Yeah, it was a terrible movie. (Cruised past it wiith the remote last night.) But, with the top down and the road clear, the theme song is cool.

St. Elmo's Fire. The "Little Chill". Ugh. Unwatchable.

Think of the careers that one ended. Judd Nelson. Andrew McCarthy (I last saw him playing a cowboy in a made-for-TV Hallmark special movie, I sh*t you not). Ally Sheedy (the last movie she looked cute in). The blond chick who played the social worker (Mare Winningham -- ok, she never had a career to begin with). Emilio Estevez. All failed to reach the lifeboats.

Yeah, after a fashion, Rob Lowe survived. As did Demi Moore, whose subsequent buoyant implants kept her career afloat. And Andie McDowell only had a cameo appearance, so she wasn't permanently wrecked (it took Gerard Depardieu to kill her career off for good).

But man -- that movie was truly wretched. It made me hate all Georgetown grads with nearly the same passionate intensity that I usually reserve for Michigan grads ("The Big Chill" and a few real world Michigan grads put them forever at the top of my "most hated" list).

I never got the appeal of St. Elmo's Fire. All of my college buddies would rent that and watch it all the time - it was their rite of passage or something. Ack!

I love St. Elmo's Fire. I can recite it by heart. Sure, it's cheesy. I love cheese. And I associate it, nostalgically, with the time in my life when I first saw it.

Mare Winningham never had a career? Huh? On what planet? She has pretty much never been out of a job. I happen to pay attention to such things, because I am a lunatic. And no, that film didn't end her career whatsoever.

She was nominated for an Oscar a couple years ago for Georgia(none of the other cast members have received that honor), and she continues to do great work in television series and theatre.

I find the clothes in that film highly embarrassing - but merely because I used to dress like that. It's hilarious. I love that movie. I watched it last night too and had an awesome time. I love, especially, the scene where Rob Lowe (with the headband - god, how cheesy) rocks out with his sax in the bar.

Sure, it's wince-inducing. I love it.

St. Elmo's Fire??? I watched "Becoming a Marine" on the Military channel.
What a bunch of whinig crybabies in SEF. You want to see "Man against the machine?" Tune in to the military channel...

babs:

I guess I like whining crybabies. I find them very entertaining.

That's not to say I wouldn't find Becoming a Marine interesting, too. But I adore a little bit of cheese in my television diet.

Red,

I had almost forgotten the whole Rob-Lowe-saxophone-scene. Almost. And a "little bit of cheese?" What, pray tell, constitutes "a lot of cheese?" (he asked, filled with a gnawing fear of what ancient abominations Red might name . . . )

By the way, I meant to apologize to you for slamming Middlemarch in a previous post . . . was having a bad day, and George Eliot made me see red for some reason.

Colossus:

Oh, tis a fair question you ask!! Very fair indeed.

A lot of cheese would be, oh, something like that show Showdog Moms and Dads (I watch it in slack-jawed amazement that there can be such idiots on this planet) - or a really cheese-ball movie like A Walk to Remember (I love that movie. It's so manipulative, and I succumb every time I've seen it. Yes. I own it. I am not a well woman). I recently got television after a couple of years of no TV and I am like a kid in a candy store. I have high-brow tastes most certainly - I love history, I love biographies, I love serious movies, etc., but I also love CHEESE (and you cannot get any more cheesy than that show) - it's a nice escape.

I did a post on my blog once about: Guilty Pleasure Cheesy Movies that I absolutely Adore. Here's a link to it - it's very funny reading (especially the comments from everyone) Everyone kind of just comes clean about LOVING the movie Ice Pirates, or Josie and the Pussycats, or whatever.

Oh, and no worries about Middlemarch. :)

I enjoyed "St. Elmo's Fire" because I could put names, faces, dates, and places on every character and situation in the movie from my undergrad days at Washington and Lee. My favorite: boyfriend and girlfriend date forever, everyone thinks they will get married. Boyfriend's best friend has long nursed a crush on girlfriend. Girlfriend finally figures out what everyone knows: that boyfriend is a disloyal skirt-chaser who has been screwing every gal who comes along. There is a spectacular breakup after which girlfriend winds up in the sack with best friend. The flick came out in the summer of 1985, the summer I graduated from college, and I was playing the theme song as I drove into Ft. Benning for the start of my military career.