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Date: Tue, 17-Jan-84 11:47:07 EST
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I just watched "Zardoz" for the second time in 6 years last night.
Sean Connery in the future as Zed the Exterminator. He, the savage,
gets loose inside the Vortex (seen this Lauren?), a paradise and
trap where science and psychic studies flourish during the dark ages.
Zed is their savior and destroyer.

This movie has great tackiness and camp potential, but really comes
off as a good, though obvious, film. The science fiction in it is
good, the plot good and sometimes puzzling, the acting not bad
(considering). It is full of messages and allegories, some that
hit you over the head and some that require a bit (a few bits?)
of thought.

I first saw this 6 years ago with "Solaris", a long, tedious, yet
fascinating film (which I've come to expect from Russia). What a combo!

	Glenn at Ampex

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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 17:11:28 EST
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I saw this film about a year ago.  It was about a group of sixties
throwbacks who lived within a shielded area in the midst of post-devastation
earth.  It seems that they were immortal but wanted to die.  Therefore
they allowed Sean Connery to enter their world, which he eventually 
destroys.  The entire film was quite dated by its use of late sixties-style
costuming and sets.
-- 
			Evan Ross   decwrl!amd!fortune!dsd!ross

"To oppose something is to maintain it.
 To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar."