Flash! Ah-ahhh!

Wasn't Flash Gordon an awesome movie? Music by Queen! Sam Jones was actually cool in this fun, comic booky film. Too bad it never got a sequel.

 

GORDONS ALIVE?

 

This has been one of my favorite movies since I first saw it in Florida. I was 7 years old. The football scene on Mongo had me in stitches. And Ming's line "Are you sure your men are on the right pills? Maybe you should execute their trainer." is prescious.
So many great lines.
Now I realize it is the one of the greatest 'bad' movies of all time. The cast seems to have so much fun. And with corny dialog like "Baron! Let's team up and fight Ming." With the exception of "The Execution Of Flash" Chapter 3 on the DVD. I would almost believe that this was meant as a comedy.
And the rendition of Wagner's Wedding March, played on Guitar, is so stunningly brilliant. It is by far the most delightfull movie I have ever, and might ever see. That and ID4 that is.

 

I totally agree with Mikadojedi. This may well be one of the, if not THE, best "Bad" movie ever made. The dialogue is classically hammy, the action's completely over the top, and that Queen score... Oh man, that theme ALWAYS gets me so pumped!

 

Actually, as cheesy as the movie is, it actually has some good lines, and was pretty well cast.

The movie aside, choosing Max Von Sydow as Ming the Merciless was like choosing Christopher Reeve for Superman. It was basically a perfect choice. In many ways, he saves the movie because I truly believe that he is pure evil. I always loved his temptation scene with Flash in the Hawkmen's castle. The dialogue was pretty well written in that scene, and Sydow's acting was pretty impressive. It even seem to bring out Sam Jones' better delivery.

When Flash asks him if everyone on earth would be saved, I love the way Ming says, "Yes, and no." He then goes to talk about how humans will be more agreeable after all of the natural disasters. For some reason, that is my favorite scene in the whole film.

 

This is one of those movies that you can find on some cheap DVD, but it's one of those movies that I wished would release a special edition of some sort. THE LEGEND OF THE LONE RANGER has been treated this way as well.

If KRULL gets a decent DVD release, then why can't we get a decent FLASH GORDON DVD release.

 

A fellow Legend of the Lone Ranger on DVD hoper. It's great to meet you JPB.
Sadly Flash is out of print on DVD right now. But a Special Edition w/ interviews of Peter Wygarde, Brian Blessed, Timothy Dalton, Deep Roy, Melody Anderson, and Mariana Marangelo(i know i am misspelling that badly). Would be so awesome.

 

Timothy Dalton was excellent in this movie. The rest of it kinda sucked.

 

You gotta love a guy who watches and eats fruit as his Dr. Doom minion and dominatrix security lady whip his hot daughter, while she's dressed in pink spandex and being bound by golden robot hands!

"Bring me the bore worms.."

Best. Scene. Ever.

 

Maybe I would have liked this film better if they had dropped all the pretense and pushed the envelope of that "R" rating. A little nudity wouldn't have hurt.

 

Wasn't there supposed to be some 2 disc DVD set of this movie out last year? The DVD of this movie isn't even anamorphic.

 

Good lord this movie is awesome. I've gotta find it now that I'm thinking of it more.

Awesome thread.

Ming was pretty intelligent, yeah. A welcome change.

 

I always chuckle at the way Flash intorduces himself to Ming.

"Flash Gordon, quarterback, New York Jets."

I don't think there is a boring moment in this whole movie and it is as quotable as Big Trouble In Little China. As nobody else could have played Ming then nobody else could have played Klytus. I forget the actos name that played him but he was cool. This is one of those movies that is not remembered for great acting, but I think the actors were very charismatic in their roles.

This film is loaded with sexual overtones aside form the obvious ones. The name Klytus is a step away from Clitoris, "I love initiations" Arua says in what is essentially a cirlce-jerk scene in the Aborean temple, when Flash brings the ship in that stabs Ming in the back it is a tube going into a hole right before he hits Ming, the rocket that Dr. Zarkoff kidnaps Flash and Dale in look slike a giant dildo, etc etc.

Get your girlfriend to dress up in a Slave Leia outfit? How about dressed in some silver, revealing little bit of strings with a midget in tow? Yeah, Princess Aura was sexah.

And what a way for a villain to go out; spaceship with a pointy end to the back. Ouch!

And like everyone I think the soundtrack is incredible. It is especially well placed during the hawkmen attack on the Imperial ship in the clouds.

Flash - a-ah - saviour of the universe
Flash - a-ah - he'll save everyone of us
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Flash - a-ah - he's a miracle
Flash - a-ah - king of the impossible

He's for everyone of us
Stand for everyone of us
He'll save with a mighty hand
Every man every woman
Every child - with a mighty flash

Flash - a-ah
Flash - a-ah - he'll save everyone of us

Just a man
With a man's courage
He knows nothing but a man
But he can never fail
No one but the pure in heart
May find the golden grail
Oh oh - oh oh
Flash

 

Klytus was so cool, and gave us the best death of the film!

 

I'd buy that for a $!

 

As far as I've checked on, there WAS a 2-Disc edition of "Flash" made, BUT it was only UK-exclusive.

 

And what was the first thing that Prince Baron said to Aura after that scene: "You came!"

Oh good friggin call. Gold Star for you. One of these days I'm going to have to buy the movie just to sit down and watch to list all of the overatures like that.

 

I always thought Flash made a selfish choice when he said "No," to sparing Earth, when it would have been far more safe to say "yes" go back to be king of Earth, all the while raising an army to get Ming. The Earth people would step up to the challenge, far preferrable than having Flash sentence them to an honorable death.

 

Ah, but though Ming said he was going to call off the attack he still said that after all the disasters they would be easier to rule over. He may not have been able to raise an army, and the damage done to humanity could have been permanent.