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Summary: Outstanding Soundtrack
Review: I love movies that you can take both seriously and laugh at and this is one of those movies. This movie brings a new twist to the vampire genre while not forsaking it all together. Lost Boys also has some twists in it to keep you wondering while laughing at some of the charaters trying to fend off the vampire gang. This movie also has one of the best soundtracks I have ever heard. Every song gives you the feel of where the movie is taking you. I highly reccomend this movie to everyone.
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Summary: Vampires try to kill everyone named Corey!
Review: The Lost Boys is a cult hit from the 1980s about ... a cult, basically. Corey Haim and Jason Patric star as brothers who move with their single mother (Dianne Wiest) to a small beachtown in California. The older brother is quickly trying to keep up with a crowd he doesn't like that much, vying for the attention of the beautiful Star (Jami Gertz) and facing off with the head vampire played by Kiefer Sutherland. It's a bloodsucking Brady Bunch!
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Summary: An interesting departure
Review: First of all, I'd like to know what the deal is with the poster on Corey Haim's wall. You know what I'm talking about, the one with the muscle guy in the tank-top, running his hand up underneath it exposing his mid-section. I'm not talking about a poster of a woman, it's a man... man. Is that some sort of homoerotic inference? Then there's the dainty little earring, the whole bath scene with him singing, "I ain't got a man," the hawaiian shirts... then there's the inseperable Frog brothers, the list just keeps going. Anyway, all that "... Theory" aside, this is a unique vampire movie. It takes into account the pressures and horrors of adolescents; the changes, peer pressure (being one of the crowd), the complete surprise at the awkwardness following those changes. Vampiricism is displayed as a facility of all this; it's cool, it's desirable, it's a great way to meet girls, and most importantly, it makes you superior to everyone else. That's brilliant. And yet somehow the movie manages to maintain all the lushness that the myth of vampires incurs. These rough teenage ... are at once immature and wild but also aged, wise, elegant and beautiful. So yeah, buy the movie. It loses one star simply because of the horrible way all the non-vampire characters were handled. Especially Grandpa.
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Summary: A great modern vampire story
Review: I own this on laserdisc, but unfortunately that's not an option to review. But it doesn't change the fact that this is a great movie. There are those who think I'm some sort of a horror movie buff because I enjoyed The Lost Boys and never miss an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Actually, I just enjoy a great story, and that's what this movie has. Like the classic horror movies, it isn't just a slasher T/A movie where the whole story revolves around the violence. The Lost Boys is a great character-driven movie. It begins with Dianne Wiest moving herself and two sons to a small SoCal town (but not Sunnydale) to live with their grandfather after their lives have been uprooted. The boys have a difficult enough time settling into things, especially with a gang led by Keiffer Sutherland stirring up trouble at every turn. But that's not the worst of it -- Keiffer's gang is actually a nest of vampires, and their looking to expand their ranks. Enter Jamie Gertz. She's already been taken in by the vampires, but has yet to make her first kill (i.e., according to the Lost Boys she's not a full vampire yet). When the eldest son falls for her, he too gets drawn into the vampires' web. Meanwhile, his younger brother falls in with adolescent would-be vampire hunters, on the trail of their own first kill. The soundtrack rocks, the story rolls and the characters are compelling. Keiffer Sutherland and Jamie Gertz both jump-started their careers with this movie, and Dianne Weist puts in one of the best performances of her career (much better than her turn on Law & Order, and on a par with Edward Scissorhands). And keep an eye out for a pre-Bill & Ted Alex Winter, as one of the vampires. Even if vampires aren't your bag, if you enjoy a good thriller, check out The Lost Boys. I'm sure you won't be dissapointed.
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Summary: fun
Review: THE LOST BOYS
*****
THIS IS POSSIBLY THE BEST VAMPIRE MOVIE WITH QUEEN OF THE DAMNED CLOSE BEHIND. THE ENDING WAS BRILLIANT AND THE SONG THAT PLAYED IN THE CLOSING CREDITS WAS HAUNTING. FOR ALL THOSE WHO DONT KNOW THE SONG. IT'S PEOPLE ARE STRANGE AND IT'S BY ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN. OK SO THE MOVIE WASNT FROM MY ERA SINCE I'M 17 AND I DIDNT EXPECT TO LIKE IT BUT MY COUSIN BOUGHT OVER THE DVD AND I WAS SHOCKED BY HOW GOOD IT WAS. KEIFER SUTHERLAND IN HIS ONLY GOOD MOVIE FROM THAT ERA SINCE PROMISED LAND STUNK. I'D BE EXTREMELY HAPPY IF THEY RE RELEASED IT INTO THEATERS WITH DELETED FOOTAGE. I WOULD GO SEE IT AS MANY TIMES AS I COULD AND THEN WHEN THE DVD CAME OUT I'D BUY IT SINCE IT'S MY ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIE. OK SO NOW TO THE STORY MIKE IS THE NEW KID IN TOWN AND HE FALLS INTO THE WRONG CROWD. THE VAMPIRE CROWD. THE REASON HE MOVED INTO TOWN IS BECAUSE HIS FAMILY WAS MOVING IN WITH THIER GRANDPA. HIS MOTHER SUPERBLY PLAYED BY DIANE WEIST SUSPECTS HES WITH THE WRONG CROWD AND SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE. SO RENT THIS AND ENJOY A TRULY GOOD MOVIE. YOU WONT BE UPSET. YOU WILL ACTUALLY BE HAPPY THAT YOU RENTED IT. I WAS VERY PLEASED WITH WATCHING IT.
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Summary: Best teen horror movie ever!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: 5 words: You have to see this movie!!!!
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Summary: Best Vampire MOVE!!! But dissapointing DVD
Review: NOTICE I give the *DVD* 4 starts the movies gets FIVE!!! The movie is a good teen flick and will is a movie to watch to give you that feel good feeling,,,,, and the soundtrack to the movie or backround music is PERFECT! it beings out the movie a lot.. BUt the DVD in my opion was dissaporint the only highlight
Theatical Trailers and Scene index
The rest of it was all READING!! who would take the time read like 8 pages on a TV Screen of small parint!?!?!
But atleast it is aviavible on both Widescreen and Standered... but it wouldent have hurted to add deleted screns or atleast a commintary.
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Summary: Teen Vampires and Skip the Gothic . . .
Review: This movie was truly the beginning of something wonderful in vampire films. There is no brooding atmosphere or cheezy worn out clichés. This movie takes you into modern times with a modern teen gang . . . that happens to be vampires. It's up to Michael and his brother Sam to save the day against an enemy the grownups wouldn't even believe existed. Starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim and Corey Feldman and directed by Joel Schumacher this movie is sure to please.
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Summary: It's fun to be a vampire!!
Review: And yes, it certainly is. As this is a movie I've loved utterly and completely since I was a mere 13 years old, I feel I've got a little authority to review it...although maybe not in a totally unbiased way. We start out with what is perhaps my favorite opening scene in a movie *ever*. David (played so perfectly by Kiefer Sutherland) and the boys (Dwayne, Paul, and Marko) making trouble with the Surf Nazis on Santa Carla's carousel. The security guard who breaks up the fight and kicks the Boys off the boardwalk is going to regret this later, as he becomes yet another face on a missing persons poster.
But the story really centers around Michael and Sam Emerson (Jason Patric and Corey Haim), brothers who have come to Santa Carla to live with their grandfather because their mother has just gone through a divorce and is now 'flat broke.' Michael meets and falls for Star (Jami Gertz), a half-vampire who seems to have been involved with David at some point. David goads him into going to the vampires' lair and he ends up drinking some vampire blood, thereby making *him* a half-vampire. Meanwhile, Sam meets Edgar and Alan Frog (Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander), two vampire hunters who have never actually hunted any vampires before. Sam finds out what his brother has become and enlists the Frog brothers' help in finding out who the head vampire is and restoring Michael to his former self. That's the basic premise.
I think the reason I've always loved this movie so much is that the Lost Boys are just a great group of vampires. They love their existence and have complete fun with it. Other than that, I find it to be a good mix of horror and comedy, with some classic lines I still use to this day. Of course, I do have a couple of problems, but that could be because I have seen this movie over 100 times and have also read the novelization. There is obviously a day missing between when Michael becomes a half-vampire and when David takes him to the train tracks, and I like that day! It happens to be the day (evening) that Michael gets his ear pierced.
The DVD transfer is pretty good, although it looks a little bit old. It is a lot better than the VHS, however, and it's widescreen. The extras are pretty much non-existant and what I wouldn't give for a special edition of this movie. Well, anyway, sleep all day, party all night, never grow old, never die. Of course it's fun to be a vampire!!
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Summary: Get yer head checked...
Review: While this movie is nothing short from amazing, Dolan Debattista (a previous reviewer) is completely wrong about the Sisters of Mercy having anything to do with the title song "Cry Little Sister". I don't know how these crazy rumors get started that song was both written and performed by Gerald McMann.
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