Beetlejuice
Plot:
A couple die and find themselves in the afterlife. It's not heaven or hell, it's just "you're a ghost now.". They have a handbook on the rules of the afterlife [geo-restrictions in place, 'How to..' type things , why people can't see them etc] and must adjust to their new 'lives'.
As they are just getting used to it, some big city type people move in [a stressed out male, a pretentious art obsessed wife and their goth daughter] and find they hate these people. Despite trying to scare these people out, they call upon Beetlejuice, a 'bio-excorcist' to get the job done.......and things go horribly wrong in the process.
Thoughts:
I grew up watching this. It crazy, it's dark, it's funny and it's kind of clever in a strange/morbid kind of way. Great casting all round, and Michael Keaton just NAILS it as a spooky 'used car salesman' / 'mental demon of the un-dead' type person that he is. The funny thing is, I know now in hindsight he was well known for his comedic performances prior to this, yet as a kid all i knew him from was "Batman" where he plays a more serious/stoic kind of character. When I found out he was beetle-juice I was genuinely surprised to say the least. For me, it still holds up, and my 8 year old daughter loves it, depsite it being probably not really aimed at her, but she likes all this weird Tim Burton style stuff, which is both awesome and maybe a tad worrying haha.
Otherwise, a quality movie for sure. Any time I watch it, I pick up new little bits. For example, when he asks the goth girl (Winona ryder's Lydia) and shes asks why he can't just tell her, [as you know the plot would make no sense if he can just call his own name out 3 times to release himself], he skirts around it by saying:
Which doesn't really answer the question, but you get the gist there is probably some mental reason as to why "that's the rule" and in all honesty he probably doesnt know or care, which is what we should think as well.
Anyway, check this bit out.
Meet Beetlejuice
Plot:
A couple die and find themselves in the afterlife. It's not heaven or hell, it's just "you're a ghost now.". They have a handbook on the rules of the afterlife [geo-restrictions in place, 'How to..' type things , why people can't see them etc] and must adjust to their new 'lives'.
As they are just getting used to it, some big city type people move in [a stressed out male, a pretentious art obsessed wife and their goth daughter] and find they hate these people. Despite trying to scare these people out, they call upon Beetlejuice, a 'bio-excorcist' to get the job done.......and things go horribly wrong in the process.
Thoughts:
I grew up watching this. It crazy, it's dark, it's funny and it's kind of clever in a strange/morbid kind of way. Great casting all round, and Michael Keaton just NAILS it as a spooky 'used car salesman' / 'mental demon of the un-dead' type person that he is. The funny thing is, I know now in hindsight he was well known for his comedic performances prior to this, yet as a kid all i knew him from was "Batman" where he plays a more serious/stoic kind of character. When I found out he was beetle-juice I was genuinely surprised to say the least. For me, it still holds up, and my 8 year old daughter loves it, depsite it being probably not really aimed at her, but she likes all this weird Tim Burton style stuff, which is both awesome and maybe a tad worrying haha.
Otherwise, a quality movie for sure. Any time I watch it, I pick up new little bits. For example, when he asks the goth girl (Winona ryder's Lydia) and shes asks why he can't just tell her, [as you know the plot would make no sense if he can just call his own name out 3 times to release himself], he skirts around it by saying:
Quote:Because if I tell you, you'll tell your friends, your friends are callin' me on the horn all the time, I gotta show up at shopping centers for openings and sign autographs and shit like that and it makes my life a *hell*. Okay? A living hell.
Which doesn't really answer the question, but you get the gist there is probably some mental reason as to why "that's the rule" and in all honesty he probably doesnt know or care, which is what we should think as well.
Anyway, check this bit out.
Meet Beetlejuice
"Be Excellent To Each Other"
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