I have just watched Flash Gordon for the first time

It took me a long time to finally watch it! But since it's my least favourite album I never cared much.

Well, what can I say. My first thought was "what a crap!" but as I was watching I tried to keep in mind that it is a "comic book style" movie, just like the original Batman series was (please correct me if I'm wrong). It's aesthecally beautiful and the special effects look lame now but I guess they must have been impressing 34 years ago.

And it was nice to listen to the songs in context, of course.

I saw it when it first came out in the theater and "yes" the special effects were cool at the time. This was a period when I was 15 and still on a Star Wars high. These day's I'll watch it around Christmas. As corny as it is now it still brings me back to my teen years.

Whenever I watch that movie now, I cant help but wonder how the guy from the BBC kids show Blue Peter (Peter Duncan) got a cameo in it. Then I also remember it had Princess Aura in it....... And as of 2012, she still looks good.... And it is corny, but it was also good fun :)

Don't be harsh, it's a remake of a remake of a 1930's action comic. But I admit I like more the erotic version

It's not just a remake of, it's a tribute to the pulp style film serials of the interbellum period (roughly, the 1920s and 1930s). When you've seen some of those (try looking some up on https://archive.org), I think you'll appreciate Flash Gordon (1980) more, or at least differently.

For what it was I think it was a great movie, the soundtrack was as brilliant as it was diverse. Interesting to see that Max Von Sydow aka Ming has got a part in the new Star Wars film.

As for Aura, she was and still is one tidy piece! That accent = sexual chocolate.

[QUOTE] [b]pittrek wrote:[/b]

But I admit I like more the erotic version[/QUOTE]

http://moria.co.nz/sciencefiction/fleshgordon.htm


^ I thought it was a joke ... but no, it's actually a film.

Just, wow.

Wow...hasn't princess Aura wore well !

I really enjoyed it at the time. Saw it again two or three years ago and still enjoyed it, although with the passage of time I think you see things differently. As Thomasquinn has pointed out it is a tribute to a by gone age.

The one thing that has always stuck with me is the ending, brilliantly setup for a sequel which never happened!

Idea for a 'double feature' movie night or whatever......watch Flash Gordon and then Ted.........

seriously I just about died laughing at the parts in Ted with Sam Jones......:D

Flash Gordon is to pulp comic pastiches what Body Language is to Queen's Greatest Hits. Take the blinkers off. Its awful.

Hey Mooghead

I am back again

You look like Mr Bean.

Fuck you, and please go on, tell me what Mr Bean thinks about Freddies cloned brother, you mother fucker!

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]pittrek wrote:[/b]

But I admit I like more the erotic version[/QUOTE]

http://moria.co.nz/sciencefiction/fleshgordon.htm


^ I thought it was a joke ... but no, it's actually a film.

Just, wow.[/QUOTE]


If you listen carefully, Queen sing "Flesh" instead of "Flash" like they did with Radio KaKa instead of Radio GaGa. :-)

[QUOTE] [b]mr mercury wrote:[/b] Whenever I watch that movie now, I cant help but wonder how the guy from the BBC kids show Blue Peter (Peter Duncan) got a cameo in it. Then I also remember it had Princess Aura in it....... And as of 2012, she still looks good.... And it is corny, but it was also good fun :)[/QUOTE] Ornella Muti is a well known European film sexpot. .. mrrreeeooow. Plenty of skin in most of her films. A few actual GOOD characterisation films as well as exploitative stuff. Btw. I'm pretty sure she had married a plastic surgeon years ago. Id wager it helps a bit

ADDENDUM:

Were you creeped out like I was (when I first saw the film) bythe Greek semi homo looking hawk men?

Those guys (and bad television transfers) put me off the movie for a long time.

There are times when I enjoy the soundtrack more than the film.... and vice versa. The soundtrack is really incredible. Dark, atmospheric, inspirational and also very ominous (arboria comes to mind)

I could only imagine HOW COOL it must have been to drop the needle on that soundtrack as a kid growing up in the era