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