#Cyclone (1978)

[flmboyz]

"1978 Mercury Grand Marquis"

[graveyardrabbit]

"What do the lines mean, Andrés?" "They show us how many days we have been lost."

Cyclone (1978) dir. René Cardona Jr.

[duckgens]

Ride the Cyclone (1978)

[darkarfs]

Good lord, that's the inside of an airplane?? This had to be filmed in Italy. Or Mexico in the late 70s.

[bitter69uk]

“Like [Mario] Lanza, Maria Montez had a reputation for being impossible to handle. After a number of years in Haji-Baba type adventures, she was dropped by Universal and forced to seek work in European cheapies. While in Europe, she attempted to counter her advanced state of avoirdupois with hot saline baths. She died in one of a heart attack at the age of thirty-one.”

/ From the book Flesh and Fantasy (1978) by Penny Stallings /

Died on this day in the Parisian suburb of Suresnes, France: golden age Hollywood’s nostril-flaring and tempestuous Queen of Technicolour Exotica, Caribbean Cyclone and leading lady of films like Arabian Nights (1942), White Savage (1943) and Cobra Woman (1944), Maria Montez (née María África Gracia Vidal, 6 June 1912 – 7 September 1951). Note: Stallings gets Montez’s age wrong in the quote above – she was 39 when she died. (Like any self-respecting diva, Montez had a “showbiz age”). Venerated by the likes of Gore Vidal and underground queer filmmakers Jack Smith, Andy Warhol and Kenneth Anger, Montez is a pivotal figure in the sensibility we now call “camp” and one of the original LGBTQIA icons. (Early Warhol drag superstar Mario Montez, for example, was christened after her). And aside from perhaps the young Yvonne De Carlo, did any woman wear a yashmak with more elan? “When I see myself on the screen, I look so beautiful I want to scream with joy” Montez once famously exclaimed. Maria Montez, you make ME scream with joy! Pictured: Montez in the 1949 film Siren of Atlantis playing – what else? – an evil queen.

[ash-soka]

my apartment building was built in 1978. my parents house was built in the 80s. none of these buildings have ever weathered a cyclone which makes me nervous

[whereareyounoworpheus]

My List of Musicals: the ones I've "seen" and the ones I haven't seen yet

And by "seen" I actually mean "listen repeatedly to the soundtracks, and watch some recordings that people post on Youtube."

The ones I've seen:

Anastasia (2017)

Be More Chill (2015)

Beetlejuice (2018)

Cats (1981)

Chicago (1975)

The Color Purple (2005)

Dear Evan Hansen (2016)

Frozen (2017)

Grease (1972)

Hadestown (2019)

Hairspray (2002)

Hamilton (2015)

Heathers (2014)

In the Heights (2008)

Into the Woods (1987)

Legally Blonde (2007)

The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (2017)

The Lion King (1997)

Mamma Mia! (1999)

Matilda (2011)

Mean Girls (2017)

Les Misérables (1985)

Miss Saigon (1989)

Newsies (1992)

Oliver! (1960)

The Phantom of the Opera (1986)

The Prom (2016)

Ride the Cyclone (2008)

The Rocky Horror Show (1973)

Shrek (2009)

Six (2017)

Waitress (2015)

West Side Story (1957)

Wicked (2003)

The ones I haven't seen yet:

The Addams Family (2010)

Aladdin (2011)

Amélie (2017)

& Juliet (2019)

Annie (1977)

Avenue Q (2003)

A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Story (2022)

Billy Elliot (2005)

The Book of Mormon (2011)

Cabaret (1966)

La Cage aux Folles (1983)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (2002)

The Count of Monte Cristo (2016)

Dreamgirls (1981)

Evita (1978)

Falsettos (1992)

Finding Neverland (2012)

Follies (1971)

Funny Girl (1964)

Godspell (1971)

Gypsy (1959)

Jekyll & Hyde (1997)

Jesus Christ Superstar (1971)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968)

Kinky Boots (2013)

Little Shop of Horrors (1982)

Little Women (2005)

Love Never Dies (2010)

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

My Fair Lady (1956)

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (2016)

Oklahoma! (1943)

Pippin (1972)

Rent (1996)

School of Rock (2015)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Sister Act (2009)

Something Rotten! (2015)

The Sound of Music (1959)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979)

Tick, Tick... Boom! (2001)

There are probably many more musicals out there, but these are the ones I'm planning on checking out in more depth. I will update the list as this happens, or if I receive more suggestions.

[rastronomicals]

11:12 PM EDT September 29, 2024:

Tangerine Dream - "Madrigal Meridian" From the album Cyclone (February 1978)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[julio-viernes]

Domingos acelerados. Al final les vamos a tener que hacer un monumento a los del prog y el sinfo. Esto es “Bent Cold Sidewalk”, el “selector de frecuencias”  anticipado de los alemanes Tangerine Dream en su LP de 1978 “Cyclone”. En la ruedecilla de configuración del vídeo aceleren el speed a 1,25, y puede que se encienda una bombilla en su cabecita.

¡Que manía con las canciones similares que lo son! Pero este dichoso juego de los parecidos no va a ninguna parte, todo sale de todo. Es un pasatiempo entretenido y poca cosa más.

[horror-in-my-veins]

Sharks in horror movies part 2

Cyclone 1978- Tiger Shark

Dark Tide 2012- Great White

Dark Waters 2003- Great White

Deep Blood 1990- Great White

Deep Blue Sea 1999- Mako

Deep Blue Sea 2 2018- Bull

Deep Blue Sea 3 2020- Bull

Deep Fear 2023- Great White

Five Headed Shark Attack 2017- Mutant Great White

Forty Seven Meters down 2007- Great White

[bearsinpotatosacks]

Thought I'd do a post about my top gun timeline. I say mine because I'm autistic and it took me almost a year to pick up on all the implied things about when and how certain things happened.

For example, I thought that Mav would just reapply for the Naval Academy, and didn't know you could join OCS straight out of high school. When I realised that Goose meant that Mav didn’t go to the Academy (that and no Academy ring), so made Mav go to Uni. I then switched the dates back a year until I finally searched whether you could join OCS immediately after high school and you can. This was a bit of a polarising realisation, I've written a lot of fics with my timeline, so I'm just going to have 2 timelines and specify which (on AO3 I'll make a separate series for the 'canon' timeline)

Onto the timeline! Dates in bold are canon ones, italics is my fics (with links to them on AO3!)

1943- Slider's grandma flees Germany with his mum and aunt

3rd October 1959- Nicholas "Goose" Bradshaw is born

27th November 1959- Carole Bradshaw, née Edwards (yes after Anthony Edwards) is born

11th December 1960- Tom "Iceman" Kazansky is born

6th March 1960- Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is born

21st April 1960- Ronald "Slider" Kerner is born

8th March 1965- US Officially enters the Vietnam War

5th November 1965- Duke Mitchell dies

28th January 1973- US part in Vietnam War ends

1973- Goose's dad dies

1978- Goose, Mav, Carole, Slider and Iceman graduate high school. Mav goes to University in Annapolis after not getting into the Naval Academy. Carole travels in the summer and settles in Annapolis.

1979- Goose and Carole start dating, Mav and Carole move in together

1981- Carole gets pregnant

1982- Bradley Nicholas "Rooster" Bradshaw is born, Only a Dad but the Best of Men and Bradley’s First Christmas take place

1983- Goose and Carole get married

1984- Carole's dad dies, Home is Where the Heart Is, Knight in Pearly White and Perfect Fit take place

June/July 1986- Events of Top Gun happen, Goose dies, A Ghost We'll Never Get to See and Soft Musk of Nighttime take place

1997- Carole gets diagnosed with Stage 4 Terminal Cancer and dies, Heaven Feels Closer than those Tears on Your Face, Halfway to Heaven and A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing take place

2000- Mav pulls Rooster's papers, Rooster's goes to University, A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing takes place

2004- Rooster graduates University and goes to the Naval Academy

2008- Rooster graduates the Naval Academy

2010- Iceman gets diagnosed with throat cancer

2017- Events of Top Gun: Maverick take place, An Old Friend Turned New and a Procession No One Can Follow After take place

That's it, for now I guess. I may update this with more fics. I'll also create a post for my interpretation of the 'canon' timeline, with Goose and Mav meeting in flight school, Bradley being born in 1984 (something I don't really agree with but it's nothing major) and TGM taking place before June/July 2016 (because Mav says "that was almost 30 years ago" when Cyclone mentions he was a top gun instructor showing that it isn't past 2016 but tell me if that's reading too much into it)

[the-blood-of-youth]

소년가행 한글자막

소년가행 한글자막 무료보기 볼수 있습니다.

소년가행 한글자막 다운로드 링크 <

소년가행 다시 보기 1화~40화 티빙 넷플릭스 중드 한글자막 추천 합니다.

영화에서 크루즈의 미 해군 베테랑 조종사 피트 '매버릭' 미첼 대위는 젊은 조종사 팀을 이끌고 극도로 위험한 임무를 완수합니다. 그러나 이번 실험에서 MIT 연구팀은 실생활에서도 자율비행기로 운용이 가능하다는 것을 소년가행 한글자막 보여주었다.

먼저, '탑건: 매버릭'의 미션은 무엇이었나요? Mitchell 대위와 그의 팀은 승인되지 않은 우라늄 농축 공장을 파괴하는 임무를 맡고 있습니다. 그러나 그들의 목표는 바위 협곡 깊숙한 곳에 있습니다. 따라서 조종사는 제트기를 협곡 깊숙한 곳으로 비행하여 레이더로 감지할 수 없을 정도로 지면에 낮게 머물면서 공장에 충돌한 다음 암벽을 피하도록 주의하면서 협곡 밖으로 빠르게 기어올라야 합니다.

이 모든 것은 식물을 보호하기 위해 적의 마음대로 사용할 수 있는 첨단 무기에 추가됩니다.

MIT 팀은 실험에서 무엇을 했습니까? 연구원들은 기계가 땅에 충돌하지 않고 좁은 복도를 통해 시뮬레이션된 '제트'를 효과적으로 소년가행 한글자막 조종했습니다.

이것이 어떻게 달성되었습니까? 자율 항공기의 경우, 그러한 임무에 보내지면 대상을 향한 가장 직선적인 경로는 기계가 협곡 벽과 충돌을 피하거나 감지되지 않기 위해 해야 하는 것과 반대됩니다. 기존의 많은 인공지능(AI) 방법으로 해결할 수 없었던 이 충돌을 '안정화-회피' 문제라고 합니다.

이를 해결하기 위해 연구자들은 문제를 두 부���으로 나누었습니다. 안정화-회피 문제를 제약 조건 최적화 문제로 재구성한 다음 이 제약 조건 최적화 문제를 심층 강화 학습 알고리즘을 사용하여 해결했습니다.

실험 팀은 서로 다른 초기 조건에서 몇 가지 제어 실험을 수행했습니다. 마지막으로 그들은 오스카상 후보 영화에 묘사된 시나리오를 시뮬레이션한 시나리오에서 '제트기'를 날렸습니다. 그들의 컨트롤러는 제트기가 충돌하거나 실속하는 것을 방지할 수 있었습니다.

Parambrata Chattopadhyay는 최근 ZEE5 웹 시리즈 Shabash Feluda에서 Feluda의 상징적인 가상 캐릭터인 Prodosh Chandra Mitter 형사 역을 맡았습니다. 소년가행 한글자막 새로운 인터뷰에서 벵골 영화에서 주로 활동하는 배우는 개봉 이후 새로운 적응이 받은 반발에 대해 언급했습니다. (또한 읽기: Parambrata Chatterjee는 벵골 청중이 그들의 껍데기에서 나와야 한다고 말합니다: '우리에게는 문화적 짐이 있습니다')

방탄소년단의 리더 김남준이 온라인 팬 커뮤니티 위버스에 편지를 올리며 팬들과의 남다른 인연에 대해 이야기했다. 명사가 대명사가 될 때까지, 방탄이 방탄이 될 때, 아미가 아미가 될 때. 비와 바람, 그리고 사랑도 많았다. 누구도 이해할 수 없�� 세상.” Arindam Sil 감독의 Shabash Feluda는 5월 5일 ZEE5에서 개봉했습니다. Feluda의 캐릭터는 Satyajit Ray가 만들었으며, 그는 소년가행 한글자막 이야기를 바탕으로 Sonar Kella(1974)와 Joy Baba Felunath라는 두 편의 영화를 감독하기도 했습니다. (1978). 배우 수미트라 채터지(Soumitra Chatterjee)가 펠루다(Feluda) 역으로 출연했다. 방탄소년단(BTS) 멤버들이 화요일에 음악적 여정 10년을 맞았다. 전 세계 팬들이 이정표를 축하하면서 방탄소년단 멤버들은 러브레터, 미공개 영상, 게시물 등을 통해 충성스러운 방탄소년단 아미(ARMY)에 대한 특별한 소망을 나눴다. 올해는 멤버 진과 제이홉이 군 입대를 앞두고 축하 인사를 아끼고 있다. 또한 읽어보십시오 : 방탄 소년단은 10 주년 기념 Take Two를 공개하고 팬들의 지원에 경의를 표합니다.

수십 년 동안 Feluda는 Shashi Kapoor, 소년가행 한글자막 Abir Chatterjee, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Indraneil Sengupta 및 Ahmed Rubel이 연기했습니다.

피고인은 Ridanur Rehman Rakib(65)과 Jakir Kobid Hussain(42)으로 확인되었습니다. 경��� 관계자에 따르면 이미 절도죄로 처벌을 받은 두 명의 죄수가 예라와다 감옥에서 풀려났다. 그러나 이들이 푸네에 불법체류 중인 외국인이라는 이유로 푸네 특별지서에서는 이들을 방글라데시로 돌려보내기 위한 추방 절차를 시작했다. 그 동안 특별 지부는 제한 명령을 통과했고 그들은 Sinhagad Road 경찰서에 거주하라는 지시를 받았습니다. 지난 7개월 동안 그들은 그곳에서 살았습니다. 한편 특검은 방글라데시 영사관에 연락했지만 영사관의 무응답으로 추방 절차가 지연됐다.

6월 7일 그들은 경찰서에서 가까스로 탈출하여 수감자들의 보안과 감독에 대한 우려를 불러일으켰습니다.

'그래서 그들이 Rahul Gandhi의 트위터 계정을 금지했습니다… 2020년과 2021년의 항의. Dorsey의 주장이 '모두를 놀라게 하고 충격적'이라고 선언하면서 그는 "정부 기구 전체가 Twitter CEO에게 야당의 소년가행 한글자막 목소리를 억압하고 닫도록 압력을 가하고 있습니다."라고 말했습니다. Cyclone Biparjoy Live: 극도로 심한 사이클론 폭풍 'Cyclone Biparjoy'가 화요일에 매우 심각한 사이클론 폭풍으로 약화되었다고 인도 기상청(IMD)이 밝혔습니다. 기상청에 따르면 사이클론은 시속 5km의 속도로 북쪽으로 이동하고 있으며 구자라트 포르반다르에서 남서쪽으로 약 290km 떨어진 곳에 집중되어 있습니다. 목요일에는 구자라트의 사우라슈트라와 쿠치 지역과 인접한 파키스탄 해안을 횡단할 것으로 예상됩니다.

사이클론 Biparjoy가 아라비아해를 가로질러 인도와 파키스탄의 해안선을 향해 이동함에 따라 높은 해일이 뭄바이의 해안을 강타할 때 한 남자가 해안가에서 걸어 나옵니다. 1982년(위성 데이터가 사용되기 시작한 때) 이후 어떤 아라비아해 사이클론도 Biparjoy만큼 오랫동안(126시간) 소년가행 한글자막 이 강도를 유지하지 못했습니다. 그리고 그것은 더 많은 기록을 깰 것을 약속합니다. 6월 15일 구자라트와 파키스탄 해안을 횡단할 것으로 예상되는 Biparjoy는 지금까지 6월 6일과 7일 사이에 풍속이 55kmph에서 139kmph로 증가한 것과 6월 9일에서 6월 10일 사이에 두 단계의 가속을 보았습니다. 합동태풍경보센터(JTWC) 자료에 따르면 속도가 조금 떨어졌다가 시속 120km에서 195km로 높아졌다. 그 과정에서 폭풍은 6월 6일 우울증에서 6월 10일 심한 저기압 폭풍으로 소년가행 한글자막 발전했습니다.

Western Railways는 사이클론 Biparjoy로 인해 기상 조건의 영향을 받을 것으로 예상되는 지역을 통과하는 67대의 열차를 소년가행 한글자막 취소했습니다. 취소된 승객은 기존 규정에 따라 환불을 받을 수 있습니다. Indian Railways의 지역 사무소는 "Western Railway는 관할 지역의 열차 승객을 위해 다양한 소년가행 한글자막 안전 및 보안 예방 조치를 취하고 있습니다."라고 말했습니다.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 3.14 (after 1930)

1931 – Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released. 1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure. 1942 – Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead. 1943 – The Holocaust: The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed. 1945 – The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany. 1951 – Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time. 1961 – A USAF B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashes near Yuba City, California. 1964 – Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy. 1967 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. 1972 – Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashes near Kalba, United Arab Emirates while on approach to Dubai International Airport, killing 112 people. 1978 – The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon. 1979 – Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International Airport, killing 45 people. 1980 – LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team. 1982 – The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London. 1988 – In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands. 1995 – Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle. 2006 – The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt ends in failure. 2006 – Operation Bringing Home the Goods: Israeli troops raid an American-supervised Palestinian prison in Jericho to capture six Palestinian prisoners, including PFLP chief Ahmad Sa'adat. 2007 – The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal, results in the deaths of at least 14 people. 2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet. 2017 – A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes place in Tokyo, with then Crown Prince Naruhito in attendance. 2019 – Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths. 2021 – Burmese security forces kill at least 65 civilians in the Hlaingthaya massacre.

[lejournaldupeintre]

Storm-battered Mayotte braces for passage of new cyclone

Estelle Youssouffa (born 31 July 1978 in Châtenay-Malabry) is a French politician who has served as a Member of the French Parliament for Mayotte’s 1st constituency since June 2022. The French department of Mayotte is to be placed on high cyclone alert on Saturday evening, according to the Minister of Overseas Territories. Authorities fear the effects of cyclone Dikeledi whose trajectory could…

[bitter69uk]

“Like [Mario] Lanza, Maria Montez had a reputation for being impossible to handle. After a number of years in Haji-Baba type adventures, she was dropped by Universal and forced to seek work in European cheapies. While in Europe, she attempted to counter her advanced state of avoirdupois with hot saline baths. She died in one of a heart attack at the age of thirty-one.”

/ From the book Flesh and Fantasy (1978) by Penny Stallings /

Died on this day in the Parisian suburb of Suresnes, France: nostril-flaring and tempestuous Queen of Technicolour Exotica, Caribbean Cyclone and leading lady of films like White Savage (1943), Cobra Woman (1944) and Siren of Atlantis (1949), Maria Montez (née María África Gracia Vidal, 6 June 1912 – 7 September 1951). Aside from perhaps the young Yvonne De Carlo, did any woman wear a yashmak with more elan? Note: Stallings gets Montez’s age wrong in the quote above – she was 39 when she died. (Like any self-respecting diva, Montez had a “show biz age”). Montez is entombed in the Cimetière du Montparnasse. Who knows at this point if I’ll ever return to Paris, but if I do, I vow to make a religious pilgrimage to Montez’s grave. “When I see myself on the screen, I look so beautiful I want to scream with joy” Montez once famously declared. Maria Montez, you make ME scream with joy! 

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Tolerance Project extra The 8 Best Star Wars Rip offs Ranked

Part 2 Battle Beyond the Stars Battlestar Galactica and Flash Gordon 1980 and Spaceballs

Introduction

Welcome to the second part of my blog looking at 8 of the best films which RIP off Star Wars this chapter covers Battle Beyond the Stars Battlestar Galatica the original series from 1978 the 1980 film version of Flash Gordon and Spaceballs

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

Battle Beyond the Stars was produced by the famous B-movie director Roger Corman. Who died on May 11th 2024 you can read a tribute here https://variety.com/2024/film/news/roger-corman-dead-producer-independent-b-movie-1235999591/

 His rip-off follows a farming world being threatened by warlord Sador (Darth Vader) who needs body parts to salvage his own deteriorating body. He possesses a Stellar Converter that turns planets into stars unless their inhabitants comply. By proxy, volunteers (Rebels) band together to thwart the doomsday machine. The film is comically derivative and was intended to be a Magnificent Seven in space.

My Memories of Battle Beyond the Stars

Not really a Star Wars Rip off its more Magnificent Seven in Space but its its still a great film I remember seeing it on ITV network one afternoon the story didn’t really grab me but I thought the acting was great I remember thinking what is John Boy from the Waltons and Hanibal Smith from the A Team doing in Outer Space lol

For those Wondering what I am talking about ha ha Richard Thomas who played John Boy Walton in the long running series played Shad the hero of Battle Beyond the Stars. George Peppard now more well known for playing the role of Haniball Smith in the A Team played the role of Cowboy in the film.

Further Watching

To watch a trailer for Battle Beyond the Stars click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t7z_44nGio

Battlestar Galactica (1978)

Battlestar Galactica began with the television pilot "Saga of a Star World" and was released theatrically as a standalone film. A thousand-year-old war in a distant star system between humanity and a robot race known as the Cyclons. A peace treaty is reached but ends in deception after the promise of sparing the Cyclon race was broken.

They use the Battlestar Galactica to protect them from the impending robotic fleet. The film and short-lived series led to a copyright infringement lawsuit; the planet Carillon, for example, has a gambler's den similar to the Mos Eisley cantina.

My memories of Battlestar Galactica

For me the original and best version of the show Again speaking as I find the Star Wars references went over my head. I loved the series as a kid  for a number of reasons. One was the classic theme tune by Stu Phillips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzyHxYxc to listen to an interview with the composer click here : https://filmumentaries.com/2023/06/78-stu-phillips-composer-battlestar-galactica-knight-rider-etc/

The charectors of Starbuck and Apollo played by a pre A Team Dirk Benidect and Richard Hatch I also loved the space battles with the Cylons who were great baddies

Talking of the Cylons the blinking eye motif that moved across their faces would turn up  again in another Glenn Larson series for the grill in the talking car action series Knight Rider.

To learn more about Knight Rider click here (368) 10 Things You Didn't Know About Knight Rider - YouTube

I also loved the stories as well about them trying to find somewhere called planet Earth a planet for them to settle on a place to call home they would find Earth but not until the sequel series Galactica 1980 which took place 30 years after the original series .

Further Watching

To watch a trailer for Battlestar Galactica 1978 click here

To watch a documentary called WTF happened to Battlestar Galatica 1978 click here (368) WTF Happened to Battlestar Galactica? (1978) - YouTube

Flash Gordon (1980)

Flash Gordon is a space opera superhero film based on the comic strip of the titular character. Its story follows an unlikely hero who receives aid to stop a ruthless alien tyrant from destroying the Earth. George Lucas attempted to secure the rights to make his own adaptation of the space faring hero, but when denied, he made Star Wars instead. The film has since reached cult status for its campy, exaggerated costumes, set design, and special effects.

My Memories of Flash Gordon

Again this is not a Star Wars Rip Off Flash Gordon was arround in the early 30s and 40s long before Star Wars was even thought of.

I used to watch the old black and white serials with Buster Crabbe during the summer holidays you can watch a trailer for Flash Gordon conquers the universe by clicking here  

Also this article is worth a read about how the 1930s Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon seriels changed scifi https://www.tor.com/2019/08/21/the-flash-gordon-serials-of-the-1930s-changed-the-face-of-sci-fi/

 I had also seen the classic Filmation animated series The New Adventures of Flash Gordon 1979-1982 which again was shown during school holidays  and loved that  the first series more than the second.

So I was well grounded in Flash Gordon before I saw the film I first remember seeing this film as a movie première shown on the BBC during Christmas in the early 80s and I have loved it ever since.

The film is really well done acting and effects wise and Queen who I also love did an excellent soundtrack for it Flash’s theme which you can see by clicking here

  I think its a real shame that there was no sequel to follow it I would have watched it anyway

Further Watching 

To watch a trailer for the 1980 film of Flash Gordon click here

To watch a documentary called 10 things you didn’t know about Flash Gordon Click here 

To watch a retrospective review of Flash Gordon 1980 from the Oliver Harper Youtube channel click here

To watch a documentary called 10 things The Flash Gordon 1980 the version we never so click here

Spaceballs (1987)

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and Spaceballs is the funniest love letter to Star Wars in the entire galaxy. The parody created by comedian and filmmaker Mel Brooks follows mercenary Lone Starr (Han Solo), his half-man, half-dog sidekick Barf (Chewbacca), Princess Vespa (Princess Leia), and the wise, old alien Yogurt (Yoda), who teaches them the power of the Schwartz (the Force).

Together, the ragtag team stop the planet Spaceball from stealing the air from Vespa's home planet. The comedy also makes jabs at other franchises, including Alien, Planet of the Apes, and Star Trek.

Probably the best Star Wars Rip off of them all is this one George Lucas even liked it the only thing he told them not to do before giving the production team the green light was asking them not to produce any merchandise for the film

Further Watching 

To watch a trailer for Spaceballs click here

To watch a documentary called 10 things you didn’t know about Spaceballs click here

To watch a Documentary called Spaceballs 10 things the version we never saw click here

Space balls will be getting a sequel click here to find out more https://www.avclub.com/spaceballs-sequel-josh-gad-mel-brooks-1851548890

To find out more about the planned Spaceballs sequel click here https://people.com/everything-we-know-so-far-about-spaceballs-2-8674590

Notes

Thanks to Minty's comedic arts for his documentaries on Flash Gordon 1980 and Spaceballs and Oilver Harper youtube channel for his Retrospective video on Flash Gordon 1980 You tube for the Viarous film trailers and google images for the pictures