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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.
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!"
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