When gen z write a movie review and have no clue on its relevance.

This lil bastard has no idea what they are peddling.

The blues brothers was a great movie it’s jjst simple fun.

This idiot reviewer either wrote the review tongue in cheek or they have read stories on John belushi and has a pre conceived outlook on him particularly with the coc aine reference, a bit judgemental.

Why not talk about apocalypse now and the supposed abuse.
This idiot reviewer can’t see the forest through the trees. The blues brothers is just a fun film, with some brilliant artists.

I think the reviewer just hasn’t appreciated that the movie is homage to the legends at the time.

What u say?

www.google.com.au...

It's the dumbass Guardian. Those excuses for journalists can find reasons to cry like little girls about appropriation/White Supremacy/Misogyny/ blah blah blah in everything that doesn't portray a protected characteristic group as noble victims.
It's not tongue in cheek my friend. These dimwits are for real, and that's the really scary bit

a reply to: robsmith

is it just me. or does the link forward to a small icon file with no article?

maybe quote the article in your post? I'd feel better not going to the sites where kids these days hang out... might catch something.

Generally, the generation born in the '90s or later have been silent for so long, they were latch key kids raised by the first-gen of latch key kids, they were ignored and not listened to.

Now they have their voice and this is the subject that's important and meaningful to them. To my kids, Belushi is the perfect analogy of talent wasted, of life, ruined by drugs, carefree life, and no discipline, LOL it's how they view the whole generation. The sheer fact that we identify/adore Belushi is why they attack it.

Furthermore, this is done by all generations, but in my generation, the first latch key kids aren't as cocksure of themselves
and if their children question anything at all, then a significant section believes the children are completely justified in their skewed opinion.

Every generation had crapped on the preceding generation(s) the difference is now we give it more credence and weight than it deserves.

a reply to: robsmith

You just gotta love when people judge something from the past with current day sensibilities.
Blazing saddles would have this clown crying in the corner without him ever understanding the cultural significance of the movie.

He sees the blues brothers as cultural appropriation instead of what it truly was, a love letter to the music and the artists that created the music.

Blazing saddles was a humourous way of showing the audience how stupid racism was at the time, made by a man that witnessed his own culture facing extermination.


These simple concepts are not in this fools capability to understand

It's the new fashion to criticize everything through the Woke lens rather than evaluating it as a product of its time. I suspect its also the behind the drive to remake so many classics. They are "problematic" from the Woke perspective, but they can't help but think of them fondly, so they set out to remake them in the Woke image. Of course, then it turns out to be trash, but that's another discussion.

a reply to: robsmith

I recently saw a short video showing hairstyles of the 80’s. I had to laugh because they were so wrong.
I think unless you lived it certain things will never ring 100%.
Blues Brothers was an amazing movie, but I just don’t know if people now would get it.
Some things are really meant for certain generations and that’s OK.

a reply to: JAGStorm

Most actual humor is verboten to this generation because it's "problematic".

a reply to: JAGStorm

You are right in some ways.
There can be jokes and pop culture references in movies that many people today would totally miss.

Meatless Friday for instance

That makes some movies just not last the test of time.
Blues brothers stands up today.
Flight of the navigator doesn't.

a reply to: robsmith

That is the strangest movie review I have ever read. The reviewer obviously likes the movie but lacks the balls to come right out and say it. This woke crap is on media like that is garbage.

Next I want to read his review on gone with the wind.

Btw. New Oldsmobiles are in early this year

originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: JAGStorm

Most actual humor is verboten to this generation because it's "problematic".

...and...
they were on a mission from God

a reply to: acackohfcc

Yes, the highest of offenses. LOL

Btw, I've heard even atheists quote that line fondly. Depending on your mindset, it can be taken all kinds of ways instead of just labeling it problematic because a reference to a deity is uttered.

I'd love for this reviewer to watch Ice Pirates. It's a movie that's so bad it's good, but it is full of cringy bad un-PC moments. And it has lots of actors you'd recognize: Robert Urich, Angelica Huston, Ron Perlman ...

a reply to: ketsuko

The only thing these muppets find funny is bad impersonations of their perceived enemies.

Progressivism is - in all seriousness - a profound mental illness. People afflicted with it lack any and all capacity to process humor, satire, sarcasm, any nuance of human communication or expression. They lack all sense of self-awareness. They are manipulable and obedient to a serious fault. They will simply repeat what they have been told to think because they are unable and unwilling to think for themselves.

One told me ages ago, "I don't need to think for myself." that sums up their mentality. They are literally incapable of such a feat of mental exertion.

Nothing that a progressive says surprises me anymore.

Thinkin' is hard work.
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originally posted by: Wide-Eyes
a reply to: ketsuko

The only thing these muppets find funny is bad impersonations of their perceived enemies.

Or grade school level toilet and sex humor.

a reply to: Wide-Eyes

Did you say muppets???

I wonder what they would think of muppets on heroin

a reply to: Wide-Eyes

Did you say muppets???

I wonder what they would think of muppets on heroin

a reply to: robsmith

I was surprised that the Blues Brothers was recently recommended for preservation with the Nation Film Registry as it's not that good overall. That's not to say it's not great at times. Aykroyd and Belushi are undeniably funny although as actors I find them...'limited'. The musical numbers are show stoppers but not especially attractive or inventively designed. Little shop of Horrors, Hairspray, & Yentl were vastly superior as musical entertainment. The musicians and vocal talent are amazing but they're cast adrift in a blizzard of coke. Candy, Fisher, Belushi...so many doomed cokeheads. Nearest I can figure the Library of Congress may have been swayed with feelings of social justice at the depiction of american nazis in the cast when this came up for a candidate for preservation. It was a Cannonball Run comedy basically. I liked it but thought Blues Brothers 2000 was better

a reply to: ConcernedCanadian

It might be because of its enduring status as a cult classic. I'm not sure that Yentl has that. It would be like possibly putting The Rocky Horror Picture Show in there. It wouldn't be because it's great cinema. God knows it's the last thing you would call great cinema, but it has spawned its own cultural phenomena that cannot really be ignored.