Monday, April 23, 2007

"Fish, and plankton, and sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here. Ready! Fresh as harvest day!"

One thing that always bothered me about Logan's Run is the fact that they made such a big damn deal 'bout putting a robot dude (named Box) in the movie that looked cool and sounded cool and, then, they let him go down like a chump after getting shot once by Michael York's green gas Sandman gun! He was, definitely, an unexplored character that warranted more of the limelight than he got (even though most guys were probably more concerned with Jenny Agutter's nudeness in the freezer). I think that Box should be given his own series. Maybe a sitcom where he becomes the headmaster of a bunch of lovable but irascible young scamps who can warm our hearts as Box cools their evil passions. Either that, or a kind of bloodbath machine gun foo sci-fi shoot'em-up that takes the violence of Where Eagles Dare and combines it with the cross-dressing high jinx of Some Like It Hot, all set in a world run by Box and his legion of monkey-brained robot squid soldiers! Now that's the kinda movie that needs to be made and the kinda movie that I'd pay to see!

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