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Thoughts on St Elmo's Fire
Posted on 10/4/17 at 6:15 pm
Posted on 10/4/17 at 6:15 pm
none of those people who just graduated college have any redeeming qualities and are nothing but a bunch of spoiled jacka**es
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Posted on 10/4/17 at 6:29 pm to hsfolk
Posted on 10/4/17 at 6:36 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
and WTF is w/ Emilio's character stalking that girl after one date that was about 4 years ago?
Posted on 10/4/17 at 6:40 pm to hsfolk
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and WTF is w/ Emilio's character stalking that girl after one date that was about 4 years ago?
Well to be fair, Bill Murray stalked her for about 1,000 years until he finally woke to tomorrow.
(and they only had lunch together)
Posted on 10/4/17 at 6:42 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
I never understood the Billy & Wendy relationship
Posted on 10/4/17 at 6:47 pm to hsfolk
The truly crazy premise in St. Elmo's Fire...
Is you have these Georgetown graduates in the yuppie mid-80's economic boom...and nobody but Alec can find a good job.
Emilio is waiting tables, Billy is basically homeless with a wife and kid, Demi Moore is essentially a call-girl, fat chick works at some welfare office and needs her Dad to give her money - which she gives to Billy.
I don't know what Andrew McCarthy does - except drink, stir food and pine over Alley Sheedy.
ETA: Oh yeah, he's working on a novel that he hasn't started.
Is you have these Georgetown graduates in the yuppie mid-80's economic boom...and nobody but Alec can find a good job.
Emilio is waiting tables, Billy is basically homeless with a wife and kid, Demi Moore is essentially a call-girl, fat chick works at some welfare office and needs her Dad to give her money - which she gives to Billy.
I don't know what Andrew McCarthy does - except drink, stir food and pine over Alley Sheedy.
ETA: Oh yeah, he's working on a novel that he hasn't started.
This post was edited on 10/4/17 at 6:48 pm
Posted on 10/4/17 at 6:52 pm to hsfolk
It’s the breakfast club cast is all I remember
Posted on 10/4/17 at 6:52 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
and we're supposed to believe Rob Lowe's character who has shown zero ambition or high intellect actually graduated from Georgetown
Posted on 10/4/17 at 6:59 pm to hsfolk
Thought it was funny as hell when Rob Lowe put Demi's keys down his pants.
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:00 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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nobody but Alec can find a good job
Kirby was a waiter,Jules worked at a bank, and Alec worked in politics
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:01 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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I don't know what Andrew McCarthy does
writes for the newspaper
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:17 pm to hsfolk
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and we're supposed to believe Rob Lowe's character who has shown zero ambition or high intellect actually graduated from Georgetown
I think the only person who IRL would have actually gotten into Georgetown is the fat chick and Alec.
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:17 pm to hsfolk
Obits, that's right.
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:18 pm to hsfolk
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Jules worked at a bank
That was a front for her sugar-daddy life.
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:23 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
she was just freaking her boss
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:26 pm to hsfolk
But...as cringe-worthy as the movie is...
I always use it as an example of - one of the most 80's - time specific movie - if you were to put in a time capsule, to explain the 80's to aliens - this might be it.
The clothes, the style, the preppy attitudes, the total focus on money for every character...
I always use it as an example of - one of the most 80's - time specific movie - if you were to put in a time capsule, to explain the 80's to aliens - this might be it.
The clothes, the style, the preppy attitudes, the total focus on money for every character...
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:32 pm to hsfolk
the only good part was the song. which was awesome.
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:36 pm to hsfolk
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she was just freaking her boss
But it was implied, that was her JOB.
And that's how she got jobs. They kept saying how she fricks all her bosses and that was her talent in gainful employment.
So basically the movie is telling us a Georgetown degree in the 80's was totally worthless.
Posted on 10/4/17 at 11:01 pm to hsfolk
Saddest moment was Lowe going back to his fraternity to ask for a "job".
Posted on 10/5/17 at 12:02 am to Fewer Kilometers
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Saddest moment was Lowe going back to his fraternity to ask for a "job".
But they never explain why he can't get a job.
He has these weird side-jobs...Mr. Kim...house-sitting???
You have a degree from Georgetown in the 80's - that's like Ivy League shite.
Did he just major in saxaphone?
Anybody who graduated from Georgetown in D.C. during the 80's would be wealthy quite quickly.
The joke is that they're struggling and that's maybe a shot at Reagan (IDK) but this is not the demo Georgetown grads that would be struggling. The movie made yuppies some sympathetic symbol of boo-hoo can't get a job...because politics and Alec became a Repulican to make money and they he was personna non-grata with his wife and friends. He sold out to make a living.
Then why the frick did all of them go to Georgetown if they didn't care about making a living? The villan is Alec because he is responsible money-wise and makes a living.
The hero is some dude who plays the sax, has a wife and kid he can't support and needs his friends to pay his rent.
This post was edited on 10/5/17 at 12:10 am
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