I saw "Howard the Duck" in the theater. I loved it. I'll keep on loving it. You just can't understand that special love some have for Howard.

I get the feeling that, in the editing room, after watching the first finished cut of Howard the Duck, George Lucas scratched his chin and thought to himself "There! Now that is my idea of a great movie! I wonder how I can make the next Star Wars film look more like this..."

I saw "Howard the Duck" in the theater. I hated it. I'll keep on hating it. You just can't understand that special hate some have for Howard.

I was probably 15 when it theatres in Sweden, and I was expecting howard the cartoon duck I knew (around the same era I was alos a huge fan of Arne Anka - who like Howard was chased by Disney for looking too much like their duck. They both created in-toon stories explanations for their new looks, Howard was sued for public indecency and had to wear pants, while Arne fakes his own death and gets plastic surgery done on his beak. A few episodes later he enters a well-known jokeshop and buys mask (beak) which looks exactly like his old one.

(btw sorry about that cjorgensen , I just had to try the metafilter-quoteth-but-change trick just once in my life. ....and now I feel like a prick. Anyway, I reckon that I didn't like the movie because I was expecting the funny to be on the level of the comics funny, instead we got slapstick-something-or-other.)

The monster from Howard the Duck scared the crud out of me as a kid. It's probably near Amityville Horror on the list of movies that scarred me (Amityville Horror was the scariest movie I ever saw as a kid, I had trouble sleeping for a month after it).

I was a big fan of the original Howard The Duck comic book. I was very excited when I heard there would be a movie... until i saw a preview, and I knew it would be awful. I have not yet seen it.

This movie, and Adventures in Babysitting, seem to have wound up in the same drawer in my memory. They melted together into an intermingled blob.