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Joe Julians (221 KP) rated Howard the Duck (1986) in Movies

Jun 20, 2018  
Howard the Duck (1986)
Howard the Duck (1986)
1986 | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
3
5.6 (17 Ratings)
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Every bit as bad as you've heard, Howard the Duck is an embarrassment to everyone that had the misfortune to end up in it. Painfully unfunny, horribly plotted and a downright chore to watch, this is one to avoid. Don't make the mistake of thinking it will be so bad that it's good, it's just plain bad.
  
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David McK (3453 KP) rated Ice Station Zebra (1968) in Movies

Nov 24, 2023  
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
1968 | Action, Classics, Drama
4
6.3 (4 Ratings)
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1960s Cold War submarine based thriller, based on the novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean, with this movie - I have heard - being so beloved of Howard Hughes that it aired on a Las Vega station he owned over 100 times during his lifetime.

The plot? Basically, a satellite containing stolen equipment has crashed in the arctic. The race is on to retrieve said equipment.

But who can be trusted?
  
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Karina Longworth recommended Caught (2015) in Movies (curated)

 
Caught (2015)
Caught (2015)
2015 | Mystery
(0 Ratings)
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"It was was directed Max Ophuls and it stars Robert Ryan as a character who was intended to be based on Howard Hughes. Max Ophuls had been hired by Hughes’ production company, RKO, early to make the film that was actually supposed to be Faith Domergue’s big starring vehicle, and that movie just turned into a disaster. The production of it dragged along over five or six years with many different directors. After Ophuls got fired from it, he got hired to make an adaptation by another company of a novel called Wild Calendar. He told the screenwriter that he was paired with that he didn’t want to actually adapt the novel; he wanted to use the structure of the novel to make a film about how terrible he thought Howard Hughes was. They basically culled the notes of everything that they’d ever heard about Howard Hughes and Ophuls’ personal experiences, and the screenwriter, Arthur Laurents, went out and he met women who had had encounters with Hughes and then put it all together in this film which is about a shop girl who gets involved with a mysterious millionaire. The mysterious millionaire’s played by Robert Ryan, who was an actor who made a lot of different kinds of movies, and to a lot of film noir fans and B-Movie, genre film fans, he’s considered a great star, but he really looks like Howard Hughes in a lot of ways. They’re both very tall and lanky and have kind of a similar jaw. Even though Hughes knew this movie was being made – he insisted that he be sent dailies – he asked for some changes so that people wouldn’t think it’s him. The character and the performance are a lot like him. Nowadays, especially given everything we know about Howard Hughes, the similarities are impossible to ignore."

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