A solution to the inevitably horrible reboot
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Flash Gordon
iflafilm — 11 years ago(April 23, 2014 06:11 PM)
How about making it a sequel? Same score - go hire the remaining members of Queen. Same actors - Sam Jones, Timothy Dalton and Brian Blessed still look good. NO lazy CGI nonsense - matte paintings, dye in fish tanks, giant miniatures.
Flash and Dale in their old age decide to come home to see what's happened to the world they risked their lives to save. They return only to find this toilet. The US government is the new version of Ming the Merciless' dynasty. They are captured in similar circumstances to the first movie but instead have to escape incarceration and save earth from Uncle Sam the Merciless. (Lord knows I'd love to see Hawkmen descend on the White House and Congress and clean them out - then spell '
You're Welcome
' in the sky afterward.) As a fan of 80's optimism I'd like to see them save Earth and teach a life lesson about bravery and love for your fellow man - but the realist in me knows the only way to end it is with Flash back in Mongol knocking the moon out of orbit to flush this toilet just like Ming tried to do. See, it kinda comes full circle. It'll be like Star Trek IV only where we all learn a lesson about what a**holes we've all become with a brilliant soundtrack.
OR it could be the same tired nonsense we expect it to be. -
arthurab — 10 years ago(December 29, 2015 07:04 PM)
80s optimism?!?!? This movie had it but I found the endless apocalyptic themes in 80s movies and music videos to be quite the opposite. Sure, it was just to sell product, but it was ubiquitous back then.
I vote NO SEQUEL. NEVER. EVER. -
woodgatejack-sfr — 9 years ago(January 15, 2017 07:11 PM)
As much as I love this film, I don't think it should be the be-all-and-end-all when it comes to adaptations of
Flash Gordon
.
Since its creation as a comic strip, Flash has been incarnated as radio series, several different cartoon versions, a (really poor) TV series and a black and white Movie serial.
There are so many different ways to go with another adaptation of Flash Gordon.