Lost Boys 2 & War Games 2

April 26, 2008

I’m sitting here in the lobby of Day’s Inn since the wireless on the fourth floor is horrendously slow. Across from me Goonies is playing on the TV, and I am rather stoked reliving my earlier years. This movie is a classic like John Hughes’s films. It reminds me of when HBO was new, and it was odd to pay extra money for television channels and not everyone had cable. 21″ tv screens were huge, and people were still fighting between Beta and VHS.

I’ve been procrastinating getting this work done, and I was checking out various news sites and WIRED caught my eye. I could not believe it! Two titles of new news include “WAR GAMES Sequel Goes Direct to DVD” & ” Trailer” LOST BOYS 2: The Tribe”. I thought I was either sucked into a time warp or people were still playing April Fool’s jokes on me.

These two originals are classics. The Coreys in the original Lost Boys with a hot hot Jami Gertz, some eye candy for the ladies in terms of Jason Patric & Kiefer Sutherland (before they got old), and a killer soundtrack! Then you have War Games with Matthew Broderick changing Ally Sheedy’s grades (while she was still in movies!) so he could get with her. Both total classics, and I am shocked when today’s students have never seen (or even heard of!) these films.

So here comes the sequels. Frankly they are B movies and both will probably go to DVD (War Games 2: The Dead Code) already will (the execs probably saw the title and that was enough). Who knows about Lost Boys 2. The reviews said both Coreys are back (that’s Feldman and Haim for you neophytes!) but I only saw Edgar Frog (can’t beat that name!) in the trailer. As for Haim, who knows. I know he’s fatter than he was, so maybe I missed him. War Games doesn’t seem to have any of the old players, but it still looks cool. This time they’re blowing up Philadelphia and I chuckle as I sit here an hour from the center of that city.

Here’s to reliving my past over and over again, or as Mark Twain once said “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does Rhyme”. Let’s hope the rhythm is in these two films.

Lost Boys 2: The Tribe