"Gordon's ALIVE?"
Jun. 27th, 2004 07:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolSo, I didn't go out today. This annoys me beyond belief. I did, actually, attempt to get out of bed. Mum caught sight of me and sent me back. This may be a good thing, as I've been quietly sleeping throughout most of the day. It's been commented that the three pleasures in life are eating, sleeping and having sex, right? Well, I use at least two of them for recovery, and I've slept like the dead. This probably means I won't do so tonight, but I truly feel much better, having gone from a weird, zombie-like pallor vomiting jobbie to feeling relatively human again. This is nice, actually.
The food lark will come later, though.
So, this is an apology to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hammer_strike and balthaser who I let down. I did phone Simon and apologise profusely, though.
While not alseep, I've finished off all my books. Current reading list included Dracula (a re-read), Raiders Of The Lost Car Park and The Science Of Discworld. As such, I present a poll, cos I can.
[Poll #313508]
You're all intelligent, well-read people. Some of you are writers, some of you are editors, some of you make sure that badfic gets the beating it deserves. So give me something that I can read and look vaguely intelligent.
Last night I re-watched Flash Gordon. Now, despite my somewhat slavish adoration of it, I've actually not seen it since I was 8. It did, however, leave an absolutely fantastic impression on me (Gordon's ALIVE?) despite not remembering much of the story. I have vivid memories of the ending, for example; of the Hawkmen's castle in the sky; of the temple of Arbourial the downright weird olours in the sky. However, I completely forgot about a good portion of the characters. Whoops! Yet I watched it, and god, that film is good.
Now, on first glance, it's the ultimately cheesy film. The premise: An American footballer (with a sexy female travel agent by the name of Dale) are blasted into space by a scientist who knows what is going wrong with the Earth. Earth is being slowly destroyed by MAD EMPORER OF THE UNIVERSE MING of the Planet Mongo, and Flash must save the Earth, and win back Dale from MAD EMPORER OF THE UNIVERSE MING whilst uniting Mongo's moons against him!
Bad enough at first glance, really. It's a high-camp adventure, with everything in high colour. People strut around in Lyrca and spandex. Names are just... odd. (The tree moon is Arbouria and the cold moon is Frigeria. Seeing a pattern?) Bright colours and skanky costumes abound.
And it's genius. My god, this film just IS early science-fiction! Death rays and planetary destruction and mad scientists!
It's also completely tongue-in-cheek. Sam J Jones (known to us Stargate geeks as Aris Boch) is the worst actor to grace the screen. Timohy Dalton looks embarressed to be there. Brian Blessed has wings. Max Von Sydow walks as if he owns the place, twirling his moustache and cloak and seduces everyone who goes past. The women quite simply exude sex (they're gorgeous!) and it's just wonderful. Queen do the most amazing soundtrack, too.
It's really funny as well. Upon Dale and Ming's wedding, a plane flies past. "All creatures shall make merry!" The next plane? "On pain of death." And, of course, that immortal line. "Flash! I love you but we only have 14 hours to save the Earth!"
We all need to see this film at least once. It's Ye Olde Science Fiction, and for that alone, it needs to be seen as a piece of memorabelia. Even if it was made in the 80s.
Ooooh. Gushing. And I may watch it again tonight, because I really truly do love that film, and my love of it has been re-established. Unfortunately, the fandom does not seem to extend beyond the TV program. A shame, for I have watched a few episodes of that and it's a bit like Doctor Who - you had to be there when it was first broadcast, and preferably a young child at that.
Please. Someone come and watch this film with me. I need people to share my obsession with it, and also with The Hero who is Brian Blessed.
And now I will go and possibly try having something to eat.
No, I won't, as I just got a scary message of Hamster Dave telling me about the history work that I have not yet done. Why did I volunteer to do The Mistresses Of Charles II again?
(Becki in Big Brother. Discuss.)
~Hathy_Col~
The food lark will come later, though.
So, this is an apology to
hammer_strike and balthaser who I let down. I did phone Simon and apologise profusely, though. While not alseep, I've finished off all my books. Current reading list included Dracula (a re-read), Raiders Of The Lost Car Park and The Science Of Discworld. As such, I present a poll, cos I can.
[Poll #313508]
You're all intelligent, well-read people. Some of you are writers, some of you are editors, some of you make sure that badfic gets the beating it deserves. So give me something that I can read and look vaguely intelligent.
Last night I re-watched Flash Gordon. Now, despite my somewhat slavish adoration of it, I've actually not seen it since I was 8. It did, however, leave an absolutely fantastic impression on me (Gordon's ALIVE?) despite not remembering much of the story. I have vivid memories of the ending, for example; of the Hawkmen's castle in the sky; of the temple of Arbourial the downright weird olours in the sky. However, I completely forgot about a good portion of the characters. Whoops! Yet I watched it, and god, that film is good.
Now, on first glance, it's the ultimately cheesy film. The premise: An American footballer (with a sexy female travel agent by the name of Dale) are blasted into space by a scientist who knows what is going wrong with the Earth. Earth is being slowly destroyed by MAD EMPORER OF THE UNIVERSE MING of the Planet Mongo, and Flash must save the Earth, and win back Dale from MAD EMPORER OF THE UNIVERSE MING whilst uniting Mongo's moons against him!
Bad enough at first glance, really. It's a high-camp adventure, with everything in high colour. People strut around in Lyrca and spandex. Names are just... odd. (The tree moon is Arbouria and the cold moon is Frigeria. Seeing a pattern?) Bright colours and skanky costumes abound.
And it's genius. My god, this film just IS early science-fiction! Death rays and planetary destruction and mad scientists!
It's also completely tongue-in-cheek. Sam J Jones (known to us Stargate geeks as Aris Boch) is the worst actor to grace the screen. Timohy Dalton looks embarressed to be there. Brian Blessed has wings. Max Von Sydow walks as if he owns the place, twirling his moustache and cloak and seduces everyone who goes past. The women quite simply exude sex (they're gorgeous!) and it's just wonderful. Queen do the most amazing soundtrack, too.
It's really funny as well. Upon Dale and Ming's wedding, a plane flies past. "All creatures shall make merry!" The next plane? "On pain of death." And, of course, that immortal line. "Flash! I love you but we only have 14 hours to save the Earth!"
We all need to see this film at least once. It's Ye Olde Science Fiction, and for that alone, it needs to be seen as a piece of memorabelia. Even if it was made in the 80s.
Ooooh. Gushing. And I may watch it again tonight, because I really truly do love that film, and my love of it has been re-established. Unfortunately, the fandom does not seem to extend beyond the TV program. A shame, for I have watched a few episodes of that and it's a bit like Doctor Who - you had to be there when it was first broadcast, and preferably a young child at that.
Please. Someone come and watch this film with me. I need people to share my obsession with it, and also with The Hero who is Brian Blessed.
And now I will go and possibly try having something to eat.
No, I won't, as I just got a scary message of Hamster Dave telling me about the history work that I have not yet done. Why did I volunteer to do The Mistresses Of Charles II again?
(Becki in Big Brother. Discuss.)
~Hathy_Col~
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Date: 2004-06-27 12:26 pm (UTC)& what now? This Becki? I must investigate. I assume this is to do with Emma leaving? *sigh* Is it a thing now that they must add a new person into the house later than the others in each series?
Give me a day or two & then I'll see.
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Date: 2004-06-27 12:27 pm (UTC)Small problem: she is, in fact, Lady Rebecca of Something Or The Other, and is English.
This amuses me, especially as the last thing Dermot said was this: "Ahmed speaks fluent Italian. So she's scuppered, really..."
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Date: 2004-06-27 12:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-27 01:18 pm (UTC)Flash on dvd? weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Bless that movie and the Queen soundtrack ...
Who wants to live forever! (Brian Blessed line)
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Date: 2004-06-27 01:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-27 01:20 pm (UTC);D
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Date: 2004-06-27 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-28 09:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-28 10:05 am (UTC)Or Wizzards even.
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Date: 2004-06-28 10:07 am (UTC)