I
finally got around to watching “St. Elmo’s Fire” a couple of weeks ago, I’d
programmed the title into the TiVo and the movie finally played on some channel
and the TiVo finally recorded it, so after all these years I finally watched
it, and wow did I finally hate everything about it.
Look at these crazy 80s kids
and the fun, wacky things they do. So deep, so mature, so sensitive. And they always always band together to help each
other out. They’re prescient that
way. Don't you wish they could be your
friends too?
God
I hated this movie. I didn’t dislike it,
I wasn’t indifferent to it, I hated it.
It’s insulting. I hope its target
audience saw through it and hated it too.
But they didn’t, because this was I hit I think.
It
tries to glamorize youth. We all like
youth, and older people wish they could be young again, but youth has never been
like the fantasized youth of this bunch.
What’s disturbing is I’m afraid it might have told kids of the day,
“This is what your life should be.” Not
only wasn’t the audience’s youth like this, it COULDN’T have been. This is a fantasy bullshit movie; pandering,
cloying, badly executed, and obvious.
OK,
other than that, what did I think? (“But
Mrs. Lincoln, the playwright is here, what should we tell him?”) I like seeing well-known actors so early in
their careers. I wish they’d been in a
better vehicle, but they do have charisma and they do impress. Though not technically a “Brat Pack” movie,
this has many of the same players, and it’s fun to see them interact. Other than that…
It’s
shot well?
The
script uses correct grammar?
It
finally ends?
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