F is for…Flash Gordon

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/... first time I saw Flash Gordon was with my Dad. We both have a taste for cheese: on our sandwiches, and in our movies, and this movie delivers a nice cheese platter. It's one of those movies I like to watch once every couple of years, along with Bladerunner, Big Trouble in Little China, and The Quiet Man. It pleases the little girl's heart that still skips along in my chest after all these years.

Flash is an old character, starting with a comic strip in the 1930s, and moving to the big screen serial, and then to television. I've seen some of all of those, but the Flash Gordon I love is from the 1980s movie starring Sam J. Jones. It hit so many of the pulp tropes that are near and dear to my heart.


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You've got an American hero, fighting his way through an alien world (in this case, literally alien). He's a very pulp version of American hero, who wins by strength of will and heart over villains who are about control through force. You've got a heroine who can hold her own against the villain and the hero, and look amazing while she does it. You've got a creepy villain out to destroy it all! You've got wonderfully cheesy costumes. And such scenery chewing dialogue!

And don't forget the song. If Freddy Mercury was involved, then you know it's got style :-)



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