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Can't believe how upright, uptight and upstanding Belushi was here!

posted 15 years ago by Eric-1226
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He looked and acted just like Joe Conservative, he seemed like the proverbial "square" suburbanite, yet in real life, didn't he die just a few months later from his drug problems??

Good movie all the same. Had a very surreal quality about it, the way it just meandered in and out of some freaky territory. Not at all what I expected.

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[–] JoeLoebner 15 years ago

A great actor he was. And yes, he died three months after the movie's release.

[–] byteM3 15 years ago

Funny movie.

Killing people is easy...if you can forget the taste of sugar.

[–] stevenackerman69 15 years ago

Well, just because he played a certain role, doesn't mean he was that way in real life. Look at him in Continental Divide. There he doesn't seem like Bluto at all. He was a performer.

[–] SampanMassacre 13 years ago

i think, if he'd have lived, he would have proved himself but he needed to clean up. i liked him in this movie but there was something, i dont know, sometimes his performance seemed a bit forced, or phoned in or something. i felt the same way about continental divide and yet i do like both films, and i thought he was good in them, but... he could have been better.

[–] stevenackerman69 13 years ago

He never had the chance to do that, unfortunately. If he had been able to clean up, he would've had a longer career.

[–] DeputyDippity 9 years ago

This movie made me respect John Belushi as an actor. He acts completely different than what he was in real life, and he looks about 50 years old.

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[–] stevenackerman69 9 years ago

Yes, Belushi was a talent that unfortunately was cut short by his demons of drug abuse. In those days, they didn't know you could die from that so it was more accepted for him to take these drugs. He did try to stop, but he didn't try hard enough. I think if he had not overdosed that night, he might've taken some time off with Dan and planned future stuff without all this crap.