THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980) TWIN BROTHERS FIRST TIME WATCHING MOVIE REACTION!
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2023
- The Blues Brothers has been a movie on my list for a long time as it was one of the movies I remember my grandmother speaking about so fondly; glad to say we finally did it!
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RIP, John Belushi, Carrie Fisher, John Candy, Henry Gibson, Cab Galloway, James Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Alan Rubin, Matt Murphy, Donald Dunn, Kathleen Freeman, and Charles Napier. We miss you. You made this film a fun ride.
Don't forget John Candy too
@@johnnymoreno5065 He's the third name listed
RIP!!! One of my favorite (musical/comedy) movies of all times!!
Frank Oz who voiced Yoda in Star Wars was the guy at the prison with the soiled condom.
John Lee Hooker sang outside the Maxwell Street Cafè.
Steve Lawrence who played Maury Sline is an accomplished singer with his wife Eydie Gormè.
@@canadianscratcher7834 Frank Oz is still alive
Not sure if you fellas caught it, but that government worker who finally accepted the $5000 was played by none other than Steven Spielberg himself. And the prison worker who checks Jake out of jail at the very start was played by Frank Oz (the voice of Yoda and Miss Piggy). The cast in this movie is truly insane.
Don't forget Joe Walsh is one of the prisoners at the end. He is the first guy to get up on the table.
later: "...and yes, do you have a Miss Piggy?"
The customer was holding Grover and asked if they had Miss Piggy which are both characters originated by Frank Oz.
I didn't realize until now that the waiter at the restaurant is Paul Reubens(aka Pee Wee Herman).
Chaka Khan was in the church choir
An interesting thing to come out of this movie: in order to film part of the scene where the "Illinois Nazis" car flies to its demise off the unfinished highway ramp, they had to drop the car from a helicopter hovering more than 1,000 feet above the ground. However, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) doesn't just let you go dropping heavy objects at random across the countryside: they require an airworthiness certificate before you can do it, which in turn required the filmmakers to drop _another_ Ford Pinto from the same height prior to filming, so measurements could be taken to ensure that the car wasn't "too aerodynamic" (making it too difficult to predict its landing spot).
In other words, thanks to the Blues Brothers, the federal US government now has paperwork on file as to the airworthiness of a Ford Pinto. 🤣
Hahaha that is amazing
Moments where the internet is great, what a fact 😂😂
The waiter in the restaurant is Peewee Herman 🤣🤣🤣
Fun fact: The kid that tried to steal the guitar at Ray's Music Exchange would grow up to play Argyle, the limo driver in Die Hard!
OMG I never knew that! 😮
And after that he played in Trespass.
The singer who sang Minnie the Moocher was the legendary Cab Calloway III.
Also, as much as I LOVE this movie, I get a little sad when I realize how many of the cast, the band and the cameos are no longer with us.
I named my current German Shepherd Minnie the Moocher.
Be thankful we had them as long as we did.
But realize how lucky we were that the production team for this movie were able to get so many of them into this film.
I love the joke that Carrie Fisher’s beauty salon is called “Curl Up and Dye”
Neat fact about the mall chase scene. That mall was actually scheduled for demolition so the studio asked if they could just trash the damn place for a car chase scene and the people that owned the property were like, "Go nuts".
And nuts they did go...lol
As Corporate America did... they just abandoned their huge Mills across the Rust-Belt and this Mall was just another fail for another reason. THIS MALL STOOD YET FOR ANOTHER 30 YEARS DECAYING and filled with Asbestos and was only torn down in (2012) using $4 million in disaster relief funds given to the state of Illinois after Hurricane Ike. The former- 800,000 sq/ft Dixie Mall in Harvey, IL (ALREADY BACK THEN ALREADY became a poverty-stricken and blighted suburb 20 mile south of Chicago with White-Flight). The Mall was closed by shoplifting and even theft of merchandise by employees. (We think all this kind of stuff is new today). The former Dixie Mall had 4 anchor stores (Montgomery Ward, JCPenney, Woolworth, Walgreens, and Jewel Supermarket) and 60 others. It was only open a lucky 13 yrs before closed only a year before being used for this movie in 1978 (the developer opened a competing mall in a nearby suburb after abandoning this mall).
Universal Studios bought the rights to film in the closed mall and PAID - $12,500 for the right to film inside and filled the parking lots with 700 new cars. They built 30 elaborate storefronts for Jake and Elwood to drive through. Locals thought the mall was literally to reopen and it was stocked a couple hundred thousands of $$$ of items on its shelves. They had to hire guards to guard the guards who were stealing goods before filming (and we think things are bad today.....
A similar thing happened with a Burt Lancaster movie "The Train" using an old train yard that was to be demolished in real life, but in the movie it was a bombing raid destroying the train yard. Some of the old steam trains themselves were decommisioned and featured epic collisions and derailments. No CGI can match the full-scale explosions and actual destruction.
The producers asked the retailers to furnish the store material and to take back anything that wasn't damaged. The producers paid for the rest.
@BasinStreet Design a school district was using the mall as a temporary school. When the movie destroyed parts of the mall, the school district sued them, so there was a least a misunderstanding between the film producers and the local community.
I was a 13 year old John Belushi fan when this came out and a friend’s mom took us to see it. I immediately loved it but it showed me a genre of incredible music and artists that I never knew existed. I will always love this movie.👍
The waiter in the restaurant was the actor who plays PeeWee Herman. Also, the lady who played the waitress at the soul food Cafe was Aretha Franklin. The whole film is a long list of famous musicians and celebrities.
What About that HONEY, at the GAS Station.... TWIGGY!
Also the guy who stamped the receipt in the final scene was played by Steven Spielberg. (No joke, look it up)
And I believe the restaurant is the same one from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
The first guy to get on top of the tables when they play Jailhouse Rock is Joe Walsh.
Paul Rueben’s…PeeWee.another brilliant loss to this world.
That was a 100% accurate depiction of a black Southern Baptist church service. You gotta respect Aretha Franklin..
If I could find a church like that I would go every opportunity possible! Saw one like it in New Orleans. No such luck in Ontario!
"Our lady of blessed acceleration don't fail me now!"
😂😂😂
The biggest disappointment with reactions to this movie is that because of the nature of the movie, so much amazingness has to get cut 😢 Still, as always, you guys absolutely delivered!
No Aretha! No Concert! .....Damn !!!!
You could become a Patreon, I watched the whole thing with they guys today
@@gen77c very fair point! I’ll be doing it later today.
Hmmm I watched a couple of other reactions to this on here, and they didn't have to cut out half as much...basically much of the third act is missing here!
@@jamesalexander5623for reaaalll😭
I was working downtown Chicago when this was filmed. They basically bought a new fleet of cars for the state and Chicago police and trashed their old cars. The pile up under the elevated train takes all of 30 seconds on cut film but I watched them drive and flip cars into the pile one by one. The then mayor, Jane Byrne, wanted to encourage movie making in Chicago and was thrilled to have them partially wreck the building named after ex mayor Daley.
Great info Barry ❤
Wacker Drive above is probably more recognisable.
Also….belushi himself would wander off to find a house to crash in when tired…. They had to go house to house to find him at times
104! At the time, it was the world record for cars destroyed in a film.
@@EdwardGregoryNYC wait..... have that record been broken 😂😂😂
That little girl’s expression when Jake asked “how much for the little girl”. Lol
What a movie, the Soundtrack is Unbelievable!!!
Frank Oz, the officer giving Jake his stuff back was also a talented voice actor for Jim Henson's muppets and also Yoda from Star Wars!!
Not sure if it still holds the record but at the time it had the biggest car pile up in a movie scene EVER!!
Which was beaten in the sequel
I love that just before they destroy the
Toys R Us in the mall that guy asks,
"Do you have a Miss Piggy?"
@@richardrobbins387 And the guy is holding a Grover, also voiced by Frank Oz.
I grew up in Joliet, so just about everyone in town saw this film when it hit the theaters the summer before I started high school. My Catholic school that fall had as its Homecoming theme “We’re on a mission from God” and included aDress Like a Blues Brother day. When I went to college in Milwaukee four years later, I found out my freshman roommate’s dad was a Mt. Prospect cop whose old patrol car was used as one of the Bluesmobiles, and my drama professor was the shorter of the two guards escorting Jake across the Collins Street prison (Joliet has several prisons, so that was known locally by its location).
They've got the original suits that Jake & Elwood wore on display at the Rt. 66 Museum, it's awesome.
That's so awesome. That Catholic school rules
Ring out ahoya with an MU rah rah!
@@williamkerner3758 I was in the Marquette band, and I think I still remember my clarinet part for that 35 years later! I do still have the jacket and hat in the back of my closet.
In my top 5 movies of all time! I love watching the movie and listening to the soundtrack! Fun fact about the mall, it was abandoned before this movie. They had to restock every store, and then hire security to watch over the merchandise, but the security started stealing stuff. So, they had to hire security to watch over the security! It also upset locals, as they thought the mall was reopening when that was not the case.
"if God says kill the mannequins, we kill the mannequins,"
quote of the day!
I couldn't help but yell on that one. Had to pause the video for just a minute to get that laugh out
Awesome reaction. I was born and raised in Chicago during the 80s, so all this is nostalgic and hits home. Jewel, Toys'R'Us, etc.
Everybody is somebody in this movie. All the cameos are amazing, and everything works so well together. The soundtrack is amazing, and worth listening to on its own.
Also one of the 10 to 15 greatest soundtracks ever done. This is a classic and this is beloved so glad 2 people so young could understand how good this was :)
The church man is James Brown
The movie is an Americana classic. Worthy of being placed into the Cinema Hall of Fame for performances and overall showcase of the BEST in American comedies ever made.
At the end that's a young Steven Spielberg as cameo. Guess yall wouldnt recognize him since we know him being older
You guys had me dying during the Church Praise and the Mall scenes!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 ps...all the big name cameos in this movie was unsurpassed!
One of the best movies ever made
You two could walk into a place and pull off...
"I'll have plain white toast."
"I'd like four fried chickens... and a coke."
Oh no you F'n didn't! This is one of my favorite movies!
Elwood: 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.
Jake: Hit it.
This movie actually broke the record for most car crashes on screen.
@@Cifer77 That record was later broken by Blues Brothers 2000
@@kb9whf By one car 😂
i missed that classic dialogue (and most of the following big car chase) in this video soooo badly :-(
ok, with that much music it may be difficult to cut/silence it enough, but the jump from the falling car to the end of the chase was a bit too far :-(
The Blues Brothers was a regular skit on SNL, so it was very well known when this came out. That would explain why you felt like you were supposed to know stuff, because when it came out we all did.
Lead actor John Belushi and director John Landis preceded this with National Lampoon's Animal House. This was adapted from the Saturday Night Live skit of the same name
This movie set the record for the MOST cars destroyed in a single film. And I think it still holds the record.
It does
The record was broken by Blues Brothers 2000, by one car....on purpose.
@@huskerchuck9212 damn that is right I forgot about that 😂
You guys should totally do blues brothers one year For halloween.
the scene w Aretha in the diner is IMO one of the greatest scenes in cinema history, as well as the car chase sequence. At the time that held the Guiness record for the most cars destroyed in a film, until the Fast and Furious movies blew it out of the water. Glad you guys enjoyed it!
Not to denigrate the Fast and Furious films, but the movie that ACTUALLY broke The Blues Brothers' record was its own sequel, Blues Brothers 2000. By one car. :)
I remember when I saw this movie in the 80's, most of us thought the mall scene was an actual, functioning mall. In reality, it was a shopping mall that had been closed down but the production miraculously found it and dressed it up just for the filming. I think I read somewhere that many of the cars in the parking lot were actually those of the cast and crew. One of the most amazing scenes in film history!
My uncle was an extra in his movie in the church scene & the final scene. Also, I always get really nostalgic when i see the scene when John Lee Hooker is singing Boom, Boom, Boom on Maxwell street. One of the greatest things as a kid was to go there, buy some stuff that you knew were knockoffs (or knocked off if you know what i mean😂), get some great food & you never knew who would be out there playing. For some reason the city felt the need to “clean it up” & once they did the neighborhood got regentrified.
One of the funniest musical action comedy movies ever made!
One of my absolute favorite movies ever.. What an amazing musical cast!
Bulushi did the flips alot in his performances 4 real.
How you gonna lose them in the mall you ask..... You lose them INSIDE the mall!! 😂😂 I love this movie!
Well, Jake asked him to get out of the parking lot, so he got out of the parking lot.
YES! This movie is gold. I am so glad you guys are watching it. This movie introduced me to so many classics and wonderful artists. May they rest in peace. Also I still laugh during the nun slapping scene and get chills when she floats backwards. I want that car.
The first time my (then) middle school daughter watched this, she said "Oh. I get it. The movie is about these two guys who go around making enemies."
Every musician in this movie was an actual musician in life. They played on the original recordings of many of the songs. Everyone that appears contributed to the Blues movement.
The prison officer that returned Jake's items, was played by Fran Oz, of The Muppets fame. The County Clerk who signed the receipt at the end was Steven Speilberg.
This is one of the best feel good movies ever It's like going to an all star concert every time I watch it.great reaction guy.
Watching you 2 brothers watching The Blues Brothers made my day! I saw this in 1980 and a lot of the movie was filmed in and around my sweet home town, Chicago!
Couldn’t wait for you guys to watch this and see your reaction. It’s going to be one hell of a ride 😂
Just an all around classic movie....with a stellar cast. So many of which have moved over to the choir in the sky....
The single greatest cinematic achievement in the history of humanity.
The Blues Brothers is one of the greatest comedies ever made.
Without a doubt, second I open up RUclips I see this reaction. Second is great as well with a number of surprises in store cast wise
I'm really glad you guys are watching "Blues Brothers". Great cast, music and overall great movie.
Everyone of the band members was a famous musician. Many of them were in a band called Booker T & the MGs.
"How do you lose someone in the mall?" You just had to ask.....🤣🤣🤣 So many names and so much great music, this is one of my favourite films.
I was practically raised by this movie. It was the one constant when I was a toddler, a teenager, and as a borderline old fart. 😎
Sir I have only read your comment. I think that you are too cool to be called an old fart. You are one old cool dude 🤟🤟🤟
This movie introduced me to soooo many great singers and artists growing up
We all walked up the street from the bar to the theater! This was awesome!!
This movie is great in so many ways, fabulous cast, iconic musicians, entertaining story, and the most fantastic car chases, a delightful comedy. I know you will enjoy it.
Glad you did this film. It's a largely overlooked classic
A couple of cameos you may not have noticed: the prison guard that gives Jake back his belongings...Frank Oz, the voice of Yoda and Miss Piggy and Steven Spielberg was the clerk at the county asseser's office.
Frank Oz also played cop in Trading Places.
Also the prisoner who does the back flips when they do Jailhouse Rock at the end is Joe Walsh.
Pee Wee was the waiter at the restaurant!
@conchfritters01 Forgot to mention Paul Reubens having a cameo...thanks for pointing that out!
An absolute classic in every aspect
It's definitely one of my favorite movies. There is so much talent in this one movie! You seeing and feeling the light and realizing the Godfather of soul James Brown made this review top tier 😂
I know a lot of people didn't care for it, but I actually loved the sequel. Great music and a ton of great musicians....and JOHN GOODMAN!!!!
I also loved BB2k. The music was top notch and that was the heart of both movies.
When we learned Goodman could sing and dance
At one point, this movie held the record for car crashes/destroyed cars.
This movie was one of my father favorite movie... It always is nice to be reminded of Papa... thanks.
THEY WATCHED IT! I didnt expect a video on this
Great reaction guys and glad you enjoyed it.
Now you should watch Blues Brothers 2000. Great movie with killer score, unbelievable chaos and more cameos than you'd believe.
Got my Murph and the Magictones t-shirt on right now! Great movie, amazing tunes, and a good laugh. Also the first video cassette I ever watched on a Betamax back in the early 1980s. Oh man, those were great days when video boomed... it was like the Wild West for a short while.
This is one of my three favorite films. Remember that this was nearly 45 years ago, so every time they mention money, mentally multiply the amount by 4.
This is a classic. One of the greats. There was a cinema here in Melbourne, Australia that played The Blues Brothers late every Friday night for many years, maybe a decade, in the 1980s and the place was always jammin, some even dressed up as the Blues Brothers.
Awesome Movie and Work Guys, Thanks 👍👍👍😎 Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸
@Oktokrool Chris & "Built Different" I was getting worried for a second when y'all didn't recognize "The Godfather of Soul" James Brown !!! I definitely love EVERY REACTION y'all have when music comes on !!! All love from Camden, NJ & I've been a sub since 30k !!!
One of my all times favs.
The laughter is great... but knowing who these music legends are enhances this movie so much!
Absolutely love this movie. Came out way before I was born, but my parents showed it to my sister and I when we were kids. Loved it then and love it now.
Such a great group of talent, bwtn the actors/actresses & the musicians.
Holy moly, your reaction to the James Brown scene was FIRE! You guys were feeling the spirit before Jake was!!!! Man, John Belushi, he died right after this. Total loss. Basically you've got this and National Lampoon's Animal House, and only a few other ok movies, and of course what he's really known for is being on the first groundbreaking cast of Saturday Night Live, which is where The Blues Brothers first appeared. This is the first of many movies that started as SNL characters and made into movies. Anyways, I know you had to cut out half the movie so if ever there was an advertisement for your Patreon, it's THIS reaction!!!!
Watch the documentaries about this movie. The script was jnitially longer, including the origin of the Blues Bros and every member....and crazy set stories. They really dropped the car from the sky. John Belushi house crashing...the mall they found...and of course, the band is real and recorded with everyone
I love this movie. This is one of the greatest movies of all time. This movie is in Guinness Book of World Records for the most car crashes. You guys should watch Animal House
Was. It was surpassed by the sequel.
This is one of my all-time favorite movies. If for nothing else, the music is the best. My absolute favorite soundtrack. Seeing this movie when I was young introduced me to this music, and it quickly became my favorite
I love this movie when I was in High School and still watch it since. Always love car chases.
I saw this movie opening night a few weeks after playing pinball with John Belushi backstage at a Blues Brother's rehearsal where my good friend's dad was filling in for Donald Duck Dunn on sax. Great memories!
No way! That is wild!
I've loved this movie my whole life pretty much. Me and my brothers grew up watching this.
When I was 5 or 6 we had a VHS tape of this film (kids ask your parents) and my sister and me actually wore the tape out we watched it so much!
So great childhood memories for me.
You guys never let us down 👌👍
I think this is the perfect movie, it really introduced me to blues and comedy at a really young age, its just a blast (and the best falling asleep movie I watch it like 7 or 8 times a year)
I wanna party with your grandma! Saw this on VHS when I was 14 or 15 and it totally opened up a whole new world of music!
Chris and Curtis, "don't come back, until you've redeemed yourselves" LOL 😄
I've been waiting for you two to watch two other wild and crazy brothers.
Your gramma got great taste!
"Orange whip? Orange whip anyone?" 😂😂😂
So many good segments in this movie -- i know you kept in a ton and had to edit all the music out for copyright, but i really wish i could've seen what you thought of the final confrontation with Carrie Fischer. I grew up in the 90s with my Dad showing me this movie, definitely a comedy and musical classic.
So happy you guys enjoyed this! Can be a little slow in parts but it's still so much fun. Someone once described it to me as the ultimate Grand Theft Auto movie, and I agree. Other than perhaps a heist it's got everything a GTA movie needs - fun characters, great music, occasional insanity, and constant races against the cops that escalate into full car chases against the entire US army.
The blues soundtrack to this movie is badass. John Belushi was great
This movie is great, but it's even better after I watched it with my brother
So many amazing cameos in that movie!
The saxaphone is also one of my favorite instruments. I love this movie. and especially since I am from Joliet. I use to drive by that prison on my way to work every day.
One of my favourite classic movies. This is gonna be good!
I went off to music college in Chicago the year this came out. To say my friends and I were obsessed with this film is a massive understatement. You guys need to find and watch the "making of" documentary. There are so many things they did that will probably never be done again (EX: actually driving 100 mph through downtown / crashing piles of police vehicles / dropping a car from the air).
Great movie & Soundtrack
Fun fact: The actor at the beginning who returns Jake's belongings is Frank Oz. The voice of several Muppets and Yoda. Man gets cameos in the damndest places.
Hey guys you’re awesome