Weekly DVD Pick - Flash Gordon

I remember as a kid back in 1980 running home from my friends house after watching Flash Gordon. At the time this movie had me more pumped up than Star Wars did. There is just something about the Queen music combined with the visuals of Flash and the Hawkmen fighting their way through the laser light show in order to stop Ming the Merciless from marrying Dale Arden.

Other than Steve J. Jones as Flash, he is pretty much the weak point but I also think he was not really given much to work with, you have a pretty cool cast. Max Von Sydow is Ming the Merciless, Topol is Dr. Zarkov and Timothy Dalton is Errol Flynn, sorry I mean Prince Baron. Yes his name really is Prince Baron. Brian Blessed is also over the top as Prince Vultan, the leader of the Hawkmen.

This movie really holds a dear spot in my heart and I’ll be running out shortly to pick it up on DVD. This is a movie of excess and if you are a fan of Science Fiction you need to get out there and at least see it. Otherwise I don’t think you can call yourself a SciFi fan.