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The original 1930s serial isn't particularly humorous.
Flash Gordon. 1980
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The original 1930s serial isn't particularly humorous.
Orang Utan
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the original film that is the subject of this thread
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It's not original, though. Fun as it is.
Orang Utan
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it is original in the context of it being THE FILM IN THE OP. stop being a dick
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GORDON'S ALIVE
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Yes but the new film isn't a remake of the 1980s film, it's a remake of the original strip, and that is what was being discussed.
Reno
The In Kraut
If you insist on splitting hairs, John Carpenter's The Thing was a more faithful adaptation of Who Goes There ? by John Campbell Jr. than The Thing from Another World from 1951 and it commonly gets referred to as a remake. It usually comes up when the best remakes of all time are discussed. So it's not wrong to refer to this upcoming version as a remake of the 1980 film (and not the serials, which essentially were a different medium).
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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As is the planet of the apes remake and the ending everyone hated. All totally fine by me, but what was being discussed here was the new film which is looking back to the original material, I don't think it is splitting hairs to say, that they are not remaking the 1980s film or story, they are making another flash gordon film.
Reno
The In Kraut
Merely repeating yourself doesn't give your argument more weight. Lets resume this discussion when the film is out, which will in all likelihood be about Flash Gordon saving the earth from Ming the Merciless......again !
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Like the comic strip.
Hopefully he is a polo player.
This was the rocket in the highly forgettable early 70s spoof 'Flesh Gordon' ( not so forgettable that I don't remember it though)
Compare with Bezos's
Compare with Bezos's
Aladdin
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There was one summer when I was a kid and every evening RTE played the old Flash Gordon black and white series followed by the original Star Trek series.
It was great!!
Eta ..they also played Harold Lloyds old comedies
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
There was one summer when I was a kid and every evening RTE played the old Flash Gordon black and white series followed by the original Star Trek series.
It was great!!
Eta ..they also played Harold Lloyds old comedies
We got Harold Lloyd every teatime on BBC2 in the 80s
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I thought that was every summer. There was Flash Gordon but also some other sci-fi from the same period (am original creation at the time I think)There was one summer when I was a kid and every evening RTE played the old Flash Gordon black and white series followed by the original Star Trek series.
It was great!!
Eta ..they also played Harold Lloyds old comedies
'Hooray for Harold Lloyd' was channel 4 in the afternoons I think. It was basically highlights. If you saw the original films as a kid you would know, they are super long and a bit tedious apart from the said highlights.
Aladdin
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I dont remember every summer.
We didnt have channel 4.
But yes...Hooray for Harold Lloyd was the series. Shorts. You're right.
I just remember looking forward to watching them and enjoying them a lot.
Reno
The In Kraut
Nope, Harold Lloyd's films aren't tedious, they are classics and they were wonderfully inventive.
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Miss the Laurel and Hardy films, feel like they were always on the telly in the 70s
Aladdin
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seeformiles
Lost in the wood
It was on BBC2 and predated Channel 4 by several years
. Seems Harold Lloyd retained all the rights to his work and charged channels big money to show them. HFHL - was pretty much recycling pieces of a 1962 film (itself composed of highlights) called “Harold Lloyd’s World of Laughter”.
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Don't be forgetting
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I got a box set of all his films on DVD to review. Arse numbing stuff. . . . . "Finally, that fucking clock!".It was on BBC2 and predated Channel 4 by several years
Reno
The In Kraut
I still can't believe someone ever got you to review films. Those poor readers !
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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The wonderful and inventive bits are truly great, but they are surrounded by very very long periods of uninteresting camerawork and dull plot. Lots of talking too, or rather on screen captions, that really slows it down.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I done it on the telly like. Watch some clips, a couple of words, put the kettle on, bish bosh.I still can't believe someone ever got you to review films. Those poor readers !
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Would rather the comic strip/Buster Crabbe series be realised in full glory, though.
Sure, there's been misfires but maybe Taiko Waititi is too obvious a choice?
Will still watch, mind.
Sure, there's been misfires but maybe Taiko Waititi is too obvious a choice?
Will still watch, mind.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Oh no. * ¢r∆πiuM |m¶l0d€$ *
Reno
The In Kraut
Someone call call Ken Loach !
The original director for the 1980 film was Nicolas Roeg. Unfortunately Dino De Laurentiis fired him after a year of preproduction.
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Lucas wanted to do it, didn't he?
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