LocuMob
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Blues Brothers Movie Pictures in Milwaukee
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It one of my Wife's favorite movies. We own and listen to the music soundtrack often. Our daughter recently showed it to her Husband who had never seen it. (Grew up a Missionary's Son in Guatemala.) He loved it!
78Brougham
"Chump"
Sorry you guys, I know I'll take some crap, but I just never got it. Dan Akyroyd and John Belushi were great on SNL and in other movies, but I just couldn't take it.... I don't think I ever saw the whole thing. Reminds me of some kind of musicals.. which I can't stand.
It was on the other day and I couldn't make it past the first time one of those song and dance routines broke out, they were jumping around like a bunch of Kansas city faggots, ala Laverne and Shirley in a diner somewhere. I just couldn't take it. Reminded me of that new movie that everyone went nuts for, La La Land. La La Loser is what I called it.
Sammie and I sat through about 5 minutes of that, and I was out the door. Then we tried again... still the same reaction
If you take out the really cool Royal Monaco Cop car, which I like, what's really left?
Just my H O.
It was on the other day and I couldn't make it past the first time one of those song and dance routines broke out, they were jumping around like a bunch of Kansas city faggots, ala Laverne and Shirley in a diner somewhere. I just couldn't take it. Reminded me of that new movie that everyone went nuts for, La La Land. La La Loser is what I called it.
Sammie and I sat through about 5 minutes of that, and I was out the door. Then we tried again... still the same reaction
If you take out the really cool Royal Monaco Cop car, which I like, what's really left?
Just my H O.
stubs300
Senior Member
I need a Portillo's fix now!
rapidtrans
Senior Member
Brougham, I get it.
IMO the best parts of the movie are Aretha’s bit and The Blues Band performance. The rest of the movie falls into the silly Griswold Vacation Movie category.
IMO the best parts of the movie are Aretha’s bit and The Blues Band performance. The rest of the movie falls into the silly Griswold Vacation Movie category.
I lived near 68th street and Hampton until the 4th grade, we then moved to Brookfield (your snow storm photo reminds me of Brookfield.)
My last duty station in the Army before I retired in 1996 was Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland and I stayed here. It's a couple of climate zones warmer. I was deployed 15.5 years out of 20.
GregG48203
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My mother was a fan of Technicolor Musicals. This was appropriate to her generation: she was a young adult in the 1950s; the peak of movie musicals. I could appreciate musicals with good music: namely "My Fair Lady" and "The Sound Of Music". By the 1970s, "Rocky Horror" and "Hair" also had good music, but were kind of incoherent. "The Blues Brothers" then has a few touchstones for me: good music, car chases, and it came out at a time when I was young enough to appreciate it.
MarPar
Meat Man with a Hat
Great seafood here. Especially smoked Chubs out of Lake Michigan!!!
The Blues Brothers
Calumet Fisheries
The Blues Brothers
Calumet Fisheries
Old Mike
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I didn’t know about the “bridge to nowhere “/Milwaukee location, but much of the other location shooting was in and around Chicago. Jane Byrne was mayor then (the last decent Chicago mayor IMHO) and she happily gave permission for shooting in the city. The Blues Mobile doing 100+ mph under the el tracks (one of my favorite scenes), likewise on Lower Wacker Drive, and crashing through the Dayley Center were just a few. The shopping mall scene was shot in the defunct Dixie Square Mall in suburban Harvey. The mall was empty and abandoned and the production crew completely refurbished it and placed stores and people in it for the sole purpose of destroying it in that scene. Prior to that movie, Chicago didn’t really show up much in movies. The Blues Brothers is a favorite for both my wife and me. And I LOVE 440 cop cars!!
Old Mike
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Calumet Fisheries. Yes! Located at the west end of the 95th street bridge where the bridge jump scene was shot.
Yep. Still a big draw for Blues Brothers faithful. They have a bunch of Blues Brothers memorabilia on the walls.
Milwaukee did finish the bridge to nowhere which is the Hoan Bridge. It is still being used. A lot of I-794 has been torn down.
Photo Gallery: I-794 Comes Crumbling Down
stubs300
Senior Member
It's been loaded on my foodie list for I don't know how long??? Last one I had was at the one outside March AFB; when? I think about 2009 or so?
Good humor, great cameos, some scenes in modern movies that are homages to it. Lots of stuff! Having been to Chicago twice my wife and I still like looking at places in the movie while saying, "We've been there!"
ceebuddy
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A lot of great humor throughout the movie.
And anytime someone says cop car with a cop motor, etc. is cool as hell.
And anytime someone says cop car with a cop motor, etc. is cool as hell.
ceebuddy
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By tradition, movies in Germany are released dubbed or lip-synched, i. e. any dialogue is in German as German actors lend their voices to the original actors. Back in late 1980 when the movie was released in Germany pretty much nobody knew or had ever heard of Saturday Night Live or the Blues Brothers. Many years later I learned that the dialogue had been souped up a little here and there by the German script writers to make the comical duo even more funny, just to make sure the movie would be a commercial success over here. I instantly loved the movie, and still do.
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