FIRST TIME WATCHING: BEETLEJUICE (1988) // Reaction and Commentary // Catherine O'Hara is a QUEEN

[@eddyganges3934]

Michael Keaton doesn’t get enough credit for how funny he is and how great of a comedic actor he is.

[@brittyn]

Night Shift and Mr. Mom 🙌

[@MovieVigilante]

That's strange because many people were upset when he was chosen to play Batman because they considered him to be a comedic actor, only.

[@visionaryventures12]

Watch him in Gung Ho. Very funny.

[@daviderlick9933]

Much Ado About Nothing

[@Don-ol8ze]

He doesn't get enough credit for how good an actor he is, period. Still my favorite Batman.

[@vwlssnvwls3262]

These days a lot of people forget that Michael Keaton's popularity was rooted in comedy, and he was one of the best at it.

[@justindenney-hall5875]

Vwlss Nvwis Same thing with Tom Hanks.

[@pebblesanddirt]

Michael Keaton was a pretty successful standup comic before getting into movies. He’s still enshrined on the wall at the legendary Comedy Store in LA

[@jasonbeck6104]

He is a comedic genius

[@torgosaves427]

He was great in Mr. Mom!

[@davidmichels9454]

Night Shift was his best work. My opinion.

[@Tim21189]

Some of Beetlejuice’s lines were improvised by Michael Keaton. He’s always been a criminally underrated actor who was robbed of an Oscar for his performance in Birdman.

[@aquablushgirl]

I love the dark creativity of Burton's early films. Winona Ryder was the ultimate gothic depressed teen.

[@jameyhej3]

The outfit change got him because we've established that he's obsessed with _style_, and finding himself in a spotlight wearing a pastel suit was literally his worst fear.

[@ShanelleRiccio]

hahah yeahh probably grabbed that on the edit! I love that I basically watch these twice 😂😂

[@matthewfike4491]

I thought the high polyester content got him.

[@iKvetch558]

I believe it was even worse than just pastel...it was a pale blue polyester leisure suit...I am pretty sure he would literally rather be dead. LOL ✌✌

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

As someone who has worn a polyester leisure suit (lime green), I can affirm that it's pretty horrific. Even in the 70s.

[@terryhughes7349]

And it was a leisure suit.

[@leewinstead917]

It was because Michael Keaton was so expressive in his makeup that Tim Burton cast him as Batman 1989

[@van8ryan]

Well, according to Burton's book, he bought that Keaton would be the "type" that would NEED to be Batman, but his "stillness" was easily why people still consider him one of the best BATMAN actors (even though EVERYONE, both fan and industry alike, DID NOT like Keaton being casting (thinking it was going to be a total comedic copy of the 60s show since Keaton was best known as a comedian)

[@justincredible9187]

@@van8ryan You're so wrong it's ridiculous. What page of Burton's book are misrepresenting ?.

[@1nelsondj]

He's definitely my favorite Batman actor, you've got to be a little nuts to patrol the city dressed up like a human bat and Keaton allows that slight insanity to peep through, he's quirky but not out of touch, the genius sort of slightly off character.

[@TTM9691]

.....a movie in which he was not expressive at all, lol.

[@dsfddsgh]

Imagine if the internet was around in 1988 people would have been raging about Mr. Mom being cast as Batman. LOL

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

And I've seen The Exorcist about a hundred and sixty-seven times, and it just keeps GETTING...FUNNIER! EVERY! TIME! I SEE IT!

[@ShanelleRiccio]

MY FAV LINE IN THIS WHOLE MOVIE

[@chrissmith6097]

And complete truth. It does keep getting funnier.

[@mattschliemann9683]

Same same! My favorite line.

[@ColesLab]

Anytime someone mentions scream to me 😂

[@stang5755]

..I mean, I think he's qualified. ;P

[@FestivalFacePaintArtist]

“I’m Lydia Deetz and I’m of sound mind. The man next to me is the one I want, you asked me, I’m answering. Yes, I love that man of mine”. 😂😂😂

[@jakecleveland1051]

When I was a kid, I used to love the Beetlejuice cartoon back in the day! Damn I feel old LOL

[@kingjellybean9795]

Remember the episode where he got framed for "shop lifting" because germ pond scum put a car jack under the building and old BJ stepped on the handle😂

[@Darkswordz]

Me too. The cartoon was fantastic.

[@elzar760]

I loved the cartoon.

[@lorrainemcgrail6315]

Don't feel old, people are still watching it :)

[@donericdisante]

Shop til you freak at the Spooky Boutique

[@neils123]

I'm 48 years old and I still don't really feel like a full-on adult.

[@michaelcoulter1725]

I'm thirty-eight and I feel the same got to tell you life's been good to me over the years

[@hgman3920]

You can buy blank journals with the "Handbook for the Recently Deceased" cover. I bought one for a friend who is obsessed with Beetlejuice

[@ShanelleRiccio]

I LOVE That cover!! Would buying one make me a poser? hhahah

[@sarahcampbell1115]

@@ShanelleRiccio no! It makes you a fan of a great movie!

[@elzar760]

I would love to own the actual prop though…if it still exists.

[@ElisabethKisselstein]

I could swear I’ve seen a blank notebook with it as the cover

[@johnnym7575]

Haha. I got my handbook from Amazon. It's in my coffee table. 😀

[@AlpineWoods]

It was estimated that about 90% of Keaton's performance was improvised, with just a few lines done as scripted. He really took the part as written and made it his own and way better than what was scripted.

[@Pengi_SMILES]

I LOVE these early Tim Burton films. This, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood etc. Even the Batman films. So much fun and creativity.

[@Bfdidc]

I love the idea of the afterlife as a giant, tangled bureaucracy.

[@sean---the-other-one]

You should look into Buddhism, I think. I’m pretty sure there’s a concept of ‘Heaven’ as being a sort of council/admin/bureaucracy oriented place. Higher beings, but just running the show like we do here.

[@Sarah_Gravydog316]

idea?

[@wratched]

Yeah. Read Journey to the West.

[@GF_Baltar]

Shan starts watching An American Werewolf in London: "Is this New York??"

[@ShanelleRiccio]

They literally state and show Chicago in the opening of Sleepless in Seattle and i legit thought it was NYC within two seconds

[@GF_Baltar]

@@ShanelleRiccio Lmao. Maybe you should stick to movies where there's no doubt about the location, like "Escape From New York" 😂

[@ShanelleRiccio]

@@GF_Baltar thought I’d be safe with Sleepless in Seattle!! Since they literally SAY Seattle, but then i got tricked with the whole different cities thing 😂

[@GF_Baltar]

@@ShanelleRiccio Haha, well tbf that movie wasn't called "Sleepless in Chicago", so it was a little tricky! Reminds me of the movie "Biloxi Blues", which starts out on a train from New Jersey, not Biloxi (it's a really good Neil Simon flick, btw).

[@dgbellak]

Could be the nostalgia talking, but this is one of my desert island movies. I think, if nothing else, it packs more world- and character-building in its runtime than most peak TV shows pack in a whole season, yet manages to be hilarious and entertaining without feeling like an exposition dump. Very 80s, but very colorful and nonstop invention.

[@-M0LE]

Yes it’s perfect pacing Also feels very un Hollywood

[@nebulous8389]

Dude it's one of my top faves of all time, and it left an everlasting impact on my imagination. The Genius of Tim Burton 😈

[@markmcgee2417]

Now that you said that I wish to add this to my desert island list!

[@dnf-dead]

I saw this at the cinema, twice.. I would have gone a third time but I didn't want to risk it..😁😆😅

[@ShanelleRiccio]

HHAHAH I get it!!

[@MFSMUG]

Brilliant.

[@MikeB12800]

🤣 😂😅

[@keyman6689]

4 for me! And the last time a group of us brought handkerchiefs and got up and danced around during the iconic scene!

[@michellepeters7066]

You should watch the Tim Burton movie "MARS ATTACKS!"! Packed with moviestars!

[@jainelson8840]

OMG yes! Netflix has been recommending it to me recently. I’m THIS close to watching it.

[@martinbraun1211]

YES!!!

[@JakeToll37]

The movie still good after 25 years.

[@kingjellybean9795]

Jack Nicholson as the president/scum bag vegas casino developer and Danny devito as frank from its always sunny😂

[@lokithecat7225]

Ack Ack!

[@davidphillips9726]

When this came out on VHS, I BEGGED my parents for a VCR so we could rent it. They gave in. They rented it. That VHS NEVER made it back to the store. Every single day, my 5th and 6th grade years, I would wake up at 5 am so I could watch Beetlejuice before I went to school. I can still do the entire movie, front to back on command LOL. There are way too many movies I can say that to

[@jescis0]

THAT'S devotion!! 😮😮👍🏻👍🏻

[@bamzilla.]

Danny Elfman, from Oingo Boingo, did the music. I rate him up there with John Williams and Hans Zimmer. Absolute movie scoring genius.

[@brittyn]

And he only started working with Burton after Paul Reubens insisted he write the score for Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, his first ever composing job!

[@glenmcdonald375]

Danny Elfman did pretty much EVERY musical score in the late 80's 90's and beyond. Or so it seemed... And btw, I still sing "dead man's party" at karaoke every year around Halloween night

[@jdspencer60]

and the Simpsons theme right?

[@emeraldcity_]

He did the simpsons, Batman, pee wee big adventure, he even did movies like Midnight Run and many many others. You can buy the Danny elfman movie score cd.

[@GarrettJayChristian]

​@brittyn Strictly speaking, his first score was his brother Richard's 'Forbidden Zone' (1980) written to preserve some of the theatre acts of the stage troupe 'The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo,' of which both were part.

[@stevenjohansen3827]

Beetlejuice gets about 16 minutes. Hannibal Lector in Silence Of The Lamb only about 15 minutes. Icons don't need much.

[@JoeMama410]

Darth Vader was in Ep4 for 8 minutes.

[@paulstroud2647]

The shark in Jaws? 4 minutes.

[@MrParkerman6]

Wrong. Hannibal has exactly 19 minutes.

[@SGlitz]

The King of Stop Motion, Ray Harryhausen

[@justincredible9187]

yeP !.

[@telemperor]

Geena Davis is actually quite smart and a member of MENSA. She probably understood the vision of the script immediately.

[@joelwillis2043]

This movie was an entire mood when it came out. People were putting on the soundtrack and dancing around their house.

[@ElisabethKisselstein]

Around 14 minutes in, the soprano aria underscoring Lydia’s writing of her note is from Act 1 of Lucia di Lammermoor - Lucia is singing about seeing a ghost. (Just in case opera is not a thing) Tim Burton is such a genius!

[@justincredible9187]

Great fact/comment 😊

[@MrParkerman6]

How is Tim Burton a genius? He neither wrote this film or chose the music. All he did was Direct. THIS GUY (one of the writers) is the REAL genius: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmfFcpyLa5uArNk

[@adrianhunter109]

I was around 10 years old when I first saw this. I was only aware of BeetleJuice being a cartoon, was shocked when it was live action.

[@jescis0]

I was 11… 1977… I saw the movie and the TV cartoon show! But I didn't finish the movie until later in my life… because the slow intro… but I always like it! 😉😉😁😁

[@PrincessSnowbelle]

Catherine O’Hara is everything in this movie! Everyone is awesome, but I just love her portrayal of Delia!!!

[@GBrimstone]

She had a good episode (well my opinion) of Tales from the crypt

[@Caseytify]

When she started swaying her hips during the possession scene I broke into a sweat.

[@jimballard1186]

It's been forever since I've seen Batman, but I swear there's a scene with the Joker turning around to "marry" Vikki Vale that just about mirrors the shot of Beetlejuice turning toward the camera to say "Shall we?" to Lydia.

[@JBWinter]

As a kid seeing this for the first time, I thought Winona Ryder was the coolest, prettiest girl in the world. Biased me forever

[@JaakuSan]

It takes a lot of effort to make stop motion feel fluid and “real” so it gives a lot of people the shudders. Kind of like how some people are scared of mannequins. It lends itself really well to spooky movies because of it haha

[@logicdiary3179]

Such a classic! Stop motion is so creepy but I love it! Yet another film to convince me I grew up in the wrong decade because the 80s are just magical for movies.

[@rickmoskal2458]

Even though this isn’t technically a “Halloween movie” it really put you in the mood for it for some odd reason!

[@ShanelleRiccio]

My halloween movie definition is broad haha

[@StarkRG]

It deals with ghosts and gouls. Is that not enough to classify it as a Halloween movie?

[@christopherconard2831]

"Stop motion really creeps me out" Ray Harryhausan appreciates that.

[@OGuselessrogue]

Between this and Batman, Michael Keaton closed out the 80s STRONG

[@robertcartier5088]

A year after this performance, he was Batman. Now THAT'S range! lol

[@BryanMartinezSevenM]

"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" and "I'm Not There". Both have multiple actors playing the same character, but at different scenes. The later for artistic reasons and the former due to the death of Heath Ledger.

[@rebeccamichael626]

16:16 Fun Fact: When Betelgeuse kicks the tree after 10:57, it wasn't supposed to fall over, and the line "nice f***ing model", was improvised and was directed to the set designer.

[@sopdox]

Perfect timing. I was NY Comic Con today and I’m still wearing my “I myself, am strange and unusual” tee shirt.

[@mattcarroll1101]

Michael Keaton spent only two weeks on set, and Tim Burton allowed him to ad-lib most of his lines.

[@costafarian]

My sister's (born 1981) childhood movie to watch over and over again what Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. My brother's (born 1984) childhood movie to watch over and over again was Dumbo. My (born 1986) childhood movie I watched over and over again was Beetlejuice. My mother told me many times growing up that I would be a weird but hilarious human being.........she was not wrong.

[@ll7868]

Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Johnnny Depp, Alan Rickman & Helena Bonham Carter. It's a musical, lots of singing, and there's murder, intrigue and mystery. Imagine if Tim Burton directed Silence of the Lambs: The Musical.

[@SPVFilmsLtd]

You CAN in fact see a whole movie, a very famous film, re-made shot FOR shot, edit for edit (mostly) with a different cast: Gus Van Sant's remake of Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO with Anne Heche, Vince Vaughan, Viggo Mortensen and William H. Macy.

[@Justin_WithThreeDots]

Loved this movie as a kid (and now), and I also remember watching the Beetlejuice cartoon when I'd come home from school

[@matthewfike4491]

Tim Burton’s Big Fish was a great movie with a few spooky moments.

[@ShanelleRiccio]

I want to catch this one soon!

[@kenlangston3451]

@@ShanelleRiccio catch, huh? I see what you did there. 🙂

[@xbubblehead]

I saw Big Fish unaware that it was a Tim Burton work, and I had never heard of it...it was a pleasant surprise to say the least. By the way, I was really puzzled that Albert Finney's passing was so little noted because he seemed to be in high esteem among his peers and many of us in the viewing public.

[@One_Odd_Ood]

Big Fish was the most I have ever cried in a movie theater. Like, 10 minutes straight.

[@pamelawilliams3144]

Speaking of Jim Carrey, another really fun Genna Davis movie is Earth Girls Are Easy. Also from the 80s and has musical numbers with choreography...really think you'll enjoy it. Has everything you love in it.

[@pjjayhawk]

Or The Mask?

[@pamelawilliams3144]

The Mask is great. But its well known. Not enough people know of Earth Girls and think it'd be right up Shanelle's alley.

[@MLJ7956]

There was a short lived Saturday morning animated TV series called 'Beetlejuice' (which ran for 4 seasons from 1989 to 1991 first on ABC then moved to Fox Kids) which does act as sort of a sequel to the film (mostly featuring Beetlejuice & Lydia - voiced by different actors of course, as they travel throughout the netherworld solving various issues and dealing with all kinds of wacky shenanigans, usually caused by Beetlejuice himself, that often includes them dealing with weird monsters, ghosts, ghouls, goblins, zombies & more, and in select episodes also features cameos of the characters Charles & Delia Deetz, Adam & Barbara Maitlands, Juno, Otho and several other living and dead characters from the movie). Tim Burton was executive producer of the animated series during its entire run (and even Danny Elfman would revamp the signature theme song as well as provide additional music periodically throughout the series, sometimes uncredited). The entire series is available on DVD. ✌️

[@stephenphillps3250]

the ripping off the face scared the hell out of me when I was little. LOL

[@jacklevesque]

During my wedding reception dinner we did the beetlejuice dinner scene un planned. The DJ started the song and we all looked at each other and did it.

[@Psilocybin77]

Shanelle, this is a special film and I am so glad that you seemed to appreciate the quirkiness of the film and "outdated" special effects, which I think add immensely to the tone of the film. I've been in love with Winona Ryder since I saw this as an 11 yr old lol. She expressed a lot of what I felt growing up as a weird kid who loved the supernatural and occult. Having said all that, I hope and pray that you watch "Sleepy Hollow", also directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. A surprisingly dark and wonderful film in its own right. Happy Halloween!!!!

[@blackkatt777]

I concur.

[@rowenatulley852]

Keaton's performance is over the top good!

[@markd5067]

Micheal Keaton is a genius...

[@Jim73]

This movie began my crush on Winona Ryder, and showed me how much more interesting girls like her character could be than the regular "pretty" girls. Yes, I know, Winona is gorgeous, but I mean her character's darkness. Next girl like this I got a crush on was Wednesday Addams in Addams Family Values.

[@rocketdave719]

As a kid, I was exposed to the Beetlejuice cartoon first. It was a little surprising when I finally saw the movie and realized how much had been changed for the Saturday morning crowd: in the show, Beetlejuice and Lydia are best friends, there's no mention of the Maitlands, etc. I kind of forgot how much I loved the animated version until I bought it on DVD last year after watching the musical, which I think borrowed elements from the cartoon in its adaptation.

[@k1productions87]

The iconic sound of this movie is from the genius mind of Danny Elfman, one of the more prolific composers of Tim Burton films. He gave us the iconic Batman theme, Nightmare before Christmas, the 2002 SpiderMan movie,... and oh yes, the theme to The Simpsons. The man knew how to make eclectic into amazing

[@paulstroud2647]

And a decent singer too, he performed Jack Skellington's songs in Nightmare Before Xmas

[@k1productions87]

@@paulstroud2647 Well of course he was a decent singer, he was front man for Oingo Boingo for years :P

[@blackkatt777]

Let's not leave out the very used music from Edward Scissorhands.

[@salvadorslim3234]

Yesss Thank you so much! For picking Beetlejuice One of my all times favorite 🤩

[@ShanelleRiccio]

yay!!

[@davidpumpkinsjr.5108]

When it comes to improvision, Keaton is the type of actor who not only has a lot of good ideas himself but is also quick to take on ideas offered to him. He and Burton worked closely together to flesh out Betelgeuse's character. He attributed a lot of his performance in "Multiplicity" to Harold Ramis' direction as well as his own noted and he said some of the funniest lines in "Mr. Mom" were pitched by costar Martin Mull.

[@quietdemon8138]

One of Tim Burton’s very best movies imo, I had a huge crush on Lydia when I was in high school and even went on to marry a girl who is kind of a goth, she’s Indian and people found it very unusual and she would say Winona’s line of being strange and unusual and that just made me love her more, Michael Keaton’s performance as BeetleJuice is so iconic and cool that it was his experience working with Tim on this that he trusted him enough to be Batman the next year and of course he became THE Batman for an entire generation, thankfully a sequel has never been made and I hope it never is

[@exodia1510]

In the Beetlejuice cartoon, she had friends from school named Bertha and Prudence.

[@kingjellybean9795]

Yooo shan do a "is this new york" shirt with the meme of the anime dude reaching out to touch a butterfly... also MARS ATTACKS

[@radwolf76]

1988 was still the era of free range kids, and twelve-year-old me saw this as the first film I ever went to solo.

[@cometogether999]

I haven't seen this movie in forever. I can't wait to see your reaction, Shanelle. I have my popcorn.

[@misterkite]

@6:38 Coraline and Nightmare Before Christmas are Henry Selick movies.

[@toecutterjenkins]

Michael Keaton is great . "Mr Mom" "Gung Ho" "Multiplicity " are comedies he can also play a pretty intense character too.

[@Jenkinscraftingco2.0]

Also Night Shift costarring with the guy who played the Fonz on happy days

[@BoomerandZoomerReacts]

Was going to say night shift too. Also check him out in "the other guys" ...don't go chasing waterfalls

[@toecutterjenkins]

Pacific heights is a thriller he was in . I remember it being pretty good.

[@kdrapertrucker]

JOHNNY DANGEROUSLY

[@toecutterjenkins]

@@kdrapertrucker YES ! I watched that recently good luck finding a stream lol took me a while.

[@iChristyD]

Glenn Shadix was (Otho) from Alabama and when I was still living around Birmingham (he had moved back by then) we used to see him all the time around Highland and The Quest. He didn’t announce that he was famous and not a ton of people recognized him, but me and my friends always did. He was a nice, kinda quiet dude. He was also played Father Ripper in “Heathers”.

[@martinbraun1211]

Please react to "Harry and the Hendersons" (1987)! One of my favourite childhood movies!

[@Noggahide]

Saw this in the theater back in the day, opening weekend. People lost their minds during the Banana song, I've rarely been to a movie where people have laughed so hard!

[@parissimons6385]

Thanks for this reaction. And if you want to see Tim Curry in a strange musical and (kind of) scary movie, with occasional choreography, I hope you will see (or have seen) The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It also stars a very young Susan Sarandon. Much better to see Rocky Horror with a crowd (rather than by yourself at home), preferably a crowd that comes prepared for some audience participation. Not quite the same as what happens with some screenings of The Sound of Music...

[@kuldas9299]

Hard to believe Keaton went from playing Beetlejuice to Batman

[@williamsmith-kd4bd]

Sylvia Sidney was an absolute legend! This movie made Winona Ryder a star.

[@t43iavmoi]

You asked about 'when do you feel like a full adult?'. For me it's when others point it out to me. For example, I was walking down a street last Christmas and a little girl out with her mother looked up at me and said 'Happy Christmas Santa', which made me smile. I was 53 years old at the time. As a young man I had dark red hair and the thing with having this type of hair is that you start going grey when you reach your 40's. Inwardly I still feel the same as l did when I was 19. I don't think anyone truly feel their age, it's down to the people around them to point it out. All the very best, Trevor from East London, UK.

[@MrGpschmidt]

One of Burton's finest hours with production design to die for with a game cast of talent and Keaton in his 1st iconic role (he won the NY Film Critrics' award for this and CLEAN SOBER in the same year - beyond versatile - make sure to see that film too)

[@martinbraun1211]

Please watch "GALAXY QUEST"!

[@josearroyo8008]

Last kiss good night, Thema and Louise ......A league of their own

[@pernsinger]

At 69 years of experience, I'm still an 18 year old kid, looking over my shoulder waiting for people to recognize I've been faking adult all along.

[@timhibbard4226]

Yah! I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I grew up owning a very well watched VHS of this movie through my childhood. I always wait to see what you find in your IMDB trivia before I respond with any nerd facts. 😉😁 lol So an important implication in the beginning of the movie that I took YEARS to catch myself, is that the reason for Adam and Barbara’s staycation is that Barbara recently lost a wanted pregnancy. It’s hinted at in those first conversations they have in the beginning of the film. This is also why Jane, Barbara’s sisters is EXTRA terrible and why she almost immediately backpeddles her ‘for a family’ comment about the house. She tries to limply apologize, but as far as Barbara is concerned the conversation is officially over. It gives a little more depth and background to their motivations and eventual relationship with Lydia too. They, especially Barbara are getting a second chance at parenthood or at least something close to it in the beautifully odd adopted family they form with Lydia and her parents.

[@O_Towne_Bear]

Can't help it, every time I see Otho (the wife's friend) I think of the word "Eskimo". (It's a movie reference)

[@1ListerofSmeg]

Lol. In these comments I have mentioned that Heathers is absolutely a movie she should see. 👍Greatest High School movie ever IMO🧡💚

[@O_Towne_Bear]

@@1ListerofSmeg Agree!

[@procrastinator99]

Love this movie! and the 90's cartoon was WEIRD! (in a good way). I highly recommend at lest watching the opening to the cartoon, telling yourself, "they made this for KIDS!" Great reaction, as always. Can't wait to see what you react to next.

[@TheNeonParadox]

I adore this movie. The story pace, cinematography, practical effects, art... Everything is just perfect.

[@kem1691]

This was my favorite movie as a kid - I used to cry when the football players appeared on the stairs because I knew it meant the movie was over 😂

[@MacGuffinExMachina]

I love the subtle Sartre joke of the waiting room with the "no exit" sign.

[@pumkinheadfanvhsforever6087]

The thing that helped Stop-motion look the best is actually the process called "motion Blur" or using a special computer program that would scan and add the filter blur between each image. It helps make the motion more fluid and life like. Jurassic Park and Nightmare Before Christmas were the earlier pioneers of the process. Now I think it's a standard process when using Stop-motion.

[@3DJapan]

I'm a professional animator and went to school for it where I did stop motion. I'm curious why there would be a black frame.

[@elzar760]

Don’t forget the pioneering work done by Ben Wyatt and what that did for stop motion.

[@Daveyboy100880]

There is no stop motion in Jurassic Park (the the FX were originally conceived as using that technique). The dinosaur FX were a mix of live action animatronics and computer animation.

[@Daveyboy100880]

@Phil Nolan I'm guessing that the above poster is thinking of how stop motion was often done with 2 frames of film being shot for each motion to cut down on animating time, but that some higher-end productions would go the whole hog and animate at 24fps, which looks less staccato to the eye... but I'm not sure.

[@Ryotsu2112]

@@Daveyboy100880 It was heavily into production with stop motion by Phil Tippet before they realized how good the newly developed CG could be, so they switched to CG to replace the stop motion. They used Tippet’s stop motion (which a lot of was already shot) as reference for the CG animators.

[@robwilliamson5082]

As someone who was scared by stop motion as a child (specifically Nightmare Before Christmas), you have to watch “Kubo and the two strings.” It’s so beautiful but not isn’t super scary. There are some creepy moments but overall it’s a beautiful story done with the sensational stop motion. Of course I, as one person can’t demand you watch it, but I highly suggest it if only for a personal watch, it’s beautiful. Also also, lol, another film turned musical that you can least listen to the cast recording for (moulin rouge being my previously mentioned)

[@karlwhite2733]

Watching your video, my daughter loves Beetlejuice so she comes over, see's you and says...wow she's pretty. 😁

[@ShanelleRiccio]

Your daughter is officially my favorite person ever!!

[@Godspeed1756]

A movie with amazing singing numbers and perfect for spooky season is Repo The Genetic Opera

[@elizabethstrong6057]

There's like no reactions to this movie on KZbin 😢

[@chameleonvr4]

Hey Shanelle! Shout out from the US Marine Corps! Loved watching your reaction to this movie! This was one of my all time 10 favorite movies back in the day with Rambo Goonies Predator ferris Bueller's Day off star Wars I mean obviously I could go on and on but I still have this movie on VHS cassette tape! Anyways I just wanted to tell you how much I love watching your reactions and keep up the great job!

[@peterschmidt4348]

Please watch MARS ATTACKS! Also from Tim Burton.

[@themidianite1645]

When I was in kindergarten, my mom made me a Beetlejuice costume and I walked the line between best costume and getting expelled because of how in character I was.

[@toecutterjenkins]

Saw it in the theater and loved it as a kid. It was a pretty popular movie and on cable a whole lot.

[@lexopolis134]

It's so amazing how they managed to make the house look so weird and creepy after all the remodeling.

[@bryanreynolds8721]

That Exorcist line still get me to this day. It says a lot about Bettlejuice as a character that he finds something like that so funny. I always wondered who he was when he was alive. Was he a creepy stalker type in life or was he a repressed business man type who didn't cut loose until he died and found freedom in death.

[@kdrapertrucker]

Wait! You don't find the exercise funny??????

[@Spindler2007]

I can understand that stop motion animation is pretty creepy with that jittery movement. Ray Harryhausen was a master of stop motion animation in his time which inspired many directors including Tim Burton. The scariest stop motion creation for me was Medusa in Harryhausen's last movie Clash of the Titans. She was terrifying in every scene she was in.

[@CSM100MK2]

"WE LOVE CHOREO!" - that should be your shirt lol.

[@gregharker1600]

Ve Neil did a fantastic job with the makeup in this film.

[@tbmike23]

How do they combine these elements? Front projection. That's how it was done before cgi, and that's how many large scale effects are still done if they want them to look real. The clouds and skies in Oblivion weren't digitally added, they were filmed in advance, shot onto a giant screen on set, and filmed again with cast. Green screen existed at this point, though.

[@ShanelleRiccio]

Oh yay thanks for writing me!!!

[@joek468]

Watching yours and others first time reactions to movies that I know and seeing you discovering and enjoying is very cool. Didn't realize how cool that could be.

[@ravensshadow2179]

Glen Shadix the guy that played Ortho is a great character actor he had a number of small roles and stole the scene when he was in them. His life was cut to short by a accident.

[@lawrencewestby9229]

You may have noticed that in the advertisement and the sign over the grave the spelling of the name is Betelgeuse. That is the proper spelling of the star in the constellation Orion the character is named after. Beetlejuice is a common way of pronouncing the name. The star is a red supergiant and its position in Orion marks the hunter's right shoulder.

[@MovieVigilante]

Catherine O'Hara is glad she agreed to do the movie because she met her husband on the set, who was the production designer.

[@michaelzabala4850]

The film takes place in a fictional town called Winter River, CT. But all exteriors including the actual town itself were shot in Vermont.

[@resin_Hd]

“Not a lot of Betelgeuse.” The story was that the first rendition had a lot more Betelgeuse and it was a lot more dark, gory and a lot less comedic. It was decided that would go over and it was all rewritten.