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Just recently I happened to end up sitting in a ferris wheel. Up there I couldn't help but thinking about Spielberg's forgotten comedy 1941.

The film is from 1979, had bad reviews, and was considered a failure for Spielberg. What wouldn't have been after Jaws and Close Encounters?

I have always secretly liked the film. Its noisy, stupid, includes a lot of screaming, slapstick-comedy, massive sets and all-star cast. Even Christopher Lee, not to mention Belushi & Aykroyd just before making Blues Brothers. I just cant help enjoying, when clearly a huge sum of money is wasted making stupid jokes! Driving a tank through a paint-factory. Dropping a full scale house off the cliff. Belushi landing an aeroplane on a crowded street. And of course... Japanese submarine shooting an amusement park by mistake, and the ferris wheel gets loose and runs to the sea!

Seen the film in a theatre a couple of times in 80's. Sometimes in early 90's I taped a longer version from TV.

Now I noticed that the film has been released as a DVD in 1999, and only region 1. I guess I have to dig the boxes of old, blurry VHS-tapes in the cellar to see it again...

Back in my video shop days this was the video that was pretty much always available. I kept it in the dust collectors section alongside Shanghai Surprise and a few other bum movies.

It's a strange thing, it has great ingredients, Spielberg, Belushi, Aykroyd, and yet it just sucks.

Agreed

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Ha! Maybe it sucks, but in such a loud and over-the-top way that I have always found it hilarious. I would never even try to compare it to Shanghai Surprise, which, if I remember correctly, was just lame. If anything, 1941 is not lame.

Belushi saved it for me.

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Was it drowning?

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Deserved to be

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The Thirteenth Triskaidekaphobe
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Ok, you might as well go find a rope to hang me with, but I love 1941. Yes, it could have been better, but I love it to this day.

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It's been a long time since I've watched it, but I have to like it. It's a moral law that I have to like anything Dan Aykroyd is in. I'm the same way about John Cleese.

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I think it was:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP9P8YKBSlE[/youtube]

Haha! The film is out on DVD again. Bought it yesterday.