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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Preacher@lemmy.world to c/bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world
 

Love this crazy movie!

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[–] Preacher@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that really a movie still?

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

Yes, and it's magnificent.

[–] anytimesoon@feddit.uk 14 points 2 months ago

I just watched this movie based only on this still. No regrets

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 32 points 2 months ago

He came dressed in red speedos and knee high boots?

[–] Metostopholes@midwest.social 16 points 2 months ago

She wanted to find out if the penis was really evil.

[–] Preacher@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago
[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Preacher@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Charlotte Rampling had me under a spell with her eyes, which had a weird otherworldly look.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

And to think just 2 years prior he made Deliverance.

[–] ieure@retro.social 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@Preacher An absolute classic. I actually think it's pretty good, in its own weird way.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s so horribly awesome.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

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)

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] figjam@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So, its worth a watch then?

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] figjam@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wacky with lots of boobs does feel right up my alley

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

boobs are indeed great 😆

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Gun good.

Penis bad.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

Doze pants doe.

[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

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.