Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Movie review - "Flash Gordon" (1980) **** (re-viewing)

Saw it at the Egyptian with Sam Jones and Melody Anderson there. Both are nice. This is a fun movie, with that fantastic music and set design and tongue in cheek. Everyone is in good form - Jones, even though dubbed, is big and dope and likeable and well matchd by Anderson despite her 1980 travel agent outfit... they're two naive kids who find each other.

Topol is great fun, better than Warren Oates would've been - Max Von Sydow, Patrick Wyngarde, Brian Blessed, Tim Dalton, Ornella Muti... they're all fantastic. Some of the effects now creak but it has a magic about it. I liked the serious stuff too like Dalton going to Flash "where you lead I follow". Guy cry!

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