Never understood the hate..
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manbok21 — 11 years ago(December 30, 2014 03:51 PM)
Thanks man, I watched the movie when I was 12 or something and loved it. It was a bit scary and weird, but somehow rather interesting and you felt relieved once the evil alien has been beaten.
It's a rather unique film, that might not be the most comfortable for ppl to watch. But it's far from bad. I reckon it also depends on your age and at what century you watched it.
If I watched it again now, I would probably see it different as adult and not like it as much with its nowadays outdated effects. -
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Dark_Phoenix89 — 11 years ago(January 16, 2015 11:54 AM)
Me neither. It's a fun, entertaining and cheesy 80's film, that manages to have a little bit of creep factor (due to the Overlords subplot), and most of the lines delivered by Howard are comedic gold. For a long time, I thought I was alone in liking this film, but then came on here and saw others did as well, so thankfully I wasn't alone. I personally rate it an 8/10
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trainedwreck — 10 years ago(May 25, 2015 01:14 AM)
Liking something bad in some hipsterish way, fine.
Not understanding why most people think this is awful makes you need a helmet to check the mail.
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TMC-4 — 10 years ago(November 12, 2015 01:56 PM)
http://lebeauleblog.com/2015/11/12/golden-raspberry-awards-1986/4/
George Lucas purchased the rights to the character because he liked the hard-edged satire of Steve Gerbers comic book. He then recruited his old chums Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz to write the script. Together, the three of them then proceeded to remove all the hard edges from Gerbers creation. The Howard of the movie was a lot closer to Donald Duck than the character he was based on.
Worse still, Howard the Duck makes the mistake of thinking that special effects are all that matters. Instead of focusing on characters and satire, the movie gets bogged down in some incomprehensible plot about a Dark Overlord from another dimension. In writing the script, Huyck and Katz completely lost the thread of what the comic book was about. -
joekohl1981 — 10 years ago(January 15, 2016 11:22 AM)
As a kid from the 80s, I felt this was one fun little flick. I liked it. It's funny, has a cool soundtrack, Lea Thompson is cute as hell, and Howard is a really likable character. People in this generation don't like stuff that isn't C.G. I have yet to have really have my socks blown off by the stuff today. It's so lazy. Yeah, just draw something up on a computer, and boom! I'm far more impressed by the plant in Little Shop of Horrors, the warewolf transformation in American Warewolf in London, and yes, even the Dark Overlord.
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lukejbarnett2002 — 10 years ago(March 11, 2016 07:12 PM)
exactly, it is random hate because it makes no sense and is ill conceived and incorrect and wrong. it's random hate because they randomly picked this movie to hate and throw all kinds of bad criticism against it.
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lukejbarnett2002 — 10 years ago(March 11, 2016 07:14 PM)
I know what it is, it's a myth, or an urban legend, this movie being a terrible, horrible movie. an urban legend is some story that by being told many times over it gets thought of as the truth and is believed when it's actually not true. so, the urban legend is this film is one of the worst films ever made.
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nicholasmonks — 9 years ago(February 05, 2017 12:02 AM)
I know people that worship Avatar but hate this movie. I definitely think "Howard" is the better movie by a long shot. These are the same people that always ask me why I can't just "enjoy a movie as entertainment."
I think Howard has more in common with a John Waters film than the Godfather, but for some reason people were expecting something transcendent rather than the absurd, bizarre, camp comic book comedy adventure it turned out to be.
Give me a marathon of this, Big Trouble in Little China and Ishtar, and I've got a well rounded night of laughing. -
Woodyanders — 8 years ago(March 07, 2018 09:54 PM)
Agreed. This film does go overboard in a distinctly 80's outrageous excess over-the-top way that's quite entertaining; I really dug how this film just gleefully runs with the absurd premise.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything. -