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WSo8M: (1) Back to the Future v. (9) The Blues Brothers

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WSo8M: (1) Back to the Future v. (9) The Blues Brothers  

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  1. 1. WSo8M: (1) Back to the Future v. (9) The Blues Brothers

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    • (9) The Blues Brothers
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These 2 matchups will complete the Final 16, voting ends noon thurs:

(1) Back to the Future


(9) Blues Brothers


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Benjamin Grimm wrote:
Back to the Future.

It's not a great movie, but I didn't like Blues Brothers at all.


Ditto


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Biff's a good character actor. III was all Biff.

Tweach his own, but I'm surprised anyone can find BB to be totally virtue-less. That's some of the best music of the twentieth century there --- as much Memphis Soul as Chicago Blues (and Aretha brought the Muscle Shoals sound). Simply as a delivery system for that music, I dig it. I also like seeing Landis use other filmmakers as actors.


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I am voting for Blues Brothers. Apologies to the white-hot Lea Thompson but I am a music fan first.

Plus I will penalize Back to the Future because of the subsequent infliction of BTTF II and III that was disseminated.

YOU GOT MY CHEESE WHIZ, BOY?


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Edgy DC wrote:
...some of the best music of the twentieth century there...


Fman99 wrote:
...but I am a music fan first...


Johnny B Goode, Earth Angel, The POWER OF (FREAKING) LOVE!

Poor Huey.


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The power of love is a curious thing


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Edgy DC wrote:
Tweach his own, but I'm surprised anyone can find BB to be totally virtue-less. That's some of the best music of the twentieth century there --- as much Memphis Soul as Chicago Blues (and Aretha brought the Muscle Shoals sound). Simply as a delivery system for that music, I dig it. I also like seeing Landis use other filmmakers as actors.


I guess I'm not that into music. I mean, I know I'm not!


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Edgy DC wrote:
Tweach his own, but I'm surprised anyone can find BB to be totally virtue-less. That's some of the best music of the twentieth century there --- as much Memphis Soul as Chicago Blues (and Aretha brought the Muscle Shoals sound). Simply as a delivery system for that music, I dig it. I also like seeing Landis use other filmmakers as actors.


Like Purple Rain a good soundtrack does not a movie make. I'll take my soul & blues without endless car crashes thank you very much.


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It's a good road movie also.

The music is the flavor. The chases are the meat. Best Steve Lawrence performance on film ever.


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Here's the latest News from Huey: BTTF wins 26-8 and the Sweet 16 is complete


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The Blues Brothers is getting such a bum rap here. You can take the "mission from God" thing with a pound of salt (you're supposed to), and see this for what it is --- a different sort of spiritual journey into the heart of the American dream. That the point of the dream isn't the achievement but the journey. Guided by this wonderful mongrel music that grew out of it's own tranformative American journey up the Mississippi, these misfits run up against everything hostile to John Landis' mongrel vision of America --- the highbrow hate of the Illlinois Nazis, the lowbrow hate of the narrow-minded monolithic whitey culture embodied in "The Good Ol' Boys," tax collectors unable to see the public purpose of a dying mid-century model orphanage.

Technically, the film can be hit and miss. It has some great editing --- the car chase through the mall --- and some crap editing --- Blue Lou Marini getting hs head cropped during a sax solo. The set dance pieces erupting from some of the musical numbers are wonderful, and they show you what this music is capable of.

Those aren't two cops always a hundred yards behind them. That's death, and this is Landis' own very American Seventh Seal, with Belushi as the dis-spirited former crusader having to be coaxed back on his horse one more time.

Yeah, they end up back in prison, but don't we all, in a sense? The important thing is to redeem a few John Candys along the way, and maybe wipe out a couple of platforms of hatred.


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Too little, too late, though.

I sentence you all to rent Airplane! tonight. Saturday Night Fever jokes, those are timeless.


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That's not a sentence. It's a joy.


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Edgy DC wrote:
The Blues Brothers is getting such a bum rap here. You can take the "mission from God" thing with a pound of salt (you're supposed to), and see this for what it is --- a different sort of sprititual journey into the heart of the American dream. That the point of the dream isn't the achievement but the journey. Guided by this wonderful mongrel music that grew out of this tranformative American journey up the Mississippi, these misfits run up against everything hostile to John Landis' mongrel vision of America --- the highbrow hate of the Illlinois Nazis, the lowbrow hate of the narrow-minded monolithic whitey culture embodied in "The Good Ol' Boys," tax collectors unable to see the public purpose of a dying mid-century model orphanage.

Technically, the film can be hit and miss. It has some great editing --- the car chase through the mall --- and some crap editing --- Blue Lou Marini getting hs head cropped during a sax solo. The set dance pieces erupting from some of the musical numbers are wonderful, and they show you what this music is capable of.

Those aren't two cops always a hundred yards behind them. That's death, and this is Landis' own very American Seventh Seal, with Belushi as the dis-spirited former crusader having to be coaxed back on his horse one more time.

Yeah, they end up back in prison, but don't we all, in a sense? The important thing is to redeem a few John Candys along the way, and maybe wipe out a couple of platforms of hatred.

Right, but Lea Thompson was HOT.


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Then vote for Howard the Duck or Some Kind of Wonderful or All the Right Moves where she was highly undressed.

Alll movies have pretty girls.


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