Funny fact: in a recent comic Howard is hired by Lea Thompson to investigate his own abductions. It turns out that an interdimensional villain has been kidnapping her to made movies based on Howard's life without his permission.
So we have the Garbage Pail Kid version of Donald Duck, Marty McFly's mother and the Principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, plus the main protagonist of the Shawshank Redemption. Odd casting choices.
@Oriental Studios It would be really interesting if the two of them teamed up in the next Deadpool movie because then they'd spent most of the movie debating who had a worse first movie.
The Howard the Duck comic books didn't rely duck puns much either. And even when the Howard the Duck comics put out duck puns, it's done in a clever and funny fashion. Howard the Duck comic books actually has great humor. Waayyyy better than the humor in this film.
"This movie could have looked so much better. That wouldn't have fixed the crappy writing but you know at least it would have been good looking crap I guess." Damn that is freakin priceless
How did this get a blu ray release while I’m still waiting for Pretty in Pink, True Lies, The Abyss, Ordinary People, Bringing Out The Dead, What About Bob, and Panic Room to get the hi def treatment?!
FunFact: In 1986, A Movie called Deadly Friend came out by Wes Craven. That film has a ZERO Percent on Rotten Tomatoes and Also Bombed AND WASN’T NOMINATED FOR WORST PICTURE. Not enough? Two other “nominees”, Cobra and Shanghai Suprise had RT ratings of 13%!
Deadly Friend is a guilty pleasure of mine..........................it was pretty cheesy, but it was still entertaining and watchable! (And it also began my crush on Kristi Swanson).
That film was unfortunately reshot following the brain operation scene due to poor test audiences which were mostly fans of Wes Craven’s horror movies and demanded nudity, nightmare scenes, blood and gore.
Sorry Sean, I thought the duck suit was absolutely stellar. They got a ton of really small, subtle facial movements and expressions out of that thing. In my opinion, it was as equally impressive as the Ninja Turtles in their first film. major props to the animatronics team who worked on it.
You do realise that the theme substitute played at 5:40 is entitled "Entry of the Gladiators"? Yes, it has carnival connections, but the title seems very much at odds with the scene and the point being made.
It weirded me out when I recognized the exhibit hallway with all the taxidermied animals in the movie was actually the California Academy of Science. I’d been in that very hallway on some school field trips and no one at the CAS ever mentioned some scenes from Howard the Duck were filmed there, not that I think CAS staff would actually want to tell visitors lol.
Its stupidity is the reason I really enjoy this movie. Ok, Nostalgia is definitely another factor as well. But this is one of my true guilty pleasures. Plus I really loved the music.
The major problem with Howard The Duck came from it's inability to "pick a direction and stick with it". It was all over the place thematically, if they kept the story focusing on Howard and Beverly, then 1/2 way through add in that the government were trying to create a weapon, but it turned out to be a teleporter instead. Then have the "Bad Guy" be the Human in charge of the weapons project wanting to capture Howard to keep his project secret. Adding an Evil alien villain so far into the film's running time was just dumb. Establish the villain early on, going back to them trying to find Howard over the course of the movie and THEN in the third act have them meet. Plus don't have the cross species implied sexual relationship, that was just creepy. Have them care for each other, even love each other, but in a Platonic way.
It gets worse. The comics, or so I've heard, used the premise as a vehicle for social commentary. The writers of this film were like "it's a talking duck, how existential could it be?". They just didn't care! Does this movie look better or worse now, after the divisive reception to the sequel trilogy has restored Lucas's reputation in some circles and how this film no longer has the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score of any Marvel movie, losing out to Fant4stic?
I agree. It would have been easy to stick to the comic book and create one big adventure. You have a wisecracking Howard and in-jokes about the subject matter, which seems popular now. It’s easy and yet they didn’t do it.
@@visionaryventures12 And then George Lucas's next movie after this was Willow, which wasn't awful per se, but seems like a curious choice to follow Howard the Duck with. I know a lot of people like that movie. I wouldn't say I did, but it was worth a watch. What do you think of that movie?
@Isaac Baranoff Also both are sentient mammals, as I just saw a duck like creature with human boobs taking a bubble bath in what appears to be a modern bathroom... I actually own this movie but I'm kinda afraid to watch it. Not that I'm squeamish or prude but it just looks so bonkers I don't know if I can take it!
Has he not already done Leonard Part 6? Mind you, an hour-long episode displaying all the reasons Bill Cosby being a serial rapist should surprise nobody would conflict with the idea behind this channel... maybe I should get on that one.
I saw this at a very young age so it grew on me so a few things stood out: -Introduced the concept of sarcasm. -Lea Thompson had a very nice ass. -Made me wish I, too, could blow up traffic with Dark Overlord powers.
I can't believe I was allowed to watch this when I was a kid... The '80s truly were a different time! Also, this movie traumatized teeny-tiny-child-me so much that any time I see Jeffrey Jones in a movie, he is simply "The Bad Guy From Howard The Duck". I didn't even know his name until watching your review.
1:31 Sure, this probably set back the idea of adapting Marvel movies for years, but around this period, you had Supergirl, this, and Superman IV. Most studios likely lost whatever enthusiasm for comic book movies as viable endeavors. It was a minor miracle that Batman got made just a few years later.
5:09 John Barry produced beautiful scores for a lot of stinkers ("Raise the Titanic" immediately comes to mind), but for "Howard the Duck" I think they just handed him some notes instead of making him watch the movie. "Okay, for this piece we want something that evokes 'knight in shining armor' with a run of two minutes eight seconds, then..." "Why don't I just watch the scene and make my own no--" "NO!!! OH GOD N--I mean, no, it's better this way, trust us." 6:31 If they had animated this turd, it would have been "Fritz the Cat" for tweens. No thanks. 7:45 I would just like to point out that it's an UNWRAPPED condom, in a wallet. He might as well ride bareback. (Fun fact: Howard and Bev did it in the B&W HTD magazine Marvel briefly put out for "mature" audiences--you know it was "mature" because you got to see Bev's tits--and completely destroyed their long relationship. Marvel's B&W mags were a complete sick mess--there's a story in the Dracula magazine that made Drac out to be a pedophile, FFS--and when Marvel released the Howard stories as a trade paperback, they actually altered the artwork to cover Bev's breasts back up. (Steve Gerber would parody the entire debacle in his "Destroyer Duck" comic.) 11:37 In other words, he's Dr. Emilio Lizardo.
Unfortunately it got cancelled. Howard the Duck animated series by Kevin Smith looks amazing and based on the storyline info, it's going to be a faithful adaptation of the Howard the Duck comic book series, which is what the 80's Howard the Duck movie should've done. Howard the Duck comic books are amazing and seeing there's going to be an animated series based on the Howard the Duck comics, I got really excited. Such a shame the idea of Howard the Duck animated series by Kevin Smith got cancelled :(
Did anyone watch the blu ray or DVD? Apparently they have interviews and commentaries with Huyck and the late Gloria Katz where they apologize for the film, similarly to what the late Joel Schumacher does on the Batman & Robin Collectors edition DVD & Blu ray/4k.
Regarding the inappropriate material in a film that was aimed at families, one wonders if they should even have aimed it at that market. At the time, family-oriented movies not Spielberg-backed tended to be box-office poison. In the month that "Howard" was released (August), all three movies that made it to the top of the box office rankings at some point were R-rated -- "Aliens" (continuing what was ultimately a 4-week run at the top from the previous month), "The Fly", and "Stand by Me". The first two were hard-R movies to boot -- and to add insult to injury, their combined production budgets totaled $30 million, $6 million less than "Howard". When one considers how superb the effects in those movies were (they were the respective Oscar winners for SFX and Makeup), and how audiences had little trouble taking their potentially-ridiculous concepts seriously...one wonders where the money really went on "Howard"!
This is one of the best movies ever made. How can anyone not like this movie? Ducks had bewbs for no reason. No reason whatsoever. And Lea Thompson was there. And Jeffrey Jones was there. And Tim Robbins. And Lea Thompson. And the Dark Overlord looked like a hilarious version of terrifying. And a hot chick almost fucked a duck. And Lea Thompson was there!
Who can blame them? Fant4stic is the manos: The hands of fate of Marvel: BORING,Infuriating and incompetent. Howard is just a "Batman and Robin": Fucking stupid and expensive to a degree you like to make fun of it.
1997residente - As someone once said, Fant4stic isn’t so much a “movie” as much as it is “the artifact left over from the war between a director and a studio.”
Howard the Duck is worse. Way worse. Fan4stic is just boring and a bit silly. The NSA used forced watching of Howard the Duck as a torture device till it was banned in 2001.
So...thanks, Howard the Duck? And also...Howard the Duck being an indirect collaboration of MARVEL and Lucasfilms, which lead to Pixar. James Earl Jones who was Darth Vader is also Mufasa of Lion King... HOW DEEP IS THIS RABBIT HOLE?!
Yeah, EVERYONE involved in the movie EXCEPT Lea Thompson came to dislike this movie, Cinematic Excrement; maybe Tim Robbins went over the top deliberately... Can't wait until you get to Leonard Part 6...
@@leahcorpora4151 Oh I know, I just think this film might be the reason they'd rather pretend we were literally anywhere else, then just say, "Let's set it in Cleveland..." It's either that or the Tourism Video didn't sell them and we need to make a third one for another 20 million dollars.
@@Talisguy In fairness since this film we've got Captain America 1990, all the Fantastic Four films, Daredevil, Elektra, Spider-Man 3, both Ghost Rider films, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Heck if you want we'll pile on Hulk, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Amazing Spider-Man movies, and Venom. For how bad Captain Marvel supposedly is, surely it's at least better than a lot of those combined right?
@@Talisguy The stupid thing is that so far, I'm having a hard time finding anyone who likes Captain Marvel on RUclips, but on other sites I find them quickly. Maybe the "hate" for this movie will cool down. What doesn't help is even most RUclips critics like Chris Stuckmann and Doug Walker having a So Okay, It's Average reaction to it. Oh well, I will be seeing it on Monday anyway. Regardless of its quality, the controversy surrounding it is complete BS.
New sub who has watched hours of your videos over the past few weeks but I love Howard the Duck. As an 8 year old I watched it on repeat. Still love it and I'm 41. So for the 1st time in about 20 of your videos I'm going to massively disagree with you🦆
Howard the Duck is pure awesome. Sure, it's a stupid movie. It's a gloriously stupid movie. I have introduced this movie to several people over the years, and they've generally liked it. You just have to be in the right frame of mind to really get into Howard. A good part of what sank Howard was pre-release bad press. The movie was enormously expensive for 1986. So expensive that it would have to be a record-breaking smash to make a profit. And it wasn't going to be anywhere near that successful. So the pre-release press started going on about how the movie was a failure, a complete box office bomb before it even came out. They poisoned the well, killed any chance the movie might have had to be even moderately successful - all on the basis that the movie couldn't be a financial success. Financial success isn't an accurate measure of the merit of a movie. The movie is. But Howard has been suffering from a bad rep since 1986 solely on the basis of its financial lack of success. Kind of like John Carter, which was another awesome movie trashed before it came out over its financials.
I am assuming then you are not counting the 2 Captain America Movies made in 1979/1980 which had a cinematic release in europe or the 2 Spiderman Movies of 1978/79 again release in cinemas in europe?
Ouch,1986 was my favorite year for movies: Blue Velvet The mission Hannah and her sisters, Round midnight, Aliens,Mona Lisa, Platoon and my Stallone guilty pleasure, Cobra
Not directly related to this movie... What is Sean going to do with the Razzie winners he's already reviewed? Skip over them? Do a commentary track for those videos?
I wasn't that alarmed by the condom in wallet, BUT IT WAS NOT WRAPPED, who TF would a) leave unwrapped condom there b) fu*king left unwrapped condom there c) trusted that condom will work after all the time in wallet 💀😂
Except for the fact that it seems to be inaccurate. IIRC, it was said George Lucas was going through a messy divorce around this time and the deal involving selling what would become Pixar happened before this movie came out. I'd have to recheck SFDebris's video on this to be sure.
Funny fact: in a recent comic Howard is hired by Lea Thompson to investigate his own abductions. It turns out that an interdimensional villain has been kidnapping her to made movies based on Howard's life without his permission.
So we have the Garbage Pail Kid version of Donald Duck, Marty McFly's mother and the Principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, plus the main protagonist of the Shawshank Redemption. Odd casting choices.
So the comic version of Howard the Duck is basically like a proto-Deadpool. Interesting.
@Oriental Studios It would be really interesting if the two of them teamed up in the next Deadpool movie because then they'd spent most of the movie debating who had a worse first movie.
@Oriental Studios Is this the same Howard as in the cameo character in the MCU?
D:
On the other hand, the '80s hair in this movie was magnificent. Excellent deployment of a crimping iron and Aqua-Net!
Even Ducktales didn't have this many duck puns.
The Howard the Duck comic books didn't rely duck puns much either. And even when the Howard the Duck comics put out duck puns, it's done in a clever and funny fashion. Howard the Duck comic books actually has great humor. Waayyyy better than the humor in this film.
The cast for this movie makes me imagine a meeting between Marty McFly, Ferris Bueller, and Captain Marvel.
LinkMarioSamus That already sounds like a better movie than this.
Which Captain Marvel, DC's or Marvel's?
@@louisduarte8763 Marvel’s
@@louisduarte8763 DC’s? Don’t you mean Shazam
"This movie could have looked so much better. That wouldn't have fixed the crappy writing but you know at least it would have been good looking crap I guess."
Damn that is freakin priceless
There is some virtue to be found in good-looking crap. David Lynch's Dune comes to mind.
Sean: *criticizes Howard the Duck for having too many posters*
Haha, good one Sean
Fun fact: The voice of Howard the Duck is Chip Zien, who would go on to play the Baker in the original Broadway production of “Into The Woods”.
How did this get a blu ray release while I’m still waiting for Pretty in Pink, True Lies, The Abyss, Ordinary People, Bringing Out The Dead, What About Bob, and Panic Room to get the hi def treatment?!
Hollywood doesn't care about us
KidSnivy96 pretty much
Because James Cameron would rather spunk the Blu Ray remastering budget on pointless non existent Avatar sequels!
That's the same question I would ask too and like KidSnivy96 said, Hollywood just doesn't care about us. :/
Still waiting for the American Movie Blu-ray.
FunFact: In 1986, A Movie called Deadly Friend came out by Wes Craven. That film has a ZERO Percent on Rotten Tomatoes and Also Bombed AND WASN’T NOMINATED FOR WORST PICTURE.
Not enough? Two other “nominees”, Cobra and Shanghai Suprise had RT ratings of 13%!
Somehow, a Wes Craven movie that shows a woman getting beheaded by a basketball wasn’t Worst Picture worthy.
How on Earth a Macho nonesense like Cobra gets the same rating than a Madonna borefest?
Basketball kill is great
Deadly Friend is a guilty pleasure of mine..........................it was pretty cheesy, but it was still entertaining and watchable! (And it also began my crush on Kristi Swanson).
That film was unfortunately reshot following the brain operation scene due to poor test audiences which were mostly fans of Wes Craven’s horror movies and demanded nudity, nightmare scenes, blood and gore.
You think Howard/Bev is creepy here, they were *explicitly* boning in the comics.
It gets weirder: Duck penises are corkscrew-shaped.
... I've learned some weird, weird things on the internet....
Ew.
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Gage Peruti also make ducks are apparently rapists
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marlon thomas my gods I only got that when I moved on
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Moved on from Scientology?
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Fun fact: Tim Robbins admitted he only did this movie for the money.
Admitted...or now tries to claim?
At least he had _Top Gun_ that same year
@@dnasty312 And The Player 6 years later and Shawshank 8 years later.
Sorry Sean, I thought the duck suit was absolutely stellar. They got a ton of really small, subtle facial movements and expressions out of that thing. In my opinion, it was as equally impressive as the Ninja Turtles in their first film. major props to the animatronics team who worked on it.
It's fun watching Howard change sizes from scene to scene, as not all the suits/ actors matched up.
It's the Howard the duck drinking game.
It may be flawed, but I unironically love this movie. It's just so fun and campy.
Breeders of the Lost Stork about Indiana Drake...it was a triple pun...in disguise....
You mean in a disgoose?
Love this guy's cute expressive face. His reviews are always so much fun.
Eye's are itching with tiredness, I ought to go to bed...Oh! New episode of Cinematic Excrement!
It's just 20 minutes less of sleep. You can do it ;)
You do realise that the theme substitute played at 5:40 is entitled "Entry of the Gladiators"? Yes, it has carnival connections, but the title seems very much at odds with the scene and the point being made.
14:54 Hey, look. Howard the Duck started the "beam in the sky" cliché long before Fant4stic and Suicide Squad.
@Iafiv Iv Iron Man also did the beam in the sky thing, though it was done before The Avengers.
Raiders of the Lost Ark and Ghostbusters beat Howard to it.
At least this one had the excuse of being a communication to deep space. The others are just sky beams because sky beams.
See what you did there
It weirded me out when I recognized the exhibit hallway with all the taxidermied animals in the movie was actually the California Academy of Science. I’d been in that very hallway on some school field trips and no one at the CAS ever mentioned some scenes from Howard the Duck were filmed there, not that I think CAS staff would actually want to tell visitors lol.
"Oh yeah, parts of the movie Howard the Duck were filmed here...and that's the end of that story. Anyway, next exhibit, kiddos!"
Its stupidity is the reason I really enjoy this movie. Ok, Nostalgia is definitely another factor as well. But this is one of my true guilty pleasures. Plus I really loved the music.
That romance scene felt more awkward when Jeffrey Jones showed up.
Even more so when you learn that, before Ed Gale got the full-time part in the Howard suit, he was sharing time in it with a kid.
Jeffrey Jones he's transformed into a Alien and it sounds like Grandpa
@Oriental Studios Who, Jeffrey Jones?
"It's a bird, it's a plane, no it's a duck," Okay to be fair I kind of laughed at that, but only because of how cringey it was
"Wasn't this billed as a 'Family Film'"?
You just made another Duck Pun.
Lol! Omg! That took me 5 seconds to get! Lol!
I loved this movie as a kid but I haven't watched it since lol
Can't wait to see you review Holmes and Watson (2018)
My parents rented this when I was a kid. I'm not sure we made it beyond the credits before they realized their mistake.
The major problem with Howard The Duck came from it's inability to "pick a direction and stick with it".
It was all over the place thematically, if they kept the story focusing on Howard and Beverly, then 1/2 way through add in that the government were trying to create a weapon, but it turned out to be a teleporter instead.
Then have the "Bad Guy" be the Human in charge of the weapons project wanting to capture Howard to keep his project secret.
Adding an Evil alien villain so far into the film's running time was just dumb. Establish the villain early on, going back to them trying to find Howard over the course of the movie and THEN in the third act have them meet.
Plus don't have the cross species implied sexual relationship, that was just creepy.
Have them care for each other, even love each other, but in a Platonic way.
It gets worse. The comics, or so I've heard, used the premise as a vehicle for social commentary. The writers of this film were like "it's a talking duck, how existential could it be?". They just didn't care!
Does this movie look better or worse now, after the divisive reception to the sequel trilogy has restored Lucas's reputation in some circles and how this film no longer has the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score of any Marvel movie, losing out to Fant4stic?
I agree. It would have been easy to stick to the comic book and create one big adventure. You have a wisecracking Howard and in-jokes about the subject matter, which seems popular now. It’s easy and yet they didn’t do it.
@@visionaryventures12 And then George Lucas's next movie after this was Willow, which wasn't awful per se, but seems like a curious choice to follow Howard the Duck with. I know a lot of people like that movie. I wouldn't say I did, but it was worth a watch.
What do you think of that movie?
Oriental Studios oh😅
@Isaac Baranoff Also both are sentient mammals, as I just saw a duck like creature with human boobs taking a bubble bath in what appears to be a modern bathroom...
I actually own this movie but I'm kinda afraid to watch it. Not that I'm squeamish or prude but it just looks so bonkers I don't know if I can take it!
Look on the bright side, Sean: a tie for 1986 means you get to put off _Leonard Part 6_ just a little while longer.
HEY HEY HEY
MCTales89 - That will be fun to watch.
Has he not already done Leonard Part 6?
Mind you, an hour-long episode displaying all the reasons Bill Cosby being a serial rapist should surprise nobody would conflict with the idea behind this channel... maybe I should get on that one.
@@aspie182moo5 No, he hasn't done it yet.
I saw this at a very young age so it grew on me so a few things stood out:
-Introduced the concept of sarcasm.
-Lea Thompson had a very nice ass.
-Made me wish I, too, could blow up traffic with Dark Overlord powers.
Damn, your camera quality is getting amazing. That looks like professional studio footage. Congrats!
So many duck puns, so little quacks given...
Anyway, this movie had lots of talent brought together. Where it went, I have no idea
Thanks for the wise *quack*!
Lol!
I can't believe I was allowed to watch this when I was a kid... The '80s truly were a different time! Also, this movie traumatized teeny-tiny-child-me so much that any time I see Jeffrey Jones in a movie, he is simply "The Bad Guy From Howard The Duck". I didn't even know his name until watching your review.
For the life of me I don’t understand how this channel is this small...!!!! You are amazing...!!!! Keep doing what you do dude...
Without Howard the Duck, we wouldn’t have Toy Story. 🤣🤣🤣
Or possibly the MCU
this movie was totally my biggest guilty pleasure ever!
Fun fact: a duck’s reproductive organ is corkscrew shaped and about as long as his body.
I...I...I really did not need to know that.
The first Marvel Comics movie starred a creepy as hell duck from another planet? Go Figure!
FUN FACT: George Lucas considers Howard the Duck the worst film he was ever involved with.
@Ash Kitt He was only barely involved in the SWHS, and probably has mentally divorced himself from it.
@@aspie182moo5 Not to mention that it's a TV special (a one-shot variety show) and not a movie.
1:31 Sure, this probably set back the idea of adapting Marvel movies for years, but around this period, you had Supergirl, this, and Superman IV. Most studios likely lost whatever enthusiasm for comic book movies as viable endeavors. It was a minor miracle that Batman got made just a few years later.
I cannot wait for the next review, considering the next winner ironically lead to one of the most well known soundtracks of it's actor.
I had no idea this whole time Howard was falling for a human he had a Duck girlfriend back home the whole time, what a skeeze!
This isn't in the playlist, so I almost missed it! I loved this as a kid.
5:09 John Barry produced beautiful scores for a lot of stinkers ("Raise the Titanic" immediately comes to mind), but for "Howard the Duck" I think they just handed him some notes instead of making him watch the movie.
"Okay, for this piece we want something that evokes 'knight in shining armor' with a run of two minutes eight seconds, then..."
"Why don't I just watch the scene and make my own no--"
"NO!!! OH GOD N--I mean, no, it's better this way, trust us."
6:31 If they had animated this turd, it would have been "Fritz the Cat" for tweens. No thanks.
7:45 I would just like to point out that it's an UNWRAPPED condom, in a wallet. He might as well ride bareback. (Fun fact: Howard and Bev did it in the B&W HTD magazine Marvel briefly put out for "mature" audiences--you know it was "mature" because you got to see Bev's tits--and completely destroyed their long relationship. Marvel's B&W mags were a complete sick mess--there's a story in the Dracula magazine that made Drac out to be a pedophile, FFS--and when Marvel released the Howard stories as a trade paperback, they actually altered the artwork to cover Bev's breasts back up. (Steve Gerber would parody the entire debacle in his "Destroyer Duck" comic.)
11:37 In other words, he's Dr. Emilio Lizardo.
Oh, how long I've been waiting for this one!
It should be noted that Kevin Smith is working on a new Howard project, a tv series I think.
Unfortunately it got cancelled. Howard the Duck animated series by Kevin Smith looks amazing and based on the storyline info, it's going to be a faithful adaptation of the Howard the Duck comic book series, which is what the 80's Howard the Duck movie should've done. Howard the Duck comic books are amazing and seeing there's going to be an animated series based on the Howard the Duck comics, I got really excited. Such a shame the idea of Howard the Duck animated series by Kevin Smith got cancelled :(
I already saw this movie when I was younger, so any warnings at the beginning of this video probably came too late.
Did anyone watch the blu ray or DVD? Apparently they have interviews and commentaries with Huyck and the late Gloria Katz where they apologize for the film, similarly to what the late Joel Schumacher does on the Batman & Robin Collectors edition DVD & Blu ray/4k.
I love the John Berry score, as well as the tunes from Lea and Thomas Dolby.
The soundtrack was good. The movie wasn’t.
Regarding the inappropriate material in a film that was aimed at families, one wonders if they should even have aimed it at that market. At the time, family-oriented movies not Spielberg-backed tended to be box-office poison. In the month that "Howard" was released (August), all three movies that made it to the top of the box office rankings at some point were R-rated -- "Aliens" (continuing what was ultimately a 4-week run at the top from the previous month), "The Fly", and "Stand by Me". The first two were hard-R movies to boot -- and to add insult to injury, their combined production budgets totaled $30 million, $6 million less than "Howard". When one considers how superb the effects in those movies were (they were the respective Oscar winners for SFX and Makeup), and how audiences had little trouble taking their potentially-ridiculous concepts seriously...one wonders where the money really went on "Howard"!
This is one of the best movies ever made. How can anyone not like this movie? Ducks had bewbs for no reason. No reason whatsoever. And Lea Thompson was there. And Jeffrey Jones was there. And Tim Robbins. And Lea Thompson. And the Dark Overlord looked like a hilarious version of terrifying. And a hot chick almost fucked a duck. And Lea Thompson was there!
I... don't hate this one. It gets quoted fairly often around my family, plus the theme is legit good.
Howard! The Duck! Ooh!
I can see why because it's a entertaining so bad it's good movie.
"Safely" and "Cleveland" are not two words that normally go together
Before Fant4stic, Howard the Duck was the worst Marvel movie.
Fun thing is.... Fant4stic is not on the Marvel Website but Howard is. They are embarrased of it more than an 80's Flick.
Who can blame them? Fant4stic is the manos: The hands of fate of Marvel: BORING,Infuriating and incompetent. Howard is just a "Batman and Robin": Fucking stupid and expensive to a degree you like to make fun of it.
1997residente - As someone once said, Fant4stic isn’t so much a “movie” as much as it is “the artifact left over from the war between a director and a studio.”
Howard the Duck is worse. Way worse. Fan4stic is just boring and a bit silly. The NSA used forced watching of Howard the Duck as a torture device till it was banned in 2001.
What about the twentieth century Captain America movies? I'm not sure if either or both were theatrical. There was a serial in the forties....
You should do a Cinematic Excrement Episode of Highlander 2: The Quickening
And maybe do Troll 2 or has he done that already?
@Captain Brandon Horror Lover At least, Street Fighter had the great Raul Julia. That alone makes it worth a watch.
18:06 "KISS!". Under the Cherry Moon?......Heck ya, man. Shit movie, but like all of Prince's music, it has an awesome soundtrack.
Ooh. Under the Cherry Moon can't wait
"At least it would've been good-looking crap"
So basically every Don Bluth movie after All Dogs Go To Heaven?
I'm dying laughing with the music change at 5:31. Wish the rest of the movie was half as enjoyable
[tired joke alert] As a life-long Clevelander, this movie was a worst disaster than the Cuyahoga River catching fire...13 different times.
Omg... You madman... You actually did it... And I love it!! Atta Boy!
I'm so glad your still uploading, made my day.
"He gives it a savage beating, as if it owes him money!"
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Sylvester "Airwolf" Levay was brought on to rework some of John Barry's score.
So...thanks, Howard the Duck?
And also...Howard the Duck being an indirect collaboration of MARVEL and Lucasfilms, which lead to Pixar.
James Earl Jones who was Darth Vader is also Mufasa of Lion King...
HOW DEEP IS THIS RABBIT HOLE?!
More deeper than you can possibly imagine.
An animated movie might’ve been like a high quality Cool World.
I swear Jeffrey Jones used the same overlord voice in the episode of Tales From The Crypt he appears in.
As bad as this movie was, I'm glad it led to the creation of Pixar. And a post-credits cameo from Guardians of The Galaxy.
MCU Howard when?
Jordan Quiles Howard is already in the MCU. Look behind the Wasp during Avengers Endgame
3:04 There's actually *five* in that poster alone
Underrated channel.
I think I will go watch Howard tight now!
Marvel should do a new Howard the Duck movie with the MCU version played by Seth Green.
Yeah, EVERYONE involved in the movie EXCEPT Lea Thompson came to dislike this movie, Cinematic Excrement; maybe Tim Robbins went over the top deliberately...
Can't wait until you get to Leonard Part 6...
Well, I now understand why Cleveland, Ohio never appears in superhero films as Cleveland, Ohio....
To be fair, Cleveland does appear in many superhero movies, but it's usually posing as NYC.
@@leahcorpora4151 Oh I know, I just think this film might be the reason they'd rather pretend we were literally anywhere else, then just say, "Let's set it in Cleveland..."
It's either that or the Tourism Video didn't sell them and we need to make a third one for another 20 million dollars.
This is canon to the comics.
Well, thank God for those MCU cameos. Amirite, guys?
Billy Mount
Was there a rights issue?
The MCU had a really rough start!
Victor Hernandez well we all gotta start somewhere
Autobot Productions
Have you seen Avengers Endgame yet?
@@victorhernandez8723 I have. it was incredible
It took almost 13 actors to play Howard, true story
Remember when you could hate a *bad* Marvel movie? Boy does that seem like such a long time ago...
@@Talisguy In fairness since this film we've got Captain America 1990, all the Fantastic Four films, Daredevil, Elektra, Spider-Man 3, both Ghost Rider films, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Heck if you want we'll pile on Hulk, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Amazing Spider-Man movies, and Venom.
For how bad Captain Marvel supposedly is, surely it's at least better than a lot of those combined right?
@@Talisguy The stupid thing is that so far, I'm having a hard time finding anyone who likes Captain Marvel on RUclips, but on other sites I find them quickly. Maybe the "hate" for this movie will cool down.
What doesn't help is even most RUclips critics like Chris Stuckmann and Doug Walker having a So Okay, It's Average reaction to it. Oh well, I will be seeing it on Monday anyway. Regardless of its quality, the controversy surrounding it is complete BS.
@@Talisguy Yeah the MCU is good... that's why I don't like it as a whole... they do their jobs too well.
Tommy Deonauth's Archives plz there are tons of bad marvel movies
New sub who has watched hours of your videos over the past few weeks but I love Howard the Duck. As an 8 year old I watched it on repeat. Still love it and I'm 41. So for the 1st time in about 20 of your videos I'm going to massively disagree with you🦆
Howard the Duck is pure awesome. Sure, it's a stupid movie. It's a gloriously stupid movie. I have introduced this movie to several people over the years, and they've generally liked it. You just have to be in the right frame of mind to really get into Howard.
A good part of what sank Howard was pre-release bad press. The movie was enormously expensive for 1986. So expensive that it would have to be a record-breaking smash to make a profit. And it wasn't going to be anywhere near that successful. So the pre-release press started going on about how the movie was a failure, a complete box office bomb before it even came out. They poisoned the well, killed any chance the movie might have had to be even moderately successful - all on the basis that the movie couldn't be a financial success. Financial success isn't an accurate measure of the merit of a movie. The movie is. But Howard has been suffering from a bad rep since 1986 solely on the basis of its financial lack of success.
Kind of like John Carter, which was another awesome movie trashed before it came out over its financials.
I am assuming then you are not counting the 2 Captain America Movies made in 1979/1980 which had a cinematic release in europe or the 2 Spiderman Movies of 1978/79 again release in cinemas in europe?
Ouch,1986 was my favorite year for movies: Blue Velvet The mission Hannah and her sisters, Round midnight, Aliens,Mona Lisa, Platoon and my Stallone guilty pleasure, Cobra
This was me and my sister's movie back in the day.
"Wicka-wicka-wicka-wicky!"
Oscar Winning
Oy vey!
Calling it - this is where Will Smith got the inspiration for the opening of his rap song to “Wild Wild West.”
Have you not seen the 1990 Captain America movie?
Not directly related to this movie... What is Sean going to do with the Razzie winners he's already reviewed? Skip over them? Do a commentary track for those videos?
Blade came out in 1998, Not 2000
Wow I forgot Tim Robbins was in this shitclap.
Shawshank Redemption was nearly a decade away.
Please review the spy next door please????
This movie needed a scene where, upon landing in Cleveland, Howard goes to look at both of their buildings.
SPACE RABIES! This should've won the Oscar for best picture! Change my mind! Lol
HOWARD THE DUCK IS FUCKING AWESOME
I wasn't that alarmed by the condom in wallet, BUT IT WAS NOT WRAPPED, who TF would a) leave unwrapped condom there b) fu*king left unwrapped condom there c) trusted that condom will work after all the time in wallet 💀😂
18:04 Prince?
Oh boy.
No mention that Howard was the cleanup guy in what is basically a brothel in a PG movie
"towels, lotion...penicillin?" lol
Having Dr. Jenning drive the car chaotically could still have been done if Beverly drove. All he’d have to do is grab the steering wheel and talk.
To be honest the puns are not that different from cartoons like ducktales and darkwing duck.
"Cleveland I think", she freakin lives in Cleveland why the hell would she have a doubt about that.
Tht was an amazing little tidbit about how Howard the Duck led to the formation of Pixar.
Except for the fact that it seems to be inaccurate. IIRC, it was said George Lucas was going through a messy divorce around this time and the deal involving selling what would become Pixar happened before this movie came out. I'd have to recheck SFDebris's video on this to be sure.
If you can find a copy I highly recommend the novelization of the movie by Ellis Weiner.