Flicks

I saw the original "Lost Boys" when it came out in 1987. It was a perfect summer offering for a vampire-movie loving knucklehead -- a successful mix of humor and spookery, a difficult feat to pull off.
Twenty-plus years later I expected to hate the straight-to-video sequel, "Lost Boys: The Tribe" and sure enough it wasn't nearly as good as the first film.
The first movie had a much better cast (Kiefer Sutherland, Diane Weist, Edward Hermann, Jason Patric and, of couse, the two Coreys -- Haim and Feldman). The current crew is a lot less memorable, though Feldman's reprise of his Edgar Frog character is a welcome addition.
"Tribe" is much bloodier and the special effects are mostly better, but neither the story nor the performances stand out much at all. The vampires offer no back story and are little more than cardboard cutout bloodsuckers.
I like to think if I was given the gift/curse of immortality and much heightened powers, I could find something better to do than surf, drink domestic beer and hang out in an abandoned cave.
"Lost Tribe" is actually better, or at least more professionally made, than most low budget genre flicks out there today, though that's not saying much. Sadly, the magic of 1987 is nowhere to be found.