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CinemaDome: Blues Brothers vs Ghostbusters
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One of the worst things I have ever seen in my life are those life sized Jake and Elwood statues. They are the kinds of things that someone like, say, Donald Trump would buy to add some "wackiness" to their parlor. Or a restaraunt like Fuddruckers would display at the entrance to remind people of the Good Times that their hamburgers will help you recapture.
I'll take the Ectocooler over that crap.
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Blues Brothers isn't perfect, but has a decent amount of actual original comedy, both situational and with dialogue and characters. The pacing is sometimes slow, but that's reminiscent of its time, where certain things could build up more before paying off. It's a road movie, with a stated goal and premise early on, so I don't get the beef about it not having a cohesive story. It's similar to the original Muppet Movie (1979) in tone and approach. I'd give Muppet Movie the edge, but BB is still great.
Perhaps a better comparison would be Blues Brothers to Wayne's World, as both are SNL properties with a music theme. Blues Brothers destroys that one, though, in terms of comedy that holds up, and WW came out a full twelve years later.
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Michael Barnes wrote: One of the worst things I have ever seen in my life are those life sized Jake and Elwood statues. They are the kinds of things that someone like, say, Donald Trump would buy to add some "wackiness" to their parlor. Or a restaraunt like Fuddruckers would display at the entrance to remind people of the Good Times that their hamburgers will help you recapture.
I'll take the Ectocooler over that crap.
And that's relevant to the movie somehow? Sure, Ghostbusters is a cool property, but it's still pretty cheesy, with a lot of crap stuff coming from it. The Blues Brothers was born of a fictional comedy sketch, but the band (of the movie's era) was a solid rhythm and blues band, with some great players (and Belushi and Ackroyd are decent singers/performers, too). Whatever the idea of them may have turned into later as a schlocky property, that movie captured a fun moment of music and comedy, and Belushi in his prime.
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I said that I'd give Muppet Movie the edge over Blues Brothers. But in terms of story narrative, they are very similar. If you're okay with the Muppet Movie story (and countless other road movies where you gather people along the way to accomplish some goal at the end), then the beef about the Blues Brothers story doesn't wash. That's mostly directed at Shell's complaint, though I don't know if he likes the original Muppet Movie (he oughta).
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ETA: Okay, this is obviously wrong if Mr. Barnes is ready to go to war over Ghostbusters v Blues Brothers. I think my theory still holds for BB and/or Animal House.
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RobertB wrote: This is based on my massive sample size of '1 Spousal Unit'.
Did you just call your wife fat?
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RobertB wrote: I'd argue that if you didn't see the movie back when it came out, you won't think they're all that great, for either of them. This is based on my massive sample size of '1 Spousal Unit'.
ETA: Okay, this is obviously wrong if Mr. Barnes is ready to go to war over Ghostbusters v Blues Brothers. I think my theory still holds for BB and/or Animal House.
Yep, seconded. Long time ago, I used to like both Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters quite a lot. Maybe more Blues Brother than Ghostbusters. Or maybe it was the other way round. The thing is, about 10 years ago, when my future wife and I started dating, I discovered - the horror, the horror - she had no idea of Blues Brothers' existence and could barely tell Murray from Aykroyd from Belushi. So I showed her Blues Brothers one night, and she promptly fall asleep, like one or two numbers in. I kept watching, but kind of catching myself on the fact that this was maybe not such a good movie as I claimed it to be. I haven't tried to watch it again ever since.
Ghostbusters, on the other hand, she endured and we actually re-watched it not so long ago to determine whether it is suitable to show to our son (no, it is not).
But she did not find it great, either. I think it was one of those movies that made sense in the spur of the moment, so to speak, and for our generation. Film students are going to watch it 50 years from now and ask themselves what the fuck we were smoking.
So ... one for "There's no Dana, only Zuul"
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And as someone who grew up watching ultraman, that's saying something.
But the kaiju is defeated by 4 humans. (With admittedly powerful weapons)
So that also makes it the weakest kaiju movie made as well.
And as a fan of Matthew Broderick, that's also saying something.
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I didn't have to do that with Raiders, the Holy Grail, Baron Munchausen, the Blues Brothers, etc.
Vote : Blues Brothers
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Blues Brothers for sure.
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Shellhead wrote: There is a recurring theme that I am seeing in these CinemaDomes. Some of you seem to resent a movie for being too good, and will deliberately vote against it in favor of an obvious b-movie. I realize that this is CinemaDome, and there isn't even a requirement that a voter has seen both movies, but this resentment angle seems disconnected from even a basic question of "Which movie do you like more?"
I don't understand why you're surprised, this is exactly how we vote in this country.
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