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Shawn Macomber — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:59:33 -0000

Any way we could put talking ducks in the wheelchairs of Snake-Eater 3?

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J. Peter Freire — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:41:54 -0000

...was pretty bad. Lorenzo Lamas plays a Vietnam vet who, upon learning that a regular at his midnight basketball program died from using "poisoned drugs" (really) walks into his closet, grabs grenades and a handgun, and kills an entire alley full of ne'erdowells with one of the most bored expressions on his face you've ever seen. He also has a "streetwise sidekick" named "Speedboat." There's a Ben-Hur-like death tournament at one point on the roof of a mental hospital. The twist? The combatants are in wheelchairs.

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Shawn Macomber — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:34:18 -0000

Taking the word of critics and friends, I saw The Namesake last night and it was terrible. Just like Waitress. Just like Lady in the Water. Just like the movies mentioned above and a dozen others this year. Hours and hours of my life--poof!

Now you tell me that any of the aforementioned films wouldn't have been better with a cast of talking ducks. We're talking a new immutable law of culture here, I think.

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Shawn Macomber — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:23:06 -0000

Christ on a crutch...Howard the Duck, first of all, cannot be the worst film ever because it has talking animals as a main plot point, even if its no Babe II: Pig in the City. Second, any film that includes a sex scene between Lea Thompson and a talking duck begins at genius and works it's way up from there. Oh, and you don't have to look into the distant past to find a lesser film. There are probably a dozen in theaters right now worse than Howard the Duck.

I honestly never got what the knock against this film was, either as a kid seeing it in the theater or during any subsequent re-watchings up through last year. It's accessible absurdity rather than the pretentious absurdity that frequently tops critics lists. And, truth be told, the flick that begins with a water fowl drinking beer and reading Playduck is more fully realized creative endeavor than current lazy critical favs like, say, Before the Devil or There Will Be Blood.

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Kathleen — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:32:13 -0000

i wish i'd been in the room when it got greenlighted, too. that must have been some quality weed...