Quote from: Dan on September 27, 2010, 07:25:38 PM
I'm watching the 1980 version on HBO right now and all I can say is that it's nothing like I remembered. I probably haven't seen this movie in 25 years.

It's really weird. All I can say is that it's the greatest example of homoerotic art since Huckleberry Finn.

The true Flash Gordon was former Olympic swimming champion Larry "Buster" Crabbe (right, below), whose enemy was the evil Ming the Merciless (the truly superb Frank Middleton, vastly better than the Max von Sydow version). I had three full days of direct company with Crabbe, back in the 1970s at a Dallas nostalgia convention. He wasn't that eager to talk about his later years, after he and Weismuller and a few other sports heroes got shoved-aside in the public's eye, supplanted by war hero Audie Murphy and other returning vets.



Here's a lot, lot more on this wonderful early sci-fi cartoon strip and movie franchise (and photo source)....

http://home.comcast.net/~cjh5801a/Flash.htm

Quote from: quiller on September 28, 2010, 06:52:30 AM
The true Flash Gordon was former Olympic swimming champion Larry "Buster" Crabbe (right, below), whose enemy was the evil Ming the Merciless (the truly superb Frank Middleton, vastly better than the Max von Sydow version). I had three full days of direct company with Crabbe, back in the 1970s at a Dallas nostalgia convention. He wasn't that eager to talk about his later years, after he and Weismuller and a few other sports heroes got shoved-aside in the public's eye, supplanted by war hero Audie Murphy and other returning vets.



Here's a lot, lot more on this wonderful early sci-fi cartoon strip and movie franchise (and photo source)....

http://home.comcast.net/~cjh5801a/Flash.htm

Hey Quiller, how old are you? Just curious.

Quote from: Dan on September 29, 2010, 12:08:49 PM
Hey Quiller, how old are you? Just curious.

Be nice youn man. (q)   :-X

Quote from: walkstall on September 29, 2010, 12:45:33 PM
Be nice youn man. (q)   :-X

I didn't mean it like that. I really like Quiller. It's just that his sense of humor seems kind of edgy (something I enjoy) and I didn't put that together with a guy who could be in his 60s. It just surprised me a bit. Still not sure how old he is.

Quote from: Dan on September 29, 2010, 12:48:53 PM
I didn't mean it like that. I really like Quiller. It's just that his sense of humor seems kind of edgy (something I enjoy) and I didn't put that together with a guy who could be in his 60s. It just surprised me a bit. Still not sure how old he is.

LOL I was talking to q on that post Dan.   q loves very old movies and music.  I know you will find him full of good info around both.

Quote from: walkstall on September 29, 2010, 01:11:08 PM
LOL I was talking to q on that post Dan.   q loves very old movies and music.  I know you will find him full of good info around both.

Yeah, we had some exchanges on the old LNF entertainment thread. Our tastes are a little different, but I definitely respect the knowledge he brings to a discussion.

Well, as it happened, I had never seen a Flash Gordon film (or anything else with Buster Crabbe) when I met him and spent several days in his close company. I wish now I'd known more, particularly how 1930s-60s actors struggled to break free of typecasting (as they did with both Crabbe and Weismuller, the other great Tarzan).

I do enjoy old films. Some, the older the better, including the "camp" classics such as the 1960s run of big-budget, large-cast films including A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (to name just two). And I watch "junk films" from the 30s and 40s as well (particularly crime films).

But I also like the more modern film-fare as well, particularly the re-invigoration of the crime film after the deplorable remake of The Italian Job. Guy Ritchie is turning out tremendously gifted, wildly funny heist films well worth checking into. Ben Kingsley (Ghandi) has also done good work in that area, including Sexy Beast with Ian MacShane and also You Kill Me (a hit man goes to AA and decides to tell the whole truth). Absolutely anything with Jason Statham (Transporter, or anything with Statham and Guy Ritchie directing) is also excellent.

My tastes run toward quality, or at least quality within a given genre. I love the old Roger Corman films from American International (and Vincent Price in his Dr. Phibes role), almost any of the old Hammer horror films, science fiction (except for the Aliens series, but including Predator) and many more. I follow Tarantino, Scorcese, Eastwood, and other top directors, and do try to pick up the better Academy Award winning films as well (unless it features blatant leftists).

::)  Unlike Shooter and Walkstall, I did not require someone to saw off my leg and count the rings to figure out whether I was born in this geological era or the last one. However, there are mornings when I am fully ready to believe someone did do that to me, the trouble I have walking, just out of bed.  :o

Music? Try here....  http://www.radio.li/

Who needs to know what the German-speaking announcer has to say? The music speaks for itself: something to get you energized.

My tastes are a little more simple. I like some dramas, but I'm hard on a drama. I don't want to know the ending 30 minutes before it's over. Movies like "The Usual Suspects" are fun for me.

But in general I like commedies, action and sci-fi movies. For some reason I don't need to hold them to as high of a standard. Just have things blow up and hot women. The more of both, the better. Just a fun escape.

What I hate more than anything are message movies. Things that would rather indoctrinate than entertain. John

Musicals, Ban them....

I love the original series on HBO. Sopranos, Rome, Boardwalk Empire, Deadwood, etc.

Quote from: Dan on September 29, 2010, 06:26:56 PM
I love the original series on HBO. Sopranos, Rome, Boardwalk Empire, Deadwood, etc.

   Sopranos and deadwood were class A series, The prison series damn if I can remember the name now...was also very good also

Gay? Well maybe, after all "queen" (flamer freddy Mercury) did the musical score. The lead actor as I rememeber was somewhat of a pretty boy. But as I recall the girl who palyed Mings evil daughter was quite hot.


Billy

Quote from: zip on September 29, 2010, 07:01:25 PM
   Sopranos and deadwood were class A series, The prison series damn if I can remember the name now...was also very good also

It was OZ. Very good but disturbing too.

I could say I like chick flicks but I'm not sure you would believe me. ;D ;D ;D

Actually I like shows like Dexter, 24, The Tudors, anything SciFi (including any and all Star Trek),  and really old horror movies.   8)

Hey Bert, what's wrong with a good musical... The King and I, South Pacific, Oklahoma..... :)

Quote from: Dan on September 29, 2010, 06:26:56 PM
I love the original series on HBO. Sopranos, Rome, Boardwalk Empire, Deadwood, etc.

Loved Rome.... Carnivale was great too.