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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Ideologue

Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 03, 2013, 09:43:42 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on January 03, 2013, 09:38:24 PM
Money is wrong about Flash Gordon, failing to recognize its achievement, and he's a little more cruel than I would be, but if memory serves he's correct that Highlander is rather middling fare.

I didn't say it was bad, I just said people did way too much coke back then.  :P

Fair enough, but there's not too many movies I love more.  How most children of the 1980s feel about Raiders of the Lost Ark, I feel about Flash Gordon.

Oh, and transferring from the gay Hobbitt thread, because it's more germane here--

Quote from: Ideologue on December 30, 2012, 07:46:06 PM
P.S. Brain, Dead Alive was pretty rad, and King Kong's enjoyable if you have a day and a half to kill.

P.P.S. thanks for reminding me that I meant to look and see if King Kong ever got to a reasonable price point.  It had, so I got it.  Also Dead Alive is on my list to purchase soon (it, unfortunately, violates my $10 or under rule, but that's more of a guideline than a law).

Oddly enough, or maybe sensibly enough since it's more of a niche product and I know that niche products cost out the ass, the original King Kong is about $25.  You know what doesn't need to be $25?  Movies that came out 80 years ago.  You know what shouldn't even be under copyright, so that I might enjoy it upon Youtube or Netflix?  MOVIES THAT CAME OUT 80 YEARS AGO.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Ideologue on January 03, 2013, 09:54:03 PM
Fair enough, but there's not too many movies I love more.  How most children of the 1980s feel about Raiders of the Lost Ark, I feel about Flash Gordon.

Well, I am a child of the 1980s;  Raiders came out a little over a year after Flash, and I  don't feel that way.  They're not even in the same ball park.

But I appreciate your appreciation in 1980's kitsch :P

Ed Anger

I watch Flash Gordon to see the princess get whipped. And the assault on the Ming cruiser.  :blush:
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Ed Anger on January 03, 2013, 09:59:47 PM
I watch Flash Gordon to see the princess get whipped. And the assault on the Ming cruiser.  :blush:

It's not without its Wank Factor.

katmai

I am a child of the 80's and I like Flash, but love Raiders.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Ed Anger

I had to walk to school in a blizzard. Uphill. Both ways.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

katmai

Yes we know Kentucky is a shithole Ed.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Ideologue

Quote from: Ed Anger on January 03, 2013, 09:59:47 PM
I watch Flash Gordon to see the princess get whipped. And the assault on the Ming cruiser.  :blush:

Princess Aura taught me what erections were.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Tonitrus

I think the biggest difference between Flash and Raiders, is that while Flash definitely shows its 80's age...Raiders is ageless. 

CountDeMoney

Hey Id, you wanna wade deep in the filthy waters of late 70s/early 80s Sci-Fi?
Check out Saturn III.  Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, and Harvey Keitel.  Yes, that's actually the cast.


11B4V

Quote from: Tonitrus on January 03, 2013, 10:34:13 PM
I think the biggest difference between Flash and Raiders, is that while Flash definitely shows its 80's age...Raiders is ageless.

Bingo
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Ideologue

The thing to remember about Flash is that it looks silly on purpose, as it is purposely adopting the aesthetic of a 40s serial, except instead of black in white, in the brightest, boldest colors visible to the human eye and probably a few more that we can only guess at.  It was aged--in tone and narrative as well as appearance--the day it came out, and that's what's brilliant about it.  Personally, I think of it as an art film.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Josephus

Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Ideologue

To add: yes, sure, Spielberg is purposefully adopting the same kind of aesthetic (albeit in a different genre), but while he told much the same type of story*, he sought (and succeeded) to update the visual style in more obvious ways than Hodges, who was more subtle in his concession to contemporary filmmaking.  You can also contrast Flash to the Star Wars trilogy--Lucas may have been inspired by those same sci-fi serials, but again it's a less pure distillation of that serial aesthetic.

Although it must be said that all three directors had a better sense of pace and story than any of the makers of the old sci-fi serials that I've seen.

*I guess he did, anyway.  I've not really seen too many of jungle adventure/treasure hunter style serials.

Quote from: MoneyHey Id, you wanna wade deep in the filthy waters of late 70s/early 80s Sci-Fi?
Check out Saturn III.  Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, and Harvey Keitel.  Yes, that's actually the cast.

Actually been on my list for a while.  Netflix indicates it's not even on DVD.  But the world web is wide. :)
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Tonitrus

This 80's sci-fi nostalgia is making me think of looking up a couple of my old favorites..."The Ice Pirates" and "The Black Hole"