Grade: C+/B-
The Lost Boys- I watched this after I got home to erase all the gross things I'd seen in Feed. I'd never seen it before, and I think that I waited way too long to get around to it. This movie has been so talked up over the years that there's probably no way it could have met my expectations. People talk about it like it's one of the greatest vampire movies ever made, and I don't really see that. I was a little put off that it was more goofy 80's than it was vampire horror, but then I reminded myself that it was Joel Schumacher and just kind of went with it. This is one I can kind of take or leave, I don't really have much of a strong opinion on it either way. Kiefer is a badass, the Coreys are amusing in a "this was before the cocain and womanizing" kind of way, and Jason Patric was, well... Jason Patric. This is another movie that is so 80's it hurts.
Grade: B
Yeah, but you gotta love that soundtrack. Echo's cover of "People are Strange", INXS's duets with Jimmy Barnes, even the Lou Gramm tune (only thing he's ever done that didn't make me want to vomit), and then of course the theme song ("Cry Little Sister"). Honestly, I don't remember the rest of the songs, but those are good enough to make me remember it as a great soundtrack. And "People Are Strange" is one that I still listen to very regularly (think I'll put it on right now, actually).
This is actually one of the few movies that I get nostalgic for. When I watch
The Breakfast Club or
Ferris Bueller, I suppose I feel a bit nostalgic, but mostly I do actually think they're good movies. This one, it's a crappy movie (can't believe you gave it a 'B' if you're just now seeing it, completely out of context and whatnot), but I love it because I once
loved it. It was my first exposure to Jason Patric and Dianne Wiest and Edward Herrmann (and a few other even-more-minor actors), and from then on I've always seen them in this light. Even Kiefer Sutherland (whom I knew before this from
At Close Range and
Stand by Me)—I've always kind of seen him as a badass vampire.