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dreamer_easy) wrote2008-01-08 06:50 pm
dreamer_easy) wrote2008-01-08 06:50 pm
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The Lost Boys
Re-watching the movie that blew all our minds back in 1987. I'd forgotten what a strange and beautiful film it is, not to mention how funny it is. Buffy owes it an awful lot, I think - was this the first vampire flick in which they burst into flames in sunlight? Is Spike's look based on David's?
Weird Science, OTOH, is saved from being total crap by snappy editing and a genuinely funny cast. It's a nice twist that the boys try to make themselves a girl and end up with a woman.
Appropriate images to follow.
ETA: The grandad from Lost Boys was Dumont in Tron. If I ever knew that, I'd forgotten!
ETA: I love how the flying is handled in the film. I guess Buffy also borrowed the idea of the vampires "vamping out". But does the "they have to be invited in" thing predate Lost Boys?
Weird Science, OTOH, is saved from being total crap by snappy editing and a genuinely funny cast. It's a nice twist that the boys try to make themselves a girl and end up with a woman.
Appropriate images to follow.
ETA: The grandad from Lost Boys was Dumont in Tron. If I ever knew that, I'd forgotten!
ETA: I love how the flying is handled in the film. I guess Buffy also borrowed the idea of the vampires "vamping out". But does the "they have to be invited in" thing predate Lost Boys?