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Paracelsus - 2013-07-25

Lots of space in this mall.


Miss Henson's 6th grade class - 2013-07-25

Where art the disco pants and haircuts of yesteryear?


cognitivedissonance - 2013-07-25

Do you have Miss Piggy?


MrBuddy - 2013-07-26

If I remember right that guy is one of the film's producers.


Binro the Heretic - 2013-07-25

Despite, or perhaps because of, the upbeat background music, this fills me with an inexplicable sense of loss and melancholy.

Like that verse from Peter Gabriel's "Don't Give Up"

"Drove through night towards my home"
"The place where I was born by a lakeside"
"As sun came up, I saw the Earth"
"The trees had burned down to the ground"


fedex - 2013-07-25

remind me never to go to the movies with you


Binro the Heretic - 2013-07-26

Sorry, but seeing the location of one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies fallen into ruin just got to me.


RockBolt - 2013-07-26

This was the Dixie Square Mall, my mom actually shopped there as a teen on occasion. It was never a great mall, and the neighborhood really took a dive in the 70s. If its any consolation, the mall was already closed when they filmed there, and continued to sit abandoned/on fire/collapsing ever since.

...until 2012 when they bulldozed it.


Nominal - 2013-07-26

"I cried seeing a devastated location that I recognized from being devastated in a movie."

You seem to cry an awful lot over childhood movies, man. Just how recently was childhood for you?


hammsangwich - 2013-07-29

Watching the "behind the scenes" they said the mall was going to be torn down which is why they got to rip it up in that scene. Apparently it only took them 30 years to get around to it.


SolRo - 2013-07-26

Ironically the reason for the mall's closure was because of all the uninsured damage and injury lawsuits caused by the blues brothers.


Raggamuffin - 2013-07-26

it's worth 5 stars at least just for the upfront investment of getting the right car.


The Mothership - 2013-07-26

indeed.


RockBolt - 2013-07-26

Also, only because I spent an unreasonable amount of time tracking it down last year, here's the cut of "Can't Turn You Loose" from the chase scene, which wasn't on any of the commercially released soundtracks

https://soundcloud.com/basement-tapes/cant-turn-you-loose-blue s

The same guy has other versions of lots of Blues Brothers tracks too


boner - 2013-07-26

Cool, I hadn't heard the full John Lee Hooker track before. I was at a screening of the movie last week with John Landis there & he told us it was recorded on location too. And the record company didn't want it on the soundtrack because he was "too old and too black".


EvilHomer - 2013-07-26

I vaguely remember this movie. This was the one with Bill Murray and John Candy as a couple of fedora-wearing guys who get sent to prison for playing crappy music too loud, right?


Nominal - 2013-07-26

If Blues Brothers could stage all those real car chases, wrecks, and locations for million (adjusted), what excuse do 0 million modern movies have for shitty CGI?


boner - 2013-07-26

2 million marketing budget? Actors fees through the roof? (I don't really know)


dairyqueenlatifah - 2013-07-26

Leonardo DiCaprio got paid ,000,000 for starring in Inception, a 0,000,000 movie.


Jet Bin Fever - 2013-07-29

If the car broke down halfway through, I wonder how long until the Morlocks or the mutants from Omega Man would find them in that place.


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