Flash Gordon (1980)
Holy mother of colourful cheese, Batman! What we have here is probably thé prime example of what happens when you combine a 50s story but don't update it to the time it was made, add a plethora of great actors hamming it up, have a budget that isn't up to snuff for the vision yet you tell the art department to constantly go for broke. And I love every insane minute of it. Don't get me wrong: this is by no stretch of the imagination a 'good' film. But it is a highly entertaining one. Obviously based on the Flash Gordon comics and serials, this one attempts to get the story to the 80s, but fails. Just making your lead a quarterback instead of a pilot and not changing any of the outdated language and concepts will do that for you. But I digress. Planet Earth is suffering freak weather and natural disasters. Only supposedly crazed scientist Han Zarkoff knows that Earth is under attack from a malignant extraterrestrial force. He has constructed a spaceship to get to th...
