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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jun 2, 2019 15:03:14 GMT
Wow! This is the film version of the original cliff-hanger 15-minute episodes I used to watch when I was a boy.
BBC2, Friday evenings, 7pm, when I got home from school.
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Post by Colin Sibthorpe on Jun 2, 2019 22:50:06 GMT
I have two sets of DVDs of Flash Gordon stories. Quite interesting and Dale Arden was very nice.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2019 1:23:43 GMT
I love the Flash Gordon serials from the '30's with Buster Crabbe, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon, and the entire cast. To this day I find the contrasts superlative and intriguing - e.g. the medieval swords and armor contrasted with the super high tech sci-fi weaponry and rocket ships, and the classical background music (Liszt's Les Prelude, particularly) which so effectively enhances the action, drama and sense of mystery and unknown of the goings-on. For all the high tech special effects of today, they can't, and don't make them like this any more. Those were the days . . . .
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jun 30, 2019 16:00:55 GMT
This is very different to films these days.
Within 16 minutes of starting, we have had:
- the opening titles
- the hero and heroine meeting on a plane
- a plane crash
- various world catastrophes
- the two survivors finding the Doc's laboratory
- the Doc convincing them that is it a rogue planet that is attacking Earth
- the Doc convincing them to go into space to defeat this planet
- them taking off in the spaceship
- flying through space for quite a long distance
- landing on the planet and escaping giant lizards
- being caught by Ming's guards
- being brought before Ming and Flash being sentenced to fight in the arena
- Ming's daughter deciding to rescue Flash
- Ming's daughter rescuing Flash
- them finding their way into the underground caves and evading Ming's guards
All of this in 16 minutes, people.
They don't make shit like this anymore.
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Post by yggdrasil on Jun 30, 2019 16:44:11 GMT
Never liked him. Seemed a bit of a cunt.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jun 30, 2019 19:15:26 GMT
Never liked him. Seemed a bit of a cunt. For saving the Earth? |
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Post by yggdrasil on Jun 30, 2019 19:18:21 GMT
Never liked him. Seemed a bit of a cunt. For saving the Earth? Nah, just in general. He was no Dick Barton. |
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