Friday, August 04, 2023

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Movie Review

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This is my first time watching this movie, so according to my new rules, I'm doing this as a video only review.




5 comments:

Whisky Prajer said...

My parents forbade me to see the 1980 Flash Gordon movie (with Max von Sydow as Ming the Merciless!). So of course I went to see it. I still have memories of lining up in the cold winter air outside the theatre.

My parents needn't have worried -- Flash! was a really lame movie. And who knew Freddie Mercury would be such a star after his death? Sing it with me now -- "FLASH!Ah-aaah!"

Whisky Prajer said...

Meant to say: on Star Trek: Voyager Tom Parris has a b+w Holodeck program (with Janeway and Harry Kim) that is clearly modeled after the old Flash Gordon serials.

Joel Swagman said...

I saw that 1980 Flash Gordon movie on a summer afternoon sometimes in the 1990s when it was being re-run on Cable. I was really looking forward to it, and it completely bored me.
It also, I think, put me off Flash Gordon for several years after that. It wasn't until the Internet and Wikipedia came into its own that I began to find out more about this character's hey day in the comic strips and the serials.
I regret never having stuck with Star Trek Voyager. I'd be curious to see the Flash Gordon holodeck thing.
I have in mind that someday I might try to do a Star Trek watch through from beginning to end. Not this year, of course, but perhaps someday.

Whisky Prajer said...

Star Tek: Voyager did an entire episode in b+w devoted to this Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers program in the Holodeck (naturally). I'm sure people were wondering what was wrong with their TV sets.

Joel Swagman said...

I just searched for it now, and saw some clips on Youtube. Not the whole episode (of course), but enough to give me a flavor for it. They certainly got the Flash Gordon aesthetic down pat.