BEETLEJUICE, BEETLEJUICE (2024)

[The Nth Doctor]

As far as I'm concerned, he already did with Frankenweenie.

I know I'm in the minority, but I also greatly enjoyed Big Eyes (although that wasn't a traditional Burton film) and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. The latter of which inspired me to read the novel (and the subsequent sequels) which I loved far more than his adaptation (which veered greatly from its source material but is still a lot of fun).

 

[Kai "the spy"]

 

[Turtletrekker]

 

[The Nth Doctor]

"This is movie is like a museum of Tim's mind."

SOLD.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Seems like Winona and Jenna have become BFFs on this movie. I'm really happy for them, and I hope they do work together more.

 

[JD]

Entertainment Weekly has released clip from tomorrow's Around The Table with the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice cast, and in it Michael Keaton calls the first Beetlejuice the best, or at least his favorite, movie he's made, and says the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is even better, because it has a stronger, more emotional story, and calls the cast "stupid good".

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Seems like Winona and Jenna have become BFFs on this movie. I'm really happy for them, and I hope they do work together more.

Beat me to it. I just watched that interview and I was on my way to posting it.

Also of interest:

Winona Ryder thought Lydia would end up as a spinster:

“I would hope there’s that thing of wanting to keep the essence of the first one, but then imagine this whole life that’s happened,” Ryder told Entertainment Weekly in a new interview. “I never thought about Lydia ever being a mom. I thought she would just be this spinster by choice in that attic, but I think that’s where the incredible Jenna Ortega comes in. She answered a ton of those questions, and it felt so right.”​

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Don't expect a lot of Beetlejuice himself:

Burton notes the film’s titular character will once again enjoy fewer than 20 minutes of screen time.​

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As he says, “I didn’t realize until after we shot it [the sequel] that it almost mirrored the same schedule we had on the first one. You were probably in this one more than the first movie, but we always said less is more.” Keaton echoes Burton comment, stating it was a deliberate decision to keep Beetlejuice’s schtick to a minimum. “Yeah, our agreement was no more Beetlejuice than the last time. If it’s over a minute or two, maybe, but we’ve all seen that failure. ‘Hey man, those car crashes were really good. Let’s give ’em 50 car crashes.’ We both knew, don’t do that.”​

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Everything I've read and seen about this sequel really has me amped up. I hope that it truly does live up to expectations. If nothing else, like Winona said in my previous post, we get to at least spend sometime wandering around inside of Tim Burton's mind.

 

[JD]

That honestly kind of surprises me, I figured we'd be getting a lot more of him than that. But then I could have sworn he was in more of the original too.

 

[Nerys Myk]

That honestly kind of surprises me, I figured we'd be getting a lot more of him than that. But then I could have sworn he was in more of the original too.

His scenes tend to stick out.

 

[FreezeC77]

Beat me to it. I just watched that interview and I was on my way to posting it.

Also of interest:

Winona Ryder thought Lydia would end up as a spinster:

“I would hope there’s that thing of wanting to keep the essence of the first one, but then imagine this whole life that’s happened,” Ryder told Entertainment Weekly in a new interview. “I never thought about Lydia ever being a mom. I thought she would just be this spinster by choice in that attic, but I think that’s where the incredible Jenna Ortega comes in. She answered a ton of those questions, and it felt so right.”​

​

Don't expect a lot of Beetlejuice himself:

Burton notes the film’s titular character will once again enjoy fewer than 20 minutes of screen time.​

​

As he says, “I didn’t realize until after we shot it [the sequel] that it almost mirrored the same schedule we had on the first one. You were probably in this one more than the first movie, but we always said less is more.” Keaton echoes Burton comment, stating it was a deliberate decision to keep Beetlejuice’s schtick to a minimum. “Yeah, our agreement was no more Beetlejuice than the last time. If it’s over a minute or two, maybe, but we’ve all seen that failure. ‘Hey man, those car crashes were really good. Let’s give ’em 50 car crashes.’ We both knew, don’t do that.”​

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Everything I've read and seen about this sequel really has me amped up. I hope that it truly does live up to expectations. If nothing else, like Winona said in my previous post, we get to at least spend sometime wandering around inside of Tim Burton's mind.

Oh that makes more sense. I saw another short interview with Keaton and he was saying like the goal was to keep Beetlejuice's screentime under 2 minutes... and I was like "Wait. He's only in the movie for less than 2 minutes? That doesn't really make any sense even just from the scenes previewed/teased"

but I guess he misspoke and meant the goal was to keep it within 2 minutes of the ORIGINAL movie's screentime for the Beetlejuice character.

 

[JD]

At least they're not making the mistake a lot of franchises do, and are leaving the fun, crazy supporting character as just that, a supporting character, and not shifting the whole thing to focus on him.

 

[JD]

We've got a new clip with Beetlejuice telling the story of his relationship with Delores and how he became a ghost.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Okay, this is actually not about the movie, it's not even mentioned, but what, you thought I wouldn't share this?

 

[Tosk]

I'm surprised that when talking about Jarmusch that she didn't mention in passing (or they cut it out) that she was in his film Night on Earth...which has a Criterion release.

 

[the G-man]

At least they're not making the mistake a lot of franchises do, and are leaving the fun, crazy supporting character as just that, a supporting character, and not shifting the whole thing to focus on him.

See., e.g., Pirates of the Caribbean (yeah, I know, Depp was the star and the "big name," but the original movie was very much Will and Elizabeth's adventure and practically an ensemble piece).

 

[the G-man]

According to Cracked.com, the movie tells us how Beetlejuice died in the first place and

Spoiler: super spoilery

it isn't what the popular fan theory always assumed (or what the original movie hinted at strongly)

 

[Tosk]

According to Cracked.com, the movie tells us how Beetlejuice died in the first place and

Spoiler: super spoilery

it isn't what the popular fan theory always assumed (or what the original movie hinted at strongly)

It's told in the clip that JD posted above.

 

[JD]

See., e.g., Pirates of the Caribbean (yeah, I know, Depp was the star and the "big name," but the original movie was very much Will and Elizabeth's adventure and practically an ensemble piece).

Yeah, that was the first franchise I thought of. I love the Pirates movies, and Depp as Jack Sparrow, but it would have been nice if he hadn't taken over the series the way he did. The other big examples that came to mind for me would be Family Matters with Urkel, and Happy Days with The Fonz.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

We've got a new clip with Beetlejuice telling the story of his relationship with Delores and how he became a ghost.

I really enjoyed this! Mario Bava homage!

 

[the G-man]

Yeah, that was the first franchise I thought of. I love the Pirates movies, and Depp as Jack Sparrow, but it would have been nice if he hadn't taken over the series the way he did. The other big examples that came to mind for me would be Family Matters with Urkel, and Happy Days with The Fonz.

Yeah, there's probably a ton of TV shows like that. In fact, IIRC, MASH was originally supposed to be as much, if not more, Trapper John's show. In the original book and Movie Trapper was the Chief surgeon and leader in the OR while Hawkeye was the leader outside of the OR and led the Hijinks. They were basically equals. In the TV show they decided that Hawkeye should be both and made Trapper the sidekick. This is why Rogers left the show.