Best Actor To Buddy With Dan Aykroyd Above The Title

Bonus round: there is only one movie where Dan Aykroyd stands alone above the title

Bonus round: there is only one movie where Dan Aykroyd stands alone above the title

Easy. Doctor Detroit

Was able to name all of them except for the Hackman one (in retrospect, I'm glad I missed it).

Voted Belushi... Blues Brothers is great, but Neighbors is all-time for me. Murphy would be #2.

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Loose cannon ftw

Belushi. All time.

Murphy in his pairing with Aykroyd, Hackman if you just want "best actor". Voted Murphy.

voted for John Candy. Not sure when he buddied with Aykroyd but he is funnier than Belushi in general.

Is this where we get to talk about how Aykroyd is totally into both Jesus AS WELL as Aliens? Like... he is a reverend and also made a documentary about UFOs.

I watched about half of the UFO documentary. He chainsmokes like crazy in it.

yeah i don't know if he regularly smokes that much or if he was just doing it to provide "stage business" -- he's a complex motherfucker.

Also no Harold Ramis no credibility, etc, etc...

but I guess TV doesn't count.

wiki says:

Aykroyd considers himself a Spiritualist, stating that:

I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years... Loads of people have seen spirits, heard a voice or felt the cold temperature. I believe that they are between here and there, that they exist between the fourth and fifth dimension, and that they visit us frequently.

His great-grandfather, a dentist, was a mystic who corresponded with author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the subject of Spiritualism, and who was a member of the Lily Dale Society.

oh damn! that's pretty hardcore. I guess someone that into the paranormal would be a Rev. of capital-s Spiritualism but I didn't think that much into it, considering the religion largely died over 100 years ago.

Also what is it with dentists being into the occult stuff? Dentists (as well as Chiropractors) are currently a huge target for Scientology evangelicalism from what my Chanology sources indicate.

was 10x funnier with Belushi on TV.

aykroyd was far and away the funniest and best member of the original cast imo -- if he'd died at 33 he'd be every bit as mythic as belushi.

lol can't believe i had to turn to imdb to figure out the jane curtin one (i even remembered the timberlake one). trading places and maaaybe spies like us are the only ones up there i could imagine really wanting to see again any time soon, always have time for ghostbusters or sneakers. god everything about that dragnet movie was so awful.

aykroyd has never been funny. i watched trading places last week and it would have been just as good with any other semicompetent comic actor in the part (probably better with gene wilder, the original choice).

What's the timberlake one?

The one where a bear has sex with another bear.

I'm still racking my brain trying to remember the Curtin jointoohhhhh waaaait. Right. That one.

Aykroyd was a genius chameleonic sketch comedian, but you can't sustain a career like that. His only long-term path in movies was a Peter Sellers-type, but that didn't happen (probably bcuz Hollywood comedies had turned to shit by the time he left SNL).

He's quite funny in Grosse Point Blank. The only films in this poll I've seen are Belushi/Murphy, cuz I could smell the others' trailers.

I didn't even know Ackroyd was in the Yogi Bear movie, that's sad.

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Murphy is masterful in Trading Places. His fourth-wall-break/reaction shot ("like you might find in a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich") kills me every time.

was gene wilder originally going to be in trading places? it seems such a snl/landis joint (franken and davis even show up in it). was it originally going to be another wilder/pryor movie? i could totally see that.

yeah was gonna be Pryor/wilder, Pryor dropped out and Murphy stepped in, but he didn't want Wilder because he didn't want people to think he was trying to be Pryor

I would be down with the rankings of these movies if Coneheads hadn't been terrible and if someone hadn't voted for Yogi Bear