Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe - Chapters 1 To 6 (DVD)

If Flash Gordon cleaned Emperor Ming's carpets...

Advantages: Best Suction in Category. Narrow head allows better access in car
Disadvantages: Marmite styling (love it or hate it!)

...he'd use the Dyson DC16 Root 6. For a 38 year old man it takes a certain kind of day to find yourself reviewing a hand held vacuum cleaner. To be precise...a Friday, if you know what I mean! Dyson techno-babble: - Claims twice the power of other hand held vacuums. To be honest I wouldn't have invested nearly £90 if all it could manage was twice the power of my Black & Decker, which would struggle to pick up a cornflake if it was a particularly hairy. I'm pleased to announce the Dyson exceeds my expectations and I ensure it points to the ground so as not to affect the moons orbit. - Root Cyclone technology Pardon? Really not sure what Mr Dyson was trying to impart with this statement, but "Flash" would probably need to change his trousers. - Claims up to 3 times faster charge: If you use a rechargeable ...

Stevejames 16.03.2007 · Read full review
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"Gordon's Alive?"

Advantages: Brian Blessed's in it shouting "DIVE" alot! And it's got the best soundtrack to a film... ever!
Disadvantages: Maybe to camp and colourful for some. Avoid if you lack a sense of humour or are looking for something high-brow.

FLASH GORDON "Flash - a-ah - saviour of the universe. Flash - a-ah - he'll save every one of us." Or so the Queen soundtrack goes over the comic-book enriched title credits (something Spiderman 2 would later borrow). It serves to get the audience's toes immediately tapping in anticipation for the film to begin outright and, for some bizarre reason, coupled with the spandex pants, phallic shaped spaceships, an over-developed sense for bright, garish colours and Brian Blessed shouting "DIVE" to his birdman hordes whenever he gets the chance, Flash Gordon comes across as a deliriously brilliant, camp piece of outrageous space opera cinematics. Indeed, with these hallmarks, it's impossible to imagine a movie that's more innocently entertaining (only Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure seems to usurp Flash Gordon to such a title ...

clownfoot 06.09.2005 · Read full review
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Where Sci-fi began!

Advantages: Ground breaking special effects
Disadvantages: all of those screaming women...enough already!!!

For those of you who have not had the joy of the original Flash Gordon cinematic episodes and don't know what to expect, may I suggest (in a rather geeky way) that you check out season 5 of Voyager. In Series 5 Captain Janeway plays Arachnia-Queen of the Spider people...it is genius and the black and white holodeck sums up the feel of the original (and by far the best) Flash Gordon series (those of you who have witnessed the hideous 'remake' on Sci Fi Channel will know what I am talking about!) The Flash Gordon story is well known and involves the heroics of Flash, Dale and Zarkov as they battle Ming (The Merciless) to save Earth from his hideous weapons. There are some great things in the original series that I loved and I think they make it unique. 1) One of the first Cinema series to use huge amounts of special effects. Remember ...

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