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A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet. But then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...
The story begins when Howard, a sarcastic humanoid duck from outer space, is somehow pulled from his home world to Cleveland where he meets and quickly befriends with Beverly Switzler, a lead singer where they must stop an alien invader known as the Dark Overlord at all costs.
I remember when this movie came out. I only wanted to see it because my friends told me that there would be a naked duck in it and I was convinced. Needless to say there was, but for a brief moment. The movie, though frowned upon, was actually pretty good. The acting wasn't top notch, nor was it bad and the whole concept was wacky and entertaining. I liked some of the sarcastic comments that Howard made and I like some of the reactions people had to his being.
Jeffery Jones, after being taken over by an alien, was funny and convincing. The special effects were okay and the Lea Thomson was pretty good a struggling female rocker. Tim Robbins was great as a geeky scientist who was in love with Beverley.
But the downsides are, it may have been to soon for a not yet ready public. The design on Howard was a little poor and the monster at the end was a let down, after it was built up for the entire movie. The climatic battle was sort of predictable and the end concert scene was corny and cheesy.
"Howard the Duck" is one of the most unpleasantly mean-spirited movies I have ever seen. It is an utterly joyless exercise, one that seems to drag on to no end, and leading nowhere good. Whenever it's not flat-out boring, it is absolute revolting, generating more twists in my stomach than most gross-out horror films have accomplished. In terms of sheer disgust, it ranks pretty close with Roger Corman's dreadful "Galaxy of Terror." This may be worse, however. For "Galaxy of Terror" used mostly slime-coated rubber monsters and gallons of blood, but it's lowlight was an infamous rape scene involving a giant worm and a human female. Very nearly disgusting is this movie's lowlight: a near-sex scene (consensual, mind you!) between a human female and a duck from outer space.
The most shocking thing is that this sequence and many others are contained in a movie meant to not only be a comedy, but a comedy for children. Why, I cannot imagine. I admit I am not familiar with the original comic book material, save for a few cover photos I have seen. The Howard the Duck from the comics, to me, resembled a chain-smoking caricature of Donald Duck. Well, the duck here smokes, as well. He also cusses, is a master of Quack-Fu, is libidinous toward human females, and is one of cinema's most entirely unsympathetic so-called protagonists. The movie would like us to laugh and empathize with Howard, but my morals refused to. Straight from the beginning, Howard is an unlikable little twerp, and he remains an unlikable little twerp. I do grant that the special effects used to create him are fairly good. His bill opens and closes smoothly and with lip movement, his eyes do not merely sit in their sockets, and the suit movement is decent enough. But taking this vulgar character from the comics and making him into a likable figure was a tough challenge, and clearly the screenwriters were not up to it.
Speaking of the screenwriters, is it a coincidence that the storytellers of this fiasco were the same duo who wrote "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?" Both films are unnecessarily grim, clumsily juggle whimsy with nightmare images, and are simply difficult to endure. "Howard the Duck" is very much the same, except, unlike "Temple of Doom," it does not have a director who can produce some nevertheless redeeming features. What it does have are those same traits I mentioned above, as well as disturbing moments such as one where a group of bikers and truck drivers in a roadside café strap Howard down to a table and try to behead him with a kitchen knife. Decapitation is one of the more disturbing means of execution; it should be used sparingly in the movies, let alone kids' movies. Just the idea of it is disturbing. And what do the makers of "Howard the Duck" do in an attempt to soften the scene? They have Lea Thompson, who is, by the way, the duck's human companion, plead "Don't kill him! He's my boyfriend!" A truck driver responds: "That is disgusting!" A true statement, but not the least bit funny.
There are numerous other would-be gags, which include: a female duck with creepily humanoid breasts sitting in her bathtub; a waitress saying "We don't allow pets on the premises!"; the constant wisecracks for citizens who see Howard for the first time; Howard scaring a group of children.
The people in the movie don't fare much better. Miss Thompson is whimsical and easy on the eyes, but she's too dizzy to be charming. There is also Tim Robbins doing a decent-enough job and occasionally forcing a grin out of me. The only other person on-screen long enough to be worth mentioning is Jeffrey Jones, who is stone-faced when a scientist and goofily over-the-top when possessed by a demon from outer space. They are also surrounded by a lot of production design and special effects, some of which are dazzling. The dust we see floating around in outer space and the lights spewing from a giant proton machine are pretty, and the climax of the movie features an excellently animated stop-motion insect. He should get his own movie. But "Howard the Duck" is too lopsided and gross-factor-heavy to beguile an audience. It is a stomach-twisting disgust most of the time and insufferably boring the rest of the time.
Howard the Duck' begins as a mild satire about a duck who fell to earth, but midway through, the star is upstaged by horrifying demons and dazzling light shows.
Two scenes had to be cut to get a PG rating for the theatrical release of the movie (condom in Howard's wallet / tentacle tongue in the cigarette lighter socket). This version was then released by CIC Video in 1987 on VHS with the same rating. The later PG DVD release by Metrodome was cut more heavily. All scenes with sexual content were removed, among others. But an uncut DVD with a BBFC 12 rating was also released in the UK. a5c7b9f00b
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