607 - IS Flash Gordon Alive?, and "Hail Silver Jr. Hail"!

[3:02 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Last night had a hankering to watch Flash Gordon again
I only watched it that one time before, a few years ago
I had to buy a digital copy to watch it, but whatever
I think it's like Krull... gets better with subsequent viewings
[3:03 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
lol
[3:03 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
I dunno where they got the story for the film... like if it was based on the serials even at all.
[3:03 PM]   
It was based on newspaper comics
[3:04 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Was it a comic too?
[3:04 PM]   
Yes
For ages
It might still be running
(shrug)
[3:04 PM]   Mr. Blue
It'd be cool to see a big remake of it, with Ming being the authoritarian ruler of his little world and everyone hating him but having to kiss his ass... and then some foreigner coming along and uniting everyone to defeat him
The beginning is cool with how you only see what Ming is seeing through his little periscope or whatever
"I'm bored... I'm gonna ruin this place"
[3:04 PM]   
Best opening line in Sci-fi, in my opinion
"Klytus I'm boooored..."
[3:05 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
heh
[3:05 PM]   
All the events happened because the supreme a-hole of the universe had nothing better to do
[3:05 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yeah, I like that
He's like a little kid burning ants with a magnifying glass, or me turning on disaster mode in Sim City
[3:06 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Flash would be a good remake for film
But not TV again
[3:06 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yes
More alien / scifi than the fantastical thing that the film was
[3:06 PM]   
That's been talked about for ages
The art direction in Flash Gordon was amazing
[3:06 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
The original actor is still alive right?
[3:06 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yeah, but he hasn't done anything since other than Ted
[3:06 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Could always do a film and have him as another character
Hemsworth is Flash
[3:07 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
He didn't even finish Flash Gordon.  They used someone else's voice in post
Its been around so long the original was like, a polo player?
Which was popular at the time
Most baseball teams originally played in polo grounds because purpose-built baseball stadiums were unheard of for such an obscure sport
[3:08 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
I just had this bad image of the guy who plays Gronk as Flash
[3:09 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
I wonder who could be Ming if Hemsworth is Flash
[3:09 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Patrick Stewart
[3:09 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
That's a good one
[3:10 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Cause he looks like you could just push him over, but he is so menacing at the same time
[3:10 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yes
He plays against type well in that Green Room movie I watched... he'd be great as Ming
[3:10 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
With the accent and such it would fit
[3:12 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Ben Foster as Klytus
I'm not sure why, but I notice that guy in everything he's in even if it sucks
He's good at being bad
Maybe too short
[3:13 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
That's what I was thinking
Dolph Lundgren as Klytus
[3:14 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
That'd be good
Klytus reminded me of Skeletor in the Masters of the Universe movie when he's in the gold getup at the end
[3:14 PM]   
Fan boys drool over "Slave Leia", but I'm a "Court Daywear Aura" man...
[3:15 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yes!
The movie does seem really dated though...
[3:18 PM]   
Well yes
But there will never be anything quite like it
It's so extreme in it's glamour
"Here's the original insignia."   
"Great!   I want it saturated in crystalline beads and jewels."
"Uh...and our concept for the Frigian queen."
"Beautiful!  Cover that sh- in mirrors!"
[3:18 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
I mean even more than it is
1980 but it seems like... much older
It almost seems like the 60s.  Like it's a companion to Barbarella
[3:19 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Black and White scifi gone color
[3:19 PM]   
Yes, Mr. Brown
[3:19 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
If it were me I'd just make it straight up scifi and not so much fantasy
Oh I like when they're going through the Dr's memories
Obviously the guy survived the Holocaust and they get to Hitler and Klytus make some comment like "now HE had the right idea!" or something along those lines
Ahh.. "now HE showed promise!"
They should make Ming more like a petulant child
Super powerful and everyone has to kiss his ass and pay him tribute but he's also a whiny brat
[3:24 PM]   
But Ming is a sophisticated villain
[3:24 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yeah, that's true
[3:24 PM]   
Supposed to be green as I recall.
Lucas made Star Wars because he couldn't secure Flash Gordon or Dune
So...it's kinda both
[3:26 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yeah
Ming in the film looks identical to Ming in the serials
[3:28 PM]   
Ming...
Who could play him now?
Voice...'tude...bearing...look
Cumberbatch popped in
[3:29 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yes
[3:29 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
For a young Ming, yes
[3:29 PM]   
Ming doesn't age
[3:34 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Lance Reddick as Klytus
Maybe Fassbender - he seems like a psycho in real life.
[3:38 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
lol
[3:45 PM]   
Tommy Wisseau IS Mhing Thee Mersillis
(Ming slouches in...slumps on couch...)   "I conkerd a lodda planets taday..."
[3:48 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
I still have not watched that film
Yet I know the film
“Ming's Room”
by Tommy Wisseau
“Hey Flash you want to play catch?”
Awkward 20 minutes of playing catch with metal eggs
“I didn't blast that plannet!  Thas bullshit!  Oh, hi Klytus.”
[4:01 PM]   
Adds new dimension to the football scenes in both films!
[9:41 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Something weird about Flash Gordon is that the Hawkmen all wear like roman style sandals, but Brian Blessed - I guess because he's kinda short and he's supposed to be the leader - has heels on his.  They look like straight up women's high heels
Kinda like they took the soles of a dress shoe and put on the sandals
[9:42 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Makes him larger in stature
[9:42 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
And once I noticed I couldn't unnotice
Pretty impressive that his lines, which on paper are pretty bland, have become so iconic just because of his delivery of 'em
"Gordon's alive!”
"Diiiiiive!" etc.
[9:44 AM]   
Blessed has charisma
[9:44 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yes
[9:44 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Eh, would be interesting having Orson Wells do Vultan
Though he would argue about the lines for an hour first
[9:45 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
lol yeah
"Why do I keep yelling dive?   Isn't once enough?   There's too much directing around here."
[9:47 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
“Hawkmen. They are not Hawk Men, they are men with wings on their backs.  They are Men wearing hawk wings.”
“Who are you and what is your name?  Yes yes you will be fired by the end of the day.
Where is my wine?”
[9:49 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
"AHHHhhhhhhh Gordon's aliveeghhh" [zonks out]
"Get me a jury to tell me how to emphasize "boy" in "impetuous boy" and I'll... go down on you."
[9:52 AM]   
"In July on Arboria, Prince Barin grows peas..."
"In July...that's a funny thing isn't it.   As if Arboria has a July.   And you're talking about July and showing snow.   Arboria is a Temperate Rainforest.   Show me when Arboria has ever had snow and...and I'll go down on you."
[10:01 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
heh



[9:20 AM]   
Silver Jr. has reached his Benevolent Dictator phase
"If I ruled the world...this is how everyone would be happy under my rules ON PAIN OF ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION.”
"But I'd be so nice about it that no one would revolt.  ESPECIALLY AFTER I CRUSH ALL WHO RESIST WITH OVERWHELMING POWER so the world would be much better, you know?"
"I was thinking of writing up my government ideas."
"Title it 'Manifesto'."
"Why that?"
"Traditional."
"Oh."
[9:30 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Its very easy to come up with a working government when you just kill anyone who doesn't wanna live by your rules
[9:31 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
My ruling name will be Vlad the Taxer
If you don't pay I impale you
[9:36 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
There wouldn't be enough construction material to build the camps that I'd have to put people in.