Howard the Duck: The Movie Marvel (and George Lucas) Would Like to Forget
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- Опубликовано: 24 окт 2024
- Howard the Duck was one of the biggest financial flops of the 1980s. It did so poorly that the two heads of the studio allegedly got into a fistfight over who greenlit it. But what does that have to do with Marvel? Let us explain.
Before there was an entire money-making studio dedicated to pumping out movies and tv shows based on the vast and ever-expanding catalogue of Marvel Comics characters- we were seeing the likes of Sam Raimi making the Sony Spider-Man trilogy and Johnathan Hensleigh delivering an interesting take on The Punisher. Even before that, we had the iconic Blade movies and some solid X-Men fare- all movies that we’ve covered in previous episodes of the show... Or have we?
See, it’s easy to do a Marvel series that praises the Raimi trilogy, and roasts the goofiness of the Tim Story Fantastic Four films- but, today is going to be one hell of a throwback for any Marvel fan who grew up in the 1980’s. Before the dawn of mutants and the day-walking vampire hunters, there was a much different Marvel hero blasting their way into the zeitgeist and giving us what many consider to be the true beginning of Marvel Cinema... I guess, not including the 70’s Japanese Spider-Man film or the small screen Captain America joint.
So, let’s wind the clocks back to 1986 and revisit the first theatrically released film based on a Marvel character. It's a story about belonging, fulfilling your purpose against all odds, and a women’s biker gang called Satan’s Sluts. But, I’m getting ahead of myself. I guess I’ll just start by saying... In the beginning, there was Howard the Duck!
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I love Howard the Duck :)
Is it a Blockbuster... NO.
Is it a fun, campy, crazy sci-fi parody, a fast-paced romp and a GREAT popcorn movie.
Howard the Duck was always a silly laugh. Even in the comics. This movie was thoroughly entertaining.
It was too long to be entertaining.. if it was cut 30 mins from near the end.. it would’ve been perfect.
Young me loved it.. until it started to draaaaaaaaggg..
As cheesy as Howard The Duck was, i loved it!!
Nope not at all enjoyable it stone is all over the place
@@captainjakemerica4579: I consider that to be a good thing. We need more movies with differing tones throughout. I'd much rather that than the single tone we get from most modern marvel movies. Or in the case of some (Cpt Marvel for example) , no tone at all..
@@javiercales5019 I liked it in part because it was so cheesy. 😉
When I hear hate for this film, it always baffles me. It's a great laugh. And as an aged teen when it came out, the presence of Lea Thompson may also have had a hand in my fond memories for this film.
"have a hand"
Pun intended?😏
Same! Although I was a little younger, I can agree with all of this.
@@rockoorbe2002 I honestly couldn't say I understand your meaning . . . 😇ha ha
Totally influenced my attitude to the movie. 😁
Lea Thompson is the peck of hotness in this movie. At one part when you see her getting dragged by Dr. Jennings as a monster and she kicking her feet you can see extra if you know what I mean. I'm so surprise that the film makers didn't take that out or edit so you wont see her vagina. No joke you can see it better on blue ray HDdvd or 4Kdvd. For anyone who had a crash on Lea Thomson as a teen. Your welcome lol. More of a reason to go back ;)
This movie is glorious A1 grade schlock. Absolutely hilarious film and even more so when you realize "competent" people were actually involved in making this.
Howard the Duck, Short Circuit and Young Sherlock Holmes are my favourite 80's movies.
Lea Thompson never gets the best luck with love interests. She falls for her future son, and then a duck!
And her husband Nicolas Cage cheats on her in that rapture movie
What's always fascinated me is that they originally had a very different script; then "Ghostbusters" became a massive hit. And the studio suddenly began to give notes. Note the similarities; a creature from another dimension possesses a character; scientist characters...
Never read the comics, but loved the movie as a kid, I still enjoy watching it as an adult. It's one of my guilty pleasure movies.
Howard the Duck comics are really great in my opinion. I love the Howard the Duck film too.
I've never understood what the problem is with Howard the duck , it's a fantastic film with so much imaginative fun stuff going on. Solid SFX great cast script and good time all round. I've always enjoyed it and went out of my way to track down a ex rental copy in the 90s due to it just disappearing in the uk
I still remember the day I saw it as a kid. It was a double rental along with Golden child good times
Lot of people for some reason didn't give it a proper chance. Howard the Duck is a really great classic, I agree with you :)
Love this film. Such a laugh 🤠
I was born in 1982, and it’s difficult to quantify how many times I watched and rewatched this film growing up. I’ve always been kind of amazed how much it’s universally hated, as I found it so endlessly entertaining. However I recognize that I was watching it through a different set of eyes. Would really like to rewatch at some point, as I still think it will hold nostalgia and entertainment value for me.
86 baby here. This movie is part of my soul. It showed me what an ultralight is. To this day, when I take my plane out of the hangar, I double check my fuel lines!!!
Howard the Duck 1986 is a better movie than most recent movies from Marvel.
I own an original copy of the first time Howard The Duck was introduced in Spider-Man. Naturally, when the movie came out I HAD to see it. I was a huge fan of it then. I'm still a huge fan of it today! I was so glad when they brought the character back, at least in cameos into the GOTG films. But THIS film is so over the top fantastic.
When you asked who this movie was intended for? ME!
Here in the UK it was released as Howard, A New Breed of Hero and the posters to promote it only had a small silhouette of Howard from the back. You would never have known it was about a duck!
I was 10 when I first saw it. We rented it from a video store. I loved it. It always takes me back to a simpler time in my life.
This movie and Little Shop of Horror were my jam as a kid.
I don't remember this movie much, but now I feel like watching it again.
Fun fact about Howard the Duck; Jeffrey Jones didn't require any makeup. They just asked him to reveal his true form.
Cult classics should be recognized with and that MOVIE is one of them.
Long lived the 1980's.
I wouldn’t say this was Tim Robbins’ *first* major role. Fraternity Vacation came out a year before Howard the Duck.
I had this recorded on VHS from HBO. This was one of my favorite "anytime" flicks, I lost count of how many times I've watched it.
Marvel might want people to forget about it BUT Howard the Duck (‘86) exists in the MCU all thanks to the multiverse. I would love for them to reference this and other gems like the ‘90 Cap America flick with Cap just stealing peoples cars and of course Fantastic 4 ‘94.
I guess the best way to do this is a show about Deadpool joining the TVA.
Look, Howard the Duck may not be a good movie, but its a GREAT movie.
The 80's were the best time to be a teen!
I love Howard the Duck, he is the best Duck that has been on the screen, large or small!
I applaud you, JoBlo, for an honest take on Howard the Duck. I'm sure it would have been easy to blast all the goofiness, story, and weird sexual interplay between Beverly and Howard. There's some type of honesty and innocence to a lot of the mid-80s movies that simply cannot be discounted, and certainly not recreated today.
Howard the Duck remains one of my all-time favorite movies. I watched this endlessly as a kid growing up in the 80s, and it (along with SpaceCamp 😂) solidified my crush on Lea Thompson. Everything about this film is fantastic - the humor, the music, the diner scene! 🤣🤣🤣 I friggin’ love it!
I loved this movie as an early teen
Still love it today
Where the "Magic Happens" 🙈
I'm a big fan of this movie. I have some great memories watching this as a kid and now I also have great memories watching it with my daughter. She loved it too of course. Great fun movie with some great dark and cheesy comedy
I wish i could forget seeing it also 😳😆🤦♂️
This was an awakening...seeing duck boobies as a lad...welll😅
I loved this movie as a kid. Watched it a few years back and I still get a kick out of it. Catching all the adult humor now just cracks me up.
I fekkin love this move and love the 4K release. And since Howard is canon, this movie beats Iron Man as the true first MCU movie! LOL :D
What a great movie. Lea Thompson, Tim Robbins and Jeffrey Jones all do a great job. Still Howard is just hilarious! And awesome
I have always loved this film. It actually holds up pretty well, especially the design of the Dark Overlord.
I still own the VHS, but re-purchased on DVD because it started having issues. Regardless, it is one of those silly things I still treasure.
I love this movie, every few years I rewach it with pleasure
Howard the Duck: the isekai protagonist the world wasn't ready for
1986 - Tim Robbins was in Top Gun with a speaking role.
I didn't even know this movie was not liked back then lol my brother and I always rented this movie as kids and thought it was hilarious. Still do!
It's a great film
Happy birthday ducky 50 years strong
I love this movie. It's one of my weird favorites. I couldn't explain why but I always have fun with this movie
Still love this movie. This, Master’s of the Universe and Spawn are movies I’ll defend til the death
This is one of my favorite 80s movies. Along with the other 80s Marvel film, The Punisher with Dolph Lundgren. I grew up in that decade and there was fun on the big screen. I got to see this in theaters when it came out.
We have an great fondness for this movie as we got married in Manhattan, splurged on a few days at the Waldorf Astoria, and went to see Howard the Duck! It was somehow the perfect movie…just ducky! 🤪
I gotta admit; I still think there are some things that just don't work in this movie, but I'm glad somebody else FINALLY noticed how funny this one actually is! I totally agree that this one is truly underrated! XD =)
Personally, l always have and always will love this film, despite or because of its faults.
Therefore, it is great to see it get some more love from JoBlo.
And no film starring the very lovely Lea Thompson at her very peak should ever be considered bad.
Sometimes a fun, funny and undemanding film is just what is needed.
This is that film.
PS: the IMDB rating of just 4.7 for this film is nothing less than SCANDALOUS.
I have seen far far worse than HTD!
I really don't know what everyone's problem with this movie is. I loved it as a child and i love it today. Okay it's a guilty pleasure, but still... i love it! AND: Can we talk about John Barry's amazing score?!?
I remember watching this movie at the cinema, I was 11 back then. And I loved it, I thought it was hilarious, fun and had great VFX.
A great movie that deserved a sequel...!
Watched the movie countless times on VHS as a child. I think it still holds up... kinda... ;-)
I remember this movie. HBO showed it a millions times a day. How could you NOT watch it.
I loved this film when I was a kid in the late 80s. I haven't thought about it in a very long time
To those of us who were really looking forward to its release back in the day, it was a major disappointment. I attended an advance exhibitors' screening, and we ended up not booking it at our theatre after seeing it. Good thing, too, because it bombed.
Yeah, I too am not feeling the nostalgia here. This was one of the movies I got my brother to watch with me - on VCR, because it was BAD. We laughed at how bad it was.
This version of Howard and GOTG's Rocket getting together for some smart ass shenanigans would be great 😃!
Howard the Duck rocks, and so does the soundtrack! Lea Thompson is a a great singer and she was sure a cutie back then. It deserves its cult stasis.
If this film had not had a big budget would anyone be still talking about this film
Tim Robbins first ever major role in a movie was Fraternity Vacation from 1985 which was released in theaters, but bombed.
Thanks for showing Howard some love. This movie unfairly gets crapped on but it's actually really good and entertaining. I'm proud to say i own it and i love it!
Never have read the comics, but I just love this movie
I love the film too. But if you really enjoy the film, I do recommend checking out the comics. Howard the Duck comics are really great. After I became a huge fan of the Howard the Duck film(I still am of course), I'm curious what the comics offer, and I really enjoy them as well. If you want to see more adventures of Howard and Beverly after enjoying this film, the comics are the way to go.
As a kid of the 80s I was sooo not ready for the ending.
I enjoyed this movie when I was younger and it ran non-stop on cable TV. Looking at it again later, it was a bit tougher to get behind. My main problem with it feels like it can't decide if it wants to be an edgy sci-fi comedy or a kids film about a duck - one minute giving us dark, disturbing, or sexual moments, and the next giving us 1970s Scooby Doo-clone-grade dad joke dialogue and comedy.
Sounds almost Shakespearean in the way it caters to vastly different audiences at once.
I was a teenager when I saw it in the 80's, I honestly only remember Lea being in this movie.
Great to see a positive review of this film. It was a tongue-in-cheek as the comics and the cast was awesome.
Cant forget the ending song. I find myself randomly singing it over the years. Then he does a marty mcfly guitar solo
'That's a duck, man. That's a DUCK!!!'
Love that movie. Watched it with my cousins at their house rented from Blockbuster, so much memories.
5:23 This scene definitely has a Clockwork Orange vibe.
This movie is Family Guy before there was a Family Guy.😂
I adore this film. Grew up watching it. Revisited as an adult knowing how "bad" and hated it was.....and I still thoroughly enjoy it. It's just dumb fun. And hey, Lea Thompson looks banging and she has a great voice.
Still one of my all time favorites 😂😂❤❤❤❤
I don’t know what screwed me up more.. this movie as a kid or Zefrank’s “True Facts about the Duck” as an adult.
I've always had a soft spot for Howard the Duck, and I highly recommend checking out Chip Zdarsky"s brief run on the character that goes so far as to make this movie canon! 🦆
I love this movie. For the time it was amazing. Awesome music scores too.
Always fun watching it as a kid 👍
When I say 🤬 this big head mallard ruined my adolescence.....
Imagine being called Doward The Duck
I'm going to give this movie (and others in the bad movie category like Showgirls, Waterworld and Battlefield Earth) some praise. Now on a level they're still bad movies and there's a reason why they flopped on screen. This one in particular was pretty bizarre what with it featuring anthropomorphic ducks showing boobs and Howard and a scantily clad Lea Thompson almost doing what i can describe as borderline bestiality.
And yet just the fact that it took risks makes me have respect for. Particularly if you compare it to modern movies where they either extend franchises thin (Expendables), burned out complete genres like the comic hero genre, or just do remakes of classic movies with political messages thrown in. In other words, modern movies won't take a leap into the unknown and would stick to the same tired formulas. And it's still a bad movie but its got a certain charm and wackiness to it that actually makes it likeable.
That being said, i really hope they never remake it. I fear they're going to have actual furries in it
I always liked waterworld I'm not saying it's a great movie but I never understood why it got panned as hard as it did and the postman is a pretty cool post apocalyptic movie that's worth a watch
Howard was featured in GotG for a few minutes.
This movie should only be enjoyed ironically. Its IMDB rating is well deserved.
I had it on VHS and always loved it !!
There was also a Dr. Strange TV Movie in 1978, starring Peter Hooten as Dr. Strange and Clyde Kusatsu as Wong.
I loved this as a kid, it and the Dolph Lundgren Punisher film are the first Marvel films I ever saw.
Its crazy that the guy who played the first ever captain america is JD Salinger's son.
I personally don’t care what anyone else says; I _LIKE_ this flick (😁)! It’s an genuinely entertaining slice of the 80s (😊).
HOWARD THE DUCK deserves a remake!
I saw this film when i was 8 years old or so. Before i was aware of Marvel or DC. I knew Spider-man, Superman, Batman etc etc. But it was the same for me as Heman or Mighty Mouse or Super Ted. Just fun cartoons. I saw Howard the Duck and did not know that it was a commic book character. I just liked the film and i stil do.
I loved this movie growing up. Lol
I love this movie. Decent practical effects and I live all the duck puns. Duck nips are weird.....I still love it. I proudly own on 4k.
Anything with Lea Thompson is an A+ from me.
In the same year Tim played backseater in planes to Tom Cruse and Howard
Best movie ever man!!
this movie is still great, fight me!
I always thought teh Evil Overlord design was really cool.
I was born in 1976.
As a kid it didn't catch me.
I like it since i am 30+ ❤
I always liked this movie . I never could understand the hate . It also has the killer electric keyboard sounds of the one and only Thomas Dolby . ( yes I’m a fan ) Dolby’s first single “Europa and the pirate twins “ so much better than his big hit “ she blinded me with science” .
"If Ya Can't Stand TheHeat...
*GET OUTTA TheKITCHEN!"*
😜
I loved the movie when i was a kid good old days.
Lea Thompson, an animal and her son; it's a wonder any kid grew up normal in the 80s.
Proud owned of this flick in Laserdisc
As far as I know this movie is another universe in the Marvel Multiverse and this Howard is another variant of Howard from the MCU
As a kid I watched this numerous times.
Ah, so glad more and more people are around to Howard the Duck. Is it some Oscar worthy film that will change your life? No. Is it a fun, funny, actiony romp that has very odd humor and even more oddly odd sexual innuendo for supposedly a kid friendly movie? Yup. The music is awesome. The Dark Overlord of the Universe is awesome (minus the actor playing him being a pedo basically, sigh) and Lea Thompson seals it.