FLASH GORDON (1980) MOVIE REACTION! FIRST TIME WATCHING!
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sci-fi movie Flash Gordon, in this first time watching reaction video! Flash Gordon tells the story of a football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
The film was written by Mike Hodges and written by Lorenzo Semple Jr. Flash Gordon stars Sam J. Jones as Flash Gordon, Max von Sydow as The Emperor Ming, Melody Anderson as Dale Arden, Topol as Dr. Hans Zarkov, Ornella Muti as Princess Aura, Timothy Dalton as Prince Barin, Brian Blessed as Prince Vultan, Peter Wyngarde as Klytus, Mariangela Melato as Kala and Richard O'Brien as Fico.
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Jen: "He seems way too excited about this."
That's arguably Brian Blessed's onscreen career in a nutshell.
Haha he was so fun to watch!
he is a unique person..in real life
And Black Adder the 1st TV show as The King.
Flash Gordon isn't a bad movie. It's cheesy as all hell, but not bad. The Queen soundtrack is amazing too.
It's pretty much a cult classic these days although I think it was panned by critics and did just okay at the box office.
@@Shadowman4710 it was a hit in the UK because Queen and Brian Blessed
its pure fun
@@Shadowman4710My parents saw it in the theater a few months after they were married. But then, they’ve told me they went to see pretty much ANY movie that played somewhere near them back during the almost 2-year period between their marriage and my birth. I remember them saying they enjoyed this one, though… or they at least enjoyed the soundtrack.
"Gordon's ALIVE?!"
Fun Facts: Brian Blessed was a huge Flash Gordon/Prince Vultan fan, so he had absolute blast making this movie. In fact, he had too much fun sometimes. According to Brian Blessed himself, it took about three days to prepare the Ajax sequence and put everything, including dozens of hanging Hawkmen, in place. Blessed put in his own special effects, going "pew pew pew" as he "shot" his cardboard bazooka. Because of this, they had to take another day to reset. Blessed didn't feel too bad, as Sam J. Jones was also a pretty hot hand with his prop gun, also filling in the "pew pew's".
Just seeing those words i hear his voice, you cannot even say GORDONS ALIVE without saying it like him ;)
DIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!
Yes!!! Including"FLYING BLIND ON A ROCKET CYCLE? "
Flash Gordon wasn't a Marvel or DC character, Jen. It was published by King Features syndicate in the 1930s and 1940s and was created by Alex Raymond. The story was loosely inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs Princess of Mars, and Flash Gordon was created to compete against the Buck Rogers comic book series.
If I'm not mistaking, it was a long running comic strip as well.
@@LeviAckerman-cb5ji Yes, I know. The comic strip was created by Alex Raymond and published by King Features Syndicate, like I said.
King Features? Didn't they produce Popeye?
@@jean-paulaudette9246 I don't remember. Possibly. lol
Fun fact: Both Flash and Buck were played by Buster Crabbe!
In case no one else has commented this, the character Flash Gordon was originally from a newspaper comic strip by legendary cartoonist Alex Raymond and first published in 1934 - pre-dating Superman, Batman and all of Marvel Comics. (The character was actually a response to the very popular Buck Rogers comic strip.) Comic strips of that era were the only place people could see fantasy and science fiction (alien planets, fantastic creatures, etc.) come to life.
Yes, Queen did the music for Flash Gordon, Jen. This was their first movie soundtrack, and Queen would later do music for the soundtrack to the movie Highlander in 1986.
I was so excited! I had no idea!
I guess you can say, this movie got me into the music from Queen. And glad I saw the movie bohemian rhapsody that is about Queen and rise to stardom
Freddie Mercury also contributed to the soundtrack for Giorgio Moroder's "restoration" of Metropolis in 1984, although I'm not sure if the rest of Queen were involved in the soundtrack for that, I think it was part of Freddie's solo career, but Queen *did* then use footage from Metropolis, and sets inspired directly by it, in the official music video for Radio Gaga.
Prince Barin is Timothy Dalton, who played James Bond, amongst his many acclaimed roles.
Yes! That’s it!
@@ReelReviewsWithJen watch barberella and night of the demons from 1988😊
@@ReelReviewsWithJen He goes way back. Other roles include The Lion in Winter and an Erroll Flynn-like villain in The Rocketeer.
@@bfdidc6604 LOVE LOVE "The Lion in Winter," more than there are words for.
That was underrated awesome bond movie.
“GET YOUR TOOTHBRUSH AND WHATEVER.” Brilliant Chaim Topol, completely over the top even when whispering.
Haha so good! Thanks for watching!
Ming's whole philosophy is that he can't afford to have any civilization in the galaxy that can challenge him. That's why he tests every planet he comes across by bombarding them with natural catastrophes, and if his attack is interpreted as acts of nature, he leaves that planet alone as it is of no threat. But if Ming's intervention is detected, he destroys that planet as it is deemed a potential adversary should it evolve into an advanced space civilization. Simply put, ain't gonna be no United Federation of Planets on Ming's watch. This universe belongs to him.
They don't call him Ming the Merciless for nothing :P
A Princess of Mars was the first story to kick off all these kinds of stories about 100 years ago and influenced Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Superman, Star Wars, Avatar. It was made as a movie called John Carter in 2012 which is well worth watching.
John Carter definitely deserves more attention.
Flash Gordon started off in a comic strip back in January 7th 1934
Max von Sydow, who played Emperor Ming in this movie and Father Merrin in *The Exorcist* , was also in a few movies by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, who is considered one of the greatest directors of all time.
I haven't seen The Exorcist 😬 I've heard of Ingmar Bergman but haven't seen a ton of his films. Thanks for watching!
You haven't seen *The Exorcist* ??? [gasp!] I actually know a couple of people who think it's so bad it's good, but of course most people think it's great. As far as Bergman goes, *The Seventh Seal* is a great movie and a good starting place for exploring his movies.
He was also the scientist/brewmeister in Strange brew, with the Makenzie brothers (Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas) in Strange Brew. The movie I will always remember him from most.
@@MNolton both Strange Brew and Conan the Barbarian.
You might remember Max Von Sydow, who plays Emperor Ming the Merciless, from The Exorcist, Jen. He played Father Merrin, who performed the exorcism on Linda Blair's character. He's a veteran Hollywood actor who's been in a lot of movies over the decades.
And, if I may say so, Von Sydow is EXCELLENT in the role, as always he was.
Don't forget Conan the Barbarian playing the king. It upped the credibility of the movie since this was Arnold's was only lead actor in a few movies up to that point.
He was also great in the little known Canadian film strange brew.
And it's von Sy-Dow not von Snow-Den
He was also in "Three Days of the Condor."
To answer your question. Flash Gordon doesn't have any superpowers. The Flash and Flash Gordon are two different characters both based on comic books. But the Flash is a superhero that can move at high speeds. Flash Gordon on the other hand is a hero with no superpowers.
Ah okay good to know! Thanks for watching!
He's just a man, with a man's courage, he knows nothing but a man but he can never fail
And just like “Big Trouble In Little China”, all this fantasy special effects otherworldly stuff is going on, and the entire cast must play it with a straight face, as if this is all totally, TOTALLY serious. All the while handing us continuous “Wizard of Oz” references. It’s parading around in front of the audience with the most ridiculous circus, - scored by QUEEN (the decision of which, by the way, at the time, was viewed as both “Cool!” and *“What??”* back then...you saw the trailer, heard the rockin’ music, and then decided ‘Well I might just have to see this to believe it’).
The whole package, including Lorenzo Semple - who had done a similarly excellent job with the 1976 “King Kong” for De Laurentiis, (which you really should see btw) ... same thing, remake a classic as a comedy-satire romp - Semple had scripted the 1966 *hugely successful* BATMAN TV show with Adam West, and was considered the top floor in deadpan comedy satire writers, what a comedy mind Semple had .....
I watched the original 1935 Flash Gordon serials on TV in the 70s, so when I saw this remake I was coming from there. Originally a wildly imaginative newspaper strip by Alex Raymond, and this 1980 film had the budget to DO what could not be done visually in 1935.
Agreed rodd I saw the serials on UA-cam and saw this movie in 1998 on the scifi channel when I was 14 at the time 😊
Of the old serials that played on Saturday morning TV when I was a kid my favorite were the Commando Cody ones.
Alex Raymond was a genius who revolutionized the Sunday strip with Flash before WWII and the Daily Strip with Rip Kirby after the war. From the grandiosity of Flash to the economy of storytelling in Rip Kirby. A true comics icon who doesn’t get enough credit to the public at large.
Oh yes, I remember that. Flash (Buster Crabbe) imprisoned by the Hawkmen and forced to shovel radioactive materials into a furnace to help keep their flying citadel aloft.
Obviously no safety regulations on Planet Mongo. 🤨
That's where I saw flash
Two things that the film 'Flash Gordon' did an excellent job of was: 1. Introducing me to Max Von Sydow and: 2. Introducing me to the music of Queen 🤘
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That first scene you showed of the Hawkmen flying gave me flashbacks o' the 3 parrots making Rod and Natalie's first date/after dinner stroll through the park magical scene in Birdemic: Shock And Terror 🥴
Max Von Sydow played a role in "Strange Brew," the greatest Canadian movie of all time. Then, there's Timothy Dalton, (hopefully) well known for playing James Bond.
@@jameshenner5831 and Jesus in greatest story ever miscast.
Best wedding vows ever!
Such dedication and true love!
This is one of my favourite campy sci-fi films, especially with that Queen soundtrack ! My other campy sci-fi favs are Barbarella (1960's), and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1970's).
It's so good! YES! I love Rocky Horror and I'll add Barbarella to the list, thanks for watching!
Sam J. Jones appears in TED (2012) AND Ted 2 (2015) as himself ( cameos) there is also a 2017 documentary about him called Life After Flash
I've seen Ted but not the sequel, I didn't know he had his own documentary! I'll add it to the list!
This is a comedy triumph from screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Junior. Insanely tongue-in-cheek throughout.
Flash is old old school for Superheroes like around the same time as The Shadow and The Phantom
And check out Buckaroo Bonzai for an homage to heroes of that era (with a dash of Doc Savage thrown in for good measure.)
Plup Heroes are what they called
Sam Jones, who plays Flash Gordon, was mostly known as a B movie actor in the 1980s, and this is his most well known role to date. Unfortunately, all of his dialogue was dubbed over by another actor in post-production due to a dispute between Jones and producer Dino De Laurentiis which resulted in Jones leaving the production before principal photography had been completed.
He also played an interesting bounty hunter in an episode of Stargate SG1.
He's in "10" with Bo Derek and Dudley Moore.
Shout out to Peter Wyngarde as Klytus... never really gets mentioned ever but gives a wonderful performance here.
Max von Sydow asked to do the role of Ming. He was an avid Flash Gordon fan growing up, so what you're seeing is him having an absolute blast throwing himself into the role.
That’s so awesome! So glad he was able to fulfill that dream, thanks for watching!
22:17 -- Like Mel Brooks often says, "It's good to be the King."
Brian Blessed (Prince Voltan) loved this character, and will still happily shout "Gordon's Alive" if requested by fans.
He is also an outrageous character in his own right.
He was a Squadron Leader during WW2 and when he shouts "Squadron 40, Dive", that is an adlibbed reference to his old squadron.
He has attempted to climb Everest 3 times (not sure if he ever succeeded)
He is the oldest person to have travelled to the magnetic North pole on foot, where he claims to have punched a polar bear on the nose (and for him, this doesn't even sound ridiculous).
There is a GPS system with Blessed's voice that occasionally shouts out "Hawkmen ... ATTACK!" and similar bon mots from the film.
@@reverance_pavane
That sounds amazing 😀.
I wonder if he's done a voice for the Elite Dangerous AI system?
I know they got William Shatner & Norman Lovett (Holly from Red Dwarf).
@@reverance_pavane He's available for TomTom sat navs.
Given he was 9 by the end of WW2, he wasn't a squadron leader in it. He did however serve as a parachutist (not squadron leader) in the RAF during his national service, which would have been from about 1956-1958
Since you asked so nicely; I would recommend "Five Million Years To Earth" Engish title: "Quartermass and the Pit" About aliens from our distant past making sure we don't forget them.
Good movie 🙃
the other quatermass films were good too
Oh definitely that one is bonkers fun.
2:58, Sam Jones had a falling out with Dino De Laurentiis during production of the movie, and vowed never to work with each other again. A sequel was planned but was later cancelled.
Wow that's too bad!
The actor playing Dr. Hans Zarkoff is Topol, who is most well known for his role in the movie musical Fiddler on the Roof.
He is really good in the 007 flick “For Your Eyes Only” from 1981, also.
@@roddmatsui3554 He was great in that movie.
“Barbarella” is a perfect companion to this film from 1966 with Jane Fonda.
I'll add it to the list! Thanks for the suggestion!
The VERY caucasian Max Von Sydow playing Ming the Merciless, keeping alive the grand tradition of John Wayne playing Genghis Kahn, and all the guys who played Charlie Chan.
Flash Gordon goes back to radio days. Buckaroo Banzai is in your wheelhouse. Actually “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension”.
That was terrible, even worse than Super Mario Brothers.
I'm so glad you got around to Flash Gordon, Jen! Weren't the 1980s totally awesome? lol 😆 Especially for science fiction. Now that you've seen The Ice Pirates, Flash Gordon, Lifeforce, Galaxina, and Battle Beyond The Stars, you have to check out The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension from 1984! You might also want to check out the 1979 theatrical version of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, which was the precursor to the 1980 television series.
"It's not a badly made movie, it's just a movie that doesn't know what year it came out."
Another great video. Enjoyed watching your reaction, this one was a staple of 1980s scifi action.
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the video! Yeah I really enjoyed this film, so fun!
@@ReelReviewsWithJen Yeah, it is a lot of fun. Your reraction was very entertaining. We talked about Flash on our Movie Show pod last year when they did a 4k release. Despite it's camp cheesiness, it still holds up as a kitsch sci-fi cult classic.
George Lucas created _Star Wars_ when he failed to purchase the movie rights to _Flash Gordon._
Max Von Sydow (not Von Snowden) was the old priest in _The Exorcist,_ and the evil Brewmeister in _Strange Brew._
he's King Osric in Conan the Barbarian (1982), main star Arnold Schwarzenegger
Flash Gordon is a comic strip in the 30's and then film serial from the 30's featuring Buster Crabbe....and yes, that's Queen. Was either the first or one of the first primarily synthesizer soundtracks. Also, the special effects and design I think was an homage to the 30s serials down to the obvious models and the sparkler looking rockets.
Agreed 🎯
Yeah I had no idea they created music for movie soundtracks! It was a great surprise!
@@ReelReviewsWithJen I believe the next one Queen did after this was The Highlander.
my local cinema used to have a Saturday matinee in the 1970's and Flash Gordon TV series from the 1950s was a little feature. There was a cliff hanger every week and Flash Gordon was in mortal peril at the end of every episode... He was always fine the next week 😂 we looked forward our Saturday morning cinema trips as kids, cheesy but fun! Great commentary and as always lots of witty observations 👍
This is one of the few movies from the 80's (Okay, really early 80's) that I introduced to my kids 3 years ago (ages 10 and 12) and they loved it. Most of the time 80's films are met with eye rolls and signs but this is one of the few they will watch over and over. To say it is a classic is an understatement. Honestly, I think your enthusiasm and reactions added to the movie!
If you haven't seen it yet, I think Big Trouble in Little China is due 😎
Remember newspapers? And Flash Gordon in the Sunday comics every week? Ahh, the young. So young.
They knew exatly what they were doing when they made it. It's a masterpiece.
Despite having a huge and varied and distinguished stage and screen career, this is probably the role that Brian Blessed is most closely associated - along with being incredible loud and for climbing mountains - In fact he's so well known for this movie that not only is his line "Gordon's alive!" more or less his 'catchphrase', but it's used, without context, in British comedy as he and his part in this movie is so well known. If you want to see something with him that just as good, but completely different, see Kenneth Branagh's Henry V, in which he plays the Duke of Exeter.
i would say Black adder series 1 as well
2:04, RIP, Max Von Sydow, 1929-2020.
Thanks for Posting This Awesome Video, Jen
Thank you for watching!
Bring me the bore worms!! You cracked me up with some of your reactions. "Against The Imperial Fleet!!" cracked me up. That actor is Brian Blessed, whose a bit of an institution here in the U.K. for his OTT rants and his mountaineering exploits. Great review Jen.
haha thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video! Yeah I think this is the first film I've seen him in.
@@ReelReviewsWithJen He's a bit of a nutter. He's the oldest man to go to the North Pole, and went to the Himalayas to search for the Yeti!
Fun Fact: Prince Barin, ruler of Arboria, is played by Timothy Dalton, who took over the role of James Bond from Roger Moore in 1987 in the movie The Living Daylights and the 1989 movie Licence To Kill.
Along with movie serials and radio and TV series, Flash Gordon HAS been adapted into comic books, though as far as I recall, he's never been licensed by Marvel or DC. However, he started out as a newspaper comic strip in 1934.
Flash Gordon was a newspaper cartoon strip.
Then it became a successful early morning TV show that was in black and white and had some episodes colourized later on.
This Flash Gordon movie is based on the TV shows that stared Larry 'Buster' Crabbe as Flash Gordon.
Buster Crabbe played Flash & Buck Rogers in the original back in the 30s
Couldn't wait for this when it was first released! Went to the theater first or second day! Had already seen Queen live, So, of course i wanted to hear the soundtrack, still have it on vinyl!!! LoL thanks for the reaction!!! Awesome job!!! 😃
I grew up with this movie and i still love it till this day. I met Sam J. Jones a couple of years ago and got his autograph. I asked him what it was like working with Max von Sydow, becuase i am from Sweden you see. He loved working with him. He showed him where to stand and worked with dialog. A really nice guy he said. And Sam was a really nice guy to me. Also did you know that Taika Waititi took inspiration from this movie when he did Thor: Ragnarok. ;)
That tree critter gave me nightmares after seeing this with my dad in theaters, at age 7. He had been a big fan of the comic books or comic strip, growing up. It was rated PG, on release.
Klytus death with teh eyeballs and tongue did that for me and i saw it when i was 7, ahhhh the 80's not afraid to scare the crap out of kids LOL
Yeah that’s fair 😬 ah okay good to know!
i highly recommend the 1976 classic "logans run"
Flash started out as a character in movie serials, radio dramas and comics (played in the serials by olympic swimmer turned actor Larry "Buster" Crabbe), there was also later a really Great Animated series by Filmation as well as another, really weird one in the 90's (that one is...really, REALLY 90's) and a television series on the Sci-Fi channel
Flash Gordon Was a Comic Strip, and a Series of Movies Starring Mister Buster Crabbe, Who Also Played Buck Rogers, And Tarzan in Black and White Movies and TV Shows
The old b&w cinema serials starring Larry Buster Crabbe are available on UA-cam. I remember 3 of them: the 2nd was Flash Gordon's trip to Mars and the 3rd was Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe. Don't remember what the 1st was called. Perhaps just Flash Gordon. Each had about 13 episodes with a cliffhanger ending. The BBC showed them during my childhood and at school we had a real fondness for them
The movie is based on the 30's comic, but takes a lot of inspiration from an animated Flash Gordon miniseries from 1979.
The effects budget, while huge was not enough to bring the tribes of Mongo to life. They did what they could with the Hawk Men and the Lizard Men, but there wasn't enough for the rest. The Prince that fails to kill Ming for example, he and his people were literally Lion Men in the comic.
I saw this movie on Syfy during their Christmas Day Movie marathon. I did not expect it to be this fun!!
It’s such a fun movie!
@@ReelReviewsWithJen barberella and starcrash are way more fun in my opinion 📼
Screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr. could write well-received serious stuff _(The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor)_ but he's better known for the campy or satirical scripts _(Batman '66, King Kong '76_ and this). He also wrote and co-produced Dino de Laurentiis' jawdroppingly-awful box-office catastrophe remake _Hurricane_ (1979).
I was born on ‘78. Years can remember watching this movie in the 80’s. We thought it was awesome. I so glad I rediscovered your channel. We have similar taste in movies. A lot of my favorites are some of the cheesiest, lamest, low budget masterpieces you can think of but they sure are fun to watch. Here’s some of my favorites I hope you’ll check out if you haven’t seen them already.
1. Krull- Awesome sword and sorcerer mixed with alien invasion movie.
2. Night of the Creeps- Super cheesy 80’s sci-fi zombie movie. Thrill me.
3. Return of the Living Dead- Great 80’s take in the brain eating zombie genre.
4. Almost any movie made by Roger Corman in the 80s
Hey, Jen! This movie was a megabomb when it came out but became a cult classic of '80's kitsch!
Flash Gordon was a comic strip character in newspapers and magazines in the '30's and '40's and is considered one of the famous pulp heroes of the era like Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Phantom and Tarzan. He achieved mainstream popularity through radio serials and then movie serials that played before the main feature.
Max von Sydow (Ming) is the titan of Swedish cinema who worked regularly with Ingmar Bergman.
Topol (Zarkov) was a titan of Broadway whose portrayal of Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof" is considered cefinitive.
Timothy Dalton (Barin) was James Bond.
Brian Blessed (Vultan) is a Royal Shakespeare Company luminary known for stentorian declamations and Falstaffian boisterousness!
Ornella Muti (Aura) was an '80's Eurotrash sex symbol.
The Queen soundtrack is one of the film's saving graces.
Flash Gordon's plot was inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian series featuring John Carter.
Flash Gordon and John Carter both inspired elements of Star Wars.
Please see Andrew Stanton's 2012 "JOHN CARTER" if you want to see a well-made movie in the sword-and-planet genre!
In the 30'ws / 40's there were 3 serials made of Flash. I have all 3 on dvd.
An utterly awesome movie, glad you embraced it!
I was so fun! Thanks for watching!
@@ReelReviewsWithJen I do chuckle at your regulat use of the word "Bonk", it is a coy emphasism for sex here in the UK.
I remember this was a huge deal back in 1980... Half the kids were all into it, while others made fun.
Remember watching the Saturday morning cartoon that came out the year before.
I feel like he would have been a good hero for a little kid, especially since he didn’t have any abnormal powers, makes him more relatable in my opinion. Thanks for watching!
@@ReelReviewsWithJen While Flash Gordon is certainly a great hero for kids, as a former kid myself I can testify that kids very much relate to super powers.
This may not be the best film ever but it's a cult classic, and I love it!. Brian Blessed is a national treasure and steals the show, seriously, just read up on what this guy has done in his life, plus it has a great cast and a superb soundtrack (how could it not, it's Queen). Great reaction Jen. If you want another similar, far out Sci/Fi film to react to then 1968s Barbarella is a must see and is basically what the term "cult classic" was invented for.
Thank you so much! It’s super cheesy and fun and I really enjoyed it! It has all the ingredients of a cult classic sci-fi film for sure! It’s on the list! I’ve heard it’s one to watch so I’m looking forward to it, thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the video!
2:37 love these guys!
I saw this in theatres. And Flash Gordon was a series of golden age movie serials, starring Buster Crabbe. Crabbe also did a bunch of Buck Rogers serials, and played Tarzan in a few movies in 1933. The comics were by King Features Syndicate, and ran daily in newspapers from 1934-1992, with Sunday strips running until 2003.
then Buster Crabb was in the tv series Buck rogers.. he said i have been doing this for a long time ;)
@@Greenwood4727 he did appear in one episode of TV series, yes. But as you probably know, the star of that was Gil Gerrard.
@@DavidB-2268 i got the series of dvd touching them now.. love those series
Flash Gordon was also a film serial back in the 1930s.
Hi Babe
I really love this classic film, as i grew up in the eighties! Personally i think it was so well cast, everyone brought something special to it. My all time favourite character will always be Klytus, Mings righthand man played so memorably by Peter Wyngarde who was a big British tv star of the 60’s & 70’s. How his voice resonated through that mask, outstanding!!!! 😊.
This is one of those films where the sooner you accept it for what it is, rather than what it isn't, the happier you will be. Best. Leo.
Saw this in the Cinema when it came out was brilliant at the time!
That’s awesome! Such a fun movie, thanks for watching!
Aww, yes! Flash Gordon is one of my favourites. It is so cheesy, I love it!
So wonderfully cheesy indeed! Such a fun movie! 🧀
Flash Gordon comes from all the way back in the 1930's.
First published 1934, the comic strip was created to compete with Buck Rogers.
These go back to the days where newspaper comic strips were pretty much it.
This was two years before the first superhero, The Phantom debuted in his own newspaper comic in 1936.
Ming is Max Von Sydow. He's played a Nazi sports enthusiast in Victory, the devil himself in Needful Things, just to name a few.
Although Flash Gordon started life as a newspaper comic strip, it was also a serial film adventure in 1936, which was later presented as a weekly TV series in the 1960's. It is the serial that the movie's visual style was modeled after. Ming, originally played by Charles Middleton, was the direct inspiration for Von Sydow's portrayal, who made a point of studying the serial to be absolutely sure his version of Ming did Justice to the original actor.
Prince Vultan is Brian Blessed, a British actor known for having a legendary bellow. He's played Robin Hood's father, a mad priest on an episode of Blake's 7, and many other characters with a tendency to bellow at the top of their lungs.
Prince Barin is Timothy Dalton, who has also been the villain Neville Sinclair in The Rocketeer, the timelord leader Rassilon on Doctor Who, and one of the long line of actors who have played James Bond.
Other sci-fi films you might enjoy would include Forbidden Planet, The First Men In The Moon, Fantastic Voyage, Dark Star, and everyone's ultimate favorite bad sci-fi movie, Howard The Duck.
Fun Fact: Prince Thun, who is killed by Ming during the tribute ceremony at the start of the movie, is supposed to be the King of the Lion Men in the original comics, as well as the 1940s movie serials and the 1970s cartoon. Don't ask me why the movie didn't include the Lion Men because that would've been cool, and the prosthetic makeup technology of the time was certainly capable of doing it.
Max Von S played the Exorcist in the movie The Exorcist. Timothy Dalton who played the Prince also played 007 in two movies. the bald guy in the cage in the swamp is Richard O'Brien who created The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Sam Jones played Flash, didnt do much else, a few movies and a few TV shows.
Christian Bale in the movie Equallibrium
The bald headed man who went into the swamp with Flash is Richard O'Brien who the musical 'the Rocky Horror Picture Show'.
Melody Anderson also appeared in Firewalker with Lou Gossett and Chuck Norris
Max von Snowden!! xD That made me imagine Max von Sydow playing John Snow in GoT
The true king of the north! haha
I pretty much was worried when I saw Lorenzo Semple's name attached (one of the main people behind the tongue in cheek Batman series in the 60s),but this one has become comfort food for me.
I love the old Batman series! So much fun! Thanks for watching!
@@ReelReviewsWithJen but have you seen the 1966 Batman theatrical movie???
Flash Gordon was originally a movie serial , which was in the 30s n 40s with buster crabbe
Flash Gordon is so old that it even had serials in theaters back in the pre depression and depression era. So yeah he's an old timer.
Oh man I didn’t know it went that far back!
Yeah they could have made a an entire universe if they wanted to.
The guy who played Ming also played the king in Conan who wants his daughter back. Also played the old Jedi killed by Kylo Ren in the beginning of The Force Awakens. The prince is Timothy Dalton (007).
The Prince, or Timothy Dalton, is a well-known actor by face. At that time, he was James Bond in License to Kill and The Living Daylights, nowadays he's more well known for his role in Hot Fuzz and Doom Patrol.
Ok, so I just came across this and it’s one of my most favorite movies of all time. I’m also big into making connections, my ADHD I guess.
Star Wars: William Hootkins (Munson), Brian Blessed (Vultan) Max von Sydow and Deep Roy (Fellini, Aura’s pet) we’re all in Star Wars movies. Hootkins in the original as Porkins, Blessed in Episode One as Boss Nass, Sydow as the guy with the map to Luke Skywalker in The Force Awakens and Roy in Empire as Yoda (for scenes where you see Yoda walking away).
Indiana Jones: Hootkins again, he’s the guy who tells Indy, “Top… men.” George Harris, who was Prince Thun and had to fall on his sword played Captain Kitanga who tried to smuggle Indy and Marion out of Egypt.
James Bond: Timothy Dalton, Barin, played Bond in two films. Topol (Zarkov) played a Bond ally in For Your Eyes Only, Von Sydow played the bad guy in the unofficial Bond film, Never Say Never Again.
Harry Potter: Harris again, played Kingsley Shacklebolt. Robbie Coltrane, who of course played Hagrid, is barely noticeable in this movie. He’s the guy on the airfield who shuts the plane door. This was his first movie.
The last one, Richard O’Brien, doesn’t have any connections to those films but is a big lover of sci-fi B-movies and cult films and created what is probably one of the biggest cult movie of all time which is The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
These are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
11:54 Flash Gordon is a great movie. In 2009 I met Sam J. Jones. An American athlete and his girlfriend are whisked away by a rogue Russian scientist to a alien planet to unite it's inhabitants against their evil ruler and stop him from destroying Earth.
They really want you to know he plays football at the start which is a change from the comic where he played polo first then later played basketball.
Interesting, a man of many talents! Thanks for watching!
Cheesy, yeah, for sure. But it's so damn FUN :)
Timothy Dalton is the actor you're trying to think of for Prince Baron. He's played Bond, among others, but this is where little me was introduced to him, and I loved his character. I swear i noticed a couple things watching with you that I missed before. Noice
I saw this in the theater with my dad. We always sought out only the finest cheese.
There was a TV series before in black-and-white television. Fox had a animated mini-series in the late 90s. Some point in the 2000's Canada had a live-action TV series I think it ran on Space Channel.
There was also the infamous erotic parody Flesh Gordon. You might also find that entertaining to give a watch but it will require a fair bit more editing to keep it appropriate for UA-cam.
great movie given the time.. the soundtrack is epic
It's almost like they filmed each scene in one take.
It’s very possible lol
I loved this movie as a kid. Watched it over and over and even had the Queen soundtrack on cassette.
Nice that’s awesome! I might have to get a copy of the soundtrack as well, thanks for watching!
I got the soundtrack on cassette also, in the 90s.
The prince who looked familiar to you was Timothy Dalton (Prince Barin of Arboria), best known for his two outings as James Bond in 'The Living Daylights' and 'License To Kill' in the 1980s before Pierce Brosnan took over the role in the 1990s.
Dr. Hans Zarkov was played by Israeli actor Chaim Topol who is best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Tevye in the movie musical classic 'Fiddler on the Roof', a role he played in the original London production for a few years before doing the film.
Max Von Sydow (Ming), one of the greatest film actors of all time was a frequent collaborator of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. One of Von Sydow's best roles was in Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal', but he was one of those actors who did everything, and was good in it (even if the movie was bad!).
Sam J.Jones has done films and has done tv, but his big claim to fame was this. However...it's not his own voice you hear saying the lines. During production, Jones was a bit of a prima donna and was pissing off the director and producer doing things under the advice of his agents. It backfired. With the film mostly complete, they finished without Jones, firing him, and replacing his dialogue track with another actor...he was going to be doing ADR (looping) after principal photography was done anyway. There is a documentary about this that is kinda heartbreaking to watch, 'Life After Flash' that focuses on Jones and his life after the film. He has played 'Flash' in two other films...he made cameos in Seth MacFarlane's 'Ted' movies with Mark Wahlberg.
If you ever watched the 'Harry Potter' films...at the beginning of the movie at the airstrip, the big guy handling luggage and stuff is Robbie Coltrane aka Hagrid. This was Robbie's first professional film job.
There are two films that Queen did the music to...'Flash Gordon' and 'Highlander' with Christopher Lambert, Clancy Brown, and Sir Sean Connery.
Flash returned in two Ted movies about a talking living teddy bear.
Flash is not a super hero, Just a man, with a man's courage
He knows nothing but a man
But he can never fail
No one but the pure in heart may find the golden grail
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Flash ah-aaaaaaaaaah
A couple of wonderfully cheesy sci-fi films you might check out are 1958's _The Colossus of New York,_ and 1961's _Reptilicus._
FWIW, the late Max von Sydow was a marvelous actor with a long, impressive career. He is perhaps best known internationally for his leading role in Ingmar Bergman's 1957 classic _The Seventh Seal._
Flash
Ah-ah
King of the impossible
He's for every one of us
Stand for every one of us
He'll save with a mighty hand
Every man, every woman, every child with a mighty Flash