Saturday, September 20, 2008

The Lost Boys - The Tribe

I was so excited to hear they finally made a new Lost Boys movie. Hell, I even remember they mentioned it on an episode of The 2 Coreys where Feldman told Haim "They're making one and they don't want us." Don't ask me why I was watching The 2 Corey's, I think I stumbled across it somehow. OK so on with the movie review.
Feldman did make it into this film, as did Haim but only for about 2 seconds. Feldman is still a vampire hunter and a surfboard shaper. This time instead of dirt bikes the cool thing is surfing. The children of Michael and Starr from the first film just lost Michael and Starr in an auto accident or something like that so they move to some town down south. You see the first film took place in Santa Cruz, this one is more like Venice Beach or something like that. So the guy is a former pro surfer and his sister is a 17 year old girl with her hormones raging. The untalented Sutherland brother stars as the lead vampire in this film. Oh by the way Sex Machine from From Dusk Til Dawn (I forgot the actors name) appears for about a minute. Basically the girl winds up turning into a half vampire and the brother has to save her with the help of Edgar Frog. A lot of this plays out the same as the original.
Pros: Corey Feldman plays a histerical role in this film.
Cons: It's pretty cheesy.
Verdict: If you have some spare time rent it, otherwise ignore it.

M. Night Shyamalan

Am I the only one who doesn't like M. Night? I doubt it. I've been ranting and raving about how bad this guy is since The Sixth Sense and it seems that others are finally jumping on my side of the argument. For the one or two people who haven't seen this film yet I apologize for ruining it for you. Bruce Willis gets shot in the first few minutes of the film. The little kid who sees dead people tells Bruce Willis that the dead people don't know they're dead. Pretty much right when Willis gets shot I put 2 and 2 together based off the previews I've seen of the film.
Then M. Night put out Unbreakable. I saw this with a couple of my friends in theaters. "They call me Mr. Glass." We were quoting that for awhile but only because we were laughing at how terrible this film was. Then a co-worker of mine made me watch The Village. Wow, what a terrible film that was. Now, me being an idiot went to go see M. Night's first rated R film ever - The Happening. This was nothing happening for 2 hours on screen. Nothing exciting, nothing great.
South Park did a great job ripping on Night during the Imagination Land episode. "Well what if it turns out the terrorists are really werewolves." This was followed by "No, Night that's a plot twist." So Night comes up with another plot twist. He doesn't write movies, he writes plot twists and builds a movie around them. And that my friend is not movie making.