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After a long day of classes, I took my mountain bike up Geary in SF to the 4 Star Theater to watch a movie I'd only seen a trailer for on Facebook. It was a Vampire movie about a band that didn't play very well until their band started to become Vampires. One by one they turned. It was a funny movie, so there were lots of heckles from the audience. When I had first gotten to the theater it looked like it was going to be an intimate evening with only 6 of us in the auditorium. That's what happens when you get to the theater over an hour early. When it got closer to show time, however, the red tiled ceiling dimmed down to about 30+ vampire fans eager to see how this mix of actors and musicians turned movie "stars" would work. It was a very tame movie with little blood splatter and no skin. For a vampire movie, even a comedy, it was pretty tame. The story was cool, some of the actors has some good one liners, and the stop motion "driving scenes" were pretty cool. Rob Stefaniuk wrote/directed & acted in his film that was released last year.
There's only a hand full of movies that can be watched over and over again from when I was a child, and The Lost Boys is definitely one of them. The Coreys are at their best playing opposite each other: Corey Haim as the new kid in town and Corey Feldman as one half of the Frog Brothers. Watching this in the Castro Theater was amazing. The ticket booth was separate from the rest of the building and there was just enough room for one ticket person. Just beforehand my girlfriend and I had dinner next door and ran into another classmate and her boyfriend and so it became an impromptu double-feature double-date.
When it came time for the second feature Near Dark, I was excited to find out that my classmate hadn't seen either movie and was glad to hear that she liked Lost Boys. It had been a long time since I had seen Near Dark and it was like watching a new movie all over again. Bill Paxton was the highlight for me because Near Dark couldn't hold a candle to Lost Boys for me. Kathryn Bigelow and her writer companion Eric Red wrote a great story for the time, but there wasn't a lasting impression like I felt from LB.
