ST. ELMO’S FIRE (1985)
Tagline : The passion burns deep.
(Drama, Romance) [R]
Back in the 80’s and even well after that Joel Schumacher was one of the directors that captured audience attention with fantastic direction and interesting films. He even directed THE LOST BOYS. So naturally I was poised to check this movie out. I never actually saw this thing when it came out but the movie’s main theme song is on almost every 80’s play list I have.
In this one a group of college friends are starting out at life and trying to not only maintain some of their college antics, but also their friendships. Alec (played by Judd Nelson) aspires to political life and is switching from supporting a Democratic candidate to a Republican. He is wanting Leslie (played by Ally Sheedy who was in WAR GAMES and SHORT CIRCUIT) to marry him but we pretty much find out right away he’s a giant jerk. Leslie is seeking independence which is fine, but she sucks also. Kirby (played by Emilio Estevez) just seems really confused and is basically a freakin angry stalker this whole movie. Billy (played by Rob Lowe) has a wife and kid but treats them like garbage and does almost everything he can to destroy his life. Jules (played by Demi Moore) is a cocaine addict who makes up crap all the time for attention and blows through money like an elementary school finance officer on crack. Wendy is just in the movie for almost no reason. She works with poor people helping them, which is awesome but she hangs out with all these damn idiots. Kevin is trying to be a writer and he’s got the hots for Leslie so we have to see how that goes.
Directing wise this movie is nothing special. The lighting etc. is basic 80’s which is fine. Acting wise we get good performances but everything else about this damn movie sucks. The story sucks, the ending sucks, the beginning sucks, the middle sucks. Everything sucks. There is nothing of value, nothing redeeming or intriguing about this movie. I don’t buy the nostalgic reasoning that it’s some sort of window into the “times”. Because I watch and review a crap load of movies from the 80's not even remotely as filled with putrid festering drivel as this dumpster fire. They should have just called this movie St. Elmo’s Dumpster Fire. I hated it. That’s it. I am freakin done with this freakin review. Don’t waste your time unless you are just living a really great life and want to ruin it for almost 2 hours.
Because not even this normally stellar cast could rescue this horrible written train wreck from hell, I give this movie a 0 out of 7. If it’s in your 80’s watch streaming queue, take it out and burn your TV. If you own this thing burn every copy you have then dump the ashes in the ocean.
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