Beetlejuice- Is that Robin Thicke or Michael Keaton?

Beetlejuice is on ABC Family right now so I figured I'd write about it.  Remember when Alec Baldwin was young and hot?  Now he looks more like his brother, Daniel Baldwin.  But his eyes are like two ice cold pools.

I love Beetlejuice because it's Tim Burton, but it's a more commercial Tim Burton so it's not too out there.  Plus it was before Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp became his muses which is refreshing because that's getting annoying.  And I love Johnny Depp.  One of the reviews on imdb says, "It may take two or three viewings to warm up to Beetlejuice".  I think that's totally not true.  I've always loved Beetlejuice from the first time to the 50th time right now.  Even watching it right now I just found another joke I didn't understand when I watched it as a kid.

I mean how perfect is it that limbo is this complicated bureaucracy like the DMV where all you have is a handbook that reads likes an engineering textbook.  That sounds like exactly what limbo would be; it's not hell so it's not full of fire and torture, but it's full of petty annoyances that you wouldn't find in heaven.  Plus the fact that you're stuck in a house just watching things changing around you and if you go outside a giant sand-snake might eat you.  You're trapped.  That's what limbo is all about.

Beetlejuice is more clever than people give it credit for.  It might just be a stupid movie that ABC Family decides to play close to Halloween, but I think it's better than that.

I love everyone in this movie.  Michael Keaton=comedy genius.  Geena Davis is always fantastic.  Winona Ryder is pre-shoplifting incident so she's still cool.  Catherine O'Hara is perfection.  I already talked about Alec Baldwin's eyes.  And Jeffrey Jones is no longer cool since the whole child porn thing (he RUINED Ferris Bueller's Day Off).      

Plus it has.........Robert Gouleeeeeeeeeeeet

AND Beetlejuice looks like............

Funny-o-meter: 7/10 because it's mostly very dark humor, not laugh out loud humor which I prefer.    

 

Ghostbusters- Da da NAH NAH NAH NAH nananananan

There is no Dana.  Only Zuul.

Halloween will be here soon, kiddies, and I've been watching lots of scary movies.  Did I just say "kiddies"? When did I become the crypt keeper?  Law school must have aged me 8,000 years in two months.

Today I watched Ghostbusters and I said to myself, "Hey isn't that on this list?" And it is.  I do not live under a rock so I have obviously seen Ghostbusters at least a dozen times before today.  When I was little I thought the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was called "State Puff".  I very vaguely remember watching the cartoon as well (probably annoyingly because my brother watched it).  Actually I think I saw the cartoon first and then when I saw the movie I was like, um why isn't Slimer hanging out with them the entire movie?  They don't even officially call him Slimer.  Slimer deserves more credit than he gets.  He's a class act. He's the real star.  
Oh god remember Ecto Cooler Hi-C?  I just threw up in my mouth a little bit because a local bar serves Ecto Cooler fish bowls that are so sickly sweet you die.  Actually I just found out that the bar is closing...probably has something to do with the Ecto Cooler fish bowls.

I ain't afraid of no ghosts!

So is Ghostbusters funny?  It's not as funny as I remember it being.  It has incredible one liners like "Cats and dogs living together...Mass hysteria", "This man has no dick", and "Ray when somebody asks you if you're a God you say you're a God!".  Most of it was ad-libbed, especially by comedy genius, Bill Murray.  I love ad-libbed stuff.

I'd say it's about a 7/10 on the Funnyometer.
The funniest part of this movie is how terrible the effects are.  They must have looked so cool in the 80s.
Maybe Ivan Reitman should pull a George Lucas.