{"id":1910,"date":"2024-12-05T07:33:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T15:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2024-12-05T07:33:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T15:33:47","slug":"retro-movie-adventures-flash-gordon-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/05\/retro-movie-adventures-flash-gordon-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Movie Adventures: Flash Gordon (1980)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/flash-gordon-bar.png\" alt=\"Flash Gordon movie bar\" class=\"wp-image-1911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/flash-gordon-bar.png 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/flash-gordon-bar-300x38.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/flash-gordon-bar-768x96.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> I don&#8217;t really remember exactly what I thought of this when it came out, but I&#8217;m sure my sophisticated fourteen year old brain thought &#8220;this lacks the subtlety and nuance of The Empire Strikes Back- it&#8217;s leaning too hard into the fantasy action tropes that Star wars so deftly homages.&#8221; Except I probably condensed that to &#8220;this is dumb.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I watched it last night, and my main thought was &#8220;OH YEAH! THIS IS RAD!&#8221; Sure, I could expand on that and talk about the wholehearted embrace of serial archetypes, the intricate costume and set design, and of course the roaring score by Queen, but I&#8217;m old enough to know my original response is the most honest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And every shot of blessed Brian Blessed is pure gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definitely not the bore worms!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}