Documentary on John Belushi. Pretty good.

I heard he had a drug problem

Speedballs must have been a problem.

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I saw it a few weeks ago. I think most of these celebrities who overdose or kill themselves would eventually be ok if they just made it into their late 30's

The movie took me back.

It was such huge shocking news when he died. I still remember learning it on the Channel 7 news at 10pm and Mary Ann Childers reporting it.

Everyone in my family called each other. That's how huge a star the guy was especially in Chicago.

He was like the first big thing to come out of the city. The mentality of the city was much different back then. I remember when they were filming the Blues Brothers people excitedly saying how Hollywood is coming to Chicago to film a movie! like people in some small hick town would say. Chicago and the majority of cities in this country were very regional cities. But that changed in the 80s when most of these cities transformed from regional cities to international cities.

Everyone knew a Belushi. I think that's why it was even more impactful when he died. He was like your car mechanic, the bartender, your favorite restaurant owner. He was more 'Chicago' then say Bill Murray was.

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Ya for sure. Back then drugs were part of the culture, especially in Hollywood. They had one part of the movie where Belushi says he refuses to do any more Animal House Bluto movies where they want him to just do sequels of that role. He implies it's insulting his craft. That's how it was back then. These days, I think any actor w/ a smart agent would take the chance to make mega millions and say fuck you to creative bullshit pride.

Sort of like Zack Galfanakis when he made it big, he did every shit movie back to back to back. He did not give a shit other than making money and he made a lot. Too bad Belushi didnt have the foresight.

Also Dan Akyrod was mad at Belushi for dying for several decades because he had him written in for Ghostbusters and a lot of other movies. But in the doc, he seems to have let that go which was nice to see.

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Belushi will be like James Dean. Died young and all we remember are the good times. If both those 2 guys lived, maybe they would not have had such nostalgic dramatized legacy's.

i never realized how much the blue brothers movie was more like an biography to belushi's life. not the story line, but many aspects of his character in that movie were just who belushi was. it would have never been made without him.

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