Zardoz - Good, Bad, Ugly?

[Coito ergo sum]

I have liked this movie since I was a kid...lol

Guilty pleasure, I guess. It sucks, but it's awesome.

And, if you've never seen it - see it, and then come back. There is no space in the poll for "don't know or didn't see it" because anyone who hasn't at least seen Zardoz is lame.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It's like a tacky "Logan's Run".

[Clinton Huxley]

It's like a tacky "Logan's Run".

I used to love Logans Run. Something about Jenny Agutter's (?) short skirt.

[Bella Fortuna]

It's funny crap.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It's like a tacky "Logan's Run".

I used to love Logans Run. Something about Jenny Agutter's (?) short skirt.

*insert long boring story about Russian rip-off here*

[Coito ergo sum]

Oh, please...say what you want about Zardoz, but it ain't no Logan's Run.

It's a far deeper movie than "gee it would suck if we all had to die when we turned 30 and then we found out - shocker - that the government was lying to us." At least give it that.

[Coito ergo sum]

It's funny crap.

Sorry, but I have to say this because I just noticed your new avatar picture.

You are beautiful. You shoulda bin in pitchas, Baby.

[Coito ergo sum]

O.k., here's the deal with Zardoz: Sean Connery's character is named Zed (the last letter - the end - death). Zed represents the force of nature. In the movie he is among the "Exterminators" who go around the Earth at the behest of their God Zardoz. Zardoz shows up as a big, flying stone head that gives them commands and instructions. The real purpose of Zardoz is to get the Exterminators to kill off the Brutals to keep their population down. It's post-apocolyptic Earth in the 23rd century - some of the intelligentsia managed to survive the apocalypse by getting themselves sealed into a secluded community called the Vortex. The Vortex is protected by a technological device called "The Tabernacle." This contraption has conquered death, and all those in the Vortex are immortal. They need food, though, and the Exterminators bring them grain

When Zed sneaks into the skull one day, he gets inside the Vortex and is.introduced into the society of the consummate aesthete, those artists and intellectuals who have transcended death, finds that his short and brutal life is the cure for democracy so endemic its become bureaucracy, and beauty made so acute it’s become ennui. These scientist/artist/philosophers subsist, like the Gods, off of the labor of the society Zed comes from, creating a class statement. And, the dwellers in the Vortex are insanely bored with life - the men are impotent because there is no thrill in sex and no reason to procreate.

Zed - death - is not something to be feared or resisted - it's part of life. And, without it, life becomes worse than death.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

You missed the trip to the library and the origin of Zardoz' name...

Not a bad film but it hasn't aged well.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Oh, please...say what you want about Zardoz, but it ain't no Logan's Run.

It's a far deeper movie than "gee it would suck if we all had to die when we turned 30 and then we found out - shocker - that the government was lying to us." At least give it that.

Why?

[Animavore]

I saw it for the first time last year and thought it was awesome.

[Seabass]

Zardoz is good and awsome.

[klr]

Zardoz is ... weird

[Animavore]

Yer man that played Zardoz was Henry Sellers in Father Ted.

[Coito ergo sum]

You missed the trip to the library and the origin of Zardoz' name...

Not a bad film but it hasn't aged well.

The Wizard of Oz reference is not only obvious, but made explicit in the movie.