After enduring the torture of trying to watch it for about five or ten minutes, I walked out of the theatre that was showing “Howard the Duck”, 1984.
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I don’t know who that is; I never got that far into the movie. (And I’ve never read the comic book series.)
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I agree. I first saw that movie when I was much, much too young to understand anything that was happening in it, maybe as a pre-teen. As such, I found it sluggish and boring, I couldn’t stick with it, and I walked out. I have since seen it at other times in my life, and because I was older and more mature, my appreciation for it has slowly, gradually, and incrementally increased, but truthfully, it’s still not very high on my radar as a “great movie”. Well, at least not yet, maybe someday, maybe never.
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I learned long ago that an Oscar win and something truly good/worthy are not mutually inclusive concepts. Pure crap wins Oscars, great movies are overlooked. For instance the Oscars are never granted to comedies* just because they’re comedies, or are only granted to movies with plotlines that coincide 100% with the liberal left Hollywood sentimentalities . . .
*Truth be told, barely any comedy in about the past thirty years has been funny enough or good enough to garner an Oscar win for Best Picture.