View Poll Results: favorite Aykroyd film from the 1980s
The Blues Brothers (1980)
36
21.82%
Neighbors (1981)
4
2.42%
Doctor Detroit (1983)
1
0.61%
Trading Places (1983)
20
12.12%
Twilight Zone (1983)
0
0%
Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom (1984)
3
1.82%
Ghostbusters (1984)
77
46.67%
Nothing Lasts Forever (1984)
0
0%
Spies Like Us (1985)
6
3.64%
Dragnet (1987)
5
3.03%
The Couch Trip (1988)
2
1.21%
The Great Outdoors (1988)
5
3.03%
Caddyshack II (1988)
0
0%
My Stepmother Is An Alien (1988)
2
1.21%
Ghostbusters II (1989)
1
0.61%
Driving Miss Daisy (1989) *Oscar nomination
3
1.82%
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the Best DAN AYKROYD film of the 1980s?
07-30-14 | 04:02 PM
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07-30-14 | 04:33 PM
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Re: the Best DAN AYKROYD film of the 1980s?
Teenage me would have said Ghostbusters but old decrepit me says Blues Brothers.
Blues Brothers
Ghostbusters
Dragnet
Spies Like Us
Trading Places
That is how I would rank my favorites from the list.
Blues Brothers
Ghostbusters
Dragnet
Spies Like Us
Trading Places
That is how I would rank my favorites from the list.
07-30-14 | 05:06 PM
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Re: the Best DAN AYKROYD film of the 1980s?
We're on a mission from God.
07-30-14 | 05:11 PM
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07-31-14 | 03:32 AM
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Re: the Best DAN AYKROYD film of the 1980s?
The horrible part about this thread is that it's making me wonder WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO DAN AYKROYD IN THE 1990s?!?!
I mean, NOTHING BUT TROUBLE was terrible, but it's not like he couldn't overcome it.
I mean, NOTHING BUT TROUBLE was terrible, but it's not like he couldn't overcome it.
07-31-14 | 03:43 AM
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Anyway, he didn't do too horribly for himself in the 90s. He had My Girl, Sneakers, Coneheads, My Fellow Americans, Grosse Pointe Blank, and Antz. Nothing too phenomenal, but he can hold his head higher than Chevy Chase.
08-01-14 | 03:54 AM
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Re: the Best DAN AYKROYD film of the 1980s?
I hate that I had to choose one. Just one.
Chose Ghostbusters, but only by a smidge. Blues Brothers is a oh so close 2nd.
GB: "Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say "YES"!"
BB: "We're on a mission from God."
Chose Ghostbusters, but only by a smidge. Blues Brothers is a oh so close 2nd.
GB: "Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say "YES"!"
BB: "We're on a mission from God."
08-01-14 | 05:53 AM
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01 The Blues Brothers (1980)
02 Ghostbusters (1984)
03 Trading Places (1983)
04 Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
05 The Great Outdoors (1988)
06 Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
07 Ghostbusters II (1989)
08 Spies Like Us (1985)
09 Dragnet (1987)
10 The Couch Trip (1988)
Voted for Blues Brothers
02 Ghostbusters (1984)
03 Trading Places (1983)
04 Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
05 The Great Outdoors (1988)
06 Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
07 Ghostbusters II (1989)
08 Spies Like Us (1985)
09 Dragnet (1987)
10 The Couch Trip (1988)
Voted for Blues Brothers
10-11-14 | 01:28 AM
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Re: the Best DAN AYKROYD film of the 1980s?
I voted The Blues Brothers. It's so very different from other comedies, filled with great individual moments, and its car chase third act is unparallelled.
We're having an event for Aykroyd at my cinema later this month, which I had to make a trailer for, which meant rewatching a lot of his old films (oh, such a hard life). I'm surprised how often Dan Aykroyd is the straight guy in his most classic films. In Blues, Belushi gets the lion's share of the best lines, and Ghostbusters is really the Bill Murray show. Furthermore, it's sad watching him alongside so many comedians who aren't with us anymore.
SHAMELESS PLUG (not that this event hasn't been announced for ages already but whatever):
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We're having an event for Aykroyd at my cinema later this month, which I had to make a trailer for, which meant rewatching a lot of his old films (oh, such a hard life). I'm surprised how often Dan Aykroyd is the straight guy in his most classic films. In Blues, Belushi gets the lion's share of the best lines, and Ghostbusters is really the Bill Murray show. Furthermore, it's sad watching him alongside so many comedians who aren't with us anymore.
SHAMELESS PLUG (not that this event hasn't been announced for ages already but whatever):
<iframe width="800" height="450" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ajbI9O6gkxg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
10-11-14 | 10:24 AM
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10-12-14 | 04:36 PM
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Re: the Best DAN AYKROYD film of the 1980s?
No love for Twilight Zone, huh. "Do you want to see something really scary?" Always loved that line.
Anyway, voted Ghostbusters.
Anyway, voted Ghostbusters.
