100 MOVIES IN A YEAR: #41 St Elmo’s Fire
The “Brat Pack” were, in my esteemed opinion, the worst generation of movie stars in Hollywood’s history. You can tell because none of them (Rob Lowe kind of excluded) went on to have particularly remarkable roles outside their time as the Brat Pack, though Molly Ringwald’s exile from Hollywood was self-imposed. Robert Downey Jr and James Spader existed on the periphery of the Brat Pack, and they’re both great. I do think Molly Ringwald would’ve been great if she’d stuck around, but it sounds like she had some, uh, very good reasons for leaving.
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All that shitting on a generation of movie stars is my incredibly long way of getting to the fact that I hated St Elmo’s Fire. Like, it is maybe one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. It had a script written by the dumbest person alive, who was also desperate to seem smart and philosophical. Send this movie to hell to burn forever. Fucking God dammit… (also, how has Demi Moore’s voice always sounded like that, did she start smoking two packs a day when she was six?)
