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

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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.

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

I know exactly the point. Someone decides a performer is great. Then all the lemmings are afraid to disagree & next thing you know the no-talent person is a superstar. See: Whoopi Goldberg, Adam Sandler, Leo DiCaprio etc.

But all three of these actors are great in their own way:
Whoopi is amazing at standup.
Adam Sandler rocked those songs on SNL.
Leo was sexy as hell in Titanic.

And those three extraordinary moments which had cultural resonance carried them through their careers. Nothing wrong with that.

Whoopi was great in Sister Act (the first one). Her comic timing, energy is top. di Caprio is a really great actor, its just over shadowed by a seedy private life

[Anonymous]

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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?

Yes, the one who can’t sing.

She both wrote and sang the song that won the Oscar this year.

Her second Oscar.

How many Oscars has your “talent” won you?

Oh, that’s right. When you said “untalented,” you were looking in the mirror.

Wow, you’re as funny as Whoopi.

[Anonymous]

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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.”

They literally talk about St. Elmo's Fire in the movie. It ties in perfectly to their stage in life.

Even more obnoxious if the characters have to explain the title.

And if the title were perfectly tied into their lives at that stage it would have been called “Whiney and Insufferable Georgetown Alumni.” And maybe you could do without the first 3 words due to redundancy concerns.

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Anonymous wrote:And another thing I remember is the end where Rob Lowe's character goes off and leaves his daughter, and he's all like, "She's better off without me" because he's a ramblin' musician man, can't be tied down. And this is supposed to be somehow noble or romantic? IDK. But even then I was like, "Damn, what a d*ck"

Nothing about his character fit the stereotypical G'town demographics. It's annoying unrealistic to even entertain the notion that he was ever even admitted there, then he gets his GF pregnant, did they meet in the lecture hall?

I do get and appreciate that they needed the school and it's identity to be a key focal point of the story. It's just too bad that lacrosse wasn't as popular then, because that's maybe the only scenario that Billy was going to ever be a Hoya.

I have a loser relative who was attending Georgetown about that time (who did not play lacrosse), so Billy's character has always seemed entirely believable to me.

[Anonymous]

This is actually a pretty fun discussion of this movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NGnAHrgX8g

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Anonymous wrote:This is actually a pretty fun discussion of this movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NGnAHrgX8g

YES this podcast in general is fantastic and this episode in particular is really funny. Great snippet of an interview with Lowe at the end, makes me want to read his book.

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Anonymous wrote:This is actually a pretty fun discussion of this movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NGnAHrgX8g

YES this podcast in general is fantastic and this episode in particular is really funny. Great snippet of an interview with Lowe at the end, makes me want to read his book.

+1, I really enjoy the Rewatchables, I shall give this episode a listen!