Why was this movie a flop?
Why was this movie considered a flop? I thought it was a really funny and enjoyable movie to watch and it deserved a much better reputation than it recieved.
shareThe movie made a lot in the theaters, it was considered well liked when it came out.
Everyone who honestly see's it now enjoys it and isn't really annoyed or mad at it, it was made prior to knowing most common knowledge of special effects. So there really isn't any CGI.
The only place this film "flopped" was after theater sales and views.
It's only a flop to people who aren't aware of the facts that make the film really great. Like it's based on a great comic. The special effects were based on really cool ideas that translate great to screen, but if you discount the ideas you would probably do something like I heard of in the past. Once I heard a person comment about the part with the tunnel that dragged Howard through space.
They were like "That's so fake, Lasers can't do that, that's dumb how could that happen?! Man such a stupid concept he would die of suffication in space... Man I can't stand these cheesy costumes...F why was he designed after a puppet!?!? Dude that's so dumb, that he could survive that trip".
Like he was so ignorant to the fact, it's a conceptual idea in a story, not based on facts. What happened was the prototype laser created a magnetic field so strong around Howard he was in less then 20 seconds sent to Earth. It protected him. And at the time that was the greatest costume ever, because now they use CGI which looks to me like that costume looks to you. On the watchmen, yeah, I can't really enjoy it from the shattily designed blue person. He's fake. Howard was real. End of factual argument.
The point is, it's a comic book. They did a great job repping that.
On the new X Men films they didn't and they haven't with Spiderman either, it's supposed to be extravagantly ostentatious, not emotionally realistic on a relationship base. F relationships that are less superficial then Howards and Beverly's in comic book movies. Your not supposed to learn, your supposed to enjoy the actions.
And how could you not enjoy the cop chase with the glider? That was one of the greatest chase scenes in movie history.
This movie, like "Earth Girls Are Easy"and "My Stepmother is an Alien" and many others of their ilk is a product of 80's smaltz. I grew up with it and that's why I liked it(the song wasn't too bad either). I was twenty five when this came out and I thought it was the cutest thing, but I guess not enough kids and twenty something's went to see it or it wasn't marketed to the right crowd, so it flopped moneywise.
I say to each his own when it comes to movies, if you loved it like I did and might watch it whenever it's shown on TV, that's great. If you hated it and never want to watch it again...that's up to you. All I know is there are worse movies out there than "Howard the Duck."
It didn't make a lot of money in theaters, what are you, on drugs?
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