Though I’ve been running this blog for a while, I only recently installed a page-hit tracking module. One of the biggest surprises is what the most consistently popular posts are: My piece on Denver airport conspiracy theories and…my review of Zardoz.
Conspiracy theories always exert a certain fascination, even if (or especially if) you don’t believe in them. But I must admit to being baffled as why a review of a bizarre science fiction film more than 35 years old continues to draw such attention.
I went looking for reasons for this inexplicable interest…and didn’t find any (beyond the usual fascination with cinematic train wrecks). But I did chance across this rendering of Zardoz as the opening of an 8-bit video game:
To bad he only did the opening. Just think of all the other Zardoz video game sequences you could have:
- Shooting the Outlanders
- Sneaking into the giant stone head
- Arousing the Apathetics
- Avoid the Renegades (every touch “ages” you one life)
- Shooting the Hippies
- The boss fight against crystal computer, ala the mothership in Phoenix or the flagship in GORF.
Good times, good times.
In any case, I’m sure such a game would be a lot more fun than the E.T. video game or Mamma Can I Mow the Lawn.
(Hat tip: io9.)
I would play that game.
I would, too.
Zardoz would play that game.
Monsanto GMOs were designed to be radiation resistant. Fukushima was intentional. Radioactive bread. Zardoz wasn’t a movie, it was a blueprint for global genocide.