just watched Howard the Duck for the first time!

[tigereye]

How I missed it in the 80s, I have no idea. I suppose I was too busy watching Plan 9 and Residents videos.

It was beyond description - gloriously bad with unimaginable dialogue. I was stunned to read that it cost $39 million.


Seemed like a great film to watch at 3 am after way too many beers.


:beer:

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. the bad guy freaked me out so bad when i was little

:scared:

[tigereye]

4. yeah, I 'm not sure it was a little kid's movie - the monsters were pretty freaky

my son was non-plussed, but enjoyed the explosions like the tween that he is...


It was quite over the top!

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Has the pain gone away yet?

And it sounds like you spent the 80s doing the right thing.

[tigereye]

3. I was astonished!

It was just :wow:

I have to say we were howling quite a bit, mostly in amazement. I kept wondering what the writers were smoking!

[fizzgig]

5. i love that movie

i don't care if people make fun of me, it is a gloriously bad masterpiece

[tigereye]

6. I suppose one could make some kind of game out of it -

drinking when the dialogue reaches yet another low.

Seems like it should have been MST 3000 fodder....

[yellowdogintexas]

9. It is a family favorite at our house, I won't make fun of you,promise

LOL my daughter "Initiates" new friends my making them view certain films.

Howard The Duck is one of those films

others include:

Barbarella
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Great Race
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Court Jester
To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything,Love Julie Newmar
Victor, Victoria
Undercover Blues


daughter: "What! You Mean You Haven't Seen THIS?!!!!" Well, you just have to watch it, that's it.

[Blue-Jay]

7. You JUST watched it at 3 am? Are you in Iceland for the weekend?

:P

[tigereye]

8. no, it would be a great film to watch drunkenly at 3am

back when I did things like that.


Verb tenses just don't parse well over the internet. ;) Yeah, I jetted to Iceland, BJ.

[Critters2]

10. It is stunningly bad. Deeply, magnificently bad.

I'm not sure there's enough beer in the universe.

[terrya]

11. It's uniquely, entertainingly bad.

It's fun to watch Tim Robbins, of all people, in that movie.

I don't dislike "Howard the Duck" at all. It's a lot of fun, actually. :-)

[bbernardini]

12. Ah, but the SOUNDTRACK!

FIVE songs by Thomas Dolby, featuring appearances by Joe Walsh, Stevie Wonder and George Clinton.

[Connonym]

13. I LOVE that movie!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

14. They stole the tagline on the movie poster!!!

They couldn't even think up an original tagline on the poster.


"Trapped in a world he never made."


That line was originally written by James T. Farrell, in the series of books about a young man growing up in Chicago called Studs Lonigan, published in 1935. A TV miniseries was produced in 1979, which I saw.