# Just watched "St. Elmo's Fire" - Wow. That Sucked. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 14, 2011, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-watched-st-elmos-fire-wow-that-sucked/592661 "2011-08-14T06:02:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-watched-st-elmos-fire-wow-that-sucked/592661/81 "2017-11-18T19:41:10Z")
I just wanted to drop into this zombie to remind everyone what a hugely pretentious douchebag Judd Nelson was, and possibly still is. I remember reading a very unkind article about him where he was quoted in an interview saying the dumbest fucking things I’d ever read. He even wore non-prescription glasses to make himself look more intelligent. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-watched-st-elmos-fire-wow-that-sucked/592661/82 "2017-11-18T20:02:09Z")
The only reason why this movie was popular with us in college was because Georgetown refused to let them film on campus so all of the college scenes were filmed at the University of Maryland. It was sort of cool to see some of our buildings in a movie. Not cool enough to make up for how bad the movie was. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-watched-st-elmos-fire-wow-that-sucked/592661/83 "2017-11-18T20:41:14Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > The movie, [St. Elmo’s Fire](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090060/) from 1985. My husband and I are children of the 80’s, but damn, that sucked. A movie full of terrible people doing terrible things for terrible reasons - yeah, that’s entertainment. > > Are we missing something here? On the other hand, I vaguely recall watching it decades ago and being amused - were we all terrible people in the 80’s and I’ve just forgotten? Agreed. Movie sucked pond water. Theme music was pretty good, though. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-watched-st-elmos-fire-wow-that-sucked/592661/84 "2017-11-18T21:00:08Z")
wasn’t this the movie that helped kill the whole "brat pack " mystique ? And since it was mentioned upthread I’m still waiting for someone to have the courage to film A real less than zero movie that’s actually based on the book , ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-watched-st-elmos-fire-wow-that-sucked/592661/85 "2017-11-19T00:18:56Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > wasn’t this the movie that helped kill the whole "brat pack " mystique ? > > And since it was mentioned upthread I’m still waiting for someone to have the courage to film A real less than zero movie that’s actually based on the book , They have made film versions of four Bret Easton Ellis novels. Do any of them not suck besides American Psycho? Honestly, at this point in my life, I simply find the “hedonistic drug addled trust fund sociopaths” genre tedious. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-watched-st-elmos-fire-wow-that-sucked/592661/86 "2017-11-19T01:02:43Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > wasn’t this the movie that helped kill the whole "brat pack " mystique ? Nope, most of the pack had started to age out of the pack plots and salary expectations were rising as well. Saint Elmos fire had come out in 85 and by 86, top gun was released and basically it was a darwinist experience. Cruise, Lowe (by way of a sex tape scandal) and RDJ moved on to bigger and better things. The rest had varied careers but for the most part, had plateaued with the bratpack. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-watched-st-elmos-fire-wow-that-sucked/592661.md?page=4)