Rated or Dated: Flash Gordon (1980)

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4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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A superhero with no special powers. An intergalactic wrong 'un trying to destroy the earth. Brian Blessed dressed as whatever that is. Welcome to this week's Rated or Dated. Now with added lasers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rated or Dated.
0:11.0	I'm Mickey Noonan, just a man with a man's courage.
0:14.8	I'm joined by Jen.
0:16.6	Aha!
0:17.7	She's a miracle.
0:21.9	Hello?
0:23.3	Hiya.
0:25.4	And Hannah.
0:26.8	Hannah, I love you.
0:28.3	But we only have half an hour to rate or date what film?
0:34.8	This week we watched 1980s garish carnival of sex noises, Flash Gordon.
0:42.2	It's based on Alex Raymond's comic strip, which began in the 1930s, and it's, what shall I call it?
0:51.7	A campy space opera, a cult classic.
0:54.3	I don't know.
0:55.5	It's kind of like taking mushrooms and staring into a box of quality street
0:58.8	until they start talking to each other.
1:02.1	It was a labour of love for its producer, Dino Dillarentis,
1:05.7	who also gave us Barbarella, the King Kong remake and Conan the Barbarian.
1:10.1	Yikes.
1:10.5	No surprises in that list at all.
1:13.5	George Lucas was apparently mad to direct it and when he failed to secure the rights,
1:18.8	went off to direct something else, Star Wars. Never heard of it.
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