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Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon (1980)

December. 05,1980
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6.5
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PG
| Adventure Action Science Fiction

A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

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VividSimon
1980/12/05

Simply Perfect

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Beanbioca
1980/12/06

As Good As It Gets

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Onlinewsma
1980/12/07

Absolutely Brilliant!

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Glucedee
1980/12/08

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

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Tweetienator
1980/12/09

This version of Flash Gordon is a real gem - a powerful, sometimes psychedelic visual trip and with the fantastic Max von Sydow, we get a worthy Emperor Ming the Merciless. Not to forget the beautiful Ornella Muti as Princess Aura and Timothy Dalton as Prince Barin. The soundtrack made superb by Queen, the visuals comic-like, this movie got everything: a great hero, epic fights, beautiful and sometimes deadly women, the fantastic creatures and folks of the planet Mongo - a fine movie who got the spirit of the original material from Alex Raymond's original comic strip (starting 1934) and imo can compete with the show from 1936 starring Buster Crabbe.Fantasy sci-fi & B-movie trash at its best.

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crossd-91035
1980/12/10

Flash Gordon is a peace of Predictive Programming propaganda under the guise of a Camp cult movie. It is absolutely saturated in Masonic symbolism, probably more than any other movie. Predictive programming is used by the Establishment to get a story into the minds of Children for later use when they're adults. The Flash Gordon story is about a God like Alien threat to earth. He visits earth with catastrophes and Mysteries, "Strange Craters in the Wilderness" etc, if man suspects it's the work of Aliens, Ming will destroy the earth. The Movie Starts with a summary of various catastrophes the Alien menace is creating, "Hot Hail", "Meteor Storm", "Earthquake", "Volcanic Eruption" etc, and Air disasters when Flash's plane crashes after his pilots are sucked out of a smashed canopy. We then are introduced to "Hans Zarkov", he's a rogue ex-NASA scientist who's been trying to warn the public of the approaching "Alien Threat", but is ignored.This story was predictive programming for the Hoax Alien Threat, which Bill Cooper warned about over 20 years ago. He initially believed in Alien visitation because of secret documents he'd been shown while in the Navy, but gradually realised he'd been deceived. He warned of the establishment's "Alien Agenda", how every story of Alien Visitation, from the Roswell Hoax onwards, was a clever propaganda campaign disseminated through the establishment's media, while at the same time called "A cover up". Some cover up. The Roswell "secret" was first handed to the worlds controlled media under orders from the Roswell base commander. And it's been the same ever since, propaganda disseminated until Area 51 became the most widely known so called secret military base in the world. Cooper warned before he was killed this was to justify a one world totalitarian state, a plan called "MajestyTwelve", in which the world would be given a Messiah Savior global dictator who'd secretly be a puppet of 12 members of the ruling class.Of course black project craft which the establishment's media labels "Alien UFOs", are just one aspect of what was required for the deception to be believed, and it's taken a long time to put the plan into action. Since the Mid 2000s it's been clear how they'll be going about creating the threat, black project created Asteroid Impact explosions and Tsunamis, fires and other catastrophes. Tianjin, Fukushima, the Turkish and Greenland Tsunamis, these are just some of the events they've created, which eventually through staged fake "Government leaks" they'll claim were caused by a hostile Alien race directing various sizes of Meteorite to earth. They'll be a variety of sizes of events, from fires that the media will portray as "mysterious", that eventually they'll say were caused by small hot meteorites (hot hail), houses being demolished by "Gas Explosions", sometimes where the gas company will deny the house had a supply, to earthquakes and Tsunamis. But these events are bound to get much larger, the imaginary enemy is going to have to bite hard to create the elite's "Utopian world".This is Ming in the predictive programming, you see people will see the world going crazy, get a sense of great unease that something is happening they're not being told about, but the events will seem familiar, they've seen them before. And through these Childhood memories from Sci-Fi of old, they draw a link to an "Alien" Bogeyman. And what of Dr Hans Zarkov? The Zarkov character is played in "real life" by Dr John Brandenburg, a "rogue ex NASA scientist" who claimed to have discovered in 2014 that there was once a war on Mars that destroyed an alien race, that this was caused by another Alien Race which he somehow knew was still out there, and that this God Like Alien bogeyman from the void could threaten earth. Another event to trigger those carefully created childhood memories, so the public comes to the "Alien" conclusion in a way that will seem like it was their conclusion alone, rather than one given to them long ago. Brandenburg's Mars propaganda story was actually predicted by Bill Cooper over 20 years ago. The deception has a staged fake cover up. Like the Roswell Hoax, people believe more readily if they think Authority hid the "truth", it makes the lie seem like powerful knowledge they are enlightened to believe in, even though the establishment's media has disseminated this secret until the whole world has learnt the lore of the Roswell Hoax. At the same time Authority appears to be "protecting us from the truth" "The End?" nope it's just started

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dworldeater
1980/12/11

Even by the standards of the 1980's Flash Gordon is totally cheesy and over the top. With that being said, I still like the movie a lot. Our hero, Flash Gordon must save Planet Earth and his new found girlfriend from the tyrannical Ming The Merciless, as well as liberate the kingdom of Mongo. Sam J Jones who plays Flash is one of the worst actors I have ever seen. However, what he does here works as the film is insane and takes the camp level and turns it up to eleven. There are some very talented and classy British actors here like Timothy Dalton and Max Von Sydow who gives an appropriate, over the top performance as dictator Ming. I think the film technically is actually pretty solid as the film looks and sounds good. The sets and costumes are very flamboyant and outrageous, but look cool and put the film in its own universe. Even though this is a PG rated film it is wrought with innuendo, orgy chambers and yummy, scantly clad space sluts dressed in leather. Coming out of the 70's , a little decadence bleeds into the film. Flash Gordon is just great campy fun, that is very colorful, tongue in cheek and action packed with the kick ass music of Queen. In my opinion, the Queen soundtrack is the best aspect of the film and is totally memorable and energetic. Speaking of which, I know a guy who came home from the bar and was channel surfing and got super pumped when he saw Flash Gordon on the television screen. He then proceeded to supply his friends with some free entertainment by ripping off his shirt like Hulk Hogan and proceeded to rock out to the film, while a roomful of his peers remained speechless. Granted, the guy was drunk. It takes a special kind of film to inspire that kind of reaction, which is also something I would do and encourage myself while sober. It is no surprise Flash Gordon is a cult classic, long live Flash!

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grantss
1980/12/12

Dull. Plot is random at best. The whole movie just seems to lurch from one random scene to another. Sam J Jones is wooden and unconvincing in the lead role. Supporting cast is not bad though: Max van Sydow, Topol, Brian Blessed, Timothy Dalton, Richard O'Brien. Ornella Muti (especially) and Melody Anderson are the only reasons to watch the movie, after a point...Only watched it for the Queen soundtrack, initially, and this wears thin after a while. Only so many times you can hear "Flash, aa- aah"....

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