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Loading... Flash Gordon [1980 film] (1980)by Mike Hodges (Director)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I love this film - there's a reason it's a cult classic. It's full of bad acting and overacting and strange plotting. But it's SO MUCH FUN. ( ) One of the innumerable re-issues from the epic cycle of Flash Gordon serials. This is the third story, often titled SPACE SOLDIERS CONQUER THE UNIVERSE, though I have chosen to catalogue it according to the actual marking on the tape and its package. While there are many wonderful bits here, there's no question in my mind that the series was running-out, well, not of gas, but whatever propelled Zarkov's rocket ship. While there have been numerus commentaries on FLASH, both academic/highfalutin' and street-level, I wonder whether I am the only one to savour the late-Thirties politics: the Americans making common cause with unlikely Allies in a far-Northern country, against the totalitarian with an East-Asian name? Hmm. Some also really dig the Clay People sub-plot, but I would trade that all for the few seconds of astonishing footage -- possibly recycled from another, unralted film? -- of skiers with torches. A bad day with Flash, Zarkov, and the gang beats a good day with almost anybody else no reviews | add a review
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An outer space fantasy adventure based on the comic strip Flash Gordon. When energy waves pull the moon out of orbit, threatening destruction of Earth, Dr. Zarkov, Flash Gordon and Dale Arden go to the planet Mongo, the source of these energy waves. Ruling over Mongo is Ming the Merciless, who must be destroyed. No library descriptions found. |
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