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Just directionless people, wandering from room to room


All the behind-the-scenes chaos reported about this film makes total sense; Belushi and Ackroyd look completely rudderless, cut off from any idea what's supposed to be going on, blank-faced. Belushi looks like he's already died and floating in limbo, adrift. I'm glad he did that reporter movie Continental Divide before he died - the kind of dramatic turn he wanted to do more of, with a script to really get into, as opposed to this tripe.

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Can you expand on the behind the scenes chaos? I've heard Belushi was difficult, and the intended movie was different. Not much else though.

It just seems like some interesting reading and a good way to waste an hour or two after a few cold beers and a bong hit

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Let me put it this way: Dan Aykroid refuses to discuss the making of this movie to this day.

"You keep him in here, and make sure HE doesn't leave!"

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