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Hello! This is my opinion on why I am not excited. This isn't supposed to be hate for the new actors of the movie, but mostly by opinion on the reboot idea itself and not the actors.

I really don't see why we need a reboot. The Lost Boys was already a legendary film that changed cinematic culture and the way they portrayed vampires on tv (it made them to be beautiful, hot, mysterious creatures. Not ugly, v hairline mfers like Dracula.) The Lost Boys' depiction of hot vampires paved the way for future vampire films and series.

It was a big representation at the time of queer people. We, as The Lost Boys fans, cannot deny that the original is fruity asf. The name Michael is the most said word of the film and is mostly whispered by the boys like David. The director was even an openly gay man named Joel Schumacher. I even heard that the outfits of the boys were based on what gay men wore at gay bars. Leather, chains, crop tops, etc. The movie definitely has a lot of gay undertones that I feel like the reboot will ignore and basically make the new reboot some straight little movie that's going to become some movie about hot biker vampire dudes while leaving out the queer undertones and significance of the movie.

They also made the movie as an F U to the nuclear family debate of the time. There was a group of boys raised by an older man (Max) and a divorced mother with her two kids. Max tries swooping in to mend their families to make the nuclear "American dream" family, which ends up never happening.

https://vraikaiser.com/2019/07/13/boys-beware-of-vampire-punks-queerness-in-the-lost-boys/ Here is also a blog where I found some more underlying tones of the queerness in the movie.

It's not the 80s anymore. A lot of the new casts fans are already shitting on the old one, making a big deal on how they've never heard of the original 'The Lost Boys' when a lot of the fans are people in their teens (like me) who aren't interested in the 80s therefore have never bothered to watch or research on 80s things like the movies and music and fashion of the time. The Lost Boys was a movie about 80s vampires who dressed like glam metal/rock musicians because that was the rage of the 80s. Kiefer Sutherland (David) based his character on Billy Idol and Ric Flair.

I say in honor of that dingus from the last post, we finally put up that updated piece! 🎉

@eatinworms asked for a Michael, and although I'm not the happiest with the turn out, here's our beautiful and lovely Michelle Emerson! (complete with color!)

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