20 Worst Films Of All Time

3. Howard The Duck (1986)

It€™s going out on a limb to call any one film the flattest, clunkiest and most depressing picture ever released by a major studio, so here€™s a compromise: Howard The Duck is the flattest, clunkiest and most depressing movie released by a major studio in the 1980s. The tragedy is that Steve Gerber€™s comic book character is loads of fun, a cynical, bad tempered duck from another world who€™s angry at being stuck on a planet where Jimmy Carter can become President. In this George Lucas-produced megabomb, however, he€™s the invention of a focus group, a special effect intended to appeal to a broad demographic. Now give us all your money and shut up. Writing in Twilight Zone Magazine, Gahan Wilson called the film, €œoutstanding in its attempt to cater to an audience of remarkably low intelligence. I think it would be fair to say that the level of its aim could be described as condescending, even insulting, and it€™s kind of awesome to try to envision what kind of theaterful they must€™ve had in mind.€