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In this comedy movie that cost an outrageous $27million. Then he turns around and makes _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ on $7million less than that. Spielberg had already outspent Landis, though, since _1941_ cost $35million to make. Sometimes I really think they were just testing the studios to see what they could get away with.
That little gag where Elwood walks out on stage handcuffed to a bag which only has a harmonica in it (and glue) was inspired by blues legend Junior Wells who used to show up to gigs with briefcase containing one harmonica and a bottle of liquor.
It’s great that he got himself a good job like that. I just hope he didn’t give up on the whole guitar thing. I think it’s nice to have a musical interest as well.
For those who don't know. the shopping mall they trashed was slated for demolition, so the crew had a field day filming those scenes. And again, ZERO CGI used! (Because it did not exist yet.)
Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, IL; I had a friend whose mother worked there . . she had found another job by the time this came out, though; obviously. :)
@@rtm27 The mall was vacant, and the film crew stocked it to look like a working mall. The owner sued the movie studio for not making repairs after trashing the place.
I live a few miles away from that mall. My dad drove me by it years before it caught fire and eventual demo. He remembers when it was still a mall as he lived close to it when he was a kid
Yes. That was really them singing & playing. Cab Calloway, James Brown, Aretha Franklin & Ray Charles are all legends. The band consisted of some of the best studio musicians from Staxx Records out of Memphis. Some are in the Rock N Roll HOF as well. There was a stunning amount of musical talent in this movie. Acting talent as well.
Cab Calloway is the most fascinating to me. I'd heard of Cab Calloway and his song Minnie the Moocher, but it wasn't until many years after I saw Blues Brothers for the first time that I realized that was him, singing the song he made famous... in 1931!
In 1980 I was a 12-year-old kid who grew up in the Chicago suburbs and never heard any kind of blues music. After seeing this theatrically, I became a fan for life of the genre.
An orange whip is a sweet cocktail made with rum, vodka, cream and orange juice. It is typically blended to a froth like a milkshake, and poured over ice in a Collins glass.
Yes, cars used to be able to turn like that and actually spin their tires while going in a circle. We called going in a circle while spinning the rear tires "doing a doughnut". It was because back then most cars had rear wheel drive instead of front wheel drive.
One time, I heard someone call it "doing cookies". I felt like I was listening to an alien. I always knew it as "doing donuts"... which sounds kind a filthy lol
Some years later in an interview, Dan Akroyd was asked about making the Blues Brothers and what he thought of it. He said it was one of the best experiences in his life and he could not imagine making the movie with any other person than John Belushi. Mr. Akroyd and Mr. Belushi were very close friends while filming this picture.
You two are really impressive...you KNOW who the guest stars are! Most younger folks have no friggin clue. Bravo!! Yes Belushi and Ackroyd were actually singing, and Ackroyd can actually play the harmonica. The promoter guy in the Steam bath was Steve Lawrence, famous crooner singer who passed away earlier this year. The Man in the white suit singing Minnie the Moocher is Cab Calloway about 72 years old here. He was a major star in the late 1920' through the 1950's with his band, and singing. He was bad ass entertainer who used to play the Cotton Club in Harlem back in the day in NYC.. His appearance in this movie gained him a whole new young audience, he got major booking again for awhile
I actually got to see James Brown for $20 in an actual church, FRONT-ROW CENTER, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville. Was back in town in 90's & heard he was playing. Box office dude said was my lucky night. Had to fill an empty seat!😅 Saw him first when I was 10 at Charlie Daniel's Volunteer Jam, which wildly enough is on here. Was a dream come true. But I think an even greater blessing happened when i was in town in early 2000's(?) & legendary Punk band FEAR played. This was before TH-cam & few knew they were Belushi's fave band when he died. I caught the very first SNL at 4 yro & Belushi was my idol growing up. Had read the bios & knew Lee Ving, "Mr Body" from "Clue"😅, the singer, was his friend. I knew "Let's Start A War" would be their encore so I hid in bathroom by stage & walked off backstage with the band afterwards. I went up to Ving & gave him a big hug & kiss on the cheek expecting to get rightly stomped😅, but instead he turned out to be cool af! Told him i grew up with his music, but I wanted to know about John. He proceeded to tell me stories over brews. Closest I'll prob ever get to Belushi? 😔 R.I.P.🙏❤ "Neighbors" was my fave of his btw! This is gonna be good. Rock On, friends! 🤘🌎❤️
You lucky guy! I was 18 when John died. I was crushed!! My favorite movie of his is Continental Divide. It is John at his best, charming, funny and a great actor.
This film is just as beloved in many car enthusiast communities as it is with music lovers (I'm both!). Buying retired cop cars is a thing. When a PD replaces their fleet, the cars to go auction - they're all high mileage, and dirt cheap. "They were practically giving 'em away.." Still going on, in the past 5-10yrs all those old Fords from the '00s are being sold off since Ford doesn't make that model anymore. I've got a friend who bought one four years ago for $700. Also, 'cop suspension, cop motor'..most American cars are built for comfort, not for performance. Special versions were built for cops, in case they had to do a pursuit. Oh, and the 'Mario Cart thingie' the Army guys were riding on is the original Jeep from WW2. 😄
This movie had the highest count of destroyed vehicles ever at the time of filming with 104. The Blues Brothers held that record until Transformers: Dark Side if the Moon was filmed and 532 vehicles were destroyed.
Wait...weren't the vehicles destroyed in Transformers mostly CGI? Sure those do not count compared to the 104 real vehicles that were really crashed in this movie? LOLOLOLOL
@@iKvetch558 According to the information I got there were 532 real vehicles destroyed in Transformers. Please correct me if I'm wrong. One can never be 100% certain when getting information from the internet.
@@CigarMick Mostly kidding...I figured they must have been real cars, or they don't count. LOL I was just joking about how CGI has taken over all the franchises. 😜
from my understanding, the police force was getting new cars and needed to get rid of the old ones. the producers of course paid the city, not sure how much per car but probably for a deal, and city was able to recoup some money back for the new cars they were getting.
To those who don't know, this was based on the SNL skit of the same name. Star John Belushi and director John Landis preceded this with National Lampoon's Animal House. John's younger brother Jim Belushi returns to Chicago in the 1988 buddy cop action film Red Heat
Those cars all had rear wheel drive, which is why they might drift differently than a younger person might expect. 42:33 "What's that Mario Kart?" It''s a World War II era army jeep (which was a pronunciation of "GP", meaning "General Purpose" vehicle). Close to half a million of them were produced (by various car companies) for WWII, and since they were built to last, there were still thousands of them still laying around (the world over) by 1980 (not usually driven by private owners, though). Precursor of the modern civilian Jeep mini SUV.
Fun fact: Carrie Fisher's character was hunting the Blues Brothers throughout the movie mainly to hunt Jake (Belushi) IRL she was dating, later engaged to Dan Aykroyd (Elwood) during the production of this movie. They later broke up on a trip to Martha's Vineyard
She was a bit of a handful. Beautiful, razor sharp intellect, very alluring and exciting to any young man but she was unstable and emotionally unpredictable.
Donald "Duck" Dunn & Murphy Dunne are unrelated. However, Donald "Duck" Dunn & Steve Cropper were part of a band called Booker T & The MGs best known for their instrumental hit "Green Onions".
The people playing the band members are all actually professional musicians too, and hed crazy successful music careers on their own as session players for studios and in other bands.
So Wonderful and I mean Wonderful to see young people coming out of the shells to look back at what came before them and truly enjoy it!!!! Gives me hope!!Ya hit a homerun Ladies, thanks for sharing 👏👏👏😊👍✌️🇺🇸🇮🇱
Thanks for this reaction. I needed cheering up My cat is at the vet hospital. She will come home Tuesday but I miss her and hate that she needed surgery. You guys are the cure for being down.
I had to look up the list for movies with the most wrecked vehicles. The Junkman (1982) beat The Blues Brothers (1980) record 2 years later: 10. Bullit (1968) - More than 80 cars destroyed 9. Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) (original) - 93 cars destroyed 8. Blues Brothers (1980) - 104 cars destroyed 7. Blues Brothers (2000) - 105 cars destroyed 6. G.I. Joe (2009) - 112 cars destroyed 5. A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) - 132 cars destroyed. 4. The Junkman (1982) - 150 cars destroyed 3. Fast & Furious 5 - 250 cars destroyed 2. Matrix Reloaded (2003) - 300 cars destroyed 1. Transformers 3 (2011) - 532 cars destroyed
Someone probably mentioned the jail clerk in the beginning was Frank Oz, voice and puppeteer for the Muppets, including Fozzie Bear, Grover, Miss Piggy, Animal and Cookie Monster (also Yoda in Star Wars). Then, later, during the mall chase sequence, a man at the toy shop is holding a Grover doll and asks if they have a Miss Piggy, just before the Bluesmobile crashes through the wall.
Being a musician I LMAO when they asked the bar owners' wife what kind of music do you have here, and she says "We have both kinds, country and western." The song you hear when Carrie Fisher shows up is the late 1950's TV theme From Peter Gunn, an old TV detective Show...the song became more popular than the show. John Candy is the goofy cop. The car falling apart toward the end is an old gag from old movies...definitely a Laurel and Hardy gag...look them up, the original film comedy duo.
This movie is wonderful! It was something else, back then, and it still is! For more John Belushi, I'd say Animal House. The cafeteria scene alone is worth the watch, with what a wonderful world playing. Don't know much about history, don't know much biology... And it has Karen Allen and Kevin Bacon, but no one had ever heard of them back then. They are just college students in that movie.
I've always liked this movie, but it also holds a significant sentimental value, as watching this was the last thing that my mother and I did together just two weeks before she passed away. And yes, she thought the movie was way over the top, but she also loved it.
I get the feeling that you’re watching the theatrical release. In the extended edition they added in a cut scene where they park the Dodge in a garage each night right next to a very high voltage transformer and the implication is that this is what gives it it’s apparent super powers.
Glad you liked it ladies. For a while, Blues Brothers tribute bands were all the rage: I've lost track of how many I saw at biker rallies in the late '90s/early 2000s. If you like car chases, two movies that you have to check out are Bullitt (1968) and Ronin (1998).
(fun fact) ... "The Blues Brothers" started out as a "Saturday Night Live" skit .. what was supposed to be a joke-turned into an unexpected hit ... then they got REAL musicians to make it better
If you could only have seen this on the big screen. I'm glad you got to this! Watching Toy trying to remember names. Lol. The band and the Blues Brothers were a SNL creation. The band is the actual SNL band. Yes, that is them actually signing. Belushi was a fabulous singer! I think it's time for you to watch "Smokey and the Bandit".
In the scene where they're driving through Chicago and you see the view from the front of the car the footage wasn't sped up they were really driving that fast which is crazy even if it was stunt drivers.
The little kid (De’voreaux White) who was trying to steal a Fender guitar from Ray's Music Exchange went on to be the Limo Driver (Argyle ) in the Die Hard movie...fun fact
1.This was Dan Aykroyd's baby that started out as a SNL skit. He eventually got with Landis (thus Chicago) and it was built on that. There were already songs made for the Blues Brothers from SNL They also put out one album. 2. All-star cast.🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 3. Booking officer is Frank Oz. Voiced Yoda, Miss Piggy and other Muppets. 4. "It's 106 miles to Chicago. We have a full tank of gas, a half pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses" 5. A MUCH better Musical (even better than Grease IMVHO). It's "Hair" 1979. John Savage, Treat Williams and Beverly D'Angelo. Milos Foreman Directed. "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest' and "Hair" 6. They smash so many cars that "Smokey and the Bandit" was practice. WE'RE ON A MISSION FROM GOD😇😇
Kathleen Freeman plays the nun. She was a very famous character actor who appeared in hundreds of movies and TV shows, mostly comical parts...she was one of those faces when you saw her, you KNEW something funny was going to happen every time...like "There's that lady...oh no, here we go..." Comedian Henry Gibson played the Nazi Leader...he's in a lot of comedy movies and TV, got his big break on the old Comedy Show Rowan and Martin's Laugh In [1968 -1973].
The timing of this movie was awesome. You see a lot of The original blues artists. A very funny movie with crazy action. Now you can appreciate the great music.
In case no one mentioned, Joe Walsh is the prisoner that jumps up on the table at the end. I grew up in Chicago and was in high school when this was filmed. Always big story on the daily news shows during filming, lots of talk about the road closures to film the chase scenes.
Just fyi... The Blues Brothers is, to this day, the most expensive NON-cgi movie every made. The mall they crashed thru had to be leased and stocked with all stores, just to be destroyed. All the cars in the mall lot were rented from the local car agencies, they had to shut down half of Chicago, and went thur over 100 police cars. Plus paying all the big name guest stars
Toy and Abby were the best pairing to watch this, it seems. Both for the appreciation of the music and the silly OTT action, and I was impressed that together they recognised most of the main cameos in this eventually. Even with Twiggy (who most American reactors are not aware of) although they didn't recognise her when she first appeared, when she was identified in the credits at least they'd heard of her. Most of the reactors who watch this classic seem completely unable to recognise almost all these great stars, which is always sad for us "oldies" to see! Great reaction, ladies!
They were a band/project before the movie came out. And I've still got my original LPs of Briefcase Full of Blues (1978, before the movie) and Made in America (1980, just after the movie).
On thing I forgot to mention in my Patreon comment, that already was pretty extensive, was how the car is enduring all this abuse, flying and all. Sure, 70's 'murican cars were tanks, but to this point? It was divine intervention! Once they reach the county office the car isn't needed for the mission anymore, gahd lets his hands go off it, and the result of all the accumulated abuse shows. :D I'm so happy that you really appeciated this classic, it warms an old mans heart! Thanks for uploading! Greetings from Sweden
The customer at the Toys R Us was Bill Murray, if i remember correctly (Edit: nope. Thanks, Mr Kelly) The cool music (one, anyway), was the Peter Gunn theme
@@keithbieberly6445 Oh for sure! The dude definitely sounded exactly like Bill, and this was obviously his crew in the '70s and '80s so it would have made sense. The guy even looks enough like Bill that it could have been one of his brothers.
@@JeffKelly03That's the late Gary McLarty, who was the film's stunt coordinator. I doubt Bill could have leapt that quick when the Bluesmobile came in.
The mall chase scene was done in an abandoned mall, and the stuff making up the mall was either purchased or rented. If I'm correct, any undamaged items were returned to the appropriate stores.
You should find the youtube video of when John & Dan first introduced us to the Blue Brothers on SNL singing "Soul Man". You'll also recognize the band.
This was one of home sick from school staple for me. Along with The Breakfast Club. 90's thrillers too like Murder at 1600. The budget of this film was $110 million in 1980! Greatest car chase ever. The clerk at the beginning giving back Jake his items is the great Frank Oz, voice of Yoda and longtime friend of John Landis.
Boo farting, Toy's funny comeback line & Abby's face, I'm dying! 😂🤣😜🤣😂 The music you're humming to is the Peter Gunn theme. Yep, PeeWee Herman himself. "How much for the women?! How much for little Abby? How much for Toy? Hahahaha!" (Just goofing off 😂😜🤪😂) The difference is that the bar audience cheered & didn't boo at the end 😉
8:25 The way they got big cars to drift like that was to overinflate the tires to 3 times the regular rate (90 psi instead of 30psi). That made the tires stiff and prone to slipping. This isn't safe, of course, since you're prone to a blowout and probably in the middle of a stunt when a tire goes.
Splash was just one of many movie in which John Candy starred. Uncle Buck Home Alone (cameo) Brewster's Millions Spaceballs Summer Rental (with Dan Aykroyd) Cool Runnings And others that I can't think of at the moment.
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What is your favorite Saturday Night Live sketch?
I have heard this movie described as a live action adventure comedy cartoon musical...that about sums it up. LOL
The clerk who gave them the receipt at the the end is Steven Spielberg
The jail clerk who returned Jake's possessions was Frank Oz.
Yeah, Mr. Cobb😂
Indeed mr. Spielberg. That was funny! 😂
In this comedy movie that cost an outrageous $27million. Then he turns around and makes _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ on $7million less than that. Spielberg had already outspent Landis, though, since _1941_ cost $35million to make. Sometimes I really think they were just testing the studios to see what they could get away with.
That little gag where Elwood walks out on stage handcuffed to a bag which only has a harmonica in it (and glue) was inspired by blues legend Junior Wells who used to show up to gigs with briefcase containing one harmonica and a bottle of liquor.
That kid Ray Charles shoots at - he grew up to play Argyle the chauffer in Die Hard.
Really? Cool!
Devereaux White
wow...sure is!!!
It’s great that he got himself a good job like that. I just hope he didn’t give up on the whole guitar thing. I think it’s nice to have a musical interest as well.
You didn't include it but that line "Unnecessary violence has been authorized" along with the clip of the Sherman tank gets me every time 😂
"it's 106 miles to chicago , full tank of gas , we got half a pack of cigs , it's dark , and we are wearing sunglasses.... " lolol
"Hit it!"
How did it take them so long to get there? Wouldn't a government office not open till 9am? LOL
Any questions you have that begin with "How did they ..." all have the same answer ... They're on a Mission from God!
I believe it's pronounced Gahd.
Forgot the important Chicago Y. “Gyahd.” 😂
How did three cops have orange whips with rum and vodka while on duty?
@@SnabbKassa it was the ‘70’s, man.
Also, any questions they have about "why did they" (with regard to the people making the movie" all have the same answer: cocaine.
For those who don't know. the shopping mall they trashed was slated for demolition, so the crew had a field day filming those scenes. And again, ZERO CGI used! (Because it did not exist yet.)
@@macross25 after filming, the companies in the mall collected all their items (damaged or not during filming) and removed them from the mall
Several of the "stores" in the mall sued the production company, because the chase scene destroyed merchandise they weren't supposed to.
Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, IL; I had a friend whose mother worked there . . she had found another job by the time this came out, though; obviously. :)
@@rtm27 The mall was vacant, and the film crew stocked it to look like a working mall. The owner sued the movie studio for not making repairs after trashing the place.
I live a few miles away from that mall. My dad drove me by it years before it caught fire and eventual demo. He remembers when it was still a mall as he lived close to it when he was a kid
Yes. That was really them singing & playing. Cab Calloway, James Brown, Aretha Franklin & Ray Charles are all legends. The band consisted of some of the best studio musicians from Staxx Records out of Memphis. Some are in the Rock N Roll HOF as well. There was a stunning amount of musical talent in this movie. Acting talent as well.
You also forgot the great John Lee Hooker playing Boom Boom
And John Lee Hooker... and Chaka Khan was in James Brown's choir.
Cab Calloway is the most fascinating to me. I'd heard of Cab Calloway and his song Minnie the Moocher, but it wasn't until many years after I saw Blues Brothers for the first time that I realized that was him, singing the song he made famous... in 1931!
Blue Lou, the sax player who's working in the diner with Matt "Guitar" Murphy, is the inspiration for the sax player in the Muppets band.
Fitting that they had Frank Oz with them then :D
Zoot
And the prison property clerk is Frank Oz, best known for voicing several Muppets, including Grover and Miss Piggy!
Jeff Skunk Baxter was the inspiration for muppet guitarist Floyd Pepper.
@@RoGueNavy I happen to think that his voicing of Yoda and Bert of Bert and Ernie (Sesame Street) are more famous.
In 1980 I was a 12-year-old kid who grew up in the Chicago suburbs and never heard any kind of blues music. After seeing this theatrically, I became a fan for life of the genre.
I was 13 year old English kid, I became a Fanatical blues fan.
The woman at the gas station in the sports car was a famous fashion model from the late sixties who went by the name of Twiggy.
I commented too quickly, it seems that you knew that. I’m getting old and I have to comment before I forget😆
The first supermodel.
An orange whip is a sweet cocktail made with rum, vodka, cream and orange juice. It is typically blended to a froth like a milkshake, and poured over ice in a Collins glass.
I'm impressed that you knew who Twiggy was. those others who have review this movie never recognise Twiggy .
Yes, cars used to be able to turn like that and actually spin their tires while going in a circle.
We called going in a circle while spinning the rear tires "doing a doughnut".
It was because back then most cars had rear wheel drive instead of front wheel drive.
also , helps when the pavement is wet ..... less friction
Doughnuts! Man I haven't heard that in LONG time! (Yeah... I'm old enough to remember. LOL)
One time, I heard someone call it "doing cookies". I felt like I was listening to an alien. I always knew it as "doing donuts"... which sounds kind a filthy lol
I love how Jake is like "you traded the Caddy for this?! No, for a microphone. Oh, I can see that..."
“You get my Cheez Whiz boy?” I’ve used that line about a 1000 times over the last 40 plus years, thanks yall movie is a classic!
Some years later in an interview, Dan Akroyd was asked about making the Blues Brothers and what he thought of it.
He said it was one of the best experiences in his life and he could not imagine making the movie with any other person than John Belushi.
Mr. Akroyd and Mr. Belushi were very close friends while filming this picture.
Dan and John were already close during their five year run on Saturday Night Live.
I tried playing a drinking game where you take a shot everytime either of the girls says, " Oh my God".
I'm in hospital now.
I counted 52 "Oh My God"s and I think I might have missed a few.
Are you visiting someone?
You two are really impressive...you KNOW who the guest stars are! Most younger folks have no friggin clue. Bravo!! Yes Belushi and Ackroyd were actually singing, and Ackroyd can actually play the harmonica. The promoter guy in the Steam bath was Steve Lawrence, famous crooner singer who passed away earlier this year. The Man in the white suit singing Minnie the Moocher is Cab Calloway about 72 years old here. He was a major star in the late 1920' through the 1950's with his band, and singing. He was bad ass entertainer who used to play the Cotton Club in Harlem back in the day in NYC.. His appearance in this movie gained him a whole new young audience, he got major booking again for awhile
The state trooper with the late John Candy was Steven Williams, who played the police captain in 21 Jump Street
I actually got to see James Brown for $20 in an actual church, FRONT-ROW CENTER, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville. Was back in town in 90's & heard he was playing. Box office dude said was my lucky night. Had to fill an empty seat!😅 Saw him first when I was 10 at Charlie Daniel's Volunteer Jam, which wildly enough is on here. Was a dream come true. But I think an even greater blessing happened when i was in town in early 2000's(?) & legendary Punk band FEAR played. This was before TH-cam & few knew they were Belushi's fave band when he died. I caught the very first SNL at 4 yro & Belushi was my idol growing up. Had read the bios & knew Lee Ving, "Mr Body" from "Clue"😅, the singer, was his friend. I knew "Let's Start A War" would be their encore so I hid in bathroom by stage & walked off backstage with the band afterwards. I went up to Ving & gave him a big hug & kiss on the cheek expecting to get rightly stomped😅, but instead he turned out to be cool af! Told him i grew up with his music, but I wanted to know about John. He proceeded to tell me stories over brews. Closest I'll prob ever get to Belushi? 😔 R.I.P.🙏❤
"Neighbors" was my fave of his btw!
This is gonna be good.
Rock On, friends!
🤘🌎❤️
You lucky guy! I was 18 when John died. I was crushed!! My favorite movie of his is Continental Divide. It is John at his best, charming, funny and a great actor.
Ray Charles, James Brown and Aretha Franklin...I mean they are the actual pioneering and founding cornerstones of soul music. Legends!
Aretha the Queen, James the Godfather, and Ray the Genius.
This film is just as beloved in many car enthusiast communities as it is with music lovers (I'm both!). Buying retired cop cars is a thing. When a PD replaces their fleet, the cars to go auction - they're all high mileage, and dirt cheap. "They were practically giving 'em away.." Still going on, in the past 5-10yrs all those old Fords from the '00s are being sold off since Ford doesn't make that model anymore. I've got a friend who bought one four years ago for $700. Also, 'cop suspension, cop motor'..most American cars are built for comfort, not for performance. Special versions were built for cops, in case they had to do a pursuit.
Oh, and the 'Mario Cart thingie' the Army guys were riding on is the original Jeep from WW2. 😄
Take a drink every time they say "O my god" 😂
Frank Oz! The legendary voice of Ms Piggy, Grover, and Yoda.
No one did the voice of Miss Piggy better than Frank Oz.
R.I.P To Some Of The Actor's Who We're In This Movie, Still Miss You All
This movie had the highest count of destroyed vehicles ever at the time of filming with 104.
The Blues Brothers held that record until Transformers: Dark Side if the Moon was filmed and 532 vehicles were destroyed.
Wait...weren't the vehicles destroyed in Transformers mostly CGI? Sure those do not count compared to the 104 real vehicles that were really crashed in this movie? LOLOLOLOL
@@iKvetch558 According to the information I got there were 532 real vehicles destroyed in Transformers.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
One can never be 100% certain when getting information from the internet.
@@CigarMick Mostly kidding...I figured they must have been real cars, or they don't count. LOL I was just joking about how CGI has taken over all the franchises. 😜
@@iKvetch558 Oh, I see.
My apologies for missing that.
I do see your point though. LOL
from my understanding, the police force was getting new cars and needed to get rid of the old ones. the producers of course paid the city, not sure how much per car but probably for a deal, and city was able to recoup some money back for the new cars they were getting.
One of the BEST movie soundtracks ever created.
The Blues Brothers even had a concert tour(s)!
To those who don't know, this was based on the SNL skit of the same name. Star John Belushi and director John Landis preceded this with National Lampoon's Animal House. John's younger brother Jim Belushi returns to Chicago in the 1988 buddy cop action film Red Heat
"They boke my watch!"
Brilliant movie. :)
Those cars all had rear wheel drive, which is why they might drift differently than a younger person might expect.
42:33 "What's that Mario Kart?" It''s a World War II era army jeep (which was a pronunciation of "GP", meaning "General Purpose" vehicle). Close to half a million of them were produced (by various car companies) for WWII, and since they were built to last, there were still thousands of them still laying around (the world over) by 1980 (not usually driven by private owners, though). Precursor of the modern civilian Jeep mini SUV.
Fun fact: Carrie Fisher's character was hunting the Blues Brothers throughout the movie mainly to hunt Jake (Belushi) IRL she was dating, later engaged to Dan Aykroyd (Elwood) during the production of this movie.
They later broke up on a trip to Martha's Vineyard
She was a bit of a handful. Beautiful, razor sharp intellect, very alluring and exciting to any young man but she was unstable and emotionally unpredictable.
Donald "Duck" Dunn & Murphy Dunne are unrelated.
However, Donald "Duck" Dunn & Steve Cropper were part of a band called Booker T & The MGs best known for their instrumental hit "Green Onions".
The people playing the band members are all actually professional musicians too, and hed crazy successful music careers on their own as session players for studios and in other bands.
So Wonderful and I mean Wonderful to see young people coming out of the shells to look back at what came before them and truly enjoy it!!!! Gives me hope!!Ya hit a homerun Ladies, thanks for sharing 👏👏👏😊👍✌️🇺🇸🇮🇱
😂 The looks on your faces when Jake kissed Ms. Fisher and then dropped her in the mud!
One of the greatest movies with one of the greatest Duos of all time
Thanks for this reaction. I needed cheering up My cat is at the vet hospital. She will come home Tuesday but I miss her and hate that she needed surgery. You guys are the cure for being down.
I had to look up the list for movies with the most wrecked vehicles. The Junkman (1982) beat The Blues Brothers (1980) record 2 years later:
10. Bullit (1968) - More than 80 cars destroyed
9. Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) (original) - 93 cars destroyed
8. Blues Brothers (1980) - 104 cars destroyed
7. Blues Brothers (2000) - 105 cars destroyed
6. G.I. Joe (2009) - 112 cars destroyed
5. A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) - 132 cars destroyed.
4. The Junkman (1982) - 150 cars destroyed
3. Fast & Furious 5 - 250 cars destroyed
2. Matrix Reloaded (2003) - 300 cars destroyed
1. Transformers 3 (2011) - 532 cars destroyed
Someone probably mentioned the jail clerk in the beginning was Frank Oz, voice and puppeteer for the Muppets, including Fozzie Bear, Grover, Miss Piggy, Animal and Cookie Monster (also Yoda in Star Wars). Then, later, during the mall chase sequence, a man at the toy shop is holding a Grover doll and asks if they have a Miss Piggy, just before the Bluesmobile crashes through the wall.
Being a musician I LMAO when they asked the bar owners' wife what kind of music do you have here, and she says "We have both kinds, country and western." The song you hear when Carrie Fisher shows up is the late 1950's TV theme From Peter Gunn, an old TV detective Show...the song became more popular than the show. John Candy is the goofy cop. The car falling apart toward the end is an old gag from old movies...definitely a Laurel and Hardy gag...look them up, the original film comedy duo.
This Was My Grandma's All Time Favorite Movie,She Would Have Loved Seeing Your Reactions Ladies, Thanks For Doing This One
The bridge they jump over, the church they go to, and the Curl Up and Dye salon are all in my neighborhood where I used to live.
So cool!
This movie is wonderful! It was something else, back then, and it still is!
For more John Belushi, I'd say Animal House. The cafeteria scene alone is worth the watch, with what a wonderful world playing. Don't know much about history, don't know much biology... And it has Karen Allen and Kevin Bacon, but no one had ever heard of them back then. They are just college students in that movie.
The reaction I didn't know I needed in my life! Fun fact: when it came out it was one of the most expensive movies ever made.
The brothers and Carrie scenes are kind of like Wile E Coyote and the Road Runner.
Yes!!
I think they used the blaster sound effects when Carrie Fisher shot the front door, which is incredible.
That's so cool!
I've always liked this movie, but it also holds a significant sentimental value, as watching this was the last thing that my mother and I did together just two weeks before she passed away. And yes, she thought the movie was way over the top, but she also loved it.
Sorry for your loss. We're glad our video helps you relive good memories.
I get the feeling that you’re watching the theatrical release. In the extended edition they added in a cut scene where they park the Dodge in a garage each night right next to a very high voltage transformer and the implication is that this is what gives it it’s apparent super powers.
Glad you liked it ladies. For a while, Blues Brothers tribute bands were all the rage: I've lost track of how many I saw at biker rallies in the late '90s/early 2000s.
If you like car chases, two movies that you have to check out are Bullitt (1968) and Ronin (1998).
Producer's note: We have a reaction to Ronin with Toy and Tori here on TH-cam. What a film and quite the reaction!
@@RuntotheMovies Oh cheers - I'll go and look for it.
Classic! One of my favorite musicals. And yes, I consider this movie to be a musical.
(fun fact) ... "The Blues Brothers" started out as a "Saturday Night Live" skit .. what was supposed to be a joke-turned into an unexpected hit ... then they got REAL musicians to make it better
The Blues Brothers, Abby, and Boo? This day couldn't get any better!!! Thanks!!! 🤗🤗🤗
If you could only have seen this on the big screen. I'm glad you got to this! Watching Toy trying to remember names. Lol. The band and the Blues Brothers were a SNL creation. The band is the actual SNL band. Yes, that is them actually signing. Belushi was a fabulous singer!
I think it's time for you to watch "Smokey and the Bandit".
Took me like 5 seconds at the beginning of the video to realize that that isn't Simone Giertz, there. haha.
In the scene where they're driving through Chicago and you see the view from the front of the car the footage wasn't sped up they were really driving that fast which is crazy even if it was stunt drivers.
The little kid (De’voreaux White) who was trying to steal a Fender guitar from Ray's Music Exchange went on to be the Limo Driver (Argyle ) in the Die Hard movie...fun fact
The preacher is James Brown and the woman in the Church Choir is Chaka Khan. Aretha Franklin is the waitress in the Soul Food Cafe.
1.This was Dan Aykroyd's baby that started out as a SNL skit. He eventually got with Landis (thus Chicago) and it was built on that. There were already songs made for the Blues Brothers from SNL They also put out one album.
2. All-star cast.🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
3. Booking officer is Frank Oz. Voiced Yoda, Miss Piggy and other Muppets.
4. "It's 106 miles to Chicago. We have a full tank of gas, a half pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses"
5. A MUCH better Musical (even better than Grease IMVHO). It's "Hair" 1979. John Savage, Treat Williams and Beverly D'Angelo. Milos Foreman Directed. "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest' and "Hair"
6. They smash so many cars that "Smokey and the Bandit" was practice.
WE'RE ON A MISSION FROM GOD😇😇
Kathleen Freeman plays the nun. She was a very famous character actor who appeared in hundreds of movies and TV shows, mostly comical parts...she was one of those faces when you saw her, you KNEW something funny was going to happen every time...like "There's that lady...oh no, here we go..." Comedian Henry Gibson played the Nazi Leader...he's in a lot of comedy movies and TV, got his big break on the old Comedy Show Rowan and Martin's Laugh In [1968 -1973].
💙💙 I have two cats named Jake and Elwood, and yes, they are Brothers!
OMG! 😻😻
You need to watch a video on the making of "The Blues Brothers"..........UNBELIEVEABLE!!!!!
C'mon! To be fair, she learned by watching stormtroopers shoot.
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I freakin' LOVE y'all chair dancing alongvwith the action on the screen!!
Thanks ❤❤, for doing the , Blues Brothers. Smokey and the Bandit next. Toy and Abby, ,❤️❤️.
17:53 "Is that Aretha Franklin?" You're damn right it is. One of the greatest vocalists to have ever blessed our ears.
Greatest couch dancing 💃 I have ever seen.
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Toy & Abby
Clerk at Joliet Prison is Frank Oz, voice and puppeteer of Miss Piggy
The timing of this movie was awesome. You see a lot of The original blues artists. A very funny movie with crazy action. Now you can appreciate the great music.
Love your reactions, keep up the good work.
In case no one mentioned, Joe Walsh is the prisoner that jumps up on the table at the end.
I grew up in Chicago and was in high school when this was filmed. Always big story on the daily news shows during filming, lots of talk about the road closures to film the chase scenes.
So cool!
Movie producer: How many police cars do you want to wreck?
Director: Yes.
Cab Calloway was one of the O.G. legends
With the crazy driving and six star wanted level ending; you can tell this inspired the Houser bros with designing GTA's style, lol
I swear, at this point any reaction to this movie is guaranteed to be a straight-up classic if they know enough to recognize Frank Oz.
Just fyi... The Blues Brothers is, to this day, the most expensive NON-cgi movie every made. The mall they crashed thru had to be leased and stocked with all stores, just to be destroyed. All the cars in the mall lot were rented from the local car agencies, they had to shut down half of Chicago, and went thur over 100 police cars. Plus paying all the big name guest stars
14:48 Indeed... A $10 soup back then would be $38 today... And the bottle of Dom Perignon would be $470 (!!!)
Toy and Abby were the best pairing to watch this, it seems. Both for the appreciation of the music and the silly OTT action, and I was impressed that together they recognised most of the main cameos in this eventually. Even with Twiggy (who most American reactors are not aware of) although they didn't recognise her when she first appeared, when she was identified in the credits at least they'd heard of her.
Most of the reactors who watch this classic seem completely unable to recognise almost all these great stars, which is always sad for us "oldies" to see!
Great reaction, ladies!
Frank Oz the prison official, is also the voice for Fozzy Bear, Miss Piggy and that little green legend Master Yoda
They were a band/project before the movie came out. And I've still got my original LPs of Briefcase Full of Blues (1978, before the movie) and Made in America (1980, just after the movie).
Lol. That little Mario Kart was a Jeep
The entire mall destruction scene has been recreated with Legos down to the final details
On thing I forgot to mention in my Patreon comment, that already was pretty extensive, was how the car is enduring all this abuse, flying and all. Sure, 70's 'murican cars were tanks, but to this point? It was divine intervention! Once they reach the county office the car isn't needed for the mission anymore, gahd lets his hands go off it, and the result of all the accumulated abuse shows. :D
I'm so happy that you really appeciated this classic, it warms an old mans heart!
Thanks for uploading! Greetings from Sweden
The customer at the Toys R Us was Bill Murray, if i remember correctly (Edit: nope. Thanks, Mr Kelly)
The cool music (one, anyway), was the Peter Gunn theme
Just to be clear, that's not Bill Murray.
@JeffKelly03
I did not remember correctly!
I think he popped up in another movie. It's been awhile.
Thanks!
@@keithbieberly6445 Oh for sure! The dude definitely sounded exactly like Bill, and this was obviously his crew in the '70s and '80s so it would have made sense. The guy even looks enough like Bill that it could have been one of his brothers.
@@JeffKelly03That's the late Gary McLarty, who was the film's stunt coordinator. I doubt Bill could have leapt that quick when the Bluesmobile came in.
The look of revelation when Toy remembered James Brown... Priceless!!
36:13 One of the best movie quotes in film history.
Great reaction, girls.
Real Hollywood Stuntmen, No BS CGI!!😂😂😂😂😂
The mall chase scene was done in an abandoned mall, and the stuff making up the mall was either purchased or rented. If I'm correct, any undamaged items were returned to the appropriate stores.
You should find the youtube video of when John & Dan first introduced us to the Blue Brothers on SNL singing "Soul Man". You'll also recognize the band.
This was one of home sick from school staple for me. Along with The Breakfast Club. 90's thrillers too like Murder at 1600. The budget of this film was $110 million in 1980! Greatest car chase ever. The clerk at the beginning giving back Jake his items is the great Frank Oz, voice of Yoda and longtime friend of John Landis.
39:10 to be fair it's supposed to be early morning. They drove right from the end of the concert. No one is out yet.
You should see the sequel next, "Blues Brothers 2000". More great music and musicians.
Great reaction ladies! Always loved this movie.
Thanks so much for your kind words, as always!
Boo farting, Toy's funny comeback line & Abby's face, I'm dying! 😂🤣😜🤣😂
The music you're humming to is the Peter Gunn theme. Yep, PeeWee Herman himself.
"How much for the women?! How much for little Abby? How much for Toy? Hahahaha!"
(Just goofing off 😂😜🤪😂)
The difference is that the bar audience cheered & didn't boo at the end 😉
Everyone who has a speaking part was famous at the time.
8:25 The way they got big cars to drift like that was to overinflate the tires to 3 times the regular rate (90 psi instead of 30psi). That made the tires stiff and prone to slipping.
This isn't safe, of course, since you're prone to a blowout and probably in the middle of a stunt when a tire goes.
Splash was just one of many movie in which John Candy starred.
Uncle Buck
Home Alone (cameo)
Brewster's Millions
Spaceballs
Summer Rental (with Dan Aykroyd)
Cool Runnings
And others that I can't think of at the moment.
They throw bottles when they are happy and when they are sad.