Spyke
lemmy.world

Zardoz was shown for a movie night at my college. It was somehow a factor in a friend of mine getting laid, but I don't remember how that worked.

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I saw it again recently, 10 years older than I was the first time I saw it.

I really came away from it feeling like it was a solid film this time.

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Holy shit, written, produced and directed by Charley Boorman's dad.

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I had seen it on TV back in the seventies. Then much later I bought the DVD and I was blown away by the amount of boobs on display. Damn prudes cut out all the good scenes.

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I've never seen or even heard of it, but that logo/font used for the movie name is awesome!

(if there's a proper name for it, please enlighten me)

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I wrote an essay about this movie that made my professor want to watch it. I wonder if she ever did ...

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dandelionreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

It's not a good film, but it's wacky in a 70s hippie-exploitation kind of way. If you start it, you'll get a sense pretty quickly of whether you have the patience or not.

EDIT: my essay was a response to film critics at the time and a re-evaluation of the film from a contemporary context; I didn't defend the film as much as I defended the lofty themes of the film, esp. as I feel we have become more cynical and pessimistic, and the idealism of the film (and of the film's cultural moment, more broadly) was maybe not as much of a bad thing as critics felt it was at the time. Though I did write this essay many years ago, so it's a fuzzy memory at this point.

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Okay, but the AR computer screens near the beginning with the evolved future-text readout? From fucking 1974?

There was someone on that vfx team took Zardoz to a pinnacle of science fiction among the many b-movie valleys of that wild ride.

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You reached the end