Audiences and the makers all criticize what went wrong, what could have been done different. From the script, cast, dance numbers, FX, cinematography, John Williams’ score to Steven’s magical hands, this is a perfect movie, from the first to the last frame.. it will take the world maybe another 100 years to realize it, I did it the first I saw it as a child. This is simply a perfect movie.
I went to high school with Bobby DiCicco (the guy Treat Williams was chasing around the dance floor). He had a lot of ambition. His career fizzled not long after this. I still can't figure out how he got this role.
I loved this movie and so did many of those in the crowded theater. In fact, I didn’t even know it was a “bomb” until the media said it was years later.
My grandparents took me at 10 years old to see this movie. They thought "1941" would be similar to "Midway" or "The longest day". Needless to say they were shocked and I was never the same afterwards. God, I love this movie to this day. Such a great christmas movie.
I watched this movie when it came out, several times, during that spring-break. An excellent pop-corn movie! The ONLY message I got from it was, "Sit back, enjoy and have some laughs!" Hollywood has forgotten that message...
It wasn't a flop though. A budget of $35 million and made $95 million back. And it was Oscar nominated too. Critics didn't like it, but it was far from a flop.
It's only remembered as a flop in the sense that Spielberg had just come off the one-two punch of Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which were both among the highest grossing movies of their year. 1941 made money, but it didn't make Jaws money. Then two years later, Spielberg came back with Raiders of the Lost Ark, and that was such a smash that it made everyone forget about this little oddity.
@sperrin well,it was considered a flop for it didn't gross as much as Jaws did but it is a hell of a movie and surely will be remembered as the new Hellzapoppin'
*1941* is one of my all time favourite movies. 🎥 🍿 It’s also one of the greatest WWII films ever made. Grew up watching it on Betamax™️ over and over and over. I love that it’s on PLUTO TV a lot lately. (watching it right now, in fact. 12.19.2022 🤓)
What if Spielberg's 1941, Saving Private Ryan, and Schindler's List were all a trilogy that takes place in the same reality? Their release order coincides with the historical order of the events they center around. The story just gets darker and darker.
I love 1941, it's goddamn hilarious and such a blast. But I'm glad you uploaded this, because this is way better aspect ratio than the DVD of this movie I have which was a special collector's edition of the extended cut which had the making of featurette, which it zoomed up the original ratio to a 1:78.1 ratio. Purely stupid.
Movie had all the potential in the world to be a classic. Written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, direction by Steven Spielberg. Huge star-studded cast including Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, John Belushi etc. It need a rewrite tbh but who knows, everything happens for a reasons. Maybe if this wasn’t a failure we wouldn’t of gotten the masterpiece of Back to the Future
Thanks for uploading! This doc is really great for showing how much hard work and skill goes into creating even a profoundly unfunny film. haha It's really interesting to hear almost every person in charge recount here how many people cautioned them against doing virtually everything they were doing, and yet they just went for it. Well, sometimes that pays off...and sometimes it doesn't.
Was the torpedo scene ever done as an animation piece by anyone because that is funny and can certainly be done now with green screens and CGI. Did Chuck Jones draw out several stills to describe the sequence or just those storyboards?
I have the extended version of this movie (which in my opinion is the better version) digitally ripped in mp4 format. I could upload it to Google Drive and then you can download it from there.
@@Yet.Another.Channel Sounds great! Upload the movie to Google Drive where I can be able to download it from my computer and I couldn't thank you enough.
@@Joshua_Quinzel_Isley Unfortunate news. After attempting several times I just gave up on uploading to google drive. I'm not sure what the issue is. You can purchase the blu ray on ebay for a reasonable price if you absolutely must see the extended version.
I remember seeing photos of the sky above Los Angeles where the anti-aircraft tracer rounds were literally lighting up the sky above the city. I'm having trouble finding it now, or the newspaper articles that went with it before it was announced as a false alarm. It was so quickly jumped upon and silenced by the military that it might have been a secret weapon (or alien UFO's) that had drawn the fire. Gunners believed they were shooting at something as the number of rounds reported to be fired was a huge number, which is not included in the Wikipedia entry. This movie as well is mysteriously under-represented as it was for a time the greatest white elephant ever to come from Hollywood.
That movie is insanely funny. Imho Spielbergs best film. The girl hanging on the periscope still makes me giggle just when i think about it. Greetings from Germany!
1941 needed Peter Sellers for it to work. Had he played multiple characters in the movie, the roles played by Robert Stack, Christopher Lee, Ned Beatty & Eddie Deezan the movie would have been funnier & caught on with a larger audience: the Goons meet SNL
I like the film. Funny with awesome sets! But I will admit that the film never finds it's comedic footing as say a film like Mad Mad Mad Mad World. The film is not a bad film but not a great film eitheir.
I think John Wayne's reaction to the script pretty much sums it up, why many Americans couldn't laugh about this movie. They felt it was anti-American. Which it wasn't. Also not from a foreigner's perspective. If they had written a similar script about Nazis, I think Steven would be still counting his money today. In my view this is one of the most hilarious movies ever made. But I never laughed over the Americans as such.
1941 is one those films that everyone wanted to be a really great film (Star Trek The Motion Picture, The Black Hole, Heavens Gate, Hulk) but somehow it isn't. But I've always liked 1941. Ironically the non comedian star-Robert Stack-is the funniest character in the film! Dumbo!
Budget of $35 million, made $95 million.... so a $60 million profit 'flop'? This wasn't a flop, not even close. IT just didnlt make the kind of money his previous tew films made.
