Welcome to episode 43. Today, we discuss the most requested movie in Film Sack history, “Zardoz”.
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity’s achievements. Not familiar with the movie? Take a look at IMDB for more information.
Join Scott, Randy, Brian and Ibbott as we forget to wear a shirt, and watch guns barf from the sky.
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Up next week’s episode? The thee-quel, Jaws 3D.
I’ve recently been introduced to film sack and have been going through the back library. Absolute fun! I actually gave a gasp of excitement (GaG vs lol) when I saw this go live tonight. Fantastic work. Cult classic film. Great work and I’m looking forward to future casts.
Bio-Dome’s on Netflix streaming now! ‘Nuff said.
The list for this week. By time into the show;
(0 minutes)
James Bond, Excalibur, Planet of the Apes, Logan’s Run, Angel Heart, Cosby, Lord of the Rings
(10 minutes)
Saturday Night Live, No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man, Deliverance
(20 minutes)
Spinal Tap, ET, Elf, Monty Python, Scooby Doo, Superbad
(30 minutes)
Kroll, Battlestar Galactica, Wizard of Oz Remake, Excalibur Remake, Buck Rogers, The Untouchables, Never Say Never Again, Highlander, Robin and Marian, Piranha II, Hercules, Sizzle Beach USA, Jaws 2, Outland, Batman and Robin, Planet 9 from Outer Space, The Office
(40 minutes)
(50 minutes)
The Book of Eli, Pulp Fiction, Star Trek 5
That’s 37 other shows. 20 less than Drop Zone, although the amount of explanation required was most likely the culprit.
I picked up Ibbott’s NewsRadio reference. Love that show. Genius.
How come Darrell Hammond never did this version of Sean Connery on SNL?
The line about hanged men and erections is literal. From Wikipedia: “A death erection, angel lust, or terminal erection is a post-mortem erection, technically a priapism, observed in the corpses of human males who have been executed, particularly by hanging.”
And now, for something compleyely different. Hey, how about Zed’s revolver pistol with the semi-auto bolt action? (Has the subject changed yet? I can’t bear to look.)
Did you guys miss the explanation for why Zed didn’t act like a “Brutal” past the opening? He was the result of some Bene-Gesserit breeding program, making him even more advanced/psychic/whatever than the Immortals. Admittedly, this is not the most sensible explanation nor does the film explain it very well.
The closest thing i could find to a Star Trek reference is that both Sean Connery and Patrick Stewart both played King Richard. (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Robin Hood: Men in Tights), but thats not really a Star Trek reference, 1 degree to Star Trek though.
Correction for [Internet Somebody] They discussed Christopher Plummer’s role as General Chang which is from Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country, not Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier.
Krull also had a “You’ll know when moment” too. I say add it to the list.
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- I certainly know that if I had seen video from some guy’s brain showing him catching a woman with a net and raping her, my first reaction would be insatiable attraction to him!
- Sean’s right about the death erection. And curse this show for making me say “Wait, no, that’s a real thing isn’t it?” and Googling “death erection.”
- The “inseminate us all” bit reminded me of Zoot at Castle Anthrax. Do spankings come first?
- Brian D…dude…you just watched a film full of boobies-for-no-reason that included a series of women kissing each other. And one kiss between two guys is what you have to explain to the kids? Really?
- My favorite part was perhaps at the end when the outsiders storm the gates and run in to shoot all of the immortals– apparently one shot with a pistol in the general direction of a person is enough to kill them. Instantly. Who knew?
- In the future, interior communal spaces will look like an adult version of Romper Room and people will punish each other by wiggling their fingers and making zombie noises, and the beaches will be full of people standing around in black trousers and button-down shirts doing nothing much except waiting to be shot by men in red diapers. Also, people will squote cripture.
Thanks for the correction JohnM, I can’t actually edit these comments so it stands as it is. There’s also mention of Star Wars, God Father and Lord of the Rings in relation to this last week but I didn’t include them as it wasn’t part of the main body of the show. Also, thanks for the shout out by the way.
I didn’t understand this movie at all but the supposedly unbreakable saran wrap really got to me. I mean come on, saran wrap, really?
I just had to let you know that I had to make a custom ringtone of the “Gun is good…” section of this movie based on your clip. I was laughing over and over again rewinding the quotes part of the podcast.
Best episode so far. Had me laughing out loud, which is really dumb when you’re alone.
Weird ipod side-effect from this crazy future we live in.
Actually… it was observed that those executed by hanging would achieve an erection and ejaculate at the moment of death. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_erection
Oh man oh man, this movie is such a legend but I had never seen it. So when you guys announced this as your next movie, I wanted so much to finally enlighten myself, but I just couldn’t find a copy of the movie! And from the extreme amount of hilarious commentary this week, I gather I missed out on a lot.
The thing I was looking the most forward to was Mr. Fletcher’s introduction to the film. Because knowing how balls-to-the-wall nuts the plot is, I was dying to hear him try to sum up the plot. And it was awesome!
I tried listening to this while studying at the library. Had to get up to leave because I kept disturbing people laughing. So I get a drink and go to the restroom.
Then, as I’m in a public restroom, I hear Scott say “If I was one of the chosen people with my red diaper and my two-way helmet,” and I freakin’ lost it, laughing out loud in the public restroom.
It was one of those big university restrooms and I was in there alone, but then the front door opened and shut quickly. When I walked out, a Chinese exchange student was waiting outside, afraid to go in while there was a manin the public restroom laughing out loud to “If I was one of the chosen people with my red diaper and my two-way helmet.”
Now that you’ve covered Zardoz — big name star (Sean Connery) in unintelligible future apocalypse, you should look at Quintet. Big name star (Paul Newman) in unintelligible future apocalypse on ice.
The comments on episodes is starting to be one of my favorite things about Film Sack. Keep it up guys!!
Please know thatthis statement is coming from a true film sack lover and fanboy…
I do not believe for a second that this film is real. I put forth rather that this was the first movie completely created for and by film sack by none other than the mind of Eric Van Skyhawk. It is simply not possible that something sounding this truly awful could possibly be real. Not even “Hollywood” who admittedly seems to be incapable of making rational decisions in film making, could produce this level of suck. I don’t even think Woody Allen on a crack binge could dream
this stuff up! If Sean Connery actually starred in this film he would have never acted again besides doing Wonderbra info-mercials on late night public access channels.
I have not looked up this film on imdb because I’m certain if I were to even type in Zardoz, Ashton Kutcher would jump through the screen and shout at me “You just got punk’d!”
Thank you for the gag gents, but you can’t pool the wool over the eyes of this Gambini.
My wife was sleeping on the couch next go me while I watch this. The funny part is she wolk up twice and asked, “Is that Burt Renolds?” I can’t believe he was supposed to play Zed. We’re off to see the zard the wonderful zardoz!
I got a massive laughing-fit from the Sean Connery impressions. I had to stop working for fifteen minutes! Oh man that was to funny. “Voorrrrtex!”
Take care! o/
Just wanted to let you guys know (in case no one else has noticed), Troll 2 is up on netflix streaming. Watched it for the first time and all I can say is: wow! So bad it’s hilarious. Anyways, keep up the great work, love the show!
Was it’s Zardoz’s intent to breed these mutated men in the Outlands in the hopes that they would rebel against those in the vortex and finally bring them all death? Did he pick Sean Connery and lead him to the knowledge that would bring forth his rage in the hopes that he would enter the vortex for answers/revenge insomuch that he allowed himself to be sacrificed (getting shot and falling out of the stone head) by his creation so that true death would finally be his? If so, I nominate him as the Kenobi type.
And, yes, I spent too much time rationalizing that out of this movie.
During the teaching by osmosis scene (which could possibly be considered a montage) I believe I saw a black actress. Just one. I mention because at that point I thought to myself how white the movie had been and then they decided to throw a token black person. Ah, British cinema in the 70s
Ibbott uses the same impression all the time (I call it the Ernest Borgnine) yet, for some reason, it ALWAYS fits. And I love Dunaway’s Irish-sounding Sean Connery.
And the guy Friend totally looked like Paul McCartney. Or Angela Landsbury.
[mxyxptlk] Dear lord mxyxptlk, how could you do that in a public restroom!
PS: Watch this for further understanding of the Chinese exchange student’s reaction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzO1mCAVyMw
Sean Connery’s outfit (the red diaper) from this movie, in fact his entire look was used for a
Superman villian called “Vartox” who still exist in DC continuity. Check it out…
@Gretchen Haha…too true. That really says something about our society when I can watch 2 women kiss and think nothing about it and then 2 dudes do it and it freaks me out.
The whole scene freaked me out.
Also, I am sad to now know that a hanged man gets an erection. I was hoping that was made up.
So…being an avid follower of your show I’ve been trying to catch up on all of the episodes…so I have been working my way through the movies I haven’t seen so I can laugh along with you all. Um, so, uh, well, last night I watched ZARDOZ. I literally had the strangest dreams… DEAR GOD, FILMSACK, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?!?!?! (I love your show — even when it rapes my cerebral cortex)