r/movies • u/vexerplusone • 1d ago

Discussion Any thoughts on Zardoz?

I saw this movie when I was in a vacation when me and my brother stayed up and we were 10 and 12. It’s super bizarro with ultra violence, and lots of nudity, and Sean Connery flying around in a stone triangle. So much to unpack it ha to be one of the strangest big celebrity movies I have ever seen.

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u/ZorroMeansFox r/Movies Veteran 1d ago

It was John "Deliverance" Boorman's personal passion project; and I think it's a genius failure with one of the most original central ideas ever for a Science Fiction film.

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u/RepFilms 1d ago

I thought it was Connorey's passion project

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u/ZorroMeansFox r/Movies Veteran 1d ago

You thought wrongly. It was conceived, written, directed, and privately financed by Boorman.

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u/Singaya 1d ago

Kind of pisses me off that he got total creative control and squandered it, studio execs must have been like "never again . . . "