Here's the thing: in the grand scheme of things, "1941" was not relly a flop. However, because critics were mixed on the flick and it wasn't as big of a hit as Spielberg's previous two movies ...

Spielberg does that in "1941," too, but I think his film's most outraged critics thought, for example, he unmoored a ferris wheel and rolled it down a pier for real. As with most of the movie's ...