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WHAT WENT WRONG

Beetlejuice

WHAT WENT WRONG

Sad Boom Media

Hollywood, Acting, Directing, Blockbuster, Movie, Flop, Film, Disaster, History, Tv & Film

4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Lydia dies in a fire at the hands of a winged homicidal maniac?! ‘Beetlejuice’ (1988) started off as a gruesome, offbeat horror film, but it became the quirky classic we know and love thanks to Tim Burton, script doctor Warren Skaaren, an incredible production team, and the Beetle-Guy himself: Michael Keaton. Find out why missing her audition got Catherine O’Hara her part, how Harry Belafonte’s music made it into the final cut, why Michael Keaton almost didn’t take the job and so much more. 

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without the ads. and action. Hello dear listeners and welcome back to what went wrong your favorite

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podcast full stop that just so happens to be about movies and how it's nearly

1:01.2

impossible to make them let alone a them, let alone a good one, let alone a good one that's this weird.

1:07.0

Yep.

1:08.0

As always, I'm Chris Winterbauer joined by People's Host, Lizzy Basset, Lizzy, how you doing tonight?

1:15.0

I'm good. I didn't expect People's Host to take on for you the way that it has, but you know,

1:21.0

that's limited imagination. it just as weird as

1:24.9

beetle juice which as you just pointed out is really really strange maybe weirder

1:29.8

than I had remembered I'm sure you've seen it before now, but what was your sort of initial reaction to seeing this again?

1:38.9

I saw it when I was very young a couple of times in college on substances I'm sure at various points and it's one of those

1:48.5

movies that you you know you'll walk by a room it's on television or something like that and you'll sit down for a scene or two.

1:54.0

And there's some obviously very famous moments and set pieces and incredible sight gags and

2:01.2

practical effects.

2:06.8

Rewatching it, it feels like a pinball machine and you're just careening from one moment to the next

2:09.7

with no sense of narrative direction.

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