Yes, so the other night I watched both The Lost Boys [1987 - directed by Joel Schumacher] which I had seen before and loved madly and it's sequal Lost Boys: The Tribe [2008 - PJ Pesce] and I must say this:
Fuck you PJ Pesce!!!
You have completely ruined everything that Schumacher created in the first movie. Your sequal was like a cheap, Hollywood re-enactment of the first one. Not only that, but you lost the clever wit and dark humour that was a major part of the original and although you kept the character Edgar Frog [played by Corey Feldman] you neglected to allow him to reach his full potential. The worst part must be the fact that your story line was inconsistent and you traded the original Schumacher humour for an Anne Rice-esque vampire sexiness which did not fit the intended style in the least.
Also, you may think that your clever use of the obsese saxophone player in the opening credits was a clever way to show that time had passed since the original vampire movement in Santa Carla, but you ruined that with your other references to the original which you've disgraced.
The fact that a lot of Edgar Frog's lines were used in the original as well as the sequal doesn't come across as cleverly nostalgic, it comes across as lazy.
Ex: "It's your funeral." That was originally said when Sam Emerson [played by Corey Haim] called Edgar Frog after he realized that his brother Michael [played by Jason Patric] was a vampire. Repeating that line was a mistake. It'd have suited the character better to have had him come up with another cleverly morbid remark given the fact that his character has had twenty-one years to come up with a new one.
All in all, I think that your sequal was much too sexy, inconsistent and down-right absurd to be related, in any way, to Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys. Please, don't make a third one.
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