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kleinbl00  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Movie Club - Voting Thread #5

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.





zebra2  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've always wanted to see Outland. I'd vote for that.

2001 is great of course, but I think we've all seen it at least once.

havires  ·  3437 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The book was a great read. Slow but really good. Just like the movie.

camarillobrillo  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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

kleinbl00  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

DUDE I OWN TWO COPIES OF ZARDOZ

Shit, I sampled Zardoz in some music back in the '90s. We need to watch muthafuckin' Zardoz, just not this time.

Meriadoc  ·  3439 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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.

kleinbl00  ·  3439 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It is basically Sean Connery's "Less than Zero."

Complexity  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ask me about Zardoz when I'm out. Tales.

kleinbl00  ·  3318 days ago  ·  link  ·  

TELL ME TALES OF ZARDOZ

ButterflyEffect  ·  3317 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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?

kleinbl00  ·  3317 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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.

kleinbl00  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Badass.

nowaypablo  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

i also vote for this.

(Or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy if we haven't done that).

kleinbl00  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The BBC series beats the shit out of the movie.

nowaypablo  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's a (mildly) bold statement. I guess I gotta see it now.

kleinbl00  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Naah, dawg, the movie was a pigfuck. Never should have happened. American Sensibilities and all that.

nowaypablo  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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.

kleinbl00  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've got clothes older than you, son. It's entirely possible that I've been "talking like you" since before you were born. ;-)

nowaypablo  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haha, gotchu bruh.

user-inactivated  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Actually I think it's as close to objectively true as anything I can think of.