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Sunday, 21 October 2007

Flash Gordon Cinema Update

More Flash Gordon goodness.

After yesterday's Flash Gordon film festival jayessell asked if any of the clips were from the notorious 1980 feature with the bombastic score by Queen. Indeed so, and here are the opening credits featuring some of Alex Raymond's incredible artwork.

We were also asked about the Filmation series that came out at the same time. The animated clip yesterday was from the television film that was only ever aired once, but was then cannibalised for scenes for the Saturday morning serial that was basically an expansion and toning down of the film plot.

A bit pedestrian as themes go, but still infinitely preferable to this Scifi Channel pap.

We also forgot the '70s soft core parody Flesh Gordon that kept a lot of FX artists gainfully employed during lean times, so in the interest of completeness, here it is. Caution: Brief nudity and strong language.

Unfortunately, now that we've started, we have to include the 1993 sequel Flesh Gordon meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders as well. The real tragedy of this one is that even it outdoes the current series.
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1 comment:

  1. jayessellSunday, 21 October 2007 at 17:26:00 GMT-7

    I'm getting a kick out of these comments.

    I have Flesh Gordon on VHS someplace.
    Saw it on the big screen in the late 1970s.
    Well... not that large, actually.

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