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kleinbl00  ·  3618 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Movie Club - Voting Thread #5

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.