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Beyond 1984, Beyond 2001, Beyond Love, Beyond Death.
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Zardoz
1974 Directed by John Boorman
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みらいわくせいざるどす, Ultramann, זארדוז, 未来惑星ザルドス, 자도즈, Зардоз, Taş Tanrı Zardoz, 萨杜斯
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Monsters, aliens, sci-fi and the apocalypse Humanity and the world around us earth, sci-fi, space, spaceship or mankind future, sci-fi, technology, action or technological sci-fi, aliens, space, spaceship or earth death, profound, symbolism, philosophical or vision journey, scientific, documentary, humanity or earth Show All…
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Actual IMs sent while watching this movie:
7:35 PM omg what is this?! his beard is drawn on with a PEN
7:36 PM do I need to be high to understand this??
7:37 PM sean connery has a BRAID
7:54 PM why is sean connery wearing red nappies?
8:09 PM i love how in the future noone wears a bra
8:12 PM and now Charlotte Rampling is giving a lecture on what causes erections
8:18 PM the vortex men are pretty girly. they all have perms and wear scoop necked tops
8:25 PM OH! old people zombie attack omg
8:33 PM THE WIZARD OF OZ?! WTF I CAN'T EVEN.
8:34 PM THIS MOVIE IS AMAZEBALLS
8:40 PM sean totally just… -
If I had a time machine and could go anywhere into the past, I’d travel to the meeting where John Boorman explained to Sean Connery his wardrobe in Zardoz.
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Hoop-Tober 2.0, Film 13 of 31:
A deeply misunderstood, dreamlike, surrealist satire on religious, dystopian, and destruction-of-society/structure-within-society/inception-of-society themes with transfixing, almost-Herzogian cinematography and an astounding, impressionistic production design; it's time for everyone to buck up and admit that Zardoz is indeed a very good film, possibly even one of Boorman's finest.
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Zardoz is one of the greatest films ever, and it has a 3.0 on this site. Even some of the praise it receives seems tinged with a hint of irony. Well, you'll find nothing but sincerity here. None of your big budget sci-fi epics could ever feel half as alien as a single minute of Zardoz. Generally, people have a narrow view of what "good movies" look like, and this style of straight faced absurdity doesn't match. You don't have to love what Zardoz is doing, but I'm puzzled by the suggestions that it is incompetent. I'd argue this film executes what it's going for flawlessly.
I turned this on expecting fun cheesy sci-fi nonsense, but despite weird aesthetics, the…
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The squirrels outside my door demand acorns for their tea and crumpets in order for them to instigate their upcoming revolutionary approach on quantum physics. I tried to find them but the phone spoke to me, so I had to lubricate the ironing board with butter, or margarine, whichever the dandelions prefer. Speaking of kettle drums, how is a magpie not a pebble? Do they not both gyrate within the vortex that is the limbo of your libido? In other words, a salami will never, ever be considered a car unless the dictionaries suffer from generic memory loss, which will never happen on account of the beavers. I do have problems deciphering the different axioms of Cheddar that are currently…
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I’m not saying masculinity peaked when Sean Connery wore crimson diapers and rode a giant flying stone head that dispensed weaponry and ammunition by the truckload, it just got a hell lotta weirder.
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"You have been raised up from Brutality, to kill the Brutals who multiply, and are legion. To this end, Zardoz your God gave you the gift of the Gun. The Gun is good!"
"The Gun is good!"
"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."Men of the world, I suggest: if you don't attempt to wear Sean Connery's costume at some point in your lifetime, then you're just not even trying to live.
That outfit isn't a dealbreaker; it's a dealMAKER.
"You must give the truth if you wish to receive it."
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Sean Connery hijacking a flying stone head, Sean Connery running around the set of The Prisoner in red diapers, Sean Connery winning the crystal, but best of all, Sean Connery receiving a round of applause for shrugging at a pair of naked breasts and getting sexually aroused by Charlotte Rampling playing minimal techno at him.
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"Oh isn't that the movie where Sean Connery runs around in a red diaper?" Yes, it's the movie where Sean Connery is a barbarian who worships a giant stone head that disgorges guns and encourages him and his friends to kill until one day he sneaks onboard and is captured by an enclave of psychic, asexual immortals who are plagued by the twin problems of malaise and rebellion against their stagnant society, and it turns out that one of them genetically engineered Sean Connery and taught him how to read in order to get him to bring them the one thing they couldn't achieve — death.
Zardoz is a sweeping epic, a truly alien movie that knows how to have…
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"You can't equate their feelings with ours."
All control is the same power with different faces. Some shit never changes.
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