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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is missing from the original?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Story cohesion, justifiable plot, relatable characters, believable dialogues, good montage (there are more frame changes than a fast and furious chase sequence) and in general there is nothing that make this one look like a Tim Burton movie.
But hey we now have *checks notes* Monica Bellucci, the worst actress the big screen has ever seen...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That sucks. The producers (or directors or someone idfk) have just been charged with making the first screen adaption of one of my favorite ongoing comic series. I'm nervous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I really hope that you're not gonna end up disappointed as I was yesterday coming out of the theater: I could't find one single aspect I enjoyed and still cannot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At least I'll always have the comics lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

In a few years you'll just ask an AI to turn the comics into a film.

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Story cohesion

In one or two simlpe sentences, summarize the story of the original Beetlejuice film. In just a few words, what is Beetlejuice about?

But hey we now have checks notes Monica Bellucci, the worst actress the big screen has ever seen…

May I introduce you to Monique Gabrielle?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In one or two simlpe sentences, summarize the story of the original Beetlejuice film.

Ghost couple tries to shoo away the family who bought their house after they died. The thing gets out of hand when they hire Beetlejuice.

Why this question, tho?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The implication is that the original wasn't cohesive.

I think the real world sections of the original are perfectly cohesive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think you got it backwards, I mean the new one doesn't have cohesion: the parallel stories don't really match with each other

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 1 month ago

Trying to put the thought in my head into words...Let's try this: Beetlejuice has an excuse plot like a lot of video games do. The plot is a framework to attach fun and amusing scenes together. It's an excuse to go to the ghost DMV and to have the dinner and seance and wedding scenes.

At one point they do have a stated goal of scaring away the Deetzes, but they don't achieve this goal. They scare off Otho, by making his...suit less trendy? Am I remembering that right? But the Maitlands and Deetzes end up living in harmony, Lydia gets the movie's victory lap. Beetlejuice is the title character, but he's really the closest thing the film has to an antagonist.

Really, the characters and plot don't matter as much as the series of fun and interesting scenes. That's why I enjoyed the movie; it's built more like a haunted house than a feature film. It's a series of loosely related vignettes. And if those are fun, then mission achieved.