Cinematic Excrement: Episode 110 - Howard The Duck

What the duck?
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[@canariautara8923]

Even Ducktales didn't have this many duck puns.

[@retrofan4963]

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.

[@Nx57ytre]

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.

[@diggerfan9319]

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.

[@masonallen3961]

So the comic version of Howard the Duck is basically like a proto-Deadpool. Interesting.

[@masonallen3961]

@@BaranoffIsaac 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.

[@MikoyanGurevichMiG21]

@@BaranoffIsaac Is this the same Howard as in the cameo character in the MCU?

[@origamipein18]

D:

[@katherineheasley6196]

On the other hand, the '80s hair in this movie was magnificent. Excellent deployment of a crimping iron and Aqua-Net!

[@LinkMarioSamus]

The cast for this movie makes me imagine a meeting between Marty McFly, Ferris Bueller, and Captain Marvel.

[@avalasialove]

LinkMarioSamus That already sounds like a better movie than this.

[@louisduarte8763]

Which Captain Marvel, DC's or Marvel's?

[@LinkMarioSamus]

@@louisduarte8763 Marvel’s

[@gracekim25]

@@louisduarte8763 DC’s? Don’t you mean Shazam

[@Achillez098]

Sean: *criticizes Howard the Duck for having too many posters* Haha, good one Sean

[@jasoncase9481]

"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

[@adamlane6453]

There is some virtue to be found in good-looking crap. David Lynch's Dune comes to mind.

[@beethovensfidelio]

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”.

[@roberttreacy8271]

Fun fact: Tim Robbins admitted he only did this movie for the money.

[@KarstensCreationsKC]

Admitted...or now tries to claim?

[@dnasty312]

At least he had _Top Gun_ that same year

[@Tornado1994]

@@dnasty312 And The Player 6 years later and Shawshank 8 years later.

[@alexisandraphaithe]

Breeders of the Lost Stork about Indiana Drake...it was a triple pun...in disguise....

[@LetruneInedil]

You mean in a disgoose?

[@travishiltz4750]

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.

[@JustinCoasters]

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%!

[@TheCamSays]

Somehow, a Wes Craven movie that shows a woman getting beheaded by a basketball wasn’t Worst Picture worthy.

[@1997residente]

How on Earth a Macho nonesense like Cobra gets the same rating than a Madonna borefest?

[@gamleskalle1]

Basketball kill is great

[@davidl570]

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).

[@tedgruver7618]

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.

[@marlonthomas8042]

Battlefield earth Cult following I see what you did there 😉

[@Torterra625]

Hail Lord Xenu 😂

[@albertschoise8091]

marlon thomas my gods I only got that when I moved on

[@marlonthomas8042]

Alberts Choise Moved on from Scientology?

[@scipioafricanus5871]

Dude, you are Fair Game, since you are such a Suppressive Person.

[@marlonthomas8042]

@@scipioafricanus5871 🤣🤣

[@jeremyusreevu237]

It may be flawed, but I unironically love this movie. It's just so fun and campy.

[@imaspoon4522]

Love this guy's cute expressive face. His reviews are always so much fun.

[@chrismartindale7840]

Eye's are itching with tiredness, I ought to go to bed...Oh! New episode of Cinematic Excrement!

[@piotrsegal9528]

It's just 20 minutes less of sleep. You can do it ;)

[@WobblesandBean]

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.

[@RealParadoxBlues]

You think Howard/Bev is creepy here, they were *explicitly* boning in the comics.

[@SpaceGeek2161]

It gets weirder: Duck penises are corkscrew-shaped. ... I've learned some weird, weird things on the internet....

[@roberttreacy8271]

Ew.

[@gageperuti5519]

Today's comment has been brought to you by the letters T, M, and I.

[@GabyGeorge1996]

Gage Peruti also make ducks are apparently rapists

[@tristanhartup4936]

😝

[@emirlsanchos6302]

"Wasn't this billed as a 'Family Film'"? You just made another Duck Pun.

[@cheneethompson5756]

Lol! Omg! That took me 5 seconds to get! Lol!

[@jgirlinluv55]

I loved this movie as a kid but I haven't watched it since lol

[@supermariofan03]

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?!

[@KidSnivy69]

Hollywood doesn't care about us

[@JustinWilliams367]

KidSnivy96 pretty much

[@briansergeant]

Because James Cameron would rather spunk the Blu Ray remastering budget on pointless non existent Avatar sequels!

[@NickCanino97]

That's the same question I would ask too and like KidSnivy96 said, Hollywood just doesn't care about us. :/

[@thecinematicmind]

Still waiting for the American Movie Blu-ray.

[@dylankaiser5546]

"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

[@michaelchavez816]

Can't wait to see you review Holmes and Watson (2018)

[@lukehanna1177]

Without Howard the Duck, we wouldn’t have Toy Story. 🤣🤣🤣

[@Joemama55122]

Or possibly the MCU

[@GuineaPigDan]

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.

[@LuckyPunkProd]

"Oh yeah, parts of the movie Howard the Duck were filmed here...and that's the end of that story. Anyway, next exhibit, kiddos!"

[@PowerGlove79]

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.

[@Amenhir1]

My parents rented this when I was a kid. I'm not sure we made it beyond the credits before they realized their mistake.

[@Sandlot1992]

this movie was totally my biggest guilty pleasure ever!

[@srbarkerchan]

That romance scene felt more awkward when Jeffrey Jones showed up.

[@JoeCool7835]

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

@@BaranoffIsaac Who, Jeffrey Jones?

[@DareToBeDeviant]

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.

[@diggerfan9319]

The first Marvel Comics movie starred a creepy as hell duck from another planet? Go Figure!

[@faze_buendia9514]

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!

[@archivedaccount5990]

14:54 Hey, look. Howard the Duck started the "beam in the sky" cliché long before Fant4stic and Suicide Squad.

[@riokamichika1101]

@Iafiv Iv Iron Man also did the beam in the sky thing, though it was done before The Avengers.

[@LinkMarioSamus]

Raiders of the Lost Ark and Ghostbusters beat Howard to it.

[@QwertyCaesar]

At least this one had the excuse of being a communication to deep space. The others are just sky beams because sky beams.

[@kickorsidumain6140]

See what you did there

[@LizStaley]

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.

[@PorchPotatoMike]

Fun fact: a duck’s reproductive organ is corkscrew shaped and about as long as his body.

[@Boxhead42]

I...I...I really did not need to know that.

[@AmishParadise27]

FUN FACT: George Lucas considers Howard the Duck the worst film he was ever involved with.

[@aspie182moo5]

@Ash Kitt He was only barely involved in the SWHS, and probably has mentally divorced himself from it.

[@POLE7645]

@@aspie182moo5 Not to mention that it's a TV special (a one-shot variety show) and not a movie.

[@bradwolf07]

So many duck puns, so little quacks given... Anyway, this movie had lots of talent brought together. Where it went, I have no idea

[@cheneethompson5756]

Thanks for the wise *quack*! Lol!

[@MCTales89]

Look on the bright side, Sean: a tie for 1986 means you get to put off _Leonard Part 6_ just a little while longer.

[@LinkMarioSamus]

HEY HEY HEY

[@gamestation2690]

MCTales89 - That will be fun to watch.

[@aspie182moo5]

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.

[@gamestation2690]

@@aspie182moo5 No, he hasn't done it yet.

[@AtrocityEquine01]

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.

[@malenko316]

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.

[@CarlosFernandez-it8hv]

Damn, your camera quality is getting amazing. That looks like professional studio footage. Congrats!

[@DJonScott]

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!

[@breawycker]

Ooh. Under the Cherry Moon can't wait

[@hemmingwayfan]

"Safely" and "Cleveland" are not two words that normally go together

[@mistwolf]

This isn't in the playlist, so I almost missed it! I loved this as a kid.

[@lerm2866]

I love the John Berry score, as well as the tunes from Lea and Thomas Dolby.

[@victorhernandez8723]

The soundtrack was good. The movie wasn’t.

[@ScreamingScallop]

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.

[@neilprice513]

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.

[@LinkMarioSamus]

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?

[@visionaryventures12]

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.

[@LinkMarioSamus]

@@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?

[@gracekim25]

Oriental Studios oh😅

[@anikmonette2140]

@@BaranoffIsaac 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!

[@tvmasterc]

I think I will go watch Howard tight now!

[@mig-lroc2190]

For the life of me I don’t understand how this channel is this small...!!!! You are amazing...!!!! Keep doing what you do dude...

[@ToruKun1]

"At least it would've been good-looking crap" So basically every Don Bluth movie after All Dogs Go To Heaven?

[@megatronjenkins2473]

"He gives it a savage beating, as if it owes him money!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MedicineMundy]

Omg... You madman... You actually did it... And I love it!! Atta Boy!

[@roristevens2810]

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"!

[@KarstensCreationsKC]

"...It's stupid." What were you EXPECTING from a film about a cigar chomping, beer drinking DUCK from another world who befriends a singer and saves the world from giant SCORPION LIZARDS? LOL!!! Of COURSE it's stupid...but it's FUN stupid, and a great time if you have the same weird ass sense of humor it reflects...intentionally bad puns, cheesy acting, ridiculous situations...mixed with a VERY good soundtrack by John Barry, impressive effects and very dark humor. I make NO apologies... I LOVE this weird, misunderstood, silly, dark, oddball film. There. I said it. For the record, the real reason the film was live action rather than animated is due to the studio insisting they get it made in time for a summer release...and animation is also more expensive than live action was.

[@ErinPrimette]

I already saw this movie when I was younger, so any warnings at the beginning of this video probably came too late.

[@PooftaHeights]

I'm so glad your still uploading, made my day.

[@warrirornunluv801]

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?!

[@LuckyPunkProd]

More deeper than you can possibly imagine.

[@awesomeproductions7755]

Well, thank God for those MCU cameos. Amirite, guys?

[@awesomeproductions7755]

Billy Mount Was there a rights issue?

[@austinmccoy9743]

I'm dying laughing with the music change at 5:31. Wish the rest of the movie was half as enjoyable

[@TheHeroOfTomorrow]

"Wicka-wicka-wicka-wicky!"

[@thecinematicmind]

Oscar Winning

[@victorhernandez8723]

Oy vey!

[@rosebyanyname]

Calling it - this is where Will Smith got the inspiration for the opening of his rap song to “Wild Wild West.”

[@visionaryventures12]

An animated movie might’ve been like a high quality Cool World.

[@AppleFish]

Underrated channel.

[@ladynikkie]

This was me and my sister's movie back in the day.

[@1997residente]

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

[@CaptRobertApril]

It should be noted that Kevin Smith is working on a new Howard project, a tv series I think.

[@retrofan4963]

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 :(

[@Unknown-bq9id]

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...

[@jalex.musica]

Oh, how long I've been waiting for this one!

[@SpamEggSausage]

A Roger Rabbit type of animation live action blend might have worked instead of putting a duck head on a short guy. Also, the original comic books are actually funny and written with a good deal more intelligence than this movie.

[@75aces97]

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.

[@DGilVids]

I... don't hate this one. It gets quoted fairly often around my family, plus the theme is legit good. Howard! The Duck! Ooh!

[@jasoncase9481]

I can see why because it's a entertaining so bad it's good movie.

[@realgar286]

[tired joke alert] As a life-long Clevelander, this movie was a worst disaster than the Cuyahoga River catching fire...13 different times.

[@gaozhi2007]

Wow I forgot Tim Robbins was in this shitclap.

[@nathaniellevesque2782]

Shawshank Redemption was nearly a decade away.

[@natenbox64]

18:06 "KISS!". Under the Cherry Moon?......Heck ya, man. Shit movie, but like all of Prince's music, it has an awesome soundtrack.

[@timafterdark3759]

It took almost 13 actors to play Howard, true story

[@zombiedodge1426]

This movie needed a scene where, upon landing in Cleveland, Howard goes to look at both of their buildings.

[@isukeinukai6941]

Before Fant4stic, Howard the Duck was the worst Marvel movie.

[@1997residente]

Fun thing is.... Fant4stic is not on the Marvel Website but Howard is. They are embarrased of it more than an 80's Flick.

[@1997residente]

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.

[@gamestation2690]

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.”

[@Ocrilat]

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.

[@brianthomas2434]

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....

[@jamesblonde2271]

hang on, my memory is of a cheesy classic, I didn't see it but the in period impression was of huge success.

[@char1737]

I remembered howard the Duck then discovered weird movies with Mark I now also remember duck Tits & toot thank you Mark !

[@Horrormaster13]

You should do a Cinematic Excrement Episode of Highlander 2: The Quickening

[@diggerfan9319]

And maybe do Troll 2 or has he done that already?

[@POLE7645]

@Captain Brandon Horror Lover At least, Street Fighter had the great Raul Julia. That alone makes it worth a watch.

[@Scatscar1985]

Sylvester "Airwolf" Levay was brought on to rework some of John Barry's score.

[@Kurtsg10]

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.

[@marshallhuffer4713]

Marvel should do a new Howard the Duck movie with the MCU version played by Seth Green.

[@mattweber5675]

SPACE RABIES! This should've won the Oscar for best picture! Change my mind! Lol

[@mnirwin5112]

Tht was an amazing little tidbit about how Howard the Duck led to the formation of Pixar.

[@VerdantRange]

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.

[@eatthisvr6]

I loved it. I was 6 at the time but I loved it

[@victorhernandez8723]

The MCU had a really rough start!

[@autobotproductions1244]

Victor Hernandez well we all gotta start somewhere

[@victorhernandez8723]

Autobot Productions Have you seen Avengers Endgame yet?

[@autobotproductions1244]

@@victorhernandez8723 I have. it was incredible

[@NavigatorBR]

Well, I now understand why Cleveland, Ohio never appears in superhero films as Cleveland, Ohio....

[@leahcorpora4151]

To be fair, Cleveland does appear in many superhero movies, but it's usually posing as NYC.

[@NavigatorBR]

@@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.

[@NicklasZandeVGCP2001]

This is canon to the comics.

[@adrianharper9462]

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.

[@jordanthejq12]

MCU Howard when?

[@Maniac536]

Jordan Quiles Howard is already in the MCU. Look behind the Wasp during Avengers Endgame

[@CableB_]

I only saw a minute of the movie which was the diner scene when I was a kid, and even I thought it was bonkers

[@BillNuvo]

My favourite movie :)

[@TheBattlesword]

Oh laud!

[@visionaryventures12]

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.

[@nathanforester5993]

I swear Jeffrey Jones used the same overlord voice in the episode of Tales From The Crypt he appears in.

[@fluttershystayshigh4202]

this movie seriously freaked me the fuck out when i was a kid, it was also one of the first R rated films i ever saw and its still just as creepy.

[@gamestation2690]

It’s rated PG.

[@xgray2012]

Poor Lea Thompson!!!

[@patrickshields5251]

Don't worry. Without Howard the Duck, we will never have Pixar.

[@JohnLouisBishop84]

She was lucky to avoid a Razzie nomination, but then again...I don't think Lea's performance is all that bad. Tim Robbins, though...he had a hilarious minor role in Rob Reiner's underrated "The Sure Thing" opposite John Cusack.

[@jackmonaghan8477]

In his review, Gene Siskel said that if they had made Howard more closer to his comic counterpart (a cynical, wisecracking Groucho Marx type character), the movie might have worked. Gotta give credit to Siskel for reading the source material. And speaking of which, the original story was meant to be a more grounded story with Howard working as a PI on Earth but Universal president Frank Price demanded it be made into an effects driven event movie similar to 'Ghostbusters' (which had been made during Price's stint as CEO of Columbia before returning to Universal), complete with imitation plot (seriously, the elements are all there), and gave them a very short window to make the movie, leading to many production issues (including Ed Gale having to do all the work after twelve year old Jordan Prentice had to be dropped due to safety and child labour issues). And the effects in the movie are just blah when you compare them to 'The Fly', 'Aliens' and 'Little Shop of Horrors' (both theatrical and director's cuts) that were all released the same year. Also regarding the Overlord puppet, congratulations CGI werewolves in 'Twilight', you're no longer the worst thing Phil Tippett oversaw. Also, Robin Williams nearly voiced Howard but depending on the source, he dropped out either because he didn't want another 'Popeye' on his hands or he and a fellow crew member met up and Williams did his voice while Hyuck was in the middle of a take causing Hyuck to yell at the crew member until realising it was Williams and quickly changing gears leading Williams to turn the role down because of the incident. Plus Robbins also had 'Top Gun' that same year but it was a minimal role.

[@BoodMu]

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🦆

[@flatebo1]

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.

[@lenkajunova7419]

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 💀😂

[@VirgoMEP]

Thanks for the headphone apology

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

HOWARD THE DUCK IS FUCKING AWESOME