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Watching Howard the Duck for the first time...

Post by Animavore » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:13 pm

... am I doing the right thing or am I letting myself in for profound torture?

This topic is bound to be divisive. Which side will you (or I :nervous: ) take?
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Re: Watching [i]Howard the Duck[/i] for the first time...

Post by Rum » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:14 pm

It is in the bottom ten bad films of all time. :?
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:15 pm

I thought it well to the left of perverted. It's in our Netflix queue.
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Post by Robert_S » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:17 pm

What was the magazine that had the Howard the Duck comic?
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Re: Watching Howard the Duck for the first time...

Post by Mr P » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:17 pm

You can watch it and wear the experience as proudly as you would wear a disfiguring scar (makes a good war story).
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Post by hadespussercats » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:19 pm

I hated it. But I saw it a looooong time ago.
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Post by Animavore » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:20 pm

We need this :twisted: combined with this :awesome:
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:20 pm

Robert_S wrote:What was the magazine that had the Howard the Duck comic?
Marvel comics.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:21 pm

Animavore wrote:We need this :twisted: combined with this :awesome:
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:22 pm

Animavore wrote:... am I doing the right thing or am I letting myself in for profound torture?

This topic is bound to be divisive. Which side will you (or I :nervous: ) take?
Dismal dreck.


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Re: Watching Howard the Duck for the first time...

Post by Ian » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:34 pm

I haven't watched it since I was a teenager.

IIRC, I gave it Two Thumbs Down.
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Re: Watching Howard the Duck for the first time...

Post by Animavore » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:37 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:
Animavore wrote:... am I doing the right thing or am I letting myself in for profound torture?

This topic is bound to be divisive. Which side will you (or I :nervous: ) take?
Dismal dreck.


You'll love it.
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Re: Watching Howard the Duck for the first time...

Post by Rum » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:41 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:
Robert_S wrote:What was the magazine that had the Howard the Duck comic?
Marvel comics.
He appeared a s 'guest' in several comics and then got his own. It was pretty funny and well done for a couple of issues and then the joke ran dry.

Marvel started a 'serious' campaign for 'Howard the Duck for president' but he was already on the way out by then.

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Re: Watching Howard the Duck for the first time...

Post by Audley Strange » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:58 pm

Animavore wrote:... am I doing the right thing or am I letting myself in for profound torture?

This topic is bound to be divisive. Which side will you (or I :nervous: ) take?
Do you just watch what Kermode tells you to? If so, you might like it. I haven't seen it for years but I remember it being, not even painfully bad, just on a screen anything other criticism of it would be too elaborate.
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Re: Watching Howard the Duck for the first time...

Post by Robert_S » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:59 pm

Rum wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote:
Robert_S wrote:What was the magazine that had the Howard the Duck comic?
Marvel comics.
He appeared a s 'guest' in several comics and then got his own. It was pretty funny and well done for a couple of issues and then the joke ran dry.

Marvel started a 'serious' campaign for 'Howard the Duck for president' but he was already on the way out by then.

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I remember running across him somewhere, but not in a comic since I didn't get heavily into them.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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