10 Insane Recent Movie Moments That Came Out Of Nowhere
4. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - Right Here Waiting
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was, despite its bloated story, a glorious good time. It was essentially an hour and a half of Tim Burton being Tim Burton; there was no studio breathing down his neck (unlike with his previous movie Dumbo, which nearly put him off filmmaking altogether) and Burton was allowed to realize his vision in all of its dark, quirky, wacky, idiosyncratic glory.
And the sequel's best moment? This brilliant, out-of-left-field gag.
After Lydia Deetz returns to the house from the original film, where she is reunited with Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton), she manages to return to the world of the living but hears music and looks down... to see Betelgeuse standing on the model town in the attic, serenading her with Richard Marx's "Right Here Waiting."
This moment is dark, hysterically funny, gloriously wacky, sinister, and even slightly cute all at the same time, so it really doesn't get much more 'Tim Burton' than this. It'll have everyone howling with laughter, and it's one of the greatest uses of popular music in any recent movie, a needle-drop that'd make James Gunn proud.