Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe - Chapters 7 To 12 (DVD)

"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 ...

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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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Savior Of The Universe, King Of The Impossible

Advantages: A cult film in every sense of the word
Disadvantages: you will find out...and they are disturbing!!!

**************************************************************************** TITLE: Flash Gordon RATING: **** CAST: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Timothy Dalton, Ornella Muti, Max Von Sydow, Topol, Brian Blessed, Richard O?Brian, Peter Wyngarde, Mariangela Melato, John Osbourne, Phillip Stone, Robbie Coltrane. DIRECTOR: Mike Hodges SCREENWRITER: Lorenxo Semple, Jr.; Michael Allin (adaptation) STUDIO: Universal Pictures / Famous Films RUNNING TIME: 111 MIN. RATED: PG (UK & US); for comic book style violence and sensuality. *********************************************************************** STAR WARS WANNABE *********************************************************************** I?m not going to lie to you, dear Ciao readers. The 1980 update of FLASH GORDON can be ...

eve6kicksass 26.12.2003 (30.04.2007) · Read full review
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