@Scrounge
Well, how is a pessimistic god like Zardoz from such a nihilistic universe as the one he’s from gonna wrap his giant stone head around that concept? He wouldn’t understand thing one about the core concepts of this universe (yknow, friendship being magical and all that) until he got firsthand experience after trying to brainwash ponies with his ideas, and getting zapped with a giant rainbow in return.
@Scrounge
Hence why Zardoz has come. As far as his theology is concerned, it’s paradise in that regard. The lack of the guns that are good is an unfortunate flaw, but one his word and followers receptive to it can rectify.
@TheAbridgenator
I know Connery wanted to get out of the role of Bond, but it honestly made me wonder: Really Sean? Dressing up as a bride in one bit while for the rest of the movie you’re in a red diaper? Was that really the best way to stop getting typecast? Then again EON never looked at him for another Bond movie again so it worked in a horrible way (Never say Never Again doesn’t count as it was made by Warner Bros not MGM.)
@chris the lovable jerk
As someone who first saw this movie after getting significantly hammered, I can honestly say that parts of it do make more sense in an…elevated state, especially the ending scene and Friend’s mental breakdown. Still doesn’t mean we had to see Connery in a Borat bikini.
Fun fact: did you know that Sean Connery took this part because he didn’t want to be typecast as James Bond? And yet he never brings this role up too much. ;)
This is probably among the worst movies ever made. I’m honestly amazed anyone allowed Sean Connery to act again after he decided to do this. This film is probably the greatest PSA against drugs ever, and it was completely unintentional. And if you doubt that the director of this movie admits he was so high off his ass he doesn’t even know what half of the movie is about!
Ah, now, see, until you said that, I didn’t even realize that was a joke. Derp on my part.
…Besides, I imagine Zardoz is not a god who accepts interpretation of his text beyond the literal: The gun is good; accept no substitutes.
Then again, he isn’t even a god at all, so shrugs
That was more meant as a joke about Pinkie using Twilight as a gun, but fair point I guess.
Well, how is a pessimistic god like Zardoz from such a nihilistic universe as the one he’s from gonna wrap his giant stone head around that concept? He wouldn’t understand thing one about the core concepts of this universe (yknow, friendship being magical and all that) until he got firsthand experience after trying to brainwash ponies with his ideas, and getting zapped with a giant rainbow in return.
Do they really need guns when they have each other?
Hence why Zardoz has come. As far as his theology is concerned, it’s paradise in that regard. The lack of the guns that are good is an unfortunate flaw, but one his word and followers receptive to it can rectify.
I know Connery wanted to get out of the role of Bond, but it honestly made me wonder: Really Sean? Dressing up as a bride in one bit while for the rest of the movie you’re in a red diaper? Was that really the best way to stop getting typecast? Then again EON never looked at him for another Bond movie again so it worked in a horrible way (Never say Never Again doesn’t count as it was made by Warner Bros not MGM.)
As someone who first saw this movie after getting significantly hammered, I can honestly say that parts of it do make more sense in an…elevated state, especially the ending scene and Friend’s mental breakdown. Still doesn’t mean we had to see Connery in a Borat bikini.
Fun fact: did you know that Sean Connery took this part because he didn’t want to be typecast as James Bond? And yet he never brings this role up too much. ;)
Case in point. XD