5.) 1941

Took me like a week to finish. Watched the extended cut on accident. It's beautifully filmed and constructed but fails as a comedy imo. It's wild to have multiple big names of comedy (Aykroyd, Belushi, Candy) in a movie and not have any laughs. John Belushi is the only role that really resembles a comedy. Too many plotlines and mostly just boring. Super high budget spectacle though. Some of the practical FX and set pieces are amazing. But at what cost? 😂 Any other director it would've tanked his career. But going from Jaws, Close Encounters to 1941. And his comeback was Raiders of the Lost Ark and ET?? Just a blip on his radar. In the middle of 4 of the biggest blockbuster films ever made lol. The ventriloquist dummy gag was really good, though

Ranking:

Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Duel
Sugarland Express
1941

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