Also, Vultan was plotting against Ming, and Ming knew it, and Vultan knew that Ming knew, so his strategy revolved around buying the additional time he would need to build his weaponry and forces enough to mount a direct challenge. Now that would be an interesting little war to watch. Wonder which side Barin would take in a Ming vs Vultan war, absent Flash’s influence. Barin was a bit of a prig…
Oh and of course:
Dale: “I gave him my vow that I’d try to be a good wife if he spared Barin and Zarkov.”
Aura: “My father has never kept a vow in his life!”
Dale: “I can’t help that. It’s just one of the things that makes us better than you.”
I don’t remember the Flash Gordon cartoon series. I can’t believe I wouldn’t have watched it if I knew it was on. I do remember the Tarzan series, though. “Unk! Unk, Tantor, Unk!”
For those who don’t remember Filmation’s wonderful Flash series Behold!
I still have my Flash, Ming, and Lizard Woman action figures around here somewhere.
Otto It’s possible I’ve embellished the show over the years. But, I clearly remember two episodes. In one, Tarzan discovers a secret city of bird people. In the other, he meets Quetzacoatl- who turns out to be an alien. I admit that I haven’t read much Burroughs, just some of the Pelucidar and Barsoom novels. But, I think he would’ve approved.
Re- The Soundtrack
Has anybody else considered using the electric guitar bridal march at their wedding, or is it just me?
My best friend from high school was going to, but she had to wait to get married until after she got her vagina fixed. Her vagina’s been fixed but I lost touch with her so I don’t know if she actually married her fiance. I tend to think not, since the last several times I tried getting ahold of her (about 7 years ago) I ended up on the phone with him, blubbering about what an awful time he was having in their relationship.
I loved Ming. He just was and will always be right up there in the pantheon of great villians. Ol’ Ming could have eaten Palpatine for breakfast and not thought twice, toasted the Mirror Universe in Star Trek and ended by pantsing any evil space armada you can think of. Why? Because he KNEW he was the best, and he’d torture you to death because he knew you knew it, not 'cause he wanted to (though he would want to).
“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.”
And that speech he gives Topol about testing life…good stuff.
One question though: who was the person who picked up the ring at the end?
I believe we are forgetting Sam Jones’ greatest role: Battle, in “My Chaffeur”. If you liked him in Playgirl, you might want to catch the scene with him running around a park naked pushing a baby stroller.
If Klytus had to tell Ming about this insignificant planet its natives call “Earth”, then why the heck did Ming already have a natural disaster button marked “Earthquake”???
Because "earth"can be the specific planet or it can be a general term for land. Duh. Now ask why the labels are in English.
The real mysteries are: how far is a Mongo mile; why is distance expressed in terms of what objects to which one is parallel; what’s the “Mong scale” for life forms; and when Flash and Aura are 6.4 from the landing field, 6.4 what?!?
The Queen background music that played during the Hawkmen’s attack on rocketship Ajax was later used in the video arcade game Vanguard, and played when you flew your ship through “energy” and became temporarily indestructable.
Never mind that! On the scene the Hawkmen city is destroyed Flash finds a “Hawkman rocket cycle” and escapes. Why Hawkmen developed and built a rocket cycle? They can fly! The only purpose was to allow Flash to escape!
Yep, the cheesiness of that scene was expanded when Flash uses the communicator in the cycle to find the Hawkmen, the Hawkmen looked at each other wondering were that cycle came from! Think Hercules + Xena, and you will enjoy this movie.
Love that movie. Even when they subtitled it “Roldan the Daring” in Latin America. (don’t ask)
Judging by Klytus’ reaction, I’m thinking he trained 'em personally.
Any movie whose first major action sequence involves Football-Fu is destined to become a cult classic.
And I love the gag that shows how royalty (bluebloods, traditionally) literally had blue blood. Well, Ming and the Prince of Ardentia, anyway. It falls apart when Flash nicks Barin with the whip, and he bleeds red.
Unless Barin gained his princehood by revolt against the former ruler of Arboria and wasn’t born into royalty. Hmm…
