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 Flash Gordon (DVD)
Description: Genre: Action & Adventure / Theatrical Release: 1980 / Director: Mike Hodges / Actors: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson ... more  Flash Gordon (DVD) ... ... / DVD released 25 March, 2002 at Momentum Pictures / Features of the DVD: PAL / When the totalitarian planet of Mongo decides on a whim to obliterate Earth, it's up to the quarterback Flash Gordon and his oddball companions to make the universe safe for democracy. Based on the classic (and infinitely more reputable) comic strip and its 1930s screen serialisation, this candy-coloured trash classic deserves immortality for Queen's unforgettably pulsating soundtrack alone. The legendary Max von Sydow appears to be having a blast as the evil Ming the Merciless, while Ornella Muti, as his daughter, is the living embodiment of what attracts adolescent boys to comics in the first place. (She makes Barbarella look mundane.) One of the most shamelessly entertaining movies ever made, this is a knowingly absurd sensory freak-out that'll have the viewer blissfully checking the sky afterward for signs of Hawkmen. --Andrew WrightNewest Review: ... husband was particularly enamoured!), different races and worlds and some pretty evil sorts - oh and it had the ultimate ... more ... title song that any pre-teen (and people a little older) can belt out in the bedroom (come on admit it we all sang along to "Flash ah-ah" jumping off our bed and pretending to shoot stuff with a hairdryer - or was that just me?). As an 11 year old I couldn't have asked for any more from a film.
Fast forward a few years and after a rather large gap of not seeing the film, I decided to sit down and watch it. This fabulous film was now acted by pieces of wood, had B movie dialogue and had terrible special effec...more |
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Flash Gordon (DVD): Gordon's Alive? (1197 words)
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 ...
No one but the pure of heart can find the golden grail (1296 words)
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 ...
Flash Gordon (DVD): Just a Flash in the pan - I think not (1482 words)
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 ...
