https://vo.rs/tags/queen/Latest from the Queen desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/flash-gordon-1980-camp-queen-and-the-best-bad-good-film/<p><em>Flash Gordon</em> (1980) should be a catastrophe. It has a leading man whose voice was dubbed by another actor because his own delivery did not work. It has dialogue that lands with a clang, a plot assembled from 1930s comic-strip cliffhangers, and a tone that veers from high-camp winking to total sincerity within a single scene. By every conventional measure of quality it fails, and it was treated as a flop and a joke by plenty of people at the time. And yet it is one of the most purely joyful films ever made, a delirious explosion of colour and sound that has outlasted a hundred more respectable pictures, because it commits so completely to its own absurdity that the absurdity becomes a kind of grandeur.</p>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000