Do you remember the "Flash Gordon" comic? It dates back to 1934 but I had never heard of them until the 1980 release of the Flash Gordon movie featuring Sam Jones and a Queen soundtrack, one of the guys I work with has a movie poster (in Thai) of the movie on his wall and once I saw it I had to see it again.
About a month ago I started looking around on the Internet to see if I could buy a copy but its apparently out of print and people wanted as much as $100 for it and I just couldn’t see doing that.
Next step was to see if I could rent it, Netflix did not have it, neither did Blockbuster online; with those options eliminated moved on to the local Hollywood and Blockbuster stores still a no-go; not feeling defeated yet I called no less than 8 other rental stores and on that last call (I was not going to try any more I swear...) I found a store about 20 minutes away who had a single copy!
Well my wife and I rushed home and watched the movie, just as cheesy (which is a positive trait in my book) as ever!
A little more searching on the web indicates that there will be a re-release of this cult classic later this year (08/2007) I can’t find any place to put my order in but once I do I will definatley place a order J