2001: A Space Odyssey because it's the high water mark of realistic space sci fi. Outland because it's close - and it's Sean Connery playing Gary Cooper in High Noon on a moon of Ganymede. Eolomea because I never got around to watching it and I really should.
Another vote for Odyssey. It's ripe for discussion. I've seen it twenty times and I'm still not sure about anything. This was my first thought when you mentioned Connery in space
Zardoz is one of my absolute favorite movies. I'm not shitting anyone here. It had SO many flaws, but I saw what they wanted, I understood what they meant, and the whole thing was so over the top and original it was just great. It exists as a film exactly where it was meant to exist and stays there perfectly.
I watched most of that movie for the first time on Monday and just...couldn't. I get what they were going for, it had the potential to be a great movie, but there was just too many things for me to look past all the flaws and like it and my roommates didn't like it much either so what I'm asking is: why do y'all like it? Am I missing some sort of context surrounding the movie or subtext within it?
I have no idea how Zardoz could ever be a great movie. It veers much too readily and willingly into psychotronic territory and is chockablock with lines that are nearly impossible to say with a straight face. That is the greatness of Zardoz: it's so fuckin' weird that you're not sure how it happened. I mean, John Boorman did The Emerald Forest and Beyond Rangoon. Sean Connery went on to be, like, Sean Connery. Charlotte Rampling is a queen of merchant ivory and John Alderton had done a massive run on Upstairs Downstairs so successful that he got himself a spinoff. Yet there it is. The gun is good, the penis is evil. Zardoz has spoken.
i also vote for this. (Or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy if we haven't done that).
That's a (mildly) bold statement. I guess I gotta see it now.
Naah, dawg, the movie was a pigfuck. Never should have happened. American Sensibilities and all that.
a) I still laughed sometimes. i also recall seeing it more than once when I was very little, so it has a special, albeit cloudy and vague, place in my heart. b) are you trying to talk like me when you reply to me? If so, you've been pretty spot-on with the white kid vibe, i.e. rap slang with a one-decade delay.