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.
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Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) enters the town of Absolution in 1873 as a man with no name. In fact, he’s a man without an identity. He doesn’t know his own ‘who,’ ‘where,’ or why. What he does know is that he can speak English, he’s wounded, he can easily disarm and maim a group of [...]
I sat through Neil LaBute’s attempt at reincarnating the British farce “Death at a Funeral” (which I hadn’t seen prior), and I can only imagine that fans of the original film are either outraged or easy to dismiss the Americanized version that has been tailored to fit the Tyler Perry crowd. Overall, I have little [...]
Mike Chadway seems to be the writers’ attempt to incorporate the male perspective on relationships. Mike is a tad likable for a minute here and there just because he’s not ashamed of being a guy. But in the end, what his lines amount to is a restatement of the same things that bitter, sexually frustrated women say about men. In other words, Mike has only found a more phallocentric way of saying “men are pigs.”
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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.