Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice (9-6-24)

[epilogue]

I can't imagine not giving this a shot... but woof I'm not sold on these trailers/teasers. Fingers crossed!

[RockPusher]

What did you think was terrible about the first one?

I honestly can't tell you. Just didn't vibe with it at all for some reason. Maybe I'll give it another try soon. I owe it to my childhood self. I think I watched it around Halloween and for some reason expected it to be less campy and more spooky horror.

It was always camp first, spooky second. I don't think it was ever trying to be horror.

[oasisfan35]

I can't imagine not giving this a shot... but woof I'm not sold on these trailers/teasers. Fingers crossed!

I really do try to avoid trailers and teasers, sometimes I give in with a really random possibility but I am avoiding everything with this one.

[epilogue]

I can't imagine not giving this a shot... but woof I'm not sold on these trailers/teasers. Fingers crossed!

I really do try to avoid trailers and teasers, sometimes I give in with a really random possibility but I am avoiding everything with this one.

I wish I had, too.

But I'm gonna remain positive. Trailers are just ads. And most ads suck.

[Stickman]

[VinylGuy]

I mean Keaton looks ok and there seems to be enough stuff in the other side but damn if all those shots of the school looked so Netflix, so regular. I don’t think this one will be good no.

[wease]

Sitting in the theatre, waiting for it to start

[VinylGuy]

im thinking of going this weekend

[wease]

It was ok. Mrs Wease was thrilled with it. There were some legit gut laughs.

[E.H. Ruddock]

My wife is directing a junior high version of Beetlejuice: The Musical this fall, so I guess I should go see this soon.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

My wife is directing a junior high version of Beetlejuice: The Musical this fall, so I guess I should go see this soon.

Are you gonna let her feel you up during the show?

[Strat]

is Stuverad playing drums

Wow

[wease]

My wife is directing a junior high version of Beetlejuice: The Musical this fall, so I guess I should go see this soon.

Are you gonna let her feel you up during the show?

This made me laugh out loud.

[Jorge]

Well I enjoyed this quite a bit. I went to a back-to-back screening with the first one.

It's far from perfect: The Monica Belluci subplot is a big pile of nothing; the mother-daughter conflict was boring and underwritten; there are several moments during a chase scene in the Afterlife and the big climactic sequence that feel messy (in a bad way).

But there's so much to like about it. The production design is spectacular and packed to the brim with fun little details. It looks and sounds great. Tim Burton is having a blast, as is the cast. Catherine O'Hara is so good, most of the funniest moments come from her performance. And I just loved Willem Dafoe's role, what a great idea for a character. I also enjoyed how they got around Jeffrey Jones's pedophilic absence.

The weak link here, I'm sorry to say, is Winona Ryder, whose grown-up Lydia feels both cartoonish and oddly superfluous to the proceedings. I have a feeling they didn't know what to do with her as the middle generation of Deetz women. She needed to be the heart of the movie.

[wease]

I had forgotten why Jones wasn’t in it.

[BurtReynolds]

This felt like a Netflix series chopped down into a movie. 48000 subplots going on.

I liked Winona Ryder and Reboot Winona Ryder, and O'Hara, but otherwise I didn't care about anyone else or what was going on.

I liked the first half enough, but then it got so noisy and unfunny by the end. I didn't hate it, and the Tim Burtonisms were nice.

4/10. Wait to rent at Blockbuster.

[BurtReynolds]

Spoiler: show

I was surprised Jeffery Jones' character was worked into the plot at all. I figured they would have just explained him away with one line and then forgot about him, given the actor's life choices and all.

Speaking of dads, did they ever explain why piranha dad didn't see them? He was just crammed into the movie and it made no sense.

[McParadigm]

This felt like a Netflix series

That’s as far as I need to read. Out.

[Jorge]

Spoiler: show

Speaking of dads, did they ever explain why piranha dad didn't see them? He was just crammed into the movie and it made no sense.

Everything related to this sucked, not because it was a bad idea (you needed it for Lydia jr.'s character arc) but because it was done so awkwardly. It's like they only got the actor for a half day or something.

I agree with the criticism that it's overstuffed but the breakneck pace of the film is one of its strengths, and most of the plotlines lead to at least a couple memorable moments. I loved the "MacArthur Park" scene a LOT and I think that's going to be one of the most divisive elements