The Lost Boys - Awesome Edition

Mulletville, a place where where vampires torment citizens by eating their neighbors, and wearing horrible haircuts with pride. The Lost Boys (1987) is about a misunderstood teen boy who finds acceptation in a mysterious band of guys. Directed by Joel Schumacher, The Lost Boys is a reference to Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie's (even more manly). Several phrases in pop-culture have been a result to this film. The term "vamp-out" has been used several times in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Distressed teen brothers, Sam and Michael, leave their native Phoenix and move to Santa Carla, California. On their visit to the local boardwalk, Michael is intrigued by girl and follows her only to find that she came with male company, which is a local gang. At the same time, Sam enters a comic book store where he meets the Frog brothers. They explain a critical situation that is taking place in Santa Carla. The town is infested with vampires. Sam, in denial, decides they are lunatics. Lucy, their mother, meets Max, a man who offers to take her to dinner. Michael is taken to a the gang's secret hangout where he is pressured into drinking a wine bottle (actually blood) to be part of a gang. Later, Michael begins to act strange. Sam reveals and proves to Michael that he is a vampire now. Sam calls the Frog brothers for assistance. The Frog brothers learn that Michael is a half-vampire and can be change to a human again if the head vampire was killed. As a team, the Frog brothers and Sam test Max (their first suspect) when he comes to eat dinner with Lucy. The test fails. As a result, both the Frog brothers and Emerson brothers (Sam and Michael) go to the secret hangout to slay the head vampire. Michael, weak, goes and finds Star and Laddie (a child half-vampire). Only to be awoken by the first vampire murder committed by the Frog brothers and Sam, the vampire attack for revenge but the boys are able to get to sunlight before serious injury. Michael, Sam's companions drive frantically back to their house. They know that the remaining gang of vampires will avenge them.

I would describe this movie as being like cheesy nachos, a little bit of crunch but a whole lot of cheese. First impressions are important. The beginning of the movie is corny and involves two stuck up bratty teens who blame their boredom on a city rather than themselves. The only reason why I did not throw my chair at the screen was because there was lots of humor. Corny comedy is the only genre of cheesy I can stand. In actually, The Lost Boys was a little more comedy than it was horror. The only part of the film that felt like a scary movie was when the vampires are dying in very diverse manners (exploding, burning with holy water slowly, electrocution). Plus, the mullets did not help the non-cheesy factor. Although the 80's is my favorite decade, this movie, hopefully, does not define or is even closely define cinematography in the 80's.

Beat Sheet:

1. Opening Image: Sunny and happy Santa Carla with normal people
2. Theme Stated: "Don't follow the crowd"
3. Set-up: Introduced to Michael, Sam, Lucy, Grandpa,
4. Catalyst: Michael meets Star
5. Debate: Whether or not to take the motorcycle challenge
6. Break into Two: Michael drinks the blood and becomes a member of the gang
7. B Story: Introduced to Max, and all members of the gang
8. Fun & Games: The gang shows Michael what he has become and kill teens at the beach
9. Midpoint: Michael becomes weaker because he fights the urge to kill
10. Bad Guys Close In: Go to the secret hangout and kill a vampire
11. All is Lost: Sam tells Lucy about their situation but she does not believe him.
12. Dark Night of the Soul: Sam learns that Michael can change back if the head vampire is killed
13. Break into Three: Prepare to vampire attack
14. Finale: Both pairs of brothers fight with vampires
15. Final Image: Santa Carla, a dark and mysterious place

The Lost Boys- Buddah

Santa Carla, California a haven for Vampires. To be precise the Lost Boys. A group of 80's twilight boys who look twisted sister playing vampire. Yes today I will be reviewing the Lost Boys the 1987 comedy horror that stars Corey and Corey and that man from 24 Jack Bauer. This movie is nothing special for all it is is a movie that shows off a whole bunch of boys doing things around a small town. Oh yeah I forgot to mention this but the boys have the haircut Billy Ray Cyrus and dress like twisted sister. The film was directed by Joel Schumacher and stars all the teen heart throbs of the 80's. Honestly the title the lost boys is refering to Peter Pan on never wanting to grow up.

The movie starts off with Sam (Corey Haim) and his brother Michael moving into Santa Carla with their grandfather from. Running around town Sam discovers a comic book store that is run by the Edger brothers two Rambo wannabes who have funny and witty catch lines. But the thing about this is that right after the funny catch lines there goes the horror part making the movie a little less scary. This movie isn't well structured all that happens is that they say Micheal 500 times and they just fly around and feed. And in the end the grandpa knows there was vampires in town all along.

As mentioned earlier the movie is based off of Peter Pan which is to never grow up and live forever but this isn't the moral of the story. To me the moral of the story is not to fall into peer pressure. As you can see when Micheal had fallen into peer pressure so he turned into a mythical being. I'm not saying that falling into peer pressure will turn you into a vampire but if you listen to others then there will be consequences. To me feeling accepted to by myself is 500x's better than being acepted by others because you know who you are. So I tend to not let my peers take over me.

In conclusion I give this movie a 2.5/5 because it was nothing but a flick showing boys the only good thing was Edger and his Brothers the two Mini Rambos really made me laugh.

Beat Sheet:

1. Opening Image: Sunny and happy Santa Carla with normal people


2. Theme Stated: "Don't follow the crowd"


3. Set-up: Introduced to Michael, Sam, Lucy, Grandpa,


4. Catalyst: Michael meets Star


5. Debate: Whether or not to take the motorcycle challenge


6. Break into Two: Michael drinks the blood and becomes a member of the gang


7. B Story: Introduced to Max, and all members of the gang


8. Fun & Games: The gang shows Michael what he has become and kill teens at the beach


9. Midpoint: Michael becomes weaker because he fights the urge to kill


10. Bad Guys Close In: Go to the secret hangout and kill a vampire


11. All is Lost: Sam tells Lucy about their situation but she does not believe him.


12. Dark Night of the Soul: Sam learns that Michael can change back if the head vampire is killed


13. Break into Three: Prepare to vampire attack


14. Finale: Both pairs of brothers fight with vampires


15. Final Image: Santa Carla, a dark and mysterious place

T.R.F. Review - Awesome Edition!

You don't have to imagine living in the Middle Ages any longer, all you have to do is go to Plantersville, TX and visit the Texas Renaissance Festival! Old people with corsets, greasy turkey legs, and sick pickle salesmen, the Renaissance Festival is awesome. The festival is one of the country's largest and most notable festivals of the 16th century. From Oct. 10th to Nov. 29th, T.R.F. is filled with treasures and excitement. Tourist can choose from 8 themed weekends, Thanksgiving Friday, and two School Days.

The T.R.F. is like stepping back in time at least 500 years. Trained actors talk to visitors in Old English. A "pound" is a dollar (well, talk money later...). People can buy handmade crafts, enjoy food without utensils, and have talk to common peasants.

It is like arriving in a total different century that when you get back to the real world, everything seems lame and boring. Rides powered without machines are as fun or at times even more fun than Six Flag rides; others could differ with this opinion. Just like my disgust for scary movies, I hate scary rides, but the Ren Fest provides a perfect combination of scare and fun. The food is equally as awesome. There is a variety of options including funnel cakes, nachos, and cheesecake on a stick! But what I enjoy the most is the little shop within the festival. You can find so many wonderful and interesting things to buy. The Ren Fest provides something for everyone. From swords, Japanese fans, to Peruvian bags, you can spend your college fund there. With so many options to spend your money on, it is saddening to refuse buying these things because you're broke. Trust me, you will run out of money. Unless you make a few million dollars a year, you can never bring enough money to the T.R. festival. Like I stated before, one of the saddest parts about the Ren Fest is leaving. The realization that what you just experienced is fake and you have to go back to the 21st century.

Texas Renaissance Festival Review

Hear Ye, Hear Ye, I Sir Buddah am hear to review not a movie but a festival in which you see in movies. Since I am from Texas the only place where they stil say my lord is The Texas Renaissance Festival Plantersville, Tx in the Navasota County near Houston, Tx. When you first enter the festival you might meet a merchant who will get in your face and say My lord buy one of me "delicious pickles". Now you might get a reaction of lets call Dateline NBC but its all within the theme.

When you first walk in you might say that are these people craaazy but once you see the prices they are just crrrraaaaazzzzyyyy!!!!!!! Even though this festival is meant for family fun after you go there your family can be economically broken down. I bought an axe for $25 but when Monster bought a full sized sword for $15 I wanted to slap that vender back into the actual middle ages.

Now Walking around the place was fun because it was the only thing that was free. The festival it self was fun because you have people dress up and took it seriously. All I did was walk around and then I spotted it the game that would test my manliness the game where you use the mallet and have to get it to the bell. Now doing this I was a BIG and EPIC failure. I wasted 4 dollars on a game that said not a chance literlly the wench who vendered the place laughed at me and then I wanted to slap her back to the middle ages.

Overall this festival was fun but the only let down was the prices. They were too high and now I'm living off food stamps and samples (from HEB not costco we lost that membership because of my spending of four items from the festival) If I were to give a rating I would give the festival 5 lords out of 5 and fun for my wallet (prices) $-3 out of $5.

Now thou must leave for thou have a live action role playing battle to attend to. go Xanthia boo Narnia

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Psycho Review: Awesome Edition!

"A boy's best friend is his mother." Anyone who proclaims that is psycho... literally! Nominated for several Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and voted AFI's 100 year's (American Film Institute) #1 Thriller, Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece Psycho (1960) is disturbing, arousing, and sick. This film not only entertained viewers, but also dragged them in. Inspired by Robert Bloch's novel of the same name and Ed Gein, Psycho had a major impact in popular culture. The shower scene is notably one of the most famous in cinema history. Hitchcock did all the promotion himself because he wanted to keep the actors from revealing the plot. Even critics were denied private screenings and had to view the movie with the general public. I absolutely hate scary movies, but I must admit that Psycho was absorbing.

In the attempt to hasten a marriage proposal given by Sam, Marion steals $40,000 from her employer. On the run for one or two days, Marion stop at a lonely Bates Hotel. The owner Norman Bates suggests she have dinner at his house and she accepts. Norman has an argument with his mother (which is overheard by Marion) and must eat in the office with Marion. Marion and Norman have a discussion where Marion questions Norman's stay with his mother. Norman is furious at want is said and explains that his situation is like a trap. Marion realizing she in similar trap decides to return the money in the next morning. After Marion leaves the office, Norman is seen peeping through a hole while she prepares for a shower (does that not scream creepy or what?). Marion's enjoyment in the shower is interrupted by a female silhouette who STABS her merciless leaving her bloody and dying. Norman is overheard screaming at his mother in disbelieve and runs to Marion's motel room finding her dead body. Following a few minutes of disgust, Norman cleans the bloody bathroom like new and dumps her body in her car along with the money. As her car is sinking further and further in a nearby lake, Norman begins to twitch his lips almost as though he is smiling. Marion's sister, Lila goes to confront Sam about her disappearance but Sam states that Marion was not hiding with him. Marion's boss hires a detective, Arbogast, which Lila and Sam both meet. Arbogast discovers Marion's recent stay at the Bates Motel where he questions the suspicious Norman Bates. After calling Lila and Sam for an update, Arbogast returns to Bates Motel and enters Norman's house where he meets a deadly fate involving a knife and a silhouette. Lila and Sam are left to discover the disturbing truth about the disappearance of Marion and Abrogast.

I would grant Psycho a four out of five. That is very high considering I do not like scary movies. The film was more psychoanalytical than gory and gruesome. Anthony Perkins played an amazing role as Norman Bates. He was creepy and weird in so many ways but in the end you felt a tiny bit of sympathy for Bates. Hitchhock was able to bring the viewers into the movie.

Beat Sheet

1. Opening Image: A nice day in Pheonix where people have a controlled mind
2. Theme Stated- When the boyfriend Sam talks his money troubles
3. Set Up- Marion's Boss asks her to bank the 40K
4. Catalyst- Marion is seen leaving town with the money
5. Debate- While driving Marion lets her imagination take over
6. Breaks into Two- Goes to the Bates Motel
7. B-Story- Marion meets Norman Bates
8. Fun and Games- Norman Kills Marion while she is laughing in the shower
9. Midpoint- Norman takes the body and hides Marion's body
10. Bad Guys Close In- PI Dies
11. All is Lost- Marion's Sister can't reach P.I.
12. Dark Knight of Soul- When Sam and Marion's Sister go to talk to the Sherif and find out the mom is dead
13. Break Into Three- Sam and Marion's Sister devise a plan to go to the motel
14. Finale- Marion's sister searches through the house
15. Final Image- Norman is sitting in jail as his mother
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Psycho - Buddah

Don't go out don't even shower because if you do you might meet Norman Bates. Its Buddah here for another review on Psycho the 1960 slasher film that influenced Jason and Freddy and Scary Movie. Directed by Albert Hitchcock the Jackie Chan of slasher movies. Influenced by Ed Geins this movie revolves around Norman Bates a psychotic hotel manager who talks to himself and dresses up as his mother. Anthony Perkins the man who portrayed Norman never broke out of this role for they thought that he was really psychotic.

This movie starts off with Marion and her secret lover Sam in need of money so when Marion goes back to work she meets some creepy cowboy who throws out 40k. Seeing how this could help her relationship with Sam she takes it. She then leaves town and the film goes into a montage of her driving with the same music for 10 minutes. While driving in the night she runs across a motel then decides to check in signing off with a fake name she gets cabin 1. She then eats a sandwich made by the serial killer then takes a shower where she is shanked by a man woman or Psycho. Then we see Norman freaking out (I want Norman to go to Forks and Take down Twilight people.) Scared by her absence Marion's sister and sam hire a P.I. who then gets shanked by the man women and falls down a stair case. Not hearing form the P.I. the two want to take action by going to investigate by them selves and end up getting Bates arrested where the movie ends with his Dateline NBC predator look.

Now when we look at slasher movies we think of teens doing certain things and lack of story just some killing but in this movie it dosen't portray that but it portrays that when you aren' clothed you are vuneralble when you are undressed.

To me this movie wasn't Jason thriller but more psychotic kind of thrill the thrill of mind over suspensful killing. This was an excellent movie if you look at it in the right perspective you see that this movie is filled with a story purpose. It not only captures your attention but grabs you in a way where you see Norman in a first person perspective. Overall I give this movie a rating of 4 psychos out of 5. The pros were the story and just how sick Anthony was a con is that the sickness didn't compare to Ed Geins.

Have to go now Norman Just called and we are going to Forks.....

Cast and Crew

• Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, the mentally ill young man who operates the Bates Motel.
• Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, the woman who steals $40,000 in cash and is later murdered at the Bates Motel while taking a shower.
• Martin Balsam as Detective Milton Arbogast, the private investigator hired to solve the disapperance of Marion Crane. He is later murdered in the Bates Mansion.
• John Gavin as Sam Loomis, the boyfriend of Marion Crane. He later joins her sister Lila to find out about Marion's disappearance.
• Vera Miles as Lila Crane Marion's sister who joins Sam loomis to find out about her sister's murder.
• Simon Oakland as Dr. Fred Richmond, the psychiatrist in the county where Bates Motel is located.
• John McIntire as Sheriff Al Chambers the local sheriff who lives not far from the Bates Motel.
• Frank Albertson as Tom Cassidy, the wealthy rancher who hands over the $40,000.
• Patricia Hitchcock as Caroline, Marion Crane's coworker.
• John Anderson as California Charlie, the car dealer who helps Marion trade in her old car for a new one.
• Mort Mills as the highway patrolman who questions Marion when he finds her pulled over to the side of the road.
• Virginia Gregg, Jeanette Nolan, and Paul Jasmin (all uncredited) as the voice of Norma Bates, Norman's deceased mother who frequently takes over his mind completely.

Beat Sheet

Opening Image- A nice day in Pheonix where people have a controlled mind

Theme Stated- When the boyfriend Sam talks his money troubles

Set Up- Marion's Boss asks her to bank the 40K

Catalyst- Marion is seen leaving town with the money

Debate- While driving Marion lets her imagination take over

Breaks into Two- Goes to the Bates Motel

B-Story- Marion meets Norman Bates

Fun and Games- Norman Kills Marion while she is laughing in the shower

Midpoint- Norman takes the body and hides Marion's body

Bad Guys Close In- PI Dies

All is Lost- Marion's Sister can't reach P.I.

Dark Knight of Soul- When Sam and Marion's Sister go to talk to the Sherif and find out the mom is dead

Break Into Three- Sam and Marion's Sister devise a plan to go to the motel

Finale- Marion's sister searches through the house

Final Image- Norman is sitting in jail as his mother

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Hush - Buddah

Once again we revisit the quiet peaceful town of Sunnydale. By quiet we mean complete silence. The gentlemen have arrived and they want to politely RIP your heart out ( I hope they go to Forks to rip out all the twilight guys). If you haven't caught on this review is about "Hush" the episode that made Buffy win its first Emmy nomination. It premiered on December 14, 1999, At first Joss Whedon was known for his dialogue but then he disagreed so he wrote "Hush" the episode that made Buffy a heart wrenching show.

In this episode we start off with Buffy day dreaming in class about her and her new love Riley getting it on, on a table. Then suddenly they hear a Heart Wrenching song "Can't Even Shout, Can't Even Cry, The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors, They need seven and they might take yours. Can't call mom, Can't say a word, You're gonna die screaming but you can't be heard." Once the song ends you get a Glimpse of one of the Gentlemen. Once awakened from the nightmare Buffy leaves class then kisses her boyfriend from impulse with no communication leaving her to question their relationship. Then the scene goes to Giles Buffy's watchers house where we see Xander and his Girlfriend having discussions of their relationship is based on getting down with no true love or care. Then it turns into the night scene where the Gentlemen take the voices of the citizens of Sunnydale. Awakened in the morning every one freaks out that they can't speak Xander blames Spike but spike gives him the bow-fingers. Not knowing the true origins the news says that it is a serious case of laryngitis. Then it goes night again and we find ourselves floating into a college dorm and ripping the heart out of a student. Still clueless of who the gentlemen are Giles goes into research. Figuring out that they are fairy-tale creatures that want seven hearts and the only way to kill them is to have a real human girl scream.

You're probably thinking how could all this happen with no dialogue what so ever? The truth is there is dialogue within the body movements of the characters. As we all know Joss Whedon likes to incorporate metaphors within his show. And in this episode he incorporates that talking doesn't mean your communicating. Why is this true? This is true because when you are talking you aren't expressing yourself completely many people could lie, but when you are silent people read your body language which is unchangeable due to the fact that you yourself have adapted to that style.

Overall I like Joss Whedon's use of body language because you get better grasp of the characters personality. Another thing that made the episode famous is the infamous Gentlemen. They look like the assassin from Hellboy 1 with a Heath Ledger Joker Smile with the appetite for ripping your heart out and still be able to SMILE. Before I forget they also have Grills. These guys are like the mafia have their henchmen do the dirty work while they get what they want. Once again Joss Whedon delivered another episode that is disturbing, funny, and action packed. My rating for this episode is seven hearts out of seven hearts. Hope to see you again and remember "Can't Even Shout, Can't Even Cry, The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors, They need seven and they might take yours. Can't call mom, Can't say a word, You're gonna die screaming but you can't be heard."

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I have to go know me and the Gentlemen are heading to forks to destroy the gleaming sun people.......

(Funbob is in denial she knows at heart Twilight and forks should be FORKED)

(Applaud, Applaud)

Some Body Language