St. Elmo's Fire

Pros: A few memorable scenes
Cons: Very dated, not as good as The Breakfast Club

Just the other night, I was browsing through the online library of movies I could watch via Netflix, and I came across St. Elmo's Fire from 1985. This is one of the quintessential ‘brat pack' movies from the 80's. Although I knew the theme ...

Pros: Have you ever seen so many attractive people in one film?
Cons: Everything always works out in the 80's.

Preamble
As I continue down my walk of 80's related things, I stop and reflect on the movies that made me laugh and smile. Those are the kind of movies I enjoy. The occasional tear- jerker is great during PMS week but other than that, I...

Pros: Demi Moore, 'feel good flick', all star cast.
Cons: McCarthy and Winningham are just too weak.

Looking back at 1985, it was a fine year for Brat Pack flicks. St. Elmo’s Fire was the breathtaking follow up to the years earlier Breakfast Club and showed the cast of both films [Estevez, Nelson, Sheedy] in a much...

Pros: good acting, witty banter
Cons: sometimes melodramatic, plot holes

Ensemble movies are tricky to pull off. Unless you're Robert Altman you shouldn't even bother trying. However, Joel Schumacher takes a stab at it with "St. Elmo's Fire," a lighthearted drama about a group of seven friends and their entrance into the real ...

Pros: Funny script, decent acting.
Cons: Contrived endings, disturbing stereotypes.

I saw St. Elmo’s Fire for the first time in 1985, the summer it was released in theaters. This was the summer after I learned to drive, and for the first time, I had the freedom to go see a movie whenever I wanted (at least, whenever I could...

Pros: Hilarity ensues when 46-year-old Joel Schumacher imagines what it's like to be a young adult.
Cons: Bad performances, phony situations, and absolutely zero sense of reality.

After scoring big in an assortment of teen-themed films, including "The Breakfast Club," "Class," and "Pretty in Pink," several members of Young Hollywood's acting elite joined forces to demonstrate a newfound sense of maturity. In 1985, "St. Elmo's ...

Pros: Most of these people's careers are dead.
Cons: There's a whole review of cons. Read on, friends.

When I was a wee lad I watched a film that I thought was the coolest, deepest, most meaningful look at relationships amongst friends that could ever be made. That film was ST. ELMO's FIRE. And I was obviously a very, very disturbed child. Yes, as a ...

Pros: well...uh...some think the cast is cute
Cons: characters, lack of development, hollow

Spawned in the 1980s and, undeniably epitomizing many cultural aspects of the time period, St. Elmo's Fire stars virtually the entire "Brat Pack" (Estevez, Sheedy, Lowe, McCarthy, Nelson, Moore) as recent college grads entering the workforce and...

Pros: Good Cast
Cons: Drinking, Casual Sex, Questionable Message

I'll admit it, as a high schooler in the mid to late 80's, this movie was far and away, one of my absolute favorites. I can't even count the number of times it was rented on a Saturday night and watched with 7 or 8 friends while we scarfed down a couple...

Pros: Great cast, great acting and nice story
Cons: None really

This is one of those movies when you watch it and remember your own youth. While I was in college in the 80s, I had a group of friends, whom I grew up with. Even though we are still very close friends, you can not turn back time and say that, that part...

Pros: Graet "Brat Pack" film!
Cons: None

Probably one of the "Brat Pack's" best film. This is a film of a group of college graduates and the perils they face while trying to tackle the world. St. Elmo's Fire is not only the title of the film, it's the name for the watering hole...

Pros: feel good movie about growing up
Cons: not very good morals in this movie

In college, I took a class called Gender Communication. One of our assignments was to view this movie and write a five page paper about it. We were to look at the interactions between women and women and men and women. As I watched this movie, I had...

Pros: The first hour
Cons: The second hour

The other Internet teen movie critic was accused of plagiarizing Leonard Maltin, so I realize I run the risk of being called unoriginal by giving St. Elmo’s Fire the same rating Maltin did and reprinting his observation that this film is a cross between...

Pros: You can watch this film over and over again
Cons: They don't make them like this anymore!

I first saw this movie when I was thirteen. I think I watch it on a regular basis because it is such a great coming of age film. It has characters that you fall in love with, and there is at least one you will relate with. You see them graduate from...

Pros: An enjoyable trip down memory lane.
Cons: None

I remember watching this movie at a sleepover when I was 15. I fell in love with the entire meaning behind the movie. Little did I know that my life would fall into a similar pattern. Seven friends trying to cope with the fact that the "good ole...