Last night was, once again, the biggest night in the movie industry.  It was Oscar’s 83rd year and it was once again a bit of a snooze-fest.  Every year I sit down to watch this thing hoping and praying it’ll be better than the previous year.  Every year I’m left with the same feeling.  Maybe it’ll be better next year. 

I don’t know what the solution is because it’s impossible to please everyone.  This year they obviously tried to appeal to the younger generations by having Anne Hathaway and James Franco host.  I’ll give them points for trying, but in the end it all fell a bit flat.  It’s a shame really.  But c’est la vie, there’s always next year.

The highlights for me consisted of:

Christian Bale’s beard.  And seeming to forget his wife’s name.  Say what you want about the guy being an ass or whatever.  The man grows a FANTASTIC beard.  Not a lot of guys can say that.  I still do a double take when I hear him use his natural accent too.  I always forget about it.  I sat there in stunned silence when he was trying to thank his wife too.  Then I imagined what he felt.  How horrifying.  At least he didn’t forget to thank her completely.

Aaron Sorkin’s acceptance speech.  Sure it was long, but he thanked loads of people and didn’t give a damn that the orchestra was trying to play him off.  I always find it funny when people do that.  I imagine it’s their way of giving the producers the finger and I say good on ‘em.

Robert Downey Jr. & Jude Law.  Maybe those two should host next year.  They play off of each other so well, have chemistry and are loads of fun to watch.  It’s what made Sherlock Holmes so good.  Listen up Academy….they’re gold.  RDJ is incredibly easy on the eyes, and a lot of women (not me so much) think the same thing about Jude Law so you get the female audience.  RDJ also exudes “cool” so the guy factor will watch just because of that.  It’s a win-win.

Kirk Douglas.  This is equal parts of happy and sad.  It breaks my heart to see Kirk Douglas these days.  Much like seeing Dick Clarke.  But I’ll give it to Kirk….he was great.  He was funny and charming and a sight to behold.  He was hard to understand at times, but he still commands respect.  Melissa Leo is a lucky woman to have gotten her award from such a legend.

I know acceptance speeches are a necessary evil and each winner deserves the right to get up there and thank everyone on the planet, but I have such a hard time sitting through them.  I did however like the speech given by David Seidler for his Best Original Screenplay win.

I also kind of like that the guy behind Nine Inch Nails won an Oscar.  That’s pretty cool.  I was rooting for Hans Zimmer because I adore the Inception soundtrack, but I’m happy for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.  The score to The Social Network was great and their award was well deserved.  I was hoping he’d bust out in a medley of NIN stuff during his speech though.  Sadly, he didn’t.

The rest of the show however was stilted and seemed somewhat forced.  Roomie said that to her, it seemed like Anne Hathaway did a big huge bag of blow, and James Franco smoked a big joint.  She was hyper and he wasn’t.  Hell, he was even non-existent though the second hour.  He was probably back stage  mackin’ on cupcakes.

The annual In Memoriam piece was better than last year.  Although I prefer last year’s performance by Queen Latifah.  They screwed up last year however by focusing more on the performer with shots of the dearly departed going on in the background.  This year we got Celine Dion.  But they actually focused on the dead and not on the living dead.

There was also no mention of Corey Haim in this years montage either.  Last year we went through the same scandal with Farrah Fawcett.  I’m sure the Academy will say the same thing they said last year, “we didn’t have enough time to include everyone.”  It’s really a shame too because they all deserve some recognition.  But on the flip side, the telecast was already too long so I can see their point.  It wouldn’t have been a big deal to throw in a picture of him and give him two seconds though.

The Best Song performances are always hard for me to watch.  I just get bored.  Thankfully they’ve done away with the awful dance numbers, but can these be the next to go?

The auto-tune section was dreadful as well.  Turning non-musicals into musicals by doing this was just as irritating as turning a non-3D movie into a 3D movie and it wasn’t necessary.  Stop going for the quick laugh and for the love of God, stop using footage from the Twilight movies.

I think that about covers my feelings on this year’s show.  Like I said, I don’t know what the solution is but they need to do something to at least make the show entertaining.  Either that or cut out all the peripheral stuff, do a marathon award presenting session and get the show done in about an hour and half, two max.   Maybe they need to include the countdown clock from 24.  That way people know how much longer they have to wait.  I’m just sayin’…..it’s just an idea.

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Perennial 80’s star Corey Feldman has been talking about Lost Boys: The Thirst, the second sequel to the 1987 classic, and the future of the teen vampire series.

Talking to MovieWebb, Feldman seems to be the sole figure (particularly after the death of previous co-star Corey Haim earlier this year)  spearheading the return of the franchise and after only a two year gap between ‘Thirst’ and the first sequel (Lost Boys: The Tribe) he’s interesting in jumping aboard again if the market for yet another sequel is there.

“Next time around hopefully we can incorporate even more stuff that I was looking to get in. I definitely don’t want to be going backwards so I want to make sure that each time we do it, if we are going to do it again, its got to be bigger and better than the last one.”

Feldman should focus his energy on getting behind a sequel to The Goonies (which is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary with a re-release on Blu-ray on DVD). I’m sure the idea of finding out what happened to the inhabitants of The Goon Docks following the decades since their discovery of One-Eyed Willy would prove a more interesting prospect than yet another DTV retread of The Lost Boys.

What do you think?

The original Lost Boys movie started a wave of new, original vampire movies back when it was released in 1987. The sequel to Lost Boy was called, The Tribe and was released straight to DVD in 2008. Right at the end of the movie, there was a cameo from Corey Haim who seemingly appeared as a vampire as an added extra to fans of the original movie. Haim tragically died earlier this year but was not set to appear in the third movie which has the title, Lost Boys: The Thirst.

The cast does include the legend that is, Corey Feldman alongside Jamison Newlander, Sean Cameron Michael, Seb Catang, Tanit Phoenix and is directed by Dario Piana. You may recognise Newlander when you watch the trailer (embedded below) as he played one of the Frog brothers in the original movie as we get to see him back for the third installment.

Warner Home Video have been kind enough to give us a couple of exclusive clips that can be found in the Blu-ray extras for the movie which are also embedded below along with a collection of rather awesome images from the movie and one from the original Lost Boys.

Lost Boys: The Thirst is released in the US 12th October and in the UK 18th October. You can pre-order your copy here.

The original Lost Boys movie started a wave of new, original vampire movies back when it was released in 1987. Since then, vampire movies seem to be coming out every other month with every studio jumping on the bandwagon. The sequel to Lost Boy was called, The Tribe and was released straight to DVD in 2008. Right at the end of the movie, there was a cameo from Corey Haim who seemingly appeared as a vampire.

Haim tragically died earlier this year but we’re pretty sure he wasn’t set to appear in this third installment of the movie this time called, Lost Boys: The Thirst. The cast does include Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander, Sean Cameron Michael, Seb Catang, Tanit Phoenix and is directed by Dario Piana. Bloody-Disgusting have the official synopsis for the movie which again, goes straight to DVD after a couple of screenings in the US in conjunction with Comic-Con.

As the lost boys and girls of San Cazador prepare to party under the Blood Moon, an alpha vampire conspires to turn these unsuspecting ravers into an army of undead. The only thing that stands between him and the annihilation of the entire human race is the infamous vampire fighting Frog Brothers. Armed with double-barrel holy water balloon launchers and multi-arrow crossbows, Edgar (Corey Feldman) and Alan Frog (Jamison Newlander) join forces to kick some blood-sucker butt in this latest high-energy, action packed adventure in the Lost Boys franchise.”

Bloody-Disgusting also give us details of screening at Comic-Con so if you’re there, you should go along:

Thursday, July 22
3:00 – 4:00 PM Fan Signing with Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander
Warner Bros. Booth, Convention Center Floor

10:00 PM World Premiere of Lost Boys The Thirst
Special introduction by the Frog Brothers, Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander
Hilton Bayfront Hotel, Indigo Ballroom
1 Park Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92101
(1800 Seats)

Not content with throwing our devoted Lost Boys fans a fancy new trailer for the third film in saga of Edgar Frog, there’s a bunch of production pictures that have surfaced which, well – they show off exactly what market the Lost Boys team are going for.

You can expect fangs and bikins along with a thrust of nostalgia in the form of Corey Feldman, and though I would have loved to see the rumoured Sam Vs Edgar face off the sad death of Corey Haim means Corey F is on his own for this one.

The guys over at JoBlo have scored the batch of images from the set and you can see them below. The last time we posted a Lost Boys 3 post we got an unexpected amount of positive feedback so there are clearly a lot of people eager for this one.

When news came out back in 2008 that a sequel to the classic 80s movie, The Lost Boys was going to be made, mixed opinions started to form as to whether it was a good idea and whether it would be any good.  It was a straight to DVD release and when I saw Lost Boys: The Tribe, it made an OK movie but didn’t have the originality that the first movie did. We we knew that would happen didn’t we?

Dread Central have now debuted the trailer for the third installment of the Lost Boys franchise, this time called Lost Boys: The Thirst which sees 80s legend, Corey Feldman as Edgar Frog back to fight the vampire once again, this time ably assisted by his brother Alan Frog (Jamison Newlander) who we saw in the first movie.

From this new trailer, it looks like an OK movie which has the potential to be better than the second but I guess we’ll have to wait and see. I would bet my bottom dollar than this movie will be made in honour of Corey Haim who sadly died earlier this year. You’ll remember him from the original The Lost Boys movie playing the lead role as Sam.

Lost Boys: The Thirst also stars Jamison Newlander, Sean Cameron Michael, Seb Catang, Tanit Phoenix and is directed by Dario Piana.

Synopsis: When veteran vampire hunter Edgar Frog finds himself destitute and almost friendless, he thinks his life has hit bottom – but wealthy vampire-romance novelist Gwen Liebling offers him a small fortune to go on the vampire hunt of a lifetime and rescue her son Peter from the Alpha Vampire D.J.Dusk. With the help of his friends Zoe, Lars, and Blake, Edgar heads into a bloody battle to exterminate evil.

The sad news that one of my child hero actors 0f the 80s had died left me feeling rather deflated yesterday afternoon. To me, Corey Haim was a fun loving and carefree guy who provided me with so many laughs when I was growing up in movies like Lost Boys and Licence to Drive. I wanted to be just like him, hang out and be mates and get up to all the same antics that he did in his movies!

As we all know, he was part of a double-act with his friend and side-kick, Corey Feldman who will be no stranger to the name of this website. They worked in numerous films together (the above 2 included) and our thoughts go out to him and Haim’s family and friends at this difficult time.

Corey Feldman has placed his own moving thoughts on his blog which I’ve embedded below. You can head over to Feldman’s website to leave comments and I’m sure he’d appreciate them.

I was awakened at 8:30 this morning by my brother and sister knocking on my bedroom door. They informed me of the loss of my brother Corey Haim. My eyes weren’t even open all the way when the tears started streaming down my face. I am so sorry for Corey, his mother Judy, his family, my family, all of our fans, and of course my son who I will have to find a way to explain this to when he gets home from school. This is a tragic loss of a wonderful, beautiful, tormented soul, who will always be my brother, family, and best friend. We must all take this as a lesson in how we treat the people we share this world with while they are still here to make a difference. Please respect our families as we struggle and grieve through this difficult time. I hope the art Corey has left behind will be remembered as the passion of that for which he truly lived. ~ Corey

RIP Corey Haim, you will always be a legend on the eyes of HeyUGuys.

This is really not good news at all. TMZ are reporting that HeyUGuys favourite has died of an overdose at the age of 38.

Haim shot to fame in the 1987 movie The Lost Boys and it was his relationship with fellow LB actor Corey Feldman which followed him through his life.

They were poster boys of the 80s generation, and teamed on License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream and while they both returned in an easter egg at the end of The Lost Boys 2: The Tribe the lasting memory most of us will have of Haim is as one of the Santa Carla Vampire Hunters.

Haim was recently seen in Crank: High Voltage and there was always a solid foundation of nostalgics who would keep an eye on his career, and most of those people were no doubt looking forward to the next two Lost Boys movies, no matter how bad they would have been it would have been great to see those two back together (albeit on different sides…).

I had this same feeling during the John Hughes Oscars Tribute, and we’ve discussed it on our podcast, when someone dies – someone who inspired us on some level to love film as much as we do – it will always affect us deeply. No matter where Corey Haim’s career went after The Lost Boys the fact that we loved watching him in that film, a film which made up part of our childhood, will always stay with us. Their work, even one great film we loved, will stay with us and that’s to be celebrated.

And yes, our views on him may be clouded with nostalgia, but I’m fine with that and I know I’ll be watching The Lost Boys again tonight.

Here’s a scene from the original..

And another from the sequel (Spoilers ahoy)

I know. You’re all in a state of Hitchcockian suspense waiting for the next word on the third film in The Lost Boys series, and (thanks to the good guys at MovieWeb) Edgar Frog himself, Corey Feldman, has updated his personal site with the following.

Wait until you see LB3! Then you will know the depths that my art has mirrored my personal strife and how they resurface as one. In LB3 Edgar Frog emerges as a lone soldier fighting all of the evils of the world with a massive chip on his shoulder and all of the odds against him.

2009 was apparently a tough year for Corey F, but like a true pro he has made the best of it and channeled it into his work.

I embraced this character with body and soul and brought a human side to the Frog character that no one would ever see coming. I am proud of the work I have done and I believe you will be too.

There will be a future update on this film on his blog, and despite the slap of diminishing returns hurting the Lost Boys franchise it is good to see an old friend from the 80s still working and taking himself seriously.

While I can’t get too excited about The Thirst and its vampire author/Stephanie Meyer plotline there is some part of my brain that will enjoy watching Corey Feldman going apeshit crazy on a bunch of vamps.

It’ll do until we see the inevitable Corey Vs. Corey fang off in Lost Boys 4.

It’s an obvious headline, and all the coverage we give this movie is due to the love we have for the original Lost Boys.

As you may know Lost Boys 2: The Tribe didn’t set the world on fire, but that hasn’t stopped two sequels being forced at gunpoint into production, and now the leading lady for LB number 3 has been revealed.

Shock Till You Drop have the scoop on the casting of the Twilight-esque Vampire Author whose son is kidnapped by a Fang Gang and calls on our favourite Frog brother into battle. She is Tanit Phoenix, an actor/model whose imdb profile looks a touch sparse but that’s not to say that she won’t sell a few tickets as long as they pick a tasteful picture on the posters.

As I’ve maintained from the outset – No Double Corey? No sell. It’s the simplest thing – we’re not expecting Shakespeare with fangs (and that’s an idea that bound to be picked up by the time you’ve read the end of this sentence) but play on our nostalgia and give us Corey vs. Corey.

Yes, you read that right – Lost Boys 4…

Despite a critical mauling it received the Lost Boys sequel subtitled The Tribe released last year did well enough to warrant a third film in the series, which you can read about here.

It seems we’re overrun with vampire franchises these days, and certainly each generation reinvents the myth and twenty years ago we had the seminal 80s flick The Lost Boys, and thanks to the lure of the nostalgia market we’ll be seeing a Lost Boys film every year from now until the end of time.

So says MovieWeb, who in their conversations with Messrs Haim and Feldman, confirmed that while Haim wont’ be joining Feldman’s Edgar Frog in LB 3 he will return to reunite the team in the fourth film, though with a difference (which keen viewers of Lost Boys 2 will know about).

This is perfect news for the first birthday of HeyUGuys as it exemplifies where the industry is in terms of walking the fine line between continuing great stories and characters from the past and the shameless ransacking of our faded memories of franchises for cash.

We love the films we grew up with and we take our name from one of our favourites, we’ll keep a keen, though cynical eye on these films.

The Lost Boys is a HeyUGuys favourite, and one hell of a vampire film. It was a fresh take on the vampire movie after decades of Hammer domination, and made stars of Keifer Sutherland and our friends, the Two Coreys.

Given that we’ve been in full nostalgia overload for the past few years it came as no surprise when the Lost Boys were found once again, updated in the anaemic sequel of last year: Lost Boys 2: The Tribe.

While Corey Feldman reassumed his role as Edgar Frog there was little to enjoy here as twenty years distance had offered nothing new to the Lost Boys mythology, and the skateboarding vamps were about as scary as Mary Poppins eating a cupcake. Worst of all the hazy angst of the first film was lost in favour of a fast paced gore fest, and so much of what made the original great was absent.

Good news then that the Lost Boys train looks set to run fully off the rails this time, as plot details emerge of Lost Boys 3: The Thirst.

This news comes to us via /Film who are quoting Production Weekly in detailing the ‘plot’ of the threequel:

When veteran vampire hunter Edgar Frog finds himself destitute and almost friendless, when [sic] a wealthy vampire-romance novelist offers him a small fortune to go on the vampire hunt of a lifetime and rescue her son.

Like, OME! While I watched Lost Boys 2 with not a little nostalgic whimsy I barely can read the sentence above without wishing the last nail in the Lost Boys be hammered shut. Nodding casually to Twilight is one thing, trying to leap onto the bandwagon in such a ridiculous manner is absurd. Casting Robert Pattinson is the only way to save this one.

And as if we needed any more bad news those who endured Lost Boys 2 to the bitter end were treated to a short cameo setting up the next film perfectly with the return of an old friend – I’m not going to spoil it, but LB fans will know what I’m talking about. As it happens the ‘old friend’ won’t be returning for the third film rendering it a bootless and deplorable end to the Lost Boys series.