Showing posts with label Howard the Duck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Howard the Duck. Show all posts

Monday, May 8, 2017

Marvel Studios Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

The Marvel Super Heroes Podcast
Episode 071

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Face Front, True Believer! Fry-Hole returns to join Illegal Machine, Mister Fixit, & (oh, lord, "The Ruiner") Diabolu Frank to discuss (bash? ruin?) the heavily-anticipated sequel to one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's most beloved and surprising films, Guardians of the Galaxy! The episode is as long as the actual movie, so whether we love it or hate it, you're going to get maybe too much of us on this, however it shakes out! Excelsior!


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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

#MarvelSHP MPDC Spring Special 2015

The Marvel Super Heroes Podcast
Episode 038



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Face Front, True Believers! It's been four months since #MarvelSHP Annual 2014, so we felt like it was time to push out another clip show as a seasonal event! However, due to another recording error where Frank's stupid laptop with the dicey USB port defaulted to a crumby internal microphone, the vast majority of this extra-length, minimally-edited show will be new material! To listeners, anyway! Well, as new as our continuing to talk noise about comic book media adaptations and other nerd ephemera gets! Besides roughly an hour of Mister Joe Fixit taking the fore (for once,) we also dug into the vaults for a best of compilation of episode three-- SDCC 2014 FYI and episode sixteen-- NYCC 2014 FYI, scavenging whatever pearls we could find from our coverage of comic conventions from last year (including previously deleted tangents!) Also, before and after candor for episode 21-- Howard the Duck (1986)! While Moon Knight is barely a subject this episode, he's an excellent figurehead for the show's dissociative identity disorder, as we spend most of the second hour in the role of The DC Super Heroes Podcast! Cast a nostalgic ear toward the days when our equipment was garbage and there was tons of audible artifacts (Ooo thunderstorms! Dogs! TV in the background!) It's even more strictly amateur hour than usual, so much so that we can't even be trusted to keep it at an hour!

  • 0:01:19 Fixit on Herb Trimpe & Rob Liefeld
  • 0:02:43 Fixit samples the TV shows Constantine, Arrow, The Flash, & Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • 0:10:20 Fixit on the DC original animated movie Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
  • 0:12:18 The trio on the teaser trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
  • 0:17:01 Fixit wants to add Suicide Squad to the mix...
  • 0:28:29 Furious 7 sucked.
  • 0:30:27 Clip Show: Star Wars movies from Dark Horse to Marvel
  • 0:33:25 Star Wars: The Force Awakens preview trailer
  • 0:42:09 We are not talking about Jurassic World...
  • 0:47:07 ...but we will talk about Jeff Goldblum...
  • 0:50:51 ...and somehow, Straight Outta Compton
  • 0:54:17 "Deleted Scenes": Superior Spider-Man, Bendis GotG, Angela, Geoff Johns & Ebola
  • 1:06:12 "Deleted Scenes": Ducking Hell and the Burdens of Being an Aquafan
  • 1:11:38 "Deleted Scenes": Moon Knight
  • 1:13:59 Marvel's Ultimate "Catastrophe" and Batman Eternal
  • 1:17:03 "Deleted Scenes": The Death & Return of Superman
  • 1:23:44 "Deleted Scenes": The New 52
  • 1:31:04 The Peter David Discussion: Aquaman/Supergirl/Hulk
  • 1:41:42 The Jason Momoa Aquaman/Namor Proxy
  • 1:50:51 Batmen
  • 1:57:49 Not Iron Man 4
  • 2:00:02 Legos Helicarrier
  • 2:03:34 "Deleted Scenes": Jim Shooter at Marvel & Valiant
  • 2:08:07 "Deleted Scenes": Girlbusters & The Bill Murray Meme
  • 2:14:00 The not-so-Mighty Marvel Tweet Bag



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Sunday, November 23, 2014

Howard the Duck (1986)

The Marvel Super Heroes Podcast
Episode 021



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Face Front, True Believers! Mister Fixit, Illegal Machine and Diabolu Frank tackle the first ever major motion picture to star a Marvel Comics character, Howard the Duck! Conceived as an animated project, Universal Studios needed a live action summer release from Lucasfilm, so the film was converted without regard to propriety or technical difficulties on a tight schedule. The actual Howard suit/animatronics were a work in progress, with varied, obviously divergent stages/designs showing up throughout the film. Ed Gale primarily worked Howard's body, while Chip Zien provided the drake's voice. One of the major action set pieces, the Ultralight sequence, was designed by future Captain America: The First Avenger director Joe Johnston. Released on August 1, 1986, the film earned less than a million dollars over its reported production of $37M ($77m in adjusted dollars, relatively cheap by today's standards.) Despite its reputation as one of the biggest box office flops and "worst movies ever," the facts of the matter don't add up. Howard isn't even in the top 50 worst performers at the box office (it technically made money in the long run.) It isn't on IMDb's Bottom 100 (with its 4.5 rating) and there are many thousands of movies with lower Tomatometer readings than 14% (39% with audiences.) But we're not here to damn the movie with faint praise as only a middling disaster*. Howard the Duck scores 100% favorability among your trio of hosts, who are here to tell you why for a bit under an hour. Excelsior! Plus, the Mighty Marvel Mail Bag!



*Full Disclosure: Howard the Duck did put in a strong underperformance as the 1986 Razzie awards, tying for worst picture with Under the Cherry Moon and chosen as biggest loser for Worst Screenplay to Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, Worst Visual Effects to Industrial Light and Magic, and Worst New Star to "The Six Guys and Gals in The Duck Suit," plus nominations for Worst Supporting Actor Tim Robbins, Worst Director Willard Huyck, and Worst Original Song for "Howard The Duck" by Thomas Dolby, Allee Willis and George Clinton.



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