THE BLUES BROTHERS -Pure Insanity 😂 - First Time Watching - Reaction

[@MsMelyjean]

It is so refreshing watching reactors that know the depth of talent in this movie and the importance of the musicians to American music history. Kudos.

[@andyhannon255]

Oh yeah. If I ever see black reactors of a certen age i always check it out when it comes to this movie. Not saying other people won't get the camios but the odds go significantly up

[@danadelzio7914]

So happy to see it. Most reactors can barely recognize Aretha. It’s always so disappointing. Great reaction!

[@Chefcorky]

Absolutely! White reactors have no idea who James Brown, Chaka, and even Aretha are!!

[@ValyTraveler]

I came here to say the same thing... So, nice to not yell at the screen when a famous musician pops up and they sit there like 'Am I suppose to know who that is"... Like What? Why are you watching this, then?

[@_Katzenberg]

For real, best reaction of all. Word.

[@davidmichaelson1092]

You are the first reactors I have seen who recognized Cab Calloway. I am so f__king happy!

[@JoeMama410]

@@davidmichaelson1092 I only knew who Cab Calloway was because of this movie, and I'm glad I learned who he is.

[@davidmichaelson1092]

@@JoeMama410 One of the first real superstars of American music. So talented. His version of St. James Infirmary is my favorite. Also love when he highlights the Nicolas Brothers (literally stepping off the stage for them) in Jumpin Jive. Shows he can let others shine as well. And the Nicolas Brothers really shine. Worth a watch.

[@teddennison344]

@@davidmichaelson1092 Also the first I've seen to realize Elwood vastly overcharged Twiggy for a tank a gas.

[@teddennison344]

​@@davidmichaelson1092 Yeah, when I first watched this in the early 80's as a little white kid, even I recognized Cab Calloway. He was famous in an era where there were only 3 TV channels, so fame wasn't as stovepiped.

[@teddennison344]

​​@@davidmichaelson1092 - You ain't lyin. In the late 80's my mom edited a cookbook ("Cleora's Kitchens") for an elderly black woman who used to cook for a lot of famous acts who came through Tulsa. Cab Calloway graciously offered to help promote her book, which resulted in Cab, her, and her book getting an entire segment on the Today Show, watched by pretty much every housewife in America. That's the kind of friend he was.

[@jeanine6328]

Cab Calloway was born in 1907, making him 73 when this movie came out. Amazing man.

[@tonyhaynes9080]

Such a brilliant reaction. Not only did you recognise most of the artists, but to watch you crying with laughter, made my day. Thank you.

[@joshdandrea5157]

Finally, somebody recognized Frank Oz. Thank you.

[@pamnicklas5536]

I must say the same thing about Chaka Khan....nobody recognizes her!

[@RealRonSwanson]

The only person they didn't recognize was Steve Lawrence (Maury Sline).

[@campusmartius8450]

Recognized him while wearing a yoda shirt

[@SteveoGregg]

Did anyone recognize Bill Murray in the mall ?

[@pamnicklas5536]

@@SteveoGregg hell na....where???

[@CycolacFan]

As soon as you recognised Cab Calloway I thought ‘these guys are gonna love this movie.’

[@briankirchhoefer]

Lots of musicians in this movie who did small cameos. The blonde guy who jumps on the table in the final prison scene was Joe Walsh of the Eagles.

[@2tone753]

I am a 62-year-old German. Here in West Berlin the film became an absolute cult film in 1980 and it still is. Chaka Khan, a class lady. An incredible collection of the very finest. The film is pure anarchy and at least as good today as it was in 1980. When you left the cinema in 1980, all that was missing was for the cinema to collapse at the end.

[@deannacrownover3]

That's hilarious!

[@BluesJammer69]

Fun fact...the little kid who tried to steal the Strat guitar at Ray's Music Exchange was still acting and was the Limo driver ( Argyle) in the 1st Die Hard movie...De'voreaux White...

[@dunbardunelm3924]

Yes 😂😂😊

[@philenguita8856]

Good shout.👏

[@user-blob]

Wow, really? I did not know that!

[@matthalpin1981]

Holy crap. Never heard that and so damn cool. I love trivia.

[@RakeeshJ4]

TIL:)

[@ashleyminor5524]

Cab Calloway was dissapointed they wanted him to preform the original and not a recent disco remix but I will always thank him for doing it. What an incredible performance that introduced me and many others to a classic.

[@philb2085]

The girl in the gold Lamé jacket at the gas station is 1970's British supermodel, Twiggy.

[@thomastimlin1724]

From the 1960's...

[@theemaygoogleme151]

She was the first to get the "super" handle, before that they were simply models.

[@benn454]

@@theemaygoogleme151 Also pioneered the "tall and rail-thin" look in modeling, which is how she got the nickname "Twiggy" in the first place.

[@kevinlgregory]

Steve Cropper & Donald "Duck" Dunn were half of Booker T & The M.G.'s and formed the Stax Records house band, so all those Stax records you heard as a kid - Cropper & Dunn (Cropper was also one of the major song-writers for those hits). Blue Lou Marini played with Dionne Warwick, Buddy Rich, and Zappa. Mr. Fabulous played with just about everyone. Willie Hall (drummer) replaced the original drummer in the M.G.'s & played with a ton of folks. Matt "Guitar" Murphy played with Howlin' Wolf, Koko Taylor, Sonny Boy Williamson, Buddy Guy, James, Cotton, etc. Murph replaced Paul Shaffer on keyboards. The convict that jumped on the table to start the riot at the end is Joe Walsh. The musicians playing with John Lee Hooker were Willie "Big Eyes" Smith (Muddy Waters & others), Big Walter Horton, Pinetop Perkins (Muddy Waters & others), Luther "Guitar Jr" Johnson, & Calvin "Fuzz" Jones - all superstars in the blues world. The lead Nazi was Henry Gibson from Laugh-In.

[@TheDivayenta]

Fantastic. I saw Steve and Duck with the MG’s backing Otis Redding at the Monterey Pop Festival . If you’ve ever watched Heart’s tribute to Led Zeppelin at the Kennedy Center - you’ll see Blue Lou standing out in the orchestra - he plays for all of their award ceremonies.

[@dancrandall9871]

A girl I knew in college saw Cab Calloway perform when he was 80. She said he could still hold a note longer than she could, and she was in choir. So glad you recognized him.

[@mfpmaniac]

This is the GREATEST Blues Brothers reaction I have come across man! Subscribed JUST on the strength of this! LOVED IT!!! Fun fact: the Bluesmobile drive-by in the city was actually done at 114 mph. They had to do it twice, the first pass was done just with the car. They did a second pass with stuntmen as pedestrians to show the real speed and prove it was not just sped-up footage.

[@stuartarmstrong5190]

Best Blues Brothers reaction EVER! IT's great how much FUN you had, not to mention doing a great job of spotting the amazing musicians and singers they had.

[@magicbrownie1357]

This film is an absolute treasure for old school R&B fans.

[@RakeeshJ4]

‘Not just doin’ a parody, you’re doin’ a hat tip.’ Says it all:)

[@Luneowl]

The man they talked to in the steam room was Steve Lawrence, famous for his duo singing and comedy act with Eydie Gorme in the ‘60s. They were old Vegas alums and Frank Sinatra was his mentor. Thanks for the reaction, this was a blast from the past!

[@deemo7868]

As a Chicagoan, this movie is pure Chicago of the 1970's

[@Logan_Zimmerman]

@@deemo7868 this is my favorite film to take place in the city of Chicago.

[@chetstevensq]

and suburbs

[@ejtappan1802]

@@Logan_Zimmerman ... Agreed! I went to music college on the south side starting in fall 1979. One of my upper classmen had watched them shoot some of these scenes. We would go watch the movie, then drive all around town and of course, Lower Wacker. Damn, those were some fun times!

[@michaelfinlay6341]

Makes me homesick.

[@KayQue-s3r]

Ohhhhh those glorious summers days at the Blues Stage at Chicagofest on Navy Pier. The talent level was absurd; one after another! "The Blues Had a Baby and They Named it Rockn'Roll"

[@darksyde1659]

If I’m not mistaken this movie still holds the Guinness book of records for best car chases

[@artursandwich1974]

Guys, I don't think you can understand what a great pleasure it is to me and what a great relief to finally see reactors watching this movie who know who the people (musicians ) in it are! Thank you for the joy!!!

[@HassoBenSoba]

Two more comments: 1.) The "Penguin" scene is a clever homage to the European/Expressionistic film style, particularly of Ingmar Bergman, the great Swedish director. The titled-angle shots of the staircase, the light emanating from between the railing, the tortured Christ on the Cross, etc are a send-up of Bergman and friends. 2.) The moment when Cab Calloway says "Hit It" and the curtains open to reveal a fantasy flashback to his heyday of the 1930's HAS TO BE one of the greatest moments in Cinema history.

[@willjohnson8446]

I’ve heard Akroyd envisioned the car as having super powers infused into it by the high voltage electricity it was parked under for years. It’s how the car was able to occasionally break the laws of physics.

[@AP-gb3eh]

Just for the record Chaka wasn’t known back then , she was still a backup singer. This was a showcase of the greats because at the time many of the Blues greats were being ignored by the public.

[@bbb462cid]

Where's Rufus LOL. This film should get its share of credit for honoring some of the greats we see here, who had careers that had maybe waned. But people like Jimmie and Stevie Vaughan and Angela Strehli had reached out to many R+B and Blues greats to get them to come out on the road again and let people see and hear and experience them again. And they did that years before the Blue Brothers came out.

[@zedwpd]

I have seen this move 100 times and seen 20 reactions to it and have never seen the Vaseline next to Elwood's bed and the picture of Jake and Carrie Fisher next to the flame thrower manual. Well done.

[@wristcontr0l]

For real, man's a profiler for the FBI or something.

[@nessaarandur7740]

104 cars were destroyed in this movie. Landis bought a fleet of decommissioned police cars for $400 each and reinforced them for stunts. He got the city's permission for the cars to go 100 mph in the streets of Chicago but thought it looked too speeded up on camera so he introduced some stunt pedestrians to provide perspective. The Blues Brothers and its members is/was a real band that performed on SNL. This whole movie is wild and is such a fun and feel good movie. Loved your reaction and how you recognised so many people!

[@ImagineMySurprise510]

"We've got both kinds; Country AND Western". That has always been my favorite line in the movie, and it went to an extra.

[@user-blob]

I manage to use that line irl more than you’d think possible 😁

[@HassoBenSoba]

Yep, I agree: funniest line in the film,

[@SSArcher11]

Calloway said that all he ever wanted to do was make people happy by entertaining them.

[@Samaelthekind]

you guys might be the most literate people in the whole reaction biz. You nailed it across the board, and this is a movie that drops a LOT of cameos and music for the tuned in listener/watcher. This movie had more top tier names in it than nearly any other ever made...and it was intentional. Its a love affair with great music, and 44 years later its still able to bring joy! The world desperately needs more like this...something to remind us of whats good in this world.

[@TTM9691]

Holy shit, I just started this reaction.....I was already psyched and impressed that you were getting every little reference from the time period and noticing Frank Oz, and the history of Chicago......but when you recognized Cab Calloway.....this might be the greatest of all Blues Brothers reactions, the one we've all been waiting for!!!!

[@lovebug2284]

I saw this movie in the theater when it first came out and the audience Ate. It. Up. I swear we were all exhausted from laughing, but the best part was seeing performances from all of these legends! And now those performances are preserved so we can see them again and again. 😊

[@TheWoodsugar]

LOVED this reaction! You guys are fun. I live/born and raised in the Chicagoland area. I remember there is a junk yard right along side I55 that had all the junked police cars from this film . Just stacked on top of each other. It was so fun every time we passed it. They were out there for many years. They are gone now and I kinda miss them because they always made me smile thinking of how fun this movie is. Chicago is a main element of this film.

[@tonyhaynes9080]

Could you imagine them trying to film this in Chicago today? It just wouldn't happen. Too much politics and outside interference, if you get the drift?

[@LogicalNiko]

7:00 - Frank Oz is Yoda, Miss Piggy, Grover, Fozzy Bear, etc. (Note: in the Toy's R Us...Yes, We do have a Miss Piggy, most of the characters on the shelves are all Frank Oz's). This started Frank's list of showing up in John Landis and many other films (An American Werewolf in London, Superman 3, Trading Places, Spies Like Us, Knives Out) 7:54 - This movie was all about the music. Dan Aykroyd main when developing the idea was to incorporate three things he loved, Chicago, Blues, and Musicals. He basically wrote the script as a way to sell a musical to Hollywood in the days where no studio wanted musicals. So after getting Belushi into the Blues as well and creating a few SNL skits they started a semi-real/semi-skit based band as an excuse to have fun in the New York between SNL work. They ended up becoming popular enough that they worked to produce two albums which then eventually sold the movie studios on this movie concept. Of course through all their connections, and Paul Shaffer originally being involved, they pretty much had every A-list artist happy to be involved as well. 9:09 - Richard J Daley had died in 1976 and it wasn't until 1989 that Richard M Daley became mayor. So Jane Byrne was the current mayor and she was really the main reason this movie was made. The Daley empire had a big hate for both Hollywood and New York. They had a total policy on denying film projects or other such things showing Chicago at all. They also would have never allowed anyone to show the real face of Chicago in the 1970s-1980s. Byrne was a very progressive individual who embraced the diversity and culture of Chicago and believed that what others dismissed as a blight was culture to be celebrated. She not only allowed The Blues Brothers access to film, she insisted the City, Illinois state, and all the departments in general provide the film with whatever they wanted to showcase the city. 23:00 - Dixie Square Mall. It was vacant having been closed for a while it was popular in the 1960s but it really failed pretty heavily in the 1970s. The school system used the building as a temporary high school while a building was being finished construction and then John Landis leased it from the Board of Education. All the cars in the parking lot were a mix of cars borrowed from dealerships and the stunt cars that would later be redressed as cop cars for later in the film. The store fronts were all setup by the film. Until the mall's demolition it still had traces of the movie and stunt setup inside. It sat in a partially demolished state for over a decade and became a site of a lot of criminal activity. You can find a few films on KZbin exploring the inside of the abandoned buildings as the place decayed. 27:48 - Carrie Fisher was actually engaged to Dan Aykroid after this movie. Eventually she broke off the relationship and went back to her old boyfriend, Paul Simon. 40:45 - There was an Illinois National Socialist Party, and they did when a large first amendment case to march and assemble in Skokie, IL. As this happened about a year before this movie Aykroyd and Landis included it in the film as they imagined it would be fun to see how The Blues Brothers would react to that happening. 42:40 - One of the last major depictions of the Maxwell Street market. Several years after this movie it was labeled as "Urban Decay" and the homes and businesses claimed by Eminent Domain laws. In one of the big open corruptions acts the area was then immediately sold off to wealthy condo developers to turn into the extended college campus area for upper class, mostly white families. The city had done a number of underhanded tricks to stop and slow the application process for it becoming a protected cultural landmark. 48:00 - It looks like it mainly came to money for her music. Chaka Kahn was with ABC Music which as this movie was being made and just reformed into MCA. With her music being top of the charts in 1978 and her and Rufus doing an album in 1979 getting the rights from the label to republish anything she did on a film soundtrack with a different label would have been insane. Which is why all the songs and on this film were basically originally released 10 years earlier and the artists were not in the middle of album tours in 79-80. Chaka Kahn was right in the middle of making the studio premium cash. 55:15 - Wrigley is the second oldest Major league field just after Fenway Park, it is a historic national landmark, so it's protected from any major changes. They basically can repair and maintain the facilities to keep them up to modern safety standards, but every other change has to go to a historical committee to ensure it keeps the same overall spirit of the original design. 55:56 - This is comedic license as the movie of finding a trucker filled country place outside 1980s Chicago. The set dressing materials behind the bar and on the desk also indicate that they are supposedly only about 15 mins to the southwest of the loop. 1:08:50 - Thats Twiggy who was a pretty famous model at the time. 1:29:40 - 109 Stunt vehicles destroyed on film. Held the record for a little while...mainly done just to hold the record. 1:33:14 - The whole flying car thing was just done so they could justify dropping a car from a helicopter. 1:34:03 - After finishing Animal House John Landis knew the Studio would allow him to do whatever he wanted. So he and Dan realized the only way to make it not be a complete cartoon and keep people laughing was to just keep escalating how absurd everything was scene after scene. So as long as they just keep turning it up and speeding it up one notch at a time, they don't shatter the illusion of the story, but they ensure that you can't stop being on the edge of your seat.

[@stirbjoernwesterhever6223]

I watched this movie when it came out in Germany 1981, when I was 16 and man it opened a whole new world of music for me. I only knew a few black musicians back in the day, like Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Ray Charles who are in the movie, and Sammy Davis Jr. or Ella Fitzgerald. After the movie I bought albums from Cab Calloway, John Lee Hooker and so on. I became a great fan of those kind of R&B music.

[@kenf3539]

This is where I discovered John Lee Hooker. Bought a lot of his CD's back then...

[@wreckingKREW1]

By FAR the best reaction I've seen to this classic and honestly one of the best reactions I've seen to any movie. I said to myself before it happened,"These 2 dudes are gonna be the first reactors I've seen scope Cab Calloway" and you nailed it. Thank you and subbed!

[@jmsdenwanabe]

In 1980 the world was still in a hangover from disco fever. A lot of the artists in the film hadn't had a hit or even put out music in over a decade. So there is also this inside joke of like hey these old soul artists are still around but they had to go take straight gigs because their music careers had cooled.

[@benpowersguitar]

I have been watching this for 40 years. One of the best musicals, outrageous comedies and collection of legendary cameos ever. So much influence and history.

[@jacquie2004]

The cast!!!!!! Can you even begin to imagine who you'd need to get involved today, and how much it would cost, today?! Who is even comparable today? There are so many absolute legends in this film, the film's still hilarious, and there simply is no better soundtrack. This film is timeless.

[@HershelStimsQuA]

If you're born in Chicago, they give you this movie as a maternity ward gift.

[@fourthgirl]

You both just made my day. Not only have you chose the best hommage to R&B in the history of filmmaking, you knew the artists and cameo performers. This movie came out after my only brother finished his tours in Vietnam. He left home at 17 and an amateur R&B garage musician immitating James Brown to entertain his 4 sisters. He came home and wasn't the same. Sister Thirdgirl and I treated him to this movie at the drive-in in Oakland in his 1963 Checkers. He howled with laughter and knew every song and artist. Told us that John Lee Hooker was a resident of Oakland. This movie became his favorite next to It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World. We lost him last year at 71. Thank you on behalf of my beloved brother, for being so informative with this gem.❤

[@rnascak]

The song that you asked if it originated from this movie - no. The tune is the theme from "Peter Gunn", a private eye television show that ran from 1958 - 1961. It was written by Henry Mancini.

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

Candy was never an SNL cast member as he was too loyal to SCTV but him and Dan Aykroyd were friends from way back. They even drove to Hollywood together at the start of their careers so Dan tried to get him for every movie he could

[@avanoosterhout8397]

In 1980, living in The Netherlands before internet, before social media, before '99 channels and nothing on' with numerous American shows and just Rolling Stone magazine and Mad magazine as a window to what went on in the USA... we had no clue who The Blues Brothers were. We had no idea they had some sketches on something called SNL. But 17 year old me and some friends did love music and knew Aretha, James Brown, Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker. Seeing this movie in cinema was like being in a lunatic asylum. And we went back for seconds that same week 😎 Later that year I got the 'Made in America' live album Jake and Elwood released. It didn't leave my turntable for weeks.

[@jimtatro6550]

I saw this theatrically in 1980 right before I turned 13. It exposed me to a genre of music and incredible artist that I didn’t even know existed. This is my favorite musical ever.👍

[@apexoppressor1924]

Damn. I was a year younger then & too busy sneaking into a lot of forgettable slasher movies instead. Wish I'd slipped into this one. Probably saw it on HBO a couple years later...

[@hbk-hotboy713]

This was my grandma favorite movie of all time 😂😂 RIP🙏🏾Granny

[@HunHaze]

Grandma had good taste.

[@deemo7868]

I saw this film in the theater. Now, I feel old🤣🤣🤣

[@hbk-hotboy713]

@deemo7868 she had made her first VCR purchase and came with a 4 movie package lol hers came with Blues Brothers, Pinocchio, The Sandlot & Monster Truck event 🤣 and every time I would go to the country for the summer in the 90s we watch them same movies every year 😆

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

​@@hbk-hotboy713had the same thing in the 80's with my grandmother. We didn't have a VCR but she did and she had 4 movies too. Tom Thumb, Police Academy, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Romancing the Stone. I still know all those movies line for line from memory 😂

[@RakeeshJ4]

I feel you:) One of my father’s favorites, and he passed away recently. It was bittersweet in the good way to see folks enjoy it so much.

[@robertcass7723]

I have seen this movie at least 50 times, but I’ve never laughed so hard as I did watching it with you. Brilliant ❤

[@jasondismuke4837]

This was my favorite movie as a kid. I still listen to "Briefcase Full of Blues" all the time. I appreciate you letting me watch this with you guys.

[@thundernels]

Landis thought all of his shots were precious so he reinserted a lot of the opening shots to the extended edition. Most reactors are already fed up with the movie before the music kicks in. This is a top tier reaction! Good job, guys!

[@lanolinlight]

Somebody should show this reaction to John Landis and Dan Akroyd. Better than getting an Oscar.

[@derekseven1647]

You are 100% right it would show that people really appreciate this film although I do think they know that period when I first saw this movie in the theater I reacted more than these guys

[@ChrisBridges23]

As I recall, when this came out, blues music was not selling very well. Several of the musicians, including James Brown, credited Belushi and Ackroyd for reviving their careers and treating them with respect.

[@pairofpints]

Great to see you 2 fellas appreciating the cool music as well as the comedy. Hut hut hut hut hut.

[@flugsven]

Carrie Fisher was beautiful (and fun) until the day she died. ☝️😃 Great reaction!

[@CarieHarling]

This is my dad’s favorite movie. I grew up watching this movie with him countless times. For some reason, it became one we watched every Christmas (yeah, I know, it makes no sense, but that’s my dad). This movie is the epitome of the music he raised me on. Now I have kids, and we’ve all watched it countless times all over again. My dad just passed away 5 days ago, and I’ve been feeling incredibly lost. And then I found your video. Thank you for the gift of getting to experience someone’s first-time seeing The Blues Brothers, and thank you for laughing as hard as I do every time I watch it! The amount of joy this gave me… I desperately needed a good laugh, and you delivered! I can’t properly express how meaningful this was to me.

[@TheDivayenta]

My Pop saw Cab Calloway at the Savoy in Harlem in the 30’s! What a JOY it is to see reactors who know all the great artists in this movie! All the dudes in the band were with Booker T and the MG’s from STAX. I saw them live backing Otis Redding! ❤

[@steveandme63]

Guys, I love your reaction! Im subscribing immediately! One of the main things to remember about this film is that it's 1980 and there was an actual line item in the movie production budget for cocaine 😅. Oh, and Carrie Fisher was dating/engaged to Dan Aykroyd during this period.

[@sighteternal497]

That's Matt "Guitar" Murphy in the Soul Food Cafe with Aretha. One of THE best guitarists that ever played. Great video gentlemen of one the best movies ever.

[@papa_xan]

That was a fantastic reaction to this movie, probably the best I've seen. Great job guys! I was born in Chicago and lived in and around there through the 70's, 80's, and 90's so this is a hometown movie for me. My mom took me to see this movie almost once a week for months when it first came out, and we even had to drive past the overpass where the massive car crash happened where John Candy's car ended up in a truck. Heck, I even had the soundtrack on record and 8-track, lol. Damn I'm old...

[@MrDevintcoleman]

Even Aretha’s speaking voice has that something to it. It’s a power. Like belting without the effort. Like an actual instrument.

[@bethcushway458]

Best reaction you've ever done!🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 So fantastic to finally watch reactors who know and appreciate all the legends stacked in this film but who also laugh at the complete insanity of the humour. Watching you both was an absolute joy. Thank you❤❤❤

[@HassoBenSoba]

Absolutely

[@markdepalo2501]

That is the best Blues Brother reaction yet!!! You guys did your research....

[@ThrghmyEyeZZ]

Really appreciate this one, fellas. 1 of my top comfort movies to re-watch of all time. They will never ever catch magic on film like this again.

[@cookie1054]

John Lee Hooker, effing legend. The blues greats formed what rock music became. The Brit blues guys like Clapton would often take the said blues greats on tour to give proper homage to those who pioneered their craft. Saying, “you all think I’m great, but check out who we know is great”. As a guitar player I still listen to those great blues guys and wonder how, with beat up and makeshift instruments could speak to my soul. Effing legends.

[@fightingidiocy7724]

I got to drive over that SAME BRIDGE every day for like 2 years, and every time it went up, I was thinking of gunning it. And it's still there today, and it still looks the same.

[@BricktopBrickstop]

Watching you both laugh your ass off at my favourite childhood movie is just the best. Great music, great car chases, great laughs, and just so over the top absurd, it's just gold. Plus it also got me into blues and soul music 👌

[@greenbeans9388]

“That Night train is a mean wine” Jake ain’t never lied. 😂😂😂

[@francisedwards4069]

The Blues Brothers Band were the house band for Saturday Night Live from 1977 - 1981, also worked with Otis Redding at Stax Records

[@ellet6560]

I was watching SNL the night the Blues Brothers debuted. It was the intro, Garrett Morris introduced them and when I saw it was Dan and John, was ready for a big joke. Instead, I watched their performance with my mouth hanging open. They sang “Soul Man”; the band was amazing and so were John and Dan’s vocals.The performance was followed with “Live from NY, it’s Saturday Night! Next thing I knew I was buying the album “Briefcase Full of Blues, they were touring and this awesome movie came out! GOOD times!

[@jjkcharlie]

Everyone who watches this does not know Cab Calloway. You guys are my guys. The FAME school of dancing Soul, R&B, and Country music are interchangeable. They all come from the rural south. And, I believe, Chicago City council passed a law, not allowing anything like this car chase happen again.

[@fredcasdensworld]

Fun fact; The version of "Can't Turn Me Loose" heard during the mall car chase has never been officially release. What makes it unique is it has Steve Jordan on Drums and Tom Scott on Saxaophone (which is why if you listen carefully, you can hear two different Saxs in addition to a trumpet and trombone)

[@bighuge1060]

I remember the critics being absolutely brutal to this movie when it was released in theatres. Their major beefs were the expense, the excessiveness (of the car chases and wrecks) and it being a one-joke Saturday Night Live spinoff. I also remember loving it on the big screen.

[@jimbuechler9546]

I saw this movie when it first came out and I was rofl🤣 at the final car chase. In the 70s there were a lot of movies with excessive car chase scenes, so it was like the Blues Bros made a parody of all those movies which was comedy genius. Great reaction, your guys’ laughter was totally contagious!! 😂

[@dneill8493]

There will never be another movie like this one. The music, the music legends, the cast, the cars, the chases, the over-the-top ridiculousness,. There are so many different things that come together to make this a truly one of a kind movie.

[@charlikelso7227]

I lived in what we called "Old Man's Hotels" in Chicago in the early 80s./// and also a loft next to the elevated tracks. it's true you just get used to the noise eventually. good times lol super cheap too. i'm sure it's not the same now :)

[@DrBoneright]

"My God the Mafia's after us now! " The best non-musical cameo was former Atlantic Record Exec. Michael Klenfner. He actually did transform The Blues Brothers from an SNL skit into a legitimate touring band and a Grammy award-nominated act. 1:20:21

[@julianfarrall8963]

This is one of my favourite films, I've seen a few reactions to this movie, but I must say gentlemen that I think your reaction is the the gold standard that other reactors should aspire to.

[@kathyastrom1315]

The shorter of the prison guards was played by my drama professor Father Gerald Walling, a really nice guy and a great acting teacher! When he found out I was born and raised in Joliet, he had some stories to tell about his few days filming at the Collins Street prison.

[@JACOBSJohn818]

Born and raised and still live in Joliet. One of my fave films growing up.

[@meteerbil2078]

I was 15 years old 1980. Saw it in the cinema. Couple of days later I bought the record. Still have it. Fell in love with the music. Cab Calloway, John Lee Hooker, Aretha Franklin, James Brown.

[@asterix7842]

At the time, the shopping mall scene was the most expensive scene ever filmed. They found an abandoned mall and fixed it up to look like a working mall. The producers were later sued by the mall's owner because they just left it and didn't repair any of the damage. It's since been demolished. This movie broke a record at the time by destroying 104 cars. They did one better in The Blues Brothers 2000 by destroying 105. The record has since been broken many times, mostly by the Fast and Furious movies.

[@hipsville]

You're the first reactors who recognized Cab, not to mention most of the rest! Fyi: Joe Walsh is part of the prison inmates who jump up on to the tables to dance at the end. The Blues Brothers definitely takes a page from another great movie with a bunch of cool cameos, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World" from the 60s. Check it out, you won't be disappointed. 😄

[@bwilliams463]

There was an R&B band in the Kansas City area in the 90s/00s called 'Four Fried Chickens And A Coke.' The billboard for the movie 'See You Next Wednesday' that the Brothers drive past when they're running from Bob and the Good Ol' Boys was a running gag that John Landis snuck into his films on many occasions.

[@kathyastrom1315]

Chicago blues singers, especially the old-school ones, were freakin’ amazing! I was lucky enough to see Koko Taylor perform in my Milwaukee college’s student union basement for a sadly tiny bunch of fans (seriously, there was less than 100 of us!) in 1985, and she was incredible. I was dancing to the side of her band when she saw me and started to shimmy along with me.

[@Jskew]

Great reaction gentlemen. So some of my favorite trivia from this movie. 1. In the mall scene, the mall was scheduled for demolition so the owner told the director to just go nuts. 2. The movie is in the Guinness book of world records for the most cars destroyed in a single movie. 3. The guy at the assessors office eating the sandwich is a very young Steven Spielberg. (which you were the first reactors every to acknowledge} Much love and keep on keepin on J.

[@danielhead8123]

Rip John belushi great comedian,singer,actor

[@MoominDoogie]

I think there's only a handful of the cast still alive sadly. 😢 So many greats are immortalised in this masterpiece.

[@sylviaconlee7407]

The part of the Nazi was played by Henry Gibson, a regular on Dan and Rowans, The Laugh In.

[@sylviaconlee7407]

He was also "The doctor" on The Burbs with Tom Hanks, a great comedy horror spoof.

[@evelynstedman4611]

My mom was 70 when this came out. She saw it on a visit to her sister. When she came home she bought the soundtrack on cassette. The pickup only had a radio so she bought a battery powered cassette player. The Blues Brothers were our doing the errands music. Side one got us down the hill through the gate, off to to the post office , then on to the shopping center. Then flip to side 2 and back up the boulevard ,stop at the grocery, and back through the gate, up the hill and tape finished. Great music

[@jet07son]

1:33:00 🤣 remember the car was able to do that back flip in air because they were on a mission " from god " 😂

[@krdragon6950]

Blues Brothers movie destroyed a total of 103 cars. This record was held until the sequel, Blues Brothers 2000, which destroyed 104 cars.

[@cayminlast]

That blonde girl in the sports car is the iconic British fashion model "Twiggy".

[@GeraldH-ln4dv]

Oh, man. This is the reaction I didn't know I needed until now. Back before they started on SNL, Belushi and Aykroyd used to make extra cash delivering cars cross country. Belushi was into rock and roll and Aykroyd was into blues, so they would alternate styles while driving for hours and days at a time. I think that was where they came up with the beginnings of the idea for the Blues Brothers characters.

[@Docjonel]

"Sometimes rockets get shot at you." LOL! So nice to see you guys recognize so much of the talent that many don't know about these days.

[@keiranbradley3238]

I watched this movie as a kid in the 80's and Aretha Franklin shattered a big cut crystal glass I was drinking orange juice from when she was singing!. Blew my mind!. Powerful juju got into my young head and heart and I've been a blues -head ever since!. I love this movie. Peace from Scotland.

[@vitoguttilla2926]

First time I saw this movie I was 19, Grew my sideburns because of Elwood, got into The Blues because of this movie and over the years from 2005 up til last year have met Dan Aykroyd, Tom Malone, Blue Lou, Steve Cropper, Matt Murphy and Murphy Dunne, all awesome people and makes this movie even more special to watch.

[@jamesmoore4003]

All of the crazy stuff that they pull off like that backward flip with the car….you have to remember…they’re on a mission from God. So they have His divine hand in all they do.

[@carlchurch7731]

Gonna show my age. I saw this the night it came out. What a blast!! Great reaction guys.

[@bynrdskynrd]

26:47 Elwood has been parking his car next to an electrical station (which means that is the extended cut you're watching), and the vehicle weirdness you opened with is supposed to be because of Elwood parking a car next to a Power Station...the car has some 'spirit' like Frankenstein's Monster.

[@MoominDoogie]

They also survive everything without a scratch because they're on a mission from Ghaad.

[@charliemac64]

When this was filmed, Wrigley Field had no lights. Cubbies always played day games. They finally put lights in in the late 80's, if memory serves correctly.

[@bluebear1985]

@charliemac64 1988, to be exact. They were originally supposed to begin construction of lights in early December 1941, but the day before that was to start, Pearl Harbor happened, so the Cubs owner at the time donated all the lighting materials to the war effort.

[@charliemac64]

@bluebear1985 I knew it was when I was in the Navy, but couldn't remember exact year. 1988 it is now that I associate it with other events.

[@chrisyonts9652]

This movie has an all-star cast of musicians.

[@allenruss2976]

Best reaction, hands down. And recognizing almost everyone is an added bonus

[@marcusmoses574]

I'm a huge fan of this movie. I've seen it (not including reactions) about 40 times. I first saw it when it came out when I was 12 years old in Harlem. You watched the extended cut. I'm a huge blues fan partly because of this movie, mostly because of my elders.

[@MoominDoogie]

Same! As a white kid from Northern England, this film introduced me to a whole new world of music that I still love to this day. Also like you, I first saw this aged 12 and it's still one of my all time favourite films.