Hate Watching with Dan and Tony
Hate Watching with Dan and Tony
Hate Watching Blues Brothers 2000: When Blues Loses its Soul
What happens when you take a cult classic like "The Blues Brothers," remove its electric star, add a random child, strip away all profanity, and film it entirely on sterile soundstages? You get "Blues Brothers 2000," one of the most bewildering sequel disasters in cinema history.
Our deep dive into this 1998 misfire reveals how profoundly the filmmakers misunderstood what made the original special. The first film thrived on John Belushi's chaotic energy playing against Dan Aykroyd's deadpan delivery, creating an unforgettable duo wreaking havoc through gritty Chicago streets. The sequel, however, leaves Aykroyd adrift without a worthy counterpart, with John Goodman's talents wasted on an undeveloped character.
We explore the bizarre studio mandates that doomed this production from the start – including the requirement for a PG rating and the inexplicable demand to add a child character who disappears from the narrative for stretches at a time. The musical performances, while featuring legendary talents like Aretha Franklin and Erykah Badu, feel disconnected from the story, lacking the organic integration that made the original's numbers so memorable.
The film's most unintentionally hilarious moments deserve special attention: a car that drives underwater while characters casually converse, a face covered in shaving cream somehow functioning as a disguise, and a bizarre voodoo sequence where the characters become zombies for no discernible reason. These elements combine to create what we dubbed "the most sanitized movie ever made" – a sequel that strips away everything edgy and authentic about its predecessor.
Whether you're a Blues Brothers devotee still nursing wounds from this sequel or someone who's never experienced either film, our breakdown will have you laughing at the absurdity while appreciating why the original remains a beloved classic. Subscribe now for more deep dives into films that miss the mark in spectacular fashion!
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How are you? What's going on with you?
Speaker 2:Not much. Yes, you know, got to wash the car today, you know.
Speaker 1:Wow, by yourself. Are you out there in like short shorts and kind of rubbing it down? You know, wax on, wax off, we go to the thing where you Daisy. Dukes.
Speaker 2:We go to the thing where you drive the car into the little cubby hole and then you put the money in the thing and you turn the knobs.
Speaker 1:That's still you, though, right yeah yeah, okay, so you're still doing it right because you got a spray, yeah well shannon.
Speaker 2:Shannon has to do the spray because I'm not going to do it, right in her defense, dan she's probably right. Welcome to Eat Watch. Eat with Dan and Tony. I am Dan, I am Tony. This is the show that dares to go back in time to 1998 to talk about the movies of the day Back in time. This week talking about a movie, yeah, yeah, a movie that was panned instantaneously upon being released.
Speaker 1:As it should have been. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Blues Brothers 2000. 2k 1998, two hours and three minutes. The original Blues Brothers movie two hours and 12 minutes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're not short. What are they? It they yeah.
Speaker 2:It or they.
Speaker 1:You know and I don't. I have not seen the original, since I believe I watched it with my father as a young tyke, one of the few movies that we watched together, but I think I remember it being slow, like paced, slowly paced. It's not bad, I don't think I know what you're saying, but I remember it being very slow paced. It's not yeah, so that makes sense. I feel like you could probably trim 20 minutes out of these movies just by editing scenes quicker I watched a fair amount of the original blues brothers after I watched this movie.
Speaker 2:I was like let me go back and see because you know sure I'm an impartial audience. I can watch things that I liked in the past and I will either still like them or I can be like you know.
Speaker 1:Um yeah we're different in that way.
Speaker 2:It's an incredible movie and I agree with you. I mean it starts with this shot of Detroit from you know, a helicopter shot just showing how grimy, and you know smokestacks blowing shit into the air and you're like it's fitting, they move into it. Yeah, they capture the essence're like this it's fitting, it's.
Speaker 1:You know they, they move into the essence. Yeah, it's very, it's very environmental let me ask you a question, then, since you're fresh on both. I remember them being like cool as shit. Were they cool? Okay well, because it's.
Speaker 2:It's a combination of things.
Speaker 1:They are true agents of chaos. Great, I love that.
Speaker 2:They just like one of the guys they go through all the. It's the same movie as this movie they go through. Get the band members and then do some gigs and then end up at the big, important gig.
Speaker 1:But I assume there's more story in between the numbers. That makes more sense in some way at least. Right, I did not understand what was happening in this movie, dan.
Speaker 2:In the first movie.
Speaker 1:Like I got the general idea like yeah, we're getting the band back together and then we're going to perform a gig to make some money.
Speaker 2:That's kind of what I got In the first movie. They have to make $5,000 to pay off some mortgage debt of the nunner Right because we're on a mission from God.
Speaker 1:Right, they're saving where they grew up, or something.
Speaker 2:The nun is like you know, the orphanage is going to be gone unless they get $5,000. They get the band back together, they do the big show. They get $10,000. $5,000 of it goes to pay for the instruments and pay the band. The other $5,000 goes and then they end up in jail. And then they do Jailhouse Rock in jail and that's the final one. That's perfect. But they're fucking agents of chaos. They right at the beginning they're being chased by the cops and they fucking drive through and destroy an entire mall.
Speaker 1:That's like the only thing I remember. Yeah, which is awesome.
Speaker 2:You watch it and it's insane because they'll just be like driving. You know they'll be hung, you know get out of the. They won't even really care, they're just being like. But that's.
Speaker 1:that's what I mean by they're so cool and collected while they're doing crazy shit. And then in this movie I feel like Ackroyd was like hey guys, remember how we didn't show any emotion and we were like really cool. But like we're just going to do that but not do anything fun with it, I'm just going to not act. For the whole movie Is that good? And everyone's like do whatever you got to do bud.
Speaker 2:I mean Belushi, he was an asshole, but he is an electric presence, yeah. And at one point they go to one of the guys is working as a maitre d' at this fancy restaurant and they go in there and he seats them and then they are just like shit to everybody in the whole restaurant. And at one point Belushi goes over to the one guy next door. It's a man and his wife and he's like and they're three daughters, and he's like how much for the little girl, you know, he's like trying to buy their children. But he's doing that and then his buddy comes over and and he's like he'll switch right back out of it. He's like, yeah, you know, if you don't come, we're gonna keep coming every day and then he'll switch back. So it's, there's, there's levels. This movie had no levels.
Speaker 1:No, it was all just a one the whole way through and I was like, wow, this is a slog. Yeah, I do feel like. You know, I like John Goodman as an actor, obviously not really given anything to do in this movie movie, so there's no one to like bounce off of and bounce isn't the right word because actually I believe like belushi was bouncing off akroyd right and akroyd was more of the straight man. Is that right? Am I remembering that right? Yeah or they both kind of wild no, no, no.
Speaker 2:Akroyd was just like yeah, okay, whatever, you know, yeah, he was so where is the force.
Speaker 1:That's like hitting that immovable object right, like that's what you need. You need that give and take and there's, there, is not, there's, not that. So we just have this one guy that's stiff as a board and it's just wow, what are we doing here? And then we give him a kid. I didn't, I don't know why we gave him a kid.
Speaker 2:That's a terrible choice, so you know spoilers sorry, he's supposed to mentor this kid from the orphanage sort of doesn't.
Speaker 1:By the way, he doesn't do that at all that never happens.
Speaker 2:The kid is not even terrible. No, it's just he should be terrible.
Speaker 1:The kid is just there he needs to be a little devil, just like a little piece of shit kid, and this guy's got to be so fed up with him. But then you know, they bond, they bond through that. Like, do you figure that out? Sometimes I forget the kid's even in the movie, and then he's just back and I'm like, oh, that's right, there's a child, a tiny little child.
Speaker 2:He disappears for 20 to 30 minutes where he literally isn't on screen. They don't even, you don't even know where this fucking kid is there's I.
Speaker 1:I do think it's funny that in the bar they're like, hey, where's the kid? And then the other is I don't know, and it's just like, yeah, either do we. Why is he in the movie, which I do know the answer to that, by the way oh, what's the answer to?
Speaker 2:why is it the?
Speaker 1:movie. I mean, I don't know the full answer, but apparently the studio was like you can't make this movie unless there's a kid in it. What does that mean? That's what they've said.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you so I was reading interviews with um landis, yeah, uh, he, he was on.
Speaker 1:I don't remember what he was doing, but it was like 2001 or something. He was doing reviews after the movie came out and was trashed and he's like we wrote a terrific script, then Universal Studios eviscerated it. That was a strange experience because the first thing they said was that it had to be PG, which meant they couldn't use profanity, which is basically cutting off the Blues Brothers nuts, which is awesome. And he's like bottom line. They said you have to have a child, you have to have one why? Like he doesn't say if they gave a why. But then apparently Ackroyd was just kind of like yeah, we'll do whatever they say, we don't really care, it's about the music.
Speaker 1:As long as we get the music that I love and we get some of these performances on tape, like that was his big thing, was like kind of putting this into the ether of like these, these great performers captured on film for eternity, and so the movie be damned, from what I can understand, I don't know well, I mean, that would be great if you had a bunch of great performances. Sure, I feel like there's one or two.
Speaker 2:There's a couple yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Not as many as the first one I remember, I feel.
Speaker 2:But that's okay. Oh, the Aretha Franklin one in the first movie I rewatched. I rewatched, yeah, I think I watched like the rewatched, yeah, I think. I watched like the first 20 minutes. And then I watched Aretha Franklin, and then I watched the big final number Um, and the Aretha Franklin number is like just one of the best. And the the Ray Charles number yeah, ray Charles owns the store that, uh, the place that has the instruments.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, in the first one it was amusing to have the band members, like, do a little bit of acting.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And this one, it just you're just like we do not have, we do not need these guys ever talking.
Speaker 1:No, and it's actually almost more fun if they don't. You know what I mean. Like they don't have to be fully formed people which they're not anyhow, obviously. Yeah, but it's fun if they're just in the background and do like looks, you know, and even in like um the restaurant when they that was.
Speaker 2:That was their best one, but how they were in that restaurant was the best, because they don't do a lot of talking.
Speaker 1:It's more just, you know what I mean like, oh, we're like reacting. We're like, okay, well, we're just gonna eat our food again. That's funny, that's great, that's all we need them for. It's a good thing. Yeah, I don't know yeah, some wild stuff.
Speaker 2:They overuse those guys a because they're all real band members. They're all they're. You know they are. It's the same guys from the first movie, it's you know, yeah, it is the band which is cool. Yeah, it's the same guys from the first movie, it's you know, it is the band which is cool. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, that's great, but yeah, okay. So the studio forced the kid on them.
Speaker 1:They didn't understand how to use the kid and chose not to care about the kid and instead of yeah, I think it's one of those things like, instead of incorporating the notes and doing a rewrite and like fixing the movie, they're just like, yeah, just put the fucking kid in there, I don't care, it doesn't matter. As long as we hit these musical numbers, I don't really care what happens.
Speaker 2:And you know the long lost brother. That just didn't work at all.
Speaker 1:I didn't even. I still don't even understand it. She had she slept with his dad. What happened?
Speaker 2:Cab Calloway, the guy from Terminator. Yep, no, cab Calloway was an old time vaudeville. Mini the moocher. Mini the moocher, he does a really great song in the first movie, he worked at the orphanage and taught them to love the blues. So the concept is he went out at some point and impregnated a woman he's the guy from the first one.
Speaker 1:When they go and visit the nun, he's at that place right, and they're like hey, you taught us the harmonica. You're the only family we got that guy.
Speaker 2:I remember that guy, okay, yeah so that him so he, of course, has passed away they can't have him in the movie. So the way that they could connect to him is by making the police commander guy his child, and then they're trying to sort of get him to join the band.
Speaker 1:You said it as if that was the only option. Dan, I'm going to posit that there were other options. I'm just going to throw that out there. Could have done it another way. I didn't make any sense. Didn't make any sense, Didn't understand it. Love Dyson, I just don't understand.
Speaker 2:And you know, whatever the actor guy that played him is is OK, but he, just he is not up to it in any way shape or form. And Goodman Goodman isn't up to it in any way shape or form. He did Well, he gave him no character.
Speaker 1:They gave him absolutely nothing. He had two lines where it was like oh, there's John Goodman and I assume that was just improvised, because they're not like lines that matter. It was like a tag to a scene that I remember him like saying something funny. I was like hey, do that. Where's that guy? It's not here. He's not here at all. Yeah, I don't know, man, it's weird.
Speaker 2:They seem to think the conflict was from the weird people that were chasing them and it was like no, and in the original movie that's not really it either. It's just them getting into situations and the situations going off the rails and then it's just them being cool and that's fine.
Speaker 1:That doesn't happen here.
Speaker 2:I love it let's talk about this movie for a couple minutes.
Speaker 1:Let's do it, let's move on Just a little bit. This will be a nice short episode. How about that, dan?
Speaker 2:That's my plan. 18 years later, we're in a prison in Illinois. We've got a blues song. Here comes Elwood. He's been released. This is the best scene in the movie. I think One of the better scenes Because they don't do a lot of talking, they just show us things. But it's completely in the first movie. It's Jake getting out of jail and then Elwood goes and picks him up. He goes outside, he stands there. Jake is not there to pick him up. Eventually the warden has to go. A great little scene where they're like you didn't tell him, no, you didn't tell him. Go down there and tell him what's happened and you're like it's not going to get better than this.
Speaker 1:And it didn't. So you were right. You're absolutely right, Although I kind of had an inkling that we were going to go pretty far south when not the warden. But whoever he talked to in that scene was like did nobody tell him about Jake? The guy that responds was so bad at acting. I don't know who he is, Maybe he was connected to something, but when he said his line I was like-oh, this is the caliber of people we're getting.
Speaker 2:We're in a little bit of trouble here yeah, the wardens played by frank oz, who is warden, was great. Yeah, who is um one of the muppets guys he like does oh yeah, okay, does he do. He might do fozzie bear, I don't. I don't know frank costas, but he does tons of wakaer walker. Yeah, so, and he Frank, I was directed tons of movies, so it's a real person. I love great stuff.
Speaker 2:So they go down there. He bows his head and then this hot girl in a red car picks him up and takes him to the city. Who is she? She's a stripper that works at the strip club.
Speaker 1:No, I know that. Why is she smart ass? I?
Speaker 2:don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't. She said a reason. I do remember her giving an explanation, but I remember going what, what? I didn't write it down, I don't know it doesn't matter down, I don't know it doesn't matter. I think she just picks him up and says that she, so they.
Speaker 2:She drops him off at an impound lot or at a car sales lot and then he wants a uh, a police cruiser, because in the first movie they had a police cruiser. Yeah, it's five hundred dollars. He needs $500.
Speaker 1:Now here's a question. Yes, and maybe I'm trying. I mean, it's been a while, but I remember there being a bit about the cop car right, because one of them didn't like it and one of them was like, no, it's cool, or something.
Speaker 2:I don't totally remember he picks up Jake and's like Where's the blues mobile?
Speaker 1:You know, because it was like Where's the caddy?
Speaker 2:And he's all like I traded it for a mic. He's like you traded it for a mic. That's right.
Speaker 1:And he's like, oh yeah, I get that. Oh, okay, there's a bit about it. Why isn't there a bit about this car?
Speaker 2:Because there's no one to do a bit with.
Speaker 1:Hold on. If you're recreating the movie, which is pretty much what they're doing, wouldn't you want to at least follow a similar joke structure?
Speaker 2:You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Like he's going to an impound lot getting a car to match the old car. Like there's got to be a bit somewhere in there.
Speaker 2:What were we talking about? Blues got to be a bit somewhere in there. Well, what? What were we talking about? Blues brothers 2000? No, I was listening. I was listening.
Speaker 2:I listened to this one comedy podcast where they talked to comedians and they were talking to this one um somebody from rupaul, benda lacrim, and he was saying because I think it was as him, I don't know whatever, I get confused um, he was saying cause I think it was as him, I don't know Whatever, I get confused Um, he was talking about comedy, he got. He got so incensed. Maybe she got incensed because of all the comedians that just do lines from RuPaul's drag race and think that that's a joke.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's what it is.
Speaker 2:It's like you go and just get the same card. That's not the joke. You got to set up the joke to make it.
Speaker 1:I think it's worse because it was your joke. You're just repeating your joke without a joke. That makes it even worse. That's just sad. That's just sad to me. Like you can't even come up with a joke, what are we doing?
Speaker 2:Well, you don't understand your joke I don't understand the joke.
Speaker 1:How about that?
Speaker 2:yeah, and then yeah, real sad they really don't.
Speaker 2:A buddy of mine went and saw the spinal tap, the new spinal tap oh, the new yeah and they said that michael mckean he said that michael mckean's characters character is not even his character from the first movie, who was arrogant Because he kind of played a bit of Paul McCartney, a bit of Lennon with the wife and all that and all this arrogance, and he's like he didn't even play, him arrogant and you're like how could you not play the character? That's all you have to go on.
Speaker 1:Yikes, should I see that? Uh, did he like it at all? Oh, he said it was terrible oh no, I guess we'll do it for this show only 83 minutes long, though hey, there you go in and out. Love that appreciate you three minutes, that's beautiful, beautiful timing. Anything under 90 is like A plus.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you can't make the same. You know, if you're going to make the same joke, you got to, you got to. Well, you have to. You have to surprise us, right? Yes, that's the idea of comedy. Yeah, I was like I'm going to go get the same car. We're going to drive around in the same car.
Speaker 1:It's like that's not funny and I like where you're going. Okay, and nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 2:We got to have that car Because they were in that car.
Speaker 1:Because we were in the first one, so let's just bring it in. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's pretty weird. So then he goes to the place the orphanage there's Mother Mary, Find out who died. He curses and she beats him.
Speaker 1:Same joke that was in the first one, but much funnier in the first one, but I remember Because you had two characters in the first one.
Speaker 2:So he beat on one, beat on the other. This one, she's just beating him. You're like, you're going to, you're going to stop If it's just it doesn't blue.
Speaker 1:She fall down the stairs or something. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:He totally falls down the stairs. I just felt like there was no commitment to getting beat. I know that sounds weird, but like he wasn't, he was hardly even reacting to getting whipped, like I don't.
Speaker 2:He just didn't feel game for his own movie and that's weird to me I think that when you're a young comedian, you will do anything for the bit you will. You live or die for comedy, yeah and when you're when you're an old man. You know how long is this? 20 years. It's like 20 years later he does not have that same commitment. He lives in a big posh house. He does what he wants, yeah that's true, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just maybe don't do it, you know.
Speaker 2:Unless, they made a ton of money off of this, which I feel like they probably didn't. You think so oh yeah, all right, I mean, that's something they threw money at him Right, they always yeah, they were like ah, blues Brothers, we'll make another one of those we make. We sell this many of these DVDs. We're going to sell 10 times that. You don't. You're not that's not how it works, guys because you put a fucking kid in the movie and made it pg.
Speaker 1:We didn't even mention that this movie is pg. The other movies rated r right for cursing yeah, probably there's.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, I just any nudity or anything no, I don't.
Speaker 1:I mean I don't remember. I if there was kudos to my dad for letting me watch it when I was a kid, good for you, pops, um, but I don't think they're. I think it's pretty clean, other than they just curse a lot because and if there was kudos to my dad for letting me watch it when I was a kid, good for you, pops, but I don't think they're. I think it's pretty clean, other than they just curse a lot because they're cool, because cursing is cool kids.
Speaker 2:Okay, it kind of is. It kind of is. So we talk about Curtis and then we they're like the head lady is like okay, you're going to be a mentor to Buster. Why he has that name, I do not know. And the kid comes in. I wrote the kid's a wiseass. He must have actually said something wiseass-y at the beginning.
Speaker 1:Aykroyd says it. I don't remember what the kid said to get that reaction but Dan Aykroyd goes the kid's a wiseass and then he's never a wiseass again in the movie. I don't know if he was the first time. Should have rewatched that scene just to see if he was a wiseass. But he's definitely not for the rest of the movie.
Speaker 2:But he should be. He's got to be squirt gunning him so he looks like he's pissed himself. He's gotta be doing everything.
Speaker 1:He's gotta be shooting crap and you have that locked and loaded.
Speaker 2:Oh did I. I think they did that. They did that in raising arizona. I think I think they did.
Speaker 1:I'm sure, I'm sure I've seen him before. I just love that. That's right where your head went the first time. Just make it look like a peed himself. That's classic. You gotta do that shit.
Speaker 2:It's totally in Raising Arizona, because you hear the squirt, squirt, squirt. Oh you're right, it all went down there. It's like that's fucking funny. Do that Steal the?
Speaker 1:hat and kids are funny because they're dicks. Kids don't care. You know kids are kids. Let them be kids. This kid's not a kid.
Speaker 2:He's not a kid, he's not funny, he doesn't do anything.
Speaker 1:He dances one time in the Aretha Franklin number and I thought that was pretty good. His dancing was okay, I assume that's how he got. I feel like that's how he got the part. Good for him, by the way.
Speaker 2:thing I'm saying is the kid's fault I mean, is he a better dancer than dan akroyd?
Speaker 1:yeah, of course but again it feels like he's not trying. Yeah, because if you watch goodman not a great dancer, but he's. He's at least trying in the movie when he dances like he's you know he's moving his body. Akroyd just like barely moves, and I'm sure that's a character choice because he's like I'm a cool guy. No, no, no In the first movie the dancing is. They're dancing.
Speaker 2:Belushi's incredible, of course.
Speaker 1:Because he's that's a given.
Speaker 2:He's both. He has some steps and things and he just yeah. He just you know that guy, he laid it all out there laid it all out there.
Speaker 2:He left it on the left, it on the floor. He is unafraid. Yeah, all right, p buddy. Okay, so uh, he ditches the kid, the kid follows him and we set up a really interesting dynamic where he just like leaves the kid and then the kids at the next place that he's at. We never do this bit again. You're like you have to do that bit two or three times 100% you have to do that bit.
Speaker 1:Also, it makes it confusing when they're like you kidnapped him. And I don't understand, dan, because she gave him the kid right. Yeah, she was like you got to watch after the kid, that's your job. And then she's like you took the kid. I don't understand. I'm super confused. Yeah, super weird. It should just be like a kid in the orphanage that just follows him. Then, if that's the bit you're doing, that he kidnaps a kid. It shouldn't be a kid that she literally tells him to mentor and watch after. That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2:The mentoring thing doesn't make any sense. It should just be a kid that just follows it. It's so easy, it's instantaneously easy.
Speaker 1:And then it's easier for him to be a piece of shit kid, because the kid's just getting into trouble. He's just doing whatever the fuck he wants. It's fine, that's great. I don't know.
Speaker 2:I think the other things that the kids do, the terrible kids in Raising Arizona. The one kid writes a crayon on their wall fart, fart.
Speaker 1:Yep, no, that is absolutely Of course. You love that joke. I mean, that's so funny. Oh damn, that's so fucking funny.
Speaker 2:You know it's so stupid, and that's how comedy is, you just like?
Speaker 1:do the stupid thing.
Speaker 2:But no, we'll talk about the. So, he goes to see the police guy. Police commander tells him the whole story, which takes like 40 minutes. You want to kill yourself.
Speaker 1:No reason. Yeah, because, like we know, he sort of gets angry.
Speaker 2:He's like I'm angry, now I'm calling my mom. Oh, it's true. Okay, yeah, so weird, such an awkward's true, okay, yeah, so weird.
Speaker 1:Such an awkward scene Doesn't make any sense. And like, would his mom really come clean? She's been lying to the family for 40, 50 years, right, and he just calls her up and is like, hey, is this my dad? Yeah, yeah, that's your dad. I thought I told you that what's happening.
Speaker 2:Well, more importantly, you're giving him this incredibly emotional scene that he's playing with a fucking receiver Right.
Speaker 1:Nobody's on the other end. Spoiler alert everybody. He's talking to himself in that room.
Speaker 2:They did not hire an actress to be on the other line of that phone, and that's the whole thing. You know that flight risk movie that we did is like now on, like Hulu or someplace.
Speaker 1:We should have waited.
Speaker 2:And I'm like, oh my God, flight risk.
Speaker 1:I love that movie. Man, that was some wild stuff.
Speaker 2:I'm Marky Mark. Oh, I'm going to rape you.
Speaker 1:Everybody, but everybody. It doesn't matter who it is, he just wants to rape you. I don't know, that was a wild film.
Speaker 2:They throw him out. Buster stole the cop's wallet.
Speaker 1:Wallet yeah, yeah Great.
Speaker 2:Get him into mischief, but I mean, they didn't even do a thing with that. Nobody cared.
Speaker 1:And then they return it in a paper bag Should have like smacked the kid, then taken the money. You can't steal kid. I'm going to pocket this money and we'll give it back.
Speaker 2:Do a bit, so they got the $500. They go and buy the car. Who, by the way? Oh great, do a bit, so they got the $500.
Speaker 1:They go and buy the car, by the way, who carries five crisp $100 bills in their wallet. I don't care what year it is. Shut up, dave, you don't even have $500, okay. What do you mean? I'm sorry, that was so mean. You have $500. You do what? The hell was that? What do you mean? I'm sorry, that was so mean. You have $500.
Speaker 2:You do. What the hell was that? No, when I went to my big sale, I had $1,400 in cash in my wallet.
Speaker 1:Okay, but you were going to possibly buy something. You had a reason to have that, this guy just went to work as a police commissioner with $500 in his pocket.
Speaker 2:Why? Let me put it this way as soon as I got home, I put that money away.
Speaker 1:You gotta hide that again, because otherwise it's gonna go bye-bye.
Speaker 2:I did not. So weird, I did not keep that money in my wallet. At most I'll have $200 in my wallet, that's it.
Speaker 1:I keep maybe $8 in my wallet. It's like it's my. If I have to pay with something with cash, I'll be like this is all I got, guys. Sorry, otherwise no cash.
Speaker 2:This is not buying you a sandwich. Okay, so they got the car. They're going to go to Willie's Stripster Club because the girl that picked him up works there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I still don't get it, but it's fine.
Speaker 2:Willie was in the band, uh, and we do a song called cheaper. To keep her I wrote question mark weird, they dance with strippers um, yeah, there's two. They do two songs in the strip club, the second one, I did. I thought I didn't like, but I've had it going through my head so I guess I liked it.
Speaker 1:The second one's the one with John Goodman right. What about a?
Speaker 2:Fox no, I don't think it's him, it's the.
Speaker 1:what about him?
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Yep, yep, uh, yeah, no, that one's, that one's that one's all right.
Speaker 2:It's fun. I ended up liking that song. This one is weird, I guess, because Belushi can't sing. Is that why it was weird, ackroyd?
Speaker 1:Ackroyd can't sing.
Speaker 2:So I mean he supposedly can, right? No, I watched the first movie. He can't sing in that one either.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay. Well then there you go. Problem solved, I guess.
Speaker 2:Belushi does lead on every song that I watched.
Speaker 1:As he should, because he was great.
Speaker 2:Akroyd would be like someone to love. He would do that.
Speaker 1:Doing the okay. Yeah, you do the deep voice.
Speaker 2:And the follow up. Everybody, somebody to love. He didn't carry the water on any of the songs he doesn't do the lead. He just does. He could do a bass, kind of a fake bass, which isn't really you know. It's got a fake singing, yeah, and that's what he does, because when they do Rawhide, rawhide, I think he just does the sort of you know.
Speaker 1:That part. Yeah, I mean yeah, then I guess. No, I. I guess you answered your own question there, dan. I guess he can't do it. Maybe that, maybe that should be a joke. You know, like he, he doesn't sing the lead ever so like he's doing a song, but he's just singing the backing vocals and there's no lead. I don't know, that was a sketch somebody did one time oh was it okay.
Speaker 2:I definitely saw that sketch one time where they'd be like, oh, but you know, it was like four people thinking they only did one part, and then they like empty, all these empty spaces it's like funny, well.
Speaker 1:Well, I guess it's already been done.
Speaker 2:Don't do that, but do something different, maybe yes, uh, during the song he watches these russians shake down willie kind of. You don't really see it, but somehow he just gives him money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not really a shakedown.
Speaker 2:He just gives him the money I mean it is a shakedown, but you know it's, it doesn't seem like a shakedown he doesn't seem upset about it, he seems pretty complicit, you know uh, so then we have that song number one In the bank, alright we did it.
Speaker 2:We see, you know, our transition Scene is to just go back to the cops, because that's during the day, whatever. Then we go back, the Russians come back, and so Dan Aykroyd's going to take care of it. He gets them drunk, then he drives them to an alley and he ties them up and he leaves them naked with a letter.
Speaker 1:Yep how would that possibly get rid of anybody? That's not intimidating. What's that gonna do to the mob?
Speaker 2:well, he then. He then goes back there and explains what doing that, how they're just a bunch of Russians who came over here and he gives this big explanation, which was sort of a thing he did as a character. You know it's sort of like you know spitting some knowledge and you know that's what his character has to do.
Speaker 1:That's like his shtick, though right. That's kind of his. That's like his shtick, though right, because Dragnet, when he did the Dragnet movie, like he was very his monotone and just like spouting fat, fat, fat, fat. I don't know, should we?
Speaker 2:do that movie. I remember seeing that movie and walking out of it going like what the fuck did I just sit through.
Speaker 1:Maybe we should, I don't know. I haven't seen that in a long time. That's Tom Hanks, right as the other. No clue. No clue, I know. Well, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:I mean we could do pretty much all the Dan Aykroyd movies, because they're all generally pretty terrible.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, you're right about that.
Speaker 2:The problem is he acts like his explanation is why this is going to make them go away. Yeah, and like his explanation is why this is going to make them go away. Yeah, and it's not, and it's not. No, you can't do that. When he speaks like that, you can't speak with authority and not be talking with authority, because then no one's going to ever trust you. Yeah, and he does, and it's stupid, and we don't. And then we go to the Russian social club. In the first movie it was Nazis. It was the Nazis.
Speaker 1:Right, which makes sense. They're not good.
Speaker 2:And they were funny.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's great. These guys aren't funny at all. I didn't remember them being funny, so that's hey, good on you, Henry Gibson who's this little short white-haired comedian was the head of the. Nazis.
Speaker 2:And he would say stuff and you know, Henry Gibson is funny, they hired someone funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And he was funny. That helps, as opposed to Daryl Hammond, who isn't funny.
Speaker 1:I did laugh one time.
Speaker 2:One of Daryl Hammond's.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's his last lie in the movie.
Speaker 2:Oh, there's one line in the boat scene, we'll talk about it. So we meet the Russians and they're you know. Oh, they read the note that he left, which is stay away from Willys, the masked Avenger.
Speaker 1:Avenger. Yeah, what's that about?
Speaker 2:I have no idea.
Speaker 1:That's not a callback to the first one. We don't think that's too bad.
Speaker 2:Maybe it is Some part that. I didn't watch again, but I don't remember that. So you're just like what. I don't even understand what that is.
Speaker 1:He's not even wearing a mask, so that's confusing.
Speaker 2:So they're going to destroy Willie's Now Mac performs using. Uh. So they're gonna destroy willies. Now mac, oh, mac performs. He does this song. Oh, I wrote real song. There you go. But then I wrote yes, then I wrote not good, but so I didn't like it the first time.
Speaker 1:But it's a real song. It's not good, but it's stuck in my head.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a real roller coaster for you then the bad guys attack with machine guns, they get buster out of there, they throw down, they burn the place up.
Speaker 1:They save Buster.
Speaker 2:And we have a chase and during the chase Ackroyd reaches into the bag or he gets what's in the reach of the bag and he pulls out these carpet tacks. He's like what are these carpet tacks? He's like what are these carpet tacks? He's like those aren't carpet tacks, those are drywall nails.
Speaker 1:Because that's a hilarious joke.
Speaker 2:I don't get it.
Speaker 1:I don't get it either, but I'm sure it's a joke because it is set up as joke structure. I know that for a fact and they put it in the movie, so somebody thought it was funny and did not explain it to us, because I it's definitely a joke. I just don't know why it's funny but he said that they were.
Speaker 2:He thought they were carpet tax. Then he said they were drywall nails. Right, that was how they structured it, that's was it. And then they were carpet tacks.
Speaker 1:Oh, were they? Yeah, I don't even know. I couldn't tell you what either of those things really looks like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Carpet tacks are typically shorter. They have big, wide heads and they're really sharp on the front. Drywall nails are yeah, because he said drywall nails are yes. He said drywall. No. He said drywall. What's a dry? There's no such. I don't know what a drywall nail is actually, now that I think about it.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm not gonna know because I don't know what any of these things are maybe carpetechs are shorter, drywall nails are longer, I don't know, but it's like that's not a joke, anybody understands it's not even.
Speaker 1:I don't even know if it's a joke, unless they're the same thing. We're going to need some sort of carpenter to get on here and let us know what this joke is. But it doesn't play out in the movie anyhow, because he just pours it off and then they drive over. It would work with either of those things. So like, I don't like. Does that matter? I don't know, so does it matter, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I think the car gets totally destroyed. It flattens the tires and something funny happens with the car.
Speaker 1:That was kind of funny it flips, it explodes and flips upside down. I laughed but I was like what is happening. I don't understand.
Speaker 2:The other bit that they did was the parking bit where elwood parks by going really fast and then does us turn into the spot. It's cool, man. They did that in the first movie, so here we do it in the second movie got it, and then we do it a second time in the second movie, where we're like we got it. You have to. You have to elevate your jokes but it's still cool.
Speaker 1:The stunt driving is impressive. That's it. I was just like, wow, someone's really good at that. Imagine what they could do with those skills and entertain me. That would be cool. We don't have to do that in this movie.
Speaker 2:As they're driving away, we have Buster sitting in the back there. He's inviting uh mac to join the band and buster is really sleepy. He's really sleepy, and then he lays down and falls asleep like it's a joke and he does the hands the prayer hands into the?
Speaker 1:yeah, I don't did I miss something?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I don't understand. Why is this kid getting sleepy? Why is he falling asleep in the back of the car? No one's paying attention to him. Why do we have a dedicated shot of him falling asleep in the back of the car? I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1:Neither do I, but I made a note that he does the prayer hands into the sleep, just like this.
Speaker 2:I don't know why it was so weird. We do the firefighters at Willie's and the cops come to Willie's and then they find a thing like a sign for the Blues Brothers Band.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what it was.
Speaker 2:They already knew they were the Blues Brothers and they had a Blues Brothers Band. He's what it was. They already knew they were the Blues Brothers and they had a Blues Brothers band. He asked them to join the band.
Speaker 1:I don't understand. This is not new information, for sure.
Speaker 2:So now we're getting the band back together. We're going to have a number of scenes where we convince one or two band members to come back. We start with the Aretha Franklin who has sold her coffee shop and bought a Mercedes dealership, and she does the Respect song.
Speaker 1:But it doesn't fit in. They really shoehorn these songs in and don't really build a cohesive in and out. Was the first one the same way? I'm just curious out.
Speaker 2:It was the first one. The same way, I'm just curious, they go there and the the she's the girlfriend of one of the players, and then the other guys, the dishwasher, and then it's you know, she's. She's like yeah, it's not respect, it's the freedom song. Freedom, freedom, freedom. It's that song, freedom, freedom, freedom. It's that song and it's basically just telling him he's got to be kind of a good man to her and he's abandoning her.
Speaker 2:And he's like woman, I got to do my thing. At the end he takes off his thing and then the other guy, saxophone player, is the dishwasher. He's sitting there. She's like just go, just's sitting there. She's like just go, just go. And it's like perfect. You're just like, yeah, you know she, she had to like kind of give her pitch, but she knows that you know the, the clarion call of the band, yeah, is gonna take precedence over you know, being a frank cook and you you're like oh. I understand that.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I don't understand this one at all.
Speaker 2:She doesn't need him. She owns a Mercedes dealership. He doesn't do anything.
Speaker 1:She's doing great, she is doing great.
Speaker 2:And the other guy doesn't even sell cars, so he's worthless.
Speaker 1:Right, and I assume he works off of some sort of commission, so he's actually struggling. He needs the band, he's gotta go. Yeah, I just like the, the musical numbers. There's no, there's no transition in and out. It's just all of a sudden you're like in one and you're like whoa, whoa, what are we, what happened, what are we doing? And then I think, is it this one? That just no, this one is fine, I think it's the next one when they're in the office just ends, and then we're in a different scene with no transition. Now it's just like songs over and we're in a completely different location. I was like what is happening? At least this one? She does the you gotta go, you gotta go or whatever, and then they go, but it's just. They just feel like it's just checkbox, like we want to do this song, this song, this song and this song, and I don't really care how we do them, let's just put it in the movie.
Speaker 2:They go to the talk radio show where they're getting two guys and there's a funny bit where he calls in and it starts cursing on the air.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it was pg, so they they couldn't let him do it too much yeah, the trumpet player is a funeral director.
Speaker 2:He's at the. He's at the. They're at the cemetery where I think one of the russians the russians are there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like a nephew or something, something. I was just like what is happening? That seems like a fairly sad thing, by the way, but I, I don't know super weird, and they're just there and then they yell and they're like well, now the russians know we're here, we gotta go but I think this was the funniest line. Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:Okay, Somebody says towards them what's with the monkey? And then the other person says that's Buster, Because Buster's wearing the Blue Feather shirt.
Speaker 1:What's with the?
Speaker 2:monkey, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:I think this is the scene where John Goodman says something about a dick as well, which I thought I laughed at.
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't know, I'm pretty sure Didn't write that down.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure it happened.
Speaker 2:Now we go to get Murph at Ed's Love Exchange.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is the one, Okay. Well, here's what I'll say dan.
Speaker 2:First of all, they're clearly on a set in like a warehouse. It seemed like this is the point at which you realize every song that we're going to have and every environment we're going to have is going to be on the same sound stage. They're going to tear it down, build it up again and everything's going to be, and there's only going to be X amount of people at all times, and the environment is always going to be complete. This is the word I wrote Sanitize this is the most sanitized movie I've ever seen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I tried to put it into my own words, but yours is better. I was like everything feels clean and too sharp and it doesn't make sense with where they are, something like that. But what you're saying is correct, yeah.
Speaker 2:It just doesn't.
Speaker 1:Nothing feels like a world that is lived in Nope, which is a huge problem. It's not good.
Speaker 2:When they go and get the musical instruments from Raze and they're leaving in the Bluesmobile, yeah, the shot is from the ground. They put the camera on the ground. There's all these people on the street, there is trash in the street, yeah, as the Bluesmobile pulls away and you're like that is the difference between these two movies is they don't make an environment that is interesting, they just make an environment that was or real.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, completely unreal, yeah. And then, so this song is obviously a real song and it's a fine song. I enjoy the song, it's fine. And then we just when it's over, we just cut. I don't even know if he joined the band, really, because he's like I've got this going on, then they sing the song and then we're just gone. So I assume he joined the band, but there is no moment where at the end they're like all right, let's go, friends, they just cut away. We're just in the next scene. It's very weird.
Speaker 2:And then we have the kind of concept of women where we went from an African-American man running a strip club, which they destroyed, to two African-American men exploiting a bunch of women in a sex line.
Speaker 1:It's like Very weird. I mean, if it was. Hey, but that's Detroit baby. I don't know, it just was weird.
Speaker 2:It was weird yeah.
Speaker 1:No, it's bizarre. And also there were some young women with gray wigs in the scene. Did you notice that? Like they're supposed to be old women but they're very clearly not old women and their hair is super fake and they're dancing really nicely and I was like why even do that? They don't have to be old women nicely. And I was like why even do that? They don't have to be old women, they could be any kind of woman, it doesn't, that doesn't matter. It's very weird yeah it's a weird.
Speaker 2:It's a weird scene in a weird movie uh, they go see steve lawrence who's a tour booker, and he's like okay, I've got you a thing at the county fair, but you also have to audition to get in the contest. And he's like I can't tell the band that we have to audition because no reason?
Speaker 1:That's it, because dot, dot, dot.
Speaker 2:And then that never even leads to anything.
Speaker 1:No sure it doesn't, Because they don dot dot and then that never even leads to anything. No sure doesn't, Because they don't really care. They're there, Then they perform later. It's fine. They do a fine job, by the way. Great stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Great stuff. The Russians do a slideshow about the Blues Brothers so they know who they're looking for. They're going to have to play at the Kentucky County Fair. Oh, this scene. They're staying at a hotel. They're about to leave. For some reason, instead of sleeping in the hotel, Buster now has an entire apartment in the trunk of the car.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, very confusing stuff.
Speaker 2:John Popper, the blues traveler, comes over there and it's like, why don't you come see us play? And then he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, we're gonna, we'll come see you play. Then they just drive off, and then they don't.
Speaker 1:Then they don't. He's like you start and I'll follow you. And then they just drive off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't get it, I think, because he's kind of a dick in the first movie, you know. So it was like you know, yeah sure what is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, whatever, yeah, we're absolutely.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we'll be right behind you, uh-huh, and belushi can sell that right. He's gonna be like, oh yeah, oh we're, we're gonna be right behind you. It's gonna be great get the hell out of here.
Speaker 1:You know right, but that's not the vibe, like elwood's, just like yeah, well, why don't you start? I'll be right behind you, and then he just drives away when I was like this is really weird, this doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2:And then we get blues traveler playing a just terrible song, while there's a montage of them driving driving yep very exciting stuff.
Speaker 1:and then it ends with him going back to the same parking lot and going Elwood, Like what? Why is that in the movie? Very strange. I mean, they clearly shot that just at the same moment. They're just like alright, everybody clear. Now you look for Elwood and alright, wrapped out, let's move on. Good job.
Speaker 2:Go do your song.
Speaker 1:So weird.
Speaker 2:The nuns call the police. They go to Bob's Country Kitchen to eat. This one police lady sees the car, goes inside and then, oh man.
Speaker 1:The best part of the movie.
Speaker 2:What's the best part of the movie? Elwood covered in shaving cream the best part of the movie. What's the best part of the?
Speaker 1:movie Elwood covered in shaving cream. Is that the best part of the movie? You like that. It's the best part of the movie. It's so good. It's so good.
Speaker 2:What a good bit, what a great bit this is. You're kidding, right?
Speaker 1:I am kidding, I don't get it, dan. So here's folks at home who haven't seen the movie here. What happens? They're all in the bathroom. The kid's brushing his teeth. John goodman is shaving too quickly. It scared me uh. I don't know if you felt the same way, but I was like bro, slow down, you're gonna slit your throat open. You're just like very weird, uh.
Speaker 2:And then is it almost like he's not really shaving? Because he's definitely not shaving for real.
Speaker 1:There's no, there is no blade in this razor because he is just flicking it up his chin dangerously. Uh, elwood comes out of the bathroom or the the stall, steals toilet paper which never comes back. I don't understand why. The pocket's a little toilet paper and then he opens the door and sees the cops there. This is where the bit. This is the greatest bit in history. So he comes back and he's like kid, you're not going to like what I do next. I don't remember exactly what it is, but he warns the kid about how he's going to see a bad side of him. Now Doesn't make any sense. Then he covers his head in shaving cream Like a big ball. It's like he's a snowman, like a huge snowman head. That's exactly what it is. The kid runs out screaming Ah, ah, it's trouble, the good man comes out.
Speaker 1:The good man comes out, it's like it's a disease, he's got a disease. It's not a disease, this is not a real thing. And then he just comes out and it's like ah, I've got stuff on my face and everyone just looks at him. The police are just like don't know what to do. They're dumbfounded and then they just walk out the door. What the fuck is going on?
Speaker 2:this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. It's a hilarious bit. Well, the whole thing in the first movie, elwood, like at one point, like when they do this country kitchen scene there, this is the one where they're playing this country and western bar and the only country and western song they know is rawhide. So they play rawhide for 10 times. But the other guys show up that were supposed to be playing there and so they know that they're going to come after them. So he sprays glue, spray glue on there on the accelerator so that when they come after him it'll fuck him over.
Speaker 2:Oh, sure, so the whole idea is that he, he, he uses, you know, comedy bit things A similar method.
Speaker 1:He's basically like I need an aerosol for the bit, is that what? Yeah, you know, I got to spray something here, guys bit.
Speaker 2:Is that what we're talking?
Speaker 1:about yeah, you know, I got to spray something here. Guys, what do you got? What do you got? Let's talk about it. It's got to come in a can and I got to spray it. I don't understand. Yeah, I don't know either it's so terrible.
Speaker 1:It's the dumbest thing I think I've ever seen in my life. I seen in my life. Uh, I don't know, but it works. It works brilliantly for some strange reason. I mean, the cops would just tackle him right like you, just tackle this guy. There's, there's nothing on earth that would make your face turn into a giant state puff marshmallow, right. So he's clearly just doing something. Just tackle him.
Speaker 2:it just would walk off, for arrest him Be pretty straightforward.
Speaker 1:So weird, so bizarre.
Speaker 2:They escape the FBI, and everything sets up a roadblock. And so then, what do they do? They drive underwater.
Speaker 1:Is there something this crazy in the first movie that you can think of? Because this is insane.
Speaker 2:They do a bridge, jump at one point to show how good the car is. Actually, that's what they do. That's the final thing of proving the car is good. There's a bridge thing, and so he's like I'm going to show.
Speaker 1:For the boats.
Speaker 2:when they raise for the boats, he doesn't say anything, he just floors it and they go, and then they fly over, and then Jake, says you know point proven or you know whatever he says something like okay cool, yeah, this worked.
Speaker 1:I love this car. This is a good car. Yeah, that's not what we're doing.
Speaker 2:He made it driving under, roll up the windows and in the middle of it you say what's he say?
Speaker 1:It's like how long can we stay in here? And his response is how long can you hold? Your breath. They're not holding their breaths. Now, dan, they're talking. They're not holding their breath at all. They're breathing, they're talking, they're fine. There's no water in the car, nope, so, so stupid. I was so mad with this. It's so dumb.
Speaker 2:Okay, so they get it. On the other side is Daryl Hammond and some MAGA. I mean some plan has been cancelled.
Speaker 1:ladies and gentlemen, Thank you for showing up. It's been a real pleasure.
Speaker 2:Now did you hear this whole thing where you're only allowed to curse in the first two minutes of a video or something on YouTube?
Speaker 1:now, Is that true? Because we are going to get canceled, and I curse way longer than that.
Speaker 2:We got to be careful.
Speaker 1:Well, how would that even be a rule? That doesn't make any sense. It should at least like adjust for how long your video is. So maybe if your video is five minutes, you get two minutes. If our video was 90 minutes long, I only get two minutes in the beginning to curse. No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2:It's not going to happen. So there's some Nazi not Nazi types, but hillbilly Confederate they're white nationalists, white power guys, white power guys, white nationalists.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yes.
Speaker 2:So some white power guys who have put a bunch of explosives on a boat that they're going to do something with the boat. I wonder if this was around the time of when the guys blew up the government building Timothy McVeigh and all that. I wonder if it's that. I don't know. So as they come out the boat ends up on top of the car, so they can't shoot them.
Speaker 1:Now do a lot of boats have flat bottoms like that? Is that a thing a boat usually does? Stan, just out of curiosity.
Speaker 2:I'll let you take a guess, Tony.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna guess no. Yeah, you'd be right, it just makes it harder to drive through the water.
Speaker 2:I would assume. Well, the whole idea of a boat, yes is well. You want to have a keel to keep it going straight.
Speaker 1:Right, exactly A keel. Yep, Do you know?
Speaker 2:what a keel is.
Speaker 1:I assume it has something to do with the point at the bottom of a boat.
Speaker 2:Then Well, a lot of real older boats what they'll have is they'll actually have a thing that swings down, which is like a fin at the bottom to keep the boat going straight.
Speaker 1:Right, because that would be how you do that.
Speaker 2:Because it's going through the water and the keel is that bottom point and when you keel haul someone, you you string a rope all the way under the boat, then you tie the person on there, then you pull them all the way under the boat to the other side. What the what are you talking about? You don't, you don't want it. That's why you don't do shit when you're on a boat, because they do terrible things to you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but apparently that sounds horrible. Wow, very bad Boat. People are mean.
Speaker 2:The boat flies up, crashes down and explodes. I thought it was going to kill. How high does?
Speaker 1:this boat fly, dan, that's a joke from the first movie. The first one Okay.
Speaker 2:Where the Nazis are driving and then they drive off of something and then they drop their car from. Like you know a hundred stories high to their deaths. And it's very funny. You know as a kid you're like, but that is that's funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, whatever, it doesn't really matter, so Anyhow, yeah, so the boat goes up and then comes down and explodes, possibly killing nobody it doesn't kill anybody, because they're all in the movie later.
Speaker 2:Yeah, should have killed them, which doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1:Should have just killed them all because that would have been fun Should have just been one bit, should have just been like one little bit, where it's just like this is what we think of these people, this is what we think of these people. Then we blow them up. They're like that's fine.
Speaker 2:And you should have blown them up. And then an arm bounced off the back of the car or an arm lines up by the car, and then John Goodman reaches out and tosses his arm off.
Speaker 1:That would have been funny yeah.
Speaker 2:No, no fun.
Speaker 1:Instead we get a great bit where there's a huge explosion behind them, everyone lives, and then John John Goodman goes did you hear that? And nobody looks in the rear view mirror, nobody checks behind. I wouldn't worry about it.
Speaker 2:It's not like you would want to put a joke in that spot.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, we try not to put any jokes anywhere. That's the goal of the movie.
Speaker 2:A really standard spot that somebody could pitch 10 or 20 different jokes. But no, we don't want any pitches, no pitches.
Speaker 1:No, thank you, we're too busy.
Speaker 2:Too busy. What's that smell Pork, pork. That's weird. Say something. Okay, now we're going to the county fair. They have to go in car, neato, and so Elwood is inside the glove box.
Speaker 1:Right, right, right. You said that very matter of factly, dan. What Like, if he's in the trunk, I get it, but he's in where the engine is right. Well, it's technically where the glove box is Okay, but he doesn't fit in a glove box, dan. Okay, because the glove box is very, but it doesn't fit in a glove box.
Speaker 2:Dan okay, because the box is very small.
Speaker 1:It's this big right like my water bottle doesn't fit in there. My phone hardly fits in there. Sometimes oh, my phone's so big it doesn't fit in the glove box my tablet doesn't, because I did try to hide my tablet in there one time doesn't fit in there. So I just don't understand how there's a human being inside and then they pull it down and his face just comes down with it and then he says a line and then they just close his face again. I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't get it. It's like this gadget thing from the first movie. But they're take, they're stepping it up oh okay, are they, are they?
Speaker 1:What was the gadget?
Speaker 2:I told you he did the spray. That's all the same one. At one point, I think he does a chain, maybe at one point it's kind of like the banana in the tailpipe. It's like one of those things.
Speaker 1:He'll be involved with the banana in the tailpipe Great movie.
Speaker 2:Okay, they do the triple ring of fire, where they drive through these circles and then they crash, then they get out, then they do Ghost Riders in the Sky to which there's animation of these ghosts in the sky, of, like a ghost riding a horse in the clouds, what, what. Why what's happening? They're like we need to spend some SSFX money Special effects.
Speaker 1:Get some of that CGI over here, guys.
Speaker 2:And then they use a remote control to drive the car so they can escape.
Speaker 1:Right, when did that get built? I haven't seen that before in the movie.
Speaker 2:Well, you're seeing it now.
Speaker 1:I don't see it again. Does that help?
Speaker 2:They head to Queen Misset. They run out of gas five miles away from Pantherburn. I don't know what that means. I mean it's a funny name.
Speaker 1:Sure Doesn't give me a geographical idea of where they are, but it's fine.
Speaker 2:This is the point at which the guys give up.
Speaker 1:Why what happened? Because they just had a fairly, but it's fine. This is the point at which the guys give up. Well, uh, why what happened? Because because they just had a fairly good show. People were seeming to have a good time at the country western show, and then now they're just like well, we don't want to do this anymore.
Speaker 2:Mutiny and this is the point where we're like, oh, elwood's gonna give him a speech, but he's like all right, fine.
Speaker 1:Which is almost funny. Right, subverting that moment to me is almost funny, where he's like I need to rally the troops. He's like nah, let's quit, fuck it. But it's not, it's not funny. And then he goes and sits in the woods and then the kid comes over and it's like this is not the guy I know. He doesn't know this guy. Know he doesn't know this guy, he doesn't know this guy at all. They barely have spoken on this entire trip. I don't understand what's happening. I don't like it. And it works, that's right. He's fired up because of music or something, and then he goes and tells the troops like let's go, and then they'd go but the one guy.
Speaker 2:The one guy says I'll go get gas, and he just walks off to get gas and you're kind of like, if that's an option, why isn't that just the option? Why isn't everybody doing that?
Speaker 1:Why didn't?
Speaker 2:they just stop where there was gas.
Speaker 1:Hey, that would have been a good idea. What?
Speaker 2:the bit has to be is we don't have any money for gas, right, isn't that the bit?
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, yeah. We're all out of pocket change, can't afford it. We got as far as we could, guys.
Speaker 2:But instead they just didn't stop for gas yeah, I just forgot.
Speaker 1:I've. You know, I've done that. No, it's not true. I've never ran out of gas, you know, knock on wood why did you say I've done that?
Speaker 2:I lied, I don't know like I'm gonna be cool. Yeah, sometimes I don't care, I just wanted to be a part of the group.
Speaker 1:Okay, I want to be accepted by you. You ever ran out of gas. You, you run out of gas.
Speaker 2:I don't think I ever had. Maybe, maybe one time, but I can't think of it, you know, I feel like you'd remember well, I mean, it could have happened 40 years ago sure, but that feels pretty embarrassing to me. I don't know I think I lost my keys one time yeah, that's, that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Sure, I lost my car one time. I told you that story, right where we thought my car got stolen there's, this was just this year. This was literally this year. My naomi went out to the car because she was gold somewhere and she came back. She's like it's gone, the car is gone and uh, I was so I called the police.
Speaker 2:I can't remember, yeah, so I called the police.
Speaker 1:I'm like I need to report my car stolen. She's like, okay, what called the police? I can't remember I called the police. I'm like I need to report my car stolen. She's like, okay, what's the license plate? Give her the license plate. She's like well, that car is not stolen. It's like what do you mean? She's like it's at our impound lot. You haven't paid your tab fees for three years. We towed your car, so you know you lose stuff it happens.
Speaker 2:I was doing something with my buddy, mike, and Mike's like a car guy and he was talking about it. And he has two older brothers and he's like yeah, I got my first VW when I was 12. What, what do you mean? He owned his first car when he was 12. How's that possible?
Speaker 1:You can't drive a car 12 years old, Dan. I don't think it's changed that much you can still own a car when you're 12. I mean, can you? I guess? I don't know, I guess you can. It's just a piece of paper, I guess.
Speaker 2:And I think he said that he had owned five cars by the time he could actually drive.
Speaker 1:What the hell that's. I mean, first of all, good for him. How's he getting all these cars?
Speaker 2:Well, the brothers, would you know, hand him down cars and then he'd work on the. You know the cars, you know that's cool.
Speaker 1:I wish I had a real skill, sometimes Do you ever feel that way.
Speaker 2:See, Tony, you do have a real skill.
Speaker 1:Oh really, what's that?
Speaker 2:You almost got hired by the NFL.
Speaker 1:But I didn't Spoiler alert everybody. I don't work for them, you work for.
Speaker 2:Orca.
Speaker 1:Yep, I do. You're an Orca man, I'm a big old Orca fish.
Speaker 2:Okay, they run out of gas. Okay, it goes through of gas. Okay, get the blue suits, it works. They go to the tent revival meeting, which is the James Brown thing. I know him. He'll give us gas money, but they have gas money.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, because the other guy went and got gas, because you know that because he shows up with the car later, he definitely had gas money I wrote.
Speaker 2:It's in a tiny weird tent on a soundstage.
Speaker 1:Yeah, very sad.
Speaker 2:They do the John the Revelator song. It's okay. The police show up, they invoke the commander, he floats up, then he flies into the sky and then he comes back down and starts to sing.
Speaker 1:As a blues brother. He changes outfits, he gets a suit from God. Is that what I'm understanding?
Speaker 2:And for some reason, this doesn't just stop the police thing. His like. The lady that works with him is still coming after him.
Speaker 1:He could have just said it's over, it's all good, I'm good now, I'm happy. No.
Speaker 2:They it's over, it's all good. So I'm good. Now I'm happy. No, they flee in the Bluesmobile and then we do a big crash where all these cars crash into this pile and there's no one in the cars until the end of the scene, where all these people start getting out of the cars, yeah, which is like a funny visual at the end, but you can't let me see that close to the cars.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. Like as it's happening.
Speaker 2:And it goes on so long you can see that there's no one in the cars.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying. Like you got to think of a way to direct it where I don't see that, because it breaks the illusion, which is fine, like it's a comedy movie. They don't care that. You know that it's fake, yeah. But it's not as funny when it's just like yeah, we're just running cars into each other, like we're like we're 12 years old, just playing matchbox cars, smashing them together and they don't escalate.
Speaker 2:It's like they're crashing like this, then they're flying like this, then they're crashing like this, then they're flying like this, then they're crashing like this. It's there no escalation, it's all sort of. This is sort of higher, but this is sort of the same, but not this it's almost like it wasn't choreographed. Very well, yes, they get to the Swamp Estate. It's a voodoo estate, it's a plantation club. We go to another soundstage and here we have someone whose performance is the worst performance in the entire movie. Who is it? Paul Schaefer.
Speaker 1:Paul Schaefer, that sounds familiar. Is he a news guy?
Speaker 2:Paul Schaefer is a music guy. He's the guy that played music on David Letterman's show for a million years. Oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, and he's sort of the musical director of Queen Musette's and he comes out as like a French guy, and it is.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, I did not recognize that person. It was like the Queen's for see you now, or whatever it does. It was so bad. Yeah, yeah, it was. Hey. At least he's trying a bit, you know. Good for him.
Speaker 2:She says bow to the queen. Then she gives them instruments and then she's like you'll do a Caribbean song.
Speaker 1:And then he's all like we can do this and this and this and this and everything, but we can't do Caribbean and so she's it's almost like we could do every kind of music except for that.
Speaker 2:And that's a joke on the first movie, where they have to play country and western and they only know one song, when really what they should say is we only play blues.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, that's correct, Because they're the blues brothers. I don't know if you are aware.
Speaker 2:They can't do rock, they can't do pop, they can't do all those things that they said.
Speaker 1:No, they can, Because they're the blues brothers, dan, they can do all kinds of music.
Speaker 2:So she turns them into green zombies, and they do it anyways.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think I get it.
Speaker 2:Because the Caribbean zombies. Is that a?
Speaker 1:thing. Oh okay, I guess I've never been to the. Caribbean, so I don't know.
Speaker 2:The zombie myth comes from Haiti.
Speaker 1:Okay, I honestly did not know that. That's great.
Speaker 2:It just got adapted into the Living Dead.
Speaker 1:Sure, sure. That's great, that's cool.
Speaker 2:Didn't you ever watch True Blood?
Speaker 1:Some, not all of it. I was really only there for Eric and Pam.
Speaker 2:You're a Pam stan.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you better believe it. Yeah, pam was hot, but so was Eric Eric's also hot, which is why we watched Battleship Great stuff. We did. Watch Battleship and fucking Tarzan I cursed after two minutes. Watch Battleship and fucking Tarzan? I cursed after two minutes. Sorry, dan, you like Tarzan, I did not like Tarzan. You can't call a movie the Legend of Tarzan and then not make it about the Legend of Tarzan.
Speaker 2:Well, you can.
Speaker 1:Apparently. You can Apparently. They did it and it was fine for them. Pretty much you can Apparently you can.
Speaker 2:Apparently they did it, and it was fine for them Pretty much you can so stupid. They did this song called Nassau Rock, paul Schaefer. It starts with the Blues Brothers they're terrible and Erykah Badu starts singing and you're like, oh yeah, she's incredible.
Speaker 1:Very talented, yeah, very, very talented. And then she's like you may enter the contest, but the Blues Brothers are now statues and then they're just like okay, yeah, cool, Well, we got to play. I don't get what. Those are your three singers.
Speaker 2:And the battle is there.
Speaker 1:You can't play the battle is there tonight, but you can't do it without your singers. Those are your three singers and they're all just like yep, the show must go on.
Speaker 2:I don't understand, so we start with the Louisiana Gator Boys. There's only two people in this contest.
Speaker 1:And the Louisiana.
Speaker 2:Gator Boys is like Dr John BB King, eric Clapton, steve Winwood. Oh, so like all real people I'm not good because I don't know a lot of these musicians.
Speaker 1:I understood that they are musicians, but I was like just not that cultured. If it's not Blink-182, I don't know them.
Speaker 2:I mean pretty much everybody on that stage is now dead, I believe.
Speaker 1:Oh jeez, Brutal. That's a brutal 25 years.
Speaker 2:I think Eric Clapton's dead. Maybe he's not. Everybody cheers at the end and then the Blues Brothers come on. She makes them come alive. They're terrible and they lose, yeah, but also.
Speaker 1:but why? Because why are they zombies? And then why is she just like okay, now they're not zombies, there's no reason for that.
Speaker 2:Because they wrote a really good script.
Speaker 1:That's not the direct. Quote.
Speaker 2:That's what John Fred just said. The direct quote Dan.
Speaker 1:The quote is we wrote a terrific script. I mean, it's even better than really great. It's terrific. I don't understand.
Speaker 2:All the bad guys show up. Erykah Badu just turns them into rats.
Speaker 1:Right, so they don't even have any agency over the end of the movie. Really Right, Like they don't do anything. I don't get it.
Speaker 2:The police. They don't care, because what's his name comes out there. It's like I'm with the band now.
Speaker 1:I'm cool, I'm good.
Speaker 2:So then we do a jam session with everybody and then it's time to say goodbye. But they have to get away, because Elwood kidnapped Buster and Buster's like what about if I kidnap you, elwood and by doing that I mean you drive a car with me in it away?
Speaker 1:Right, so that's not different. Right, because nobody knows that your intentions have changed.
Speaker 2:Well, doesn't Buster also have to be driving the car? Isn't that part of the bit?
Speaker 1:Yeah, he would have to, but he doesn't. And also, why wouldn't they just go out there and be like, no, the kid wants to come with me. We're good. You told me to mentor him, so I'm mentoring him. What do you want from me? Just a thought.
Speaker 2:Just throwing that out there, and then the car drives away and it's covered in moss and they're like stop that mound of moss. I like that line.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I giggled, I wrote it down, I wrote it down I wrote it down right here.
Speaker 2:I said my second laugh of the movie, last line of the movie yeah, stop, good, have mound of moss it's funny, it's cute, it's not like funny funny, but it's like, uh, I get it Chuckled.
Speaker 1:So that was fun.
Speaker 2:It's an interesting movie. It's something All right Was. No, I know what you did last summer.
Speaker 1:Well, that, because that's a great movie. You know really fun stuff. Just, you know bad twist, bad twist.
Speaker 2:Tony, tell us about something you like this week.
Speaker 1:Well, so this is like something that's not new. I wish that it was, but we discovered much later than most people, obviously not because it didn't get renewed, but Blue Ribbon Baking Championship on Netflix. Jason Biggs hosted it. It was made last year, so it's like State Fair Blue Ribbon Contaking Championship on Netflix. Jason Biggs hosted it. It was made last year, so it's like State Fair Blue Ribbon Contest, basically. Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:It was a delight. We went through all I think it's eight episodes. We crushed those in two days. We loved it, we thought it was a real joy. And then we looked it up and it's like nope, didn't get renewed. So we're bummed, but we thought it was delightful. So if you like baking shows, just give it a shot.
Speaker 2:Was the judging acceptable? Did it make you want to kill yourself? I think so. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1:No, no, they had this real quirky older white guy who was the pastry chef at the White House or something. Oh, okay, then they have this lady who Naomi knew and I can't remember, but I liked it. There's three hosts or three judges. I thought they were great. I really liked it.
Speaker 2:You got to go watch the creepy baking show that Elko was on.
Speaker 1:You're saying a bunch of things that I didn't know. What do you mean, Elko? Does he bake? He played like a character on it oh, okay, okay, do you know the show? No, or are you this? Okay, you have zero information, except for elko was in. All right, everyone, elko, uh, weaver, weaver is that his name?
Speaker 2:weaver go check out whatever show he was in it was like some gothh woman that did gothy bakes and then he was part of it or something.
Speaker 1:I don't know Sure Well, he does look like a vampire.
Speaker 2:I think he plays like a vampire or something.
Speaker 1:Boom, there you go. That makes sense to me.
Speaker 2:We watched this documentary last night, called so this Is Christmas it was, so this is Christmas. Exactly, they talked to a bunch of people in this town sort of who kind of had rough Christmases and you know how they sort of deal with it and it was interesting. And you really never know what someone is going through. When you see them in life You're like, oh my.
Speaker 1:God. Ain't that the truth?
Speaker 2:These people were all going through stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, take a moment and be kind to your neighbor. We don't do that anymore. Stop being jerks. Just be nice people. Yeah, just don't be a dick, honestly, or be neutral. Just don't be a dick. There's too many dicks out there. Just be like not an asshole and it'll be fine.
Speaker 2:Be like the Blues Brothers Be nothing.
Speaker 1:Be nothing, asshole, and it'll be fine. Be like the blues brothers be nothing, be nothing. Be void of any emotion whatsoever, and it'll be great but maybe be a little funny.
Speaker 2:I'm like too much.
Speaker 1:That's too much to ask, dan. Don't, don't try it, hey, yeah tony, we need another movie you're gonna, you're gonna be mad at me about this one, because I uh, it's, it's probably breaks the rules a little bit, but you, just you got me really in an uh, acroydian mood as you would um, and like you said earlier, we could almost do any acroyd vehicle ever except, except except after detroit I don't, I didn't, even I don't.
Speaker 1:What's that one? Is that one good, detroit? I don't, I didn't, even I don't. What's that one? Is that one good? Is that one good? What's going on?
Speaker 2:it's like my dad's favorite movie at one point in his life. I love that he's like. I think he's like a mild-mannered accountant or something, but to protect a group of prostitutes he likes putting strippers and prostitutes and shit in his loves it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's a. He's a big fan, I guess. Good for him. Someone's got to support the community.
Speaker 2:Because the end of the Dragnet movie is like a whole S&M thing, I think. I think they dress up S&M for some reason.
Speaker 1:I believe it, I do. Yeah. Well, you know, everyone's got their thing right, Got everything.
Speaker 2:Good for you, danny boy, so he becomes like the sort of fake superhero to try and protect the prostitutes from the pimps or something.
Speaker 1:He becomes a fake superhero.
Speaker 2:Are you sure we can't do this movie?
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't know. I remember being funny, but then again.
Speaker 2:I was a kid once.
Speaker 1:Sure you were. I don't believe it. Kind of Kind of.
Speaker 2:Kind of Okay, anyhow, well, we're going to.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to bring you back To Best Buy. Remember, best Buy, it was a store For all those people out there. It's a store that sells Electronics.
Speaker 2:There still is. There still is a store.
Speaker 1:I don't believe you. They used to do the the dollar bin, which was like old, shitty DVDs that you could get for super cheap.
Speaker 2:Maybe you could get them for a dollar.
Speaker 1:Maybe. And I found this movie this one time and Ackroyd was in it and I was like I got to try this out. So I bought the DVD, never watched the movie and I watched the trailer. After we watched this movie and I was like, oh my god, I gotta do this because it looks crazy oh, no, no, no, we did this insane.
Speaker 2:We already did this movie, did we? You better check. It's the one with the guy has a penis on his head I don't know, probably. Is it the hotel something?
Speaker 1:No, did we do a hotel movie? Is it called Nothing Hotel it's? Did we do this movie? It's not in my list, okay, but I don't know if that means anything, because I'm sure I missed. Okay, what movie is it? It's called Nothing but Trouble.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is the weird movie. Did we do this? Maybe I watched somebody talk about this movie.
Speaker 1:I don't know, because it's not in my list. I double-checked. Okay, okay, I'm double-checking right now, but there's a chance that I've missed some movies in my list. There's a chance you missed some, but I don't feel like I've ever seen this movie. Demi Moore is in it. I don't remember Demi Moore.
Speaker 2:No, this movie is super weird. He's in a full makeup most of the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's like a crazy judge or something.
Speaker 2:Oh well, if you don't recognize it, you do remember it. I must have watched some of this or something. I was like what the hell is this? I must have watched somebody of this or something. I was like what the hell is this?
Speaker 1:I must have watched somebody talk about this movie, because I did not see it when it came out, and then I watched this thing and I was like what the fuck is this? It seems quite nuts, but it's written and directed by Ackroyd. So I was like this is the perfect vehicle If we're watching it and we're like, nah, we've seen this, we could pivot this week. But I don't feel like I've seen it. But I do own the DVD downstairs.
Speaker 2:Well, I'll look through the thing. Make sure I don't have it on there.
Speaker 1:Because I'll be able to search.
Speaker 2:I can search the YouTube. Yeah, search the YouTubes, but I think maybe we didn't do it, but I don't know, the thing I remember about this movie is that I don't think they did this in the movie, but I think Akron wanted to have a prosthetic on his forehead that looked like a penis it sounds like I think someone was like no, no you can't do it.
Speaker 1:You can do a lot of stuff. You can't do that, all right. Well, let me know if we've seen it. I have other ones on the list we could do, always do broken arrow dude, that was so good, we are gonna do it, I promise you maybe.
Speaker 2:Maybe we'll find out when todd's birthday is and then we'll'll do Broken Arrow for his birthday.
Speaker 1:You're insane. Yeah, ain't it cool, mark Travolta, man, come on, love that guy.
Speaker 2:Okay, nothing but trouble, we'll give it a shot. Unless we already gave it a shot then, we won't give it a shot.
Speaker 1:Someone out there let us know if we've done it already.
Speaker 2:If you like what we do, do give us a thumbs up, uh, leave a comment or even subscribe. These are always you can help us like. The, the, the, the from the vaults got no views, but this last, this last one, we got some view. It's like weird. It's always weird.
Speaker 1:Well, we probably got no views because everyone's like we've seen this one, we've already done it, because they're all die hard fans.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the thing I never understand is yeah yeah, Okay, so we'll be back talking about either Broken Arrow or what's the name of the movie Nothing but Trouble.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. Goodbye everybody. Hey, watch it With Dan and Tony. Hey, watch it With Dan and Tony. It's like watching hell.