St. Elmo’s Fire is a terrible movie with terrible characters

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Clarence something or other from Bruce Springsteen was pretty famous sax player. I agree there was a lot more sax in popular music back then.

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Anonymous wrote:Demi Moore had a bad drug problem right before they started filming. She was actually fired from the film until she got clean. The director was really pulling for her. That film probably saved her career and life.

No. You are confusing the character she played with real life. They were not one and the same.

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Anonymous wrote:Clarence something or other from Bruce Springsteen was pretty famous sax player. I agree there was a lot more sax in popular music back then.

Chicago had a great brass section.

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So many of the female actors back then would never have a career today- no appeal of any kind and not good actors- Mare, Molly, Ally- even Demi looked/acted and sounded like a bag. I was a few years younger than that whole group but I remember thinking how much more beautiful my older sister and her friends were than those actresses. And their clothes were normal 80s clothes- not the old person clothes like the actresses wore in the movies- and even off screen. Oh wait, I just remembered the Kristin Stewart thread- maybe they would still have careers.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems to make bad movies worse when they have a title that has no connection to the movie. It’s like the producer is rolling his eyes & saying “If I have to explain why THAT’S the title, perhaps you should go watch another Rambo movie.”

This is so true. And he's wearing an ascot, giant framed glasses and has a really bad rug.

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Anonymous wrote:So many of the female actors back then would never have a career today- no appeal of any kind and not good actors- Mare, Molly, Ally- even Demi looked/acted and sounded like a bag. I was a few years younger than that whole group but I remember thinking how much more beautiful my older sister and her friends were than those actresses. And their clothes were normal 80s clothes- not the old person clothes like the actresses wore in the movies- and even off screen. Oh wait, I just remembered the Kristin Stewart thread- maybe they would still have careers.

If they could whisper, all those mediocre looking gals & their baggy clothes could be Billie Eyelash or whatever that untalented person’s name is.

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I think of the clothes on St. Elmo's as the costume person being an earlier version of Patricia Field on Sex and the City. Simply establishing a look that is an offshoot for what is out there but different. SATC just was on for so long that PF got to take the fashion farther and farther until fashion started trying to catch up to a version of hers.

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Anonymous wrote:So many of the female actors back then would never have a career today- no appeal of any kind and not good actors- Mare, Molly, Ally- even Demi looked/acted and sounded like a bag. I was a few years younger than that whole group but I remember thinking how much more beautiful my older sister and her friends were than those actresses. And their clothes were normal 80s clothes- not the old person clothes like the actresses wore in the movies- and even off screen. Oh wait, I just remembered the Kristin Stewart thread- maybe they would still have careers.

If they could whisper, all those mediocre looking gals & their baggy clothes could be Billie Eyelash or whatever that untalented person’s name is.

Do you mean the person who just won an Academy Award for best song?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many of the female actors back then would never have a career today- no appeal of any kind and not good actors- Mare, Molly, Ally- even Demi looked/acted and sounded like a bag. I was a few years younger than that whole group but I remember thinking how much more beautiful my older sister and her friends were than those actresses. And their clothes were normal 80s clothes- not the old person clothes like the actresses wore in the movies- and even off screen. Oh wait, I just remembered the Kristin Stewart thread- maybe they would still have careers.

If they could whisper, all those mediocre looking gals & their baggy clothes could be Billie Eyelash or whatever that untalented person’s name is.

Even you don’t know what point you’re trying to make here

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Anonymous wrote:I loved this movie as a young teen and just rewatched it…and boy was it terrible.

All the characters are terrible people. Like, really terrible. No redeeming qualities.

And whoever did costumes for the film really missed the mark for Ally Sheedy and Mare Winningham.

You cant distinguish the work art from what it comments on? Wow.

You're old. Accept it.

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Doesn’t John Cusak play a saxophone solo for his love interest in Better Off Dead too?

And Bill Clinton was always playing saxophone

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many of the female actors back then would never have a career today- no appeal of any kind and not good actors- Mare, Molly, Ally- even Demi looked/acted and sounded like a bag. I was a few years younger than that whole group but I remember thinking how much more beautiful my older sister and her friends were than those actresses. And their clothes were normal 80s clothes- not the old person clothes like the actresses wore in the movies- and even off screen. Oh wait, I just remembered the Kristin Stewart thread- maybe they would still have careers.

If they could whisper, all those mediocre looking gals & their baggy clothes could be Billie Eyelash or whatever that untalented person’s name is.

Go home, gramma.

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Anonymous wrote:Clarence something or other from Bruce Springsteen was pretty famous sax player. I agree there was a lot more sax in popular music back then.

Tim Cappello had an amazing sax scene in Lost Boys:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clarence something or other from Bruce Springsteen was pretty famous sax player. I agree there was a lot more sax in popular music back then.

Tim Cappello had an amazing sax scene in Lost Boys:

Pp posted this video a page back.

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That's why Lady Gaga's Edge of Glory always sounds like an 80s song to me - sax solo.