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.
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.
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.
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. 🤣
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.
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".
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.
@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.
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.
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).
@@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.
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!!
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 :)
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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. :)
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.
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 :-(
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.
23:08 Here’s a little Easter egg. And almost every John Landis film, the fictitious movie title “See You Next Wednesday” is a running gag seen in other movies including an American werewolf in London where it is a porno film, in trading places, it’s a movie poster in Jamie Lee Curtis‘s apartment when she brings Dan Aykroyd home. It even Appears in the Kentucky Fried movie in the segment feel around.
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.
Singers in order of appearance: Cab Calloway (the church guy), James Brown (preacher), John Lee Hooker (street singer that sings Boom Boom), Aretha Franklin (lady who takes their order for toasted white bread, and four fried chickens and a coke), Ray Charles (the guy that owns the musical instruments store). Also a lot of the band are real musicians as well. The waiter at the fancy restaurant is Pee Wee Herman.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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!
The Blues Brothers were based upon a Saturday Night Live musical act. Most of the original audiences were familiar with Jake and Elwood before the movie was released.
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.
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
My favorite soundtrack of any movie ,great choice,I cannot believe no one in your Patreon has not recommended the movie Warrior with Tom Hardy and Nick Nolte ,it is a true hidden gym about the family dynamic and MMA
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
If you see American Werewolf in London, there a car crash scene that references this movie. It came out not long after the Blues Brothers and the director wanted to imitate the unbelievable crash scenes in this film. Too bad you couldn’t include more music because of copyright.
Last mention. The police dispatcher was none other than the late character actor Ralph Foody. He was best known as the old guy with the Tommy gun in the movie within the movie Home Alone and the sequel. The guy who says “keep the change, you filthy animal!”
We used to let this movie play in the background during house parties. You had to take a shot everytime you hear "mission from God" , pound a beer during each musical number, and everyone HAD to get up and dance along with the dances Ray Charles called out.... Good times...
Guessing you guys were watching the theatrical edition, the extended version includes more musical numbers including eritha franklin’s think when they leave the diner, it’s one of those extended cuts where it’s got a whole load extra and not just a couple scenes
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.
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.
Minus the dancing in the aisles, and trampolines, thats what my grandmothers chuch was like in Chicago. No ac, sweating to death but singing and that was the only church I loved going to.
In the mall sequence...it was filmed in an abondoned mall in Harvey Illinois. All of the merchandise in the mall was shipped in for the movie by the companies that produced those products. The movie production had a deal with all of the merchandise manufacturers that anything they didn't destroy, they didn't have to pay for. Also, during production of that same scene, they of course used stunt drivers for much of it, so Aykroyd and Belushi didn't have to be there or be on screen. At one point during filming the mall chase, John Belushi disappeared and was nowhere to be found. It was 3AM and It was almost time to film close ups in the car, so Dan Aykroyd and John Landis, the director went in search of John Belushi. They ended up going outside and still couldn't find John. They looked down into a nearby neighborhood and saw that one house had a light on. Aykroyd and Landis went into the neighborhood and to the only house that had a light on. They knocked on the door, and when the home owner answered, they explained that they're filming a movie up the road at the abandoned mall and that one of their actors is missing. The homeowner asked "Is it John Belushi?". When Aykroyd and Landis confirmed it was Belushi they was looking for, the man stated that John had been wandering the neighborhood, saw his light on....and he just walked in. He went to the kitchen, made himself a sandwich and then crashed out asleep on his couch. Aykroyd and Landis woke John up, apologized to the home owner, who was totally cool with it (He said he was happy to have him) and then went back to the location to shoot the footage they needed. That incident led Dan Aykroyd to give his best friend John Belushi the nickname "America's Guest." Aykroyd has talked about that incident many, many times over the years, as well as on the special features of the DVD/Blue Ray. Every time he tells the story, he has a little smile on his face and the look in his eyes as he recalls that story....you can tell that it's a fond memory of his best friend. You can also detect a little sadness/bittersweetness when he tells it.
That beginning song man. She Caught the Katy. That song just moves me. At a special tribute show John Belushi’s brother Jim performed with the band and Dan Akroyd and also John Goodman (who would be in the sequel a couples years after that show) and he performed that same song. Video you can find on here.
It's a real shame you're not recognizing half this stellar cast - there's always wikipedia... I loved this so much back then I went out and got the LP vinyl album!
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).
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 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.
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.
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 waiter in the restaurant is Peewee Herman 🤣🤣🤣
I love the joke that Carrie Fisher’s beauty salon is called “Curl Up and Dye”
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.
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."
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!
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 😂😂😂
"Our lady of blessed acceleration don't fail me now!"
😂😂😂
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.
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.
He's also a really underrated director (Little Shop of Horrors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
That little girl’s expression when Jake asked “how much for the little girl”. Lol
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 :)
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.
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😭
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.
You guys had me dying during the Church Praise and the Mall scenes!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 ps...all the big name cameos in this movie was unsurpassed!
At the end that's a young Steven Spielberg as cameo. Guess yall wouldnt recognize him since we know him being older
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.
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.
One of the best movies ever made
7:34 JAMES BROWN “the godfather of soul” ❤😂
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!
"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
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 two could walk into a place and pull off...
"I'll have plain white toast."
"I'd like four fried chickens... and a coke."
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. :)
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 :-(
One of the funniest musical action comedy movies ever made!
One of my absolute favorite movies ever.. What an amazing musical cast!
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.
Just an all around classic movie....with a stellar cast. So many of which have moved over to the choir in the sky....
Everyone of the band members was a famous musician. Many of them were in a band called Booker T & the MGs.
23:08 Here’s a little Easter egg. And almost every John Landis film, the fictitious movie title “See You Next Wednesday” is a running gag seen in other movies including an American werewolf in London where it is a porno film, in trading places, it’s a movie poster in Jamie Lee Curtis‘s apartment when she brings Dan Aykroyd home. It even Appears in the Kentucky Fried movie in the segment feel around.
I love this movie when I was in High School and still watch it since. Always love car chases.
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
The Blues Brothers is one of the greatest comedies ever made.
The church man is James Brown
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.
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.
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.
"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.
The single greatest cinematic achievement in the history of humanity.
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
This movie introduced me to soooo many great singers and artists growing up
You guys should totally do blues brothers one year For halloween.
Singers in order of appearance: Cab Calloway (the church guy), James Brown (preacher), John Lee Hooker (street singer that sings Boom Boom), Aretha Franklin (lady who takes their order for toasted white bread, and four fried chickens and a coke), Ray Charles (the guy that owns the musical instruments store). Also a lot of the band are real musicians as well.
The waiter at the fancy restaurant is Pee Wee Herman.
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.
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!
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
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!
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.
THEY WATCHED IT! I didnt expect a video on this
The kid that tried to steal Ray Charles guitar was Argyle from Die Hard.
An absolute classic in every aspect
The laughter is great... but knowing who these music legends are enhances this movie so much!
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!
The Blues Brothers were based upon a Saturday Night Live musical act. Most of the original audiences were familiar with Jake and Elwood before the movie was released.
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.
We all walked up the street from the bar to the theater! This was awesome!!
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 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 🤟🤟🤟
My favorite soundtrack of any movie ,great choice,I cannot believe no one in your Patreon has not recommended the movie Warrior with Tom Hardy and Nick Nolte ,it is a true hidden gym about the family dynamic and MMA
Such a great group of talent, bwtn the actors/actresses & the musicians.
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.
Dan Aykroyd's monotone delivery of "We're on a mission from God." Kills me every time.
Me too 😂
Steven Spielberg’s cameo at the end, Cooks County Assessors Office.
At one point, this movie held the record for car crashes/destroyed cars.
If you see American Werewolf in London, there a car crash scene that references this movie. It came out not long after the Blues Brothers and the director wanted to imitate the unbelievable crash scenes in this film. Too bad you couldn’t include more music because of copyright.
Last mention. The police dispatcher was none other than the late character actor Ralph Foody. He was best known as the old guy with the Tommy gun in the movie within the movie Home Alone and the sequel. The guy who says “keep the change, you filthy animal!”
I've loved this movie my whole life pretty much. Me and my brothers grew up watching this.
We used to let this movie play in the background during house parties. You had to take a shot everytime you hear "mission from God" , pound a beer during each musical number, and everyone HAD to get up and dance along with the dances Ray Charles called out.... Good times...
10:28 "Is this really the best idea?"
Running from the cops whilst on a mission from God in the one and only Bluesmobile? Always a good decision.
Glad you did this film. It's a largely overlooked classic
The blues soundtrack to this movie is badass. John Belushi was great
Bulushi did the flips alot in his performances 4 real.
I'm really glad you guys are watching "Blues Brothers". Great cast, music and overall great movie.
Guessing you guys were watching the theatrical edition, the extended version includes more musical numbers including eritha franklin’s think when they leave the diner, it’s one of those extended cuts where it’s got a whole load extra and not just a couple scenes
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.
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.
Director is the same of 'An american werewolf in London' and 'Trading Places'. You never can go wrong with him:)
Just a magical cast. But I didn't realize Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Rubens was in it. Something new every time.
One of my all times favs.
Couldn’t wait for you guys to watch this and see your reaction. It’s going to be one hell of a ride 😂
This movie was one of my father favorite movie... It always is nice to be reminded of Papa... thanks.
not a single movie can touch this film and it's been over 40 years...awesome and sad at the same time.
Minus the dancing in the aisles, and trampolines, thats what my grandmothers chuch was like in Chicago. No ac, sweating to death but singing and that was the only church I loved going to.
This movie is great, but it's even better after I watched it with my brother
In the mall sequence...it was filmed in an abondoned mall in Harvey Illinois. All of the merchandise in the mall was shipped in for the movie by the companies that produced those products. The movie production had a deal with all of the merchandise manufacturers that anything they didn't destroy, they didn't have to pay for.
Also, during production of that same scene, they of course used stunt drivers for much of it, so Aykroyd and Belushi didn't have to be there or be on screen. At one point during filming the mall chase, John Belushi disappeared and was nowhere to be found. It was 3AM and It was almost time to film close ups in the car, so Dan Aykroyd and John Landis, the director went in search of John Belushi. They ended up going outside and still couldn't find John. They looked down into a nearby neighborhood and saw that one house had a light on. Aykroyd and Landis went into the neighborhood and to the only house that had a light on. They knocked on the door, and when the home owner answered, they explained that they're filming a movie up the road at the abandoned mall and that one of their actors is missing. The homeowner asked "Is it John Belushi?". When Aykroyd and Landis confirmed it was Belushi they was looking for, the man stated that John had been wandering the neighborhood, saw his light on....and he just walked in. He went to the kitchen, made himself a sandwich and then crashed out asleep on his couch. Aykroyd and Landis woke John up, apologized to the home owner, who was totally cool with it (He said he was happy to have him) and then went back to the location to shoot the footage they needed.
That incident led Dan Aykroyd to give his best friend John Belushi the nickname "America's Guest."
Aykroyd has talked about that incident many, many times over the years, as well as on the special features of the DVD/Blue Ray. Every time he tells the story, he has a little smile on his face and the look in his eyes as he recalls that story....you can tell that it's a fond memory of his best friend. You can also detect a little sadness/bittersweetness when he tells it.
That beginning song man. She Caught the Katy. That song just moves me. At a special tribute show John Belushi’s brother Jim performed with the band and Dan Akroyd and also John Goodman (who would be in the sequel a couples years after that show) and he performed that same song. Video you can find on here.
It's a real shame you're not recognizing half this stellar cast - there's always wikipedia... I loved this so much back then I went out and got the LP vinyl album!
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).