[fandom] The Lost Boys
Nov. 30th, 2006 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
escritoireazulAwhile ago I posted a link to a very funny review of that great 80s vampire movie, The Lost Boys. When I did, I said I would give a prize to anyone who guessed where I squeaked from laughter.
Unfortunately, I've since forgotten what that part was, though![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thestalkycop may remember, because I was talking to her when I did it, and she has this uncanny knack for remembering everything silly I do.
I do know that, when everyone made their guesses, no one got it(1).
I reread it again, and have a new squeak moment, so I'll tell you that instead.
The first time had something to do with Sam, I think probably something to do with his clothes, and it was on the first page, I believe. When I reread it, none of the parts leapt out to me. The squeak-moment occured much later in the review this time.
I'll post the entire paragraph here, and bold the section which really did me in.
Grandpa comes crashing through his own house and impales Max with some giant stakes that he attached to his car. What I don't get is how grandpa knew where Max was going to be OR how he was so sure that he wouldn't kill anybody else by accident in the process. I guess when you're as cocksure as grandpa, you don't have to worry about minor details such as "destroying your own house" and "accidentally killing members of your own family". He's a root beer drinking badass and that's all that matters to him.
I love Grandpa.
However, I really appreciate you guys playing, so ifsantacarlagypsy, invisionary, schizoauthoress, and buffyfan30 will give me a prompt, a fandom, characters, theme, whatever, I'll either write a short story for them or make them some sort of art. (nikitangel, too, because she found me fabulous icons from the movie.)
On a similar topic, today Sarah and I were talking about how the director called all the male vampires beautiful. (Well, with the exception of Laddie, I suppose.) Neither of us agree with that assessment, and as we each have our favorites, that isn't us being difficult.
In the rush to leave work before I was iced in for the day, I didn't save the conversation, but we both came up with something a little like this.
Why the Vampires in The Lost Boys Aren't Actually Beautiful, But Are ...:
David: Not beautiful. Icily attractive in the beginning and sweetly cute at the end, but not beautiful.
Paul: Not beautiful. His attractiveness grows on you, much like a fungus. Pot head attractive.
Marko: Not beautiful. Cherubic and cute.
Dwayne: The closest to beautiful, but still not. He's more comely than beautiful.
Michael: (Sarah and I actually didn't talk about Michael, he's a nonentity in many of our conversations about the movie.) Not beautiful. Wanna-be rebel attractive, sort of, but the big hair kind of takes away from it.
Speaking of the big hair, if you have never read Sarah's "The Secret Diaries of the Lost Boys" you are really missing out on the hair jokes.
1. How convenient for me, eh?
Unfortunately, I've since forgotten what that part was, though
thestalkycop may remember, because I was talking to her when I did it, and she has this uncanny knack for remembering everything silly I do.I do know that, when everyone made their guesses, no one got it(1).
I reread it again, and have a new squeak moment, so I'll tell you that instead.
The first time had something to do with Sam, I think probably something to do with his clothes, and it was on the first page, I believe. When I reread it, none of the parts leapt out to me. The squeak-moment occured much later in the review this time.
I'll post the entire paragraph here, and bold the section which really did me in.
Grandpa comes crashing through his own house and impales Max with some giant stakes that he attached to his car. What I don't get is how grandpa knew where Max was going to be OR how he was so sure that he wouldn't kill anybody else by accident in the process. I guess when you're as cocksure as grandpa, you don't have to worry about minor details such as "destroying your own house" and "accidentally killing members of your own family". He's a root beer drinking badass and that's all that matters to him.
I love Grandpa.
However, I really appreciate you guys playing, so if
santacarlagypsy, invisionary, schizoauthoress, and buffyfan30 will give me a prompt, a fandom, characters, theme, whatever, I'll either write a short story for them or make them some sort of art. (nikitangel, too, because she found me fabulous icons from the movie.)On a similar topic, today Sarah and I were talking about how the director called all the male vampires beautiful. (Well, with the exception of Laddie, I suppose.) Neither of us agree with that assessment, and as we each have our favorites, that isn't us being difficult.
In the rush to leave work before I was iced in for the day, I didn't save the conversation, but we both came up with something a little like this.
Why the Vampires in The Lost Boys Aren't Actually Beautiful, But Are ...:
David: Not beautiful. Icily attractive in the beginning and sweetly cute at the end, but not beautiful.
Paul: Not beautiful. His attractiveness grows on you, much like a fungus. Pot head attractive.
Marko: Not beautiful. Cherubic and cute.
Dwayne: The closest to beautiful, but still not. He's more comely than beautiful.
Michael: (Sarah and I actually didn't talk about Michael, he's a nonentity in many of our conversations about the movie.) Not beautiful. Wanna-be rebel attractive, sort of, but the big hair kind of takes away from it.
Speaking of the big hair, if you have never read Sarah's "The Secret Diaries of the Lost Boys" you are really missing out on the hair jokes.
1. How convenient for me, eh?
