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Summary: Bloodsucking Fun and Big Hair
Review: I don't think I was old enough to remember this film hitting cinemas, but I discovered it before I got too cynical and still have a deep affection for it. It combines horror, forbidden romance, comedy, and touches on issues of peer pressure, loss, divorce and the importance of sticking by your family (even if your brother is a vampire).
A mother (Dianne Wiest) and her two sons (Corey Haim and Jason Patric) move from Arizona to sunny Santa Carla and in with their formulaic "crazy granpa" (you know the type I'm talking about) as a result of divorce. The eldest son Michael (Patric) quickly falls in with the Wrong Crowd by accidentally moving in on Head Honcho's girl (the lovely Jami Gertz). Things take a turn for the worse when Michael discovers these aren't your average bike punks, but a gang of wild vampires. Indeed. It's all up to bratty little bro Sam (Haim) and his new allies the Frog Brothers to save the day, and stop his mother from getting too cosy with a new guy who doesn't just run an appliance store (a nice performance from Edward Herrmann who seems to pop up everywhere).
Kiefer Sutherland is a treat as David, leader of the biker vamps, I still marvel at how he can make a peroxide mullet look cool. He plays this role as a sort of seductive bully very well.
Corey Feldman (because 1 Corey is never enough) also puts in a nice turn as Edgar Frog, plus you'll spot Alexander Winter of Bill & Ted's fame as one of the gang.
It's better than any recent vampire movie, has a great 80's soundtrack (Cry Little Sister, you know you love it) and a greasy saxophone man in purple pants. It's fun, there are a couple of scares and a nice hint of splatter (the Surf Nazi attack is like something out of Peter Jackson's Bad Taste). I give the bare-bones DVD package 3, but the movie 4. And fear not, there will be a special edition very soon with retrospectives, making of and tons more stuff, keep eyes peeled!
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Summary: Entertaining, but very over-rated
Review: I'm so sick of people naming this as "the coolest vampire movie of all time". Please, this is teeny bopper horror at it's best. While there is ample gore, and a great performance by Kiefer Sutherland, the movie still wasn't enough to keep me throughly interested. I found myself laughing for most of the time, especially by two things: The intentional comic reliefs, aka grampa and the Corey's. Grampa is a riot, but the Corey's are such bad actors that you laugh at them every time they open their mouth ("my own brother, a bloodsucker!"). Another thing is the many homoerotic undertones. Check out that Rob Lowe poster on Corey Haim's closet. That silly Joel Schuemaker!
Oh well. It's entertaining, but not something I'd care to watch often.
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Summary: Bon Jovi with FANGS....
Review: This film is so eighties, that you could watch this 100 years from now (thats if youre still alive) and say that was sooooo 80s. Apart from the crazy hairstyles, most of us can identify the cast as 80s has beens, (sounds harsh but true) most of whom never had any success in the 90s, but were gods to me when I was a teen, very much like deCaprio is to todays youth. The Lost Boys was my favourite film as a kid and I remember being fascinated by the coolness of the cast. You never really saw vampires portrayed like this before, cool, tight leather clad teenagers who chilled out to jim morrison, and then went out on the vamp-rage. I have to say that I have been a fan of corey feldman, when i first saw him in 'stand by me,' and have always found him as a very funny actor who unfortunately hasnt returned to our cinema screens for a very long time. Check him out in 'The Burbs,' with Tom Hanks. Anyway as for the DVD it has nothing going for it, except a trailer, hence the score I gave, but I read there is a special edition coming out towards the end of 2004.
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Summary: Obviously dated, but a cult classic.
Review: For those who are "traumatized" and find this movie "horrible," please step back for a second and realize this was released in 1987. I don't think this was actually meant to stand up to todays vampire movies. Back then, it had a great cast. Kiefer Sutherland (Always a favorite), Jamie Gertz (Gotta love Stars outfits), Jason Patric (pulls off the part well), and The Coreys (Nothing needs to be said about The Coreys. Pure 80's magic.) I didn't and still don't expect this movie to be some cinematic wonder, so for what 'The Lost Boys' is, it's a great movie. I would recommend it to anyone who fell in love with movies from the middle 80's and early 90's. For all you people who expect something like, "Blade" or "Interview with a Vampire," please take a moment to think about how the times and special effects have changed. I will always love this movie and it will hold a special place in my life forever.
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Summary: the lost boys rules
Review: i didnt grow up in the 80's so i dont know how well this movie did in the box office and stuff but i know its a great movie. the casting was the best. Kiefer sutherland made the best vampire and by the way he was increadibly hott. To end my review its a must see 80s movie for 80s freaks like me. Also it has some of the 80s hottest stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, and Jason Patric.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: I think this is one of the best movies ever made.... I read a review criticizing the fact that it is not precisely based on vampires guidelines, and perhaps it is not. But this is not meant to be only a horror movie, this is a hilarious comedy well acted, well filmed and a great action movie at the same time.
Vampires by the way don't exist, at least according to public knowledge, so everything is allowed, the buffy series has already proved that much.
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Summary: When you're strange...
Review: THE LOST BOYS is one of those nostalgic films that came out while I was in high school. It was refreshing to sit thru it recently as it had been so long since I saw it the 1st time around.The movie features a very young Keifer Sutherland and Jason Patrick as well as an ultra-young Corey Haim & Corey Feldman. I do believe this was the 1st movie Haim & Feldman made together, and was one of the very 1st that Sutherland made. If you like the horror / comedy genre, this is one of the films that pioneered that field. It doesn't go so far as slapstick (like the horrendous latter NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET movies) but does retain a certain macabre charm. The vampire element is handled well, always being a backdrop but never becoming too overwhelming to the comedic aspect of the film. One of the differences between LOST BOYS and other vampire flicks is that we never learn how old the vampires are. Typically, we see a middle aged person, find out he / she is a vampire & then learn that he / she is 600 years old. While they do mention the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, they never divulge that they were actually THERE during the quake. If you like vampire flicks, THE LOST BOYS is for you. It's one of the better ones I've ever seen, and is also bereft of the standard gun-blazing vampire movies of recent times. LOST BOYS is fun, nostalgic & it's strange. Even after all these years it's still eerie to hear the youth choir sing the Ten Commandments to a New Age melody...
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Summary: Lost in the 80's
Review: I would have given the Lost Boys 3 and a half stars but I couldn't so I just gave it 3 stars. The Lost Boys is a fun movie to watch and it has its moments. If you want to see a nostalgic 80's movie well look no further because it reeks of the 80's everywhere you look in it. It is a cool movie and all the actors play there roles really well. After I saw Speed 2: Cruise Control, I never wanted to see another Jason Patric movie, but he played the role of Michael really well. As did his younger brother Sam, played by Corey Haim. Haim was beaten with an 80's stick as you can tell by his clothing and hair but he plays his role well as a obnoxious little brother. Keifer Sutherland also stars in this movie and it was one of his better roles he has played in his movies. I noticed with movies starring Sutherland he plays the role of being a bad guy really well. This is a brief plot synopsis of the Lost Boys. Michael, Sam, and his mother move to California from Phoenix. The town looks cool but it is has a vampire problem. Michael gets an eye for a girl named Star and he finds out she isn't a normal teenage girl. He then gets tricked by Sutherland who is a vampire and Michael becomes a vampire then too. I don't feel like telling the rest of the story so just watch the movie. Like I said earlier The Lost Boys is entertaining and it reeks of the 80's. I have heard some people say it is the best vampire movie of all time. I don't think so, just because this is alittle too light hearted to be considered the best. Personally I would have to say Interview with the Vampire is the best. I have never seen Nosferatu but I've heard great things about that. The DVD itself is nothing special. The special features aren't anything great and the interactive menus aren't animated at all. So if you are the type who cares about kind of stuff you will be disapointed. The picture and sound quality isn't bad though and that is the only thing that really should matter when it comes to Dvd's. So if you are looking for a good movie that will entertain you and is a fun vampire movie then look no further to the Lost Boys. Movie - B
DVD (special features, animated interactive menus) - D
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Summary: The vampire rules and the comedy bits just do not work
Review: I have two major problems with "The Lost Boys." The first is that I know too much about vampires, gained from not only watching all those Dracula movies, reading Anne Rice novels, and consuming everything having to do with "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," but from having read pretty much everything in "The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead." So when Sam Emerson (Corey Haim) not only discovers that his brother Michael (Jason Patric) has become a vampire, but that there is a way of undoing his being undead, I am no longer willing to suspend my disbelief. I should add that this idea runs into one of my standard pet peeves from the "Star Trek" universe, which is that while I believe "X" can cause you to mutate from human to something else, reversing the process should never be as easy as it is. But the idea here is that if you kill Vampire A who created a Vampire B, then Vampire B can stop being a vampire (sort of a twist on the Anne Rice theory of vampires). There is a caveat: you have to do it before they take their first victim. Sure, it sounds simple, but it sure flies in the face of well-established vampire lore. The second problem I have with this 1987 film is that it is supposed to be funny, but it just is not. Sam is aided and abetted in his efforts to save his brother by the Frog Brothers, Edgar (Corey Feldman) and Alan (Jamison Newlander). The boys work for their doped out hippie parents at the local comic book shop, which sounds like a great idea. Who better to know how to fight the undead they kids raised on comics? But Feldman is trying to do some sort of impersonation of Sylvester Stallone and Newlander goes for something more taciturn, and it just does not work. The comic slapstick smacks of something really juvenile and just turns this into "Mommy, My Brother's a Vampire!" On the plus side is Keiffer Sutherland. If you thought he was a bully in "Stand By Me," then you will enjoy every moment he is on the screen as David, leader of a group of "teenage" vampires. This is a pretty good idea, talking "Interview with the Vampire" and crossing it with the "Wild Bunch." But Sutherland ends up being a bit player in the proceedings while we deal with domestic comedy situations, such as Sam's mom (Diane Weist) trying to date a nice local guy (Edward Herrmann), and the romantic subplot between Michael and the young lady vamp, Star (Jami Gertz). There are a few good ideas thrown in here (e.g., think of a cave as being a giant coffin), but with all the misfires they come across as nicks rather than palatable hits. Cinematographer Michael Chapman provides the appropriate mood, but director Joel Schumacher's story is too complicated and the attempts at comedy too feeble to save this one. However, the less you know about vampires the more you might like this movie.
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Summary: "Death by stereo!"
Review: I watched this movie on cable so many times in the late-80's and early 90's that I could recite every line in the movie from memory (still can). Indeed, one of the best vampire movies of all time. Blood sucking, late-80's style: Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Jason Patric, and the rest of the cast had great on screen chemistry that really came through and makes this movie a true classic. It is a dark comedy with elements of teenaged angst: The desire to fit in, a strong attraction to someone (dare we say a bit of love?). It's dated only in the sense that it reflects teen life of the late 1980's. Other than that, The Lost Boys is just one of those movies you can never tire of watching.
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