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Description: Genre: Action & Adventure / Theatrical Release: 1980 / Director: Mike Hodges / Actors: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson ... more Newest Review: ... husband was particularly enamoured!), different races and worlds and some pretty evil sorts - oh and it had the ultimate ... more |
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by SWSt - written on 25.04.07 (Very useful, 120 readings)
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What’s it about? --------------------- Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr Hans Zarkov set off in a spaceship to find out who or what is attacking Earth. Who’s in it? --------------- Most of the cast is, frankly, appalling; the standard of acting somewhere just above the level you would expect of an amateur dramatics performance. Sam J Jones is the hero of the title and is only slightly less wooden than the trees on the planet of Arboria. Equally poor is Melody Anderson as Dale Arden. She manages to look pretty, but ruins the effect every time she opens her mouth, letting loose a shrill, whiny voice. Topol appears ill at ease as Zarkov and ...
by hogsflesh - written on 11.01.05 (Very useful, 872 readings)
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Ah, my favourite film. The greatest film ever made, in fact. Flash Gordon was released in 1980, one if a bunch of films around that time designed to cash in on Star Wars. But while the likes of Battlestar Galactica and The Black Hole are tedious, Flash is a masterpiece (it was intended to be the first of a trilogy, although tragically it didn't do well enough for the other films to be made). A remake of a 1930s serial, which was itself an adaptation of a comic strip, the film shows the Earth being attacked by evil space emperor Ming the Merciless (Max von Sydow). Square-jawed American footballer Flash Gordon (Sam J Jones) and pretty travel agent Dale Arden ...
by Suzela - written on 29.04.08 (Very useful, 67 readings)
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There are some guilty pleasures that I would like to keep to myself but recently the SciFi channel have been showing quite a lot of one of my all time "I really shouldn't love this but I do" films. And that film is Flash Gordon (1980) directed by Mike Hodges (who is probably best known for directing Get Carter - the original and better version with Michael Caine) and produced by Dino de Laurentiis (he has produced the likes of Manhunter, Hannibal, Red Dragon and Hannibal Rising to name a few). Why I should love this film so much is more deeply rooted by circumstance than anything else. I loved it before I even saw it in full. My parents are big ...





