Dark_Ghost
05.05.2021 6:13:31
Take a look at where some of our favorite characters are now.
See full version: The Lost Boys Cast: Where Are They Now
Take a look at where some of our favorite characters are now.
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One thing that makes The Lost Boys soundtrack so so problematic is how tonally uneven it is, unable to decide if it’s an alt-rock outlier or a safe haven for classic rockers gone soft-rock. It has a split personality to say the least. here
And if those are all the songs that you remember, don’t feel bad, because the rest is woefully forgettable and tame: for a film about undead hedonistic bloodsuckers, rock and roll danger is in scant supply. more
Another sax-fueled number fares slightly better. That would be Mummy Calls’ Beauty Has Her Way, but in the end the band sound like the poor man’s Psychedelic Furs. It’s safe to say that The Lost Boys marked the peak of Mummy Calls and Eddie and The Tide’s careers, as they would dissipate like vampires caught in the sunlight shortly afterwards. here
Take Lost in the Shadows (The Lost Boys), a song by Foreigner frontman Lou Gramm that sounds suspiciously like Kenny Loggins’ Top Gun theme Danger Zone, but less rocking. Let that sink in. Gramm was coming off a smash hit earlier that year with Midnight Blue, but this didn’t go on to similar success (unsurprisingly). here
July 31st marks the 30th anniversary of director Joel Schumacher’s vampire horror comedy The Lost Boys. If you were a teenager growing up during the late 80’s, odds are this was one of your favorite movies of 1987.
And you know, I really liked Jami Gertz back in the day, but by this point it’s pretty hard to avoid realizing how many of the roles she played (through no fault of her own, mind you, it’s just what was there for her to play) were functionally inert as characters. Star, as is so drearily usual, exists to motivate Michael’s character by being blandly mysterious and attractive and helpless, and other than that she’s a blank (and boring) slate. Which makes her the one real sour note in what is otherwise a wonderfully demented carnival symphony of a movie. [links]
Of course, Patric tongue notwithstanding, that scene (and every other scene he was in) was most notable for being thoroughly pwned by one Kiefer Sutherland, who was relatively unknown before Lost Boys came out—but not after. His performance as nominal head vampire David is still one of his most iconic roles, even thirty years later. more
Like so many movies, the thoroughly haphazard origins and development of The Lost Boys means it was a minor miracle that the end product gelled together as well as it did, but that only makes how weirdly well it works just that much more satisfying. Considering it started (un)life as a vampiric retelling of Peter Pan (a concept of which hardly anything remains except the title), and got morphed along the way into a California beach Goth teen vampire horror-comedy—well, I mean, this sentence speaks for itself.
It also didn’t hurt, of course, that the cast was spectacular—maybe not in absolute terms, but as far as what this particular movie needed to work? They were perfect.
ME: Really? This one?
The Amazon Video trivia about the Rob Lowe poster in Sam’s room says that Schumacher claimed to have put it there because he had recently directed Lowe in St. Elmo’s Fire, but I call bullshit. Or rather, I call “placating the homophobes”, because I’m sorry, no straight boy would have that poster on his closet door, especially not in the 80s, and there’s no way Schumacher didn’t know that. That together with Sam’s fantastically outré wardrobe choices (even allowing for late 80s fashion bizarrity) and any number of other, smaller clues, pretty much clinched it for me. here
Ryan and I getting ready to head out after some great tide pool adventures! [links]
Helping people get to know and fall in love with Oceanside, Netarts and Cape Meares one photo and post at a time. more
And finally, the staircase leading back up to the main road. When I was a kid this path leading to Short Beach was a muddy mess, but my mom loved it here, so we came often rain, or shine. I heard a local built these stairs that now lead all the way to the beach -- and we are forever grateful!
Ryan and I headed to the Blue Agate Cafe in Oceanside on our way home just a few minutes from Short Beach where we enjoyed coffee, hot chocolate, a fresh dungeness crab scramble, cottage potatoes and delicious homemade biscuits in the window seat overlooking the ocean -- not too shabby! Tide Pools, sea caves and a fantastic breakfast -- I can't think of a better way to start the day!
If you don't have a tide book already, get one and plan ahead for the next negative tides so you can experience Lost Boy Beach for yourself! Take your time when you come. Look closely so you don't miss the amazing detail clinging to the rocks out there.