1941 the movie

Mudge · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:34 pm

Youse troops must be very easily entertained. I thought the movie was lame.

Mudge the critic

ps. I tried to watch "Pearl Harbor" last night. OMG! What a piece of crapola.
EVERYONE associated with that should be ashamed. :oops:

MattP38 · **Joined:** Sat May 20, 2006 7:36 pm **Posts:** 273

Mudge wrote:

Youse troops must be very easily entertained. I thought the movie was lame.

Mudge the critic

ps. I tried to watch "Pearl Harbor" last night. OMG! What a piece of crapola.
EVERYONE associated with that should be ashamed. :oops:

I have not seen the former, but I agree about the latter, and were I to comment I would be exiled to a far off island with loads of leftover radiation

muddyboots · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:10 pm

airnutz wrote:

muddyboots wrote:

If Belushi had broken his back falling of that plane there would have been heck to pay.

Dunno 'bout that 'Boots, if the studio's legal folks were worth their salt a drug test would have put
that lawsuit to bed. :wink:

If you use the WIX search "Belushi", more info is available from past threads about the movie...

Ah hahahah! That IS true! He was definitely a drunk playing a drunk in tha one

MUDGE: you realize it was intended to be an idiotic movie about an idiot part of the war, right? This was the place, after all, where we were worried about a Japanese invasion of our...beet fields.

Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:33 pm

1941 wasn't Speilberg's best work, but at least it was SUPPOSED to be a comedy. PH was intended to be a drama, and ended up as a farce (I don't think I've ever seen more idiotic Hollywood cliches crammed into a single film!) It would have been funny if it hadn't been so awful.

SN

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:22 pm

I thought 1941 was awesome. Just a sit back and laugh and not think too hard movie. As for Pearl Harbor, as bad as it was, it still educated many about heroes that they did not know about.

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:50 pm

I remember when 1941 was announced - I saved the two-page ad from the Chicago Tribune and spent nearly a year in anticipation, especially when I read about how the special effects were being done - lots of miniatures "done to 1938 standard" according to one article. The flight scenes with the miniature P-40 and the C-45 were intended to be a tribute to Howard and Theodore Lydecker, who did amazing work with models in the '40s for Republic Studios (like Flying Tigers and many wartime serials). When I finally saw it, I was so impressed with it on a technical level that it didn't bother me that I didn't really care too much about the characters! My main beefs with it were that they destroyed a LOT of vintage cars, and frankly Belushi's character's fate at the end didn't strike me as funny at all...

Lynn Allen · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:33 pm

Obergrafeter wrote:

"Fill it................Ethel"

Where???

Mudge · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:01 pm

Muddyboots wrote:

Quote:

MUDGE: you realize it was intended to be an idiotic movie about an idiot part of the war, right? This was the place, after all, where we were worried about a Japanese invasion of our...beet fields.

Yes Muddy...I do recognize comedy. I just don't think, (with a few exceptions), the movie was funny.

Mudge the curMUDGEon :roll:

muddyboots · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:35 pm

I know you know comedy Mudge (your sig's show that evyer time you post lol) But it was intended to be horrible comedy. I mean, it was intedned to be so badly funny that it came round the dial and was actually funny again. It drives people away from it and I'm sure you have to be one of those people who likes camp aor is willing to put up with it, or you'll just hate it. Nothing wrong with being in the "hated it" group, I didn't like it the first time I saw it either...

I think what I ended up liking was Belushi flying all the way from china chaisng a zero, and Sam Pickins and his little compass. And the boot. The boot was funny.

but I like boots

Obergrafeter · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:34 am

"Show us your guns........................aargh.............aargh....rat a tat tat"

Django · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:36 am

I love that movie. I need to break out the DVD again...

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11330

muddyboots wrote:

I think what I ended up liking was Belushi flying all the way from china chaisng a zero, and Sam Pickins and his little compass.

My favorite part was when they were trying to get Slim Pickens' radio into the Japanese submarine and it wouldn't fit because the cabinet was so large. The Japanese guy said that they would have to redesign the radio to make it smaller.

gary1954 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:59 pm

The airport scene was shot at Long Beach Airport, CA. with
N9323Z, 3 B-25's and 6 AT-6's, ID's unknown.

Simon, What were the 3 B-25s and the 6 AT-6s in this movie? You have any idea who would have the civil registration numbers?

51fixer · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:07 pm

gary1954 wrote:

The airport scene was shot at Long Beach Airport, CA. with
N9323Z, 3 B-25's and 6 AT-6's, ID's unknown.

Simon, What were the 3 B-25s and the 6 AT-6s in this movie? You have any idea who would have the civil registration numbers?

The AT-6s were the Skytypers SNJ-2s IIRC.
Rich

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Bomb bay doors.......... open...............

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