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Danny Elfman's BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE (2024)


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Pretty cool, I liked it more than I thought I would!

 

If you click around I think you get different tracks on different pages?  Not sure.

 

I can't figure out how to find the URL directly to the mp3s that are playing.  @thx99 any ideas?

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On 16/8/2024 at 2:13 PM, thx99 said:

 

This is the only MP3 I could find with music...

 

 

That track is SO MUCH FUN to listen to! I think I'm gonna put it on repeat for the rest of the night.

 

This score had better get a CD release, is all I gotta say.

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3 hours ago, Bayesian said:

That track is SO MUCH FUN to listen to! I think I'm gonna put it on repeat for the rest of the night.

 

This score had better get a CD release, is all I gotta say.

 

A physical release seems to come from Waxwork Records, most likely a vinyl though. 

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That was great! I love how the audience reacted to Jenna's placing Star Wars at #4, like she was making the world's biggest mistake.

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23 hours ago, mrbellamy said:

Nightmare Before Christmas, then Beetlejuice, Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Titanic, LOTR

 

She was presented one score at a time so she just had to guess where she would rank them 

 

Beetlejuice second? That's obvious PR.

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Just came back from BEETLEJUICE! BEETLEJUICE!. It was pretty good, with plenty of fun Burton-isms, but I can't escape the notion that they are "tagged on"; they don't come as naturally and organically as they did 35+ years ago, nor do they have that wonky, tactile feeling. Which is natural, because Burton is older, I am older and filmmaking has changed in general.

 

Loved all the Elfman references to his original score, including a cool version of the main theme over the credits. But I'm not that thrilled with the "sturm und drang" that he seems to lace all his blockbuster scores with these days. When it's down-tempo, it's much better. Also some entertaining uses of pop songs and the like. Chris Bacon did some arrangements.

 

Do we know yet if it will have a CD release?

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4 hours ago, Thor said:

Just came back from BEETLEJUICE! BEETLEJUICE!. It was pretty good, with plenty of fun Burton-isms, but I can't escape the notion that they are "tagged on"; they don't come as naturally and organically as they did 35+ years ago, nor do they have that wonky, tactile feeling. Which is natural, because Burton is older, I am older and filmmaking has changed in general.

 

Loved all the Elfman references to his original score, including a cool version of the main theme over the credits. But I'm not that thrilled with the "sturm und drang" that he seems to lace all his blockbuster scores with these days. When it's down-tempo, it's much better. Also some entertaining uses of pop songs and the like. Chris Bacon did some arrangements.

 

Do we know yet if it will have a CD release?

That’s interesting to read, that the Burton-isms you mention don’t have a tactile feel. I thought that was one of things they tried explicitly to bring to this movie. Very glad to get your reassurances about Elfman’s score, though. That was sort of critical for me that he got right. I sure hope there’s a CD release of this one, although nothing appears on Amazon or elsewhere regarding a release date. No news yet even of a digital release, which is concerning.

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2 minutes ago, Bayesian said:

That’s interesting to read, that the Burton-isms you mention don’t have a tactile feel. I thought that was one of things they tried explicitly to bring to this movie.

 

I know, but it could be as simple as analogue vs. digital filmmaking, or perhaps the budget (the 1988 film was obviously cheaper, so they had to make some decisions that turned out wonderfully wonky).

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33 minutes ago, Thor said:

I know, but it could be as simple as analogue vs. digital filmmaking.


Yeah, I think this might explain it. It's the first thing I noticed about the teaser. And the lighting seems to flatten everything out.

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Well, that's disappointing....

Hoping a score release is inbound, because I really liked some of the stuff I heard.

This is just a song album with the main and end titles.

 

I get why they're releasing this, but come on Watertower, how hard is it to ether put more score on there or make another album. 

 

https://www.qobuz.com/nz-en/album/beetlejuice-beetlejuice-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-various-artists/plzga489le8ic

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I’m confident that they will eventually release a Beetlejuice 2 score album.  Plenty of Elfman score releases have been released later than their songtrack counterparts, including Batman and both Spider-men.  


Btw, has there been any song compilation on one of his movies since Batman that has NOT had an Elfman track?  Even Chicago and Notorious had them.  It must be contractual for him.

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The end credits cue is so much fun. Elfman plays with the theme far more than in the main titles. You can parts of his suite for the Elfman/Burton show weave in and out, too. I imagine he was requested/felt obligated to be faithful to the main titles for the original in the titles for this, but he gets to run amuck in the end credits at least.

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Yeah, I think he's at a 100% success rate of having score cuts on song compilation OST albums post-Batman

  1. 1995 - Dead Presidents - Dead Presidents Theme
  2. 1996 - Mission Impossible - Impossible Mission, Claire, Trouble
  3. 1997 - Men In Black - M.I.B. Main Theme, M.I.B. Closing Theme
  4. 1997 - Good Will Hunting - Will Hunting, Weepy Donuts
  5. 1999 - Anywhere But Here - Anywhere But Here Score Suite
  6. 2001 - Heartbreakers - Heartbreakers Suite #1, Heartbreakers Suite #2
  7. 2002 - Spider-man - Main Titles, Farewell
  8. 2004 - Spider-man 2 - Spidey Suite, Doc Ock Suite
  9. 2006 - Nacho Libre - Ramses Suite
  10. 2009 - Notorious - The Notorious Theme
  11. 2012 - Silver Linings Playbook - Silver Lining Titles, Walking Home
  12. 2013 - American Hustle - Irving Montage
  13. 2015 - Fifty Shades of Grey - Ana and Christian, Did That Hurt?
  14. 2017 - When We Rise - When We Rise Suite
  15. 2018 - The Grinch - A Wonderful Awful Idea, Stealing Christmas

 

Alice In Wonderland had a song compilation album released, but it is called "Almost Alice" and not an "original soundtrack" - I don't think any of the songs on it were actually in the film, right? (I've never seen it).

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Some movies in there I didn't even remember he had done :lol:, like Nacho Libre or the Notorious biography.

 

25 minutes ago, Jay said:

Alice In Wonderland had a song compilation album released, but it is called "Almost Alice" and not an "original soundtrack" - I don't think any of the songs on it were actually in the film, right? (I've never seen it).

The Avril Lavigne song played on the end credits:

 

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The song was played over the film's end credits,[3][4] and went on to sell 45,000 copies within the first four weeks of its release.[5]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(Avril_Lavigne_song)

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1 hour ago, Jay said:

Yeah, I think he's at a 100% success rate of having score cuts on song compilation OST albums post-Batman

  1. 1995 - Dead Presidents - Dead Presidents Theme
  2. 1996 - Mission Impossible - Impossible Mission, Claire, Trouble
  3. 1997 - Men In Black - M.I.B. Main Theme, M.I.B. Closing Theme
  4. 1997 - Good Will Hunting - Will Hunting, Weepy Donuts
  5. 1999 - Anywhere But Here - Anywhere But Here Score Suite
  6. 2001 - Heartbreakers - Heartbreakers Suite #1, Heartbreakers Suite #2
  7. 2002 - Spider-man - Main Titles, Farewell
  8. 2004 - Spider-man 2 - Spidey Suite, Doc Ock Suite
  9. 2006 - Nacho Libre - Ramses Suite
  10. 2009 - Notorious - The Notorious Theme
  11. 2012 - Silver Linings Playbook - Silver Lining Titles, Walking Home
  12. 2013 - American Hustle - Irving Montage
  13. 2015 - Fifty Shades of Grey - Ana and Christian, Did That Hurt?
  14. 2017 - When We Rise - When We Rise Suite
  15. 2018 - The Grinch - A Wonderful Awful Idea, Stealing Christmas

 

Alice In Wonderland had a song compilation album released, but it is called "Almost Alice" and not an "original soundtrack" - I don't think any of the songs on it were actually in the film, right? (I've never seen it).


 

There was a similar Frankenweenie album at the time - mostly “inspired by,” still had an Elfman track on it (in this case a brief song that wasn’t on the score album).

 

My copy of Almost Alice has an Elfman track on it, but it looks like that was an iTunes only bonus track.

 

There are a few others too that aren’t on your list - both 50 Shades sequels, Dark Shadows, Taking Woodstock, The Family Man.  All have Elfman tracks.

 

Madonna’s Dick Tracy companion album postdates Batman, if that one counts.  It’s really A Madonna Album though.

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Kinda like how the Batman soundtrack was really a Prince album

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The movie is Tim Burton having a lot of fun. It gets crazier and crazier until it gets really funny. Michael Keaton, Catherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder are game. There are homages to Mario Bava in a flashback sequence, and a very good use of Carrie's score in a sequence that also pays homage to It's Alive. Elfman's score is good and serves the film well, an unpretencious and fun movie session. 

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The odds are stacked against this being good, even if I'd like it to be. Burton has been irrelevant for decades, he bombed with that ill-conceived Dumbo movie, that seems more like a Mad TV or College Humor skit than reality, and he's been putting out crap in general outside of the Dumbo cinematic universe.

 

A 30+ year later sequel to a cult classic that was a one-and-done perfect product for modern audiences is a bad idea. Once you involve modern audiences you end up with Ghostbusting stranger kids on a farm, a skinny tuna-eating Batboy with Nirvana music playing and all those lame-o Disney cartoon redos that just made you want to watch the cartoons and forget that they exist. It's all wrong.

 

I think I'll skip the nostalgia bait with this one.

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I definitely heard some fake instruments in the end title cue.  I wonder why?

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Only positive about this flick is Keaton's performance. He's seamless from the first one. But whenever he's absent, it all comes to a screeching halt and never moves. A movie should have some level of momentum, but this one is simply lethargic and lacks any interest in itself. The first film had plenty of talky scenes, but at least they were directed with energy and were backed up with memorable dialogue.

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5 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:

Now, when will we get Edward Scissorhands 2?


That one's too personal to Burton. I don't think he'll revisit it, even if desperation sets in.

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