10 Thing You Didn't Know About Flash Gordon (1980)

[@thatbadmuthafucka2626]

Max Von Sydow was so perfectly cast as Ming the Merciless. He embodies every role he is in.

[@itzship7863]

Death to Ming!

[@kevlareditor7532]

Max Von Sydow is one of my favorite actors of all time. First saw him in 3 Days of the Condor.

[@MrValeska]

R.I.P

[@weeza80ies]

@@itzship7863 Well, O Ship ..you got your Wish in real life, didn't you? Monsouir Sydon is dead and gone, now! Thanks for Nutting!

[@weeza80ies]

Yavole, mine Air! Saloot!

[@lamarravery4094]

I remember my dear mom taking me to see this at the theatre way back in 1980. She wasn't a scifi fan, but she wanted to make me happy so she took me to see it. Sadly, my mom passed away 6 yrs ago, but I'll always remember all her sacrifices and her generosity. I miss her so much.

[@gooner7331]

I'm a parent and one of the greatest feelings you can get is to make your child happy. Even though your mum wasn't a scifi fan. It would have made her have the happiest feeling in the world to have seen the delight on your face whilst watching this at the cinema

[@lamarravery4094]

@@gooner7331 Yes, and that's what makes moms the best. And she was a great cook, I really miss her cooking and she was my best friend.

[@mtank30]

Same for me, except it was my dad taking a hit for the team and making this then-6 year old kid very happy.

[@lamarravery4094]

@@mtank30 My dad took me to see Star Wars back in 1977. I don't know who enjoyed it more, him or me. He then got me all the Star Wars action figures for Christmas. Those were the best toys ever!!

[@cherylalikhani5957]

My condolences. I'm happy you have such a lovely memory of her.

[@UndeadEarth1]

My adult sons don’t understand why I can watch this movie every time I see it on tv. It really does take me back to my childhood and while by today’s standards the special effects are laughable. At the time they were amazing.

[@veegar9265]

If by "today's standards" you mean those stupid COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND ANIMATIONS that you see in every other movie made TODAY then you may cram THOSE up your rectum! .. . and so can your adult sons.

[@coleslaw1196]

Fuck your sons! These kids of today have infamously bad taste anyway! Remember and consider that THEY also like shitty gawd-awful rap hip-hop and emo-pop "music", so then I don't trust or rely on THEIR opinions. In fact, on the very contrary, if THEY don't like something then THAT tells me that it must actually be good.

[@3dcomrade]

@@coleslaw1196 you know everyone have different opinions right?

[@joseosegueraortega5835]

Masterpiece for the times. You hit the nail on the head!👍🏽

[@joseosegueraortega5835]

cole slaw you must have teen boys. I assume ?

[@LordPrometheous]

Queen's performance really ties it all together, especially the title song. It somehow adds to the excitement and it's so exhilarating. The crescendo, the harmony, the guitar riff. Fucking amazing.

[@ianbrown4242]

They did the same thing with Highlander - totally brought it all together and created the fundamental tone of the film.

[@jamesperkins191]

Queen thought they were writing the song to THE FLASH, the DC hero.

[@LordPrometheous]

@@Me-qp8vz that's the mark of a true genius. You get to a level that demonstrating a mastered skill comes without effort.

[@jooei2810]

Queen was amazing, they totally stole even the live aid concert!

[@DaveInNH]

This remains one of my favorite movies of all time. The score, costumes, and sets are amazing. It's a masterpiece.

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

“BASICALLY, I LOVE THIS MOVIE, AND I DON’T CARE WHO KNOWS IT!” I’m with you. The theme from Flash Gordon was incidentally my first exposure to the music of Queen.

[@Kissfan96dr]

"Foolish humans. Hurling yourselves out into the void without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had any understanding of the true nature of the universe...any at all, you would have hidden yourselves from it...in terror." They don't make villains like that any more.

[@mattparks2153]

I totally agree with you. What a wonderful line.

[@JnEricsonx]

Shit, that's something The Doctor would say, except he'd be impressed.

[@Kissfan96dr]

@@JnEricsonx I miss Peter Capaldi. If given that line, you'd know he'd own it completely.

[@JnEricsonx]

@@Kissfan96dr Yeah. I'm not sure which other Doctor would have owned it as much. Tom Baker maybe? Tennant or Smith would have been good.

[@judaegekikamen4223]

In a weird way, it reminds me of everything crazy in the Cthulhu mythos

[@endofdays4003]

"GORDON'S ALIVE" Brian Blessed, what a legend.

[@sacheverelle]

He will always be Augustus Caesar to me.

[@logandarklighter]

sacheverelle “IS THERE ANYONE IN ROME WHO HAS *NOT* SLEPT WITH MY DAUGHTER?!?!”

[@derpimusmaximus8815]

"WE RIDE AT ONCE TO REBELLIOUS STOKE WHERE IT IS MY SWORN INTENT TO APPROACH THE CITY WALLS, BARE MY BROAD BUTTOCKS AND CRY "BEHOLD! I HONOUR THEE MOST HIGHLY!""

[@mandovapehater6988]

What a d-mned nuisance!

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

Here in Germany some folks seem to hear "Guuurken Salaaaat" (cucumber salad) when they hear that line. :o

[@rokker101]

RIP Max Von Sydow .. incredible actor who will be sadly missed x

[@a.barnard3205]

That rich Danish baritone of his.....

[@zarachastellaris9016]

I got to meet Dale once and she said i was so cute!

[@captainlang6212]

To answer Dino De Laurentiis's question: "Who are the Queens?" One old enough to appreciate their music would simply reply: "They are the Champions!"

[@klausstock8020]

Actually: "They are the Champions, my friend."

[@kellyweingart3692]

and they’ll keep on fighting ‘til the end

[@RobinsTaste]

One of the most 80's films ever. Bloody marvelous!

[@ianfindly3257]

THIS flick is actually LATE 70's and is much more representative of THAT time period.

[@gpgpgpgp1000]

I know one thing.... Princess Aura in spandex just about broke my zipper when I was a young boy!

[@GeneralG1810]

So much hotter than Dale

[@bra-balllegend3940]

"Pick that up, would you?" No, YOU bend over first. Love in an elevay-tah... "My god, this girl is really turning me on!" "What was that? I couldn't quite hear you..."

[@joker167able]

Seeing Liberace probably busted your zipper

[@GeneralG1810]

@Nasty Nate Are you saying Princess Aura looks like Liberace? Because if so dude you need your eyes checked

[@lockydude007]

Very true and very funny ahahaha

[@johnlong2k9]

This movie was and still IS fucking awesome!!!

[@johnnydernberger4208]

Wooooo amen

[@gregboyington4896]

@Smokey my copy came with episodes if the original black and white series with Buster Crabb, I think. Did you watch the 79-80 cartoon series if flash gordon? It was awesome taken from and built on a cartoon movie where Hitler is working with Ming. The cartoon movie and cartoon series are all still on KZbin I think. Check them out.

[@leyenda6149]

I just rewatched this for the first time since the early 80's. I still remember the plot beats and some of the iconic lines. I was surprised how good the editing was and just as surprised with how expensive and intricate the sets and costumes looked. My little guy enjoyed watching the 40 year old movie with me. He said he liked it better than most modern stuff he sees

[@a.barnard3205]

Your little guy is on the right track for the *future*! :)

[@LTPottenger]

Dino always had amazing sets

[@caincotterill5493]

Legendary film, with a legendary sound track

[@vidalbarrera3571]

FLASH GORDON & CLASH OF THE TITANS were the movies that defined my childhood and still love them...I remember having a big crush on italian actress Ornella Mutti who played Princess Aura (Ming´s daughter)...Certainly, planet Mongo would´ve provided stuff for that 2 sequels and maybe more...Soundtrack by QUEEN is really a jewel !!!

[@martok2112]

Ornella Muti and Melody Anderson....goddesses back then!

[@ianjohnkeeble9828]

Aura is hot... Thought so as a kid. Still think so now

[@lamarravery4094]

There was a movie that came out back then that changed my life, a little known movie called...Star Wars.

[@tabbysmithfield7840]

Vidal Barrera me too but I'd have to add Conan the barbarian and heavy metal!

[@SequentiallyCompact]

Oh yes, I was 11 when Titans hit theaters. To this day, the Medusa scene is one of the most tense sequences in cinema and the aged effects make no difference to it.

[@Chalky.]

The first time I saw the movie I thought Brian Blessed was camping it up for the role, but 38 years later and he's still exactly the same.

[@marccolten9801]

Chalky No one can chew the scenery like Blessed

[@mainstreetsaint36]

Blessed may camp it up, but that is a Man's man!

[@VulpisFoxfire]

Nonononono...BRIAN BLESSED. :-)

[@ChrisisisB]

Brian Blessed is awesome. He's done such diverging roles as Black Adder's dad in Black Adder (also campy) and Augustus in I, Claudius (serious role).

[@HariSeldon913]

@chalky: I saw Flash first, but a couple years previous he guest starred in the UK series Blake's 7, and his character has that familiar feel to it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/maLKnYZ5rrONers

[@jamesanthony8438]

Rest in peace, Ming the Merciless. Max von Sydow (April 10, 1929 - March 08, 2020) Minty, you missed a wonderful chance to do the 'Flash jump' at the end of your video. =)

[@jirivera1999]

I remember when Ted did so many references that I decided to finally get the DVD. I went to Best Buy and I asked the clerk where can I find Flash Gordon, he laughed and said you’ve been watching Ted haven’t you? We both laughed so hard!! He told they’ve been sold out for two weeks and the other Best Buy’s stores in NY city was sold out too. Ted definitely put it back in the spotlight.

[@macrosense]

i did not realize Best Buy still sold DVDs back then.

[@Thunderflare99]

Ted's take on Flash Gordon was brilliant; I hadn't seen the movie in at least a decade, never was a huge fan, and next thing I knew was ordering the blu-ray. That is a funny story about what an impact "Ted" had on reviving Flash Gordon and that Sam T. Jones was "still alive!".

[@lindaphillips598]

It's true, I've met both Sam Jones and Brian Blessed, both amazing and friendly men. This is one of the best.

[@hankthepatriot3733]

Sam is an amazing person in real life! And is every bit a real life "superhero" he runs his own private security company that goes into potentially hostile countries and provides security for high profile civilians during trips. Also I couldn't imagine this soundtrack done by anyone other then Queen!

[@reimourrpower9357]

Sam saves every one us!

[@TAPKAC]

thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS EPISODE!!!!! I was 11 years old when this movie came out and I saw it as many times as a 5th Grader could in the theatre, got the album that was like listening to the movie and watched what I remembered over and over again, ..... ditto when it came to Cable TV, eventually bought the video (which cut out the part where Dale is doing cartwheels to get away from the slow and brainless Security Guards), eventually got the video with that missing part put back in, and finally the DVD!! Flash, the cast of Star Wars, and Indiana Jones were my pre-teen lifeblood . . . . and I come home from work today to find THIS EPISODE!!!! THANNNNNNNK YOUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@gidgitvonlarue679]

theretrocinema.com/?s=Flash+Gordon

[@mrf19741]

Who can ever forget the football fight theme? It's just as Iconic as the Flash theme!

[@tunareth]

Ironic that they turned down Arnold Schwarzenegger due to his voice (Austrian accent), only to dub over the actor's voice they chose in his place.

[@shanemize3775]

One of my favorite movies ever. So darn cheesy, but it just works somehow. Lol. Great iconic lines. The best soundtrack ever. Freaking Queen was just incredible! Great video, Minty. Please keep the outstanding videos coming and God bless you, my friend!

[@MikeHawke83]

Sadly, Max Von Sydow was the closest we ever got to the real Mandarin on the big screen

[@pumpkinking422]

I agree.And the second would be the villain from the film version of the Shadow.

[@KanishQQuotes]

MikeHawke83 Wasn't he Jesus

[@kavikkang9411]

Max von Sydow was also the evil brewmiester in Strange Brew, haha.

[@MrDeedsly]

Bonus Fact: Queen also did the soundtrack for Highlander. It's A Kind of Magic is the album. Princes of the Universe always reminded of Flash Gordon.

[@Phaota]

Another kickass soundtrack by them and love it more than "Flash".

[@jemstar3388]

My favourite movie soundtrack,my favourite song from Highlander is Princes of the universe.

[@IzzyPR2010]

Let me add further about It's a Kind of Magic, the reason it's not an official soundtrack album is that it's missing one track that was in the Highlander movie, and the album also has a track that's not in the Highlander movie.

[@KaitainCPS]

A Kind of Magic is not the Highlander soundtrack. I have the proper Michael Kamen soundtrack.

[@Gunner192]

I always figured Class Queen was the soundtrack. Most if not all of the songs are the same.

[@johnyzero2000]

The real star of the movie is production and costume designer Danilo Donati.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

But the REAL star is Ornella Muti and her outfits.

[@maxiepattie85]

I am Flash Gorden!

[@gowithgroove]

Yup - film looks great, but I never truly dug it.

[@a.barnard3205]

@@gowithgroove My condolences.....

[@unclebuzzyschurchofgroove6190]

@@TheRealNormanBates I'll go along with that! And then the soundtrack....

[@thegreatbamboozler4837]

If you've never been to a wedding where the Queen/Flash Gordon wedding march was used.... you've never really lived!!!!!

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

OMG that was my DREAM as a little girl... (as was Sam J. Jones in that black leather diaper...) No wonder all us 80's kids ended up so kinky. :)

[@johncarver3453]

My wife walked down the aisle to the Flash Wedding March. We might just be a bit geeky.

[@johncarver3453]

@NOT YOU Funny, neither have I.

[@MartintheTinman]

I wouldn't be caught dead at a wedding

[@smally8499234]

@@ingridfong-daley5899 Don't forget that bit when Aura was tied down and being flogged by the cat O nine tales like whip.

[@jimmymelendez1836]

I saw this movie as a kid. The music at the end made me go dancing down the aisle of the movie theater. Lol!

[@KaitainCPS]

Anybody who thinks Flash Gordon is a bad movie doesn't understand cinema.

[@eval_is_evil]

No, you are talking under the influence of Ming

[@adampoll4977]

I put this on for my 11yr old son and he started with, "Awww, what's this rubbish" and by the end.... "That was AWESOME!" My work is done ;)

[@docbrown7916]

We just take such ppl behind the cinema and beat them into mush ! 80s movies were some of the best,especially the campy ones ! I have the soundtrack on MP3. Lotta movie soundtracks !

[@Paulafan5]

Then I don't understand cinema. It's a trainwreck of a film and half serious half slapstick, tongue-in-cheek.

[@docbrown7916]

@@Paulafan5 Sometimes understanding is just a convenience, lotta stuff falls under 'it's in the script' and often the script falls under wtf. Some movies are best w wine/beer and munchies, especially pizza. May the crazy and kinky gods keep you well.

[@greymack]

Had the privilege to meet Sam Jones at comiccon Scotland. Really nice genuine guy but he insists only some of the dialogue isn't him.

[@johnellizz]

"One move and your looking for a new Prince" was his actual voice, I think. Maybe most of that scene with the wood beast was.

[@Datan0de]

I turned 11 a couple of weeks after Flash Gordon came out and was super psyched about it. My birthday that year centered around my friends and I going to see it, and I remember being blown away. My parents thought it was garbage, and in retrospect I think they were probably right, but at the time I was probably the perfect age to appreciate what the movie had to offer while not noticing its shortcomings. And yeah, you're not the only one who had nightmares about Klyytus' death scene... *shudder*

[@johnjohnson1709]

The movie was a representation of the 30's serials shown at theaters, especially the special effects, which looked very much like the old shows.

[@JohanEk]

I must have seen this movie 100 times growing up in the 80-ies. The soundtrack was awesome and the movie was super. Brian Blessed was my all time favourite in this movie.

[@MorgoUK]

Saw this when it first came out. The whole audience boo-ed and hissed every time Ming the Merciless came on the screen. It was like being at the Saturday morning pictures again! (But this time there was no one under 23)

[@odysseusrex5908]

In other words, they GOT IT!!!

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

LOL my god sounded like a theatrical happening like Rocky Horror Picture Show.

[@jambec144]

And all these years later, I still have a crush on General Kala. RIP Mariangela Melato!

[@ldburgie]

She was even hotter in the movie "So Fine."

[@LordPrometheous]

@@ldburgie damn, she was one of my earliest movie crushed. I'll have to check out her performance in "So Fine".

[@princevultan6589]

Oh well, who wants to live forever? Ha ha ha ha ha! DIVE!!!

[@fredricklloyd5300]

Looney old bird!

[@cherylalikhani5957]

He was ugly as sin and way too old for me but I had a massive crush on him each time it came to saying that part. I'll mark it down as weird stages teen girls go through.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

And then he ended up digging for the lost treasure of Atlantis, together with his finest student McGyver :D

[@watcher1258]

He was so awesome when he said that :)

[@SwankeyMonkey]

@WTFViewer And the name of Queen's song *Who Wants To Live Forever.* kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXvXoZlug5p8eqc

[@charleskuckel3173]

I remember seeing this during my last year of college. I grew up as a kid watching reruns of the old Flash Gordon serials. I laughed my way through the whole picture but I enjoyed every moment of it! I STILL enjoy every bit of the movie to this day.

[@CarterFisk]

I saw this movie in the theater when it came out in 1980. I've loved it for 40 years now!!

[@Denver_Risley]

One of THE best movies ever made. Ornella Muti, soooooo hot your pants explode.

[@kurtstergar1042]

She's still hot today.

[@robertholtz]

Sherpa Cast In 1980, I was a mere prepubescent 7 years old kid and yet, I remember to this very day that Princess Aura was responsible for my first ever boner. Not making this up. It was during the torture scene, Muti was cuffed down on a table in a skin-tight hot pink patent leather jumpsuit with an open back and she was being whipped. I didn’t even fully grasp how risqué that was at the time but I distinctly remember discovering for the first time, that it could move by itself. Imagine my surprise.🤣 A funny feeling in my happy place. The scene STILL gets a rise out of me. 😆

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

@@robertholtz wow you're almost 50 my parents are amost 50 as well and thre only thre yers away from that

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

@@kurtstergar1042 how old are you you got be 50 at least

[@TheNinjaSpaceman]

Jones was a character in Stargate SG-1. He played a cool bounty hunter.

[@GeneralG1810]

LOL when they hit him with the Zat and he's like "oooh tickles!"

[@terryyork6401]

I think he was also in an action Tv series in the mid 80s called The Highwayman In where he drove a futuristic big rig that converted into a helicopter. Aussie actor Jocko( from Energized battery ads during that time, very loud, brash, n bombastic. Yelled "OY" a lot too) The show only lasted 1 season. Wasn t bad. Least the truck/help didn t talk.

[@emp0rizzle]

Aris Boch? Never heard of him.

[@Bowiiihowdy]

Holy crap. I did not realize that haha

[@Tim_the_Astronurd]

HA! always thought I knew who that was, but never made the connection! It was Flash!

[@gamingandnerdy2009]

“I love this movie and I don’t care who knows it.” Me too! Saw it in the theater when I was six years old. Loved it ever since.

[@leemiller9115]

In 2019, I still have this movie on VHS. It’s classic.

[@drpaulquiz4326]

Greatest film ever made. And the whole soundtrack is superb.

[@halflingvyking7886]

I remember seeing this on tv as a kid and loving the he'll out of it.its got such a surreal look about it that can't be matched.

[@macdaddymandalorian7305]

Compared to movies today especially star wars episode 7-8 this movie rocks so much better than crap today

[@blindandwatching]

Jar Jar Abrams could never make a movie this good, ever.

[@leonciohernandez]

yes you are correct Flash runs better than star wars 7 8 9

[@smally8499234]

That's because 3/4 of movies today are shitty remakes.

[@SwankeyMonkey]

Although most are opposed to remakes, I was intrigued at the over-the-top visually director McG's possible vision for a Flash Gordon remake. That was until Disney decided to kill it after Tron Legacy didn't fair so well. Now, Taika Waititi is attached to an animated Flash Gordon film. Just pray that TW doesn't give us another ridiculous comedy franchise killer.

[@ianfindly3257]

Actually, for THAT matter, I've always found THIS flick a lot more interesting and entertaining than the SW movies that were already out at the time (FIRST one, Empire Strikes Back).

[@TexasScout]

I remember when this came out on Showtime for the first time. I watched EVERY time I could. LOVED it!

[@cherylalikhani5957]

Me too. Had to beg my mom to let me stay up for it more than once.

[@madkowgawd]

RIP Max Von Sydow. Thanks for all the vids Minty. Really enjoy the shows!

[@nickwray5324]

I'm sure that this has been answered, Peter Marinker was the voice of Flash

[@jedironin380]

Just looked him up on IMDB- quite an impressive resume! www.imdb.com/name/nm0547603/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

[@limeyosu2000]

because Sam Jones bailed at Xmas time and never came back!

[@tokyojon4344]

Arguably the greatest movie of all time. "Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!" --Dale Arden

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

"Go Flash, go! Go Flash, go!" during the football sequence :)

[@ianfindly3257]

"All creatures make merry under pain of death."

[@torquetheprisoner]

i like the fact that brian blessed used to play as prince vultan as a kid when him and his freinds playd flash gordon as kids

[@Painless360]

GORDON'S ALIVE!!??

[@Spontaneous72]

..Flying blind on a rocket cycle....

[@kflo01]

@phill mitchell ....What do you mean flash gordon is alive?

[@jakobkell7212]

@phill mitchell you crazy bird

[@Iamtheliquor]

There’s a street near where I used to live in Liverpool called Gordons Drive and every time I drove past it I’d say “Gordon’s a drive”?

[@fulcruman1877]

Painless360 Lying bitch!

[@bentleyhorne2952]

Minty, we are subscribers, but we are also working backwards watching your entire library of videos. Tonight we watched this movie because of your recommendation...and it was AWESOME! Thank you!

[@dbsommers1]

Every now and then you need something cheesy and over the top in a flashy way as something different. And all the bizarre cocaine induced art deco uniforms and designs were awesome. I can see why some people don't like it, but man it was fun as hell. And yeah, Queen outdid themselves with the theme.

[@pheonix5597]

I think QUIRKY is a better word to describe THIS movie than "cheesy".

[@sulrich70]

Brilliant soundtrack. Campiest movie ever. Watched it in the cinema when it came out. Entertaining to the max. Tks great video minty.

[@deselis]

There's a certain wonderful irony that Kurt Russell turned the film down for its campy slap stick nature. Only 6 years later he'd be in a certain movie that was exactly campy and slap stick in the best ways. Now what was that film called... oh yeah, Big Trouble in Little China ;) He would've been awesome as Flash :)

[@_XR40_]

I think the difference was probably that he'd worked with John Carpenter a lot, and trusted him to do it right...

[@robtaylormusic]

He got the joke with China... he was the dumb sidekick who thinks he's the hero... in Flash, he'd be the hero who doesn't realise how dumb he actually is... not a fun thing to play.

[@bd8026]

Snake Pliskin and Ego.

[@KaitainCPS]

He also passed on "Highlander" to do BTILC (Goldie Hawn advised him not to do Highlander and to stick with the known quantity of John Carpenter).

[@CharlieCanfield]

this too shall pass and you will star in a 2005 cheesy-fun superhero movie called "sky high" kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYmuaJSPppmlbpI

[@MadameRaven1]

Ah, great choice Minty! That was such perfect 80s camp! And Queens second greatest soundtrack. I'm sure you could guess my choice for first. After all, there can be only one. ;)

[@TheTonybudd]

~"it's better to burn out than to fade away . . . forgive me father i am but a worm!" . . .

[@MadameRaven1]

jedi fu YES!

[@TheTonybudd]

->Mother Raven ~a true classic . . . if i ever met sean connery i would say to him "you look like a woman you stupid haggis" then run for cover lol . . .

[@MadameRaven1]

Hahaha! Brilliant! That is such a classic movie! Oh man!

[@TheTonybudd]

~: )the duel scene is another favourite for me . . . "christ i've gone blind!" . . . hilarious !! but then you have the 'who wants to live forever' sequence which is heartbreaking . . . such a good movie !! ~you got an interesting channel Mother Raven think i might subscribe and check out some of your stories . . . i have no content at the moment i'm just a viewer that likes to leave occasional comment's . . . hope that's ok

[@KnightIndustries572]

I remember seeing this as 8 year old kid in 1980, I thought it was the most amazing movie I had ever seen, especially with Queen's Flash Gordon song, still gives me goosebumps 40 years later!

[@xexoxex]

Watched this movie in the theater twice! Loved it since the day it came out! Thanks for posting this video

[@sayhitosteve2785]

Anyone who does not like this movie should be liquidated for treachery.

[@donweatherwax9318]

Strange fellow . . . I think he rather enjoyed it.

[@johnellizz]

Or at least get the bore worms.

[@bra-balllegend3940]

@@johnellizz Can't believe I'm the one who has to say NOOOOOOO! NOT THE BORE WORMS! I really wanted to see the bore worms.

[@johnellizz]

@@bra-balllegend3940 They really just tickle. It would have been a let down.

[@greggg4011]

Zarkoff's beating the mind drain was never explained ("even a song by the Beatles, anything I could remember, it armored me girl, they couldn't take it from me"). James Bond opens doors by blasting the controls...gets bored with his rifle, picks up Optimus Prime's Gun 5 years before transformers conceptualized. The Imperial Navy have a fleet of ships but they can't chase down a rocketcycle...come on this Mongo, not LA. The city defense guns (all 6 of them) fire a barrage at the rocketcycle hitting it more at least once, causing no damage. They manage to launch Ajax on 30 seconds notice which is commendable, but unrealistic. On it's return the city defenses can't take down a war rocket with holes in it and on fire. Ming is killed by the nose of the ship in a one in a million chance accident. What's not to like?

[@reepacheirpfirewalker8629]

I really always loved since I was a kid the lines written by Frank Herbert when Ming the Merciless was speaking to Doctor Zarkoff about how Ming goes from place to place to see if the planet he sends these catastrophes to just imagine it to be a natural occurrence or their own god being angry at them. But if that planet has a scientist who understands and reasons as Zarkoff did then they must be destroyed. And Ming snarls at him "Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror." I don't think a better line has ever been rendered in any Sci fi series without Flash Gordon there would not have been Star Wars or Star Trek.

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

"...the lines written by Frank Herbert..." ??! Frank Herbert had nothing to do with Flash Gordon, not sure what you're referring to here...

[@yourpalharvey]

hurdygurdyguy1 uncredited script consultant. I think brian Herbert mentions this in Dreamer of Dune

[@klausstock8020]

I beg to differ. Yes, Ming's line is absolutely marvelously written. But for me, the most memorable movie line ever is "According to scientists at NASA, this morning's unprecedented solar eclipse is no cause for alarm". It's from a totally camp 1980 movie called...oh wait.

[@paulspopculture5592]

First film I went to see in the cinema with me late farther very special film for me thumbs up minty

[@TaliaIGhul]

Yours was this? Mine was Ghostbusters (1984). Lucky us for our first movie was classics.

[@paulspopculture5592]

Talia al Ghul your right we got to see classics when they first came out

[@Safersephiroth777]

Mine was an early Indiana Jones film.

[@paulspopculture5592]

Safersephiroth777 cool I had a relative that had a small part in Indiana Jones he was in willow as well the guy with the skull mask

[@aaronlusanko6356]

My first movie at the cinema was Superman: The Movie in 1978, either just before I turned one or shortly after. The 2nd was Flash Gordon, the 3rd/4th being at a double matinee were E.T. and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi! Finally the 5th, being Popeye!

[@funclips5958]

Queen's music + nostalgia=perfection😎👍

[@lorenzoaramirez3915]

Been a Flash Gordon fan since day 1 (1980). Those opening credits were the best I had ever seen.

[@uwerosler7813]

Minty, love the videos could I suggest you do a top 10 of things you didn’t know on 80s tv classics like Knight Rider, Airwolf and the A Team

[@Datan0de]

"Melody Anderson was painted green from head to toe." Please tell me there are production stills of this!

[@countzero1136]

Yeah I so want to see those too :p

[@jimmurdoch7745]

Mmmmm,...re-imagining this all over again.

[@vickielawson3114]

You missed a detail: There's a minor character named Fico. He's a thin, bald man played by none other than Richard O'Brien, the writer of The Rocky Horror Picture Show who also plays Riff Raff.

[@ravnwood]

Papillon is pronounced "Pappy-yon"

[@jasonhughes3152]

Oh is that the movie Minty was talking about?

[@robertsez]

@@jasonhughes3152 Cut him some slack. He's British, and if you're British and speak with a British dialect, you're automatically viewed as smarter than anyone else.

[@jasonhughes3152]

No doubt.

[@jimtuite3451]

@@robertsez erm ......but Mintys Australian???

[@jimtuite3451]

3.20 ...as soon as he says 'the movie Pap-peal-yun' I switched off ...Minty is no Movie buff

[@クリス1970]

Besides being a massive Queen fan, really love this movie even to this day.

[@gabstanace2]

"Flash, I love you, but we only have 14 hours to save the Earth. Flash!"

[@JasonAchilles]

Ahhh AAAAAAHHHH

[@a.barnard3205]

".......Will it make me forget?" "No, but it will make you not mind, remembering"

[@a.barnard3205]

"Have I got some stories to tell you!" "Save them for our children!" "Ohhhh, I accept!"

[@a.barnard3205]

"Klytus, are your men on the right pills?" "Maybe you should execute their trainer!"

[@a.barnard3205]

"Long Live Flash! You've saved your Earth!" "Have a nice day!" "Yeah!!!!!!!!!" :)

[@garypranzo9334]

Queen made this movie the same way Williams made Star Wars. A movies soundtrack is so important especially in SciFi.

[@a.barnard3205]

Queen weren't the only ones responsible for the soundtrack........

[@darryldonnelly5363]

FLASH ahhhh Saviour of the Universe i love this film so much another great video Minty👍👍

[@nairbvel]

I still remember going to the theater with my folks to see this movie -- we enjoyed the campiness even back then!

[@markteague8889]

I saw this film at the cinema in 1980 at the age of 10. When my father saw it later on a premium cable channel he remarked, “The music really made that movie!”

[@vikingwarbrides]

You forgot the Rocky Horror connection. Richard O'Brien played Riff Raff in Rocky Horror and FICO in Flash Gordon.

[@DaveInNH]

Nice catch.

[@mrsmonster7020]

One of my favorites, also! Can't beat Queen for the music. Did a little looking into who may have voiced Flash, and Peter Marinker turns up as a good candidate. His IMDB trivia says its him, but IMDB isn't always correct. Listen to clips of him.

[@michaelmcguirk7979]

I'm friends with his daughter, I asked her after someone suggesting it on a forum. It was Peter Marinker, known her for years and her dad did the voice in one of my favourite ever movies lol

[@LORDTWIGGY]

You should do a 10 things you might not know about terminator or hellboy mabye by the way your my favorite to ten KZbinr I love seeing these videos keep up the good work mate

[@peterpayne2219]

Thanks for making this video! And RIP Max Von Sydow.

[@CroatiaBall273]

Flash Gordon is such a nostalgic movie I remember I watched it when I was what? 6? And the rewatched it this year AAAaah

[@minsapint8007]

Loved this film. Costume design and set design worked perfectly to bring Mongo to life. Peter Wyngarde was sublime as Klytus. Everything gelled to produce a popcorn martclass. I see that it gets only 6.5 on the IMDB - outrageous.

[@a.barnard3205]

Gilbert Taylor was the cine master on this show. Just like he was for STAR WARS........:)

[@grumpyoldman3458]

Sam Jones (without the middle J) was in "Jane and the Lost City" in 1987. The movie is a comedy Indiana Jones type adventure based on a British ww2 comic strip. Worth watching if you liked Flash Gordon.

[@tsu8003]

Please Hollywood, never remake this movie! You can't improve on perfection!

[@Phil_KaneONite_Wood]

THANK YOU!!!

[@goldngirl1958]

Love this movie! Awesome soundtrack... Saw it the first time when my daughter was a baby, though I really thought it was earlier than 1980. She's a fan too, of the movie, the soundtrack and of course, Queen. It's generational... her daughters are fans too.

[@lonophonic117]

Flash Gordon, though wasn’t received well but has thankfully managed to become cult and to its rightful status, just because of how excellent and fantastic it is. The look, characters, plot and especially the soundtrack by Queen which is infinitely magnificent. It all just works completely, as it is truly a masterpiece in its own right. I hope it’s looked back on from generations and generations to come. Though, they may make an animated version which would be cool, it’s a massive shame that there was going to be a trilogy of Flash Gordon films but, it didn’t hit the box office to well, so wasn’t possible. Plus, of problems between Sam J Jones and Dino De Laurentiis, though they have gladly made up. It would be good though if they did another live action film about Flash Gordon, but it will be nice see an animated version of it as well.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

"VOTT Do ju mean... FLASH Gordon apprrrroaching?" I swear, together with "Masters of the Universe" it is one of the BEST low-budget trashy Sci-Fi Fantasy films EVER! Something where you can actually dive in and completely forget everything around you. An absolute MUST WATCH!!

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

Flash Gordon...classically so cheezy

[@antonydrossos5719]

12:30 Sam J Jones did briefly star in a TV adventure/sci-fi series in the early '80s called "The Highwayman". Something about highway police in the near future, sort of "Mad Max Lite"

[@sonyasandoval1477]

He also starred in a show called Code Red about firefighters. That's when I realized his natural hair color was brown.

[@yoda908]

Hey Minty; Sam Jones actually was in a ton of movies and shows since. He also played flash Gordon in a short lived tv series in 2007. He also played the spirit/Denny Colt in the 1987 tv movie version. He mostly had cameos and currently has two movies in preproduction.

[@JorgeHernandez-iv5fb]

Not only do i still rock this on vhs but my kids grew up watching it and thus my work is done.

[@darcybrummett7004]

10:14 I sometimes say, “Flash, (BOOM) ahhh” during thunderstorms.

[@OkieMale66]

According to IMDB, Peter Marinker provided the voice for Mister Jones character.

[@darthfixer7853]

I looked through Wikipedia page history... This was only added to the wiki in October 2019, and then to The Flash Gordon Page Dec 2019. So Minty couldn't have had it at the time this video was made. Peter's page is about to be purged due to lack of content, but he was a "professional voice and dramatic actor" It was likely after this video that it was added to IMDb.

[@darthvaydr]

“Dispatch war rocket Ajax....to bring back his body!”

[@ianfindly3257]

Personally, I rather prefer "While you await the ceremony, all monitors will display, for your entertainment, the execution of the traitors."

[@surrealist1976]

when I was a kid, I used to go to the library and borrow a comic book adaptation of the movie, well drawn, nice colors :-)

[@wesleymarsh263]

I was 12 when it was released and loved it from my first viewing. Yes, it is campy but that is beside the point. The story was fantastic and the special effects were great. And Queen... It was an all around fun movie from beginning to end and I still love it.

[@KevinHudsonL]

Actually, being campy *is* the point.

[@MartintheTinman]

There's only one thing you need to know about Flash Gordon "He's the saviour of the Universe"

[@missionpassed4584]

Growing up in the 80s i loved this movie, always scared me the bit when that guy puts his hand in that test hole thing

[@Lowlander-ci7is]

Send war rocket Ajax to bring back his body!!!! Great stuff, loved it as a kid, that and the Last Starfighter, can you do that movie next :-)

[@KaitainCPS]

Send Ajax Liquid to clean up his body.

[@a.barnard3205]

Funny, I heard "Watercon Ajax"......

[@shelbycox8853]

Sam J was the love interest in a great 80's movie My Chauffeur with Deborah Foreman!

[@jdog7797]

*Okay 80s we get it even at your cheesiest and campyiest, you still make original badass movies with kickass soundtracks that we cant even come close to in our generation of emulating. You are the Golden age of movies and music we get it, you win, not even a competition.*

[@tracymartin5039]

I bought the soundtrack after seeing it way back in 1980 and still have the record, I still love this movie so much!