1941 (1979)
Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor. (imdb)
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Action, War
Country: USA
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Written By: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Michael McKean, Robert Stack, Ned Beatty, Warren Oates, Christopher Lee, Tim Matheson, Toshirô Mifune, Penny Marshall, John Candy, Elisha Cook Jr., John Belushi
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1941 belongs to 10 collections
1. Jonathan Rosenbaum's Top 1000 Movies (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 36 stars)
2. World War 2 (public: moderated by td888 - 15 stars)
3. Alternate versions / cuts (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 9 stars)
4. 1940s period film (public: moderated by djross - 7 stars)
5. Anamorphic Cinematography (public: moderated by Bojangles - 4 stars)
6. The AV Club: My Year of Flops (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 2 stars)
7. The Flop House Podcast (public: moderated by mucow - 2 stars)
8. John Williams (composer) (public: moderated by djross)
9. War Comedies (public: moderated by Grumblebutt)
10. mwgerb's Netflix Instant Queue (private: mwgerb - 2 stars)
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A benchmark for cinematic self-indulgence with about as much subtlety as Jack the Ripper's last kill - 80s excess had nothing on this 1979 flick. It's the comedy equivalent of watching Macho Man Randy Savage flex for 2 hours uninterrupted - ooh yeah! It's also an unexpected Christmas film. I felt violated while watching this, but it's art so I guess that makes it interesting.
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This movie that kind of jams together "Animal House", early Robert Zemeckis and "Tora! Tora! Tora!" should have been directed by someone else. John Landis is in the damn film ... why didn't he direct it? The problem is that while Spielberg stages some magnificent sequences here, he has no real sense for comedy and this film is just not funny ... not even the slightest bit. The energy and timing are just wrong. It's a very big, loud mess.
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My lord what were they on? SNL?
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Spielberg's first real mistake. That being said. This is an exceedingly well shot and occasionally very funny mistake. 1941 works well enough. It simply overstays it's welcome by a solid 20 minutes and there are far too many characters.
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By starting with a Jaws parody, 1941 taps the core of Spielberg cinema -- the belief in the power of spectacle -- and the unofficial American written by Gale/Zemeckis to unleash hell. The Japanese never really hit LA -- they tear apart an amusement park and leave --, but all that matters here is the collection of stupid action/explosion set-pieces and shouting comic bits (the couple getting laid in a plane, the military officer crying at a Dumbo screening, the street riot, the mental Aykroyd).
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As an insecure boy I remember '1941' having a profound effect on me. I watched it several times in disbelief. This was Spielberg?! But.. But it was.. horrible! I felt shame. There was something wrong with me. Spielberg could do no wrong! Fast forward to the bitter, misanthropic man I was, when I recently watched 'War Horse'... If only someone could have reached out to that little boy: 'Hey... Hey guy... it's okay... come here... 'berg fucked up.' Sorry, I'm going to go have a moment with myself.
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You invite Steven Spielberg over for an entertaining get-together. A young version of him shows up, drunk and draped in an American flag. After jumping on your coffee table he starts telling a story at an uncomfortable high volume, gesticulating wildly and being allround obnoxious. In-between he ogles your girlfriend creepily and makes racist jokes. Towards the end he just starts trashing your house, cackling like a madman non-stop. You are relieved when he finally leaves. 1941.
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An absolute mess of a movie, to say nothing of how abrasively unfunny it is. It's about as funny as Pearl Harbor. The final scene with the house is Exhibit A in Spielberg's inability to frame a gag. The bombastic action is actually somewhat fun, though, and the score is quite good as well. It's a great shame, too, because there's a great movie buried in this concept, but it was made by a filmmaker then too young to nail it and now probably too pedestrian to even try.
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