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Summary: Hee hee hee.
Review: Hey, I like this movie, too, but no review of this film is really complete without mentioning the dorky, embarassing '80s New Wave fashion disasters, from Corey's outlandish, eye-bruising "Miami Vice" vest, to the bad boy leathers on Kiefer & Co. A fun vampire movie, yes, but also a hilarious pop culture time capsule.
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Summary: This movie is a classic
Review: Anybody who does not like this movie has a few bolts missing! This is one of the top vampire movies of all time! it didn't get that way without a reason. It is good! get it!
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Summary: Sexy and Funny at the same time - Not just a teen flick
Review: Probably not a cinematic classic, but a great movie with a great cast and a great soundtrack. Michael and Sam move to Santa Clara with their Mom to live with their grandfather after her divorce. The grandfather himself is a real hoot - a taxidermist who keeps gifting Sam menacing looking stuffed animals and wears Windex for aftershave. Michael and Sam soon get mixed up with the colorful characters of the boardwalk. Michael is attracted to Starr who eggs on his advances despite the presence of David (Keifer Sutherland). Chasing Starr and not sure of who David is, Michael finds himself deeply embroiled in the vampire lair before he knows it. All he must do is make his first kill to become a full vampire. Meanwhile, Sam has bumped into the Frog brothers, vampire hunters who run a comic book store on the boardwalk as a front for their parents. When Sam discovers that his brother is a half vampire, he has no choice but to call the Frog brothers for help. Disposing of the advice from the Frog brothers to kill his brother, they set out together to find the head vampire (killing the head vampire will free all of the half vampires). Great one liners abound and it is fun to watch Corey Haim and Corey Feldman together. They were a good kid duo - better than most, in my opinion. Keifer Sutherland is a VERY sexy bad guy and Jason Patric isn't to shabby either. They have a good macho chemistry together. This is not your typical teen vampire movie. It is one of the best vampire movies I have seen not counting, of course, Interview.
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Summary: "Wait till mom finds Out!"
Review: This movie would have to be one of the best Vampire movie of all time!! It is funny at times and is also a Horror Film but this movie is a rock n roll, vampire, party.
The movie is R because there is violence and some language and is like a said funny this movie is worth buying
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Summary: Correction
Review: Even though this movie takes place in a city called Santa Carla, which is very close to Santa Clara, which is in Southern California, the movie is actually filmed in Santa Cruz. Santa Clara isn't a beach city. Santa Cruz is. I've been to the caves in the movie. They also have some at UC, Santa Cruz. That is the Santa Cruz boardwalk, and the grandpas house is in Bonny Doon.
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Summary: Not Intelligent, Just Entertaining
Review: What is so great about The Lost Boys is that everyone can watch this movie, whether you like horror movies or not. It is one of the most enjoyable films I have ever experienced. The charm of The Lost Boys does not come with it being a "quality motion picture," but it comes with its encore of laughter, action, and likeable characters. On a scale of one to five, The Lost Boys should recieve a 2 1/2. However, since this movie is absolutely entertaining and fun, it boosts itself up to 4.
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Summary: Sleek, Sexy and Scary
Review: The Lost Boys is a "Hip, comic twist on classic vampire stories" (as written by The New York Times). It is not only scary, but very chilling as well. The bone-grating soundtrack, adds to the suspense genre. The movie also has some humor as well as some great drama. A great cast of Jason Patric, Jami Gertz, Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Barnard Hughes and Edward Herrmann adds to the movie a spark of ghoulish entertainment.
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Summary: The most stylish vampire flick in motion picture history!
Review: Released in the decade of the commercial vampire (the 1980's welcomed in a slew of vampire flicks), The Lost Boys went brashly head to head at the box office with the introspective soul searching Near Dark, and emerged from the oh so brief skirmish with hardly a scratch, victorious by a wide and bloody margin. Whereas opinions differ on which of the two is the superior vampire tale, The Lost Boys's style, elegance and wit has never been questioned (or even challenged) and, like Near Dark, it has transcended box office success to become an all time cult classic, and rightfully so. Taking a love of the old school vampire films and infusing them with an energy and passion that is undeniably modern, The Lost Boys spins a tale about teenage leather wearing, motorcycle riding vampires that cruise the beaches and boardwalks of the quiet coastal Californian town Santa Carla (a fictional town Santa Cruz stood in for). Drawn uncontrollably to the local siren Star (an illuminous Jami Gertz), new local Michael Emerson (Jason Patric) soon finds himself amongst the gang, at times sparring back and forth with the gang's charasmatic and self assured leader David (a brutal and blinding Kiefer Sutherland at his career defining best!) and others, dangling from railway lines, racing through the surf at lethal speeds and drinking from strange ornamental bottles. Not long after, Michael begins to notice changes in himself, like his sudden irritation to sunlight, his ability to scold himself from freezing cold water (a scene from the first draft of the script, criminally omitted from the movie) and his new and frightening talent to defy the laws of gravity. While his younger brother Sam (Corey Haim) falls in with his own crowd, the monotone and serious (and all the more comical for it) Frog Brothers, (also involved with vampires from an entirely different standpoint), begins to sort the pieces of his own puzzle out, the two come together to fathom what indeed they are dealing with and whether the seemingly insurmountable odds can be overcome. Uniting against a common enemy, the brothers, Star and the Frogs, self confessed vampire killers, take on David and his gang with violent, surprisingly funny and at times, startling consequences. One of the simplest and most accurate reasons for The Lost Boys's brilliance is the remarkable blend of film, music, horror, comedy and drama utilised by director Joel Schumacher. Cleverly enough, Schumacher realised that the key to the whole project was style and he drenches the film in it. From the 'distinctive' opening helicoptor crawl across the blue/black waters of the Californian ocean headed towards an inviting boardwalk, literally buzzing with 'life' to the silohettes of the bikes racing through fog shrouded forests, from the vibrancy and humour of the concert staged boardwalk to the disturbingly real and sickeningly violent infamous campfire scene (where the film really ups the ante), The Lost Boys is literally the most stylish and downright cool vampire flick in motion picture history. The music, as much a character in the film as the mortal and immortal roles, compliments the on screen action with the accuracy of a narrator, editing the scenes together with a polish and finesse that is miserably lacking in Schumacher's later work. The violence, when it does happen, is shocking and sudden, clearly stating that though humour is near enough always present, 'these' vampires will not be satisfied with just the jugular. This is murder at it's most nonchalant, an inevitable vocation for vampires approached with all the enthusiasm and gusto a teenager could muster, and all the more disturbing for it. Performances are sterling from all involved, supporting the fantastic Sutherland with ease and the effects are handled with just the right amount of delicacy, never intruding or stifling the flow of the quick paced narrative. The final result is a movie that could well be the best advertisement for vampirism the world has seen. Since viewing the film at the tender and highly influential age of twelve, I have since watched The Lost Boys more times than I have the courage to admit and it rightfully sits in my top five of the greatest movies ever made. If you are a vampire fan, then you should be staked through the heart if you haven't already experienced The Lost Boys. If you have, perfect isn't it?
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Summary: good old fashioned (blood curdling) fun
Review: Yes, it's a bit predictable. Yes, it was a showcase for teen-idol-cute-boy type stars. Having said that, it's really a great movie. Typical teen angst scenarios (my folks split up, I'm the new guy in town, I'm trying to impress the pretty girl who is more interested in the bad buys than me)are given a macabre twist with the revelation that the bad boys -- along with the pretty girl -- are "lousy bloodsuckers!" (movie quote, edited.)K. Sutherland does a fantastic job as the lead bad guy (with a momentary lapse with a tear for what he is...)Jason Patric is a troubled Jim Morrison doppleganger, and the two Corys are, honestly, hysterical as they try to save Santa Clara. The cinematography on some of the end scenes is really excellent. Is it a deep, thought provoking, heart wrenching film of love and loss? No. If you want that, go get Titanic. This is pure fun, with a bloody twist. Enjoy!
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Summary: It's Fun To Be A Vampire
Review: The Lost Boys shows me something different every time I watch it. Perhaps I was oblivipus my first time out, perhaps TNT cut portions, or perhaps it really is that myriad.
There is so much that can be said about detail in this film, tiny little cues that spin your perception of the story in wholly different directions than it has ever gone before.
The elated grin on Star's face as she presses against David in the race scene, the tiny scrap of Beauty Has Her Way as the black clad vampire leader watches her return to him, and even the Echo and the Bunnymen poster on Sam's wall (not to mentions millions of other tiny details) all aid in a new sense of scope as slowly you take them in. What's more, there are the upper, superficial layers of the film to revel in. Just sit back and relax while the abject sillyness of the Coreys makes your gut hurt with suppressed laughter, enjoy the (apparent) absolute mindlessness of the fight scene, and try not to be nauseated during the feeding(unrealistic? yes. evocative of more gory images? also yes.) The last (I swear, the last) comment I absolutely must make follows:
The Lost Boys is an incredibly easy movie to feel. Not that it is emotionally trying in any real way, bt in that there is something more than tangible, perhaps even more than visceral about the film. The plot is believable, not in that I believe in the supernatural, but that in many (if not all: note the Frog brothers) of the characters respond to stimuli presented in such an absolutely honest way that it worries one. Are there vampires right down the block? The howling motorcycles, the missing persons flyers, the predominance of odd people in my neighbourhood - am I living in an haven for the undead? Even the most rational people could easily find themselves looking over their shoulders when walking the dog after dark. Especially people who live as close to Greenwich Village as I do, pardon the phrasing but that place must be crawling with vamps!
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