Sean Connery in Zardoz. [link]
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Could somebody please shoot me now? Kthx.
Up until the punching, it was a real nice party.
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Betsy HP - May 16, 2005 8:48:33 am PDT #2779 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Dana - May 16, 2005 8:49:29 am PDT #2780 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Why did I click? Why?
beekaytee - May 16, 2005 8:51:02 am PDT #2781 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
Zardoz
The single most excrutiating movie experience of my ever-lovin' life.
Bar. None.
tommyrot - May 16, 2005 8:58:09 am PDT #2782 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
From IMDB:
In the distant future Earth is divided into two camps, the barely civilized group and the overly civilized one with mental powers. A plague is attacking the second group after which it's members cease to have any interest in life and become nearly catatonic. When Sean Connery one of the barbarians, crosses over, the tenuous balance in their world is threatened.
Brutals are told that when they die they will go to the vortex, where the Eternals live immortally. Zed, an Exterminator-class brutal who worships the stone head Zardoz, comes upon an old library where a mysterious stranger teaches him how to read. When he finds a copy of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he sets out to learn the secret of the god he worships, and disrupts life in the vortex.
C'mon - how could this possibly be bad?
§ ita § - May 16, 2005 8:59:22 am PDT #2783 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
how could this possibly be bad?
Did you click on the link, man?
tommyrot - May 16, 2005 9:00:27 am PDT #2784 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Did you click on the link, man?
Yeah, but I got light-headed for a bit and forgot what the link was.
§ ita § - May 16, 2005 9:01:05 am PDT #2785 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
All that is bad in this world may very well spring from that crotch.
beekaytee - May 16, 2005 9:02:37 am PDT #2786 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
Staggeringly bad dialogue and endless acid-trip visuals that evoke more of the pukey feeling than the 'preeehty colors' aspect of tripping.
Coherent story? Nah.
Betsy HP - May 16, 2005 9:02:47 am PDT #2787 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
In the future, men will wear diapers with suspenders.
For some reason, all the women will be gay.
Jessica - May 16, 2005 9:06:20 am PDT #2788 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I can't believe Beej and I are the only ones who've seen Zardoz. It's a classic! If I were writing a book about great bad movies, "From The Apple to Zardoz" would be its tagline!
The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons 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!