Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2024 - Daylight come and he wan' go home

[UsedUp]

 

[Mayor Cody Travers]

Whatever else, the first scene in the movie better feature him FINALLY getting through the line in the waiting room.

 

[Premium Gonzo]

Have they ever thought of making something new??

I'm just skeptical they'll fuck it up.

 

[Onni Kalsarikännit]

The trailer looks to good. I'm skeptical.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

The trailer is so low energy. I get that the original was a pretty sardonic film overall, but Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis brought a lot of life to the proceedings. This just looks like shameless nostalgia wank for an theoretical audience that doesn't exist. Are people really that emotionally invested in the banana boat song?

Original trailer for comparison.

 

[Not A Bunny]

Have they ever thought of making something new??

I'm just skeptical they'll fuck it up.

As a Michael Keaton fan from back in the day, the original benefitted from having him be in so little of the original.

Watch as they put him in more of the movie this time around because the cartoon made him a supernatural buddy or because the musical made him an okay guy in the end.

In that way, I suspect it will have all of the problems Ghostbusters: Afterlife did. That is, it will have the original characters, just make them behave in the way the writers want them to behave, not the way they actually might have behaved per the rules and dynamics of the original.

Are people really that emotionally invested in the banana boat song?

What made the original so, ahem, original, is that it gave its characters odd little quirks.

New York yuppie couple getting a country home, probably because it was the trendy thing to do? Weird Vermont couple into calypso because...?

But people take the wrong thing from that. Instead of treating the song as an extension of characters they like, it's an extension of their like of the thing. It's part of the thing they like and therefore essential to it. As such, the slavish devotion to the Banana Boat Song. You can't have Beetlejuice without Day-O, despite the fact that the very characters that brought it to the story in the first place are noticeably absent from the proceedings (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin are not in the cast list on IMDB).

 

[MadStan]

If Michael Keaton gets to act and say as he likes, it might be good. If he is constrained so they make the film for little children, we're fucked.

Bank on being fucked and this is a film for wee little kids to buy dolls.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Have they ever thought of making something new??

Coming up with something new requires talented writers and Hollywood doesn't have those any more.

Much easier/cheaper to roll the dice on nostalgia-bait which you can at least be sure has some sort of fanbase who might turn up even if only out of morbid curiosity (I am a lot more interested in the Crow remake/reboot because it looks terrible than I would be if just looked okay).

 

[RumblyTumbly]

Why does every trailer now have to have a slowed down version of a classic theme from the original?

I feel like a Beetlejuice 2 trailer should try to show off the fun and gothic elements to tell people its true to the original.

 

[blablabla]

that looks like dogshit and they really are going to do another jenna ortega flick where she is the weird one in a fucking school setting. also keaton and winona looks old as fuck

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

another jenna ortega flick where she is the weird one in a fucking school setting.

Jenna Ortega pisses me the fuck off with her fake, bullshit, contrived 'weird goth girl' energy, and she has since Wednesday. It's like, Wednesday Addams isn't some difficult, unknowable character that it takes a great deal of method acting to really get into the headspace of, Jenna. She says snarky things in a deadpan voice. Just watch what Christina Ricci did fucking thirty years ago and do that.

I used to perform autopsies on little animals when I was younger. Little lizards that I found that were dead in my backyard.

Did you? Did you really?

 

[The Token Ethnic]

Why does every trailer now have to have a slowed down version of a classic theme from the original?

I feel like a Beetlejuice 2 trailer should try to show off the fun and gothic elements to tell people its true to the original.

We've really gone from overusing the bass drop noise effect to slow cover versions of popular songs for "atmosphere" nowadays.

I'm just skeptical they'll fuck it up.

Given that none of the original writers are involved and it took them over 3 decades to make a sequel, my magic Eightball says: Outlook not so good.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

Didn't they ask Tim Burton to do a sequel to Beetlejuice back when it first came out and he turned them down, because he felt that the story had already been told and there wasn't anything more to add?

 

[TheRetardKing]

Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!

 

[TATE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODE!!]

Gonna take a guess that the funeral is for Jeffrey Jones character lol

Compared to most of the reboot/late sequel trailers of late, this one had me intrigued. I'll probably see this once it's streaming. I'm a sucker for anything Michael Keaton. At least I felt something where that new Alien trailer made me feel nothing at all.

Tim Burton not directing might be a good thing otherwise it might be a cgi vomitfest with his bug eyed wife somewhere in a prominent role.

 

[Pale Empress]

Given that none of the original writers are involved and it took them over 3 decades to make a sequel, my magic Eightball says: Outlook not so good.

I looked up the filmography for the writers and wew. My confidence is not inspired.

Tim Burton not directing might be a good thing otherwise it might be a cgi vomitfest with his bug eyed wife somewhere in a prominent role.

Burton's actually directing. There was a heavy push from people involved with production, particularly Keaton, for a reliance on practical effects. Supposedly Burton followed through as the stop-motion animation and in-camera VFX have become a major talking point in all the publicity writeups. Of course, that doesn't matter if the film itself sucks.

Getting really tired of all these key-jangling 'memberberry-fueled nostalgia driven schmaltzfests. I don't get why these reboots that pillage childhood favourites have to try to be so saccharine and sentimental. I didn't bother watching it but Ghostbusters: Afterlife struck me as having exactly that kind of insipid tone.

Unrelated, but I watched The Creator the other day and one of the plot points was an atomic bomb blowing Los Angeles off the map and I got a little wistful.

 

[tehpope]

The juice is loose bros.

 

[KingLiberty76]

Stuck culture is a curse that will never die it seems, why can't we just let movies or shows be a standalone one and done thing, we don't need sequels on top of sequels.

 

[Commander X]

It's always the same thing with these legacy sequel trailers - the slow renditions of theme music, cameras moving over re-created sets with a weird overly reverential tone, the shots of now geriatric actors in their old costumes. Harrison Ford grunting out "Chewie, we're home", etc.

I was never really a big fan of Beetlejuice, but I have been of other films that remain classics but have gotten the decades-later legacy sequel treatment. I do not enjoy seeing these film icons, old and withered, brought out like any other has-beens desperately trying to recapture their glory days.

The time for a Beetlejuice 2 would've been the 1990s, with the never produced "Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian" script which is floating around online, Burton adding his gothy kitsch to retro 1960s beach party movies, that would have been "a thing" and maybe even entertaining and more creative than this sort of decades later attempt at doing something in the exact same fashion.

 

[The Token Ethnic]

Gonna take a guess that the funeral is for Jeffrey Jones character lol

I was surprised to see him in the Deadwood movie lol