Thursday, October 25, 2012

F This Movie! - The Lost Boys

Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be Patrick and Doug.



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Also discussed this episode: The Bride of Frankenstein, The Video Dead, Halloween II (2009)

21 comments:

  1. I hope you do a Monster Squad podcast at some point. I loved that film growing up and re-watching it recently I’d say it still holds up pretty well. It was gorier than I’d remembered and some of the language surprised me a little. Also, there were little touches that passed me by at the time, like the scene where the kids are walking home from school near the beginning which features a shot which must be a Halloween homage.

    As for the subject of this episode, I never really got The Lost Boys. It did nothing for me when I saw it many years ago and I’ve never been interested in watching it again.

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  2. I'm on Team Dracu-Doug. I only saw Lost Boys for the first time last year and was not impressed. I was excited to be blown away by some '80s classic I'd missed because I (also) was too busy watching Short Circuit 2. I can barely even remember now what exactly I didn't like about it, because when I think of that movie all I can think about is a shirtless guy playing saxophone.

    I can't believe Scary Movie Month is almost over. It's going to be a long 11 months. Speaking of which, have you hired a caretaker to run the boiler after you close down the blog for the season? Because I totally quit drinking recently and could use the work.

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    1. Ah! "Dracu-Doug" is the BEST! I'm mad at myself for not using it on the show (but now I'm going to steal it and claim it was my idea first). Thanks!

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  3. The Lost Boys will always hold a special place for me because I have a weird history with it:

    1. This was one of the movies I asked my Mom to stay up and watch for me on Cinemax/HBO when I was 5 (I wasn't allowed) and tell me about it the next day. She totally did!
    2. I saw this for the first time around age 7 and I thought sex was supposed to be like it was in the movie until I saw any Sharon Stone movie. P.S. It's weird being a 10 year old and thinking, c'mon Sharon Stone get to it! We know what you're here to do.
    3. I bought the soundtrack and the CD skipped so much that I bought a CD cleaner kit to try to repair it. It didn't work and I was about 4 out of 10 devastated.

    P.S. you mentioned windex and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Please do a podcast on that movie. I think it's great, even though I know it's definitely not great. I wish I had John Corbett's voice, if I did I would podcast everything.

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  4. Look, I think it's a decent movie and all...but one thing about Lost Boys has always bugged me and just kills the ending for me:

    HOW DOES GRANDPA KNOW HEAD VAMPIRE IS STANDING RIGHT THERE FOR HIM TO DRIVE THE CAR THROUGH THE WALL AND STAKE HIM?

    It makes no sense at all and gets me hept up even thinking about it right now.

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  5. Just saw "Bride of Frankenstein" and its prequel last night at the Phatom Events screening (packed house). To my surprise I didn't like "Frankenstein" much (Karloff rules but the pace, atmosphere and other characters turned me off) but "Bride" was so much fun to watch and experience on the big screen with an appreciative crowd. Even though I had seen them before (the scene early in "Bride" where the monster kills the mother by throwing her down the well scared the life of me as a little kid, I remembered that clear as day) for all practical purposes "Frankenstein" and "Bride" were new to me.

    The prologue of "Bride" sets the tone that clarifies that, while the prequel is all business (and in my opinion doesn't work whenever the monster isn't on-screen), "Bride" sets out to have fun and isn't afraid to be a little bit of everything (silly, scary, touching, operatic, etc.) to achieve that goal. When Pretorius showed his "experiments" to Henry my mouth dropped at what I was seeing, then smiled from ear to ear saying 'sure, why not?' I knew I had just touched based with a forgotten friend I would become close with from that moment on.

    Maybe it was the alcoholism, but I totally bought and liked Colin Clive as the mad doctor in the sequel while hating the wishy-washy pussy he was in "Frankenstein." And holy crap about Ernest Thesiger's Dr. Pretorius and Una O'Connor's Minnie (they both got huge applause when they first came on), they steal the movie whenever they're on. Karloff's Frankenstein is even better, more expressive, funny, almost surreal in the simplicity of what's asked of him. Bottom line: fastest 75 min. movie ever (doesn't drag and doesn't end too quickly) and a fun evening at the movies, even if it saddens me a bit that I can't seem to see in "Frankenstein" what everyone else at my sold-out theater saw: a good horror movie.

    Never seen "The Lost Boys." Great, another show to add to the pile of unlistened-to podcasts ("Minority Report," "Roger Rabbit," the "Harry Potter's," etc.) until I get around watching the movie sometime in November... 2018. Thanks for reading my "SMM III" submission though. :-)

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    1. Oh man! I am so glad at least one person feels like I did about the original Frankenstein. I wasn't a fan, for the exact same reasons you weren't. It put me off watching the other movies for a couple of years.

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    2. Great minds think alike and are in the minority. :-)

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  6. I tried to download this on Internet Explorer and Firefox and both sites are claiming the file does not exist to be downloaded.

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    1. Hmmm. I think there's an issue with the hosting site being slow or experiencing problems right now, because I checked and the file is definitely still there. I would try again in a little bit. You can always download it off iTunes, too. Sorry about that -- I know how frustrating it can be, especially when you're DYING to hear me and Doug talk Joel Schumacher.

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  7. Looking forward to this because I work in Santa Cruz, I mean Santa Carla.

    Every Friday I'm on the Boardwalk with students that I work with in the mornings--and there still is that stage where the saxophonist rocks out with his "I still believe" song. Nothing has changed.

    What's funny is that the bridge the vampires hang off (which is about 10 feet from the ground) and the house Sam and Michael live in are virtually next door to each other.

    Not sure if you touch on this in your podcast, but why does Corey Haim have a picture of a studly Rob Lowe hanging up next to his bed?

    My wife and I met Corey Haim a year before he died at a Horror Convention. He was a little aloof, having to give his mom the $20 we paid to get his autograph--but at night, he took the stage and performed "People are Strange" with the "Cry Little Sister" band.

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  8. I just want to say I was 13 when this came out, and I am still very fond of it, even if it isn't that great. I mean that poster is still cool to me for some reason. But listening to the soundtrack, or thinking about the movie just reminds me of a time when my whole life was going from skateboarding, collecting comics, and playing Contra endlessly on the NES, to riding in cars,looking for chicks and finding places to get beer. It was just a moment in time or a feeling that that movie captured for a lot of us.
    Maybe we were just kind of living vicariously through Cory Haim's character. It didn't need to make sense to us because the world didn't make much more sense than the movie did at that time in our lives.

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  9. In this episode of F This Movie, Douglas loses his 80s cred, but gains something more with Dracu-Doug. Stay tuned for the Short Curcuit episode where Doug attempts to reclaim his childhood rep with a little help from Johnny-Doug 5

    Also, the debate and disagreement was great to hear. More devisive topics would make for awesome topics in future. But just be sure it doesn't turn into the first birthday after the divorce, where mum had too many white wine spritzers and dad brought his new girlfriend. Please don't make me cry again.

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  10. So in the Scary Movie Challenge, I made a joke about shirtless greased-up saxophone guy, and THEN I listened to the podcast, in which you said not to make jokes about shirtless greased-up saxophone guy. I humbly beg forgiveness.

    (P.S. Wolfman's got nards.)

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  11. I'd like to think Max got staked ironically and unintentionally because he was standing in the wrong spot at the wrong time, but who am I to make excuses for a plot contrivance? Running time is precious, and we have to wrap it up!

    The Lost Boys has always been a favorite of mine. A friend of mine was a big fan of the Coreys (and a little too much of a Corey Haim fan, with led to his downfall) and this film was on the top of both our lists. I was wondering when you'd get around to mentioning the saxophone player on the boardwalk. It's the one major shot that makes the film inherently Joel Schumacher's!

    I really like Rob Zombie's Halloween II. Rob Zombie's remake is a mess for sure, and an interesting mess. But Halloween II takes great pains to repair many of the mistakes and put an end to the issues I have with that clunky remake. I love the dirty 16mm photography. Michael is back to being driven by an evil force in this one, as opposed to the assumption that he was a product of his environment, which I had never fully agreed with in the way it was presented in the remake. Halloween II has a great Brad Dourif performance. I think he's fantastic in this movie. His reaction to Danielle Harris's death in the unrated version always makes me roll a tear.

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    1. Totally agree on Brad Dourif's performance. He's really great. He and Danielle are in a totally different movie, acting-wise (because most of the other actors are pretty bad). I want to watch that movie.

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  12. I'm anticipating Rob Zombie's new film, Lords of Salem, very much. But it's his next film that has me even more interested, since it'll be a big departure for him -- a film about the 1975 Philidelphia Flyers.

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    1. Say what now? The ones that were part of Homer Simpson's jury?

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  13. Boy, you wanna talk about stupidly missing references in a movie's title - I never even got the Peter Pan connection to the freakin' Lost Boys - this movie just got EVEN BETTER to me!

    I am squarely with Patrick on this one - I definitely saw it when I was fairly young (I'm thinking 12ish) and it worked for me then big time. I remember seeing it quite a lot too - it was on my repeat-rental list and it's always been one of those movies I stop and watch if I catch it flipping channels. I get the flaws and it certainly carries the whiff of 80s cheese but like Patrick (and even Doug apparently) I think there's a lot of good stuff there - I even like the Coreys.

    I should probably have watched it again before posting this (it's been a few years) but I think it's safe to say that it holds up for me a little more than solely for nostalgic reasons. And I'd rather watch it than The Goonies any day.

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    1. "But The Goonies is a BEAUTIFUL film" -Doug, without any sense of irony or self-awareness

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    2. Sorry Doug, but for some reason The Goonies just never became a childhood favourite - I remember watching it at the theatre and liking it but for whatever reason it wasn't a movie I rented or saw much on TV. I haven't seen it in years and I guess I should, though I fear without that deep childhood connection it might be a total waste.

      Dracu-Doug is a great character but I think I got even more laughs when Franken-Doug was talking about the actor who played Dr. Frankenstein's impending death. You were on fire for this one!

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