He lives just around the corner from me and we occasionally see him around the village, not so much since 2020 and all that, he is getting on a bit. Anyway he's wonderful IRL and not much different.
I like how these two guys are attempting to do another pitiful half-@$$ed Mystery Science Theater 2000 impersonation with THIS flick, but are failing cause it' already has a sense of humor of its own and is more clever than both of them together. It rather cuts them off at the knees so to speak.
@@winslow-eh5kv Sorry, but I don't agree with you at all. If you hate reacters that much, go find something else to watch, and take your whining elsewhere.
@@winslow-eh5kv I did notice at16:56 when they remarked, in a tone of ridicule, "Quarterback! I'm just gona tackle them!" and then THAT's the very thing that actually happened in the movie next! So ya, cut at the knees there at least.
I'm baaaaaaaaack! @@IanFindly-iv1nl Yea, I don't think these reactors were expecting this flick to be as droll as it is. Again, it seemed like they went into it all twitching to do a typical half-@ssed MST3000 type rip of it and got cut off at their frigging knees!
Well, I think some OTHER assets are .. . 4) The VISUAL style (including the very eccentric and original look of the sets, costumes, spacecraft design) 5) The offbeat humor 6) The IMAGERY (like the vibrant multi-colored alien sky, psychedelic space whirlpool, and nifty animated opening segment).
Max von Sydow is on record as saying this is one of his favourite films he's been in. He absolutely loved cheesing it up in the fantastic costumes. One of the rare films I'd like to see remade.
But they would have to do it RIGHT. It had GREAT actors and a great score. The sets were pretty good too. It is a camp movie-whatever that means. It is entertaining. The new Dune failed to impress me.
@@Serai3 I wouldn't regard THIS movie as being for KIDS exactly. I mean, it has quite a bit of sexual inuendo, even some references to perverse or "kinky" type sexuality (with the villains especially) in some scenes, and dialogue like "Lying b!tch!' and "Halt you bloody bastards!"..
Based upon one of the original space hero comics in history, created by Alex Raymond and debuting 90 years ago. Not the first time for the material to become live-action. It was black and white serials (short films) in the 1930s/1940s and an tv series in the 1950s. This new adaptation came out the year i was born and obviously got outshined by Star Wars Episode V:The Empire Strikes Back. Incredibly campy, colorful and just as loved. The effects, wardrobe, sets are top notch and look great for the era. Kinda like the original serials but with more liberties. Yes, lots of savage/sexy moments that are totally unavoidable. The character of Flash Gordon was slightly changed from his comic strip counterpart. He was a polo player in the comics and written as an star football player for the film (a more Manly choice). The music of Queen is amazing, Flash's theme is as unforgettable as you can hear. Sequels were planned, but this film got crushed at the box office. But that doesn't matter to most. Regardless of any iterations that come along, this was everybody's Flash Gordon. RIP to legendary actors Max Von Sydow (Ming the Merciless) and Topol (Dr. Zarkov) with great 'over the top' performances.
I saw this movie a million times.I grew up in the 80s, and this was like Star Wars to me. The good guy defeated the evil bad guy and when you're a kid,thats all you wanted to see.
Sighhh Flash Gordon is NO IMITATOR of your beloved Star Wars. On the contrary, FG DISTINGUISHES itself, in many significant ways, from SW and all it's flourishing imitators. Like with the ROCK music score (instead of another traditional symphony score like SW and all it's wana-be's used), the psychedelic art-deco visual style, and the offbeat sense of humor.
@Pheonix5-ih8hc Grew up in the 80s, and Star Wars was groundbreaking for special effects, and it was a movie industry changing film.Flash Gordon was copying that,like alot of Sci Fi films in the 1980s.
@@thedragonlee76 Ya, I don't see FG here as another Star Wars imitator. I find that it defied the Star Wars mold in many significant ways (which I've already specifically identified in my previous comment here). And SW wasn't as "groundbreaking" as all THAT either. 2001 a Space Odyssey came almost an entire decade before SW - THAT's the movie that TRULY pioneered and revolutionized visual effects of THAT kind (just sayin).
@Pheonix5-ih8hc Star Wars was groundbreaking.Geroge Lucas was the first to even have toys sold based on the films. Lucas has made over a billion dollars from Star Wars toys,video games, and other merchandise.2001 special effects was groundbreaking for that time,but Lucas took it to a whole new level.
A school friend's dad worked on the special effects for this at Pinewood Studios. Their house was full of props and not long after this came out I remember discovering a hawk man's helmet - blew my mind. And yes, I wore the s*** out of that thing. :)
The guy who played Dr. Zarkov was Chaim Topol. He died last year. He played Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof". (1971) it won 3 academy awards. A great classic musical.
The "certain death" every five minutes is an homage to this franchise being one of the things that used to be serialized weekly at movie theatres. The term "cliff-hanger" actually originated with the old serials. Each episode, up through the penultimate episode, usually had the hero or the person who the hero was protecting facing "certain death". It got to a point where the most common "certain death" was literally someone hanging off a cliff, in danger of falling. "Come back next week for the next thrilling episode." Thus, cliff-hanger.
Ive been fortunate (??) enough to have seen a great many of the Buster Crabbe serials.. wayyyyy back when I was a kid in the 60s, you could still find them playing on TV.
Max Von Sydow was a great actor. Father Merrick from the Exorcist, Ming the Merciless and the Three Eyed Raven from GOT. He had an incredible career. One of my favorite movies of all time. The perfect amount of camp and cheese and an outstanding soundtrack!
I definitely would not mind a modern reboot of Flash Gordon. Also, Barbarella. Plus, Buck Rogers! Time for the next gen to be exposed to these great sci-fi-fantasy characters. MyChildhood
My favorite Max Von Sydow role was Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror ("Pelle Erobreren"), which I watched in the original Danish. He was Swedish, and played a Swedish immigrant to 19th century Denmark. He was incredibly versatile.
The guy who had the hot hail fall into his bed at the beginning is played by William Hootkins. You may recognize William Hootkins as he was in a ton of major films in the late 1970's and the 1980s. He was Rebel pilot Porkins in Star Wars, one of the two army Intelligence offices send Indiana Jones in the mission to find the Ark in Raiders of the Lost Ark and he was the Corrupt Gotham PD Dectective Eckhaet in Tim Burton's Batman.
Queen did the music for this movie. 39:33, Vultan says, "Who wants to live forever," and Queen, in 1986, made a song for the movie The Highlander called Who wants to live forever.
The character Valeria says "do you want to live forever?" in Conan the Barbarian (1982), Max Von Sydow also has a bit part in it. edit - main star is Arnold Schwarzenegger, with villain James Earl Jones.
@@billclay9489 Well good thing he didn't get his hands on it for MY part. I duno about you, but I don't WANT Flash Gordon to be like frigging Star Wars. I like Flash Gordon to be FLASH GORDON.
I love this movie for it's wholesome example of good sportsmanship. When Baron shakes Flash's hand after Flash saves him, what Baron says to him always moves me.
I was 15 when this came out. Even though I’m quite older now, I am so grateful I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Those decades, these movies, were just a total blast.
RE: A serious approach remake... Around the time this movie was made Filmation did a Flash Gordon Saturday morning animated series that, uniquely, was a long serialized story back when US animated shows didn't do that, and it is the most faithful adaptation of Alex Raymond's original Flash Gordon comic strips. They're all on Tubi and they're worth checking out and would give you an idea of what a serious approach to Flash Gordon would look like.
Max von Sydow has never held back from having fun in cheesy superhero spectacles; remember, he was in Conan the Barbarian too. Brian Blessed, the head bird-man, is another classical actor. He was in most of Kenneth Branagh's Shakespearean movies. Dr. Karkov was played by the Israeli actor [Chaim] Topol, best known for playing Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, on film (Oscar nom) and thousands of times onstage. Sam Jones first got noticed as a Playgirl centerfold.
And let's not forget Max von Sydow in the classic comedy Strange Brew! I mean, the man started out doing Ingmar Bergman films. Love the fact that he hasn't turned up his nose at scenery-chewing roles.
@@DJHolte Would you believe, I mentioned Strange Brew at first, then deleted it (my first drafts tend to get too verbose as I include too many examples and side-facts). Thank you for reminding us of that unique comedy.
In the parody film _Flesh Gordon,_ as their version's Dr Zarkoff gets off the rocket, he walks a few feet, inhales and says one of my favourite movies lines: "Good. There's an atmosphere on this planet..."
One of the better "naughty" parody films. And if I remember right, the stop-motion used in that movie's monsters were made by the same studio that made the effects in Jason and the Argonauts.
The doctors accent is Israeli. The actor playing him Chaim Topol was a Israeli actor and his other major film role outside of Israel was p!saying Tevye,, the Lead character in the 1973 film version of the play Fiddler on the Roof.
I always heard that the total difference in the movie is the miscommunication between the two different crews. The American Crew was going for camp, from the comics and old serials, and the Italian crew thought it was supposed to be a serious science fiction movie.
Fun fact: the guy who played Fico - the bald, flute-playing buddy of Prince Barin - is the genius behind the whole Rocky Horror Show phenomenon, Richard O'Brien
This was done like the serial it was based on. Where the circle is complete, the Star Wars scroll and a lot of influence came from the Flash Gordon serials. There was a happy accident. There was a British and Italian film team. The British team was told Batman tv show, while the Italian team said go dark. You can tell.
Dolph has proved that he can at least act well enough to be called on many times, even if its a shallow depth. Sam was never heard of again after this... except the playgirl, etc stuff.
@@ZakhadWOW Sam Jones has actually had a long and healthy career in B movies and guest roles in TV shows. He may not have become an A list star, but he's stayed in regular work and had the kind of career that many working actors would be envious of.
Andrew!!!!!! I have been dying for this reaction!!! So fun to see Andrew reacting to his namesake🤘 love Flash and Andrew😜 made my week/month/year🙂🙃🙂🙃 Flash ahhh saviour of the universe 🎶
I saw this in theaters and LOVED it. I was 6 years old. I taped it off of HBO and watched it until that VHS tape wore out. My dad had some of the original Flash Gordon serials on VHS. I watched those as well. This is pure 80's camp and a cult classic. The Hawkmen v Rocket Ajax scene is legendary. "Ah, well. Who wants to live forever? Hahahahaha! DIVE!!"
@@vinsanity40k I think they did this to the actress that played the princess on Krull. Lindsay Krouse re-dubbed Lysette Anthony’s lines because they wanted a different voice
An accidental masterpiece. All kinds of trouble in front of and behind the camera. Production with English and Italian crews and A LOT of misunderstandings. Beautiful.
fun fact: George Lucas loved the original serials of Flash Gordon, and wanted to make an updated version. but they wouldn't give him the rights to do it... so he made up his own version and called it... Star Wars! and yet, because of Star Wars, they came back and gave someone else the rights to update Flash Gordon, and we have this. George Lucas also wanted the rights to make The Lord of the Rings, but again, couldn't obtain the rights to it, so he made his own version and called it Willow.
George Lucas wanted to make this movie That didn't work, so he made STAR WARS instead And then they made this movie to capitalize on the space opera craze of the time
Andrew Flash Gordon always reminds me of the Green Lantern that became the yellow Lantern, spitting image, (prob heard that before) sorry dude, gets me every time. The football reference was because Flash was a pro footballer on earth, some fantastic actors in this, yeah the effects are pretty updated even for then say compared with Star Wars, but that was the way it was meant to be, plus Queen on any sound track movie or otherwise is as good today as it was then. Timeless music!🤘
Brian Blessed (Vultan) is always so much fun to watch. And Dr. Zarkov is played by an actor named Topol, who starred as Tevye in the classic film Fiddler On The Roof.
The actor playing Hans Zarkoff is Topol, who was born in Israel. He's best known for his amazing performance in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof (1971), for which he won a Golden Globe. It should definitely be on your watch list. 😊
For the record, this movie was consciously written and shot with a silly, comic book-camp element, in both the screenplay and its VFX. That said, time has been kind to the movie, and it’s still visually beautiful to watch. The costume design in particular was Oscar-worthy. I’ve always thought to myself, that the number of Black & White costumed members of Ming’s court was a nod to Queen, and the B&W aesthetic they adopted for several of their album cover designs.
@22:41 funny you should say that..Fun Fact: in the 70's,George Lucas went to King Features films with a pitch for a Flash Gordon movie..But when they turned him down,George did the same thing that Zack Snyder did with Rebel Moon..And "The Star Wars" was born!After the massive success of A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back,King Features "decided that the time was right" for a Flash Gordon movie..It bombed in the theaters,but at 10 years old I was in love with this movie and it STILL holds a dear place in my..heart..*Ornellia Muti was my crush back then!🔥
There has never been a more successful utilization of movie cheesiness than Flash Gordon. I have to believe they knew exactly what kind of film they were making, and knew that it would only work if every actor was completely sincere. While the movie itself winks at the audience, the actors never do. Just so much fun.
I gotta say, I love that Tim Dalton thinks he is in a Game of Thrones type production, while everyone else is camping it up like panto season. It just adds to the gloriousness of this movie.
An absolutely fun film! The pageantry - costumes and sets - as well as the 'over-the-top' acting, make this movie. The acting was intended to be as it was, in homage to the original comics and old black&white series.
Loved this movie as a kid, when I was young enough to not know how cheesy it was. There was a great cartoon in the 80s as well. Also had a couple of the action figures.
I watched this at a Little Dragon show in Austin. It was playing 20 feet to the right of the stage. If you know Little Dragon, you know how good it sounded to this movie.
There were talks of a Sequel to the movie, but it was cancelled as Sam Jones and producer Dino De Laurentiis had a huge falling out during production of the film. Also it wasn't a box office success, making $25 million dollars against $35 million dollar budget.
I love this film. Source material was a comic strip from the 1930's. My mom worked at a record distributor and we had tickets given to us by the label to the 1st showing, opening night. Ill never forget it. Queen did the soundtrack minus some of the orchestral stuff. I wore my vinyl copy out as a kid! Still my favorite guilty pleasure film. 🙂
STAND BY MY HAWKMEN!!!!! DIVE!!!!!!
Ohh how i love Brian Blessed.
GORDON'S ALIVE??
We just finished watching I, Claudius. He was great.
Anytime I see Boss Nass in the Phantom Menace,i think of him as Prince Vultan "gone to pot" after a decade of good living!🤣🤣🤣🤣
He lives just around the corner from me and we occasionally see him around the village, not so much since 2020 and all that, he is getting on a bit.
Anyway he's wonderful IRL and not much different.
@@Buggins That's so fckng AWESOME!!!🔥🔥🔥
"I can't tell if it's taking itself seriously, or if it's a parody of all things."
Yes.
I like how these two guys are attempting to do another pitiful half-@$$ed Mystery Science Theater 2000 impersonation with THIS flick, but are failing cause it' already has a sense of humor of its own and is more clever than both of them together. It rather cuts them off at the knees so to speak.
@@winslow-eh5kv Sorry, but I don't agree with you at all. If you hate reacters that much, go find something else to watch, and take your whining elsewhere.
Yes, the lost ancient art of camp. Absurdity played straight.
@@winslow-eh5kv I did notice at16:56 when they remarked, in a tone of ridicule, "Quarterback! I'm just gona tackle them!" and then THAT's the very thing that actually happened in the movie next! So ya, cut at the knees there at least.
I'm baaaaaaaaack! @@IanFindly-iv1nl Yea, I don't think these reactors were expecting this flick to be as droll as it is. Again, it seemed like they went into it all twitching to do a typical half-@ssed MST3000 type rip of it and got cut off at their frigging knees!
The best three parts of Flash Gordon are:
1) The Queen soundtrack
2) Brian Blessed's performance
3) Ornella Muti's wardrobe
What I would give to see Ornella and Melody as twin Slave Leia's in a pillow fight scene!
Well, I think some OTHER assets are .. .
4) The VISUAL style (including the very eccentric and original look of the sets, costumes, spacecraft design)
5) The offbeat humor
6) The IMAGERY (like the vibrant multi-colored alien sky, psychedelic space whirlpool, and nifty animated opening segment).
Max von Sydow is on record as saying this is one of his favourite films he's been in. He absolutely loved cheesing it up in the fantastic costumes.
One of the rare films I'd like to see remade.
But they would have to do it RIGHT. It had GREAT actors and a great score. The sets were pretty good too. It is a camp movie-whatever that means. It is entertaining. The new Dune failed to impress me.
Now why do you require a remake? So it can be turned into another homogenized Hollywood CGI fest?
I DETEST this current Hollywood remake trend, and would NEVER encourage and endorse it.
He said back then that he did the film for his grandkids, and had a great time.
@@Serai3 I wouldn't regard THIS movie as being for KIDS exactly. I mean, it has quite a bit of sexual inuendo, even some references to perverse or "kinky" type sexuality (with the villains especially) in some scenes, and dialogue like "Lying b!tch!' and "Halt you bloody bastards!"..
Based upon one of the original space hero comics in history, created by Alex Raymond
and debuting 90 years ago.
Not the first time for the material to become live-action.
It was black and white serials (short films) in the 1930s/1940s
and an tv series in the 1950s.
This new adaptation came out the year i was born and obviously got
outshined by Star Wars Episode V:The Empire Strikes Back.
Incredibly campy, colorful and just as loved.
The effects, wardrobe, sets are top notch and look great for the era.
Kinda like the original serials but with more liberties.
Yes, lots of savage/sexy moments that are totally unavoidable.
The character of Flash Gordon was slightly changed from his comic strip counterpart.
He was a polo player in the comics and written as an
star football player for the film (a more Manly choice).
The music of Queen is amazing, Flash's theme is as unforgettable as you can hear.
Sequels were planned, but this film got crushed at the box office.
But that doesn't matter to most.
Regardless of any iterations that come along,
this was everybody's Flash Gordon.
RIP to legendary actors Max Von Sydow (Ming the Merciless) and
Topol (Dr. Zarkov) with great 'over the top' performances.
I saw this movie a million times.I grew up in the 80s, and this was like Star Wars to me. The good guy defeated the evil bad guy and when you're a kid,thats all you wanted to see.
Same! Used to watch this all the time with my dad (RIP). Such a classic for me as a kid of the 80s.
Sighhh Flash Gordon is NO IMITATOR of your beloved Star Wars. On the contrary, FG DISTINGUISHES itself, in many significant ways, from SW and all it's flourishing imitators. Like with the ROCK music score (instead of another traditional symphony score like SW and all it's wana-be's used), the psychedelic art-deco visual style, and the offbeat sense of humor.
@Pheonix5-ih8hc Grew up in the 80s, and Star Wars was groundbreaking for special effects, and it was a movie industry changing film.Flash Gordon was copying that,like alot of Sci Fi films in the 1980s.
@@thedragonlee76 Ya, I don't see FG here as another Star Wars imitator. I find that it defied the Star Wars mold in many significant ways (which I've already specifically identified in my previous comment here). And SW wasn't as "groundbreaking" as all THAT either. 2001 a Space Odyssey came almost an entire decade before SW - THAT's the movie that TRULY pioneered and revolutionized visual effects of THAT kind (just sayin).
@Pheonix5-ih8hc Star Wars was groundbreaking.Geroge Lucas was the first to even have toys sold based on the films. Lucas has made over a billion dollars from Star Wars toys,video games, and other merchandise.2001 special effects was groundbreaking for that time,but Lucas took it to a whole new level.
A school friend's dad worked on the special effects for this at Pinewood Studios. Their house was full of props and not long after this came out I remember discovering a hawk man's helmet - blew my mind. And yes, I wore the s*** out of that thing. :)
You lucky F*CK...😊
The guy who played Dr. Zarkov was Chaim Topol. He died last year. He played Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof". (1971) it won 3 academy awards. A great classic musical.
He was also a Mossad agent
I had the pleasure of seeing Topol in a production of "Fiddler" in Chicago in the early 2000's. Such an amazing actor and production.
I alwasys blur him with Zero Mostel...
Topol was actually very young to play Tevye but he pulled it off. He is great as Zarkov.
"GORDON'S ALIVE!?"
Oh Brian Blessed is such a legend, that booming voice is forever epic!
The "certain death" every five minutes is an homage to this franchise being one of the things that used to be serialized weekly at movie theatres.
The term "cliff-hanger" actually originated with the old serials. Each episode, up through the penultimate episode, usually had the hero or the person who the hero was protecting facing "certain death". It got to a point where the most common "certain death" was literally someone hanging off a cliff, in danger of falling.
"Come back next week for the next thrilling episode."
Thus, cliff-hanger.
Ive been fortunate (??) enough to have seen a great many of the Buster Crabbe serials.. wayyyyy back when I was a kid in the 60s, you could still find them playing on TV.
Flash Gordon made appearance in Ted 1&2. It's extremely hilarious 🤣.
He’s got his hair like in the movie I love it when he hallucinates the Chinese guy as Ming the Merciless
RIP, Farrokh Bulsara, Freddie Mercury, 1946-1991, lead singer of Queen for providing the kickass vocals for the music!
probably the most famous Zoroastiran since Zoroaster himself (aka Zarathustra, as in that famous music piece form 2001:ASO)
Max Von Sydow was a great actor. Father Merrick from the Exorcist, Ming the Merciless and the Three Eyed Raven from GOT. He had an incredible career. One of my favorite movies of all time. The perfect amount of camp and cheese and an outstanding soundtrack!
Ah, don't forget his turn as The Devil in the movie adaptation of King's Needful Things. He played a great villain.
@@munsonman4520 I totally forgot about that one! He is awesome in that movie!
I definitely would not mind a modern reboot of Flash Gordon. Also, Barbarella. Plus, Buck Rogers!
Time for the next gen to be exposed to these great sci-fi-fantasy characters.
MyChildhood
King Osric from Conan the Barbarian. A fantastic monologue in only three minutes screen time.
My favorite Max Von Sydow role was Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror ("Pelle Erobreren"), which I watched in the original Danish. He was Swedish, and played a Swedish immigrant to 19th century Denmark. He was incredibly versatile.
I saw this in the theater in 1980, and I can recite the soundtrack for this film by heart. One of the best things that Queen ever did.
Add Highlander to that
Me too,although I saw it on video when I was a kid back in the 80s.
@@maverick2242Yep...
Yep, so did I. Loved it from the first. One of my favorite flicks.
Amen and as a ten year old, I was in love with the princess.
The guy who had the hot hail fall into his bed at the beginning is played by William Hootkins.
You may recognize William Hootkins as he was in a ton of major films in the late 1970's and the 1980s.
He was Rebel pilot Porkins in Star Wars, one of the two army Intelligence offices send Indiana Jones in the mission to find the Ark in Raiders of the Lost Ark and he was the Corrupt Gotham PD Dectective Eckhaet in Tim Burton's Batman.
Also the black king ming stabs at the beginning is captain katanga the ship captain from raiders of the lost ark
Really? He was porkins and the top men guy?
@@Aaron-io8vw Porkins!!
@@jayconant3816 and Kingsley Shacklebolt from Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix,Deathly Hallows
Flash Gordon is one of my all time favorite movies as a kid. The original comics are one of the inspirations George Lucas used for Star Wars.
Queen did the music for this movie. 39:33, Vultan says, "Who wants to live forever," and Queen, in 1986, made a song for the movie The Highlander called Who wants to live forever.
The character Valeria says "do you want to live forever?" in Conan the Barbarian (1982), Max Von Sydow also has a bit part in it.
edit - main star is Arnold Schwarzenegger, with villain James Earl Jones.
It was also heard from Lt. Raszak and Lt. Johnny Rico in "Starship Troopers," which was also produced by DeLaurentis.
Flash Gordon was a polo player in the original comic. They updated him to a football player for a modern audience.
lol this is so appropriate to have Andrew “Flash Gordon” “ahhh” for this reaction…the Jaby laugh/reaction lol…so cheesy good🤣
FLASH!
AHHHH!
SAVIOR OF THE UNIVERSE!
FLASH!
AHHHH!
HE'S A MIRACLE!
FLASH!
HE'LL SAVE EVERYONE OF US!
FLASH!
AHHHH!
The inhabitants refer to it as the planet "Eaaaarth".
George Lucas grew up watching the old Flash Gordon serial. This is why it inspired him to write the Star Wars movies!
Also, Frank Herbert. "Dune" novels. The og Game of Thrones. But in outer space.
He wanted to remake flash gordon but King Features Syndicate denied him so he made up Star Wars
Wonder what happened in that alternate timeline🤔@@billclay9489
@@billclay9489 Well good thing he didn't get his hands on it for MY part. I duno about you, but I don't WANT Flash Gordon to be like frigging Star Wars. I like Flash Gordon to be FLASH GORDON.
@@IanFindly-iv1nl He prob wasnt gonna change much. Its why he had to create his own
Having Queen on the soundtrack of this movie instantly made this a cult classic!!!!!
i don't know many other movies with a rock soundtrack like this one. and from a legendary rock group.
@@vinsanity40k Try Highlander. The Lost Boys also had a GREAT soundtrack.
Well, I'm not some Queen fanboy. I like FG as a flick with or without Queen.
I love this movie for it's wholesome example of good sportsmanship. When Baron shakes Flash's hand after Flash saves him, what Baron says to him always moves me.
Yep, and that was the whole point of Flashs character because he's a good guy.
Barin** (important not to create a confusing situation calling him Prince Baron.. LOL)
Fun fact. The original Black and white Flash Gordon films were a huge part of what inspired George Lucas when he wrote Starwars
I’ll watch any reaction with Andrew Flash Gordon !!!!
I was 15 when this came out. Even though I’m quite older now, I am so grateful I grew up in the 70s and 80s.
Those decades, these movies, were just a total blast.
I've never seen a football fight scene, but I have seen "Gymkata." Pray for my soul.
RE: A serious approach remake...
Around the time this movie was made Filmation did a Flash Gordon Saturday morning animated series that, uniquely, was a long serialized story back when US animated shows didn't do that, and it is the most faithful adaptation of Alex Raymond's original Flash Gordon comic strips. They're all on Tubi and they're worth checking out and would give you an idea of what a serious approach to Flash Gordon would look like.
Max von Sydow has never held back from having fun in cheesy superhero spectacles; remember, he was in Conan the Barbarian too.
Brian Blessed, the head bird-man, is another classical actor. He was in most of Kenneth Branagh's Shakespearean movies.
Dr. Karkov was played by the Israeli actor [Chaim] Topol, best known for playing Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, on film (Oscar nom) and thousands of times onstage.
Sam Jones first got noticed as a Playgirl centerfold.
And let's not forget Max von Sydow in the classic comedy Strange Brew! I mean, the man started out doing Ingmar Bergman films. Love the fact that he hasn't turned up his nose at scenery-chewing roles.
@@DJHolte Would you believe, I mentioned Strange Brew at first, then deleted it (my first drafts tend to get too verbose as I include too many examples and side-facts). Thank you for reminding us of that unique comedy.
In the parody film _Flesh Gordon,_ as their version's Dr Zarkoff gets off the rocket, he walks a few feet, inhales and says one of my favourite movies lines: "Good. There's an atmosphere on this planet..."
One of the better "naughty" parody films.
And if I remember right, the stop-motion used in that movie's monsters were made by the same studio that made the effects in Jason and the Argonauts.
@@Vohaul86 _Jason & Argonauts_ was Ray Harryhausen. _Flesh Gordon_ was Jim Danforth.
ah Flesh GOrdon.. my first porn movie ever.. Doctor Flexi Jerkoff was the name, Dale Ardor, FLesh, etc.. dont forget the penisauruses!
The doctors accent is Israeli. The actor playing him Chaim Topol was a Israeli actor and his other major film role outside of Israel was p!saying Tevye,, the Lead character in the 1973 film version of the play Fiddler on the Roof.
same as Gal Gadot's accent?
Did none of them ever read Flash Gordon comics? It should be a very known name as far as I thought. It was a very popular comics series
The original comic strip series came out in 1934 and the original TV series came out in 1954.
The way I learned of it was from VHSs of the animated series.
I knew it primarily from the cartoon series
I vaguely knew about it as a kid, but my first real exposure was seeing this in the theater in 1980 at 10.
The Flash Gordon comics are like 30-40 years older than this movie
Voltann was played by Brian Blessed who is also classically trained
Fun fact - Munson was played by William Hooten, who also had small roles in Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Batman.
I always heard that the total difference in the movie is the miscommunication between the two different crews. The American Crew was going for camp, from the comics and old serials, and the Italian crew thought it was supposed to be a serious science fiction movie.
Fun fact: the guy who played Fico - the bald, flute-playing buddy of Prince Barin - is the genius behind the whole Rocky Horror Show phenomenon, Richard O'Brien
In other words, it's Riff Raff.
@@OroborusFMA Wait what? He played Riff Raff??
The man in overalls at the airplane at the start is none other than Hagrid, Robbie Coltrane. :D
Flash Gordon watching Flash Gordon. Nice.
I like that Jaby is reacting with Andrew Flash Gordon to "Flash Gordon".
Andrew not recognizing Porkins from A New Hope in the lab scene in the beginning. For shaaaaaaame.
Was also in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and has an extensive imdb list.
17:38 "I can't think of another movie that had a football fight scene"
Romeo Must Die
"Blood Sport" Wesley snipes
"Starship Troopers"
Thre was some weird variant of a football game in StarshipTroopers...
THOSE are all LATER movies. THIS one did it FIRST anyway.
There is that scene in "Horse Feathers" from the Marx Brothers from 1932.
This was done like the serial it was based on. Where the circle is complete, the Star Wars scroll and a lot of influence came from the Flash Gordon serials.
There was a happy accident. There was a British and Italian film team. The British team was told Batman tv show, while the Italian team said go dark. You can tell.
you MUST react to 'masters of the universe' The Dolph Lundgen version.
*Lundgren*
Dolph has proved that he can at least act well enough to be called on many times, even if its a shallow depth. Sam was never heard of again after this... except the playgirl, etc stuff.
@@ZakhadWOW Sam Jones has actually had a long and healthy career in B movies and guest roles in TV shows. He may not have become an A list star, but he's stayed in regular work and had the kind of career that many working actors would be envious of.
I mean this was a Friday night getting to rent a video game and movie on a Friday night. Epic
Andrew!!!!!! I have been dying for this reaction!!! So fun to see Andrew reacting to his namesake🤘 love Flash and Andrew😜 made my week/month/year🙂🙃🙂🙃 Flash ahhh saviour of the universe 🎶
I saw this in theaters and LOVED it. I was 6 years old. I taped it off of HBO and watched it until that VHS tape wore out. My dad had some of the original Flash Gordon serials on VHS. I watched those as well. This is pure 80's camp and a cult classic. The Hawkmen v Rocket Ajax scene is legendary. "Ah, well. Who wants to live forever? Hahahahaha! DIVE!!"
Can't have a Flash Gordon reaction without the man himself Andrew "Flash" Gordon
The chap who looks like Peter Pan _is_ a Peter.... Peter Duncan, he was a presenter here in the UK in the 80s, most notably for Blue Peter.
The crazy thing with Flash Gordon, is that Sam Jone's dialog was dubbed over by some other voice actor; something like half of this dialogue
bluntly, he was just there to look pretty, and be able to handle some of the vigrous physical requirements.
strange that they did to him what they did to arnold in his first movie or so. it's not like sam couldn't speak clear english. 😄
@@vinsanity40k I think they did this to the actress that played the princess on Krull. Lindsay Krouse re-dubbed Lysette Anthony’s lines because they wanted a different voice
I used to watch this all the time when I was a kid. The days of watching cable with a box connected to a long wire with a row of buttons.
An accidental masterpiece. All kinds of trouble in front of and behind the camera. Production with English and Italian crews and A LOT of misunderstandings. Beautiful.
and dino de laurentiis struck lightning a second time with conan the barbarian in almost similar fashion. 😄
fun fact: George Lucas loved the original serials of Flash Gordon, and wanted to make an updated version. but they wouldn't give him the rights to do it... so he made up his own version and called it... Star Wars!
and yet, because of Star Wars, they came back and gave someone else the rights to update Flash Gordon, and we have this.
George Lucas also wanted the rights to make The Lord of the Rings, but again, couldn't obtain the rights to it, so he made his own version and called it Willow.
Dude this movie was one of my favorites when i was a kid, i saw it in theaters
George Lucas wanted to make this movie
That didn't work, so he made STAR WARS instead
And then they made this movie to capitalize on the space opera craze of the time
You can't go wrong with TIMMY DALTS my favourite bond. And the Johnny sinns lookalike is Richard o'brian from the Rocky horror picture show
Flash Gordon was originally a comic in the newspapers and then a serial in the movie theaters back in the 1930's.
Andrew Flash Gordon always reminds me of the Green Lantern that became the yellow Lantern, spitting image, (prob heard that before) sorry dude, gets me every time.
The football reference was because Flash was a pro footballer on earth, some fantastic actors in this, yeah the effects are pretty updated even for then say compared with Star Wars, but that was the way it was meant to be, plus Queen on any sound track movie or otherwise is as good today as it was then. Timeless music!🤘
World famous actor Deep Roy is Aura's "pet" on the chain in the throne room.
Is this what Andrew looks like without the mustache? Is this why he’s always had one??
FLASH....AHHHHH... 😂
Best thing about the movie is Queen! 😂
I had just turned 13 when this movie came out and I saw it theatrically. I have loved it ever since. Top 10 soundtrack for sure.👍
Yep..I grew up in the 80s, and although I didn't see it in the theaters,I watched it a million times on home video/beta max tapes.
One of the best sound tracks ever. Flash was a popular comic & tv series as well.
I saw this in the theaters when it came out. I was a kid. I was a teenager and I watched it. I don’t know how many times.
YAY for this one. Favorite childhood of mine!
Flash Gordon the animated series was 🔥🔥🔥
They did a great adaptation of the original 30s serial. Even the hammy acting is a lot like the serial.
On the spoof (sort of) front, you are missing on "Galaxy Quest" (1999).
Never gonna lose with Brian Blessed on your team
Brian Blessed (Vultan) is always so much fun to watch. And Dr. Zarkov is played by an actor named Topol, who starred as Tevye in the classic film Fiddler On The Roof.
I watched the Saturday morning cartoon as a kid in the early 80s and always loved this movie.
They did a pretty sweet job of capturing the feel of the movie serials.
And Shogun was like this. Flash Gordon goes back to the 30s man.
I quote this movie way more than I should!! One of my favorite childhood movies
Topol had to go on a diet after this movie.
He chewed a lot of scenery.
Brian Blessed was a national treasure!
was? imdb doesn't show a de@th date
@@w1975b Okay. Who died I thought was him?!?!?
And glad he is not gone!!!!!
The cloud effects were awesome, and a staple of 80s horror/fantasy/sci-fi movies.
The actor playing Hans Zarkoff is Topol, who was born in Israel. He's best known for his amazing performance in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof (1971), for which he won a Golden Globe. It should definitely be on your watch list. 😊
Brian Blessed, his scenery mastication and "Gordon's alive?!" are all integral elements of being British.
"Tom Brady COULD do that!"
Yay!! This was a favourite from childhood, scared my little brothers though 😂
Great movie great soundstrack by Queen and now you can watch Ted and be like ah i got it.
This was a glorious camp film and that's it's charm, it's just so 1930's camp as it was meant to be.
Totally enjoyed Jabby having fun with this movie. I did not expect that.
For the record, this movie was consciously written and shot with a silly, comic book-camp element, in both the screenplay and its VFX. That said, time has been kind to the movie, and it’s still visually beautiful to watch. The costume design in particular was Oscar-worthy.
I’ve always thought to myself, that the number of Black & White costumed members of Ming’s court was a nod to Queen, and the B&W aesthetic they adopted for several of their album cover designs.
If you liked this movie you might want to see the Jane Fonda classic from the 60s called "Barbarella."
Brian Blessed is Shakespearian classically trained by far, and an awesome beast of a man, by far the best actor!!!!
@22:41 funny you should say that..Fun Fact: in the 70's,George Lucas went to King Features films with a pitch for a Flash Gordon movie..But when they turned him down,George did the same thing that Zack Snyder did with Rebel Moon..And "The Star Wars" was born!After the massive success of A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back,King Features "decided that the time was right" for a Flash Gordon movie..It bombed in the theaters,but at 10 years old I was in love with this movie and it STILL holds a dear place in my..heart..*Ornellia Muti was my crush back then!🔥
There has never been a more successful utilization of movie cheesiness than Flash Gordon. I have to believe they knew exactly what kind of film they were making, and knew that it would only work if every actor was completely sincere. While the movie itself winks at the audience, the actors never do. Just so much fun.
I gotta say, I love that Tim Dalton thinks he is in a Game of Thrones type production, while everyone else is camping it up like panto season. It just adds to the gloriousness of this movie.
An absolutely fun film! The pageantry - costumes and sets - as well as the 'over-the-top' acting, make this movie. The acting was intended to be as it was, in homage to the original comics and old black&white series.
Loved this movie as a kid, when I was young enough to not know how cheesy it was. There was a great cartoon in the 80s as well. Also had a couple of the action figures.
I saw this when I was a little kid at the Drive-In. Growing up it was one of my favorites.
I watched this at a Little Dragon show in Austin. It was playing 20 feet to the right of the stage. If you know Little Dragon, you know how good it sounded to this movie.
There were talks of a Sequel to the movie, but it was cancelled as Sam Jones and producer Dino De Laurentiis had a huge falling out during production of the film. Also it wasn't a box office success, making $25 million dollars against $35 million dollar budget.
They clearly set up a sequel but left it forever on a cliff edge.
“She’s running this whole operation with the power of meow.”
I wish that fit on a t-shirt.
✌️😂💕
I love this film. Source material was a comic strip from the 1930's. My mom worked at a record distributor and we had tickets given to us by the label to the 1st showing, opening night. Ill never forget it. Queen did the soundtrack minus some of the orchestral stuff. I wore my vinyl copy out as a kid! Still my favorite guilty pleasure film. 🙂
Omg when I watched this when I was a kid. Yes, I'm that old. I was so amazed by the special effects and stuff. 😂 a lot has changed.
I'd do a massive budget remake with the full-on swashbuckling 30s comic aesthetic.
GORDON'S ALIVE!!!
Sir Brian Blessed is a legend.
The woman in this one was also in another 80s movie with Chuck Norris and Louis Gossett Jr. called Firewalker. That movie is awesome:)
I totally forgot the flutist was Riffraff from the Rocky Horror Picture Show! That guy is awesome!
Love seeing people dig this movie!
Richard O'Brtien's other more recent now well known role is one of the head weirdos in "Dark City"