Movie Substrate · Film

Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)

★ 5.3 · 731 ratings on TMDB

The Blues Are Back

Blues Brothers 2000 poster★ 5.3

Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle of the Bands, Elwood is pursued cross-country by the cops.

DirectorJohn Landis
CastAretha Franklin, B.B. King, Dan Aykroyd, Frank Oz, J. Evan Bonifant, James Brown
GenresAction, Comedy, Crime, Music
The emergence reading

Blues Brothers 2000 keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

zero-distanceUS
Explore Movie Substrate → Where to watch ↗ TMDB ↗ Rotten Tomatoes ↗ Ask about this film → Reading look wrong? → Copy link

Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

John Wick (2014)E8/E11Ant-Man (2015)E8/E11Iron Man 3 (2013)E8/E11Star Wars (1977)E8/E11Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)E8/E11The Truman Show (1998)E8/E11

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Dragnet (1987)E9/E10 · Action, ComedyBlacKkKlansman (2018)E9/E10 · Comedy, CrimeWho Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)E9/E10 · Comedy, CrimeThe Interview (2014)E9/E12 · Action, ComedySahara (2005)E14 · Action, ComedyIron Sky (2012)E12/E14 · Action, Comedy

Same people

Shared director or cast.

The Blues Brothers (1980)dir. John LandisTrading Places (1983)dir. John LandisSpies Like Us (1985)dir. John LandisMonsters, Inc. (2001)Frank OzThe Hangover Part III (2013)John GoodmanThe Big Lebowski (1998)John Goodman