Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Spoiler Thread

[MOVIEGUY]

They were absolutely cooking during this scene

 

 

[ddddeeee]

14 hours ago, MOVIEGUY said:

Really enjoyed this, just good fun and Beetlejuice as a character is still a god damn hoot, Michael Keaton still clearly loves this part. Takes a little while to get going and the plot's pretty rinky dink, which so is the plot of the first one so it's fine. The children's choir singing Day-O was hilarious and honestly a little moving.

Glenn Shadix, the late actor who played Otho in the original, used to host get-togethers for the cast and crew of Beetlejuice. He did this until he died. He loved being a part of the movie. At his funeral, which Burton and much of the cast attended, he requested that a children's choir sing Day-O. 

[dudalb]

Has some flaws but really enjoyed it.

I was fully expecting they would give a new song the "Banana Boat" song treatment, but never guessed it would be McArthur Park.

Hell, I though i was one of the few who remembere that song, which though a hit in 1969, simply never had the longivity that the Banana Boat song did.

Great chemisty between Jenna and Wynona. And Burton has some meta fun: It in ot a  conicdence that Monica looks like Sally in "Nighmare before Christmas" evil twin.

Another nice bit, in the parody of the Carrie surprise ending, Burton uses the actual music from the Carrie movie.

And in a day of cultural illiteracy, any movie referencing Doestoevsky gets extra points in my book.

[wattage]

Just got home from a very late night Tuesday rewatch and I can't wait for the Tragedy reassembling scene and the wedding to get uploaded to YouTube so I can watch it over and over. Such a delight. I also only just found out today that this wasn't a re-recording of Donna Summers MacArthur Park but that hers was actually a cover! I've been listening to that song forever and just thought the lyrics were a bit silly and fun and I never even knew. 

[dudalb]

15 hours ago, wattage said:

Just got home from a very late night Tuesday rewatch and I can't wait for the Tragedy reassembling scene and the wedding to get uploaded to YouTube so I can watch it over and over. Such a delight. I also only just found out today that this wasn't a re-recording of Donna Summers MacArthur Park but that hers was actually a cover! I've been listening to that song forever and just thought the lyrics were a bit silly and fun and I never even knew. 

This is really sad in a way.

[wattage]

1 hour ago, dudalb said:

This is really sad in a way.

Sorry for my crime of being raised by a Donna Summer fan 😞

Edited September 11 by wattage

[emoviefan]

2 hours ago, wattage said:

Sorry for my crime of being raised by a Donna Summer fan 😞

[dudalb]

22 hours ago, emoviefan said:

A  film clip of Harris as King Arthur in "Camelot" would have been better.

[John Marston]

I get the actor and character are separate, but it was kind jarring to see so many odes and shrines to Jeffrey Jones. And doesn't he get royalties for them using his likeness?

 

 

All that said, it was a fun movie that I didn't have particularly high expectations for, so I had a good time with it.  Liked that subplot with Ortega and the murderer boy. Gave me a Fear Street/Goosebumps vibe (I am a 90s kid)

[WorkingonaName]

Donna Summer being disrespected by two major fall blockbusters, what does Hollywood have against our queen?

 

 

[robertman2]

On 9/11/2024 at 5:23 PM, dudalb said:

This is really sad in a way.

I only knew about the Weird Al version before this

[John Harris]

On 9/11/2024 at 1:22 AM, wattage said:

Just got home from a very late night Tuesday rewatch and I can't wait for the Tragedy reassembling scene and the wedding to get uploaded to YouTube so I can watch it over and over. Such a delight. I also only just found out today that this wasn't a re-recording of Donna Summers MacArthur Park but that hers was actually a cover! I've been listening to that song forever and just thought the lyrics were a bit silly and fun and I never even knew. 

 

Everyone has "their" version of MacArthur Park.

Had to chime in that it was written by legendary American songwriter Jimmy Webb, who wrote all the best songs that Glen Campbell ever recorded, included "Galveston," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," and "Wichita Lineman." "Lineman" might be my favorite soft-pop/rock song of the 1960s; it's a near-perfect record. Hoping Webb makes some decent coin off of this and even more so, gets some renewed recognition while he's still with us.

[John Harris]

On 9/5/2024 at 11:02 PM, wattage said:

The wedding was a really fun sequence, my favorite one of the movie and Delores putting herself together.

 

Overall I think the movie had a bit too much going on, it felt convoluted at times but when it almost lost me in the weeds it would do something charming and bring me right back. Maybe trimming out Lydia's fiancee would've done it. But the cast, the great set design, the fact that it's a visual treat and still so fun, that all carries it across the finish line. 

 

Amen. Movie would've jumped from a B/B- to a solid A if they eliminated the Rory character. I hated every second Theroux was on screen. I realize we weren't supposed to like him, but when a character is SO over-the-top awful, yet Our Hero (Lydia, in this case) doesn't recognize it, it's just frustrating and annoying. I was glad to see his comeuppance, but it didn't eliminate having to endure him for the first 90 minutes.

[dudalb]

On 9/15/2024 at 12:00 AM, WorkingonaName said:

Donna Summer being disrespected by two major fall blockbusters, what does Hollywood have against our queen?

 

 

Yeah, deciding to use the original instead of the cover shows disrespect.

[dudalb]

On 9/16/2024 at 11:36 AM, John Harris said:

 

Amen. Movie would've jumped from a B/B- to a solid A if they eliminated the Rory character. I hated every second Theroux was on screen. I realize we weren't supposed to like him, but when a character is SO over-the-top awful, yet Our Hero (Lydia, in this case) doesn't recognize it, it's just frustrating and annoying. I was glad to see his comeuppance, but it didn't eliminate having to endure him for the first 90 minutes.

You were supposed to like him ,I think, to make his reveal more horrifying, but they telegraphed him as being evil way too early.

[excel1]

wtf I enjoyed this way more than original, great to see Winona Ryder back in a major role and she & Jenna Ortega played off each other really well.

[wattage]

On 9/15/2024 at 3:00 AM, WorkingonaName said:

Donna Summer being disrespected by two major fall blockbusters, what does Hollywood have against our queen?

 

 

I get it here even if I very much love her cover but Last Dance? It's unforgivable, not even a hint of the song?  Just give me instrumentals even, it's the silly zany Venom movies. He turns into a horse! He's winking to people on the outside of planes! It's a weird kind of homoerotic buddy comedy with a guy and his back parasite! It wouldve been super fun. 

[wattage]

On 9/16/2024 at 2:36 PM, John Harris said:

 

Amen. Movie would've jumped from a B/B- to a solid A if they eliminated the Rory character. I hated every second Theroux was on screen. I realize we weren't supposed to like him, but when a character is SO over-the-top awful, yet Our Hero (Lydia, in this case) doesn't recognize it, it's just frustrating and annoying. I was glad to see his comeuppance, but it didn't eliminate having to endure him for the first 90 minutes.

Like dudalb said they telegraphed it way too early and it really made the entire thing frustrating to watch. His death wasn't even particularly entertaining, he gets punched and then Dune sand wormed. I was just happy he was finally gone. 

[excel1]

Theroux, in addition to apparently being an idiot dumping jen Aniston, is frankly not an enjoyable actor in my view