20 years of "Why do the hot vamps have to die?"
Feel old recently?
No you haven't. Not yet.
This year is the 20th anniversary of the release of the film THE LOST BOYS.
Well, I'm grateful for it, I guess - watching this movie every single day my senior year of high school is definitely the thing that made me start writing vampire fiction, out of a combination of inexorable attraction to the vampire concept, and disgust that the vampires, always much sexier, wittier, and funner than the dumb-ass humans, always get staked at the end. I stood up and said "Hell no, if they just slaughtered the pimple-faces and the oldsters and the whiny clearance-rack-Ally-Sheedy bitch, they'd have such a better story!" ... and there you have it.
I can't watch this movie anymore, as its Joel Schumacher-ness and agonizingly shitty dialogue is too much for me to take, but maybe if I had it on DVD, and could watch it in Spanish, and skip past any parts that don't have Kiefer Sutherland or Jason Patric in them, I could maybe take it, for they bring the pretty (no matter how embarassing their hairstyles were).
No you haven't. Not yet.
This year is the 20th anniversary of the release of the film THE LOST BOYS.
Well, I'm grateful for it, I guess - watching this movie every single day my senior year of high school is definitely the thing that made me start writing vampire fiction, out of a combination of inexorable attraction to the vampire concept, and disgust that the vampires, always much sexier, wittier, and funner than the dumb-ass humans, always get staked at the end. I stood up and said "Hell no, if they just slaughtered the pimple-faces and the oldsters and the whiny clearance-rack-Ally-Sheedy bitch, they'd have such a better story!" ... and there you have it.
I can't watch this movie anymore, as its Joel Schumacher-ness and agonizingly shitty dialogue is too much for me to take, but maybe if I had it on DVD, and could watch it in Spanish, and skip past any parts that don't have Kiefer Sutherland or Jason Patric in them, I could maybe take it, for they bring the pretty (no matter how embarassing their hairstyles were).