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Never understood the hate..

posted 12 years ago by shadys_dreams-953-80708
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I mean okay, everyone has an opinion. But nothing out there has made me change my mind of how awesome i think this film is.

Not one person has convinced me. I'm trying sooooo hard to be convinced, i just want to see WHY there is no love for this, but i can't.

Maybe i'm strange who knows. But it just seems a lot of critic just jumped on a bandwagon and made up some random hate for this film.

I'm not going to go on forever about how much i think this film rocks because i'd be here all night, but i can't see past that.

Now i love all the greats, Godfather, Shawshank, Pulp Fiction etc.. but still LOVE this.. maybe i'm more open minded about film choice than most of these so called professional critics who write anything it seems and collect the cheques.

Now Mr Lucas.. i've NEVER seen your Star Wars films and most likely never will but you sir, are a hero of mine for this movie alone. I salute you.

[–] BillyBones69 9 years ago

Hello

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[–] lukejbarnett2002 9 years ago

exactly, it is random hate because it makes no sense and is ill conceived and incorrect and wrong. it's random hate because they randomly picked this movie to hate and throw all kinds of bad criticism against it.

[–] lukejbarnett2002 9 years ago

I know what it is, it's a myth, or an urban legend, this movie being a terrible, horrible movie. an urban legend is some story that by being told many times over it gets thought of as the truth and is believed when it's actually not true. so, the urban legend is this film is one of the worst films ever made.

[–] nicholasmonks 8 years ago

I know people that worship Avatar but hate this movie. I definitely think "Howard" is the better movie by a long shot. These are the same people that always ask me why I can't just "enjoy a movie as entertainment."

I think Howard has more in common with a John Waters film than the Godfather, but for some reason people were expecting something transcendent rather than the absurd, bizarre, camp comic book comedy adventure it turned out to be.

Give me a marathon of this, Big Trouble in Little China and Ishtar, and I've got a well rounded night of laughing.

[–] manchof1 8 years ago

The problem with this film is its too long and needed to be cut down for better pacing.

[–] csweetleaf2 (3614) 6 years ago

I haven't seen the movie since I was a kid but I remember this was one of my favorite movies growing up in grade school, I'd like to give the movie another shot.

[–] csweetleaf2 (3614) 5 years ago

I haven't seen this movie since I was a kid but I remember back in the 1980's this was one of my all time favorite movies, I'm not sure how well I'm gonna like this movie as an adult.

[–] Kowalski (71503) 5 years ago

YES..FAVORITE WHEN I WAS A KID...AND NOW IM 38 AND....ITS STILL A FAVORITE,OWN THE BLU RAY..WATCHED IT WITH MY DAUGHTER RECENTLY...JUST A SILLY,FUN,TOUCHING FLICK...PRIME LEA THOMPSON CANNOT BE BEAT.