Flash Gordon 1980 123movies

Watch: Flash Gordon 1980 123movies, Full Movie Online – American footballer Flash Gordon is thrust into the journey of a lifetime: joined with Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov, the three earthbound space travellers will soon become the first humans to encounter alien life, and try to stop the tyrannical alien warlord Emperor Ming the Merciless from destroying the Earth..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	6.5/10 Votes: 57,193
	83% | RottenTomatoes
	58/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 776 Popularity: 18.383 | TMDB

Reviews:

One of the least appreciated movies made in my lifetime. Done right after the glory that was The Empire Strikes Back and released to a public that had forgotten who Flash Gordon was or what the 1930’s serials with Larry “Buster” Crabbe represented. Although the public was drooling desire for more high tech special effects and serious Space Opera, Flash went in the opposite direction and brought Campy back with a style all his own. This movie PERFECTLY recreated everything that those early B&W serials threw at those screaming kids sitting up in the movie theater balcony. Not to mention that the actor recreations were done as if the drawn characters came to life and leaped out of the funny papers to star on the silver screen. Max von Sydow IS Emperor Ming. Brian Blessed IS Prince Vultan. Sam Jones and Melody Anderson came in as the unknowns they needed to be and stole the show. The ONLY downfall to this movie was the fact that it did so poorly at the box office and never received the sequel it hinted at in its ending.

Now then, anyone who thinks that Max von Sydov’s best film was “the Seventh Seal” (1957) really does need to get their priorities right: forget Ingmar Bergman – it has to be this marvellously camp effort from Mike Hodges and Dino de Laurentiis that allows him to act the megalomanic whilst dressing up like the best panto villain you’re ever likely to encounter. Sam J. Jones is the eponymous hero who, alongside the rather hapless Melody Anderson (“Dale) and Topol’s slightly demented scientist (“Zarkov”), falls prey to the mischievous games of “Ming the Merciless” as he toys with the Earth. Once the intrepid trio arrive on “Mongo” they must fight for their very survival. In the case of “Flash”, the poor fellow – who spends much of the film like a startled rabbit in the headlights – has to defend his virtue from the positively predatory “Princess Aura” (Ornella Muti) who’s supposed to be betrothed to “Barin” (Timothy Dalton) who is, himself, constantly sparring with Brian Blessed’s “Vultan” – king of the hawk-men. Add in the wonderfully creepy Peter Wyngarde as “Klytus” and Margiangela Melato as his villainous deputy “Kala” and we have the perfect ingredients for almost two hours of classic comic book action in the best tradition of “thwack” and “pow”. The thing is 40 years old now – hence it’s re-release on the big screen – and it doesn’t look like any efforts have been made to improve on the original. The effects are therefore pretty ropey, the CGI as obvious as the delightfully cheap and cheerful costumes of the lizard-men and the munchkins who are dressed much like the playing cards from “Alice in Wonderland”. Freddie Mercury and Queen provide a bit of added “glamour” to the proceedings with their title song and the eagle-eyed amongst us might just spot a 30 year old Robbie Coltrane in there too. Escapist nonsense? Sure – but it is still all good, uncomplicated, fun with it’s tongue in it’s cheek and just about everything else in leather, lycra and/or tights!

A 1930’s Comic Strip Brought Perfectly To Life
Flash Gordon is one of the most perfectly realized films De Laurentiis made, and it is disappointing that so few have recognized it for what it is; a 1930’s comic strip brought perfectly to life. The fact that it is so accurate a realization of America’s hopes and fears during the 1930’s may help to explain why it has been dismissed so readily as, at best, mere camp, and at worst, a vulgar cinematic catastrophe: Today’s audiences are too removed from that decade to catch the references. A classic example of America’s view of Asia during the 1930’s can be found in Dale Arden’s confrontation with Princess Aura just prior to her wedding to Ming. Aura is trying to convince Dale to slip a poison into Ming’s “Power Potion” but Dale tells Aura she can’t because she’s given Ming her word to “try to be a good wife if [Ming] would spare Zarkov and Baron. He vowed he would.” Aura, shocked at her naiveté, shouts, “My father has never kept a vow in his life!” To which Dale responds, “I can’t help that Aura. Keeping our word is one of the things that make us better than you.” Flash Gordon is filled with this type of wonderful 1930’s fun, and this fun is only enhanced by the decision to use bad actors in roles that would only benefit from the lack of skill, as well as Oscar-caliber actors in the most demanding roles. Max Von Sydow is an obvious example of the latter, but the hidden gems come in the form of Mariangela Melato, Brian Blessed, and Ornella Muti. Melato does an outstanding job as Klytus’s reptilian, but beautiful, second in command when she flawlessly delivers lines like, “Confess, and we won’t hurt you anymore.

We don’t like doing this at all!” And Ornella Muti is simply unbelievable as Ming’s gorgeous but deadly daughter. Replying to Flash’s query as to whether he can use the telepathy machine to contact Dale with a perfectly candid, “If I showed you how. But I’m not going to.” Add to these amazing actors the costumes and sets that are obvious homages to the original comic’s drawings and you have a movie that is as surprising as it is delightful. Enjoy!

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 51 min (111 min)
Budget 35000000
Revenue 27107960
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director Mike Hodges
Writer Lorenzo Semple Jr., Michael Allin, Alex Raymond
Actors Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow
Country United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands
Awards Nominated for 3 BAFTA 2 wins & 12 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints), Dolby Stereo (35 mm prints)
Aspect Ratio 2.20 : 1 (70 mm prints), 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor, London, UK (colour)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 100T 5247)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2020 remaster), Dolby Vision, Todd-AO 35 (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm, 70 mm (blow-up)