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Another reactr request coming at ya! Thank you Brad for this request (just a quick note everyone, it's the unrated version)

Deadpan humour with some absurdity and absolute ridiculous fun! It has a bit of everything 😁

I had never heard of this movie before, but what a surprise it was.

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- Vero 🥰

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FULL LENGTH REACTION | The Blues Brothers (1980) [2025]

You need your own copy of the show to watch along with me though since this is solely my reaction. The video is there so you can have an idea when the scene changes in case you need to sync up, but it is HEAVILY blurred so I don't have any copyright issues. Enjoy!!

Comments

RegalEagle

‘104 miles to Chicago; we have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses..’ ‘Hit it!’

silverarrow06

Oh man I love this movie so much. The silliness and the anarchy of it. And it opened my mind and ears for the wonderful rhythm and blues music and through that to soul music...❤️😎🎶 There are so many stories to tell around the filming of that movie. Firstly though I must say, I don't know where you got the info that this would be a musical? It is most definitely not. It is a music movie, not a musical. It has a lot of fantastic live music by legendary artists. Since the plot revolves around a blues rock band - of course you have a lot of music. There was really only one "real" musical number that moved the plot forward and that was Aretha Franklins "Think". By the way she sung - like all the singers - live during the filming of their scenes. That is why the continuity in some scenes is practically non-existent - they sung differently every single take. The whole thing started at SNL. The Blues Brothers Band existed way before the movie and the musicians where mostly the same as seen in the movie. They where all extraordinary session musicians who played and toured with the biggest stars of their time. The audience liked the band so much, that they even played real live gigs across the states. Dan Akroyd came up with the idea of a movie about the band and wrote a script packed with wild silly ideas that John Landis tried to cut down into a coherent movie plot, but without losing its anarchic spirit. John Belushi was up and coming in the early eighties, but sadly overdosed a year or two after filming "TBB". He was in his early thirties. His most famous gigs where "SNL", "National Lampoons Animal House" (the prototype of the typical college teen comedy) and "The Blues Brothers". Aretha Franklin said that movie basically saved their careers, since R&B and Soul had to give way to heavy metal, disco and pop music and they weren't played on the radio anymore. But this movie put them back on the map. There where so many cameos in this movie - even some people whose faces wheren't that well known but who have famous names: The warden in the beginning who gave Jake his belongings back - Frank Oz - the inventor and puppeteer of Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog and the voice of Yoda. The police officer who asked for directions while chasing the Blues Brothers through the building - Francis Ford Coppola - director of "Apocalypse Now", "The Godfather" or lately "Megalomania". The accountant who took the money in the end - young Steven Spielberg who shortly before rose to fame with "Jaws". I don't know if it still holds today, but for a long time they held the record for the highest number of stunt cars ever crashed in a car chase scene and the most stunt cars used in a single movie. The same streets where they filmed the Chicago chase scene were later used to film the truck chase scene of "The Dark Knight". They filmed the mall scenes in a closed mall and put all the shops and decorations and all the cars on the parking lot in there buy themselves. So hats off to the production design department...😮 Yes, they actually dropped a real car from a helicopter over an empty site in Chicago to film the crash of the Nazis and even more crazy, they actually drove through the Daley Center in Downtown Chicago, which was only possible because one of the producers was close friends with the then mayor of Chicago. Under no circumstances you could pull something like this off today...😅

Mannygogou

well the thing is... "We're on a mission from God." 🙂