The pitch was simple: “John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Blues Brothers, how about it?” But the film The Blues Brothers became a nightmare for Universal Pictures, wildly off schedule and over budget, its fate hanging on the amount of cocaine Belushi consumed. From the 1973 meeting of two young comic geniuses in a Toronto bar through the careening, madcap production of John Landis’s 1980 movie, Ned Zeman chronicles the triumph of an obsession.
I think this movie deserves a second chance from me, it's been a really long time since I've watched it… Probably not since I was in school. I didn't really like it then, but I think I could appreciate it more now. I think Dan Aykroyd may be one of the most overrated comedic actors of all time. I have liked movies he's been in, but he has never, ever been the reason that I like those movies. He's benefited from people like John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray John Candy and others. How anybody can think he is funny is beyond me. When I see a movie that he is in that is good, I think to myself it's amazing that this film succeeded in spite of Dan Aykroyd being a part of it. I did enjoy reading this though, it was interesting to get an inside look at how crazy it must have been to work with John Belushi.