Just finished watching "1941"

My favorite scene: When the sentry kicks Wild Bill Kelso in the shin just to make sure he's isn't a Jap on stilts. Thought I was gonna die!!!

Just watch it over and over again. You find something new every time. The song in the big fight scene at the USO is the fight theme from John Wayne's "The Quiet Man." Two fo my favorite films with a great tie-in. :) - Ed

Yeah, Blackwolf..........
I loved the bit (LMAO) where the sub crew are trying to cram "Horrywood's" radio through the sub hatch, but it's too big. I laughed my butt off but the audience over here (in Oz) let that one slip past them.
The same goes with many references in "Stripes" with Bill Murray (It's Miller time!!). They just didn't get it and I felt like an idiot being the only one in a movie theatre who was laughing.
Ah, well..........
LeeTree

The name of Slim Pickens character was Hollis P. Wood, hence the confusion when the Jap Admiral asks, "Where Horrywood?" LMAO

One thing I really like about that flick is the fact that the German and the Jap officers are talking to each other in their own languages and understand each other perfectly. The humor is sometimes so subtle...

Okay, this is bound to go long here, but here's some of my favorite lines from the film:

"Been tracking a squadron of Jap Zeros for three days..."

"This isn't the state of California, it's the state of insanity!"

"Donna, my interest is very strategic..."

"No bombs will be dropped here."

"We've got to find a way to make these things smaller..."

"LOST!!"

"CAN OPENER!!"

"Pamona, which way's Pamona?"

"That's a Nakajima Zero, or I'm a bigger dummy than he is..."

"OH..."

"MY..."

"GOD!!!!!"

Sgt, "What's the plan of action sir?" General Stilwell, "Hold the block... you can hold one block, can't you?"

"Sir, we tried to hold the block but the plane broke through our perimeter."

"He shot down a Jap sub, too."

"THAT, is the craziest Sonofabitch I ever saw, how many more like him do you think are up there?"

"BOMBS! I don't hear any bombs going off; they came all the way from Asia, don't you think they'd bring a few bombs along?"

"I think we sank the sub, I saw it go down!"

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

Sorry...


Fade to Black...

War nerves? Who said war nerves?

That would be Slim Pickens, the same actor that rode the H-bomb in Dr. Strangelove! Both great flicks. And how 'bout Toshiro Mifune AND Christopher Lee in the same film? Speilberg had a great time with this one.

That movie is, in my opinion, one of the best and funniest WWII movies out there. If you get a chance, watch all of the special stuff on the DVD. MOst of the stuff in the movie is based on fact! And yes, Belushi was classic in that movie.

demono69

I disagree with the critics also, I thought it was a hoot. I can't remember the old farmer guys name who gets captured, but that line after he swallowed the compass "You ain't gonna get S*&% outta me!" is still a classic. I thought Dan Ackroyd was pretty funny as the demented tank commander.