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Location: Melbourne Australia | Just watched the Blues Brothers again - they don't make movies like that any more.
Great musicians, fantastic songs and more police car crashes than you can count.....
What a hoot!!!! :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | it was good fun |
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Location: CA | The part with Carrie Fisher and the machine gun is one of the great moments in cinema. Indulge me:
[Mystery Woman fires a clip from machine gun at Jake and Elwood, who are in a tunnel. Jake climbs to his feet, covered in mud from the tunnel floor. Then...)
Jake: It's good to see you, sweetheart.
Mystery Woman: You contemptible pig! I remained celibate for you. I stood at the back of a cathedral, waiting, in celibacy, for you, with three hundred friends and relatives in attendance. My uncle hired the best Romanian caterers in the state. To obtain the seven limousines for the wedding party, my father used up his last favor with Mad Pete Trullo. So for me, for my mother, my grandmother, my father, my uncle, and for the common good, I must now kill you, and your brother.
[Jake falls to his knees]
Jake: Oh, please, don't kill us. Please, please don't kill us. You know I love you baby. I wouldn't leave ya. It wasn't my fault.
Mystery Woman: You miserable slug! You think you can talk your way out of this? You betrayed me.
Jake: No I didn't. Honest... I ran out of gas. I, I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts. IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD.
[Elwood covers his head in anticipation of more gunfire, Jake removes his sunglasses to make a wordless appeal, and the Mystery Woman visibly softens]
Mystery Woman: Oh, Jake... Jake, honey...
[Jake embraces the Mystery Woman and they kiss]
Jake: [to Elwood] Let's go.
[He drops the Mystery Woman and walks off]
Elwood: [to the Mystery Woman as he steps past her] Take it easy.
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA |
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Location: closely held secret | "Are you the police?"
"No, ma'am. We're musicians." |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | "Badges? What Badges? We don't need no stinking Badges..." |
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Location: Melbourne Australia | Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.
Jake: Hit it. |
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Location: Jet City | I was a young kid when my dad took me to the drive-in to see this. One of my all time favorites.
I hate Illinois Nazis |
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Location: Melbourne Australia | We had an onld movie theatre in Richmond called the Valhalla and this was one of the films they showed nearly every Friday night. It had a cult following and fans would dress up as the actors and act it out in the aisles. It was hilarious :D :p
They did the same thing with the Rocky Horror Picture Show!!
All part of growing up with 'our' musicals |
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Location: Scotland | There's been some great music-based comedies, including the Blues Brothers (but not the sequel) Spinal Tap, The Return Of Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, School Of Rock, Pick of Destiny, A Prarie Home Companion, Tapeheads, Airheads and probably a few others.
But absolutely the finest, stupidest and most hilarious movie about music ever is "Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story" The gag count is relentless, the attention to detail is nothing less than anal, the music is totally authentic and superb (They had some great songwriters, including Marshall Crenshaw) Ignore the reveiws, which were generally negative, and do yourself a favour. See this movie, and you'll laugh till it hurts. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The Committments wasn't bad either |
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Location: Melbourne Australia | I have never seen or heard of some of those movies Paul but will hunt them down on your recommendation especially Walk Hard.....
Beal,I started to watch The Committments yesterday and ripped the songs from the CD onto my mp3 player. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Walk Hard is everything Paul said it was and more. Just put the plastic on the couch before you flip it on. Freakin' hysterical movie. |
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Location: SoCal | "Dewey, you don't want to come in here....." |
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Location: Melbourne Australia | Thanks for the recommendation, I just checked out the trailer on YouTube and it looks to be exactly what you say.
WALK HARD TRAILER
I need one of those movies - it's been a long year :D |
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Location: Scotland | How could I forget "The Committments" Killer movie. |
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Location: Melbourne Australia | I like the grittiness of it - the auditions sequence cracks me up :cool: |
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Location: NJ | ". . oo're yer infloonces?? . . . " |
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Location: Melbourne Australia | Jimmy Rabbitte: What do you play?
Failed Drug Buyer: I used to play football in school.
Jimmy Rabbitte: I mean what instrument.
Failed Drug Buyer: I don't.
Jimmy Rabbitte: Then what are you doing here?
Failed Drug Buyer: Well, the line was so long I thought you were selling drugs. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | +100 on "Walk Hard".
My personal favorite was the song "Royal Jelly". I wonder if Dylan was disappointed he didn't write it?
"Mailboxes drip like lampposts in the twisted birth canal of the coliseum
Rim job fairy teapots mask the temper tantrum
O' say can you see 'em
Stuffed cabbage is the darling of the Laundromat
'N the sorority mascot sat with the lumberjack
Pressing passing stinging half synthetic fabrication of his-- Time
The mouse with the overbite explained how the rabbits were ensnared
'N the skinny scanty sylph trashed the apothecary diplomat
Inside the three-eyed monkey within inches of his toaster oven life" |
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Location: Melbourne Australia | It's sounding a bit Monty Pythonesque, is that what you could compare it to?? |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I watched 'A Mighty Wind' and didn't get it. :confused: :(
I loved Spinal Tap though.
Blues Brothers is one of my all time fave movies, along with 'Up in Smoke' (Now THAT'S a funny movie. LOUSY acting, but non-stop laughs) 
I'm with Flacky and I'll have to check out some of Paul's recommendations, most of which I've also not heard of. |
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Location: Melbourne Australia | I found Walk Hard and I am trying to grab it - when I do I will burn it for you Muzz as an .avi - does you Mac play them :D |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | O Brother Where Art Thou.
'We thought you wuz a toad!' |
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Location: Melbourne Australia | I've got the soundtrack - that's the movie like??? |
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Location: Scotland | This one's been mentioned here before. "Grand Theft Parsons" Very funny. Even funnier because it's based on actual events. |
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