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Flash Gordon - Crap/ Not Crap

Flash Gordon - Genius or Arse?

  • Genius

    Votes: 42 85.7%
  • Arse

    Votes: 7 14.3%

  • Total voters
    49
Louloubelle said:
The goodies have to get captured and have horrible things done to them, however you knew that they escape and would triumph in the end.

Three men on a bike in thirties black and white sci fi caper. lets make it!

After watching the seventies Flash Gordon i was convinved that Queen would do the music for Lord Of The Rings.
 
Hocus Eye. said:
"Flash I love you, and we've got two hours to save the world"

That has to be the most memorable film chat-up line in the history of the genre.

Hocus
Seconded, and from the soundtrack, I always follow that up with mr Blessed going "Gordon's alive alive alive" echoing off into the ether :D
 
Louloubelle said:
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for me there's just something irresitable about the fabulous costumes, the deco sets and the wonderful machines and gadgets

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having first seen these films as a kid at saturday morning cinema (ABC Minors anyone?) I feel deeply dissapointed that the machines of hte future have turned out to look nothing like these marvellous contraptions

I want a martian death ray and I want it now! :D

i saw them at the abc

i'm trying to remember the abc song that kids sang at the saturday morning club :cool:
 
i've still got some ABC Minors badges in a box somewhere. We'd throw popcorn at each other through some Childrens Film Foundation crap and then go iceskating :D
 
marty21 said:
i saw them at the abc

i'm trying to remember the abc song that kids sang at the saturday morning club :cool:


is this it?

We are the boys and girls well known
as Minors of the ABC
And every Saturday we line up
To see the films we like
And shout aloud with glee
We love to laugh and have a singsong
Such a happy crowd are we
We’re all pals together
The minors of the ABC
 
Is this the most one-sided poll in urban history.

So many great moments in this film, but I think the performance of Peter 'spare me the madness' duncan and his accompanying blue peter diary on the making of the film wins the day.
 
did anyone read the 'novelisation' of the film. i still have it - very bizarre. in one scene, Ming spanks his daughter, and there's a rather incestuous feeling to the whole scene, lots of mention of 'pert buttocks' and the like. fucked up :D
 
Dubversion said:
did anyone read the 'novelisation' of the film. i still have it - very bizarre. in one scene, Ming spanks his daughter, and there's a rather incestuous feeling to the whole scene, lots of mention of 'pert buttocks' and the like. fucked up :D

Well the film has a similar feel. When he does the dancing ring thing his metal faced mate says 'remarkable, she even rivals your daughter' and all that 'release the bore worms' stuff.
 
Louloubelle said:

having first seen these films as a kid at saturday morning cinema (ABC Minors anyone?) I feel deeply dissapointed that the machines of hte future have turned out to look nothing like these marvellous contraptions

I want a martian death ray and I want it now! :D[/QUOTE]

you're suffering from the "Gernsback Continuum".

Mind you, isn't that Buster Crabbe in the tight shorts or am I mistaking my actors? - whoever, he's making me suffer....




oh, and btw: the future will look like that. Go and make some of it. :)
 
what a wonderful thread :)

thing aboiut ABC minors is

it was the early 70s, kids were going to the cinema to see films from the 1930s and sat there singing that song that sounds like it's from the 1940s?


:confused:

The children's film foundation made the worst films ever

the best ones were films about monsters, greek myths, earthquakes, volcanoes, flying saucers and flash gordon. I remember a really good swords and sandals epic where there was an earthquake and all the baddies fell into big cracks in the earth full of molten lava just as they were about to kill the goodies. It was class it was, although I was a bit worried about the baddies horses who all fell into the molten lava, even though they hadn't done anything wrong at all. :(

The clay men used to scare me silly. Anyone ellse remember the clay men?

that is buster crabbe BTW ;)
 
Louloubelle said:
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for me there's just something irresitable about the fabulous costumes, the deco sets and the wonderful machines and gadgets

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hawk1.jpg


having first seen these films as a kid at saturday morning cinema (ABC Minors anyone?) I feel deeply dissapointed that the machines of hte future have turned out to look nothing like these marvellous contraptions

I want a martian death ray and I want it now! :D

And the Russian masterpiece that inspired screen visions of other worlds.
 
Ryazan said:
And the Russian masterpiece that inspired screen visions of other worlds.


wow!

thanks for that

I think I vaguely remember seeing that at ABC minors, what amazing sets :cool:

the queen of mars looks like roddy macdowell though

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It rocks. Everything about it is completely camp and over the top, from the soundtrack to Timothy Dalton's Robin Hood outfit. :D
 
dylanredefined said:
Excellent film if rather silly .Predetor is also a great film if you like that sort of stuff . Chain guns are cool.


how in god's name can you find a parallel between Flash Gordon and Predator? one a great big camp movie stuffed with humour, absurdity and pantomime villainy, the other an alien horror/thriller type action movie.
 
Flash gordon is a great film. There's a good animated one too. I also liked to watch the old black and white series on BBC2 on Saturday mornings - fantastic.

Don't get me started on flesh gordon mind ;)
 
is it true that it isn't actually sam jones' voice during the film as they thought he sounded a bit too squeaky?
 
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