{"id":1048,"date":"2006-05-06T17:48:36","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T00:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2021-02-05T15:36:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T22:36:52","slug":"flesh-gordon-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"Flesh Gordon (1974)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got the power pasties, and I know how to use &#8217;em!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Poster-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-38689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Poster-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Poster-86x128.jpg 86w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Poster.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nFlesh Gordon (Jason Williams) and Dale Ardor (Suzanne Fields) join Dr. Flexi Jerkoff (Joseph Hudgins) in an attempt to save the earth from Sex Rays sent by Planet Porno&#8217;s insane emperor, Wang the Perverted (William Hunt).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adult Films<\/li>\n<li>Satires and Spoofs<\/li>\n<li>Science Fiction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nPeary refers to this &#8220;X-rated parody of <em>Flash Gordon<\/em>&#8221; as &#8220;too dreadful, too boring to be consider true comedy or camp&#8221;. He argues that the &#8220;acting is terrible&#8221; and the direction &#8220;inept&#8221;, but he does acknowledge that the &#8220;special effects (inspired by Ray Harryhausen) are pretty good, certainly suitable for the comic-book material&#8221;. I&#8217;m not quite in agreement with Peary&#8217;s negative assessment here: I was surprisingly entertained by both the silliness of the story and the ineptitude of the acting, and enjoyed the cleverly conceived &#8220;creatures&#8221;. Not for all tastes, but not as bad as Peary would lead you to believe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fun, &#8220;Harryhausen-esque&#8221; special-effects<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Creature.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Creature-1024x520.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"325\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-65960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Creature-1024x520.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Creature-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Creature-128x65.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Creature-768x390.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Creature-1536x779.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Creature-532x270.png 532w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Creature.png 1819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Candy Samples as the Dyke Queen, leader of the Secret Lesbian Underground<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Samples.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Samples-1024x524.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"328\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-65961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Samples-1024x524.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Samples-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Samples-128x66.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Samples-768x393.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Samples-1536x786.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Samples-527x270.png 527w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Flesh-Gordon-Samples.png 1811w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but I think it&#8217;s worth a look. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0068595\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moriareviews.com\/sciencefiction\/flesh-gordon-1974.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stomptokyo.com\/badmoviereport\/reviews\/F\/flesh_gordon.html\">Bad Movies Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got the power pasties, and I know how to use &#8217;em!&#8221; Synopsis: Flesh Gordon (Jason Williams) and Dale Ardor (Suzanne Fields) join Dr. Flexi Jerkoff (Joseph Hudgins) in an attempt to save the earth from Sex Rays sent by Planet Porno&#8217;s insane emperor, Wang the Perverted (William Hunt). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Adult Films Satires and Spoofs Science Fiction Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: Peary refers to this &#8220;X-rated parody of Flash Gordon&#8221; as &#8220;too dreadful, too boring to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1048\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68983,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/68983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}