Just watched "St. Elmo's Fire" - Wow. That Sucked.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Sarahfeena

I always thought this movie was a Baby Boomer’s idea of what the next generation was going to be like. Well, in my opinion Gen X didn’t turn out anything like that, thank god.

Except the people in this movie weren’t actually Gen X’ers - they were actually late Boomers. If you’re 22 in 1985, that makes you born in 1963.

[CaptMurdock]

@Cat_Whisperer

Oh no - now you’ve got me imagining this movie as re-done by Quentin Tarantino. No one makes it out alive. As previously mentioned, Billy and Jules commit a double suicide in her bedroom (overdosing on drugs), Kirby (Emilio) rides the lightning after killing Andie MacDowell’s character and her boyfriend, Judd Nelson’s character is killed by Andrew McCarthy’s character in a fit of jealous rage when Ally Sheedy’s character (stupidly) goes back to Judd, then he turns the gun on himself and her. Who have I missed? Oh yeah - Mare Winningham’s character - dies of AIDS five years after sleeping with Billy. How’s that, “I looooove him” working out for you?

The last scene is the friends and family of all these people gathered together, comparing notes of how glad they are that they’re all dead.

I want you to bear my children!

[Zebra]

@Chef_Troy

Wow, you’ve got some serious misquoting going on there. Apparently the parts you’ve seen way too many times weren’t the ones you were quoting.
“What is the president of the (name of school) Young Democrats doing working for a Republican senator?”
“Moving up for a buck.”
Mahler? MAHLER? Try, “No Springsteen is leaving this house! You can have all the Carly Simons.”

There is no way in hell I’m going to double check these. I remember them fighting about Springsteen but I’m pretty sure about the Mahler line. If you have the DVD are are checking, well, you have my pity.

[An_Gadai]

@Zebra

There is no way in hell I’m going to double check these. I remember them fighting about Springsteen but I’m pretty sure about the Mahler line. If you have the DVD are are checking, well, you have my pity.

Alec: You cannot have the Pretenders’ first album! That’s mine.
Leslie: I bought it.
Alec: You did not! You can have all the Billy Joels… except The Stranger.
Leslie: I’m taking Thriller and Mahler’s ninth.
Alec: Kevin is so fond of Mahler.
Leslie: I moved in with Jules.
Alec: Oh how nice, roomies again… No Springsteen is leaving this house! You can have all the Carly Simons.

[Uncle_Jocko]

@Cat_Whisperer

Except the people in this movie weren’t actually Gen X’ers - they were actually late Boomers. If you’re 22 in 1985, that makes you born in 1963.

I actually was born in 1963. Saw this movie my senior year of college. And then one of my friends said - and kept saying - “this movie reminds me of us! We’re buddies just like ‘St. Elmos Fire!’”

I was appalled.

[Clothahump]

Great theme song, terrible movie.

[fjs1fs]

@Ike_Witt

I remember seeing it when it first came out and wondering who the movie was aimed at. I should have been right in the wheelhouse of the target audience, I was a college freshman at the time, but the movie didn’t work for me - at all.

About the only thing I remember thinking during the movie was, are we going to get to see Demi Moores’ breasts?

She didn’t HAVE breasts yet!

[Cat_Whisperer]

@CaptMurdock

I want you to bear my children!

Okay! Wait, by “bear your children,” you mean dress up in a bear suit and scare them, right?

@Uncle_Jocko

I actually was born in 1963. Saw this movie my senior year of college. And then one of my friends said - and kept saying - “this movie reminds me of us! We’re buddies just like ‘St. Elmos Fire!’”

I was appalled.

“So you’re saying we’re both assholes? Nice.”

[StusBlues]

@Scarlett67

I spent far too long (about four seconds) trying to figure out what an ass mullet looks like. <shudder>

I’m stealing that. Notice served.

[Katriona]

@Sateryn76

I think you’re all crazy. I love this movie.

It’s Singles for the 80s. I like these characters a lot more than the crunchy D-bags and burn outs in Singles.

I like Singles, but SEF speaks to my inner Alex Keaton. And Judd Nelson is unbelievably hot in this.

Your last line sums up EXACTLY why I watch this movie every time I run across it! Dear lawd,I loves me some Judd!

[Sarahfeena]

@Cat_Whisperer

Except the people in this movie weren’t actually Gen X’ers - they were actually late Boomers. If you’re 22 in 1985, that makes you born in 1963.

Oh, I know. That’s why I said it was their idea of what the next generation was going to be like. A total Boomer perspective, but meant for people our age to relate to it. Which no one I know did, at all.

[MPB_in_Salt_Lake]

Are Judd Nelson, Andrew McCarthy or Mare Winningham still acting?

I don’t have cable, and I don’t really see too many movies these days, but the three of them seem to have just fallen off the map, at least in comparison to their St. Elmo’s Fire co-stars, all of whom went on to much bigger and better things…

I seem to remember Judd Nelson was on Suddenly Susan with Brooke Shields, maybe after Eric Idle left. (Of course Eric Idle in a sit-com as pathetic as Suddenly Susan is a whole 'nother thread…)

[Chef_Troy]

Judd Nelson is. I was up for a small part in a movie he’s in that’s shooting now. It’s called “Bad Kids Go To Hell.” I didn’t get the part, but I’m not sure that’s a bad thing.

[Sam_A.Robrin]

@Cat_Whisperer

Okay! Wait, by “bear your children,” you mean dress up in a bear suit and scare them, right?

[Exit, bear-suit by a perv…]

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Sarahfeena

Oh, I know. That’s why I said it was their idea of what the next generation was going to be like. A total Boomer perspective, but meant for people our age to relate to it. Which no one I know did, at all.

Oh, okay - I got you now. I don’t remember my Gen X friends being like that, either.

[shantih]

@Sam_A.Robrin

[Exit, bear-suit by a perv…]

::golf clap::

[tumbleddown]

@MPB_in_Salt_Lake

Are Judd Nelson, Andrew McCarthy or Mare Winningham still acting?

They’re all doing a lot of episodic TV. Judd (along with Ally & Emilio) has done Psych and Andrew McCarthy has/had a semi-recurring role on Royal Pains. He’s gone from being the good guy in Brat Pack flicks to always playing a rich, slimy guy. He was a murderer in an episode of Monk, too. And Mare Winningham did one of the saddest episodes of Criminal Minds last year.

I seem to remember Judd Nelson was on Suddenly Susan with Brooke Shields, maybe after Eric Idle left.

Other way around, Judd left, Eric came in after him.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Sam_A.Robrin

[Exit, bear-suit by a perv…]

I don’t get it.

[MPB_in_Salt_Lake]

@tumbleddown

They’re all doing a lot of episodic TV. Judd (along with Ally & Emilio) has done Psych and Andrew McCarthy has/had a semi-recurring role on Royal Pains. He’s gone from being the good guy in Brat Pack flicks to always playing a rich, slimy guy. He was a murderer in an episode of Monk, too. And Mare Winningham did one of the saddest episodes of Criminal Minds last year.

Thank you—I am not familiar with any of these shows, and although I have certainly heard of both Criminal Minds and Monk, I guess the other two must be cable series…

For what it’s worth, I (a straight, 41 year-old who actually had to sneak into the theater to watch St. Elmo’s Fire back when I was in 10th grade) always thought Andrew McCarthy would have ended up becoming the biggest star of the male cast members, as I thought he was probably the best looking guy the bunch.

I also think that Ally Sheedy was probably better looking than Demi Moore, though Demi is still pretty dang hot to this day; I haven’t seen any recent photos of Ms. Sheedy…

[MsRobyn]

Honestly, I don’t think Ally Sheedy aged all that well. She definitely looks old.