Final Round: Geekiness
This category is very personal to me. You may not even think about this watching the movies now but part of the reason why I loved both The Lost Boys and The Monster Squad so much growing up is that the characters were geeks. Geeks before geeks were cool.
Sam (Haim) meets the Frog Brothers (Feldman and Newlander) in their family’s comic book shop. They all talk about Superman. At the time, I’d never seen anything like that in a movie. Meanwhile, The Monster Squad kids get in trouble for drawing monsters at school and have their own clubhouse covered in cool monster images. These were kids that I both wanted to be like, and kind of already was like, and so that played a big role in my adoration.
But which is geekier? It’s close, but I think you have to go with The Monster Squad. Not just for the clubhouse, drawings, and geek trivia, because they truly all bond over their shared love of one thing: monsters, the thing they’ll have to defeat. You never quite get that the Frog Brothers care about comics.
Point: The Monster Squad
