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]
When my wife and I were dating, she asked me if I would watch Pride and Prejudice with her. I figured I owed her, since she previously watched the original Star Wars trilogy with me, so one night we sat down in front of the TV, popped Tape 1 of P&P into the VCR, and […]
While some werewolf movies act like they have the authority to summon a full moon at their whim, The Wolfman actually allows such phenomena to happen at their natural time, bothering to fill the weeks in between with plausible plot developments.
If the body count of The Wolfman doesn’t break 100, it’s got to be close, especially if you count each of the pieces most of the bodies wind up in. Think When Animals Attack on steroids. Then again, I doubt lupine predation was ever a tidy affair.
Berg makes the action nasty enough that you wonder if this is a sports movie or the teen version of Braveheart. If you enjoy watching young men get their noses smashed and fingers broken, this is the movie for you.
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.