAD/HAVE TO SAY ABOUT LOGAN'S RUN
"delivers a certain amount of fun." - Roger Ebert
"the worst major motion picture in seven years of reviewing films." - Gene Siskel
"Had more attention been paid to the screenplay, the movie might have been a stunner." - New York Times
"Logan's Run is the case of a good story being let down by every element of the film. The acting is sub-par, I've already commented on the costumes, and the special effects are beyond lame. We’re only a year away from the premiere of Star Wars, so you can’t tell me there wasn’t better gadgetry in place. There's a good movie here, but this isn't it" - Bad Movie Knights
"The decade before Star Wars was in some ways a golden age of science fiction movies. It produced a diverse crop of interesting and thoughtful movies in the genre... Unfortunately that decade also produced turkeys like Logan's Run. It’s not that Logan's Run isn’t fun. Much of it has a genuine so-bad-it’s-good quality to it" - Cult Movie Reviews
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