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[MrCunningham]

What’s with the special effects, is it made for kids?

The first was a lot more horrific.

The only really questionable effects in the first movie were the sandworm. But I love the look of the original film.

Spoiler: sequel plot speculation.

Also, I am going to take a guess and say that the shrunken head guy in the stripped suit is the original Beetlejuice? That's not really a spoiler, since it is just speculation.

Even the 'Hello, my name is BOB' nametag, kinda hints that is it the Beetlejuice from the first movie? Perhaps?

Maybe Beetlejuice x2 is the name of this version's Beetlejuice? Is Tim Burton doing a multi-verse take... or an impostor story thread? I don't have any forgone knowledge of this movie beyond what was presented in both trailers and perhaps a few rando movie-news stories.

 

[EverydayBeast]

We shouldn’t take sequels for granted.

 

[LaughingStock]

Why is Lydia, a woman in her 50s still going through an emo phase?

 

[Power Pro]

Why is Lydia, a woman in her 50s still going through an emo phase?

I have a friend in her 40s who is still going through an emo phase

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Why is Lydia, a woman in her 50s still going through an emo phase?

It's not really emo, it's goth. I also know people that age or even a little older that still dress like that.

 

[Fake]

Why is Lydia, a woman in her 50s still going through an emo phase?

Wasn't she gothic?

 

[Stitch]

What’s with the special effects, is it made for kids?

First one has a PG rating

 

[MrCunningham]

It's not really emo, it's goth. I also know people that age or even a little older that still dress like that.

Yeah this. I guess her daughter is going to be emo one? That first movie came out in 1988, and Goth was much more prevalent from the later 1980's all through the 90's and so on.

 

[Dr. Claus]

The only really questionable effects in the first movie were the sandworm. But I love the look of the original film.

Spoiler: sequel plot speculation.

Also, I am going to take a guess and say that the shrunken head guy in the stripped suit is the original Beetlejuice? That's not really a spoiler, since it is just speculation.

Even the 'Hello, my name is BOB' nametag, kinda hints that is it the Beetlejuice from the first movie? Perhaps?

Maybe Beetlejuice x2 is the name of this version's Beetlejuice? Is Tim Burton doing a multi-verse take... or an impostor story thread? I don't have any forgone knowledge of this movie beyond what was presented in both trailers and perhaps a few rando movie-news stories.

The shrunken head guy is just the shrunken head guy pretending to be beetlejuice. Classic joke of dressing as another character, but in a way that clearly doesn’t look like that character.

Probably an escape attempt from Juice.

 

[Power Pro]

I think the trailer looks pretty good, I'm optimistic and hope it's good. I'll go to the theater for this for sure.

 

[MrCunningham]

The shrunken head guy is just the shrunken head guy pretending to be beetlejuice. Classic joke of dressing as another character, but in a way that clearly doesn’t look like that character.

Probably an escape attempt from Juice.

OK, when I saw that scene from the trailer, I thought it was either a flash back to the first movie, or something else... But it seems like BettleJuices ex wife is hunting him down?

 

[Dr. Claus]

OK, when I saw that scene from the trailer, I thought it was either a flash back to the first movie, or something else... But it seems like BettleJuices ex wife is hunting him down?

So basically the Afterlife is like the DMV. It is highly bureucratic, lots of rules, long lines, and misery. Beetlejuice has now died twice, and I feel there will be some rule that is currently unexplained.

As for work, he was an bioexorcist before, so many he returned to doing that? Could also explain why the shrunken head dude is dressed as beetlejuice.

As for the ex wife - she is indeed hunting him down. I think the whole reason he wanted to marry lydia was to get away from her.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

I wonder if Geena Davis will show up in a cameo? Alec Baldwin probably won't so to keep everyone on the set safe.

Same reason for not having Jeffrey Jones I guess.

 

[RaptorGTA]

so far, its looking good. Like what Ive been seeing so far.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Good. Alec Baldwin needs to be kept far away from all movie sets from now on.

I heard he makes flawless movies inside Gun ranges, though. Go fucking figure.

 

[Shadowplay1979]

I think it would be fun if Juice was a somewhat ...well not good guy, but not the enemy in this one, just a nuissance. Kind of like the old cartoon.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

It looks O.K. Def a curiosity watch. It even looks... fun...

I wonder if Geena Davis will show up in a cameo? Alec Baldwin probably won't so to keep everyone on the set safe.

Same reason for not having Jeffrey Jones I guess.

Finding out about Jones past with the minor was a face slapper. I've seen him in tons of movies, one of the more notable ones, besides Beetlejuice was Howard the Duck? What a fucking shame... letting a sick desire like that destroy your whole career and upend your life from a more "peaceful" state. Now, the guy has to inform everyone he's a sexual deviant, everytime he wishes to relocate.

I don't see why Geena and Alec couldn't do a quick cameo, together. WHile Alec's involvement might catch flack, I've seen Hollywood do worse.

 

[MrCunningham]

So basically the Afterlife is like the DMV. It is highly bureucratic, lots of rules, long lines, and misery. Beetlejuice has now died twice, and I feel there will be some rule that is currently unexplained.

As for work, he was an bioexorcist before, so many he returned to doing that? Could also explain why the shrunken head dude is dressed as beetlejuice.

As for the ex wife - she is indeed hunting him down. I think the whole reason he wanted to marry lydia was to get away from her.

I would say that the afterlife portions of the original Beetlejuice were some of the more interesting parts of the movie. I also liked the character of the case worker. It was also the main plot of the original, as the honeymooner couple played by Alex Baldwin and Geena Davis haunting the latest owners of their former house. Beetlejuice was always the wild card character.

The ex-wife aspect is pretty amusing. The guy in the Beetlejuice suit could be Harry the Headhunter (he was also in the cartoon series) dressed up to throw off Beetljuice's his ex-wife? It is definitely a call back to the ending of the first movie. The small headed guy seems to be in more than a few scenes a side character. The joke in the original movie was that he was sitting beside the voodoo doctor who shrunk his head in the waiting room.