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Zardoz (1974)

post #1 of 9
3/25/09 at 2:42pm
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This thread could be redundant, but a crazy film like this deserves recognition; it is nearly on-par with a Jodorowski flick, except with an unfortunate amount of exposition, which nonetheless doesn't keep the movie from being some sort of classic. Great images, unintentional and intentional humor, thoughtful and stupid ideas clash alike...this film is definitely not boring. The Dark Backward, which I had previously commented on within this forum, looks much poorer after watching Zardoz soon after.

EDIT: Hm, this post was made with haste, and I don't think it deserves the Jodorowski comparison very much, though it does deal with similar themes, if Zardoz had a more abstract narrative I think more would be able to enjoy it...
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post #2 of 9
3/27/09 at 3:25pm
hooker boot forever.

The movie is so stupid it works. The whole life with out death is meaningless is so much BS. Death has meaning, but not in the way most people seem to think. Peter F. Hamilton in Pandora's Star handle what death would mean to such people a lot better then stories like Zardoz. Beside that major stupidity it death has no meaning then life has no meaning BS, got a lot of really net ideals.
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post #3 of 9
3/27/09 at 3:29pm
PS I love the trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbGVIdA3dx0
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post #4 of 9
3/27/09 at 3:40pm
This movie is my ultimate guilty pleasure. I know it's pretty terrible, but I love it nonetheless. It's a failure, but at least it's an interesting failure. Best of all, it is without a doubt the product of a very singular vision, though definitely a deranged one. The comparison to Jodorowsky is an interesting one, though I don't know if I fully agree. I can't really articulate why, other than to say that Jodo's films, weird as they are, tend to work, whereas this one really doesn't (beyond the level of a bizarre curio).
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post #5 of 9
3/27/09 at 5:02pm
Sweet movie. I watched it at a movie marathon with friends. The kid who chose to show it did so based on the comments of a friend who said that Zardoz was crazier than The Holy Mountain. He and everyone else at the marathon quickly realized that this comment was seriously untrue, though it's still a sweet movie.
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post #6 of 9
8/26/10 at 1:46am
Zardoz is good!

Happy 80th birthday Mr. Connery, keep slappin hoes and stickin it to Eternals.
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post #7 of 9
8/26/10 at 2:00am
I watched this for the first time a couple of weeks ago, it's not good, but it entertained me in a "holy shit this movie was actually made" sort of way.

Plus it taught me that the "Penis is evil! The Penis shoots Seeds, and makes new Life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the Gun shoots Death and purifies the Earth of the filth of Brutals. Go forth, and kill! Zardoz has spoken."

I'm going as the Zardoz head for Halloween this year.
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post #8 of 9
8/26/10 at 2:51am
There's not enough words in the world to describe my love of this film.


I can watch that final sequence forever.
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post #9 of 9
8/26/10 at 3:33am
Crazy stupid awesome. Its like John Boorman took a freshman philosophy class to fill a Gen. Ed. requirement, and it blew his mind. Still, this movie more or less made Beethoven's 7th. Fun fact: Tarsem Singh used the same musical piece during the intro to The Fall. So he gets a pass for his atrocious Cell.

I'd like to think that this movie couldn't be made today, but a lot of independent film makers could probably come up with some even crazier shit, run it thru Final Cut Pro, and shop it around to some of the niche labels.
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