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BladeRunner
Lieutenant
Portugal
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 Posted - February 12 2004 : 10:39:35 AM
 
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Dear Mr Walker,
Please, consider printing here, in your fine site, a review of LIFEFORCE. It would be greatly apreciated.
Thank you. |
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Amanda
Guest Reviewer
USA
2017 Posts |
Posted - February 12 2004 : 2:35:38 PM
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Well. Looks like someone is trying to get himself banned from the site.
The best thing since sliced green bread. |
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Styling Shatner
A Rhinestone Cowboy
USA
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Posted - February 12 2004 : 6:05:03 PM
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Well. Looks like someone is trying to get himself banned from the site.
The best thing since sliced green bread.
Yeah I agree; it's quite sad, really, to see someone act like a middle school kid just because they apparently really want to see someone review a movie! Immaturity is probably my biggest pet peeve, so I never enjoy seeing someone act like this.
You'll never know what my life is like unless you walk in my shoes... if nothing else, you'll be able to have my pair of sneakers! |
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Ed
The Once and Future Genrewriter
USA
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Posted - February 12 2004 : 6:40:01 PM
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Same here. This kind of crap is why I had a low opinion of message boards for so long.
"I want to hurt this movie, but I can never hurt it the way it hurt me." |
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Albert
Webmaster
USA
3747 Posts |
Posted - February 12 2004 : 10:19:18 PM
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From his posts in the past, I don't think Bladerunner wants to get himself banned. Let's hope it's all just a simple misunderstanding, and that it won't happen again. Because if it does, I'm gonna have to hurt somebody... by strapping them down and forcing them to listen to a Mae West CD on an infinite loop.
"Musically, we are more talented than any Bob Dylan. Musically, we are more talented than Paul McCartney. Mick Jagger, his lines are not clear. He don't know how he should produce a sound. I'm the new modern rock-n-roll. I'm the new Elvis." |
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Ed
The Once and Future Genrewriter
USA
2489 Posts |
Posted - February 13 2004 : 12:18:43 AM
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Well, at least you wouldn't be getting sadistic about it. 
"I want to hurt this movie, but I can never hurt it the way it hurt me." |
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BladeRunner
Lieutenant
Portugal
46 Posts |
Posted - February 13 2004 : 10:38:41 AM
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C'mon, guys!!!!
I mean, it's just a polite asking, if you ask me!
The final word is to Albert Walker, of course! |
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BladeRunner
Lieutenant
Portugal
46 Posts |
Posted - February 13 2004 : 10:54:56 AM
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Ok, guys, i'm going off-topic... AGAIN!!! (sigh!!), but i have to tell this to you guys, since you lot seem to also be fans of all things SCI-FI and related.
I bought, in DVd format, the first season of the british Tv series SPACED. While this is not a sci-fi series per se, no, it's really a sitcom comedy set in suburbia of London, the series uses a lot of references to famous sci-fi and other genre classic movies for comedy value. This is specialy because the main male character is a huge SW geek and a comic book artist wannabe.
Two jokes were particualy effective to me, one refering to Scooby-Doo and another about Tom Raider (the game, mind you, not the movie!).
I think the first series is available in Region 1. In region 2 the two series are in DVD already. I loved the first one so much that came February series two is a must buy!
Oh, the fortunes of living in a region 2 zone!!!
And if you still need more convincing, check out my latest acquisition in DVD:
http://www.blackstar.co.uk/video/item/7000000082517
Compare and contrast with the average DVd version of this movie in region 1. Yeah, i know the Criterion version was very cool, i should know, i bought it to, but this region 2 edition has sweets that the former didn't had. And yes, it's a brand new comentary track, and this time it's a group comentary.
Be well, and i promisse you that next time i'll really talk about ZARDOZ!! |
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QTN
Banned Forum Member
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Posted - February 13 2004 : 12:35:31 PM
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LIFEFORCE!
Walker, review it! |
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Amanda
Guest Reviewer
USA
2017 Posts |
Posted - February 13 2004 : 2:45:02 PM
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Ok, guys, i'm going off-topic... AGAIN!!! (sigh!!), but i have to tell this to you guys, since you lot seem to also be fans of all things SCI-FI and related.
I bought, in DVd format, the first season of the british Tv series SPACED. While this is not a sci-fi series per se, no, it's really a sitcom comedy set in suburbia of London, the series uses a lot of references to famous sci-fi and other genre classic movies for comedy value. This is specialy because the main male character is a huge SW geek and a comic book artist wannabe.
Two jokes were particualy effective to me, one refering to Scooby-Doo and another about Tom Raider (the game, mind you, not the movie!).
I think the first series is available in Region 1. In region 2 the two series are in DVD already. I loved the first one so much that came February series two is a must buy!
Oh, the fortunes of living in a region 2 zone!!!
And if you still need more convincing, check out my latest acquisition in DVD:
http://www.blackstar.co.uk/video/item/7000000082517
Compare and contrast with the average DVd version of this movie in region 1. Yeah, i know the Criterion version was very cool, i should know, i bought it to, but this region 2 edition has sweets that the former didn't had. And yes, it's a brand new comentary track, and this time it's a group comentary.
Be well, and i promisse you that next time i'll really talk about ZARDOZ!!
You know, if you'd simply post this kind of stuff down in Miscellaneous, it wouldn't be off-topic would it?
The best thing since sliced green bread. |
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posthumanbeing
Staff Recapper
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Posted - February 13 2004 : 10:42:47 PM
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Because if it does, I'm gonna have to hurt somebody... by strapping them down and forcing them to listen to a Mae West CD on an infinite loop.
Oh, yeah? That's better than repeated viewings of one of her most well-known movies: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078238/ |
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Ed
The Once and Future Genrewriter
USA
2489 Posts |
Posted - February 13 2004 : 11:04:24 PM
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Yes, the plot of Zardoz is more understandable than the mentality that led to Mae West being cast as her standard sexpot character well into her eighties.
Whew, finally back to being almost on topic. 
"I want to hurt this movie, but I can never hurt it the way it hurt me." |
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BladeRunnerUnit
Commander
Portugal
128 Posts |
Posted - February 14 2004 : 03:03:20 AM
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What i can't help admiring about ZARDOZ is that surfeit of ideas.
There's enough ideas in it for 20 blockbusters.
Case in point: you remember the sweat thing in ZARDOZ, where when those zombified dudes lick Connery sweat and they get alive agaon? Boorman in his comentary said he took inspiration from something in greek mythology.
What i admire in movies like ZARDOZ and other made in the 70s, like Exorcist, is that the filmmakers didn't assume they had to speel things out to the audiences, they assumed they were composed of intelligent people, and they relished that, if tyheir movies are ambigous, the audience would relish in that ambiguity as well.
Mates, i don't know, but i rather preter a filmmaker makes an interesting failure like ZARDOZ then a sucess like ARMAGEDDON or CON AIR, or any other blockbuster who's one single idea behind it is to "sell toys".
At least you can see that a movie like ZARDOZZ is born out of a passion to tell the world soemthing he felt he should say about the world and how he saw it and what he though it might end up. ZARDOZ is a comentary on the way he saw the snobery of the rich people, and how the ideals of the 60s had been corruted by the higher classes and became mere fashionables insted of a way of living.
This is all i see ZARDOZ. I think to apreciate a movie one doesn't need to agree with the politics per se. All one needs is to acknowledge the effort and the integrity of the filmmakers that oput his heart and sweat on the project.
Besides, the movie has Sean Connery dressed as a bride!!! How often can you see such an image? It's a classic!!!! |
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BladeRunnerUnit
Commander
Portugal
128 Posts |
Posted - February 14 2004 : 08:05:10 AM
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As for the poor quality SFx of XARDOZ, only very recently, the audiences have demanded and became savvy of quality SFX. Before audiences took them as just to be serviceble to storytelling, like, to know a scene was set in space, a futuristic city, etc. Low to averga quality SFX were the norm and people had no problem accepting them. Quality SFX of the 2001 and Silent Running kind were the extremely rare exceptions.
In ZARDOZ, when we see that justaposition of that freaky woman with ripples in a lake images, they are to ment that there is a telepathy thing going on, that she is emanating "mindwaves".
In today's CGI this might had been quite easy to achieve, but think, how would you do that in the mid70s where all you had was photographic effects? Well, boorman resorted to what he could get, and insted of doing some animation of mindwaves like in Dr Who, he just used the coolest thing he found, nature, and the ripples of water on a calm lake.
Remember, Boorman had a budget of one million dollars, $300,000 of which as the salary of the star, Sean Connery. This mean he had to made an entire movie, including pay for the other actors, crew members, set design, sfx, etc, with $700,000. And Charlotte Rampling was quite a star back then!. If you ask me, Boorman got away with it quite nicely!
The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, on their way to Armageddon, stop at a pub and get drunk. Death turns to War ans asks: "where's Famine?". War replies: "Famine is in the kitchen". |
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posthumanbeing
Staff Recapper
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Posted - February 14 2004 : 9:53:07 PM
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Yes, the plot of Zardoz is more understandable than the mentality that led to Mae West being cast as her standard sexpot character well into her eighties.
Whew, finally back to being almost on topic.
I dunno, man. I can almost see Sextette being made as the result of someone losing a bet, whereas with Zardoz, there's just no way to explain it without bringing recreational drugs into the equation. I just can't imagine the drunken bet working there. ("Okay, and if it's heads, YOU have to make a movie with a giant flying stone head, it has to utter the line 'The penis is evil', Sean Connery has to spend at least half of it in a loincloth and thigh-high boots, he has to learn a plot point through sex osmosis, and - hey, are you writing this down?") |
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BladeRunnerUnit
Commander
Portugal
128 Posts |
Posted - February 15 2004 : 01:57:28 AM
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Ithink the fun of movies like ZARDOZ, besides the surfeit of ideas, is that it's clear this movie is a result of the drugs of the time.
You can trace the hollywood filmaking by the drugs of fashion of the time. (0s was cocaine, for instance.
Anyway, seeing amovie like ZARDOZ is like takijng acide withn the advantage you will not get anb hangover after the drug effects end.
The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, on their way to Armageddon, stop at a pub and get drunk. Death turns to War and asks: "where's Famine?". War replies: "Famine is in the kitchen". |
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DaveJB
Commander
United Kingdom
236 Posts |
Posted - February 15 2004 : 02:07:53 AM
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| As an aside, I thought Arthur Frayn looked vaguely familiar, so I popped over to the IMDb to check out the actor's biography. Turns out that he appeared in the sitcom "Father Ted" (sans pencilled-on facial hair) 20 years after Zardoz! If anyone's familiar with the series, the episode is "Competition Time". |
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Ed
The Once and Future Genrewriter
USA
2489 Posts |
Posted - February 15 2004 : 2:22:37 PM
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When I first saw his photo I thought he looked like Robert Trebor from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
"I want to hurt this movie, but I can never hurt it the way it hurt me." |
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TorgosHand
Guest Reviewer
Swaziland
308 Posts |
Posted - February 15 2004 : 5:09:22 PM
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As an aside, I thought Arthur Frayn looked vaguely familiar, so I popped over to the IMDb to check out the actor's biography. Turns out that he appeared in the sitcom "Father Ted" (sans pencilled-on facial hair) 20 years after Zardoz! If anyone's familiar with the series, the episode is "Competition Time".
He was the host that looked like an ogre as a result of Father Jack's hallucination, right?
"Ah, Toilet Duck! You know what that does to you!"
"Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach... Nah, it's too good."
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BladeRunnerUnit
Commander
Portugal
128 Posts |
Posted - February 18 2004 : 12:31:22 PM
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Any movie that has Sean Connery in a brides dress has to be worth seeing!
The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, on their way to Armageddon, stop at a pub and get drunk. Death turns to War and asks: "where's Famine?". War replies: "Famine is in the kitchen". |
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