The best thing about being a kid in the 70s was watching late-night TV when you have no TV guide, no previews, and no idea what was going to be on and then something like Zardoz would be on at midnight and you would sit there and say “what the fuck is this? “ and have your mind blown.
I just watched it again after 40 years and I still feel that way. I like to write user reviews on IMDB but I can't even begin until I watch the dvd a few more times.
And also accepting The League of Extraordinary Gentleman. And retired from being an actor because he claim that the project is to hectic. So I guess the man is just to stupid to pick a good movie script.
I love John Boorman. I saw 'Emerald Forest' and wrote him a letter expressing my admiration for it, and he wrote back a personal, hand-written letter thanking me. I was blown away!
One of my favourite cult classics. An existential, psychedelic, futuristic study of the morality of superiority, entitlement and control. With a young(ish) Sean Connery running around in an orange banana-hammock with suspenders & ammo? What's not to love!
A syfy movie wit no space ships , no droids , etc back when you had to actually think !! A movie that says a lot but most cant understand , thank u john Borman this one will be talk about forever !!!
This is the trippiest, most avant garde flik I've seen, and if you like that type of artsy film, then see this one. You won't be disappointed. It's an endless maze of puzzles, riddles, and weird special effects. Very cosmic. I love it. Another of the best ones is Fantastic Planet, all animated full length.
My brother and I used to play a game where you'd fill your mouth to bulging with water, and the other one would play a youtube video for you. The objective was not to laugh, spit, or drown. If you did spit, you did so into the nearby glass. I played this trailer, and he cost me a laptop....
@@johndonaldson3619 Those of us who survived the sixties and seventies as productive citizens can see the bit of truth in that statment. I could go on but I'll stop with that.
Ehhh, more or less. It's different for everyone in the end though. This would def be fun to watch while tripping.....probably better than doing the cliche thing and watching The Doors on acid, which I did the only time I dropped acid....also listened to Dark Side of the Moon, even more cliche.
rushthezeppelin okay but dark side is so fluid it perfectly coalesces with the experience as well as the tension and release is so well crafted. its a masterpeice and was inspired by those experiences which is why it is cliche.
I think that electronic noise showed up in other movies and I always find it annoying. Perhaps it was a stock noise like the spring sound you hear in comedies when something breaks.
I just watched this movie last night. It's every bit as awesomely bizzare as the trailer makes it out to be. Hard to imagine Connery would take on such a role, but after he quit the James Bond franchise, apparently he was pretty hard up for work!
This movie is so amazing... If you don't get it, you're thinking too hard. It's not really that complicated, but you have to remember when it was made. The concept of eternal life was a big thing. This movie is a simple satire that explores the possibilities of the future...
This movie is a must-see for Metal Gear Solid fans, as it stars Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling, who were the actors Kojima based Big Boss and The Boss on.
Have I commented with this already? Probably. But it bears repeating; Zardoz is a legit good movie :( a bizarre, low-budget, over-ambitious good movie.
I saw this film about 3 decades ago in my youth & it blew me away. Mysterious, disturbing & questioning "reality" as we know it. I don't know why it has never been shown on TV since, as it is one of the greatest Si-Fi films of that era. Watch it...if you dare.?
Tacky costume and production design notwithstanding, this movie explored some fascinating and relevant ideas that are rarely addressed. The movie also predicted the advent of the internet search engine.
The first time I saw this film it was with a room full of people who mistook it for a 'so bad it is good' kind of movie. I couldn't follow it due to wisecracks, asides on the wardrobe, and Connery impersonations. It was obviously original, but original how? Original like The Room? So I decided to see it again. The second time I saw it, I loved it so much that I didn't want to watch it again. I wanted to fully forget it to relive the experience of seeing it the first time the second time around. It is that good. It is original like Zardoz.
The plot of the movie for who didn't understood, an advanced human group that become immortal, branched from others humans, living in a protected bubble, and used mercenary groups to control their population. Then after getting bored of immortality, they wanted to die and get free from the mind controlling Tabernacle. So they created a genetic enhanced human called Zed to set them free and be able to die.
Actually a good movie. It is funny the first time because lol hella dated and all the hippies, but it is actually a pretty solid sci-fi story. Arguably prescient.
I feel like Zardoz is one of those movies that was far to weird for it's own time and initial audience. While it's aesthetically a little funky (though still quite pleasant to look at), the plot is disturbingly relevant in the present era.
When the director/writer/producer admits to having been so off his face on drugs during filming that even he isn't sure what parts of the movie were about, the audience has got no chance.
LOL :D I watched it as a child and I remember thinking it was strange, but no stranger than Dune. As an adult, I majored in psychology, have watched a wide variety of films and read a wide variety of books and learnt plenty about anthropology, different cultures, philosophy, politics and the arts, so I bet I would understand it even more if I watch it again.
This goes out to everyone. If you are the type of person that can't look outside of the box or see things clearly that are 2 feet in front of you then this movie is not for you but if you are the type of person who sees that there is more than one way to look at something instead of just taking it in black and white context then this film is for you.
I saw this in the theater when I was 11 or 12, at the Paramount in Seattle. It was in the early 1980s. I came here because facebook asked, "What movie traumatized you in your childhood?" It was this one.
It's comical how many people actually think this is a bad movie, or a "good bad movie" for that matter. Zardoz is straight up the most disturbing and realistic dystopian vision ever conceived by Hollywood. It may be a little funky to look at, but actually think about the plot for a minute and come back to me.
easily one of the trippiest and re-watchable 70s sci fi films- much better than logans run- omega man- etc-! It has a way of drawing you in- it has all the elements of kubrick- ken russell- jodorowsky with a touch of monty python- one of my favs!
Jason Reid I really love conspiracy theories, jewish reptiloids from Nibiru and shit :D Actually, now that I think about it, isn't the entire plot of Interstellar constructed around Saturn and a Hypercube? :D
Personalmente, me mantengo con la idea de que no todas las películas son para todas las personas (como Watchmen, Duna, 2001: Odisea Espacial, etc). A mi me encantó Zardoz, los temas que trata, y el valor que le da a la vida (aunque se admite que es algo tediosa y cansa un poco verla, es genial; no hay duda).
When I was in college, each semester we would go to the video store and rent three or four movies for a movie night. One year my friend picked Zardoz. We pretty much stopped being friends with him after that.
If you can get past some of the cheesy effects that are natural to a Sci-Fi film from the 70's, it becomes quite a masterpiece. There's so much social commentary and existentialism intertwined in this story.
It is a concatenation of the visible elements on a spine of a book, if we are being pedantic. "Is God in Showbusiness too?" favorite movie line of all time...
There's more sci-fi imagination in this trailer than in all six Star Wars movies released to date. If only an Exterminator could have been sent after Jar-Jar!
It's a mixture of Planet of the Apes, HE-MAN, Clockwork Orange and lots of crazy. I just looked for the trailer because I'm a fan of GHOST and I came to check what this movie is all about, how far I know was an inspiration for the formation of the band (more or less this)
Totally, they're the ones that introduced Me to Gurren Lagann, Redline, and tons of other cool stuff. I was actually peripherally aware of Zardoz before, but I had no idea the trailer was so weeeiiird....
