It is Summer... still on movie blog mode...
I am guilty, yes it's mea culpa, massima culpa and so on so forth. I had to do it, after swearing off it and avoiding the "bring it to the big screen plea" like the plague, I decided to give LOST BOYS THE TRIBE a chance.
Reasons? mainly boredom and the fact that I thought that introducing Kiefer Sutherland's baby brother Angus as the lead vampire was kinda cute. So I said to honor good times and goofy classics, I'll give it a try. It can't be that bad.
I was wroooooooooooong. Who ever penned this craptacular toilet paper of a script thought he was capturing the spirit of the original and took himself seriously.
It is not a matter of me not catching the drift, last time I checked, I was alright with surfer dudes. It would have been interesting to see the whole vampire mythos introduced, even tongue in cheek to a life loving, free spirited pseudo stoned subculture. These surfers, however, are boring as hell. Each of these characters come in with their own little story that of course never gets developed. How could you go so wrong by mixing blood lust with adrenaline junkies, manic depressives and circuit legends on it's their own right? Don't ask me but they did it, the most interesting thing these idiotic blood suckers would do in an average night is stab each other to watch their guts spill...
If you cannot follow the level of depression I sunk into after watching this wasted can of film, I'll leave you with this... Corey Feldman was the best this movie had to offer, although not enough to justify Corey Haim's cameo which was like frigging out of the blue while the credits rolled... I'm still trying to figure that one out.
The point is this sad film is enough to keep me from vampire movies for a year, and let me say in self defense that I watched ANKLE BITERS and came out of it unscathed!!!
I would leave a quote as always, but blocks of this entire movie dialogue were borrowed and refried from the original.
Well, at least I reminded my self why LOST BOYS became an instant classic: cool vamps with the perfect blend of scary , fun and thrills. Oh and there is that quasi incestuous theme song a la Fall of the House of Usher... you know Cry Little Sister... which by the way is used over and over again on this installment with no reason or effect at all.
I am guilty, yes it's mea culpa, massima culpa and so on so forth. I had to do it, after swearing off it and avoiding the "bring it to the big screen plea" like the plague, I decided to give LOST BOYS THE TRIBE a chance.
Reasons? mainly boredom and the fact that I thought that introducing Kiefer Sutherland's baby brother Angus as the lead vampire was kinda cute. So I said to honor good times and goofy classics, I'll give it a try. It can't be that bad.
I was wroooooooooooong. Who ever penned this craptacular toilet paper of a script thought he was capturing the spirit of the original and took himself seriously.
It is not a matter of me not catching the drift, last time I checked, I was alright with surfer dudes. It would have been interesting to see the whole vampire mythos introduced, even tongue in cheek to a life loving, free spirited pseudo stoned subculture. These surfers, however, are boring as hell. Each of these characters come in with their own little story that of course never gets developed. How could you go so wrong by mixing blood lust with adrenaline junkies, manic depressives and circuit legends on it's their own right? Don't ask me but they did it, the most interesting thing these idiotic blood suckers would do in an average night is stab each other to watch their guts spill...
If you cannot follow the level of depression I sunk into after watching this wasted can of film, I'll leave you with this... Corey Feldman was the best this movie had to offer, although not enough to justify Corey Haim's cameo which was like frigging out of the blue while the credits rolled... I'm still trying to figure that one out.
The point is this sad film is enough to keep me from vampire movies for a year, and let me say in self defense that I watched ANKLE BITERS and came out of it unscathed!!!
I would leave a quote as always, but blocks of this entire movie dialogue were borrowed and refried from the original.
Well, at least I reminded my self why LOST BOYS became an instant classic: cool vamps with the perfect blend of scary , fun and thrills. Oh and there is that quasi incestuous theme song a la Fall of the House of Usher... you know Cry Little Sister... which by the way is used over and over again on this installment with no reason or effect at all.
2 comments:
Agreed. This waste of film should not be allowed in the same boxset as the original. From 5 minutes into the film I was apoplectic with disbelief at the crass implementation and lack of imagination. By the end of it I'm sure I had suffered a mild stroke. I can only imagine that some dim-witted bunch of "movie execs" had instructed the filmmakers to lift every funky image and snappy piece of dialogue from the original and bludgeon them together to produce a kick-ass zeitgeist of a film for 2008. They failed. The result is too awful to describe. I hang my head in shame at having purchased the DVD online. A curse on my trigger-happy "one-click-to-buy" finger. I console myself at having offloaded it to an unsuspecting homeless person. The fact that no self-respecting video store had it on their shelves should have tipped me off. Groan! - the black eyes, vampire growls, fast-forward vampire motion, writhing bikini-babes on heat, blatently placed subculture motifs. I feel another stroke coming on. As for Monsieurs Feldman & Haim - I can only surmise that selling ones toenail clippings on ebay is no longer a lucrative career. However it is a more honorable one.
Ahhhhh.... Marie. Just getting back to it all is giving me seizures again...if anything, it was fun to have a fello ranter aboard. Thanks for sharing :p
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