Willard Huyck's 1986 film "Howard the Duck," overseen by people at Lucasfilm and featuring a Marvel Comics character, still has a reputation as one of the most notorious bombs in film history. It didn't lose the most money -- not by a long shot. But it was lambasted and pilloried upon its release as off-putting and misguided, using state-of-the-art visual effects to realize a very strange, cynical comedy character in a baffling and badly written story. It was just as bad an idea as it appeared to be at first glance. For those lucky enough to be out of the loop,...
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