Pack Mentality
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kolchak1986 — 14 years ago(June 15, 2011 04:20 PM)
It doesn't have to fit into a category, but it should at least have a consistent tone. And by "for kids or adults", I mean the humor. It's dirty and then very childishly goofy. It's like the Garbage Pail Kids with some sex jokes thrown into it. I'm not a prude, but these jokes should at least serve some purpose, and that purpose would be to make me laugh, but they were pretty lame. It's like Transformers 2, trying to have the widest appeal possible and as a result you get a sucky movie.
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Gonzo_Knight — 14 years ago(January 16, 2012 02:45 PM)
I think you are way too hard on "Batman and Robin" and I do think it knows what it wants to be and pulls it of all right. The movie has it's share of shortcomings but it's not nearly as bad as you make it sound to be.
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locusts_of_death — 14 years ago(September 24, 2011 04:11 PM)
Herd mentality. You mean herd mentality.
Pack = wolves. Dominant.
Herd = sheep. Submissive.
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sam-wise — 13 years ago(August 12, 2012 11:36 AM)
True. This movie is, if nothing else, a pure artifact of 80s pop culture. If you look back on that period with fondness, you might enjoy this movie. If not, it might seem like it's trying WAY to hard to be hip by 80s standards, and not succeeding very well. I was too old for this back then, so it doesn't really work for me.
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Squeele — 13 years ago(February 14, 2013 05:27 AM)
"Howard the Duck" was OK but not that funny, and in hindsight was a bit of a cop out when compared to the source material. It wasn't meant to be for kids, but it works somehow as a kids' flick, regardless.
Which is why I don't understand the comparison with Batman & Robin. That one is a failure on every level. Even as a kid back in '97 I felt this was all kinds of wrong, on so many levels. The writing in Howard the Duck was half-decent, in B&R it was abysmal. -
sommert-507-32566 — 13 years ago(April 02, 2013 09:44 PM)
It's somewhat comparative. There are many cheap low budget pieces of crap that are worse, but few big budget pieces of crap that are worse. There are, though (Adventures of Pluto Nash, anyone)?
I was mildly entertained by it, but it was a bomb by any standard. -
lazarillo — 10 years ago(February 11, 2016 08:58 PM)
I remember the 70's comic book when I was a kid. It went over my head at the time, but I read it again when I was an older teenager and I really loved it. Then I saw the movie. . .If this is pack mentality, then I'm leading the pack because I hated George Lucas ever since for making it.
The problem is "Howard the Duck" is NOT for kids. Lucas bleeped it up enough that fans of the comic book hated it, but it failed at the box office because he couldn't sell the source material to the family audience in the multiplexes, who believe it or not, were even dumber then than they are now. It isn't Donald Duck. It isn't Daffy Duck. People were just left blinking and dumbfounded.
It needs to be done more like "Ghost World" or "American Splendor". It's not a superhero movie and it's sure not a Lucas/Speilberg kid's movie. The other "haters", for instance, often mention being creeped out by the Howard-Lea Tmompson "romance" scene. Well, I actually wish Howard would have bleeped Lea, not because it would be in the spirit of the comic, but because it would have drastically improved this saccharine, ill-conceived attempt at a kiddie movie.
But it is not the WORST movie ever made, you're right about that.
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lukejbarnett2002 — 10 years ago(March 11, 2016 07:31 PM)
luckily this pack mentality didn't contaminate imdb as imdb put it at 4.5 out of 10 which isn't near as bad as most reviews and people have said about this film. which is unbelievable seeing as how imdb regularly and routinely gives way, way too low ratings on classic or great films or good films that deserve way, way higher ratings.