It was a fantastic movie with a fantastic cast and a superbly fantastic soundtrack! Brian Blessed as usual, stole every scene he talked in! They could do a remake, but it would be hard to top the original!
@@mikelfrance-l6x Seeing 'House of Wax' (in 3D) with the parents as a child in the 60's had a similar effect: Naked woman (implied) shackled in a box waiting to be covered in wax to become a display was 'interesting'. Hollywood has always pushed the edge. I was squirming myself.
Learning about the '66 Batman connection puts everything into place. It all makes sense with the camp and presentation - I was in 2nd grade and the Adam West Batman was perfect for me then. I always enjoyed this version of Flash Gordon and understand a bit more about myself now.
Oh man. When this movie hit a local dollar theatre (remember those?) near me, I took my younger cousin to watch it. We had to call my aunt, his mom by pay phone (remember those?) to tell her we were going to stay and watch it again. We spent $4 on tickets... And probably $30 on snacks and drinks - 80's prices.
@@JacyTeh It's because of the copyright of the Queen music. At both times, it happens when that music comes up and if you notice, at the end he plays a cover version of the song.
Also I watched "Flash Gordon " the animated show from the early eighties on NBC , on what we call Saturday mornings cartoons too . But it would later come in handy when it to watching "Flash Gordon " movie .
Klytus, I'm bored.... what pleasure can you offer me today? I loved this movie just as much, if not mor than, the first Star Wars flick as a kid. I was disappointed that we never got a sequel that was teased ar the end. I even bought the soundtrack album. Queen did a brilliant job on it. Even as an adult, decades later, the campy flick is still a guilty pleasure to watch and reminisce.
Just to clear it up, Star Wars actually had nothing, or very little at any rate, to do with why THIS movie was made. THIS movie was actually made because the makers were previously doing an early movie version of Dune during the mid to late 70s, but THAT was canceled so they made THIS movie instead, which incorporates and recycles a lot of stuff from THAT aborted project. See a documentary film called Alexander Jodorowsky's Dune - it's all talked about in THAT.
What happened to the animated movie would be a better question. ZERO American home releases, just random VHS releases in other countries and a laserdisc in Japan.
There is zero chance today's hollywood wouldn't mess it up. Besides, the progs would scree everyone deaf if whoever mught try to make a followup tried to keep Ming the Merciless anything close to the same.
Nothing....nothing at all happened to FLASH GORDON. Just watched it again for probably the 1,374th time this past weekend since it's release when I was kid. So nothing at all to see here. Still a GOAT. And probably , if NOT , THE greatest soundtrack in movie history ?? I'm thinking ...uh yeah, that too. LOL😁😁
I remember when I watched it in the theater and I really didn’t get the cheesey nature of the the movie. I thought it was going to be more like Star Wars. However i do embrace the 🧀 of this movie, if they played it seriously it would have never worked.
Oh so cool this video is about Flash Gordon from the very beginning that spawned so much movies that it influenced and became a great success from it's much more thought out and ever more stories just from a simple idea from such story. Great video.
Yes, you remember it right. We were blown away by Star Wars and then has to suffer years of terrible copycat films of dismal quality. Each time we would sit in the theater, hoping for another Star Wars experience. Hope, disappointment, hope disappointment. It finally arrived in the form of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ghostbusters and Back to the Future.
Would believe me , I told saw on then late night TV .Since as kid in the early eighthes I did notice that much , like there were big movies out the time , but once I saw "Flash Gordon " , well the movie hooks you in . And it so retro in it's effects even for the time it in , so I own the movie too . But my favourite part the movie is , when Flash flying the rocket towards the city . And the whole space bike is sweet too .
TBH, I wasn't that impressed by the movie when I watched it for the first time in the last couple of years. I guess I can see the appeal in its campiness, but it just wasn't for me, I suppose.
What happened to Flash? He became obsolete. The rocket looked nothing like one able to travel to another planet, the bad guys all resembled humans from crappy movies, the miniature sets were obviously miniature sets, all the women on all the planets wanted to boink Flash (typical super hero reaction), Zarkov was a stereotyped Jew, Ming a stereotyped Asian, the acting was W-O-O-D-E-N, plotting stupid (king of the hawkmen tries to entertain the woman he wants to rape with SHADOW PUPPETS), and how it became an accepted facorite is one gigantic mystery.
I loved 𝐹𝑙𝑎𝑠ℎ 𝐺𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑜𝑛. Of course, I was 11 years old, so my standards weren't the highest. However, having seen it since it was in the theaters, I still like it. Either I still have the standards of an 11 year old, or it is a good film. And I can assure everyone, I have higher standards now.
Max Von Sydow was perfect casting as Ming! Flash Gordon 1980 is a very underrated cult classic.
We don't need updated versions and/or reboots this movie! It is a classic like Excalibur or Krull which will never be bested!
It was a fantastic movie with a fantastic cast and a superbly fantastic soundtrack!
Brian Blessed as usual, stole every scene he talked in!
They could do a remake, but it would be hard to top the original!
If there is a remake, it would be too self-aware too much winking at the camera.
Flash a-ah. He saved every one of us.
Difficult to hear the word Flash without saying Aaa-aaah
"GORDON'S ALIVE?!?!"
Alive!?
Alive!!!?
Now I’m going to have the theme song stuck in my head for weeks.
So epic.
Ming's daughter was a babe
Played by Italian bombshell actress Ornella Muti! Melody Anderson played Dale Arden!
Yeah, absolutely stunning.
As a kid I remember this was close to soft porn. Some of the outfits and sexual stuff was kinda shocking.
@@mikelfrance-l6x Seeing 'House of Wax' (in 3D) with the parents as a child in the 60's had a similar effect: Naked woman (implied) shackled in a box waiting to be covered in wax to become a display was 'interesting'. Hollywood has always pushed the edge. I was squirming myself.
Yesss and she STILL looks good
Audio removed due to copyright strike?
It became a beloved classic to most. "Gordon's alive!"
As a teenager I LOVED the pillow fight scene. 🥰
I’m old AF and still love it
WHAT THE F*CK HAPPENED WITH THE AUDIO AT 1:22?
I'm guessing the TH-cam nazis blocked out perhaps a clip of the Queen music.
It got quickly sniped by TH-cam.
@@mordaciousfilms FLASH!! AHHHHHH!!!!
Flash! Flash, I Love You! But we only have Sixteen Hours to Save the World!
I remember going to see this at the cinema way back on Wednesday 24th December 1980 😊
Me too. I saw it several times at the theater, in fact.
Jones is one of the nicest people to meet at a convention.
Yeah I did a bump with him... a fist bump
Yes he is🎉
Learning about the '66 Batman connection puts everything into place. It all makes sense with the camp and presentation - I was in 2nd grade and the Adam West Batman was perfect for me then. I always enjoyed this version of Flash Gordon and understand a bit more about myself now.
Oh man. When this movie hit a local dollar theatre (remember those?) near me, I took my younger cousin to watch it. We had to call my aunt, his mom by pay phone (remember those?) to tell her we were going to stay and watch it again. We spent $4 on tickets... And probably $30 on snacks and drinks - 80's prices.
The bigger question is what happened to Flesh Gordon
He got herpes...
...and a SEQUEL (believe it or not) 🎥
What is with the sound?
rights likely the reason cannot play the title music
@@goodwood-rc4nxno, that’s not what he is referring to. The sound went in and out, up and down, randomly.
yeah -at 1:22 to 1:30 the sound drops out
@@JacyTeh It's because of the copyright of the Queen music. At both times, it happens when that music comes up and if you notice, at the end he plays a cover version of the song.
The music (soundtrack by "Queen") would likely trigger copyright strike.
Also I watched "Flash Gordon " the animated show from the early eighties on NBC , on what we call Saturday mornings cartoons too . But it would later come in handy when it to watching "Flash Gordon " movie .
Klytus, I'm bored.... what pleasure can you offer me today?
I loved this movie just as much, if not mor than, the first Star Wars flick as a kid. I was disappointed that we never got a sequel that was teased ar the end. I even bought the soundtrack album. Queen did a brilliant job on it.
Even as an adult, decades later, the campy flick is still a guilty pleasure to watch and reminisce.
Just to clear it up, Star Wars actually had nothing, or very little at any rate, to do with why THIS movie was made. THIS movie was actually made because the makers were previously doing an early movie version of Dune during the mid to late 70s, but THAT was canceled so they made THIS movie instead, which incorporates and recycles a lot of stuff from THAT aborted project. See a documentary film called Alexander Jodorowsky's Dune - it's all talked about in THAT.
Reverse ("Star Wars" was made because George Lucas had been prevented from making Flash Gordon) 📽
This is a Movie… it’s entertaining and 100% worth the overpriced Popcorn ❤️
What happened to the animated movie would be a better question. ZERO American home releases, just random VHS releases in other countries and a laserdisc in Japan.
this is gonna need a reupload. with a good amount of the main cast still alive, I don't think some kind of followup would be a bad idea if done right.
There is zero chance today's hollywood wouldn't mess it up. Besides, the progs would scree everyone deaf if whoever mught try to make a followup tried to keep Ming the Merciless anything close to the same.
my favorite "bad movie." Those costumes! The sets! Killer soundtrack.
Fix you video. Sound cuts out
Because Queen.
Because the surviving members. Or ip owning recording company. Freddie would have been ok with it.
Oh I thought it's my headphones.
I was about to mention that. I registered two audio drops.
Queen are notorious about blocking anything with their music. I hate the attitude
What do you mean, Flash Gordon aproaching?
On a Hawkman rocket cycle.
@@inhumanmusic1411 Fire when Gordon is in range.
Dispatch war rocket Ajax!
Von sydow was brilliant. And awesome he had fun doing it.
saw this in the movie theater
Flaash... Aaahhh...
Great episode!
how many times did I have to rewind lol 😅
Flash Gordon or the prequel to Ted
Also the best OST with Queen
Sorry, have to go with Highlander for best Queen OST.
@@randocasshatian5677 And Michael Kamen!
Has my favourite scene where Klytus' eyes ooze out like poached eggs!
Man I love this movie!!! ❤
It's already on 4K. So there's another 4K transfer and master coming?
Flash Gordon is pure camp excellence, and the soundtrack is Queen at the height of their powers.
Nothing....nothing at all happened to FLASH GORDON. Just watched it again for probably the 1,374th time this past weekend since it's release when I was kid. So nothing at all to see here. Still a GOAT. And probably , if NOT , THE greatest soundtrack in movie history ?? I'm thinking ...uh yeah, that too. LOL😁😁
I remember when I watched it in the theater and I really didn’t get the cheesey nature of the the movie. I thought it was going to be more like Star Wars. However i do embrace the 🧀 of this movie, if they played it seriously it would have never worked.
Audio cuts out between 1:23 - 1:33 bro
Copyright crap.. TH-cam..😩
Modern Flash...... Gordon Freeman.
Someone didn't get the rights to Queen songs
Saw this movie dozens of times on showtime and hbo in the 80s
"This Ming is a psycho"
"Who said that?"
One brave American must find his way through a European sci-fi cologne commercial.
And it will never leave my mind. :-)
What a fantastic film!
Not to be confused with Flesh Gordon !!
...which of course they completely ignored.
That's what's wrong with Hollywood today... why do we need a remake? This was a perfect (IMO) movie. Get on with yourselfs!
Too much Barbarella for the US audience. The original 1930's stuff is first rate for its period. I imagine kids of that period thought it was amazing.
I had a crush on Ming’s daughter.
It had a theme song by Freddie Motherfucking Mercury, that's what. 🤘😎🤘
sound is fucked up at 1:22
Forget him what happened to aura ?
1979 cartoon series from Filmation was great.
I didn't know this was a real movie I thought it was something made up by Ted 😆
What's with the shitty audio that cuts a couple of time?
So Dune has no influence over Star Wars?
Correct.
It was cheesy goodness! A bit too self contained for sequels, though
Not the bore worms!
This movie is just simply 80s cheese. Its a shame what happened
Wtf happened to this audio?
Copyright lawyers.
flash aaaaa
Oh so cool this video is about Flash Gordon from the very beginning that spawned so much movies that it influenced and became a great success from it's much more thought out and ever more stories just from a simple idea from such story. Great video.
Was that English?
@@detroitdiezel7856 I am in Canada and English is our heritage. We still watch American TV shows and movies!
@@agnethaladuff8559 Well, apparently you failed to pay attention in English class!
Yes, you remember it right.
We were blown away by Star Wars and then has to suffer years of terrible copycat films of dismal quality.
Each time we would sit in the theater, hoping for another Star Wars experience.
Hope, disappointment, hope disappointment.
It finally arrived in the form of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ghostbusters and Back to the Future.
What happened to Flash Gordon? Cocaine and alcohol. Video finished.
Queen went full Hall & Oates on you "Nooo, no can do." 🎶 🎵
You should make playlist for every WTF
Huh?
Coolest theme song ever. Thank you Freddie Mercury ❤
It was actually written by Queen's guitarist, Brian May. Not Freddie Mercury.
@detroitdiezel7856 respect to Mr May also Freddie's voice and his guitar were a match made in heaven
Would believe me , I told saw on then late night TV .Since as kid in the early eighthes I did notice that much , like there were big movies out the time , but once I saw "Flash Gordon " , well the movie hooks you in . And it so retro in it's effects even for the time it in , so I own the movie too . But my favourite part the movie is , when Flash flying the rocket towards the city . And the whole space bike is sweet too .
Can you repeat that in English please?
Flash Gordon..You wont mind remember this movie..:)
Dolly had braces
and a beautiful rack; they couldn't erase that!
Editing fail
TBH, I wasn't that impressed by the movie when I watched it for the first time in the last couple of years. I guess I can see the appeal in its campiness, but it just wasn't for me, I suppose.
It's really an idea best expressed in a short hard rock song than a full movie. There's a reason why the Queen song gets more play than the movie.
The music by Queen ruined the movie.
I remember this movie.
What a godawful mess it was.
FIRST!!!
What happened to Flash? He became obsolete. The rocket looked nothing like one able to travel to another planet, the bad guys all resembled humans from crappy movies, the miniature sets were obviously miniature sets, all the women on all the planets wanted to boink Flash (typical super hero reaction), Zarkov was a stereotyped Jew, Ming a stereotyped Asian, the acting was W-O-O-D-E-N, plotting stupid (king of the hawkmen tries to entertain the woman he wants to rape with SHADOW PUPPETS), and how it became an accepted facorite is one gigantic mystery.
You're a lot of fun at parties, I can tell...
I loved 𝐹𝑙𝑎𝑠ℎ 𝐺𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑜𝑛. Of course, I was 11 years old, so my standards weren't the highest. However, having seen it since it was in the theaters, I still like it. Either I still have the standards of an 11 year old, or it is a good film. And I can assure everyone, I have higher standards now.
I agree with you. I still love everything about this movie! Those who don't, can kick rocks.