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Vitally Useless's avatar

For some reason, I had the novelization of Howard the Duck and I remember it being really funny, a lot funnier than the film.

Rob "Flack" O'Hara's avatar

You know, I don't think that's uncommon. I think with a lot of novelizations they fix problems the director either couldn't or wouldn't. In the novelization of Star Wars, Chewbacca gets a medal. :)

Vitally Useless's avatar

Or they go to press before re-shoots, the Pretty in Pink novelization had the original ending where Angie chooses Duckie. Test screening audiences hated that ending (correct) and it was quickly reshot before the film was released.

Karavelle Skye Gregory's avatar

The writer of the novelization mimicked the style of the comics, not the screenplay. It’s much better.

Rob "Flack" O'Hara's avatar

Not getting the tone right for a comic-based movie will kill it. I need to pick up that novelization.

Andria Lisle's avatar

my scalp hurts every time I see this photo! I can taste the Aqua Net.

Rob "Flack" O'Hara's avatar

I graduated high school in 1991 and you should see my yearbook. Half my senior class looked just like Lea Thompson in this movie.

Hot_Apple_Pie's avatar

despite all of the above, I still believe this flick is worth the watch

Rob "Flack" O'Hara's avatar

I still revisit it from time to time, too. Gotta look at the good and overlook the bad.

RJ's avatar

“…a day that will live - in infamy.”

Samuel JD Scorsone's avatar

Such a strange movie.

The Last Vampire Slayer's avatar

OMg, I use to be obsessed with this movie!!

M A S's avatar

Little pond hopper…

MSN's avatar

I was driving to a job interview in Napa on that Hwy 12 connection to Sonoma and found the derelict faux gas & sushi bar set on the roadside. Empty & abandoned and utterly bizarre. Wasn’t til a year later someone told it was from Howard the cluster.

Rob "Flack" O'Hara's avatar

I would have moved into it. That place was awesome.

Michael Martin's avatar

Make it cannon that he's the missing dad in ducktales, it's funny and besides what else is Disney gonna do with him?

Kelly Harbeson's avatar

Too bad. It was a GREAT comic. Not surprising it wasn’t done justice to. Just a shame.

tommy m's avatar

They hyped this movie for a freaking month……it was terrible…..probably the worst movie she ever made….😅

Rob "Flack" O'Hara's avatar

Yeah those movie posters with a cigar coming out of an egg shell were just confusing.

Novaheart's avatar

Omg is that Marty McFlys mom?

Jim Wilcox's avatar

I love that movie. It’s a crackup, no pun intended.

David Bell's avatar

Totally ridiculous.

ducks with blue eyes.

Altagracia Figueroa's avatar

My favorite Marvel character

Aural Sects's avatar

I was there the day the car went off the bridge near my home town.

Boy this movie stank!!