Episode #709: Beetlejuice (W❤️M)
Added 2023-11-28 05:00:04 +0000 UTC“If ever you needed a showcase for the brilliance of Michael Keaton, you just need to show various clips of this performance” - Andrew
On this week’s episode, We ❤️ Movies month wraps up with a convo about one of our absolute faves, Beetlejuice! How incredible is Michael Keaton in this movie? How cool is all the stop motion weirdness? Is this Tim Burton’s best film? And how unsettling is it to see Alec Baldwin play a nice, gentle nerd? PLUS: Turns out Otho was put out of the paranormal business by the Ghostbusters!
Beetlejuice stars Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones, Winona Ryder, Sylvia Sidney, Robert Goulet, Dick Cavett, Susan Kellerman, Adelle Lutz, and the late, great Glenn Shadix as Otho; directed by Tim Burton.
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
I hope you guys give Wednesday a chance ... I thought it was terrific!
Jen nutter
2024-11-16 19:50:33 +0000 UTCLove the “GOULET” drop, lol. I always say his name like that, the Conan and Will Ferrell as GOULET interview is something I quote way too often.
Jaime Lee Ezell
2023-12-04 15:48:36 +0000 UTCYeah I think this was the first time I’ve ever heard of the f-bomb. I remember the crouch grab though, so I guess the scene was still in but dubbed?
Craig
2023-12-04 12:48:59 +0000 UTCJust here to say that I also really like Burton's Sweeney Todd adaptation, and weirdly enough I think Depp and Rickman's (rip) rendition of Pretty Women is gorgeous despite neither of them being uh, particularly skilled singers.
Rhea
2023-12-01 05:53:17 +0000 UTCI'd only ever seen lame TV edits of this movie which awkwardly cut out the demon cathouse and the f bomb. It still cuts to BJ talking to Lydia on the roof which makes it confusing
Trev Herron
2023-12-01 03:49:40 +0000 UTCIt bugged me when the little priest sticks around after BJ is gone. He's a scary design for a kid
Christopher Schuber
2023-11-30 15:26:58 +0000 UTCOh man I loved that cartoon as a kid. I read Dune for the first time when I was 10, didn't understand any of it, but I was convinced that the sandworms in Dune were the same sandworms in Beetlejuice and the two works somehow shared a universe in my child-brain
Smaug
2023-11-29 19:01:42 +0000 UTCWe were told our house was haunted by the previous owner (after we closed, natch), but after nearly 20 years I haven’t seen spook one. I suspect that’s because ghosts are fiction and there is no afterlife
fastandsloppy
2023-11-29 18:32:18 +0000 UTC🤘!!!
Matt Doenges
2023-11-29 15:31:11 +0000 UTCSince Andrew mentioned his love of neglected candy bars, and the fellas seem reasonably wary of the Power Hour gimmick, maybe they could do a “candymentary”? I’m sure eating 60 Zagnut bars in 60 minutes would get you trippy while riffing on The Flash or some dreck.
Jason
2023-11-29 14:01:25 +0000 UTCBurton really did rule my/our childhood. Pee Wee, Beetlejuice, Batman, & Returns on heavy rotation. Halloween 93 or 94 I was Beetlejuice . My bro was Pee Wee in like 96 😂
David Chávez
2023-11-29 05:05:18 +0000 UTCHonestly, the whole "Monica Bellucci as Beetlejuice's wife" thing sounds like a one scene cameo at the beginning. My prediction is that she's there for a gag and then, she's out of the rest of the movie.
Justine Prudhomme
2023-11-28 18:08:04 +0000 UTCDo you happen to recall a brand name of any kind? It's been driving me crazy! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-11-28 17:03:07 +0000 UTCI'd move into a haunted house in an instant. In this economy it's kinda wise thing to do.
Eren Keskin
2023-11-28 14:35:19 +0000 UTCMy otherwise nice brother in law is a "realtor" who has never, ever, sold a house. Every few months he tries to convince my wife to buy his house (their father's) because "it should stay in the family" and "you need a bigger house," and of course: "I'd handle the sale and everything, dont worry." So, I totally understand Jane. Fuck Jane.
MarkNM
2023-11-28 14:30:16 +0000 UTCDepartment 56 Christmas Villages. My mother was also obsessed with them. I can confirm I have snuck a Batman into the display behind Bob Crachit's house.
Matt
2023-11-28 14:14:58 +0000 UTCGlenn Shadix was on an episode of Cheers playing his normal badass self but he’s a horndog going after Rebecca in it. Great episode. Also Dick Cavett in an episode of Cheers as well. All my pop culture knowledge is Cheers-adjacent
RJ Cunningham
2023-11-28 13:40:59 +0000 UTCThis watch, I noticed their calmness/lack of panic toward being death, and I don’t think they had this thought but I actually thought “man I feel like every anxiety I ever had would melt away” after getting that confirmation of some afterlife, and it’s pretty much just your normal, sick life.
RJ Cunningham
2023-11-28 11:09:36 +0000 UTCI loved the cartoon, even if it had little to do with the movie....and my fave part of the movie is when Davis and Baldwin try to make themselves scary, those effects are awesome
Frank Grimes
2023-11-28 07:39:11 +0000 UTCAlec Baldwin played a Goulet brother in the classic Will Ferrell SNL sketch, Red Ships of Spain.
Rob DiLauro
2023-11-28 06:48:14 +0000 UTCTo Andrew’s point at the beginning, my mother was very into the ceramic Christmas villages and I would totally buy a beetlejuice Christmas village
Francesca
2023-11-28 05:27:00 +0000 UTCOh shit now I’m in a bind. Do I finish listening to the “Christmas Prince” episode or do I save it for later and immediately star… ah fuck it BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
imipolexGforce
2023-11-28 05:06:02 +0000 UTCOh hell yeah
Ben Harju
2023-11-28 05:02:06 +0000 UTC
