Star Wars Saga.

Slartibartfast wrote: Logan wrote: ^ Brazil was for a long time my favourite movie, and 1984 my favourite dystopian novel.  I still haven't seen Children of Men -- good reminder. I love the first four Planet of the Apes movies (the fifth is not as good).  I think the second, "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", is terrific.  It's a great sequel. [minor spoiler, highlight to view]""All things bright and beautiful; all great creatures great and small.  All things wise and wonderful, the Lord Bomb made them all."[/minor spoiler] I think you'll really like Children of Men.  I found the Planet movie series really interesting as a kid.  other distopians of course, 1984 (1984 movie version), Brazil, V For Vendetta, 12 Monkeys, They Live...

A really big, toothy, and freaky stone head magnificently soars through the azure sky. A group of men in red diapers (Exterminators) rush to meet it. Wearing masks with the same visage as the stone head, they gather worshipfully before the Stone head which gracefully lands. With a booming voice it addresses the Exterminators: "The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as o­nce it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth. Now go forth and kill." The stone head, which is Zardoz and the Exterminator’s god, spews forth guns which they greedily lap up.

The Exterminator Zed (Sean Connery like you’ve never seen him before) secretly enters the head which is the o­nly path into the Vortex – a land of immortals (the Eternals) with big mental powers and scanty clothing.

He has worked in the service of Zardoz, cleansing the Earth of Brutals (the masses outside the Vortex) but has learned that it was all based o­n a lie and seeks revenge! But while Zed resents the underhanded manipulation by the immortal denizens of the Vortex, who was manipulating the Eternals? And to what ends?

"We’ve all been used!"
"And re-used."
"And abused!"
"And amused."

It seems that Zardoz, by director John Boorman who went o­n to make Excalibur, is a love it or hate it film – truly weird, truly different, and I think, truly wonderful. The final scenes are incredibly moving and powerful.

It’s a very surreal, satirical, sometimes disturbing, sometimes just plain bad, but ultimately poignant film, and a personal favourite. If fear of seeing Sean Connery in a bright red diaper AND a wedding dress doesn’t deter you, be warned, there are lots of topless females frolicking about, and a depraved orgy scene with seniors involved.

Scene to look out for: Super-human Zed punching through some saran wrap while those near him staring in disbelief exclaim, "It can’t be done, it’s impossible." There are too many quotable quotes to even begin quoting (though I have begun quoting them).

But enough of words, pictures speak louder than, here’s the trailer which is seriously wack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbGVIdA3dx0

Sorry for the digression.... I find the Star Wars universe not so engaging.