So, out of curiosity, I looked up that movie. Sean Connery in a red diaper. Flying disembodied head. The entire membership of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee. No WTF is sufficient to capture the WTF factor of that film. Maybe the only thing that explains it is that it was made in the mid-1970s, when LSD was no longer considered strong enough but bath salts hadn't yet been repurposed for recreational psychosis. Yes... I think an entire production crew in the 1970s might very well have experimented with injecting oven cleaner directly into their scrotums, and Zardoz would certainly be a plausible product of such an experiment.
The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was, but the gun shoots death, and purifies the Earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth ... and kill!
DC Comics had a superhero--Vartox, a "hyper"-powered friend of Superman's--who was modeled after Sean Connery's appearance in Zardoz (even the names are similar): Zardoz: Vartox:
I remember watching it for the bewbies. It was a horrible, horrible mistake, but I was young! I didn't know!
I've seen Zardoz. The use of Beethoven's 7th was the redeeming feature. Poor old Ludwig Van spun in his grave from the attempted Ultraviolence
Your mind is a collection of nightmares no normal person should go anywhere near. Zardoz is just bad. Your taste seems to run bad, fucked up, extremely nasty and bizarre. The more bizarre the better.
I've never seen Zardoz, but I can't imagine it's worse than Casino Royale (1967) or Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Take the worst qualities of those two movies, add the worst qualities of The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle, roll them all into one film, then watch that film dosed on bad LSD. And then you're almost there.
No, Monster A-Go-Go is still the worst movie I've ever seen. At least Highlander 2 gives you something to work with when it comes to riffing.
Eh, I kinda liked it. But...I liked bits and pieces of those two other flicks so... Highlander 2, however, has nothing to recommend it...
Sounds like perfect material for Mike and the bots, uh, Rifftrax. But if there are titties to be found, they'll probably not pursue it.
Interesting. I guess I'm way out of touch because the promotional material describes Vartox as a villain.
I remember he and Superman fought early on, but I thought Vartox was merely misunderstood. Interestingly, Vartox is actually more powerful than Superman. He's got pretty much the same powers as Superman ("hyperpowers"), but also has a number of abilities Superman lacks. I like his ability to throw "remote control" punches, which lets him punch someone from a distance.
