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Summary: Great Flick !!
Review: I love this film, & in fact, I love all of the movies with "The Brat Pack". Especially- "The Breakfast Club", "Pretty In Pink", "Sixteen Candles", & of course this film - "St.Elmo's Fire". Great actors! Well, thats all I have to say for now.
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Summary: A movie that brings back memories and arouses emotions
Review: With a combination of beautiful and exciting music and talented actors, St. Elmo's Fire captures what adjusting to life after college is like for a tight-knit group of friends. It is especially exciting to watch the movie while keeping in mind the careers that each of these actors went on to have. They were obviously in their prime with St. Elmo's Fire, and it makes you wish that you could have those days back again. Alot of critics hated it, but I loved it. I have watched it almost ten times, and I love the soundtrack.
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Summary: The fist wall for the young.
Review: This movie has been the best one for me since it was realesed for the fist time. Whenever I see this, it let me know various kinds of things. To tell the truth, 14 years ago I saw this movie just because Andrew McCarthys was so cute. But now I am older than they are in the movie, and I really underestand what Joel Schumacher would like to talk to us. I hope all that read this now will like it,too.
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Summary: This is as good as it gets!
Review: This movie was the greatest film ever! I mean....I just luv all of the actors and actresses. They fit their part perfectly. I thought Andrew McCarthy was sooo cute in the movie!! I'm starting to like the 80's movies. I used to think they were old, but this movie was the best! Besides, it was only filmed one year after I was born! Now, I just have to decide as to whether I like "Pretty in Pink" or "St. Elmo's Fire" better! They are both my favorites!
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Summary: Could life really be this tough?
Review: Joel Schumacher (a.k.a. Lord of the Brat Pack) was sunonimous with the teen genre during the 80's, and this particular film lends further proof to his inate ability to capture the true feelings of post-adolescence life. I was a senior in high school when this movie was originally released, and I never imagined that life, real life, would ever be as difficult as it seemed for these seven friends. Boy was I wrong! Schumacher hit the nail square on the head with his look into the lives of seven friends trying to make it in the real world.
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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME
Review: St. Elmo's Fire was the best movie of all time, period. For anyone who ever went away to college and made it through alive should love this movie. I have seen this movie thousands of times and can repeat St Elmo's word for word. Just watch and look back at your own college experiences and you will laugh, cry and long to be back on campus. This movie reminds me of the best times of my life, thats why it is the best movie of all time!!!!! 10 out of 10!!!!
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Summary: It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This
Review: Demi Moore as a coked-up slut. Rob Lowe's head in a toilet. Andrew McCarthy at his most obnoxious. The vision that is Andie MacDowell. A sondtrack that will be drilled into your brain and keep you up at night. "BOOGALA, BOOOGALA, BOOGALA, UH UH UHHH!". Have any truer words ever been spoken?
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Summary: A classic of the 80's!
Review: This movie reminds me about college, fragments of life which are so vividly displayed in the movie. It is easy to see your own reflection in the characters and it brings back the time that you are going to remember for the rest of your life!
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Summary: Talk about your loads of crap!
Review: Like most others who grew up on the Brat Pack flicks, I couldn't wait for the next one. I loved the earlier flicks that had not only great writing and warm stories to tell, but characters you cared about and situations that we could ALL relate to, at least to some point. Pick your flick - 16 Candles, Breakfast Club - they had at least SOMETHING everyone could relate to. Not "St. Elmos's Fire." Talk about taking a red hot cast of actors and doing absolutely nothing with them. This movie wasted so much talent and threw unlikeable, pretentious morons at us with some of the corniest dialogue I have ever seen. There is not ONE likeable character in this movie. Rob Lowe's character is a moron - not in the directionless sense the movie tries to protray him sympathetically, but in everything he does throughout the film, particularly his acting. I actually laughed at the night club scene when Lowe and his band perform. His "sizzlin" sax performance with his band is one of the most contrived, directionless displays of music in movie history - ranks right up there with the final play scene in Travolta's pathetic sequal to "Saturday Night Fever" ("Staying Alive"). Even the extras in that bar scene are terrible actors who not only have no clue how to dance or even react to that "song" (I guess it was a song), but the scene's climax where Lowe and his wife embrace passionately to the adoring masses is contrived, soap opera worthy material. DeMI Moore... don't get me started on her character. And Ally Sheedy (a fave of mine up till this flick), Judd Nelson, Andrew McCarthy and all the rest of these stooges' over act so much they make Carrot Top seem like Orson Welles or Marlon Brando. Even the bit role players are hammy and cliched - the artistic gay neighbor of Moore's, the wealthy Japanese business man who for some reason trusts just out of college puds with his expensive pad. And the final scene when the gang all seems to come to grips with the reality of their situations while sending Lowe off is as corny as one of the epilogues from the "Charlies Angels" TV show in the 70s. It's sad when recent movies about the 80s seem more authentic than one like this that was made IN the 80s. The only thing I credit this movie with is instilling in me an insatiable appetite for Andie Mc Dowell, who I absolutely love to this day and give most of her movies at least a peak (though a lot of those come up short as well). I suppose I should a acknowledge the hypnotic theme song from the Soundtrack, which I'll admit is appealing, if only for the real life memories of the 80s it brings back. This movie was a lame attempt at using the Brat Pack we grew up with and trying to parallel their lives with where their legions of the fans who grew up loving them were now with their own lives. And in that it fails miserably. This movie is self indulgent and over the top, full of obtrusive characters. One thing I will admit - this is one of those movies that is so bad, you can't help but watch in when it comes on. Again, I thinks it's the way the theme song hooks you. Frankly, this movie sucks.
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Summary: Boring Brat Pack Feature
Review: 1985's St. Elmo's Fire is the film that created the Brat Pack. The film is about yuppie angst instead of the usual teen angst depicted in like kind films of the era. The seven stars, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Mare Winningham and Judd Nelson are all appealing, but the film suffers from an overall malaise. All seven are friends from Georgetown University and they trying to cope with the problems facing them in the real world. There is a lot of unrequited love between several of the friends, drug use and emotional baggage. Mr. Lowe's character is supposed to the one character that, instead of getting to the wrong marriage or job, just follows his dreams. His speech to Ms. Moore, who is on the verge of a serious mental breakdown or worse, in which he lights hair spray on fire is truly cringe worthy. Overall, St. Elmo's Fire is more of a cultural document, showing what yuppie life was like in the mid-80's and the state of the young and upcoming stars of Hollywood at the time. It also features the famed number one theme song by one-hit wonder John Parr.
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