I don't think I'm going to tweet this movie so much as ROCK THE FUCK OUT #Diiive
Flatmate: There better be BRIAN BLESSED in caps at some point. Me: It won't be BRIAN BLESSED. It'll be BRIAN FUCKING BLESSED #Diiive
I hate musicals, but I gotta say, I'd go see a Flash Gordon musical and sing along #Diiive
So, I'm curious. Is hot hail actually a thing? 'Cause everything else on Ming's console seems plausible #Diiive
Dear pilots: if you discount ghostly, evil laughter as normal turbulence, you should probably be Breathalyzed. #Diiive
For some reason, I just found Topol delivering the line "We shall go up...and counter-attack them" inexplicably amusing #Diiive
Topol as Zarkov totally makes this film. He points a gun at someone, then seriously asks "Why are you running away?" #Diiive
You've got to love a mad scientist who creates a rocket that can launch by accident #Diiive
Flatmate: You know, the courtship in Flesh Gordon is perhaps more subtle than the courtship in this, and in that she blows him 20 mins in #Diiive
There's something about the Flash Gordon soundtrack that makes me want to jump off a couch windmilling my arms #Diiive
BRIAN FUCKING BLESSED #Diiive
One day, someone will recut this film to make it all about Topol and Brian Blessed's forbidden love. #Diiive
Just like a prince, bringing a sword to an atomic-robot-paralysis beam fight. #Diiive
Best things in this film, in order: BRIAN FUCKING BLESSED. Topol. Ornella Muti as Princess Aura. #Diiive
Oh Ming, if only you hadn't dressed your minions like quarterback players, they wouldn't be defeated by a pro-footballer #Diiive
Once again, Zarkov proves that no good comes of scientists playing sport #Diiive
Flatmate: one of the great things about this film - Ming doesn't fuck around. He's all, this guy's dangerous, kill him. #Diiive
For all this is a gonzo, bizarre film, Flash Gordon pays a lot of attention to small narrative details #Diiive
Flash Gordon - a foe so respected for his fifteen minutes of defiance that they copied his t-shirt typeface for the headstone #Diiive
Or Flash has a super-power that automatically morphs any written version of his name into that Typeface #Diiive
Earth obviously chose the wrong hero - if we'd unleashed Topol's scene-chewing abilities, he could have eliminated Mongo in seconds #Diiive
Many brave men died to bring it here from the Galaxy of Pleasure. Hmm. Seems a bit...on the nose #Diiive
Flatmate just noted that it's nice to see Dale getting to save herself. And her high-heel shoes. #Diiive
Man, as a kid, I used to have nightmares about stinger creatures and green poisonous puss #Diiive
RIFF-RAFF. In Emerald. This film just got even more awesome. #Diiive
not the Bore Worms! #Diiive
Gordon's alive? Oh, Brian Blessed, you so fucking rock #Diiive
Flash Gordon gives in to peer pressure, risks life with deadly wood beast log #Diiive
Least. Convincing. Quicksand. Ever #Diiive
You've got to wonder why hawk-people would have a fighting platform that tips people over the edge to fall to their doom #Diiive
Flash, Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen ducks to save the earth. #Diiive
Why are people always surprised when interstellar tyrants turn out to be okay with murder? #Diiive
Okay, really, why do hawk people have a fucking SKYCYCLE floating around their base? #Diiive
Having Bryan Blessed repeat everyone's dialogue just shows up every other actor in the film #Diiive
And now, for no apparent reason, Aura and Dale have a pillow fight. #Diiive
My father always drinks a power potion before he makes love #Diiive
We've now hit the point of the film where we basically recite dialogue. #Diiive
I mean, really, how can you not go along with "Dispatch War-rocket Ajax, to bring back his body." #Diiive
The next five minutes of the film is basically Brian Blessed saying "Dive." I'm totally okay with this. #Diiiive
The fight was going badly, but then Brian May cut a blistering guitar solo and things turned around #Diiive
Oh well, who wants to live forever. DIIIIIVE! #Diiive
You've gotta love bad guys who melt. #Diiive
Do you vow not to blast her into space, until such time as you grow weary of her. Worst vows ever #Diiive
You've also got to love a bad guy whose response to a ship flying at him is to stand there and gawp #Diiive
Hail Flash! #Diiive
Does no-one notice the ghostly, evil laughter? #Diiive
Well, that was easily the best of the bad movies we've watched on Tuesday nights #Diiive