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The Brat Pack and those enormous granny panties
This was the movie that gave us The Brat Pack, a staple of a certain 80s cultural set. The term Brat Pack was derived from an article writen by a journalist out one night with most of the men starring in St. Elmo's Fire on a boozy night of partying. Since then the gals in the movie as well as a few others who weren't in the movie (Anthony Michael Hall, for example) suffered a bit of a ripple effect. Here we will see all of them at their prime and at their peak of heart throb success on every teenage girl's bedroom wall.

Out of all the dramedies of the John Hughes movies, this was the one I liked the least. Maybe it was the fact that all the characters were so vain and self centered. Maybe it was the fact that it was all so idealized seeing all of them trying to adjust to their lives after graduating college. It was trying to be the next generation "Graduate" movie, and I didn't relate when my time came. Maybe it had to do with the fact that I have been let down by many people and didn't have that network of friends in similar situations, and the isolation I felt during that first year adjusting to the outside world having left the nest of academia. I guess I was just a little more bitter. Plus, as my life was surrounded by work and little else, I didn't have all the dramas going on they did.

That was kind of sad, the one scene where Rob Lowe goes back to his old frat house and they tell him they need someone like him to couch their team. It proves you really can't go home again and there are some clinging to the past. Not to mention embarrassing with that one gal who has managed to hold onto her virginity for so long and in one of the attempts to releive her of it Rob Lowe finds those enormous granny panties.

This caputed more of a time in fashion and music than it did a mindset. It's not a bad story, but the vain and self centered antics of the main characters left me cold.

This movie sucks if you're a guy
I talk to many chicks on a daily basis and back in the day they all loved St. Elmo's Fire. There is obviously no plot to this piece of dung, but the ladies like Rob Lowe, Emilio Estuhvez, Andrew McCarthy and Judd Davies. What do the guys get? A pretty hot Demi Moore coked out of her mind. Nothing wrong with that, but Mare Winningham and Ally Sheedy were just butt ugly in this movie. I don't see how any guy, much less Andrew McCarthy, would ever even give them the time of day, let alone hang out with them. The movie itself is just dumb. I don't have any clue what it is trying to say. The only redeeming quality is the "St. Elmo's Fire" Theme by John Parr and his 2 foot white man afro. The song is brilliant, as everything by Parr is, but this movie is just dumb. If Winningham and Sheedy would've tried to talk to me, I would called animal control to come pick them up and put them back in their cages until a good home was found for them. If Demi Moore comes up to me at any point, lovin would commence. She's still hot. So you've got the coolest guys in hollywood, one hot chick and two girls that drowned in lake ugly. This movie doesn't work for me. Hot girls only please.

Just watched it again
Ok first of all, I DO like this movie, BUT it is so depressing! I hadn't seen this movie since the 80's and aside from the cheesey hairstyles, clothes, this movie has a pretty deep message about growing up. One of the saddest scenes in this movie is where Rob Lowe comes back to the old frat house and is welcomed by his "brothers" with open arms. They end up playing a game of football and Billy (Rob Lowe) asks one of his friends if it's possible for him to get a job coaching at the college, and his friend says something like, "yeah we need someone like you around here to get us some good drugs". How awful! He's trying to do the right thing and constantly gets slammed and makes the wrong choices. And then of coures there's Demi Moore's charecter who is a drug addict, and the love triangle thing, it's just good but VERY SAD!

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