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At last, my life is complete.

This goes beyond guilty pleasure. Flash Gordon is perhaps my favortist film ever. Not the best, by any means. But my favoritist.

By rough estimations, I have seen this movie more times than I have seen any other movie...at least 35 times completely through, probably more. Nah, probably more like 40.

For reasons lost to the mists of time, this movie became the absolute favorite of the Portage Northern High School Debate team (man, my nerd flags are flying high today). We turned it into our personal Rocky Horror Picture Show. We learned it so well we would jump up in the theater and shout out the lines along with the cast: "No, not the bore-worms!!" Note: this behavior resulted in our being asked to leave the theater more than once as we were "scaring" the normal patrons.

Then, when the movie came out on HBO, well, I tested out how many times a movie taped off cable could be watched before it faded/broke (not to mention giving a great shakedown to my parents' new-fangled VCR).

And now it's out on a "special edition" DVD. And I have it. And I'm gonna see how high I can run my numbers of viewings up to.

Join me...go out and rent it--hell, buy it--and join Sam Jones, Melody Anderson, Ornella Muti, Max Von Sydow, Timothy Dalton, Brian Blessed and Topol, and wallow in the camp happiness.