Why is FLASH GORDON such a great movie ?

[Vortigern99]

The below quote about sums it up for me! I can't really add anything to it, except to say that my Dad took my sister and me to see it in the theater in 1980, and we all loved it! I've seen it a hundred times or more (including a viewing at the Alamo Drafthouse 3 years ago with Swedish subtitles, which oddly increased the entertainment value), and I could watch it again right now! The "younger generation" doesn't seem to "get" this movie, as most of the young genre fans I know hate it. But those whippersnapper are missing a great time at the movies, sez I.

Totally!

It's utterly fun, and you just can't say that about 99% of the sci fi movies coming out these days.

Lorenzo Semple Jr, the master of camp, at his best!!!

The costume and set designs and Special Effects are absolutely marvelous!!! See what they were able to achieve in the good old days, all without CGI?

Max Von Sydow's performance as Emperor Ming is priceless! The sequence with Ming and his daughter Aura in Klytus's torture chamber is classic!

One of the funniest scenes in the movie is when Dale (Melody Anderson) has just escaped from Ming's harem, and she's tip-toeing along thru the palace carring her high heeled shoes--some of Ming's soldiers enter the hall, she delicately sets her shoes down on the floor, blasts 'em dead with her laser gun, and then picks up her shoes by the ankle straps and continues on her way.

Here's a shot of my Flash Gordon movie poster--awesome artwork by Richard Amsel.

"Flash Ah-Ahhh! Savior of the Universe! Flash!"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...n/S1031512.jpg

[Raydeen1]

So the family sat down to watxh last night. What a hoot! Man, it was a trip! I hadn't seen it since the theatre so it was rather interesting.

My boys didn't quite get that it was supposed to be a bit silly. I gotta say Max von Sydow did an excelletn job as Ming. I'd forgotten how gross it was when Klytus died. Awesome stuff!

[johnmiic]

It was good but not I think, a great film. At least it's not a cop-out like that Sci-Fi channel garbage. Dr. Zarkov has a Winnebago not a rocket ship!?!?Just keeee-rap!

[Earth 2 Chris]

I watched it with my 6-year old son a few months back, and he's watched it a couple of times since. He thinks its "cool".

There's hope for today's youth yet!

Chris

[twilitezoner]

Oh it's a guilty pleasure for sure.

[palitoy]

Great might be a slight exaggeration.

Well, it's great fun if that counts...

[txteach]

It's a fun movie for me because I saw it with my Dad when I was a kid.

[david_b]

OK, now you all did it....! Now I'm going to have to buy a copy of Flash Gordon off Amazon..

Blast it..!

[twilitezoner]

Great might be a slight exaggeration.

[Raydeen1]

I'm watching this today with the family. Can't wait to hear all those goofy lines.

Been many years. Should be quite a trip.

[kingdom warrior]

Hell with the action figures ......

I'm dying for Ornella Muti herself dressed like that

Fo Sho! Holla!

[Mikey]

Fo Sho!!!
I'm dying for them to do a figure of Princess Aura dressed like this!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...sAuraMuti2.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...n/Muti0013.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...sAuraMuti1.jpg

Hell with the action figures ......

I'm dying for Ornella Muti herself dressed like that

[Collect 'em all!]

VERY nice!

They need to do Klytus and Vultan!

Fo Sho!!!
I'm dying for them to do a figure of Princess Aura dressed like this!

[MIB41]

"Flash I LOVE YOU...but we only have 24 hours to save the earth!" Hey with lines like that you either stay with the movie and have fun with it or turn the DVD player off. It's a fun movie and one of those, 'it is what it is' kind of films. You either get it and enjoy the ride or shouldn't have put it in at all if you were expecting '2001: A Space Odessey'.

[palitoy]

VERY nice!

They need to do Klytus and Vultan!

Oddly enough, Jeff, the president of this company (Bifbangpow) and I are friendly. Klytus is next, I cannot wait.