{"id":1670,"date":"2024-09-07T12:18:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T19:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2024-09-07T12:18:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T19:18:42","slug":"movie-pass-adventures-beetlejuice-beetlejuice-and-lover-of-men-the-untold-story-of-abraham-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/07\/movie-pass-adventures-beetlejuice-beetlejuice-and-lover-of-men-the-untold-story-of-abraham-lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Pass Adventures: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Lover of Men: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:52,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/wesclark.com\\\/burbank\\\/burton_haunts.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240719125448\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.wesclark.com\\\/burbank\\\/burton_haunts.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 10:46:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-10 14:47:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-29 15:19:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 13:46:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-17 18:36:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-23 23:19:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 07:00:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 07:00:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beetlejuice Beetlejuice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/beetlejuice-beetlejuice.jpg\" alt=\"Winona Ryder as Lydia looks at Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice, who is looking at the camera.\" class=\"wp-image-1672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/beetlejuice-beetlejuice.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/beetlejuice-beetlejuice-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/beetlejuice-beetlejuice-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been multiple attempts to make a Beetlejuice sequel, and the final result seems to have come from throwing all the different scripts into a blender. Tons of disconnected stories that go nowhere, and lots of lazy writing. Example: when explaining why Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin&#8217;s characters aren&#8217;t in the movie, Lydia (Winona Ryder) says &#8220;we found a loophole that let them move on.&#8221; They never explain the loophole or reference it again. Also: Jeffery Jones, convicted as a sex offender for soliciting pictures from kids, wasn&#8217;t invited back for the sequel, but an animated character that&#8217;s clearly based on him has a major scene, and his photo is prominently featured in several major scenes, including one where altar boys sing &#8220;Day-O&#8221; at his grave. Creepy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s fun to watch the cast play off each other, but it would be a lot more fun if the story didn&#8217;t feel like it was written in one draft by a second year improv team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fun side note: I teach at Luther Burbank Middle School. Tim Burton went here. <a href=\"http:\/\/wesclark.com\/burbank\/burton_haunts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">He was not a fan.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lover of Men: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/lover-of-men-the-untold-history-of-abraham-lincoln.jpg\" alt=\"Sepia toned image of Abraham Lincoln's eyes.\" class=\"wp-image-1673\" style=\"width:744px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/lover-of-men-the-untold-history-of-abraham-lincoln.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/lover-of-men-the-untold-history-of-abraham-lincoln-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/lover-of-men-the-untold-history-of-abraham-lincoln-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea that Lincoln was gay is hardly new (as the Log Cabin Republicans would tell you), and the subject is a compelling idea for a documentary, but this film just doesn&#8217;t work. It meanders all over the place. The music is distractingly syrupy. There are far too many long, slow tracking shots and soft focus, slow motion shots. A short, focused look at the sexuality of Lincoln would be much more compelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And a side note: Just because David Bowie had a gender fluid life doesn&#8217;t mean it makes sense for this movie&#8217;s poster to feature Lincoln&#8217;s face with the Aladdin Sane lightning bolt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that was a weird double feature&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}