Kraichgauer wrote:
modernorchid wrote:
Howard the Duck
There's a duck named Howard, from a planet of ducks that comes to Earth and tries to get back home. It seemed like a kid movie in the 80's, but unlike ET, Howard has raging hormones. @_@ So glad we have movie ratings now a days, sigh.
Howard The Duck had actually been based on a very hilarious Marvel comic book series about a foul mouthed, dirty minded duck from some other reality who rubs shoulders with other Marvel characters such as Iron Man and Man Thing. His nemeses are super villains more funny than menacing, such as the Kidney Lady, and Dr. Bong (he wears a bell over his head, which he strikes with bronze mace in place of a hand). The terrible tragedy is, had George Lucas (yes,
THE George Lucas - not someone else just named George Lucas) just followed the comic book, with all its crude but funny satire, it could have been a great movie. But, NOOOOOOOOOO! Lucas had to make a kid friendly movie - the same kind of sentimentality that ruined
The Phantom Menace.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
I loved that comic in my early teens. The movie seemed to have nothing to do with it, except that it was about a duck in a world of humans.
V For Vendetta is on my list of worst movies ever. Not only because it didn´t live up to the original, but because it was a cheesy pile of cliché shite.
I can´t understand why it should be so hard to adapt a comic into a movie. But live-action movies based on comics (or computer games) almost always suck. One reason is that most often they only borrow some of the attributes from the original (like masked vigilante in purple tights living in the jungle) but use very little or none of the STORY or characterization.
Other worthless comics-based movies:
The Phantom
The Punisher
Daredevil
Fantastic Four
Judge Dredd
The Spawn
Conan The Barbarian (the 80s version, haven´t seen the new one)
Red Sonja
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
The Hulk
Dennis The Menace (not that I ever liked the comic though)
Asterix & Obelix (couldn´t finish it, too horrible)
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
Constantine
Just to name a few.
I thought the first Hellboy movie and Ghost World were OK though.