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Posted on 3/16/21 at 8:55 pm
Posted by Aubie Spr96
lolwut?
Member since Dec 2009
41338 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 8:55 pm
Have we had one dedicated to this movie? I can watch it on infinite loop and can quote the entire movie. Everything is perfect down to the soundtrack. The cameos are fricking awesome from Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, John Candy.

Jake: “How often does the train go by?”
Elwood: “So often you won’t even notice.”

Elwood: “What kind of music do you usually have here?”
Waitress: “Oh we have both kinds! Country AND Western.”

Willie 'Too Big' Hall: “So, Jake, you're out, you're free, you're rehabilitated. What's next? What's happenin'? What you gonna do? You got the money you owe us, motherfricker?
Posted by Dr RC
The Money Pit
Member since Aug 2011
58178 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 9:05 pm to
The original version was 160 minutes but Universal forced John Landis to cut it down to 133 minutes so they could do more showings per day.

Universal eventually let Landis do a 148 minute extended cut that you can get on VUDU. It lengthens the musical performances, adds several more character moments, and gives some backstory on their car. If you really love the Blues Brothers I'd highly recommend getting the extended cut.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
99761 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 9:24 pm to
Fantastic movie
Posted by Dizz
Member since May 2008
14852 posts
Posted on 3/16/21 at 10:53 pm to
Orange whip?
Orange whip?
Three orange whips
Posted by FearlessFreep
Baja Alabama
Member since Nov 2009
17396 posts
Posted on 3/17/21 at 12:04 am to
“The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year.”
Posted by HabaneroBuck
Up a ways.
Member since Oct 2020
1359 posts
Posted on 3/17/21 at 5:18 am to
Hut hut hut hut hut hut

I've always loved you.

106 miles...etc..

But the best, IMHO, after 30 some odd viewings...."Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved."
Posted by HabaneroBuck
Up a ways.
Member since Oct 2020
1359 posts
Posted on 3/17/21 at 5:29 am to
quote:

The cameos are fricking awesome from Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, John Candy.



John Lee Hooker, James Brown (!), Steven Spielberg, the Illinois Nazis, Frank Oz, Pee Wee Herman, and apparently Joe Walsh and Mr. T also make appearances.
Posted by beaver retriever
Want some Chad?
Member since May 2004
2578 posts
Posted on 3/17/21 at 7:28 am to
“A lot of space in this mall”
Posted by Alt26
Member since Mar 2010
28733 posts
Posted on 3/17/21 at 8:25 am to
quote:

Orange whip?
Orange whip?
Three orange whips


I've done this at a bar with friends...about 10% get the joke/reference
Posted by Thracken13
Aft Cargo Hold of Serenity
Member since Feb 2010
16206 posts
Posted on 3/17/21 at 8:37 am to
I have used no ma'am - we're musicians
Posted by tylerdurden24
Member since Sep 2009
46717 posts
Posted on 3/17/21 at 9:24 am to
It’s a perfect movie. Endlessly rewatchable and funny, it’s a time capsule of the early 80s while still being accessible for younger audiences.

“Hi! Wanna hand me the mic? Thanks a lot. Hi this is car, um, what number are we?”

“5-5”

“Car 55. Um, we’re in a truck hehehe”
Posted by msap9020
Texas
Member since Feb 2015
1284 posts
Posted on 3/17/21 at 9:41 am to
"Its a 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, its dark and we're wearing sunglasses.......HIT IT!"

"They're not going to catch us.....we're on a mission from God."

"Illinois Nazis........I hate Illinois Nazis"

J: Well thank you pal, The day I get out of prison, my own brother picks me up in a police car.
E: You don't like it?
J: No I don't like it.

{Jumps drawbridge}

J: Cars got a lot of pickup.
E: Its got a cop motor, a four hundred and forty cubic inch plant. Its got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. Its a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What'da ya say? Is this the new Bluesmobile or what?
J: Fix the cigarette lighter.




This post was edited on 3/17/21 at 9:43 am
Posted by Midget Death Squad
Meme Magic
Member since Oct 2008
24894 posts
Posted on 3/17/21 at 10:07 am to
One of my absolute favorite movies growing up that for some reason I have not seen in years. I need to remedy this
Posted by Pfft
Member since Jul 2014
3792 posts
Posted on 3/17/21 at 12:52 pm to
That film was a Ford LTD Crown Victoria death sentence.
Posted by tilco
Spanish Fort, AL
Member since Nov 2013
13509 posts
Posted on 3/17/21 at 1:03 pm to
“Did you get me my Cheez Whiz, boy?
Posted by Shotgun Willie
Member since Apr 2016
3798 posts
Posted on 3/17/21 at 1:23 pm to
I got to meet The Blues Brothers band in the early nineties when the played the Baton Rouge Blues fest. I got to introduce them on stage. I had a blues show at KLSU back then. Steve Cropper was awesome as was Matt Guitar Murphy and Blue Lou. I got Blue Lou to do a promo spot for my show and he put the Chicken Wire line in it. Donald Duck Dunn was an arse!
Posted by wareaglepete
Lumon Industries
Member since Dec 2012
11236 posts
Posted on 3/17/21 at 1:47 pm to
quote:

Donald Duck Dunn was an arse!


If the shite fits, wear it!
Posted by pennypacker3
Charleston
Member since Aug 2014
2745 posts
Posted on 3/17/21 at 1:55 pm to
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
36181 posts
Posted on 3/17/21 at 2:14 pm to
quote:

I got Blue Lou to do a promo spot for my show and he put the Chicken Wire line in it.

I'll always remember Blue Lou on SNL with Steve Martin, playing his solo on King Tut from inside an open sarcophagus.

He played at the River Center a few years ago, when he was touring with James Taylor.
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
36181 posts
Posted on 3/17/21 at 2:15 pm to
Paul Schaeffer missed out on being in the Blues Brothers movie, because Lorne Michaels made him take the music director's job on Gilda Radner's Broadway show.
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