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January 4, 2016 8:07 AM   Subscribe

 
Oh yes.
posted by Artw at 8:16 AM on January 4, 2016


He'll save every one of us, you know.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 8:25 AM on January 4, 2016 [8 favorites]


Nice! I can't read this without immediately turning on the Kleptones "A Night at the Hip-Hopera." It's basically Pavlovian.
posted by anotherpanacea at 8:30 AM on January 4, 2016 [7 favorites]


I have watched this movie too many times.
posted by GuyZero at 8:31 AM on January 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


HOT HAIL
posted by MCMikeNamara at 8:34 AM on January 4, 2016 [6 favorites]


The early part of this article sure talks a lot about Star Wars, which everybody knows Feddy Mercury DOESN'T LIKE.
posted by Artw at 8:35 AM on January 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


Fellini eventually declined, but by 1977, with Lucas’s smash still ringing the box-office tills like no film in decades De Laurentiis decided to cash in on his option. And for a director he had a startling idea: Nicolas Roeg.

This films directorial history is fucking weird, up to ad including Hodges.
posted by Artw at 8:39 AM on January 4, 2016 [3 favorites]


I remember for a time the BBC had a habit of putting this on every Boxing Day afternoon and of course I would dutifully watch it... and then, because everything has turned to rubbish, they stopped doing it. So obviously I bought the DVD and carried on. Though I do admit I have been known to miss the odd year, like this year.... but next year I promise! No please, not the bore worms!
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 8:41 AM on January 4, 2016 [4 favorites]


“Once I realised the film was in many ways out my control, I relaxed and made it up as I went along. I loved it.”
posted by Artw at 8:42 AM on January 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


Max von Sydow arrived as a pal of De Laurentiis, as did Broadway belter Topol.

...
“I heard that they were doing Flash Gordon, they’d virtually cast it I think but they hadn't cast Vultan,” booms Brian Blessed to Empire about his own snagging of a role which would become career defining. “I was asked to go along and meet Mike Hodges. And there was Dino. I said, 'I’m bloody made for this. I saw it as a child. If you don’t give it to me I’m going to bloody kill you'.

Wow. Hell of a cast to just drop out of the sky.
posted by Artw at 8:46 AM on January 4, 2016 [12 favorites]


I unabashedly and unashamedly *adore* this movie, it's soundtrack and everything to do with it. It's just pure unadulterated fun. I will quote this movie until the day I die. In fact, just before I slip from this mortal coil I will ensure that the last thing I do is insist that war rocket Ajax is dispatched to pick up my body.
posted by longbaugh at 8:49 AM on January 4, 2016 [12 favorites]


Thank you for schooling this Orb fan on where the samples from the second song on one of the world's greatest albums (Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld) came from...
posted by zyxwvut at 8:49 AM on January 4, 2016 [5 favorites]


It was during this frenzied period that Sam Jones fell out with De Laurentis and embarked on an ill-advised strike, requiring Hodges to redub the dialogue he and sound mixer Ivan Sharrock couldn’t salvage with a still, despite Empire’s best efforts, unidentified vocal stand-in. The precise details of the origins of the conflict are as lost in the mists of time as the exact proportion of the redubbed lines. (About five percent says Hodges. Pretty much all of it, Jones has claimed.)

Wow. I had no idea. Although it's not like I'm actually listening to him in those leather shorts.
posted by dnash at 8:53 AM on January 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


Onward my brave Hawkmen! DIIIIIVE!!
posted by leotrotsky at 8:55 AM on January 4, 2016 [8 favorites]


Go Flash Go!

My daughter loves this movie, in all of it's high-camp cheesiness and laughable special effects (but hates both Star Wars and Highlander, for which I have disowned her). She regularly inflicts it on unsuspecting friends whenever they come over to her apartment for long weekends, sometimes winning a convert or two in the process.
posted by Old'n'Busted at 8:57 AM on January 4, 2016 [3 favorites]


Okay, a great cast AND the two leads, who were in there doing something. Ooh look, Ornella Muti.
posted by Artw at 8:57 AM on January 4, 2016 [1 favorite]


I too love this movie with an unabashed, un-ironic joy.

It's too much fun, and there is too much going on and it's sooo pulpy, and Technicolor.. and I just realised I don't own it on DVD and I need to amend that stat!
posted by Faintdreams at 8:59 AM on January 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


ffs: I have always regarded this as an Xmas film (e.g.), but without really knowing why. It must be the BBC's fault. I also missed this year but will put it on next year.

By some bizarre fluke of scheduling the BFI did a screening of Flash in the little out of the way Cornish town I live in as part of its big SF review in late 2014. They got Hodges to come along and do an hour or so of Q&A beforehand, and he was pretty great about putting up with geeky questions about it and certainly knows how to spin an anecdote. He was excellent value and basically the kind of person you aspire to be when you in your 80s, lively, funny and with great stories to tell of what he's got up to. I got the impression it was not the thing he is most proud of and that he preferred to work on developing the ideas up with his own team rather than being brought in to service stuff that was already well developed and he essentially said some of the same stuff the article says about just getting on with De Laurentiis' crazy ideas. I think he thought it was crazy that it had become this big cult thing.
posted by biffa at 9:02 AM on January 4, 2016


Weird thing that differentiates this from 99% of SF action movies: if a character finds a gun and uses it, they keep the thing instead of throwing it away. If they then find a bigger gun they grab that.

It's anti-Abrams.
posted by Artw at 9:06 AM on January 4, 2016 [3 favorites]


The soundtrack is the first Album I ever owned.

(second album was 2001: A Space Oddessey. First single was Ghostbusters)
posted by Artw at 9:08 AM on January 4, 2016 [3 favorites]


The end
?
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 9:09 AM on January 4, 2016 [6 favorites]


Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
posted by Artw at 9:10 AM on January 4, 2016 [4 favorites]


But the Queen Greatest Hits track 14 version is better than anything on the album.
posted by biffa at 9:10 AM on January 4, 2016


I can't figure out how to type the SCHHWIINNG sound when the ring is picked up.
posted by tayknight at 9:11 AM on January 4, 2016 [3 favorites]


Brian Blessed has recently published an new autobiography - 'Absolute Pandemonium'

Here's a bit from the intro...


My previous five tomes, all of which I am tremendously proud, came from my head, if you see what I mean. I sat there for months on end and I thought and I wrote and I thought and I wrote. But this is something far more spontaneous. It is a conversation piece, if you will – which is why I must ask a favour of you. You must read the book with my voice in mind, as if I were there with you. This is very important.

You see, this is Brian Blessed speaking to you, not Stephen sexy gorgeous Fry! Try and imagine this, I beg of you: try and imagine I am sitting in a huge armchair and I am reading this to you and you only. I want to leap out of the pages at you! Not literally, of course. I mean, where on earth would you keep me? I’m quite a size.

The book does get a little bit racy at times, and you will find one or two naughty words along the way, but I promise you it’s all there for a reason, alright? You see, when I think, I don’t swear, which is why all my previous books are relatively clean; but when I talk, I do. It’s just something that happens!

It was suggested that I might wish to remove some of the more colourful language . . . but then it would no longer be my book, would it? It’d be more Thora Hird than Brian Blessed, and that would never do. But mark my words, dear reader, I do not swear for the sake of swearing. Oh no. When I swear, I BLOODY WELL MEAN TO SWEAR! (Did you imagine me shouting just then? You see, you’re getting it.) Anyway, if you can get over the blue language, we’ll get along just fine. Forewarned is forearmed and all that.

So, are you excited? I hope you are! This book is all about fun and adventure. It’s a romp! There are some sombre moments, but I flatter myself that I can give even the saddest event a whimsical edge. I am an optimist, you see. A HUGE great bearded smiley optimist with a sunny disposition and ‘can do’ attitude, and that’s what I try to get across in this book. Whatever you want to do in life, just go for it! Grab it by the scruff of the neck and shake the bugger until you’re there.

posted by fearfulsymmetry at 9:12 AM on January 4, 2016 [32 favorites]


You get the idea
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 9:12 AM on January 4, 2016 [3 favorites]


My third grade music teacher read us The Rainbow Goblins while we listened to Hall of the Mountain King, and then, later that year when the Flash Gordon movie came out she said, "Now, please don't go home and say this is homework, or an assignment, BUT, the illustrator of the Rainbow Goblins worked on this movie and if you happen to go see it you should pay close attention to the clouds and skies."

So of course, I went home and told my mom that we were assigned to go see Flash Gordon. I don't think she bought it, exactly, but she drove me and my brother to the Ruth Gordon Flick and gave us a couple of bucks for Jujubes.

I loved, and love this movie. Great soundtrack, great balanced tone of action and camp and high design. Great clouds and skies.

Oh, and: FAZZA! NOT THE BORE WORMS! FAZZAAA!
posted by dirtdirt at 9:13 AM on January 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


One of my favorite payoffs to Blessed's casting is when he opened an episode of Have I Got News for You with GORDON'S ALIVE?!?!
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 9:16 AM on January 4, 2016 [4 favorites]


Did you imagine me shouting just then? You see, you’re getting it.

I am never not imagining this as shouting.
posted by Artw at 9:17 AM on January 4, 2016 [10 favorites]


Check the angular vector of the moon!
posted by RobotHero at 9:19 AM on January 4, 2016


Flash! I love you! But we only have 14 hours to safe the Earth!
posted by suelac at 9:21 AM on January 4, 2016 [3 favorites]


I was a complete Queenophile in 1980. Owned all of their albums, vinyl and cassette. When I saw that trailer, heard that music, I thought I was dreaming. Then Music by Queen at the end. I was the Fry meme.
posted by Splunge at 9:30 AM on January 4, 2016 [1 favorite]


But the Queen Greatest Hits track 14 version is better than anything on the album.

The epitome of everything Flash is the 2011 remastered Battle Theme - Flash!
posted by Molesome at 9:39 AM on January 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


The recent documentary about the failed Jodorosky Dune film that De Laurentis also produced made it pretty clear that some of the amazing costumes and event some shots just might have been cribbed from Mobeius' pre-production Dune work.
posted by thecjm at 9:43 AM on January 4, 2016


The only real downside of Queen doing such amazing soundtrack work is that due to licensing issues the Flash Gordon theme had to be cut from their Live in Montreal concert bluray. Which is a damn shame.
posted by thecjm at 9:46 AM on January 4, 2016


The recent documentary about the failed Jodorosky Dune film that De Laurentis also produced made it pretty clear that some of the amazing costumes and event some shots just might have been cribbed from Mobeius' pre-production Dune work.

I don't know, I suspect it's pretty much it's own crazy thing. Most of the concept artists for Dube did end up on Alien though.
posted by Artw at 9:51 AM on January 4, 2016


Came to also express my unabashed love for the movie. I always meant to do a Flash Gordon post, but inertia always gets the better of me. Still, here is a a small article which has some of the above and some different bits.

I have tried to convince my husband to love this movie. And while I think he appreciated the came and loves the queen, he doesn't love the movie the same way. I fall into nostalgic warm fuzzies every time I rewatch.

as an aside, anyone know where it can be found streaming. I have a copy of it somewhere, but streaming is so much easier.

And we're not going to talk about the awful, awful thing Syfy did to the franchise when they tried to make it as a TV series that was really SG1 but with a different cast. You assholes! You had the opportunity to do something amazing, or at least not so templated and boring.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 9:55 AM on January 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


I once asked my friend Jamal (the nerdiest guy I know, and that's a compliment) what his 'on deck' song would be, the song that got him pumped and swaggering. He of course, answered that Queen's Flash Gordon theme would be the one. I can dig it.
posted by jonmc at 9:56 AM on January 4, 2016


I think Fellini's Flash Gordon and Jodorowsky's Dune would have been exactly the same movie.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 10:15 AM on January 4, 2016 [8 favorites]


Scenese as I would have shot them:

Flunkie: "Flash Gordon approaching!"
General Kala: "What do you mean, Flash Gordon approaching?"
Flunkie: "Um... He's getting nearer to us? Like, we are stationary, and he is coming closer? We are speaking the same language, General Kala, right?"

I think of this so much, that I find myself saying "What do you mean, Flash Gordon approaching?" In moments of stress. It makes me feel better.
posted by GenjiandProust at 10:21 AM on January 4, 2016 [9 favorites]


That Flunkie would be so stabbed.
posted by Artw at 10:23 AM on January 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


One of my favorite tweets ever.

My three-year-old son will say "ah-ah!" when I say pants to him in the right tone, because for something like a year I would sing to him as I dressed him. "Pants! Ah-ah! They'll keep your legs warm. Do do do do do dooooo. Pants! Ah-ah. They'll cover up your butt. Do do do do do dooooo..." I'm not really sure why

booms Brian Blessed ... I said, 'I’m bloody made for this. I saw it as a child. If you don’t give it to me I’m going to bloody kill you'.

Wow. Hell of a cast to just drop out of the sky.


I just snorted coffee onto my shirt. Thanks a lot.
posted by phearlez at 10:28 AM on January 4, 2016 [7 favorites]


That Flunkie would be so stabbed.

I think incinerated, but, yes, we agree.
posted by GenjiandProust at 10:30 AM on January 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


I just want all of you to know that as soon as I saw the FPP, my face lit up like a kid's on Christmas morning. At work. In a meeting. Where I shouldn't have been looking at my phone. I may not have a job at the end of the afternoon but FearfulSymmetry, you saved Monday!
posted by KingEdRa at 10:32 AM on January 4, 2016 [3 favorites]


I don't mean to disrupt the thread, but wanted to pass along the latest about this morning's unprecedented solar eclipse. Apparently, it is no cause for alarm. I'm hearing that there will be a live stream with Dr. Hans Zarkov, formerly of NASA, to provide an explanation shortly.
posted by nubs at 10:39 AM on January 4, 2016 [10 favorites]


I get that releasing something like this nowadays would be virtually impossible in our grim and gritty superheroes world but goddamnit but I wish there were something out there right now in the realm of film that was just balls to the wall crazy like Flash Gordon was (and is, and will ever be). Alan Moore's Watchmen had a huge effect on comics and he seems to regret a lot of his influence from many interviews I've read with him. Grimdark seems to have become the norm but sometimes fun is just fun, sometimes it's FUN! and that's what Flash Gordon is. A proper throwback to four colour excess and camp adventure.

It probably helped that I used to watch King of the Rocket Men when I was a really young kid being re-run on Saturday morning British TV. I will also at this point admit that I also adore the everloving shit out of Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze as well (and the books which I used to pick up for about 20p each from a used book store in the early 1980s). That same store also used to carry a lot of The Destroyer and K'ing of Kung Fu books. That was the best book shop ever for a 10 year old with a hankering for dubious pulp stories.

What I'm essentially admitting here is that I like reading and watching absolute shite. I now want to inflict that taste on to the moviegoing and reading public.
posted by longbaugh at 10:40 AM on January 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


Max Von Sydow's Ming The Merciless is my favorite movie villain of all times. I think it's because he's clearly having so much fun camping it up.

(Second and third favorite villains are both James Earl Jones: Thulsa Doom from Conan The Barbarian, and of course, Darth Vader.)
posted by vibrotronica at 10:41 AM on January 4, 2016


That tree with all of the nooks and the poison, stinging animal lurking inside... it still haunts me.

But it always bugged me that there weren't enough Hawkmen to spell out both words at once and instead we got

THANKS






FLASH
posted by blueberry at 10:52 AM on January 4, 2016 [4 favorites]


That Flunkie would be so stabbed.

I think incinerated, but, yes, we agree.


Definitely something that allowed for more screaming.
posted by biffa at 11:05 AM on January 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


Just remember, if you're assuming, you're making an ass out of U and Ming.
posted by straight at 11:07 AM on January 4, 2016 [5 favorites]


That tree with all of the nooks and the poison, stinging animal lurking inside... it still haunts me.

"Dad, why are they killing the Blue Peter man?"
posted by longbaugh at 11:11 AM on January 4, 2016 [3 favorites]


I read the first part of that BRIAN BLESSED quote as, "My previous five tonnes, all of which I am tremendously proud", which also kind of works. I also wish they'd said a little bit more about the relatively recent and very short live-action series; someone got the bright idea to redo Ming as a sort of bland quasi-Nazi dictator; I can appreciate the spirit of reinvention and getting away from the crypto-Orientalism a bit, but the few people who tuned in called him "Ming the Middle Manager."
posted by Halloween Jack at 11:14 AM on January 4, 2016


THE GREATEST SCI-FI EPIC OF ALL TIME.
posted by scaryblackdeath at 11:16 AM on January 4, 2016


Max Von Sydow's Ming The Merciless is my favorite movie villain of all times. I think it's because he's clearly having so much fun camping it up.

If you haven't seen Jupiter Ascending in all its wonderful silly glory, you need to run and do this right now so you can enjoy Whathisface Abraxas. wheezymumble mumble wheeze SCREAMY SCREAM SCREAM mumble!
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:50 AM on January 4, 2016 [4 favorites]


♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩FLASH! AH-AH!
posted by yeolcoatl at 11:56 AM on January 4, 2016 [1 favorite]


"Dad, why are they killing the Blue Peter man?"

Its to spare him the madness, pay attention boy.
posted by biffa at 12:15 PM on January 4, 2016 [5 favorites]


I should mention when I got home this evening I turned on the ipod to play while I was washing the dishes and it was already set to play 'Flash' on repeat.
posted by biffa at 12:17 PM on January 4, 2016


Two things:

1.) We used to have a cat named Blanche (RIP), who was a little...chompy. We took to singing "BLANCHE! Ah-ahhhh! She'll bite every one of us!".

2.) When the film came out, I was nine and taking some sort of summer class for kids--pottery, cartooning, that kind of thing--and the Flash Gordon soundtrack was playing in the background. I remember one of the older kids telling me that the band was called Queen because Freddie Mercury was gay, which blew my tiny little nine-year-old small-Southern-town mind. I think up to that point I'd been aware of gay people as a concept, but never actually attached the concept to an actual person. (It was 1980 and I was kind of a sheltered young lad.)
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 12:22 PM on January 4, 2016 [1 favorite]


Hey it just about passes the The Bechdel test

Oh man, can you imagine a character like Princess Aura in today's toy selling bland-a-thon science fiction films.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 12:38 PM on January 4, 2016 [1 favorite]


One of the reasons I know I have the right partner in life is how much he loves this movie. Flash Gordon quotes and song lyrics abound in the blurker household. It's been several months since it was on cable here, but now will I need to watch it again. Flash! Ahh ahhh!
posted by blurker at 12:44 PM on January 4, 2016


Sick at home today, so now I'm watching it.

Why is Flash wearing a shirt with his own name on it?
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 12:47 PM on January 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


If you were as awesome as Flash, you would know why.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 12:48 PM on January 4, 2016 [4 favorites]


I get that releasing something like this nowadays would be virtually impossible in our grim and gritty superheroes world

I think that's a slightly harder case to make now, with the success of - perhaps not coincidentally? - the tv show The Flash. And now Supergirl, from the same folks. The movies are slower to change, though Marvel's Ant-Man was certainly almost as light as Flash Gordon. And clearly nobody at DC is willing to make a Batmovie that doesn't ape at least a little of Dark Knight. But I think there's some positive signs there.
posted by phearlez at 1:00 PM on January 4, 2016


I loved this movie as a kid. I must watch it again!

And I agree. That stump!
posted by persona au gratin at 1:01 PM on January 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


I would love it if the Wachowskis would fully commit to embracing this aesthetic for their next film. They were almost there with Jupiter Ascending.


Also, Channing Tatum would probably make a pretty decent Flash.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 1:08 PM on January 4, 2016 [1 favorite]


I get that releasing something like this nowadays would be virtually impossible in our grim and gritty superheroes world

The Valentine's Day release of Deadpool may give you hope.
posted by hanov3r at 1:27 PM on January 4, 2016 [3 favorites]


I would love it if the Wachowskis would fully commit to embracing this aesthetic for their next film. They were almost there with Jupiter Ascending.

They already nailed it with Speed Racer (not a joke).
posted by straight at 1:46 PM on January 4, 2016 [5 favorites]


ALL CREATURES WILL MAKE MERRY



UNDER PAIN OF DEATH
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 1:59 PM on January 4, 2016 [9 favorites]


'Are your men on the right pills?' I like to say that to puzzled relatives while their football team loses.
posted by ian1977 at 4:01 PM on January 4, 2016 [15 favorites]


What a great movie. Also, first place I saw Richard O'Brien and Deep Roy, whose other works I have enjoyed immensely since.
posted by davelog at 4:40 PM on January 4, 2016


'Are your men on the right pills?' I like to say that to puzzled relatives while their football team loses.

*BONK*
posted by Artw at 4:43 PM on January 4, 2016 [6 favorites]


Nothing is better than being on the highway when my mp3 player randomly pulls up the Flash Gordon theme. "Arm topside! Stop all engines! Prepare to repel boarders!" And then I go real fast.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 5:25 PM on January 4, 2016 [3 favorites]


"Dad, why are they killing the Blue Peter man?"

It's something we must do to become men.
posted by sebastienbailard at 7:23 PM on January 4, 2016 [1 favorite]


Are your men on the right pills?

Maybe you should execute their trainer.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 9:17 PM on January 4, 2016 [4 favorites]


I saw this movie around the time I saw Empire.

I'm still waiting for my goddamn sequel.
Sam Jones, Timothy Dalton and BRIAN BLESSED are still alive, and so is Max Van Sydow.

MAKE IT HAPPEN.
posted by Mezentian at 12:50 AM on January 5, 2016 [2 favorites]


A dear friend came to visit me when Flash Gordon came out, and we went to see it. We were in our late teens. We got to Timothy Dalton's line: "I knew you were up to something, though I'll confess I hadn't thought of necrophilia." Daniel and I burst out laughing. And quickly realized we were the only ones. I turned around, curious, and caught the dagger-glare of a mother who knew her three tots were going to ask about that later.
posted by bryon at 1:17 AM on January 5, 2016 [1 favorite]


Is it just me, or did Dale's killing of half-a-dozen guards when escaping Ming's palace seem a little gratuitous? Didn't seem like she was having any problems evading them. She goes total Black Widow, does a flip and everything.
posted by um at 2:31 AM on January 5, 2016 [1 favorite]


Dr Zarkov's speech about how he resisted the mind control ray - "I started to recite Shakespeare, the Talmud, the formulas of Einstein, anything I could remember - even a song from the Beatles. It armoured me, girl! They couldn't wipe those things away! You can't beat the human spirit!" - is the creed I try to live by.

Flash Gordon, the humanist Star Wars.
posted by Mocata at 2:52 AM on January 5, 2016 [5 favorites]


Oh and in my household we regularly say, in our best von Sydow growls, "Pathetic earthlings! Hurling your puny bodies into the void..." Also, "They call them tears. It's a sign of their weakness."
posted by Mocata at 2:56 AM on January 5, 2016 [3 favorites]


Also, "They call them tears. It's a sign of their weakness."


That's how to write a MeFi bad guy.
posted by biffa at 3:34 AM on January 5, 2016 [2 favorites]


"Dad, why are they killing the Blue Peter man?"

I remember them actually having a warning on the show when the film was being broadcast on tv that week... 'He's just acting / pretending kids'
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 3:43 AM on January 5, 2016


So I as I said I used to watch it every time it was on tv... and would look forward to the gaff where Melody Anderson playing Dale Arden would use actor Sam Jones real name instead of his character name. Towards the beginning of the film just after the plane there are on crashes into Zarkoff's lab and she says 'Hold me... Sam'. There's quite a bit of background noise at that point but I was pretty damn certain that that was what she said. However once I had it on DVD and could watch it with subtitles I saw she actually says 'Hold me for a second'. Man I was soooo dissapointed.

Also not long after I bought a bare bones DVD, an all singing and dancing one came out (well with a director commentary at least). Gutted there too.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 6:09 AM on January 5, 2016


Q:Why should they make a Flash Gordon remake?

A:Blessed is aliiiiive!!!!!
posted by ian1977 at 6:37 AM on January 5, 2016 [3 favorites]


Not remake. Sequel. With as many of the surviving original actors as possible.

Elevator pitch: Flash, Dale and Zarkov have been stuck on Mongo for 40 years. They have had countless adventures, but never found a way back to Earth. Ming has been "killed" 7 times, but it has been ten years since they last saw him. They have had children, and the children have married natives. Now, with Flash and Dale expecting their first grandchild, circumstances arise that could finally let them return to Earth, but will they take it?
posted by fings at 6:54 AM on January 5, 2016 [6 favorites]


I typed remake but I meant sequel :P
posted by ian1977 at 8:02 AM on January 5, 2016 [1 favorite]


'Are your men on the right pills?' I like to say that to puzzled relatives while their football team loses.
Executing Marc Trestman wouldn't have been that unwarranted last year.

When I'm playing a football game, I usually give the Jets a scrambling QB named after Flash because of the movie.
posted by lmfsilva at 8:13 AM on January 5, 2016 [1 favorite]


I have told a friend of mine on several occasions[1], one of the challenges of enjoying the movie now is suspension of disbelief. Flying hawk men, spaceships, etc, okay, but come on - a Jets QB winning in the end?

[1] It's somewhat a mystery why he's still my friend...
posted by phearlez at 10:25 AM on January 5, 2016


fings: HERE IS ALL OF MY MONEY
posted by webmutant at 10:25 AM on January 5, 2016 [1 favorite]


Before this thread is archived, I'll point out that the 1981 arcade game Vanguard unapologetically lifted Vultan's theme from the movie.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 7:49 PM on January 7, 2016 [2 favorites]




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