St. Elmo's Fire | | Cast : | Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore | | Director : | Joel Schumacher | | Studio : | Columbia Tri-Star | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | June 28, 1985 | | DVD Released Date : | November 20, 2001 | | Language : | Unknown (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed), English (Original Language), Thai (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 09, 2005 | | Summary | Master OF The rare Laserdiscs Movies. | Content
 | I have St.Elmo's Fire ON LASERDISC And on DVD too,'tis a great Movie :) |
| Rating | | | Date | July 03, 2005 | | Summary | St . Elmo's Fire | Content
| I was very pleased with the condition of the video and was also very pleased with the prompt delivery of the video. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 20, 2005 | | Summary | Weak script, but dramatic production values | Content
| The one thing you can say about Joel Schmacher is that he has a flair for the dramatic, the movies that he has made are useually big budget/very colorful productions, often cast by familar stars, but very weak in script and off times very confusing as to wither he was making a movie or more of a boardway play. This movie is either a drama disguised as a comedy, or it's a socail satire. It's difficult to be sure. The director's commentery sounds more like how to make a movie class 101, it's great on technic, but the substance is hard to find at best. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 10, 2005 | | Summary | Wallowing in the Mire | Content
| How's this for High Concept: swipe the skeleton of Barry Levinson's "Diner", but instead of working-class joes fill it with sallow, toxic children of privilege stabbing each other's backs for two hours while bawling about the pain of post-graduate life. Savor the Reagan-era disconnect: the more selfish, spiteful and infantile our heroes act, the more darn lovable they're supposed to be.
Judd Nelson, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy, Ally Sheedy, etc. all play 1985 Georgetown University graduates trying to make their way in the big, cold working world, which apparently doesn't require them to do any work. As in a certain sitcom of the era they seem to spend every waking second in their favorite bar, "Saint Elmo's Fire", whose name serves as a stunningly silly metaphor late in the film.
It's all set up as a big bubble-burst, but life is absurdly gentle to these brats. The most vile girl has a meltdown after a richly deserved canning, Estevez's character doesn't win Andie Macdowell (awww...), Judd gets one infidelity thrown in his face for his "nameless, faceless dozens" (hello, this is 1985, it's called AIDS!!), Andrew McCarthy gets his hair kind of mussed after blithely bedding his best friend's girl, and Rob Lowe is actually permitted to live. Life is rough.
If you doubt that this film was aimed at people just as shallow and elitist as its roster, whip out your diversity checklist: It features exactly one African American (a prostitute), one Asian (a gangster), one gay man (a quailing sissy), a few Jews (rich snobs and a nerd), and one Democrat (preening turncoat). People say the Reagan years weren't reactionary.
I saved the best for last: this L.A. fantasy is supposed to take place in Georgetown. And an exotic Georgetown it is, where the Post prints essays on life-philosophy and all the Welfare Moms are white. The only evidence that anyone involved with the film even visited DC was a few seconds filmed at my college (I remember the film crews) and the Haagen Dazs across M Street from the bar. At the time this was the movie's only good joke, because Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye (of Black Flag and Minor Threat) had held down day jobs there. We kept waiting for these mopy little squirts to run into some of the punks who infested the neighborhood and get their heads rammed up their own sousaphones. Now, that would have been a Saintly act! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 06, 2005 | | Summary | This Movie Doesn't Fire On Any Number Of Cylinders!!! | Content
| This is truly a sorry excuse for a movie. Some Hollywood executive must have decided to get the "Brat Pack' all together in a movie in the hope that it would be a blockbuster. Have a look at the characters in this movie-
Rob Lowe plays a drunken saxophonist who totals a car and thinks it is a very funny thing to do.
Mare Winningham plays a " Professional Victim" who is attracted to Lowe but can't find the courage to move out of her parent's home.
Jdd Nelson can't keep his pants on.
Ally Sheedy is Judd's long suffering girlfriend.
Andrew McCarthy has a bad case of Unrequited Love and turns to the bottle for solace.
Emilio Estevez is a potential stalker.
Demi Morre is a cocaine addict who is having sex with her boss she she can finance her drug habit.
Somehow we are supposed to actually care about these self obsessed, spoiled young men and women . The only good thing about this movie is that soon after making it most of the people in it fell into Movie Obscurity .That's whyI give it 5 stars. |
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