{"id":12187,"date":"2017-06-19T12:26:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T11:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12187"},"modified":"2017-06-19T12:26:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T11:26:44","slug":"film-blogathon-0317-lost-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12187","title":{"rendered":"Film Blogathon 03\/17: Lost Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lost
Not lost, just clueless. And by the way gang, ONE OF THEM ISN’T A BOY!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I watched this skillfully-directed but very badly-edited, film for the first – and last – time, last week.<\/p>\n

What a difference five years made.<\/p>\n

From baggy, meandering Lost Boys in 1987, to the tight-as-you-like production of Buffy The Vampire Slayer (starring Kristy Swanson as Buffy, and Donald Sutherland as her watcher), in 1992.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still not sure whether I was supposed to take Lost Boys seriously, or if it was an attempt at schlock-horror, or even a stab at camp comedic send-up.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

I do know that I didn\u2019t hate Lost Boys.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t even hate the film when IT BROKE THE VAMPIRE LAW, when it said you could become a vampire by just chugging a couple of mouthfuls of vampire blood from an old bottle, like you were some kind of down-on-your-luck blood-addicted wino from the wrong side of the tracks.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t even hate the film when the main motorbike scene had far too many implausible points for my brain to accept.<\/p>\n

Lost Boys is just a mess of a film.<\/p>\n

And it left me wondering what it could have been, if it had the courage of its convictions.<\/p>\n

There is probably a great film in the script of Lost Boys waiting to get out.<\/p>\n

But what I saw was more like a film of a script called Escape From Mediocrity.<\/p>\n

Lost Boys film rating: Meh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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