Nice effects though.

best movie i've ever seen.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Flash Gordon is a peace of Predictive Programming propaganda under the guise of a Camp cult movie. It is absolutely saturated in Masonic symbolism, probably more than any other movie. Predictive programming is used by the Establishment to get a story into the minds of Children for later use when they're adults. The Flash Gordon story is about a God like Alien threat to earth. He visits earth with catastrophes and Mysteries, "Strange Craters in the Wilderness" etc, if man suspects it's the work of Aliens, Ming will destroy the earth. The Movie Starts with a summary of various catastrophes the Alien menace is creating, "Hot Hail", "Meteor Storm", "Earthquake", "Volcanic Eruption" etc, and Air disasters when Flash's plane crashes after his pilots are sucked out of a smashed canopy. We then are introduced to "Hans Zarkov", he's a rogue ex-NASA scientist who's been trying to warn the public of the approaching "Alien Threat", but is ignored.This story was predictive programming for the Hoax Alien Threat, which Bill Cooper warned about over 20 years ago. He initially believed in Alien visitation because of secret documents he'd been shown while in the Navy, but gradually realised he'd been deceived. He warned of the establishment's "Alien Agenda", how every story of Alien Visitation, from the Roswell Hoax onwards, was a clever propaganda campaign disseminated through the establishment's media, while at the same time called "A cover up". Some cover up. The Roswell "secret" was first handed to the worlds controlled media under orders from the Roswell base commander. And it's been the same ever since, propaganda disseminated until Area 51 became the most widely known so called secret military base in the world. Cooper warned before he was killed this was to justify a one world totalitarian state, a plan called "MajestyTwelve", in which the world would be given a Messiah Savior global dictator who'd secretly be a puppet of 12 members of the ruling class.Of course black project craft which the establishment's media labels "Alien UFOs", are just one aspect of what was required for the deception to be believed, and it's taken a long time to put the plan into action. Since the Mid 2000s it's been clear how they'll be going about creating the threat, black project created Asteroid Impact explosions and Tsunamis, fires and other catastrophes. Tianjin, Fukushima, the Turkish and Greenland Tsunamis, these are just some of the events they've created, which eventually through staged fake "Government leaks" they'll claim were caused by a hostile Alien race directing various sizes of Meteorite to earth. They'll be a variety of sizes of events, from fires that the media will portray as "mysterious", that eventually they'll say were caused by small hot meteorites (hot hail), houses being demolished by "Gas Explosions", sometimes where the gas company will deny the house had a supply, to earthquakes and Tsunamis. But these events are bound to get much larger, the imaginary enemy is going to have to bite hard to create the elite's "Utopian world".This is Ming in the predictive programming, you see people will see the world going crazy, get a sense of great unease that something is happening they're not being told about, but the events will seem familiar, they've seen them before. And through these Childhood memories from Sci-Fi of old, they draw a link to an "Alien" Bogeyman. And what of Dr Hans Zarkov? The Zarkov character is played in "real life" by Dr John Brandenburg, a "rogue ex NASA scientist" who claimed to have discovered in 2014 that there was once a war on Mars that destroyed an alien race, that this was caused by another Alien Race which he somehow knew was still out there, and that this God Like Alien bogeyman from the void could threaten earth. Another event to trigger those carefully created childhood memories, so the public comes to the "Alien" conclusion in a way that will seem like it was their conclusion alone, rather than one given to them long ago. Brandenburg's Mars propaganda story was actually predicted by Bill Cooper over 20 years ago. The deception has a staged fake cover up. Like the Roswell Hoax, people believe more readily if they think Authority hid the "truth", it makes the lie seem like powerful knowledge they are enlightened to believe in, even though the establishment's media has disseminated this secret until the whole world has learnt the lore of the Roswell Hoax. At the same time Authority appears to be "protecting us from the truth" "The End?" nope it's just started

Colorful, silly fun, at times campy, Mike Hodges's 1980 "Flash Gordon" is among those movies that are less than the sum of their parts. Made on shoe-string budgets with C-picture performers and crew for young undemanding viewers, the original 1930's Flash Gordon serials are unintentionally funny to adults today. To recapture the innocence and naivete of those movies with a big budget and trained actors is a difficult task, although Hodges's "Flash Gordon" makes a decent attempt. Lorenzo Semple's screenplay tracks the original serials fairly well; Flash and Dale Arden are taken aboard Doctor Hans Zarkov's spacecraft and flown to the planet Mongo, where they battle Emperor Ming the Merciless to save the Earth. Semple's script has enough classic bad dialog to satisfy seekers of camp; "I love you Flash, but we only have 14 hours to save the Earth." However, the difference between Semple's script and the original series is that Semple knew he was writing bad dialog, while the writers of the serial were unintentionally hilarious.That difference in intention also applies to the actors; Buster Crabbe and company played the serials dead-pan straight, and those in the remake who play their parts equally straight come off best. The under-demanding role of Flash requires the skills of a Razzie Award Winning thespian, and, Sam J. Jones won a Razzie nomination for his work herein. Although not a super hero in the modern sense, the blonde hunk, who sports nothing but leather trunks in one scene, physically fills the role, and Jones manages to deliver his lines with a convincing lack of conviction as the dim, but well meaning Flash. However, the movie's scene-stealer is Max Von Sydow as Ming the Merciless; appropriately garbed and made-up as the evil emperor, Von Sydow plays the role with majesty and menace, which is all the more fun. Unfortunately, Topol as Doctor Zarkov, does not follow Von Sydow's example and winks and smiles as the mad scientist, telegraphing to viewers that he is in on the joke. But Brian Blessed as the winged Prince Vultan, Timothy Dalton as Prince Barin, and, especially, the delicious Peter Wyngarde as Klytus deliver their lines as though penned by the Bard himself. Although Mariangela Melato is a memorable Kala, Melody Anderson as Dale Arden should have been in the running for a Razzie alongside Jones, which is intended as a compliment.Besides Von Sydow, the film's other scene-stealer is designer Danilo Donati, who provided the lavish Fellini-esque costumes and sets. While Donati's work tends to emphasize red and gold, which may not be to everyone's taste, his outlandish designs are as entertaining as anything on display and certainly light years beyond those of the 1930's serials. If Donati or another anonymous designer created the Art-Deco spaceships, he or she too deserves kudos as do the creators of the appropriately tacky and obvious special effects, which beautifully evoke the primitive work of the 1930's serials. As contemporary and important as the art direction is the pulsating score by Queen that punctuates the action and enhances the excitement. While "Flash Gordon" is not the high camp perhaps intended, the film has a cult following and enough outstanding attributes to satisfy main-stream audiences. Led by Max Von Sydow's iconic Ming the Merciless, Queen's pounding music, and Danilo Donati's dazzling designs, "Flash Gordon" may not be to everybody's taste, but should be savored by all at least once, just for the sheer fun of it all.

As cheesy comic book romps go, this takes some beating. Based on the original comic strip series - images of which are shown over the title credits - this is a film that was dated even when it was first released. The years have lent it a certain nostalgic charm and there's no doubt that it's enjoyable when you're in the right silly mood. There's also the appeal of watching some respectable actors taking part in the chaos that ensues on screen.Bad movie fans will have a field day with this one. The plot is simplistic in the extreme, not to mention contrived, and the film merely seems like a STAR WARS rip-off. The special effects are also very cheap looking, being a mixture of that bad early '80s computer effect and some very dodgy matte work. A hilarious score by Queen serves to date the film even further. Still, at least they try and throw in a bit of everything here; there's plenty of action, from gun fights to fist fights, there's some whipping, romance, glamour (the girls all get to wear shiny bikinis), drama, male bonding, and even a rubbery monster in there too.Sam Jones stars as the square-jawed American hero, and to be brutally honest, he's awful - a really poor actor. I've never seen anybody so wooden. He does have an endearing puppy-dog quality to him though. Melody Anderson is the annoying bubbly heroine who makes stupid remarks like "Flash! Flash! I love you, but we only have 14 hours to save the Earth!". Topol actually comes off pretty well playing an intelligent scientist and doesn't have to embarrass himself too much. On the other hand, Brian Blessed should be crying tears of shame if he watches himself flying about with papier mache wings. Timothy Dalton also pops up to lend some much-needed charisma, while Max Von Sydow goes over the top as the sinister comic book villain. There are also cameos from British celebrities like Robbie Coltrane and Richard O'Brien.One of my favourite scenes in this film, which I've always remembered since seeing it as a child, is the huge exciting fight scene on a tilting circular platform complete with pop-up spikes. This culminates in a Darth Vader-wannabe robo-guy getting brutally spiked. It's a lot of fun. While some bits are excruciatingly embarrassing, like the sad squad of flying bird-men, most of this is fun in a bad way and a couple of bits are surprisingly well-handled. There are plenty of in-jokes to spot and the whole thing is colourful, garish to look at. Besides, how can you hate a film which has evil henchmen who wear red gas masks? FLASH GORDON is the epitome of cheesy '80s fun and should be viewed as such.

I remember seeing this movie a long time ago, and thought that Ornella Muti had the most beautiful eyes in the world. A bit like the Italian version of Sharon Stone, with her mystique elegance, and her cat eyes. Somehow this movie, even though it seeming a bit corny and outdated in today's computerized universe, it still seems to stand its own. In its day, this movie was the party film of the 1980's Rock scene, which has its own place in everybody's heart, that remembers those days of the crazy colorful 80's. With the classic wonderful music by Queen, and the powerful voice of Freddie Mercury, this film will always remain as one of those 1980's classic.