re: How great is The Blues Brothers?

I love it and never let it pass by when I see it.


Awesome movie...

Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved.

Elwood: You don't like it?
Jake: No I don't like it...
[Elwood Blues floors the pedal and jumps over an open drawbridge]
Jake: Car's got a lot of pickup.
Elwood: It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?
Jake: Fix the cigarette lighter.

having Cab Calloway do Minnie the Moocher was icing on the cake

Around 1994 during the blues festival in Baton Rouge, the Blues Brothers band was performing and I got to introduce them. Before the show I got to meet all of the band, (Donald Duck Dunn was an arse), everyone else was pretty cool, especially Steve Cropper. Anyway at the time I was doing the blues show for KLSU and got the majority of them to do a radio promo. My favorite was when I got this dude to do his and at the end he gave his famous quote....Chicken Wire?

A very entertaining movie.

"I love things that are great
Good things are fantastic
I also paint as a hobby
Nothing drastic..."

quote:

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Could never be reproduced.

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As evidenced by The Blues Brothers 2000

for some reason that movie has never been able to capture my attention for the duration.

I can actually name where I was and what channel it was on when I first saw this movie.

My little brother was doing a boy scout trip to the USS Yorktown in Charleston, SC and that Saturday morning in the hotel room while mom and brother were getting ready, I stumbled upon the opening to the movie on TNT. I wound up asking my mom if she'd leave me in the hotel so I could finish watching; I was enthralled. Being the art-lover my mom is, she was just happy I was so taken with the music that she left me while she took my brother to drop him off.

Also, it took me years before I realized that the voice of Yoda (Frank Oz) was the prison guard in the beginning that releases all of Jake's stuff to him. This movie is just filled with all sorts of little images and cameos like that. John Candy, Carrie Fisher, Twiggy, Steve Lawrence, Paul Reubens, Steven Spieldberg, John Landis, and motherfricking Joe Walsh.

And I don't know if there has ever been a better assemblage of musical talent in a single movie, let alone of black musicians. John Lee Hooker, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, James Brown, Matt Murphy, Cab Calloway.