Topic: Views on Flash Gordon? (Read 3138 times)

Capt_Bearslayer_XC · « **on:** September 09, 2007, 08:23:25 pm »

Just wondering... saw a few of the episodes so far and not quite sure if I like it or not....

It has good points, but lots of bad points...

Anyone else?

Sirgod · « **Reply #1 on:** September 10, 2007, 09:27:24 am »

I like it, but for a strange reason. I was expecting the old style campyyness, with sparklers out of rocket ships, and instead they surprised me completly.

First with Dale being engaged to another man, and using very very minor support cast from the serials, as leads.

I think I will stick with it for awhile longer. Now I gotta gear up for the Season finale of The Closer.

Stephen

Panzergranate · « **Reply #2 on:** September 10, 2007, 10:34:25 am »

Oh.... the series is called "Flash Gordon"!!

I thought that they were going to make an updated version of "Flesh Gordon"!!

Damn, that is so disapointing.... I was so looking forward to seeing how they redo the scene where Ming uses his mighty weapon on Dale!!

Damn!!

Capt_Bearslayer_XC · « **Reply #3 on:** September 10, 2007, 03:57:34 pm »

LOL... I think the bounty hunter ally they picked up is a better catch....

Death_Merchant · « **Reply #4 on:** September 10, 2007, 04:20:14 pm »

I've yet to make it through an entire episode....
Dull pacing, that "shot in a backyard with a camcorder" feel, the bad-guy of the week through the rift storylines....
I know the idea was to get a hit show on a tight budget.... but jeez

Next time it comes on, I'll shove a spoon up my ass.
cause if I'm gonna hurt that bad, I'm doing it to myself.....
(apologies to Lewis Black)

Panzergranate · « **Reply #5 on:** September 11, 2007, 01:29:01 pm »

I remember, a year or so before the Lost In Space movie came out, Jonathan Ross (a BBC movie critic) visiting the home of two of the original cast of Land Of The Giants (the two that played Steve Burton and Valerie) to talk about a Land Of The Giants movie.

There they were, sat in the backyard with giant razor blade axes proped up against the deckchairs, discussing the plot for the movie project.

Aparently, it was going to be set over 20 years after the crash. The Spendthrift has been captured/lost and the movie would visit the surivors, and those of subsequent aircraft, ships and spaceships that had been caught by the wormhole and stranded on the Planet.

The Humans have formed a community after 20 odd years and given up hope of rescue or escape. But then something happens....

Well, the movie was never made, mores the pity. Land Of The Giants was a good TV show.

Dash Jones · « **Reply #6 on:** September 15, 2007, 08:54:46 pm »

New Flash Gordon...

Stinks.

Bad.

A remake by a bad porn studio of Flesh Gordon would have been ten times better.

As you can tell, I don't like the Sci Fi version of Flash Gordon...or is that...the Sci Fi show that should have been called "I'm so slow I spend half my time on the Planet Earth" Gordon?

Lepton · « **Reply #7 on:** September 16, 2007, 04:36:31 pm »

I watched the first episode and had to fast forward through most of it. It is patently awful. Where I first realized how awful the show is was the show's opening. This is the absolute first impression that the producers of the show have to make and they squander it on some lame marathon sequence and a meet-cute with Flash's friends at the end of the race. The dialog was awful from the first. When I next realized how lame the show is is when we get to Mongo and meet Ming. No grandeur, no scope, nothing, and the actor playing Ming is awful. Finally, when I washed my hands of the show was near the very end, wherein Flash is fighting the chicks for the Imex. My god, what buffoonery!! Terrible fight staging, no action intensity, awful effects, just hamfisted, amateurish bull crap. If you want Flash Gordon, I'd suggest watching the 1980 film.

And where oh where is Dr. Zarkov? That schmo they have is no Dr. Zarkov. Is he even named Zarkov in the show?

It's trash. Don't waste your time.

Hell, Cleopatra 2525 is better than this show and you got to look at this:

Gina Torres in almost nothing.

Panzergranate · « **Reply #8 on:** September 17, 2007, 07:41:03 am »

You mean that the fight sequences were that terrible??

OK, I haven't seen the show, but on the sci-fi mock punch up scale, how does it compare to William Shatner's TOS buffonery?? You can use the Shatner Scale of ham fight acting, with a Shatner of 10 equating to Bill's best TOS fight.

Lepton · « **Reply #9 on:** September 17, 2007, 09:35:07 pm »

Buffoonery probably is not the right word. It's more like lame and totally inept, totally unstaged. Buffoonery would be comically bad. This was just sad and stupid. Imagine a man sort of fighting or struggling with one of two women neither of whom seem to have stunt doubles of any sort. It was like a pawing and stumbling and one really awful thrown elbow. That was it, and this guy was fighting for all the knowledge in the universe or some such. I mean, geez, punch the princess in the face and take the damn thing!!! The show's a joke.

I'd also recommend rewatching Buck Rodgers in the 24th Century as opposed to this silly crap. A young Linda Grey in a tight, tight flight suit.

Panzergranate · « **Reply #10 on:** September 17, 2007, 10:04:40 pm »

So you're saying that it's' so corny that chickens would peck at it??!!

Does it make Plan NIne From Outer Space look good??!! $:-\$

In the Sci-Fi crapness scale Plan Nine was the original bench mark zero on the scale. Are we taling maybe having to have a new zero to work with here??!!

Dash Jones · « **Reply #11 on:** September 18, 2007, 12:16:29 am »

Never seen Plan Nine, but I'm betting it would seem like a piece of Broadway perfection compared to Flash Gordon 2007

Panzergranate · « **Reply #12 on:** September 18, 2007, 08:28:31 am »

Plan NIne From Outer Space is a classic. It is also lauded as being, by far, the worst Hollywood Film ever made.

Just type the title into a search engine and you'll see why.

One fact about PNFOS was that the star, Bela Lugosi, died halfway through filming. So the director had his brother-in- law, who was a full foot shorter than Bela Lugosi, play the role of Dracula. The brother-in- law played the rest of the movie with the cape held up to cover his face.

Now you're probally asking what Dracula is doing in a Flying Saucers film??!! There were Zombies as well.

There is also the classic movie dumb line from a Police Detective of, quote, "He's been murdered, and one thing's for sure, somebody killed him!!"

Actually, all the dislogue is pretty lame.

Better still, all the cast are relatives, local amateur dramatics and friends. Some double as the production crew.

The naffness spreads to the prps and special effects.... Hub as flying saucers caps on visible string.... Alien space ship controls all sat on an Oak table inside the ship. The aliens are telling the human captives how superiour their tecjnology is, at the time. Also the fact that all the internal wall of the alien flying saucer are straight and plaster covered with house doors.

Ironically the camera work is excelent. Only the moive is extremely crap. It is so bad it is facinating to watch. The whole film had a budget of $5,000 back in the late 1950's.

The movie is available on VHS and DVD.

Anyone else seen this movie??

Plan Nine From Outer Space is worth seeing as it is just so ridiculous and amusing to watch.

Perhaps this Flash Gordon show will end up in a similar naff classic role.

TheJudge · « **Reply #13 on:** October 11, 2007, 03:57:11 pm »

See, now, here's the difference. I watched the premiere of the new Flash Gordon with my partner, we looked at each other and said 'blah'. Sure, some nice male eye-candy, but that was about it. Then, we watched it with my niece and nephew since none of the eye-candy was too sexual in nature. Now it is on our Tivo record list, and their favorite show. For some reason, we even like it better when the kids watch it with us.

Without the kids, well, I wouldn't watch it except to see shirtless Flash or Baron.

Yes, the niece and nephew are being brought up on a steady diet of sci-fi. They watch Dr. Who, Flash Gordon, Stargate Atlantis, Chuck, Bionic Woman, oh, and Heroes.

Funny thing is, while we enjoy the 'adult' shows more, we also enjoy shows we might not have otherwise...

Panzergranate · « **Reply #14 on:** October 11, 2007, 05:46:41 pm »

OK, we now have it onone of the cable channels here in the UK.

I watched part of one show, OK 5 minutes of it, and then switched over to something more interesting.

It reminded me of the mega corny and naff Power Rangers that my son used to watch as a small kid, way back.

That's the trouble with shows based around character personalities and zero deep story line or plot.

TheJudge · « **Reply #15 on:** October 11, 2007, 06:55:37 pm »

My nephew just IM'd me to make sure we will watch Flash Gordon tomorrow night. I had to laugh.

Panzergranate · « **Reply #16 on:** October 11, 2007, 07:13:47 pm »

It's amazing what kids like to watch and find cool.

As a kid, in the late 1960's and early 1970's, Scooby Doo was cool. Watching repeats today, I can't see how I found the show cool as a kid. Perhaps we become more sophisticated in our viewing tastes as we grow older.

However, I do enjoy the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (watch it and you'll understand!!

) and Dexter's Lab on Cartoon Channel, despite being 45 years old now.

The humour in Billy and Mandy is clearly aimed at the teenage and adult audience.

Any other Billy and Mandy fans out there??

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