we're on a mission from god wendy so i got that going darling i picked the wrong way to quit sniffing blue light of my life we enjoy your films i thought they smelled bad on the outside [Music] welcome to vintage video where we're re-watching the 80s so you don't have to we'll be reviewing every major film release of the 1980s in real time i'm patrick o'reilly i'm jesse bayless and i'm richard wells and today marks the 40th anniversary of the release of the blues brothers on june 20th it was written by dan aykroyd and john landis directed by john landis and released by universal pictures and we're about to spoil it if you haven't seen it so get ready the origin of the blues brothers as a musical group was an snl sketch in january of 76 wherein howard shore and his all b band performed a slim harpo song i'm a king b in b costumes with little bouncy antennas that's right cause i'm a cane [Music] and belushi was singing and accurate was unharmonica shortly after his start at saturday night live aykroyd began to rent the holland tunnel blues bar and it became a popular venue for snl after parties among the cast and weekly co-hosts belushi stalked the place with amps and instruments in case anyone ever wanted to jam stylistically akroyd credits the duo and dancing inspiration to sam and dave the r b group that performed from the 60s through the 80s with hits like soul man and hold on i'm coming the hats and glasses though aykroyd credits to johnny lee hooker who appears in this film performing his blue standard boom boom together with pianist arranger paul shaffer aykroyd and belushi began hand-picking musicians from the snl band to back the brothers and this is the paul schaefer yes currently or well and who didn't kill dorothy stratton yes we didn't kill anyone yeah uh allegedly we should specify we don't know blue lou and tom malone were chosen from the snl band specifically uh schaefer suggested steve cropper and donald duck dunn from booker t and the mgs and the group was rounded out with juilliard trained trumpeter alan rubin and matt guitar murphy they recorded their first album suitcase full of blues in 78 while opening for steve martin on tour back when he was doing that king tut stuff how did you get so focused [Music] the album consisted of blues covers from the 50s to the 70s and went double platinum wow yeah pretty impressive the album liner notes filled in the backstory of the fictional blues brother characters with details about the orphanage and having learned blues from a janitor named curtis when they officially decided to make a movie it kicked off a bidding war which universal narrowly beat out paramount john landis who had directed animal house was on board to direct lou wasserman the head of universal pictures at the time predicted a 12 million dollar budget but the filmmakers asked for 20 despite no budget or script having been put together aykroyd and credited story consultant ron gwynne went on to write the bulk of the blues brothers script at the holland tunnel blues bar it was referred to as a tome by most because the first draft akray turned in allegedly ran 324 pages yeah that sounds like accurate yeah because he'd never written a script before and didn't know what he was doing so you said they asked for 20 but it didn't cost a bunch more yes okay it did cost more than that but they were requesting even according to screenwriting rules a 324 page script would run about five and a half hours keep in mind though this is basically a concert film so the one page equals one minute rule goes out the window when the line cab calloway plays mini the moocher reflects three minutes of screen time according to popular lore aykroyd bound the final script with the cover of the yellow pages to poke fun at its length it was initially titled the return of the blues brothers and credited to scriptatron gl 9000 which for me brings to mind the popular unproduced screenplay balls out by robotard 8000 which you can find online and it's totally ridiculous but fun wait is that the one that was like written by a.i or something no it's two guys that wrote it but they're just dumb friction grew between aykroyd and landis as the former insisted on casting r b legend after rnb legend in not just musical but speaking roles the budget ballooned way out of proportion as the developer of the group paul shafer was of course cast as the piano player but obligations to saturday night live and gilda live a comedy documentary film centered on gilda radner prevented him from appearing in the film as a result belushi literally kicked him out of the band and he was replaced with murphy dunn because he was so angry that he would work with gilda over their movie for the first month of production things went fairly smoothly though when the final budget of 17.5 million was handed down by universal producer robert weiss joked i think we've spent that already okay in the next month belushi's drinking and cocaine habits pulled the production further and further behind schedule everywhere they went people on set would just walk up and hand belushi coke hoping to do some with him despite the fact that according to aykroyd a portion of the film's budget was specifically allotted for the purchase of cocaine belushi would crash in his trailer and waste hours sometimes days of production time they would just flat out lose him occasionally and one time aykroyd journeyed to the only house he could see from set with a light on to find belushi eating out of a stranger's refrigerator the homeowner answered the door are you looking for john because they knew who he was he was massively famous at the time i i mean if john belushi broke into my house welcome i was like hey john belushi are you are you hungry buddy and i'm sure he didn't just wander in like a black bear like he i think he did no i think he i think at the very least he introduced himself and was like i want a sandwich i want i wanted him to break through the wall with the kool-aid man yeah and just start going through the refrigerator yeah oh yeah 64 slices of american cheese uh carrie fisher aykroyd's girlfriend and later fiance during the production said that yeah he proposed to her during the making of the film uh she said that the three of them would spend many nights at the blues bar and that all the bartenders there were basically doubled as coke dealers landis apparently put carrie fisher in charge of keeping belushi away from coke which hardly seems fair considering their size discrepancy but also carrie fisher was drunk probably yeah she's like she's famous for coke addiction it doesn't make sense to be like perhaps at one point belushi's wife and some of the other crew even staged an intervention for belushi and eventually production actually got smoother again though they were still wildly over budgeted behind schedule just before the final musical number at the hollywood palladium belushi borrowed a skateboard from an extra and messing around fell and injured his knee quite badly universal head wasserman sent the best orthopedic surgeon in the world probably to the set and belushi was sufficiently anesthetized to finish shooting as planned the finished film initially ran two and a half hours and wasserman demanded 20 minutes be cut we watched the two and a half hour version though volusia and aykroyd having left saturday night live to make the movie put a dent in the expected box office and belushi's most recent film role in 1941 bombed pretty hard not to mention that this film released the same day as the wide release of empire strikes back which did not help the final budget amounted to 30 million dollars but including foreign receipts the box office take amounted to 115 million dollars less than half of which was domestic which john landis claims is a first for feature films that an american movie would make more money overseas than i made here well that's typical now is it i guess it is yeah yeah well for spectacle films for like for like things like avengers and whatnot but like for like a casual like drama yeah or just a general comedy even that's weird it might have performed better but it was only open in 590 screens because at the time either universal or the theater owners in the south specifically were convinced that people in the south would not watch a movie with this many black characters so they just didn't run the movie there but there were nazis well that's another problem for black characters yeah but they're the nazis are portrayed as bad guys so that doesn't play well in the south either uh the movie was released as i said the same day that empire strikes back which nearly starred dan and john as monsters because carrie fisher promised them she could get them roles in the movie but when she spoke to george lucas about it he was like no thanks but then akron at least got into temple of doom that's true yes and a sequel with many of the original cast members blues brothers 2000 uh came out in that year 2000 to give you an indication of the quality of blues brothers 2000 in the making of the first blues brothers film 103 cars are destroyed and in the second film 104 cars are destroyed which lets you know that they weren't trying to honor the first film they were trying to out do it and they failed miserably it's it's not well remembered critically or commercially but it does have paul shaffer in it which is nice that he got to be in a blues brothers movie there's a moment towards the end where he asks if he can cut in on piano and then lucy was uh was no longer around at the time to be angry and kick him out he could no longer object but yeah why don't we get into this movie shall we let's do it we start with aerial footage of steel works or some kind of a refinery looks like a volcano there's like lava and a flag is raised outside joliet correctional center signs outside the prison advice passing motorists against picking up hitchhikers which i liked i'm sure those are real signs outside those areas yep but it's just uh amusing that it's like oh this guy needs a ride like oh wait that's a murderer that's this is a bad idea two jailers struggle to wake joliet jake blues from his cell and he has escorted to where he will be discharged from the prison today frank oz performs the standard prisoner release jake steps up to the counter and he taps tattooed fingers that read jake across the knuckles oz gives him a look and he is dragged by two other prison employees behind a line a few feet back i can't figure out how frank oz fits in to any of these people like why is he in this movie i think he's friends with john landis and probably carrie fisher dragged him along because she was like hey let's both be in both of these movies that came out today is she in any scenes with him no i think we're in the movie together no but she knows him does she yes he's yoda yeah i know he's yoda i'm just saying like they weren't in scenes together they don't have to be in scenes together to know each other oz gives him back everything he had the night of his arrest the first time i remember seeing this kind of scene was in clockwork orange when alexander delarge is being released and he's getting all of his stuff back but here jake is getting a broken watch an unused prophylactic a soiled one his blues brothers costume and some pocket money he leans against the counter from behind the line a few feet back to sign an x because apparently he can't read i'm assuming that's the joke here outside the prison doors open with a mysterious bright light behind jake as he walks to his brother elwood who just pulled up in a decommissioned police cruiser the blues brothers cover of taj mahal's she's caught the katy plays over the titles as the actors names appear under their faces and they hug and move toward the car shortly after pulling away jake asks what happened to the cadillac which he calls the blues mobile as he complains about it not being there anymore jake tries and fails to light a cigarette with the cigarette lighter in the car and just tosses the lighter off the window which i feel like was probably not in the script yeah i wouldn't doubt it but also he then lights his cigarette with a regular lighter yeah why would you use the cigarette lighter in the car if you had a lighter just because he wanted something to pick on elwood explains that he traded the caddy for a microphone which jake actually understands and he replaced it with this car which he picked up at the mount prospect city police auction because they were practically giving them away jake expresses his disappointment having been picked up from the prison by his own brother in a police car the brothers pull up to the east 95th street drawbridge just as it's raising to allow a tugboat passage elwood in an effort to win over jake drives the new bluesmobile over the gap in the bridge which would never work because there's a huge visible gap on the on the upside of the bridge that they would have just fallen into or crashed directly into the side of the bridge there's no way they could have cleared this gap but uh but that's what happens here this movie does a lot of really great things with inserts yeah so like while this drawbridge stuff is happening we keep cutting to the interior workings of the drawbridge the big gear workings was like the little details like that of this movie i really love yeah as they land on the other side elwood goes on to explain it's got a cop motor a 440 cubic inch plant it's got copped tires cop suspension cop shocks there's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas which reminds me of when he pulls up in the ectomobile four years from now and he says need some suspension work and shocks and uh brakes brake pads lining steering box transmission rear end how much only 4 800 maybe new rings also jake says fix a cigarette lighter and then basically has his approval elwood pulls up to their childhood orphanage deep into an alleyway he reminds jake that he promised to visit the penguin when they got out but he says he was lying and he has no intention of following through on that promise coming up the stairs into the orphanage they stop at a particularly gruesome crucifix she calls to them before they knock on the door and opens the door psychokinetically it also closes behind them she informs them that unless she can come up with five thousand dollars for property taxes that the orphanage will be shut down apparently this is because when the script was being written there was a bill that was like in the process of being voted on that might have caused churches to be charged taxes but because it didn't pass and churches in america have never been forced to pay property tax this plot point doesn't really make sense a lot there was a draft where the illinois nazis were attempting to buy the orphanage as their new headquarters and i feel like they should have just stuck with that yeah that would have made a little bit more sense but then you're giving a bunch of nazis money at the end in order to win no because they were trying to buy it so you're out bidding the nazis oh you're buying it from the nazis right you're just preventing them from buying it paying whomever owns the building yeah jake says that 5k is no problem but she refuses his filthy money and he says oh well then you must be up [ __ ] creek and this kicks off a long repeating pattern of jake and ellwood cursing in pain from being slapped with a ruler and then being slapped with a ruler for cursing in pain when he just calls her a [ __ ] yeah and then the last thing that he says before they get up and like move towards the door is [ __ ] this noise man which i didn't realize was a thing that people said in the early 80s like for some reason [ __ ] this noise sounds very modern it does [ __ ] this so they're scrambling for the door but jake can't even get out of this tiny like student's desk that he was sitting in so elwood is just runs down the stairs and then jake just falls down i'm still sitting at the desk which he apparently hurt himself real bad i believe it she calls down to them at the bottom of the stairs and tells them not to come back until they've redeemed themselves before levitating backwards through the door into her office and slamming it with her mind downstairs jake and l would encounter curtis the man who taught them the blues he tells them that the five thousand dollars needs to be at the cook county assessor's office in 11 days and he advises them to hear reverend cliophus down at the triple rock church so that's where they go despite the fact that jake has no intention of going to a church he doesn't want to hear that jive church talk reverend cleophis is played by r b legend james brown and he refused to lip-sync the scene so he actually performed the full song over and over and is dripping with sweat throughout this scene but that was kind of his thing yeah in the trademark james brown yeah uh during his performance light suddenly pours through a window and sets jake a glow and he starts repeatedly shouting [Music] he says he sees the light and he does a bunch of cartwheel flips up to the stage which is a very clever trading out of john belushi for someone later that night they're driving listening to a sam and dave tape and jake says we're gonna get the band back together we're gonna earn that five thousand dollars we're to save the orphanage and elwood doubts that reuniting the band will be possible at all uh while they're having this conversation they blow a red light or possibly a yellow light i didn't actually frame by frame it to see if they're breaking the line it's it's a yellow light but they they were within there but they're very quickly being pulled over by officers daniel and mount who are named after tom daniel and sean mount two universal executives who had pushed especially hard to get landis animal house made and they were rewarded with these characters elwood hands over his license and worries allowed to his brother that these cops probably have commands state county municipal offender data system a computer readout in the cop car reveals that elwood's license is suspended he has 116 standing parking warrants and 56 moving violations flashing text below advises the officers to arrest driver and impound vehicle instead of stepping out of the car as is requested elwood pulls away at top speed and because he's driving a police car he can actually keep pretty well ahead of these police very wet roads make for some fun slippery driving and the cars are just skidding around in this suburban neighborhood jake is mad that they are headed right back to prison when elwood reminds him we're on a mission from god they loop around a mall parking lot for a while before elwood points the card directly at the mall's toys r us driving full speed a customer inside played by gary mcclarty the film's stunt coordinator holds up a grover doll and asks an employee if they have miss piggy before the wall explodes behind him the first shot here bothers me the most because a woman in a red shirt is clearly clipped and knocked over by the car as it plows through a row of shelves i think that there are probably a fair amount of people who are injured yes in some way or another because there are just so many extras running around and the car is not slowing down at all whoever's driving is intentionally driving as dangerously as possible near large crowds it does not look well coordinated in terms of who's running which direction and when when the when the glass panes of these stores shatter they're not breakaway glasses no it's definitely it's full glass yeah it's glass everywhere it's an insane action piece but if you showed me just this scene and told me that landis would formally be charged with involuntary manslaughter for multiple deaths on the set of a later film i would 100 believe you because it doesn't look like they're being careful at all here it looks actually very poorly coordinated the car continues into the interior of the mall deliberately drifting into multiple storefronts elwood and jake nonchalantly comment on them all's spaciousness and wide variety of goods and services baby clothes this place has got everything the pair of police cars presumably part of the pursuit through them all are inexplicably doing donuts in the middle of a display of plants and easels loaded with paintings they're just circling around like at first i was like oh is there something stuck on this tire and that's why you can't drive straight and it's like no they're just literally doing donuts on purpose here not trying to chase the car at all but this mall which i'm assuming is probably a real mom yeah like is just fully stocked like they're they're they're not nothing's fake yeah like it's all really full of stuff that is true i honestly don't even know how they did this movie for 30 million because this mall scene and the number of cars they wreck throughout the entire film is just mind-boggling uh somehow one of the cop cars is ramped up and flipped over on its roof the cop in the driver's seat desperately gripping his hat is director john landis the dixie square mall had been closed for over a year when it was rented by producers for this sequence the various companies featured in the mall were invited to set up storefronts as free product placement in the film with advanced knowledge that the displays were at risk of being destroyed by stunt work guaranteed not at risk yeah but they just said at risk and then even though the car is clearly just swerving to destroy them uh universal was later sued by them all for 87 thousand dollars for failure to return them all to its original condition something that had never been agreed upon that's really their bad lost that suit they did uh the new bluesmobile bursts out of the jc penny window and back into the parking lot and off into the night officer mount promises i'm gonna catch that sucker it's the last thing i ever do we also get the first officer of many officers shouting they broke my watch yeah which i think is revenge for them breaking his watch they destroyed so much in the scene they must have just had like one take on all of this stuff because they're just destroying actual storefronts and glass and all this stuff so they just get nine cameras on it you better hope you got that shot yeah well because you can see you see things and people hit the cameras yeah yeah like i mean or the protective they definitely destroyed at least one camera on this we also get our first of many of uh henry mancini's peter gunn theme here uh this is the theme that currently starts every episode of this podcast manchester united spy hunter if you there you go for our nes classic nes everyone remembers that uh mancini previously scored little miss marker for us earlier this year elwood parks the car in this tight garage that's labeled cta e-train power transformer high-voltage danger it's like this little brick house and a back alley and this is possibly what's imbuing the vehicle with its magical powers that exhibits as the brothers walk back to their apartment carrie fisher is suddenly seen smoking in a car and she lifts a rocket launcher to train it on them and fires several explosives into the door to their building as they hit the floor they dust themselves off from under a pile of rubble and just go inside like nothing happened and they're like literally pulling the doors off of their building because it's completely destroyed in the lobby of their building an older gentleman asks if l would remember to get his cheese whiz apparently he did he's had it in this pocket this whole time we step into the i'm going to say about 50 square foot apartment jake asks how often the train goes by how often does the train go by so often you won't even notice it jake sits on ellwood's bed while he toasts some white bread on a stove top which is apparently his thing yeah he's like cooking it with the handle of a jiffy pop oh i thought it was a coat hanger oh is it a coat hanger okay either way it's a bit of wire over a burner yeah jake worries that the cops will track them down with the address from his license but elwood explains that the address on his license points to wrigley field so they should be in the clear jake passes out on elwood's bed and elwood throws a blanket over him sits in the window to watch five more trains pass every time they show this window there's a train going by sometimes too in the morning carrie fisher pulls up again just as police are doing so john candy i think is jake's parole officer and he's speaking with the cops and laughing about the wrigley field bit but they seem less amused by it just as the cops and john candy are bursting into the actual apartment carrie fisher triggers an explosion in the building which just destroys the entire building yeah it all collapses in on itself the bottom drops out of their room and you see dan aykroyd just dropped through the set and it's dan aykroyd like it's not a stunt man he's leaning in the corner of the room it just falls through the floor and the bed tips forward and dumps belushi down the brothers wake up under this layer of bricks that are comically falling because they're clearly like foam bricks right but the the heavy the heaviness the weight of the bricks can be heard yeah it just sounds like clay scraping against each other and uh suddenly they're remembering their plans for the day they never question for a second what just happened to them and uh seconds later cops also arise from the bricks somehow one of these full weight bricks is balanced on the brim of one of the cops hats i like i like to think in that in their world this stuff happens to them all the time yeah this is this is just par for the course it's normal elwood heads to his job at a factory of some sort with cans um i'm not clear what this place is it's like spring i don't know if they're spray paint or hair spray this is where he gets the epoxy no it's not where he gets the epoxy because he he pockets he pockets one of the bottles no he pulls the bottle off of the assembly line and puts it in his bag elwood produces three different types of cans in this film the first one is the cheese whiz can which is not from this factory this is not a cheese with factory some some people call this that he works at the cheese whis place and he doesn't no other people call it the glue factory but the cans that he steals here don't have labels on them and the glue epoxy that he uses later has a label on it the cans that he uses that don't have a label on them are just some toxic chemical that he uses to fill up the tires so that's what these cans are that he took oh is it is it the same stuff that he uses to for the elevator later yeah possibly but either way whatever i don't know what this factory does specifically but they have this one particular chemical in unlabeled cans but he's watching the line as he walks into the building and a co-worker is standing there for a moment and he snatches a few of them off the line and just tucks them into his case but the extra playing his co-worker was clearly not instructed to do anything but watch the machine so when the line backs up and cans are just being tossed onto the floor by the machinery she doesn't do anything to unblock the path and she's just like watching it like this is how it's supposed to work which made me laugh a little bit for this scene only elwood's eyes are visible as he has swapped his ray-bans for protective goggles he tells his boss he's quitting to become a priest and his boss says okay we'll get your severance package ready there's no fight there's no jokes here the scene shouldn't be in the movie and it's not in the shorter version the one that's not two and a half hours long the brothers head out to touch base with bones malone and blue lou their last known address was scribbled across an old pack of cigarettes and they pull up to a building to speak with mrs tarantino the former landlord of the aforementioned band members they're posing intentionally or not as law enforcement when they speak to her they sound a lot like the characters from dragnet which is funny because accord would later go on to play the characters from dragnet just the facts ma'am he does say that they're just musicians though when she asks if they're law enforcement right but they they get all the way into her apartment and they're like halfway through this investigation before she's like are you the police no ma'am we're musicians this man is the police is like oh no no man we're not the police we're hoping it won't be necessary to call the police but as they leave her house she's rushing out to them with a business card for murph in the magic tones so they head down to the local holiday inn where the magic tones are currently playing murph sings in spanish and very poorly [Music] i don't know if it's a joke that he's singing badly or what but it's very off tune and and bad murph and the magic tones are five of the full 10-member band the original script had a separate story about collecting each member oh god jesus uh the waitress in this scene is john belushi's wife at the time some of the members ask if jake has the money that he owes them and elwood claims that jake was in prison for sticking up a gas station to try and pay their room service tab from a kiwanis gig in coal city upon learning that they're getting the band back together they explain that mr fabulous is now the head mater d at shea paul and will never again join the band and that matt murphy and blue lou run a restaurant with matt's wife the brothers are not dismayed by this news and repeat we're on a mission from god the bluesmobile skids to a stop at the valet outside shape hall possibly a reference to banished band member paul shaffer as they walk in mr fabulous is on the phone but still blurts out oh no i thought it was supposed to be five years because he immediately recognizes jake is there and should not be as predicted he is reluctant to join the band and so the brothers take a seat in the restaurant they take a seat next to a family and proceed to be as obnoxious as possible firstly with their stinch and then by whistling for service from the waiter played by paul rubins here from whom they order the finest champagne they have to offer our second paul reuben's movie of the year yeah and there will be another one he says we have a dom perignon 71 at 120 that'll be fine pal a nearby table asks for them to be removed because they smell horrible the guy says well frankly they're offensive smelling i mean they smell bad which sounds like the delivery that like will ferrell would use yeah i mean that thing is good jake and l would feed each other shrimp with their arms entangled sometimes they just toss it right in yeah there's one moment where dan agreed clearly is just throwing it but then they cut to an angle of blushy catching on his mouth to imply that he caught the same one well it's almost like like you're feeding scraps to your dog you're just kind of tossing it and the dog just catches it and because elwood isn't even looking at it yeah he just he just kind of casually to the side because he's like making eyes at like this like 14 year old girl yeah at the next table but uh the lines don't match up for the the angle that he throws it out of the angle it's caught at the champagne shows up and elbows insisting on accepting it in his water glass which uh the waiter's like that's not the right glass he's like just just fill it up that's fine uh he turns to jake turns to the offended family and asks how much he would be willing to sell them for how much for the little girl the women how much for the women what you're women i i want to buy your women their little girl your daughters sell them to me sell me your children mater d he starts eating off their plates because he's not getting enough of a reaction as quickly as he wants mr fabulous threatens to call the police but they're telling him that that's just bad form he just got out of jail like he wouldn't do that so they threatened to come back here and eat every meal every day until he leaves to join their band and he gives up because he knows they'll do that yeah except that doesn't really make any sense because nobody's going to let these guys back in the door when they don't pay for this meal right but unless he's going to involve the owner it's the maitre d's job to get them out of there so he knows they're just going to keep coming back in and he's not going to call the police on his friend so he's kind of screwed either way and i think he kind of wants to join the band so he quits and joins the band and ignores the pleading of the the gentleman at the next table over who's like sir sir but he's done working here on their way to recruit matt murphy and blue lou the brothers encounter henry gibson at a nazi rally this is based on a real rally that was held in the mid 70s it was originally scheduled for skokie illinois which was home at the time to an unusually large number of holocaust survivors before protests drove the case to the supreme court where it was decided in 77 that they had a right to freedom of assembly the rally eventually took place though in chicago similarly to what was portrayed here fed up by the traffic caused by the nazi protest and their general shittiness as humans the brothers pull around a line of cars to drive through the middle of the rally on a bridge which forces the nazis to jump over the side into the water it is impossible now yeah to watch a car drive through a crowd of people at a nazi rally and not be reminded of the charlottesville attack it's one scene that in retrospect i wish there was a way to rework or remove without ruining the rest of the nazi subplot but it sets up a lot that's gonna happen in the rest of the movie and it's just a bummer it's just a bummer to watch because this was probably funny at some point and it's not it's not anymore uh the brothers pull up to the soul food cafe where johnny lee hooker is performing boom boom outside to a massive crowd landis gets these super long telephoto lens shots to accentuate how crowded the streets are and it almost makes it look like the bluesmobile is about to crash into people because you're looking so far down the street but they pull up and they park and instead of going in they just sit outside and let them finish the song they listen through the end of boom boom as the song trails off hooker announces that he wrote that song back in the 50s and another gentleman seems to take issue with the claim and an argument ensues um as we move inside uh elle would order some toasted white bread dry and jake orders four fried chickens and a coke from aretha franklin as she relays the orders to the chef matt murphy he recognizes the orders and rushes out to greet his friends aretha seems unamused as she overhears the plan to reassemble the blues brothers she tells him that he needs to think about this decision you better think apparently like james brown aretha had a difficult time with the lip sync this particular scene was cobbled together from hundreds of takes because she couldn't get the hang of just singing along to a track and wanted to sing it out loud and i have a feeling that that's pretty typical for good musicians that if you are really good at what you do you can't just repeat the same performance that you had on one recording once yeah well this wasn't i don't think this is her original recording of it is it maybe it is i think i think they recorded it new for the film but yeah well either way it's a track that she's singing to recorded it once and now you're asking me to repeat exactly that one recording and that's right and good musicians are constantly evolving and and changing how they perform especially in her type of music where there's a lot of improvising and there could be a lot of like changing it up from performance to performance if we were watching this movie with our six-year-old daughter addie and uh she pointed out while we were watching and she was like this lady's a really good singer they should get her in the band what's her name she seems like she could go places but even after this display murphy is somehow able to shut her down and he tosses his apron aside and leaves with the brothers and aretha gives reluctant permission to blue lou to follow them and he rushes out immediately as well after hours we see a salon called curl up and die where carrie fisher is reading the instruction booklet for a flamethrower and on her desk we see a bunch of photographs of her and jake together which kind of explains a little bit more what's happening but we're still not totally clear on this lady's story uh the boys head to rey's music exchange and inside the guys are looking at some instruments ray charles interrupts them to remind them of store policy that an employee must be present before an instrument can be handled a child sneaks into the store and reaches for a guitar on the wall and ray puts two bullet holes in the wall next to the guitar to scare the kid away and you have to wonder what he's aiming at yeah now go on get he prices a nearby keyboard at two thousand dollars and when they say it doesn't have any action left this forces ray to kick off a musical number and uh they go into i think it's called twist it tail feather or tail feather okay there you go i think it's called tail feather [Laughter] i love it the rest of the band jumps into play and somehow even people outside the store are dancing to the music another thing addie commented on it's funny because they're pretending they can hear the song [Laughter] i love andy's observation but they play the rest of the song and we cut to that night the band is pulling up to a howard johnson's to use a pay phone to try and lock in their first gig this was something that he was also confused yeah she's like why are they going into this box yeah uh in the booth uh it conveniently next to a large propane tank elwood asks who are you going to call jake which weirdly doesn't remind me of anything jake says he plans to reach out to a booking agent maurice lein here addie asked why the phone was in a tiny room and we explained that this movie was made before people use cell phones but she was confused even further when jake in espousing sline's prowess as an agent reminded elwood he got us to morgan park got us to tick-tock and eddie was like how did tick-tock exist if people didn't have cell phones as soon as they place the call carrie fisher torches the booth and the adjacent propane tank with a flame thrower and they are rocketed straight up into the sky and they crash down real hard in the parking lot i love the dummy that's in the car that ends up being dan aykroyd it's just like its arm is hanging out it's just for sure dead well i love that there's like there's tons and tons of change yeah but he grossly underestimates how many quarters it's got to be at least seven dollars worth of change here they obviously they're uninjured and ecstatic to find all the change spilled from the broken pay phone the nazis try to track down the brothers using the license plate of the car that nearly hit them they all convene at wrigley field admitting defeat in this particular effort and make plans to monitor all city county and state police radios to find the blues brothers i want all party members in the tri-state district to monitor the city county and state police on their cbs which reminded me of when ray's dance says go to the gosarian good evening as a duly designated representative of the city county and state of new york i order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension that ought to do it thanks very much ray the brothers pull up to bob's country bunker and pose as the scheduled band the good old boys the brothers introduce themselves to the bartender as the band and ask what kind of music they have here to which she responds oh we got both kinds we got country and western the band sets up the stage behind chicken wire which reminded me of road house where jeff healy is performing behind chicken wire and we'll learn why later owner bob provides the boys with a set list but they don't seem to know any of the songs and just consider them suggestions they jump right into gimme some lovin and the crowd [ __ ] hates it immediately the purpose of the chicken wire becomes abundantly clear as a barrage of beer bottles are hurled at the stage exploding at the wire and continuing in shards to shower the band this also did not look like breakaway glass to me i think it is breakaway glass because i don't think a real glass would break when it hits chicken wire i think the actual point of the wire is to just stop the bottle not to actually break it okay because it would work more like a nap than what they're showing here that's true but there's just shards of glass spraying through this thing luckily everyone's wearing sunglasses so they're not getting like shards in the eye but it's pretty ridiculous bob notices quickly that this ain't no hank williams tuned and he shuts off the power to the stage we just had hank jr a couple movies ago in rhodey uh the band takes a swing at the rawhide theme to calm the crowd and the barrage of bottles continues but now as a show of approval uh they follow rawhide with tammy white net staple stand by your man complete with bad falsetto and the crowd loves it [Music] uh they closed the show with a rawhide reprise and while they're packing the stage bob informs them that their 200 check only covers part of their 300 beer tap because the first round was on the house and they assumed all of it was but it wasn't jake steps outside and warns the band to take off so they can skip the tab when the good old boys arrive led by charles napier and uh they pull up in an rv apparently hours late for when a show would have started slightly confusing because the bar is empty at this yeah they're basically closing for the night and they didn't make any sort of excuses about being late no jake poses as the as a representative of the musicians union local 200 and asks to see their permit to play uh jake tells bob that they're writing him a check in the car now and then the blues brothers skid out of the parking lot as fast as they can bob jumps in with the good old boys and a chase ensues the good old boys fire a shot through the back window of the bluesmobile they start racing faster and faster down these old country roads officers daniel and mount are stationed across the street from a billboard for see you next wednesday which according to the poster seems to be some kind of king kong rip-off the film is a recurring gag in landis movies and according to the billing here stars donald sutherland who famously took fifty thousand dollars for his role in animal house over the offered fifteen percent that would have made him millions comparatively the title see you next wednesday apparently comes from the last words that frank poole hears from his father in 2001 a space odyssey see you next wednesday daniel and mount move to chase the bluesmobile and immediately crash headlong into the good ol boys rv and just completely destroy it some of these guys would have been dead but somehow later in the movie it's totally fine yeah nothing happened to this rv the next day in asana after making very little progress with sline jake pulls the trigger and blackmails slime to book them at the palace hotel ballroom which apparently seats 5 000 people in an effort to make the five thousand dollars they need right so that i guess everyone is only paying one dollar or their share is a dollar i guess but uh jake apparently knows something that slime's wife might like to hear sline agrees to do the show and the boys move to advertise the show and fill the venue in a wide shot we see that all of the band are also in the sauna and they get up to leave with the brothers curtis hires a bunch of orphans hires is a strong word curtis forces a bunch of orphans to advertise the show to save their orphanage so it's really they're beneficial too yeah chat labor it's all good yeah uh jake and ellwood's trap an enormous speaker from the top of a tower that was next to a playground yeah it's it's like i'm assuming it was some kind of warning system like tornado warning or whatever but now it's a show warning they strap it to the top of the car and just drive around announcing the show to pedestrians [Music] you on the bike the first shot though that we see they're just driving through a field like an empty field off in the wilderness and i like how he has the the mic just dangling in front of him so he doesn't have to hold it yeah like it's just it's suspended from the top of the card it's probably just taped open it seems to be hanging from the same piece of rope that's tying the speaker to the top of the car that's coming through the windows yeah uh james brown aretha and ray charles all hang posters for the show raises of course upside down peeing at a urinal the good old boise and ad for the show scribbled on the wall with the words tonight only but there's no date so they assume it was written today sufficiently advertised the brothers decide to head for the show but realize that they've run out of gas they push the car to a gas station which is also out of gas elwood flirts with another customer who arrives he's posing as a gas station attendant and he pretends he's going to help her while he waits for the tanker truck to refill the station eventually it shows up and everything is handled yeah he he all she wanted was some gas and for someone to look under the hood real quick and yes so that'll be um 94. and she gives him 95 and he's like here's your change for a dollar and she's like i'll keep the change it's fine 95 well he could tell she had a british accent so he knew he could take advantage of her she doesn't understand the currency exchange from pounds to the dollars yeah it's a dollar worth more it's like an american gigolo when uh richard gere overheard the woman order in another language and he's like oh someone for me to take advantage of and he sits down and she starts talking to him in english and this is famed model twiggy yes before she leaves the gas station though he invites her to meet up with him at his hotel later if her date doesn't go as well as she's hoping the band is getting restless at the show because the brothers have not shown up yet and there's an audience all seated at the venue jake's parole officer gets a flyer for the show and he puts in a call to officers daniel and mount gas is just pouring out of the blues mobile until jake realizes how late they are to the show and they drive away tossing a cigarette behind them uh into the puddle of gas that they've dragged this far down the road and blow up the whole gas station private eye style the brothers parked the car under a bridge and walked to the show under a team of officers at a roadblock in jake and elwood's absence the band opens with cab calloway performing minnie the moocher a song we heard tweaked a little earlier this year as squeeze at the moocher performed by danny elfman as the devil in richard elfman's forbidden zone as soon as the song starts here an entire bandstand materializes and the band is all tuxed up in the background jake and elwood are sneaking past countless police into the venue but they're sneaking with the music right and moving through the parking lot elwood sprays super adhesive epoxy on the gas pedal of the apparently fixed good old boys rv crawling past a few squad cars elwood retrieves the cans that he stole off of the line at his job and he explains to jake this can is from a surplus disposal run 15 overcharged ounces of pure uncompounded isopropanol butane monosulphic when combined with oxygen and a little heat will cause a rapid expansion so at least one of the things they make at this factory is cans of isopropyl butane monosulfate he lets this toxic gas fill the tires of all of the parked cruisers before heading into the building the cops want to move to arrest the band but john candy says they aren't going anywhere and he hasn't even heard them sing yet so they decide to block all the exits instead so he seems like he's on their side throughout this i think he's he's friendly with i mean he's he's a parole officer so i think he at least knows jake and he does seem happy about like stuff that happens later and yeah he seems friendly with him he's generally happy throughout no matter what's happening so it seems like he's rooting for him i think he just has he's got no dog in this fight yeah it's yeah it's not his job to to apprehend them when they sit down he he looks at the troopers and goes do you want an orange whip orange whip and both they both reluctantly nod like yes they would like in orange website orders three orange whips the brothers sneak into the building through the girls restroom and eventually catch curtis's eye at the curtains behind the audience curtis welcomes the blues brothers on stage and elwood gives a special thanks to all the law enforcement officers who made it to the show tonight which reminds me of a similar comment from another snl alum chevy chase in fletch when he is similarly surrounded at at someone's retirement party or something so why not stand up and have him on the back go ahead reach out go ahead shake hands with any one of the guys you see here these men included hug a cop yeah go ahead i said it yeah that's a wonderful feeling which was likely inspired by this particular scene because that was much later the guys leave during the final number and conveniently they are interrupted backstage by not only a record executive carrying a 10 000 cash advance to sign them for an album but one who used to be a bouncer here in the 70s and knows a secret way out of the building so they take five thousand dollars and they ask the man to give 1400 to rey's music exchange and the rest of the band in the tunnel on their way out they encounter carrie fisher again this time with an automatic weapon and we finally learned her backstory it turns out that jake stood her up at the altar and embarrassed her in front of her friends and family he gives her a dozen contradictory excuses while pleading for his life but still rejects any and all responsibility he removes his glasses for a moment and she looks into his eyes and falls right back in love with him and he kisses her hard before dropping her in the mud and they just run off because he tricked her again hopping in the car acroid announces probably the most quoted line of the film it's 106 miles to chicago we got a full tank of gas half a pack of cigarettes it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses hit it the cops all race out of the lot after the car the good old boys join the chase but accelerate out of control on account of their glued gas pedal and crash hard over a dock and into the lake that's right near the venue the girl from the gas station waits fruitlessly outside of elwood's hotel a trope we last saw in the children when a woman was invited on a date that never came to fruition the nazis over here on the cbs that the pursuit is happening and they rushed to join elwood pulls off the road to a different highway and probably 30-ish cop cars follow them over an embankment just piling slowly as they crash into each other this this scene is really fun and ridiculous i remember the first time i watched this movie where i didn't get how much of a joke it was until like the 12th car came over that i was like oh okay i see what they're doing this is one of those jokes that just gets funnier the longer it goes mount daniel and candy swerve off the road but they managed to avoid this pile of cars at the bottom of the hill so they try to swerve back up the hill onto the freeway and they end up ramping up and flying into the back of an 18-wheeler and then uh john candy takes the radio in the car and he says hi this is car um what number are we five five car 55 uh we're in a truck he's just smiling and laughing about it well and the guy who hands him the radio was the driver who's now completely upside down and head down by the pedals and legs up over the seat so when he hands him the radio it comes up from like from underneath it's great um we see a quick montage of like mounties and coast guard joining the race and then we get maybe my favorite line of the whole movie over the cb use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the blues brothers has been approved literally hundreds of police cars chased the brothers through downtown chicago which was completely blocked off for six consecutive sundays for the production that's impressive yeah uh the chase moves along the bridge where batman's tumblr raced to foil the joker's plot in the dark knight not his website tumblr but his vehicle he wrote really angry poetry at the joker elwood comes out of the tunnel so fast that he flies over a roadblock and just barely clips a police car as he goes by and then he blasts under the l train at 118 miles per hour which looked fake in the dailies after the first take so they added pedestrians for take two to prove that the footage wasn't being sped up but they're literally driving 118 miles an hour under this train why would you put people anywhere near that because you're john landis uh they swerve left to avoid a sudden cop and their entire tail crashes into it all these all these police cars behind them just go full speed into the side of the car blocking the road and then they just get angry and just start opening fire into the public they're just firing their weapons down the street um the blues mobile passes an alley and uh hiding in this alley are the illinois nazis and a couple of christmas cars they got a green car and a red car and they pull out to pursue the blues mobile uh the nazis start shooting at them and the car throws a rod so i love well first of all because like first of all they're driving volkswagens yes um and then henry gibson leans out the window to pull out his like german luger and he keeps firing at them and with each consecutive shot jake and elwood keep trying to duck lower even though the bullets aren't impacting anything but they're they keep getting more and more concerned of the bullets until they're both completely down below the dashboard yeah but then one goes through the dash and uh the the car throws a rod and starts coughing this weird gunk up it's like spurting oil up over the windshield which jake has to climb out on the front of the car to wipe away the new chase leads somehow to an overpass in milwaukee which was still under construction at the time and uh the blues brothers barely stop before going over the end of this unfinished freeway section they throw the car in reverse so hard that it does a backflip over the nazis as they drive under it to go off the cliff but suddenly they're thousands of feet in the air dropping from the height of a skyscraper past the chicago skyline and fall through the city street leaving like this eight foot hole in the ground in the shape of a car uh the bluesmobile having looped around i guess jumps over it with its magical jumping powers but the second nazi car drops right in behind them so they're just stacked in this hole jake and elwood skid to a stop outside the county cook assessor's office upon exiting the car it erupts into a pile of parts and they take a moment to grieve and the statues outside the building are grieving with them i love this effect why i think it just looks so great how the all the parts just pop right off yeah moving inside they pal everything they can find against the double doors to buy time cops and firefighters are chopping away at these barricaded doors to get into the building and arriving swat team hot huts incessantly uh tanks are dropping off army troops yeah like the the amount of extras in this scene and because they also drive through a building in a plaza and i was looking at like they were leaving like all kinds of like skid marks on the on the internals like they must have had to lay fake floor something like that because i mean like taking out windows and putting them back in to that's one thing but if you like you can take the tire tracks off of the concrete yeah yeah exactly so they must have had to lay down i don't know what they did because there's just my guess they just destroyed the concrete and left but uh this is a total mad house apparently there were over 500 extras used for this scene of them blockading the daily thing so many shots in this movie have ridiculous amounts of extras yeah when they're dancing outside the the music store yeah and in the mall it's just so many people everywhere and here they're all in uniform like that's that's twice as much work oh yeah how did they only spend 30 million yeah it's actually impressive for the budget uh we get a shot of dan aykroyd in front of a no smoking sign in the elevator four years before it would happen again in the sedgwick hotel in ghostbusters the brothers destroy the elevator on their way out with the same can of gas i guess midnight madness style so that no one else can use the elevator i i love the screwdriver that he uses like one of those like jam it in yeah like whereas it's like it's like torque driven like it you just plunge it down and it completely pops the screw out yeah and then he uses it to pry the panel off so that he can spray the gas in and blow all the electrical but again it's just one of the things he has on him yep like he's he always has these things on him he's very prepared when they get to the assessor's office there's a sign in the window that says back in five minutes eventually the brothers strong-arm the man running the office into processing the five thousand dollar payment to save the orphanage and he does it and hands them the receipt seconds before they are handcuffed at gunpoint by this entire team that has finally gotten into the building uh we cut two months later maybe where the band is performing jailhouse rocket juliette [Music] why why was the band arrested they they they actually didn't do anything hmm that's a good point i mean you evaded a hundred dollar bar tab well they definitely all got out of prison before jake and elwood did because are they all in prison they were all performing jailhouse rock together in the jail no i meant i thought you meant previously oh no but i'm saying based on my knowledge of the future of this story when elwood gets out of prison all the other guys have been out of prison for a long time so elwood and jake definitely went in for the longest after the credits we see an advertisement for universal studios hollywood with the parenthetical ask for babs which is a reference to a character from animal house who according to the film's epilogue went on to become a tour guide at universal the same advertisement can be seen at the end of animal house obviously and apparently guests who asked for babs were provided with some unspecified incentive as late as 1989 when the park announced it would no longer reward the phrase so i don't know what the reward was but apparently for a while you would get something for saying hey i was told to ask for babs when you go to universal but who would you ask i don't know whoever you like turn your ticket into i guess um john belushi here was joliet jake he's also in tarzune shame of the jungle with bill murray uh from 1975 he was in animal house going south 1941 continental divide and neighbors and that was it uh he was an original snl cast member and uh he's probably best remembered for that if not in his house this in animal house oh yeah like his character was pluto yes yeah uh frank oz was the corrections officer at juliet he's the voices of fozzie bear miss piggy and yoda uh we went over a lot of his credits in our empire strikes back episode but he also directed bowfinger indian in the cupboard what about bob most recently in knives out right he's a character in that dan aykroyd was elwood he wrote this with landis he wrote and starred as race dancing ghostbusters he wrote and starred in dragnet he wrote and starred in and directed in nothing but trouble so he writes for himself and he does a good job kathleen freeman was sister mary stigmata she's joe dirtz foster mother she's the old woman in the first shrek movie she's back in blues brothers 2000 she's peg's mom on married with children yeah uh she's miss olin the teacher in hocus pocus yeah she's so many great rehearsals she's she's a character actor she does voice acting she was the voice of fenton crack shell's mother original duck tales around that on here um she was uh uh fred ward's mother in the third naked gun movie oh nice when nelson nielsen subdues her by putting both of her arms in the windows of a car and her locking her head into the sunroof and she's like her the girl says won't that look a little conspicuous it's like no it's happened to me a number of times she's also a microwave marge in gremlins too oh yeah microwave marge and she played rose magruder and off the wall that's the one where the kid does the graffiti she's an attorney okay the macgyver episode uh cam calloway played curtis he's a musician he has lots of credits and he plays yeller and cincinnati kid with steve mcqueen uh donald duck dunn is a musician and he came back for 2000 that's going to be what i say for a lot of these people james brown was reverend cleophus james he's a musician he's back in 2000 he's also in dr detroit rocky iv and he's a hostage negotiator in an episode of duck man okay which i was like now i want to look that up well and dr detroit was also with dan aykroyd yes uh chaka khan was a choir soloist somewhere in here she's a famous musician oh yeah you see her in there yeah um i they kept focusing on this woman and i was like is she someone of note yeah that's who it must have been in the church yeah uh stephen williams was trooper mount stephen williams is great he was mr x on x-files the guy who you tape a big x in your window and he comes and solves your mystery he was creighton duke and jason goes to hell he's a tree trimmer and better off dead and he's charlie it's a vacuum mack robinson on macgyver season 1 episode 14 countdown where he blows up trying to defuse a bomb uh carrie fisher played mystery woman she doesn't even have a name she was obviously leia an empire the same day you can listen to that for more credits uh john lanez it's carrie fisher it's carrie fisher you know who she is john landis plays trooper lafong he directed this movie uh he directed animal house american werewolf in london next year trading places thriller twilight zone three amigos coming to america beverly hills cop three the stupids you name it i mean are we gonna go into more about landis not yet because like spielberg is in this movie and that's true and you know a lot of joe dante regulars in here too uh but you know uh obviously we know the twilight zone would be the last time spielberg and landis would work to work together and we'll get to that lane britain was the cheese whiz he's credited as shotgun britain he was the makeup artist for this movie he's also the makeup artist for tora toratora he does lots of makeup uh his credits date back to gunga din in 1939. wow he also did citizen kane two years later so he did all of orson welles's old person makeup i i do have to feel bad for the kangadin one only because he put sam jaffe in brown face yeah and i was like and don't get me wrong i think it did is great but they do a lot of brownface in that movie yeah it's not as bad as the conqueror with john wayne as genghis khan yeah that's a rough one uh john candy was burton mercer he plays barf in spaceballs he's uncle buck he's gus polinski in home alone and he's ox and stripes along with a bunch of other things he's also a really just funny comedian that we lost too early just like john judith belushi paisano or pizzano uh she was the holiday inn cocktail waitress and she was belushi's wife obviously alan rubin was mr fabulous he's a musician he's back in 2000. paul rubins was the waiter he's peewee he was in midnight madness earlier this year and he'll be back later this year as the actual peewee character in chichen chang's next movie uh henry gibson was the head nazi uh he's in burbs he's in magnolia he's also in gremlins too yeah he he was a regular on laughing yeah he's very very famous comedian uh i always look cause like you mentioned joe dante regular he's in so many joe dante films uh but just you know tv and movie he he was very busy all the way up into until his death i think in the early 2000s yeah he was in two macgyvers he was in the one where he played the silent film actor oh that's right and he was he also had a cameo where he had like a car a station wagon full of kids that he was getting fast food for and harry as well i remember that harry's will was a great episode a lot of cameos on that episode weird one uh john lee hooker played street slim he's a musician aretha franklin was the sole soul food cafe owner you know her she's a musician she's back for the 2000 movie lou marini same musician back for 2000 matt murphy the same ray charles he's a musician he's famous he was played by jimmy fox in a biopic which like the more i see him young the more i'm like yeah jamie foxx is the only person who could have done that um and uh he's also a famous diet pepsi spokesperson you got the right one bae ebay deborah white was the young guitar thief he played argyle the limo driver from die hard okay yeah um and probably not it by coincidence he also played an uber driver on workaholics i'm sure they were like can you get the limo driver from die hard to play the uber driver uh charles napier was tucker mcelroy yeah he's murdoch in what i would call second blood um rambo two uh lieutenant boyle and silence of the lambs yeah okay sorry i thought we were i thought you were i thought you were moving on i was like no we gotta talk about this guy he plays lieutenant boyle and silence to the lions he's also the commander in austin powers who is on the radio with clint howard as they're like talking about bob's big boy re-entering the earth's atmosphere um but he's great he is the head of the duke entertainment on the critic jay sherman's boss yeah i think he also did a voice in archer but i don't i didn't write down what it was he does tons of his voice is fantastic yeah steve lawrence was maurice lyon he came back for 2000 also and he was a musician who performed commonly with his wife edie gourmet twiggy was the lady from the gas station who was a top model in the late 60s uh ralph foodie was the police dispatcher he played johnny in angels with filthy souls oh my god yeah now oh that all makes sense yeah keep the change you filthy animal um steven spielberg was the cook county assessor's office clerk and obviously he's a very famous director he's not in a lot of movies no no it's funny like uh this i can think of this austin powers um where he's playing himself yeah and gold member yeah james avery was apparently somewhere in the crowd outside of rey's shop uh he's uncle phil he's the voice of shredder one of the voices of shredder i think he was the voice first and then he was replaced with uh jim cummings but uh great guy we just lost him pretty recently too and apparently mr t is also out there somewhere um although this could be just people like i wish i was in that movie i'm gonna say i was in that yeah yeah but uh mr t was obviously clubber lange uh he's b.a barack is from the a team and he's earl devereaux in the first cloudy with a chance of meatballs film jess up or down i don't know richard what do you think about this uh this movie's getting a big up a big up a big up really this is a big up this is a richard richard classic this is this is a movie much beloved by by the richard and i'm having a hard time not putting it in my number one spot wow i don't know man it's an up for me for sure well i mean i guess you should see it but it's really not like not a lot it's sloppy it's a reluctant up it's a reluctant wow i'm actually surprised uh from both of you it's not it's not super funny to me it's really not that funny i laughed the entire time i had tears in my eyes and this is like this like that who knows how many times i've watched this did you watch it when you were a kid no i i my father introduced this to me pretty late in my life uh and since then i've just been obsessed with it because i saw for the first time i think either late high school or early college and i had always heard that it was like one of the funniest movies ever made and that john belushi was a genius that we lost before you know his time but i he's not funny nothing he says in this whole movie is funny uh i could probably agree that he is not as funny as he could be i think that people misremember how funny he was i think that dying as early as he did has done a lot for his legacy i think that happens for a lot of people obviously but i don't think because i don't i also don't happen to like animal house very much i don't like animal house at all so between these two if these are like showing you who john belushi was as a character i don't care for his work but the music is obviously great i love the music i think dan aykroyd is doing a hell of a job i think he's he's carrying their side of the story but i think that if you'd cut the car accidents and the music together and skipped all the stuff about the band getting back together i would have been totally fine with this movie i like john belushi on snl i i enjoy i didn't see him on snl well i mean i i didn't watch it when he was originally on obviously but i the stuff that i've gone back and seen which is probably mostly highlight reels i liked that stuff but this movie just doesn't i don't know it just doesn't make me laugh well i i also feel that watching the extended cut is a bit of a is a bit of a disservice because 17 minutes is a lot of time to add back into him already a very long movie an unnecessary long movie even without the 17 minutes as far as i'm concerned and so watching a lot of those extra scenes i was just like this is what was in here this doesn't really add anything even some of the scenes that were literally just a line of dialogue like when they go to see the penguin and i can't remember what what l because i don't know the scenes because i i've only watched the theatrical version yeah um but elwood says something and jake just repeats it back in this naughty voice i was like yeah yeah that was that was one scene that was cut back in maybe through two seconds and the whole movie was filled with like those like two three i was like why does it keep getting washed out um and those were cut for a reason and they didn't add anything and uh so i feel it's a it makes the film a little more arduous to watch yeah i will agree um but i i i just adore this movie yeah i enjoy all the music i think i like the characters i just don't think that it was a well put together movie yeah i think it was definitely pretty sloppily shot and edited i think that everybody was on a lot of coke and they had to make a movie and so they made the movie and that it wasn't it wasn't uh their best work i don't think it was anybody's best work but uh honestly if you gave me this or the stupids in a desert island i'm taking the stupids all right i'm gonna take the desert island yeah because that's just like those are worth millions of dollars yeah but yeah where does this go on your list jess um yeah after i go and complain about it it's actually on the top no it's not that it's not that high it's um [Music] it looks like 17th place for me for the year okay uh it's uh after mountain men and a head of last married couple in america all right richard where's this going like i said like watching this movie as i did just recently again for the again millionth time i was like oh man this might be my new number one but no i've had clear clarity of thoughts uh we're not trying to sway your opinion no no no i i it's not it's not that you can't you cannot i i am obstinate on this no um but um i'm going to put this in uh fourth position uh just just after ninth configuration because again ninth of configuration was just like a marvel to my eyes that i had never seen um so this puts it between ninth configuration and where the buffalo roam all right uh for me this is going just above folks and just under saturn three which is still pretty high on my list um it's in my top twenty seven three's in my top ten still it's wonderful just barely now though with with the addition of the blues brothers it's it's now number 10. yes i think that's everything for this one if you guys have any thoughts you'd like to share with us we're vintage videopod on twitter facebook instagram and letterbox where as i've said before you can find each of our full movie rankings for the year we can also be found at vintagevideopodcast.com please consider rating us on itunes to help people find the show and if you take the time to leave us a review we will thank you personally in an upcoming episode if you're feeling especially generous you can support the show through patreon.com vintage video podcast on that note here's a shout out for via vhs thank you for the kind words in your itunes review we hope you continue to enjoy the show thank you so much for listening and i hope you'll join us next time when we'll be discussing brubacher which imdb describes like so the new warden of a small prison farm in arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate what is a prison farm find out next time we leave you now with a trailer for brubacher although wakefield is admittedly an imperfect institution much like america herself [Music] she is nonetheless a grand experiment i am i am the man i'm the new warden here my name is henry brubaker i figure most of you guys belong here basically you don't have any respect for other people or yourselves what do you think of our new warden i'm trying to get a fix on what his first order of business here is gonna be blow the place up he's dangerous what the hell's the matter with you you mean to tell me you're charging for medical me attention start wars and you let other people fight them do not come marching in here from wherever the hell she found you and presumed to lecture us about how to treat our fellow man must be over 200 of them abraham are you talking about the bodies that are supposed to be buried here somebody needs to stop them how many men are buried out there you wouldn't even know would you it's crazy the the digging of bodies that murder they're talking about in there and if they can doughnut how are you going to turn around and tell these guys why they're locked up robert redford brubacher