Bad Movie #1

ZARDOZ

I'm going to start a new periodic post on Mondays called Bad Movie. I watch a lot of movies and I usually just share on here the ones I like, well there are also ones that are so bad that I just need to share them.

For the first Bad Movie post I will share Zardoz. Now just to get it started this movie stars Sean Connery. Just have a look at him.

Ok, let me try and lay out the plot. The year is 2293 Sean Connery who's name is Zed is the leader of the Exterminators, which is the chosen warrior class that scours the countryside killing. They worship the god Zardoz, which is a giant flying head that spits out guns when Zed and his people give it grain. Zardoz's mantra is "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!" Later you find out Zed read The Wizard of Oz which prompted him to hide aboard the giant head to see who is running it. He then finds himself with the Eternals which is a group of people that never die and control the giant head. In the end you learn the Eternals wanted to die which is why they brought Zed in to do the job.

Pretty much this movie was created to have Sean Connery run around in that ridiculous outfit. There is also a lot of random topless women running around, but it was made in the 70's so that pretty normal. Now, one would think seeing this movie that Sean Connery might have agreed to do this out of desperation for work, but this movie was made in the middle of his James Bond years. Maybe he felt James Bond wasn't sexy enough and he needed to take it to the next step. Who Knows.

Here is the trailer.

If you want to give it a look it is available on Netflix instant view, if you dare.