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Oct '19
I remember back when I bought a lot of dvds on Amazon and you could get free shipping if you bought $25 or more, so I tacked on this $3 disc hoping this movie would grow on me with further viewings. It didn't happen.

Something about this movie bugs me. Sure, it's 80s and all that, but it's not good 80s, if that makes sense. I feel like Joel Shoe-maker put too much of his gayness into this movie, because our bad boy antagonists are all pretty boy delinquents, not to mention that one random shirtless beefcake who was only in the movie because the director wanted to see him all oiled up.

One thing that's really stupid is the opening, right before the credits begin. The boys are kicked out by the security guard, and when he goes to his car afterward, he sees the vamps are after him. He tries to get into his car and grabs the door, but they fly by and pull him away, and his whole door rips off. Now that goddamn door would only come off if the security guard himself was strong enough to pull it off, but he wasn't. He was merely trying to open the door when they pulled him away, yet the whole fucking door rips off of that car? Was it held on by duct tape?

I also hate the main theme music in this movie. That song with the children singing? It's a real mood killer. Fuck that noise. Like I even like The Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want", but definitely not when the children start singing.

1987 had a much better vampire movie that wasn't directed by a homo. It was directed by a woman, and it's called Near Dark. Watch that one instead.



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Box_a_Hair says:
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Oct '19
I still can't get over that damn car door scene! Like seriously... why the fuck does the car door fly off?! If I were trying to open a regular door and someone pulls me away, the whole damn door isn't going to fly off. If anything, only the handle would break off, and that's only assuming that his grip on it would be very tight. Likely, he wouldn't even be able to hold the handle tight enough for that to happen, and his hand would probably just slip off of the handle. It seriously makes no fucking sense.

I'm sticking with the idea that his car door was held together by duct tape, and even that's contrived, seeing as how we don't see the duct tape, nor is it inferred that his car is in shoddy condition.


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Johan_WoW says:
#22, Reply to #21

Oct '19
Well the movie didn't make much sense in the first place. Why would for example a lovely girl and her little brother join a gayish vampire club? Maybe to get free tickets to watch sweaty beefcake rockstars? It's the director's fantasy and in the own imagination anything is possible. While I see the appeal of that, I think there should be rules, certainties. I don't like randomness or a movie that sets rules and goes against them. The door scene I already forgot which proves how shitty I found the movie.


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peeptoad says:
#23

Oct '19
I feel like Joel Shoe-maker put too much of his gayness into this movie, because our bad boy antagonists are all pretty boy delinquents...

This isn't because of Shoe-mulcher gayness it's because 80s fashion sux. Take a look at that dude high schooler in Stranger Things. He looks like a pansy but the Duffers just got the style right


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Box_a_Hair says:
#24, Reply to #23

Oct '19
Which dude high schooler are you talking about? Most of their styles in that show don't bother me much, but I really truly hate the character of Billy. Not because of his style really, but because he looks like he's 40. Also, his hair.


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peeptoad says:
#25, Reply to #24

Oct '19
I was thinking of Steve, though I had to look that up. Anyway the mainstream late-80s style wasn't the most memorable imo, prob partly why Lost Boys suffers somewhat


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Box_a_Hair says:
#26, Reply to #25

Oct '19
I absolutely loved Steve's look in the latest season, dressed as a sailor the whole damn time. emoticon

I guess most people visualize the mid-80s when they think of the style. Stuff like Back to the Future and Hot Tub Time Machine. Towards the end of the decade, they're getting closer to the 90s and their grungy lack of style, so it's no wonder The Lost Boys were... well... lost in their fashion sense.


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peeptoad says:
#27, Reply to #26

Oct '19 *
Ha! Well I've only seen s1 of Stranger Things so I haven't experienced the sailor vibes.
Yeah the late 80s- early 90s were pretty deplorable, fashion wise. Next time you rewatch Twin Peaks it'll make yiu cringe


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Box_a_Hair says:
#28, Reply to #27

Oct '19
Nah... I rewatched TP a few months ago and it was perfectly fine, IMO. The only 90s standout was Bobby Briggs, what with his leather and flannel and hairdo, but not much else about it reeks of the 90s.


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peeptoad says:
#29, Reply to #28

Oct '19 *
Donna's younger sister is dressed wretchedly in the one ep she appears in. The series is ok because Lynch rocks, but the dress is putrid in select areas. I was always punk at that age back then so I never looked like that, but ugh.


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Box_a_Hair says:
#30, Reply to #29

Oct '19
punktoad. I'd buy that for a dollar.

TP does rock, though I barely remember Donna's younger sister. Forgot she even had one till you mentioned it. emoticon




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