Ugh! Really? I don't like this..... Beetlejuice sequel 2024

[Gingerbread Demon]

There are some good ones IMO.
Blade Runner 2049, Tron Legacy, Top Gun Maverick, Doctor Sleep, Halloween, Rocky Balboa...
Your mileage may vary.

I did not mind Blade Runner or Tron Legacy, disappointed that never got a sequel. I ended up liking Top Gun Maverick

 

[Captaindemotion]

They’ve been talking about this for years. I wish it had happened earlier but I’ve enjoyed what I’ve seen of Wednesday and will give this a chance. I’m particularly happy Keaton is back. I was sure for a long time that they’d do a reboot with Johnny Depp in the title role.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

All else aside, Ortega seems like a good casting choice for Lydia's daughter. She's tiny enough she could just about be the character from the cartoon.

 

[JD]

I'm cautiously optimistic about this, I love the original, and so far they're bring back a lot of the things that made that one so great. I haven't watched anything Burton has made in a while, but I know a lot people haven't liked most of his recent stuff, so that is the one thing that is keeping me from really getting excited for it.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Well, if Winona's in, then I'm in.

Yep, definitely in.

And sorry for no link, but I'm not gonna give the Daily Mail extra traffic.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Good to see a still of her as Lydia so soon!

And I don't blame you for not giving them any traffic.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Yay if Lydia is there

 

[the G-man]

I'll keep an open mind until the reviews in. I want to like it for the the cast but Burton has chalked up way more misses than hits in the past twenty-five years.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Has he though? I know that's the cool thing to say these days, but let's take a look...

Since 1998, he has directed:

Sleepy Hollow
Planet of the Apes
Big Fish
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Corpse Bride
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Alice in Wonderland
Dark Shadows
Frankenweenie
Big Eyes
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Dumbo
Six webshorts of Stainboy
Four episodes of Wednesday

Of those, I love Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie, Big Eyes, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children*, and all of Wednesday.

(*I've since read (and loved!) the books the film was based on and I'm a bit disappointed with some of the adaptation choices, but I still think the film is pretty good in its own right.)

I'm not a fan of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, and I can certainly understand why people would outright hate them. I'm indifferent to Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street but it was well-received, including by Stephen Sondheim.

Planet of the Apes is, of course, a major source of contention. As a big fan of the franchise, I appreciate what Burton tried to do but I don't think it worked well. Plus, Andy Serkis trilogy blew away his film in terms of creating the apes, one of its big selling points at the time.

I haven't bothered with Dark Shadows (never watched the original series) or Dumbo (mildly interested in seeing it someday). I've never seen Stainboy but I've always been curious about it.

All in all, I loved six out of twelve films, plus four episodes. And to be clear, of the films that I've seen, the only ones that I think are outright bad are Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland. That's a pretty good success rate in my book.

Your mileage may vary, of course.

 

[Starkers]

Yep, definitely in.

And sorry for no link, but I'm not gonna give the Daily Mail extra traffic.

It's always cool to see her in anything, but this is the annoying thing with films riffing on their own nostalgia. Decades later and Lydia's still dressing like she did in her teens?

 

[shapeshifter]

Here are his films scores on Rotten Tomatoes.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/tim_burton

Going by them, the odds are better that it won't suck than that it will.

 

[FreezeC77]

It's always cool to see her in anything, but this is the annoying thing with films riffing on their own nostalgia. Decades later and Lydia's still dressing like she did in her teens?

It would kinda be more believable if she's still dressing like that and wearing that hair, that her daughter be a bleach-blond preppy look just to not dress/style just like her mom

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Sleepy Hollow
Planet of the Apes
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Corpse Bride
Alice in Wonderland
Dark Shadows

They were the only Burton films I liked. I'm keeping an open mind on the remake though.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Sleepy Hollow
Planet of the Apes
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Corpse Bride
Alice in Wonderland
Dark Shadows

They were the only Burton films I liked. I'm keeping an open mind on the remake though.

Remake? I thought it was a sequel.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

It's always cool to see her in anything, but this is the annoying thing with films riffing on their own nostalgia. Decades later and Lydia's still dressing like she did in her teens?

I mean...the world of Beetlejuice is wild and crazy in the first place, so I don't see any issue to Lydia maintaining her hairstyle and outfits of her youth. If anything, I would find it slightly weird if she didn't.

Sleepy Hollow
Planet of the Apes
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Corpse Bride
Alice in Wonderland
Dark Shadows

They were the only Burton films I liked. I'm keeping an open mind on the remake though.

Huh. All of the ones that are typically derided heavily.

But not Big Fish or Frankenweenie, which I would argue are his best films of that period (along with Sleepy Hollow)?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Remake? I thought it was a sequel.

Sorry yes it is a sequel.

Hey "shrug" @The Nth Doctor
People like what they like and I like those films I picked for the most part, not saying any of them are perfect at all but I liked them. The worst ones in my list were Charlie and the chocolate factory, Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows despite a small fondness for them.

 

[JD]

I'm glad to know I'm not the only person who likes Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
I watched his Planet of the Apes a few months ago, for the first since first came out on DVD, and I liked it. It wasn't quite as good as the original or the Andy Serkis trilogy, but I didn't think it was as bad as it's reputation says.
The only movie of his I really didn't like was his Alice in Wonderland. I saw it with my mom when it came out in theaters, and as ended we both came to a very quick agreement that it sucked.
I was very disappointed recently, when I found out that The Adams Family and Adams Family Reunion, which I always considered my favorite Tim Burton movies, were actually directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. It made me totally revaluate how high on my list of favorite directors he was, but it did move Sonnenfeld up in the list a bit.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'm glad to know I'm not the only person who likes Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
I watched his Planet of the Apes a few months ago, for the first since first came out on DVD, and I liked it. It wasn't quite as good as the original or the Andy Serkis trilogy, but I didn't think it was as bad as it's reputation says.
The only movie of his I really didn't like was his Alice in Wonderland. I saw it with my mom when it came out in theaters, and as ended we both came to a very quick agreement that it sucked.
I was very disappointed recently, when I found out that The Adams Family and Adams Family Reunion, which I always considered my favorite Tim Burton movies, were actually directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. It made me totally revaluate how high on my list of favorite directors he was, but it did move Sonnenfeld up in the list a bit.

I haven't watched Alice In Wonderland since it first came out so why did you feel bad about the Burton version?
I felt off put because it just felll too much into the zaniness if that makes sense.

 

[Lakenheath 72]

I am curious about this film, and I hope it is good. I liked the first, having seen it many times already.

 

[Captaindemotion]

I was very disappointed recently, when I found out that The Adams Family and Adams Family Reunion, which I always considered my favorite Tim Burton movies, were actually directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. It made me totally revaluate how high on my list of favorite directors he was, but it did move Sonnenfeld up in the list a bit.

I’m pretty sure I remember reading at the time that he was offered the chance to direct the first movie (perhaps unsurprisingly) but declined. So I guess things came full circle when he directed Wednesday.