Movie and TV Reviews.
Fresh off of the Academy Awards, I thought I would go in the opposite direction for a little bit and review one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time, the 1986 George Lucas travesty Howard the Duck.
Rating:[Rating:0.5/5]
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To his credit, Lucas didn’t invented the idea for Howard the Duck. It was a Marvel comic from the ’70s…and something of an acclaimed one at that. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_the_Duck
Yeah, but source material aside it’s still an awful movie. While the comic may have been brilliant social satire, the movie was anything but.
Wow! Almost forgot about this movie. Completely agree, terrible movie, lol.