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[Milovy]

Thanks! I love Brian Blessed... he's such a cool guy... and he too is still working... he plays a dual role in Kenneth Branagh's next movie As You Like It which is coming out in August I believe.

[Royal Dalton]

Good work, Bond87. They're great commentaries. I love the bit where Mike Hodges is bitching about Tim. I think they got on alright, though.

Brian Blessed and Timothy Dalton went on to work together in the 1984 version of
The Master of Ballantrae.

Yeah, that was event television at the time.

That scene where Michael York 'rises from the grave' scared the crap out of me!

[DLibrasnow]

[quote name='bond87' post='738041' date='13 May 2007 - 08:32']Here is Blessed

[Milovy]

That Mike Hodges comment ("we're all like children") really hits the spot about what is so great about this movie... watching Flash Gordon is like watching a bunch of kids putting on the best backyard play ever. (Except with grown adults who have a huge budget and a film distributor.) Where you really believe you're making the coolest play or movie ever, except you're actually NOT, but that just doesn't matter (which makes it cool).

It has the spirit of Star Wars, but somehow, more so (in part because it's more cheapo). In any case, the Star Wars movies totally and utterly lost that kind of charm once George Lucas started on his high-minded saga cycle...

Edited by Milovy, 17 May 2007 - 07:13 PM.

[Trident]

It has the spirit of Star Wars, but somehow, more so (in part because it's more cheapo). In any case, the Star Wars movies totally and utterly lost that kind of charm once George Lucas started on his high-minded saga cycle...

Don't know if it's really true but back when the first Star Wars film hit theaters in '77 (or '78???) I read somewhere that Lucas originally planned to do a Flash Gordon-remake but couldn't get his studio to pay King Features fee for the rights. It was hinted that King Features didn't trust the young George Lucas as director to make a decent version out of the material. Only then did Lucas invent his own SW-universe, it was said. Though I haven't heard that particular story again I find many references to FG in the old Star Wars trilogy.

[Milovy]

I have heard this story about Lucas too.

[bond87]

Don't know if it's really true but back when the first Star Wars film hit theaters in '77 (or '78???) I read somewhere that Lucas originally planned to do a Flash Gordon-remake but couldn't get his studio to pay King Features fee for the rights. It was hinted that King Features didn't trust the young George Lucas as director to make a decent version out of the material. Only then did Lucas invent his own SW-universe, it was said. Though I haven't heard that particular story again I find many references to FG in the old Star Wars trilogy.

Yeah that is true, it even states in the DVD booklet that Lucas had been planning to make a Flash Gordon movie but when he couldn't due to a number of reasons which I have forgotten! he decided to make Star Wars instead.

[quiller]

i remember going back to see it twice. ah those long lost summers of childhood!!

[StrangleTheCat]

Ornella Muti & her lack of costumes.

[Milovy]

Hey, I got the Region 2 DVD so I was able to hear Brian Blessed's commentary for myself. Good stuff.

This movie is so damn entertaining.

[Robinson]

Ornella Muti & her lack of costumes.

Man, the sexual references in that film were out of control (Yes I missed them the first time around since I was only 11).

Let's avoid discussion of the test of manhood in Arboria where the kid has to stick his hand in that tree trunk!

"One degree of separation" from Daniel Craig: George Harris who played "Morty" in LAYER CAKE, played Prince Thun in FLASH GORDON. He was the one who tried to kill Ming when Ming ordered the Prince to commit suicide.

This film is great! I didn't know what "camp" was until I read a review of this film a few years after its release. I still say Peter Wyngarde's Klytus had the coolest voice in Sci-Fi until Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus.

Bring me the bore-wuuuuuuuuuuuuhrms.

[Milovy]

"One degree of separation" from Daniel Craig: George Harris who played "Morty" in LAYER CAKE, played Prince Thun in FLASH GORDON.

Oh my god! I just watched Layer Cake the other day and I could have sworn that guy was familiar (since I just watched Flash Gordon recently too)! Thanks.

[Robinson]

"One degree of separation" from Daniel Craig: George Harris who played "Morty" in LAYER CAKE, played Prince Thun in FLASH GORDON.

Oh my god! I just watched Layer Cake the other day and I could have sworn that guy was familiar (since I just watched Flash Gordon recently too)! Thanks.

He was also "Captain Katanga" in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.

Mr. Harris is about to increase his visibility since he'll play an instructor in the new Harry Potter film.

[Stephen Spotswood]

I'm still looking forward to the next sequel to Flesh Gordon.

One reason I heard that Star Wars never got the Flash Gordon characters was because the copyright holders read the scene set in the canteen and asked, "What's with the aliens playing their noses like instruments?"

[Royal Dalton]

Quite possibly the best Flash Gordon review ever:

http://www.411mania....lash-Gordon.htm

[Stephen Spotswood]

Wasn't the same idiot, Lorenzo Semple, to blame for writing the movie Flash Gordon, Never Say Never, and the old Batman show with Adam West?

Dalton was very Erroll Flynn in it as he was in the Rocketeer much later.

I started seeing Dalton as Bond in the Mae West movie Sextette.

[Royal Dalton]

Idiot?

[DaveBond21]

I always loved this movie, and "Flash" by Queen was the first record I bought as a 5 year old!!!!

[TheSaint]

Toy company Bif Bang Pow is doing a series of action figures designed by Alex Ross based on the movie. Here's a link to an article interviewing Ross & Jason Lenzi, co-founder of the company. Of interest are 2 drawings Ross does of Dalton as Prince Barin.

Toyfare:Flash Forward

[McThing]

Flash Gordon lol. I still enjoy watching it even if it does look a little dated now.