Joelchard Donmacher (#7/15)
"So, Zach. Which Richard Donner movie do you like the best? No need to hurry. Take some time and think it over. I went to see every Richard Donner movie on the day they premiered. Every single one!
"Goonies,"
"Lost Boys."
The "Lethal Weapon" series..."
Now Playing:
The Lost Boys (1987)
Expectations: Yep, we're milking this York quote for one more movie. If he's got a favorite Donner movie I suppose I'd like to know mine.
I've only seen the "You're eating worms, Michael" scene and the parody of it in What We Do in the Shadows. Also, I am aware of Kiefer Sutherland's existence. I'm a much bigger fan of his father, especially in the Body Snatchers remake.
Reality: So first off, not a Richard Donner directing job per se but actually this is a Joel Schumacher flick. Donner worked on it and was intending to direct when a script came into his midst from an upstart writer named Shane Black. That was the first Lethal Weapon. Fortunately thought, this was Schumacher's darling, and he was perfectly content with how it came out.
And how did it happen? Basically he called up his prop and effect designer Greg Cannom and said "Hey, I got a bunch of sexy children. Let's make Peter Pan with vampires and they're teenagers." And it came to pass...
Schumacher, by all accounts delightful and direct, really nails it. I mean sure, unfortunately vampires will always be the 'sexy' monster. Doesn't take a degree to get into that, the exchange of bodily fluids brought on by uncontrollable, almost magical urges and whatnot. Fine. But they're actually pretty clever and funny about it in this one. They figure out a way to use every vampire thing and make it into a way to make the characters look cooler. Like shades and popped collars for vampire sun protection. That kind of thing. There's also a ton of references to schlock and pulpy movies. (Seriously, what sort of child had a poster of a Sybil Danning movie?)
Everybody talks about how queer this one is. I don't think I'm gonna. It was probably not an accident, but the razor's edge chance it was deliberate was a genius accident. This poster is on Corey Haim's bedroom closet though.
Yep, that's Rob Lowe.
I feel like this is one of those "You'll see it eventually" movies but sure, give it a go if you haven't. The 80's fashion is pretty great. They spent an appropriate amount of time on every single character's whole jam. Alex Winter's hair is so gnar. Like he's smuggling shag carpet samples and the only space on his person not already full of cigarettes was the back of his head. I'm not huge on 80's when used as an entire genre so it's nice to see this just to see all the over the top crap with little to no irony. Definitely a bunch that Stranger Things yoinked from this one if that's your cup of tea.
Later, dude.
