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Title: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: HaRuMaN on March 10, 2010, 08:59:40 am
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/10/breaking-actor-corey-haim-dead/?hpt=T2 (http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/10/breaking-actor-corey-haim-dead/?hpt=T2)

Jeez...
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: Hoopz on March 10, 2010, 09:02:07 am
Sadly, the only thing surprising here is that it took this long for one of them to OD....
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 10, 2010, 09:30:24 am
The Lost Boys, Silver Bullet, License to Drive, Lucas....

Good stuff.

Sad to see someone with a good career at one point take a 20 year nosedive.
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: ark_ader on March 10, 2010, 09:59:37 am
Truly sad.  :'(
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: saint on March 10, 2010, 10:06:32 am
As a parent I don't think I'd ever let my kid become a child actor. Talk about bad odds....
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 10, 2010, 10:13:14 am
As a parent I don't think I'd ever let my kid become a child actor. Talk about bad odds....

Well, it's mostly child stars of the 80s that seem to be the worst off of the bunch.
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: Malenko on March 10, 2010, 11:50:40 am
Did Xiaou2 punch him?
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 10, 2010, 11:57:00 am
Did Xiaou2 punch him?

DEATH BLOW! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkwJ_Iyvilk#)
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: Epyx on March 10, 2010, 02:00:24 pm
Rick Schroeder did ok :D
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: danny_galaga on March 11, 2010, 02:02:48 am
I've never seen a single thing he was in, and Double Switch was one of the few SEGA CD's I passed on, kind of hard to believe because he was ubiquitous when I was a kid.   :-\



+1. hard to believe there are two of us on this forum who haven't seen Lost Boys!
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 11, 2010, 08:33:28 am
+1. hard to believe there are two of us on this forum who haven't seen Lost Boys!

And yet you claim to be a movie fan.
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: danny_galaga on March 12, 2010, 10:39:44 am
+1. hard to believe there are two of us on this forum who haven't seen Lost Boys!

And yet you claim to be a movie fan.

Yes.
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: Howard_Casto on March 13, 2010, 02:39:33 pm
+1. hard to believe there are two of us on this forum who haven't seen Lost Boys!

And yet you claim to be a movie fan.

Yes.

Well your claim is falsified then.  The Lost Boys is the single most influential vampire movie since the original Universal Studios Dracula.  Every single solitary vampire movie since has ripped something off from this film.  Hell, Joss Wheadon's vampires (Buffy/Angel) are almost a direct ripoff cosmetically.
Now if you claim "I don't like those types of movies." then you are doubly doomed.  To be a film fan you MUST enjoy horror because every single director, producer, actor and sfx technician starts in horror.  Horror is cheap to make and it allows for a lot more leeway than other genres so those getting their start turn to it.  On top of that TLB is also a comedy, and a damn good one at that.

So not watching one of the best horror/comedy movies of all time kind of revokes your movie fan liscense. 
Don't worry... there's still hope.  Go watch it IMMEDIATELY, come back and you'll be golden.

What are you still doing here?  Go watch it now!! :burgerking:
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: DillonFoulds on March 13, 2010, 04:56:26 pm
Did Xiaou2 punch him?

More random troll bait.
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: Malenko on March 13, 2010, 06:32:23 pm
Did Xiaou2 punch him?

More random troll bait.

no its a joke,and a darn funny one,  not troll bait. Your post however......
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: Hoopz on March 13, 2010, 06:41:38 pm
Did Xiaou2 punch him?

More random troll bait.

no its a joke,and a darn funny one,  not troll bait. Your post however......
I thought it was funny. 
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 15, 2010, 05:28:53 pm
Surprised you even got past the sax player. :lol

Hardcore Saxaphone Player from The Lost Boys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHv3ll6Wrvs#ws)
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: RayB on March 16, 2010, 07:51:01 pm
It's a chick flick, just like Twilight.
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 16, 2010, 09:24:24 pm
It's a chick flick, just like Twilight.


You're just trolling now.
Title: Re: Actor Corey Haim dead
Post by: danny_galaga on March 17, 2010, 01:06:41 am
So I tried watching The Lost Boys last night.  I got about halfway through. 

Two observations... lots of mid-20s dudes with receding hairlines got to play teenagers back then... and the whole thing (at least the first half) seems to be a euphemism for underaged drinking.  Brother drinks out of a bottle and acts nuts with his friends, and then walks around groggy and in sunglasses all day (kinda like my Mondays).  I understand that at the end, the little brother appeals to his better nature and gets him to stop partaking.  The parallels are so obvious it really makes me wonder if someone said, "hrmm... this is getting a little too after school special for me... I know... VAMPIRES!"

Job done. Thanks Pinball! Howard, i am now a film fan  ;D