The Blues Brothers!

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. [00:00:06] Speaker B: Welcome to the Pugsley Crew Reviews podcast, where we discuss all manner of films, whether they're good, bad or anything in between, really. We can watch and give your honest opinions. Today I have. Joining me Q9000. [00:00:20] Speaker A: Hiya, dude. [00:00:22] Speaker B: How you doing? [00:00:24] Speaker A: I'm not bad. Are you? [00:00:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm doing well. I'm doing well. Very hot. Because it's really clammy and hot for us. [00:00:33] Speaker A: Oh, it is, yeah. [00:00:35] Speaker B: It's supposed to be getting hotter through the week as well. Unfortunately, that's not good. No, it's supposed to be going up like 30 or so degrees on. By the weekend, I think so. [00:00:47] Speaker A: Yay. We get that thing where, as British people, we tell the world it's hot and they're like, ah, it gets much hotter than that in this country. That could. People don't understand heat over here. It's oppressive, damp, terrible heat. [00:01:06] Speaker B: Yeah, agreed. So today we are going to be discussing a film called the Blues Brothers, which was chosen by yourself, Kirk. Why? Why the Blues Brothers? [00:01:31] Speaker A: Because I. I just absolutely love the Blues Brothers. I watched it originally when I was young. I got really into their music to the degree I used to sing all the songs. And when I used to have scans for my epilepsy, I used to get the Blues Brothers soundtrack pumped into the scanning tube. Mri. That's it. [00:01:54] Speaker B: Crazy that they used to have that music played into you at. When you're having your epilepsy. Epilepsy scans. Because, I don't know, I just wouldn't have thought, like, I've never had it done, so I wouldn't have thought they'd be playing that kind of music. I thought they'd be playing calming, soothe, soothing music. [00:02:17] Speaker A: The machine kind of like. Yeah, it's quite scary as a kid because it's like going in a torpedo tube and hearing vibrations. So I think they'll pump anything you want into it just to. Because you have to be in them sometimes for like 45 minutes. [00:02:32] Speaker B: So, yeah, it's a long time. [00:02:34] Speaker A: It's. Yeah, it's a lot to take on board, especially if you're a kid. I don't think they do it as an app. Well, I don't remember do it asking me last time I had an adult one, but [00:02:43] Speaker B: not right. They should have offered. They should have put a screen in there and then let you watch a film that should be for a while. Short film, like, but, you know, a film. So, yeah, Blues Brothers. I remember seeing this when I was younger, but I only remember, like, very early in the film, like up to the point where the building collapses and then from there on I can't remember. Like, I'm sure I was like quite young and I. And I was like up at stupid o' clock in the morning. And I'm sure it was on something like S4C, which is like the Welsh Channel 4, basically. [00:03:25] Speaker A: All right. [00:03:26] Speaker B: And so I'm. I'm sure I saw it on there and they were. I just like, remember, like I said, very little of it. But yeah, the beginner better remember the, the main, the genuinely. The fun. The, the funniest thing to me that I remember is not the haha. Funny in the sense of. It's the funniest part of the film. It's funny to me that I remember the specific part about the trains making loads of noise and like, that's, that's pretty much all I remember. [00:03:57] Speaker A: Oh, they. They pass so often that you'll never even notice or whatever. [00:04:02] Speaker B: Yeah, great. So, yeah, the film starts off with Jake Blues getting out of prison. You find out he's been in prison for three years for burglary, no robbery, armed robbery. F. No robbery. [00:04:21] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't think it doesn't go into exact depth of what he did, does it? He. And I'm not sure when he says later how much of it's. But you know, he's been in the slabber. [00:04:35] Speaker B: Yeah. So he gets out his brother, L L L Wood. Elwood. I almost said Elroy Elwood picks him up, picks him up from prison and then they go about their business. The end. Now, obviously, he starts off with like. It starts off with him just having a conversation and stuff about the car. He's like, what have we done with the Cadillac? He's like, oh, I. I traded it. Like you traded it for this car? And he's like, no, I traded for a mic. And he's like, oh, I, I can, I can, I can see why you would trade it for a microphone. And it's like, really, [00:05:18] Speaker A: really. [00:05:22] Speaker B: Obviously he's unhappy with the new car because I believe it's an old police car. And then he shows him how fast it is and they go over a jump on a bridge and he's like, okay, it's pretty cool, but you need to fix the cigarette lighter, which is fair. I don't smoke. So. Obviously it starts off quite mild in that regard. But then all of a sudden, like, Elwood gets pulled over by the police. And then from there on out it just escalates so much. Like, I thought it was great. It's like, oh, he's he's been suspended from driving and stuff like that. And then they like, oh well we'll have to arrest him. And then he just drives off and then there's a police chase and it's like, oh okay, they're just gonna have a chase and. But no, it's through a massive mall and they like smashing into shops. There's two police cars chasing them and it's genuinely pretty interesting. It's funny. It was genuinely funny watching that. Especially when they commented on all the things that. Oh, they have one of these here. Oh, they have everything here, that kind of thing. And it's like there's a toy store. [00:06:33] Speaker A: Oh look, this dining hall. But there's some great driving in that. But like the stunt people that are customers that are like running out the way and [00:06:48] Speaker B: how many people died that day? [00:06:51] Speaker A: It does feel dangerous, doesn't it? [00:06:53] Speaker B: It does. [00:06:56] Speaker A: You sort of do wonder how did they not clip anyone? Were there any accidents or. Because it's just frantic people running and screaming and it just seems so real. But funny. [00:07:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I think because of how absurd and over the top rez is. That's why it's funny like. And obviously like no one actually gets hurt or anything. Please flip over. And even that's funny cuz they flip over, they sliding down the the mall on the roof and it just seems to take ages for them to stop and it just keeps going back and forth showing them sliding from inside the car to outside the car and it's just like are they ever going to stop? [00:07:39] Speaker A: It's very like Looney Tunes, isn't it? [00:07:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very slapstick cartoon. Yeah. Obviously they escape the police by getting out the mall and the police don't. I think one of them obviously flips. I can't remember what happens to the second car. I think it crashes into another shop, gets stuck. [00:07:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:03] Speaker B: But obviously they then go to see the penguin, which is a nun they call the penguin. And Jake said, promised that he would visit the penguin when he gets out of prison. First thing you do. I'm not sure if this is actually before after the police thing where they visit the penguin. [00:08:29] Speaker A: I think they visit the penguin first, but. [00:08:31] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they visit the penguin first and that was, that was brilliant. Where they were talking to the nun and Jake's like, you know, it's a bit tough shit. So she smacks him with a ruler and then Elwood's like, oh Jesus Christ. So she smacks him with a ruler and then Jake's like shit again. And they keep saying shit and Christ over and over and over and it's just rapidly beating them with a stick, which I thought was great. And then she. She puts the ruler down or it snaps even. She grabs a bigger sticks and start whacking them with them. Elwood manages to get out of his chair and run off down the stairs whilst being beaten, whereas Jake is stuck in his chair and is getting hit by the nun with the stick and obviously falls down the stairs. The chair breaks. She's like, don't come back till you. You, you know, learn to behave or something like that. Not those words, but, you know, you're. You're good people. She's like, oh, you. Because one of them actually said, I think it might have been Elwood. He's like, you really are a fat penguin. [00:09:53] Speaker A: I think my favorite bit in that is where he swore the first time. And she says, what did you say? And he goes, I generously offered to lend you the money. You said no, so you're out of look at. And he smacks him again. I thought, oh, wow, [00:10:10] Speaker B: it is good. [00:10:11] Speaker A: I managed to stay like clean without swearing. [00:10:14] Speaker B: Exactly. I was looking on Net Movie Database because I was looking for like the age rating for this film and it was originally aa, which I didn't have a clue what I was. But that seemed to be a thing before 90, 83, I think 82, something like that. Before it was 8. Like 15 and what have you. [00:10:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:32] Speaker B: But I notice is like there are like 30 odd shits and 15 and so on and so forth in the profanity list. Like, fair enough. They swore a lot more than I remembered. [00:10:44] Speaker A: It's quite amazing that this is something I was watching at like six years old, really. I suppose in the older days we weren't as sort of bothered about it. No, as long as there wasn't extreme sex or violence. It was. Yeah, if it was a bit of swearing, said me, whatever, [00:11:07] Speaker B: bang my head on the microphone then. But yeah, him falling down the stairs was the highlight of that. That scene for me. And also, yeah, it was one of the things they were talking about Jake and Elwood, they were talking about the band. And he's like, also, how are the band doing and what have you. And like, El was like, oh, you know, I didn't tell you exactly what happened. He's like, oh, well, you said the band was still together. He's like, no, not really. The band are not really together. And he's like, well, why did you tell me they were? And stuff like that. Well, I didn't want to tell you the thing that, the thing that was keeping you going. I didn't want to tell you that it wasn't there anymore. And he's like, so you lied? And he's like, I, it wasn't a lie. It was just. [00:12:03] Speaker A: Bullshitting you a little. [00:12:07] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I, I, I enjoyed this film. I don't think my misses Enjoyed it as much as I did, be honest. I, I thought it was really daft, but in a good way. Yeah, I, My head on my mic again. Why do I keep doing that today? Yeah. The film progresses then after the car chase, basically Elwood and Jake are getting the band back together. So they go to various different places to try and get the band back together. Because I think they're like a blues band, which is. Yeah, you know what they are. I think it says R and B on the, I think it's what, rhythm and blues, Rhythm and bass. I don't know rhythm and blues. Me on that. I haven't got a clue. And yeah, the first group is, is pretty much the easiest. The first few was like, oh, we don't know because we making some money with this, this little gig we've got going. And they're like, no, you're going to come with us. And like, okay, fine, we'll do it. And then obviously from there on it gets more difficult. Like, the next person, they try and get us working in a restaurant and it's like a pretty fancy restaurant. Yeah, Mr. Fantastic. And obviously it's a really posh restaurant. And they go sit down for food. Whose brothers that is. Which is funny because they don't, like, wait for a reservation. They just couldn't sit at any random table. And they like sitting there munching away on food and stuff. And then you got the family next to them who, like, they call the waiter over, which is Mr. Fantastic. He's not a waiter. He's the person who sends people in the door. Greedy person. I don't know what they're called. This is ours. I haven't got a claim. I've never been to a posh restaurant. But he's, he's like talking to the, the, the posh guy. And the posh guy's like, oh, can we move to a different table? And he's like, why are these people disturbed? And he was like, no, they haven't done anything. They just, they just smell bad. It's funny, though, because one thing I mentioned is about the building blowing up. And obviously throughout the film, Carrie Fisher turns up Just randomly. And tries to blow Jake up with a rocket launcher kind of thing. Then she blows up the building with some sort of dynamite. Everyone survives, it seems like. Or at least the police, John Candy and the Blues Brothers survived. She turns up later in the film and tries to. And. And tries to set him on fire with a flamethrower. The flamethrower makes the thorn booth explored into the air that lands on the floor. They are both fine. That is in the Blue Brothers fight. It's crazy. And. And yeah, I was like, why the hell is she. Like, you earn this. And it does explain later. Or why, obviously that's. That's like little snippets in between, which I think is pretty good, actually, because it kind of breaks up sections quite well. [00:15:34] Speaker A: It's a film for always having something happening and always doing slightly different jokes and stuff. [00:15:40] Speaker B: Yeah, agreed. [00:15:43] Speaker A: I love the bit in the restaurant where he turns around and starts talking to the man and he's like, sell me your children. Sell me a woman. [00:15:54] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, that was brilliant. I was like, what the hell? He's really just doing anything he could just to get that Mr. Fantastic to come back, like. And in the end, he relented because they threatened to come there every day for three meals, basically. Breakfast, lunch and tea, I think. Or breakfast, dinner, lunch and dinner. Whatever he said, I don't remember, but that's basically what happened. And yeah, when he's like, tell me your children, I was like, what the. How much for the girls? I was like, what, your daughters? And I'm like, wait a sec. I think he's trying to do a Russian accent. Maybe my accent's awful. There's. Whatever. It was meant to be, but, yeah, it was pretty out of the unexpected. I was not expecting them. Him to say that, like. But he did get his own Way and Mr. Fantastic did join the band again. So I think the next person they went to see again, I'm forgetting the. The characters names. Yeah, that's the ones and they go to. Elwood and Jake go to visit them and there's like a. I think it's the first time in the film there's like a proper singing thing going on with Aretha Flat Franklin. I don't know why I couldn't say the name properly then. And it's quite funny, though, because he's actually got quite a few big, like, soul and lose people in there because, like, Ray Charles, Aretha Frank Franklin, [00:17:43] Speaker A: James Brown. [00:17:43] Speaker B: James Brown, yeah, quite a few. Like, it's surprising, like, they obviously got those people in there to take part. It's good. Which is good. The more the merrier. But, yeah, so that happens with it. They go there and. And they ask for, can I have white bread toasted? And it's like not asking for toast, but white bread toasted. And then Elwood is like that. And then Jake's like, I have four fried chickens. And she's like. And Aretha Franklin's like, you mean the. The legs or the wings? And he's like, no, four chickens. [00:18:43] Speaker A: Matt Guitar Murphy knows it's them. Exactly from what he's ordered. Good. She goes in the back of moans. She's like, I just had two guys dressed as a Scenic Diamond Wrestlers or whatever. Well, dry white bread toasted. Oh, fried chicken. He's like the Blues Brothers. [00:19:01] Speaker B: Oh, and don't forget the cork as well. Four whole chickens and a Coke. But, yeah, he's like, yeah, I'm gonna go back and join the band. And then obviously Aretha Franklin's like, no, you ain't. And then they like. She sings at him for a bit and then he's like, no, I'm going. And they do. But, yeah, that's the first time in the film that I can think of where it's musical up until that point. Like, there's music in the background, but there's no, like, musical set pieces like a musical. There's that. And then obviously there's [00:19:40] Speaker A: Rachel shake a tail feather in the music shop. [00:19:43] Speaker B: Yeah. And then there's like a couple more then after that, isn't there? [00:19:48] Speaker A: Yeah, there's the country and western bar they go to and play. Yeah, play [00:19:54] Speaker B: Rojai. Is it? [00:19:55] Speaker A: Rawhide. [00:19:56] Speaker B: Rawhide. [00:19:57] Speaker A: And then Stand by your man. [00:19:59] Speaker B: Yeah. And then there's Minnie the something Moolah. That's the one. I can remember Mueller. Afternoon. Oh, yeah, it's a. It's a long film, but it doesn't. It didn't feel like. It was like. I think it's two hours and 13 minutes. It didn't feel like it was on for two hours and 30. And obviously, like, a lot does happen. Like you. They. They. Yeah, obviously, from the get out of the jail to the police chase to getting the band back together, which takes a while. There's the Nazis, which I thought was hilarious in that, like, they don't give a. About the Nazis. They try and run them over, but they all jump into the river and, like, are we gonna kill them? Then later in the film, the main two Nazis chase the Blues Brothers on like, a. A freeway or motorway is what I Would say on a freeway. And they like the Blues Brothers, turn near the end of a. Well, they don't turn. They kind of almost go off the end of a road being constructed and they stop in time, reverse, turn round, drive off past the Nazis. The Nazis don't. And they go off the end of it. And it is ridiculous how long they fall in for. It's like they fly into the air, like properly launch as if. As if he's got rockets up his ass and gets launched in the air because it's like the car is higher than the buildings, like really tall building. And then it just falls through the fucking floor when it hits the floor. And then the Blues Brothers just jumps over the gap in their car and carries on driving. That's what I liked about the end as well. It got so ridiculous. First of all, they're being chased by a couple of cop cars. Then there was swat, then there was the army, there was the Nazis. There was lords and lords and lords and lords of different, like, agencies. It was ridiculous. [00:22:07] Speaker A: Was it horseback rangers or something? [00:22:10] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just so over the top. It's fantastic. But yeah, I really enjoyed this. Obviously they do they gig, get the money, save the. The orphanage because that's what they're trying to do. The save the old village because they're on a mission from God. As Dan Aykroyd keeps saying, we're on a mission from God. [00:22:40] Speaker A: Jake comes up, these massive explanations of what they're doing. And all outward or episodes, we're on a mission from God. [00:22:51] Speaker B: Yes, it's. It's really good. And obviously, okay, it explains Carrie Fisher's reason for trying to blow up the Blues Brothers in the final time you see her, she shoots at them, misses them. Somehow every single bullet explains to Jake how she was waiting at the altar. I believe all her family was there, 300 odd people or something stupid. And he just didn't show up. I'm assuming it's because he was in jail. He could have said that. But he come up with all this. I'm sorry, I run out of gas. The car broke down. There was an earthquake, a typhoo. He looks at her, takes his glass off, stays at her for a bit and she's like, oh, Jake. They start kissing and then he just drops her on the floor and runs off. And she's like. I bet she was well pissed off. [00:23:49] Speaker A: Great. [00:23:50] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That's the reason why Carrie Fisher was trying to kill him through the entire film. And the thing is, I was looking in the, at the credits, I'm pretty sure, like she's called Mystery Woman or something. There's no name. [00:24:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:04] Speaker B: Or like I wonder if Jake even remembered her name. He doesn't mention her name, does he? When. When she sees it. When he sees her. [00:24:13] Speaker A: No, I don't think he does. [00:24:17] Speaker B: He's just like, hey baby. Something like that. Anyway, yeah, I, I enjoy this. It was daft, but it was really fun. I heard like the second film, is it Blues Brothers 2000 is meant to be quite bad. [00:24:35] Speaker A: We're gonna have to do that. [00:24:38] Speaker B: Are we really? [00:24:39] Speaker A: Thousands. One of those films that everybody just about shits on. But I actually went to see it in the cinema on opening day because I like Blues Brothers so much. [00:24:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:51] Speaker A: And now if you hype it up and go, oh, it's the next Blues Brothers, I can see why people would be disappointed because this film's phenomenal. But if you take it on its own merit, because like this film, there's a lot of blues stars in it and stuff and a lot of cameos and there's some good jokes. I don't think it's that bad. I just think you have to understand that you're not gonna get an all time classic like this again. Yeah, it's a less sequel, but it's not a bad film at all. [00:25:27] Speaker B: We'll have to check it out. Not today, but soon. Maybe. We still have other things to watch, like I don't know what yet, but we still have plenty of things to watch. Like RoboCop 2 and 3. Especially 3, because I heard it's very bad. I've only seen a little bit of that. Like with a pretty sure what I saw of RoboCop 3. I know this is a completely different film to what we're talking about, but what I saw about RoboCop 3 was like. I think it was Murphy was about to get killed and then somehow teleported back in time. I'm not sure if that's actually what happened, but that's what it seemed to be. [00:26:04] Speaker A: I don't remember that. I just remember jetpacks and samurai robots and stuff. [00:26:09] Speaker B: This is the thing, see, I'm wondering if I've like seen a bit of it and then misremembered it. Cuz it's totally possible. [00:26:18] Speaker A: RoboCop TV series as well. [00:26:20] Speaker B: Yeah, there was. There's an animated one as well. [00:26:25] Speaker A: Cut up and turn into movies. Oh yeah, the RoboCop cartoon as well. Which it's weird when you go back to like some of the old 80s, 90s stuff that was like hardcore 18 violence. There's kids series of it. There's a kid series of RoboCop. There's a kid series of Rambo. [00:26:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:43] Speaker A: It's just. I can't imagine it nowadays. You're not gonna, like, get an 18 film nowadays and go, oh, do you know what this film about Cold Blooded Killer needs? What it needs is a Saturday morning cartoon spin off. [00:26:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Do it with all added films. And I don't mean adult film in that regard. I should really, really should have rephrased that, actually. [00:27:09] Speaker A: The Saturday morning cartoon of Debbie Does Dallas. That's. [00:27:15] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. We don't. Yeah, I really enjoyed this film. I think it's definitely worth a watch. If you haven't seen it. It's a little cheesy in some ways, but I think that works for it because. Just funny. Yeah. Really good film. I. I would. I would give this a good rating of something like 8. Probably [00:27:39] Speaker A: give it a 9. But then again, that's why I chose it. [00:27:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:27:44] Speaker A: Put you through it. [00:27:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, it's nice when a film gets picked and it turns out to be something I enjoy because some of the films we've watched. [00:27:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:54] Speaker B: Every time I say to the missus, oh, I got a film for the podcast, she just gives me this dirty lock as if to say, what are you gonna make me watch now? Oh, there you go. It was all right. When I love. I think that's a no. Yeah, there you go. What would you give her a rating of? Fair enough. She doesn't know. Be fair. My missus is strange in that you could put a really good film on and she'll be. It was all right. See, they're all right. Or crap. Never good. It's all right. Oh, crap. She knows I'm talking about her, [00:28:41] Speaker A: but. [00:28:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Anything else you would like to add about the film before we end? I was gonna go through beat. Through beat, like I tend to do, but obviously we keep getting sidetracked and talk about different parts of the film, so I gave up on that idea. [00:28:53] Speaker A: Well, yeah, I mean, we've done a pretty long one here, really, compared to some of ours, but I suppose it's because we had a lot to say about it. I know for years it was on record as, like having one of the biggest car crashes ever. [00:29:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:07] Speaker A: So that's. That's pretty cool thing about it because, I mean, there is some bits where it's just like car hitting, car hitting. And it's. They're amazing to watch. Yeah. [00:29:14] Speaker B: Yeah. In the. The street chase, cop chase at the end. And probably because there is a lot of cars that crash a lot. Yeah, I really enjoyed this. I would recommend anyone who enjoys a film to give it a look. But that is gonna be us, I believe. Or hopefully we will catch you again in a couple of weeks with another film. Though I have no idea what that's gonna be. J. I'll take care everyone. And bye. Bye. [00:29:51] Speaker A: Bye. [00:29:52] Speaker B: Thank you again for taking part as well. [00:29:53] Speaker A: K. You're more than welcome. [00:29:56] Speaker B: Bye, everyone. You lied to me. It wasn't lies, it was just.