1941 with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger
Added 2025-02-02 05:00:05 +0000 UTCHe invented the summer blockbuster. He inspired millions of people around the world to “watch the skies.” And now, he has sent Griffin Newman into an existential crisis over the question “what is comedy?” Our friends Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger of The Doughboys join us to talk about Steven Spielberg’s infamously unfunny 1941. Why IS this film - loaded with so many comedic superstars - boring as shit? Is the opening scene one of the most embarrassing exercises in hubris ever committed to screen? Would this movie be better if they just inserted the entirety of Dumbo into it? Why does Eddie Deezen keep getting banned from dining establishments? Someone has to ask these things.
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Comments
I think the correct space to film make is anything goes but not everything goes
Michael Aslin
2025-02-11 02:29:27 +0000 UTCLoving the new tier, but still yelling DAVID every 20 minutes for old times sake.
Zwoozy
2025-02-06 02:03:06 +0000 UTCI guess I’m in the minority of actually enjoying this film.
Agustin Macias
2025-02-02 05:22:12 +0000 UTC
