Flash Gordon (1980)

Second viewing; previously viewed between December 18, 1980 and some unknown date in early 1981.

A young man and a young woman are forcibly taken by a scientist to another planet whose ruler is intent on destroying the Earth; the young man promotes a revolt in that planet to take its tyrant down.

Entertaining adventure with elaborate visuals, a frantic pace and a slightly tongue-in-cheek tone. One of the central ideas is that humans will become intellectually mature, but also endangered as a species, when they start fearing evil extraterrestrials.

Rating: 57 (up from 54)