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Get in line!
I admire the great ambition on display in every shot. It's as epic a WWII movie in its way as "Saving Private Ryan" was. I would watch it over and over, just to enjoy the young, appealing, energetic cast trying their hardest. --And of course, the one perfect, unassailable element, also working overtime to try and save the whole mess, Williams' score.
It's been said before, but I think there is some truth to the idea that it may have been ahead of its time. The "stupid comedy" is a valid, commercially viable movie genre unto itself today, and there are fewer comedies stupider. I wonder how a midnight re-release of a restored full-length cut would fare with the modern teenage demographic?
More 1941 fun:
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=66833&forumID=1&archive=0
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=54655&forumID=1&archive=0
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=40058&forumID=1&archive=1
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=27243&forumID=1&archive=1
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=16542&forumID=1&archive=1
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It had a lot going for it. It was not funny.
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Spielberg is my all time favorite filmaker, I even love his movie 1941. I find it very entertaining and love the action and spirit of the film. I'm probably the only one, but if not who else loves it?
I saw "1941" when I was seventeen years old. "Toshiro Mifune" played captain of submarine.
And the scene was parody of "Jaws".
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I adore it - I watch it every December. I wish Spielberg could do another zany, yet impeccably detailed, movie again.
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I like 2 Spielberg films. 1941 isn't one of them.
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Spielberg is my all time favorite filmaker, I even love his movie 1941. I find it very entertaining and love the action and spirit of the film. I'm probably the only one, but if not who else loves it?
I love, love, LOVE 1941 and think it's criminally underrated. It looks great, has a kickass score, and so many unforgettable hilarious moments...Slim Pickens faking diarrhea, "Horrywoooooooo!!!", Robert Stack crying in Dumbo, Dan Aykroyd getting bopped on the head by a plastic Santa, Ned Beatty blowing the crap out of everything (plus his house sliding off the hill), the crazy dude with the dummy hanging out in the Ferris Wheel, the Ferris Wheel roll and crash (unforgettable and visually stunning)...there is a lot to love here and I've never understood the criticism.
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...there is a lot to love here and I've never understood the criticism.
I won't attack the validity of the criticism -- I happen to agree with a lot of it, but find the film enjoyable anyway for what it is. However, I think it's worth noting that "1941" was never seen in its original full-length cut on home video until the 1996 laserdisc restoration. The original theatrical version was a shortened cut, created in a panic after the disappointing premiere of the full-length version.
I saw the longer cut on the Disney Channel and on commercial television -- with commercials it's r-e-a-l-l-y l-o-n-g. I once taped the Disney Channel cut and stupidly taped over it when the '96 laserdisc was released. I do believe there are scenes in the Disney Channel version that didn't make it to disc or tape, even in the extra features.
For instance, does anyone remember a shot on the ferris wheel in which the ventriloquist dummy gets airsick and vomits? I'm gonna have to check my DVD now to make sure it's not on there.
Anyway, the shortened theatrical cut was all we had on VHS for a long while, and it may seem more nonsensical than it would have otherwise because of some missing exposition and character development. I just wonder if some unfair criticism resulted from that.
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For instance, does anyone remember a shot on the ferris wheel in which the ventriloquist dummy gets airsick and vomits? I'm gonna have to check my DVD now to make sure it's not on there.
Anyway, the shortened theatrical cut was all we had on VHS for a long while, and it may seem more nonsensical than it would have otherwise because of some missing exposition and character development. I just wonder if some unfair criticism resulted from that.
I remember the airsick shot, but I don't recall if it's in the theatrical cut or the extended cut. My first exposure to the film was when it premiered on ABC eons ago, and I believe it was the extended version.
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Mar 29, 2011 - 10:53 AM
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manderley
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......Non-Film Score Discussion: Any other 1941 movie lovers here?.....
I'm a 1941 movie lover......
Among my most favorite are:
BALL OF FIRE, BLOOD AND SAND, CITIZEN KANE, COME LIVE WITH ME, DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, DUMBO, H.M.PULHAM, ESQ., HERE COMES MR. JORDAN, HIGH SIERRA, HOLD BACK THE DAWN, HONKY TONK, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, THE LADY EVE, LOVE CRAZY, LYDIA, THE MALTESE FALCON, MEET JOHN DOE, MOON OVER MIAMI, ROAD TO ZANZIBAR, SHADOW OF THE THIN MAN, THE STRAWBERRY BLONDE, SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS, SUSPICION, THAT HAMILTON WOMAN, TOM, DICK AND HARRY, WESTERN UNION, A WOMAN'S FACE, ZIEGFELD GIRL,
and, yes, even.....TWO-FACED WOMAN!
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I also love and adore "1941" -- it is my favorite Spielberg film.
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I don't remember the dummy vomiting in the theatrical release. I don't see whats so funny about a vomiting dummy to begin with.
The music IS the movie along with some of the SFX!
--Hey, who ever said it was funny? 
I did think it was funny when the dummy was the first of these three to spot the Japanese sub offshore, though. Murray Hamilton says something like, "Herb, the dummy's RIGHT!"
Another standout scene for me would have to be the big fight at the dance, completely choreographed to Benny Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing," but for which Williams composed his own Goodmanesque big-band number "Swing, Swing, Swing."
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