Just got a good laugh at a store near me.

[Archae]

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[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. That movie was so hilarious!

I laughed so hard when I first saw it as a kid! (Think I was in junior high school.)

[TlalocW]

4. That scene always drove me crazy even in middle school in the 80s watching it on TBS

I remember playing with a toy car and figuring out that the Bluesmobile would have to do another half flip combined with a barrel roll in order for it to be going "face first" as it went over the Nazi car, and of course, the Nazi car falling from higher than the Sears Tower. Drove me nuts!

That said, our entire high school band loved the movie, and we called ourselves the Roundball Blues Band when we played pep band at basketball games, and we opened with the Blues Brothers theme.

TlalocW

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. Yeah, I know! I just didn't take the physics...

... of it very seriously.

Then Jake and Elwood were already back at "ground-level" after the Nazis crashed through the street! Lol.

The earlier apartment scene, with the elevated trains passing so nearby, actually had an element of truth! I took an Amtrak train to Chicago a few years ago (transferring to another train headed West), and it absolutely blew my mind how close the train passed by various buildings! I think I could've put my arm out the window and touched some of the buildings a few times! Most of them looked abandoned, with the windows boarded-up, but I briefly saw a few people through some other building windows! (The train was moving very slow through that congested area, close to the station.)

[ret5hd]

2. I'm in "sell off/downsize" mode, but I'd take one of them!

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. I hate Illinois nazis!

That’s one of my favorite movies.

[OriginalGeek]

6. Oh man

I would be so on this if I see it in a store.


It's time to watch that again. Been a while.

on a related note, we just watched the first episode of Growing Belushi, a show that follows Jim Belushi as he starts up a cannabis farm in Oregon. I literally cried a little when Dan Akroyd said "I believe if weed had been legal back then, John would still be alive today".

Most of the show seems pretty forced and scripted but there are poignant little moments like that here and there and I like hearing about weed even if I can't have any yet. So we'll keep watching.