Zardoz
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Movie Reviews of Zardoz
Movie Review: Toto, I don't think we're in ZARDOZ anymore!
Summary: 5 Stars
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Working on maybe two hours of sleep over the past forty-eight hours, I caught this film at 6am on the Sci-fi channel back in 1996. I think I was in the right frame of mind because the film made a peverse sense to me that has been lost in subsequent viewings when I've been in a more rational state.Zardoz, released in the late 70's, is a coda for that great period of cinema sci-fi as pure social commentary, from Planet of the Apes in the late 60's and including Silent Running, Soylient Green, and Logan's Run. That being said, I don't mean that Zardoz is necessarily successful in getting its point across. What I really mean is that, much like Connery's trip in the big Zardoz head early on, the fun here is in the ride.
Filled with wonderful Boorman visuals, outlandish dialogue delivered in a pricelessly comedic monotone, and with concepts and themes present enough for the serious film student to chew on, Zardoz is a worthwhile purchase for any cult film enthusiast.
Movie Review: Oh my heavens no...
Summary: 5 Stars
Truly one of the great cinematic trainwrecks of the modern era, ZARDOZ is among the most re-watchable movies ever made. John Boorman, one of Britain's young turk filmmakers, picks up the tools of his trade to craft a heartfelt paean to the ideals of the era -- make love, not war is a fair summation -- and with surgical precision avoids and eliminates anything that could remotely be called a good idea. Sean Connery in a ponytail? Check. Sean Connery in a loincloth, and not just any loincloth but a bright red loincloth? Check. Use of the word "penis" within the first three minutes? Check. Animated school-filmstrip-style sex-ed digressions? Check. Group love-ins with jazz hands? Check. Tacked-on intro featuring inexplicable floating head spouting pretentious nonsense? Check... It's the kind of epic, drug-induced catastrophe that only a gifted filmmaker capable of "Point Blank" and "Deliverance" could construct. And if you get through it once, you will be back, it's just that... Zardozian.Movie Review: Sean Connory breaking out of the chains of Bond, a classic movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is one of the Genre of the post apocalytic, overlycontrolled society, but a different twist than many of the others. Based as a world of outlanders and the society, Zardoz plays more on the class differences and higher society comming together to "set the standards" and control or crush everything else. Connery plays a "brutal" from outside the Vortex, which is a society set up by elite in which science and itellectuals combined to explore the human potential and eventually gain inmortality. These intellectuals prey on the outsiders to gain supplies by using "zardoz", a flying large head. Connery stoes away in this flying head and enters the Compound, where he is studied, but eventually he aids in the fall of this Utopia. Definitely something different than the "big brother is watching" films of sci-fi, this film was different,and that is what makes it a definite pick for anybody who like the sci-fi genre, must see, even better to own now that its on DVD.Movie Review: Before the Peeper Tom Poston was Prof. John Jones
Summary: 5 Stars
You may remember Tom Poston as the Peeper in "The Bob Newhart Show". Well ten years earlier he was Prof. John Jones.
Prof. Jones discovers an ancient coin in his back yard. There is an inscription on it, which gives the person who recites it the power to zap things and people. From here we have the standard clichés. He tries to tell the government. Naturally they do not believe him. The bad guys are smarter and want it. So he gets into all kinds of situations. Who shall prevail?
With both Tom Poston and Jim Backus (Horatio Kellgore) what could be a passing movie will keep you laughing.
At the film's original run they handed out plastic "Zotz" coins as souvenirs.
Be sure to read the novel by Walter Karig ASIN: B00005Y0HR also as it has more depth.
Crossworlds
Movie Review: - Will Appeal to a Few Who Will Love It . .
Summary: 5 Stars
The first time I saw Zardoz I found it quite baffling but it kept my attention the same way a jigsaw puzzle does - - - I was puzzled and perplexed and was trying to put all the pieces together. When it all came together at the end I had the same sense of satisfaction as you get when you finish an Agatha Christie mystery novel. Science fiction plus social fantasy plus murder mystery - these three types of fiction are unlikely to appeal to a large number of people simultaneously.
On the other hand the culture shock and bizarre future setting also kept me intrigued the same way the 'clongs'(canals and waterways) of Bangkok both fascinated and repulsed me when I visited it as a 13 year old tourist tagging along with my family. I suspect if we really could see 300 years into our future what we would see what strike us as equally incomprehensible and frightening. This is definitely not for everyone.