Is this movie the greatest science fiction tale ever told?
Answers on a postcard please!
shareNot even in the top 10,000.
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Definitely in the top five. I can't really think of any other movie that captures the true strangeness and unpredictability of Science Fiction as well as Zardoz.
shareIf it's not in your Top 5, then you simply didn't drop enough acid before viewing it.
sharethe hate for this film simply reveals the limitations of the haters.
this film was a dream, an adventure. a dystopian wonderland.
It is impossible to single out one film as the greatest, even in the period before 1975.
Zardoz (1974) -- Best SF film of the '70s might be Stalker (1979)
Welt am Draht - World on a Wire (1973)
Solyaris (1972)
THX 1138 (1971)
Punishment Park (1971)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Colossus-The Forbin Project (1970)
And those are just the first half of the '70s... How about I just pick a best of the decade before that?
2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
No Award for the '40s...
Things to Come (1936)
Metropolis (1927)
Regrettably the 1919 First Men in the Moon has not survived, but I can't help thinking it might have been a contender...
That's one impressive list!
shareYeah... I've made a point of trying to get a copy of just about everything SF, discarding only the ones that seem like purest boring crap (crap that isn't boring covers Armageddon for example)and the rare cases of those I know are good(ish) but I just can't stand (Gattaca stands out as something good that just annoys me for some reason.)
share"Regrettably the 1919 First Men in the Moon has not survived, but I can't help thinking it might have been a contender..."
Have you seen this version of Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902) by Georges Méliès? It features the hand-colored film stock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ueEMVXVgcg
Yeah, I love that film and it's nice that we are finally getting lots of silents properly restored. Hand coloring and tinting can really be important in silents. I have been watching a great French silent serial and the day for night scenes look terrible--I am certain they were intended to be tinted.
The 1919 film seems to just not exist, but not too long ago the Edison Frankenstein was considered lost, so I suppose it might turn up. As is there are are just some stills and press information.
I always liked "Zardoz." I was never a "Star Wars" or "Star Trek" fan as a kid, but I liked weird sci-fi like this or "Logan's Run."
shareI watched it because Sean Connery was in it.
It's not bad.
Everyone's taste is different. I like Sean Connery. In my view, this is his worse role. If this film disappeared from the earth I wouldn't shed a tear. I consider it one of the worse mainline films ever made (I'm not counting a lot of amateur junk you see. At least the characters could act here).