Was Making St. Elmo's Fire a DUMPSTER FIRE?

[@mikebarham4117]

I'm an old Gen Xer. I saw St. Elmo's in the theater and really liked it. I still watch and enjoy it every couple of years. That world doesn't exist anymore and I like to visit it occasionally.

[@calzeke]

Couldn't have said it better

[@LAWoman323213]

They were NOT playing teenagers! The character just graduated from Georgetown University

[@zroy9263]

I loved this film! It's an absolute classic in my opinion. All of the actors and the storyline were great! I related to the Rob Lowe character very well because I had just graduated High school in 1984 and I was having difficulties adjusting to that. This an all-time classic 1980s film and it captures the essence of the time!

[@Anthony-je7dn]

My favorite film next to The Breakfast Club. I’ve always looked at St. Elmo’s as somewhat of a sequel. This film is an absolute generational masterpiece 💜

[@artpena72]

Another 80s gem with some brat packers is Less Than Zero, you should make a video about that one

[@beans301]

I just watched this movie for the first time about 4 months ago.....i actually liked it. Its a bit extreme at times but everything is likely for a lot of people.

[@terryf6696]

I was a teenager in the 80s so this is one of my formative movies. The documentary is great and it's really enjoyable to see those actors interacting again. I would definitely turn up for a sequel.

[@robertw31968]

I'm 56 and watched this in the theaters when i was a teenager. I always thought this was a sequel The Breakfast Club. Also the soundtrack is amazing!

[@mykal.7424]

I use to like St Elmo's as a teen ...I wouldn't call it a dumpster fire , but it is pretty bad .

[@azohundred1353]

Ally Sheedy is the Brat Pack member that I wish had a more prominent career afterwards. Short Circuit and Only The Lonely are fun movies and High Art (1998) showed she could do a serious drama when movies in the vein of Girl, Interrupted were about to be quite popular.

[@trinaq]

I agree, I love her work, but it seems that she had to look a certain way to appeal more in Hollywood. I like that she's still working away in the industry.

[@azohundred1353]

@@trinaq Definitely, now she's a respected professor teaching acting classes. She acts on occasion too sometimes on tv and indie films.

[@pa.encema2821]

I like Ally in Men's Best Friend

[@alonzotanner1226]

Last movie I saw her in was Man’s Best Friend. That scene where that dog was about to rape that lady dog bothered me. I was a kid when I saw that. I know it wasn’t an actual rape scene but you know it happened. He cornered that dog in that room, closed the door locked it, then at the end of the film, that lady dog had his puppies. Yikes

[@keymaster430]

I'll never understand the casting of Mare Winningham. When I see them all in a group, She makes me think of the song, "One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other".

[@trinaq]

I agree that seven main characters are a lot for one movie to follow, and it might have been better had there been only four or five protagonists. Leslie and Wendy were the most likable to me.

[@BruceLee-t9n]

I Love St. Elmo's Fire, regardless of what anyone says

[@twistoffate4791]

Same!! It remains one of my top three favorite movies of all time. I was their age at that time, living in Northern Virginia. I knew Georgetown well. That movie is personal to me, and I still cry when I hear the music for St. Elmo's Fire.

[@marthavasquez-weber8653]

Due to the lack of talent in Hollywood they will ruin it. Here are the new characters that will be forced into the sequel (use your imagination)! I will just keep replaying the original! Thank you!!

[@heartwork7977]

Imho, St. Elmos is a very underrated movie. It’s definitely one of my faves.

[@darladeal1194]

This was one of my favorite movies, of course I was only 13 at that time. I was madly in love with Rob Lowe at the time....lol

[@twistoffate4791]

Ain't nobody better to play Billy Hicks than Rob Lowe, who pretty much WAS Billy Hicks at that time. Now he's married and sober, and has been for years. But back then, Lowe was hell on wheels!! I resent the Raspberry Award, but fans loved the film.

[@WalterFrith]

Critics are idiots. They hated this and yet they praised and continue to praise to this day, 'Friends', which lasted for 10 years and basically has characters with many of the same traits.

[@pa.encema2821]

Crazy most of the Brat Pack's are in their 60's

[@samanthareninger4667]

Gen X here.. I think we loved it not because it was the Best ever...but it was the 80''s and many of is were all about falling in love...Drama and yes Drugs..80's !! and the Music...my friends and I were in HS when we rented it and we.thought it was great!..it is just a classic

[@clairegresswell]

Is this picture flawed? Absolutely. Are the characters shallow & unlikeable? Most positively. However, we loved it on its release as it captured a moment in time as we were growing up, & I didn't know anybody in my friend group that didn't buy the soundtrack. Another sequal decades after the fact? Has the film industry really become so devoid of ideas & talent? I still adore this film even though it's a throw away movie, own it on DVD & know better than to even read a critics opinion these days. Do we need a sequal? No. Will I watch it out of curiosity? Of course (I won't be watching the Dirty Dancing follow-up) I will, once it's released on streaming. I was just a little too young to watch St Elmo's upon it's release & for me that was part of the attraction - wanting to grow-up & be an adult (I was a young teen). It was a movie of it's time where Hollywood output was more than never ending super hero movies & franchise ending (Star Wars, Indian Jones, etc) rubbish. Thanks for the trip down memory lane 😊

[@overcomerbtboj]

I loved st elmo’s fire when i first saw it at 12 yrs old when my older sister rented it- it was exciting for me as a pre teen to see such an adult movie at the time and i loved andrew mccarthy who was my brat pack crush but i recently rewatched it as an adult and year or two ago and sadly the movie does not hold up for me at all LOL - everybody is so freaking dysfunctional and messed up 😂😂 i would never be friends with any of them in real life but it had a great theme song- for at least a year or more st elmo’s fire was playing on the radio constantly

[@baxterwilson368]

I’ve never seen this, though I really like Joel Schumacher. I’ll have to check this out.

[@johnyzero2000]

16 days, I find that hard to believe.

[@Eyeball-Chambers]

Funny that the only time I'm reminded they didn't like being called the Brat Pack, is when THEY keep mentioning it. Nobody else still calls them the Brat pack.

[@markmccarthy7887]

Breakfast is a far superior film in my opinion…but this is a great 80’s flick …the brat pack thing is just funny. McCarthy’s Documentary was more of a bitch fest on how it hurt the members however, Lowe Estevez and Moore all did much better than McCarthy in their careers and it didn’t seems to bother them anywhere’s near as much as my cousin …sorry Andy.

[@firefury6053]

The worst ever made? Pls. I've seen absolute dumpster fires & this one isn't it. Rip Joel Schumacher

[@blackamerican40]

I still play Naughty Naughty by the guy who had a #1 song from the movie: John Parr.

[@Kerwin-Kendell]

Both critics and some commentors here seem to be one-dimensional people who have no flaws. Most of history is made up of & by flawed people who are not "likable". It's a flawed movie, but it's also great.

[@anthonycerulli5524]

This was on HBO all the time back in the day.

[@Mayor_Of_Eureka17]

I knew that was the UMD campus. Hell yeah!

[@blackamerican40]

39 years later!! 1985 😅😅

[@DeliveryServiceFan06]

Happy Belated 85th Birthday Joel Schumacher Thank You Joblo for making a What Happened video on St Elmo's Fire it is one of my favorite films of the 1980s and also i'm hoping it will get a 4K UHD release for it's 40th Anniversary next year also when i hear the song Man In Motion on the radio i think of this film also i remember Family Guy making a reference to this film in one episode when Peter and Brian go back to the 1980s and Peter playing a Ms Pac Man Arcade Machine at a bar which is named St Elmo's Clam as a reference to this film also thank you Joblo for making a video on St Elmo's Fire also please do a video on The Outsiders i want to see a another What Happened video on The Outsiders also Starting Rob Lowe and Emilio Estevez Thank You For This Video Joblo St Elmo's Fire is a great film from the 1980s You Guy Are Awesome

[@bluejem1315]

I like this movie.

[@michaelcoughlin5308]

The characters were in their twenties NOT teenagers! They had all just graduated from college. I would think the op would get the basic facts of the movie’s plot right.

[@erasmussen14]

I have been lied to. I was told years ago Third Edition in Georgetown was the bar from the movie.

[@robvegas9354]

far out. the movie cost 10 million to make!!! They must have had some interesting 'catering' on set

[@brandonpage7087]

The guy who called St. Elmo's Fire, has to be someone with the worst taste in movies, I can think of! Worst ever? Seriously??? I first found out about St. Elmo's Fire, from the 1985 episode of the first I Love the '80s, & at the time, I mistook it for a John Hughes movie, & thought it was for many years afterwards. Even though I purchased it on DVD, just a few years, after seeing it on I love the '80s. It took years for me to actually look on the DVD, & see that Joel Schumacher was the actual director, LMAO! Anyways, I loved it from the first time I viewed it, & still love it. I'm actually intrigued & excited that there's an apparent sequel on the way. Looking for to it!!

[@michaelpiwcewicz1412]

THE WORST MONIE EVER MADE IS WEST SIDE STORY

[@pcantu3]

Saw it a few months ago, it wasn’t very good overall. I liked the actors from other movies, so I finished it. It was an “okay” movie.

[@nobiz]

This is one of the worst movies ever made!!! Completely killed any Brat Pack momentum because goddamn, what an awful movie.

[@OrangeCounty-zq1qs]

😂 LOL 🤣yes a St Elmo's Fire sequel 🤣all those horrible characters are now in their 60s😅LOL😅great idea

[@christines1709]

They were college graduates not teenagers!

[@robertchambers6344]

I rewatched Saint recently, and it's a goofy film. But has charm

[@capitalcitygoofball1987]

The decades later sequels generally don't fare well, but I'd buy a ticket. Over the years, and this is blaspheme I know, I've grown to enjoy St. Elmo's Fire more than The Breakfast Club and it has little to do with my age. I just like the film better. I still enjoy The Breakfast Club, but I still have to ask the question "who acts like that?" every time I see the movie.

[@TheJuRK]

Paramount Studios in...Burbank? (8:00 mark). Never saw the movie. Loved the song. Loved the 80's. But the movie still looks vapid and superficial. Joel Schumacher was an awful director. He was the guy who killed the Batman franchise for years and years, and he personally destroyed Flatliners, which should've been one of the best movies in the 1980's (I'd read the original script and it was brilliant...until Schumacher and Julia Roberts got a hold of it). If you ever do a WTF happened to Flatliners, dig out the original script. It'll solve that mystery as to why that movie sucked.

[@Djoker99]

I had very high expectations for this movie & watched it with an open mind. Unfortunately I did not enjoy it like I thought I would. Felt the same way with Dazed & Confused.

[@RowBærTœ]

First time I ever saw this movie was about 6 months ago. There isn't a singable likable person in the whole group. It's kind of like how if you watch Friends nowadays you really do realize that they're all just awful people.

[@PHATTrocadopelus]

Ferris Buellers characters are waaay worse!! LOL

[@90sNostalgiaRewind]

This is an inaccurate list of bratpack members.If anthony michael hall and molly ringwald aren't on it

[@Desibeatnik]

A factoid is something that resembles a fact but isn't one.

[@JordanMayjor3p7]

You're a factoid.

[@katemaloney4296]

This may be the closest I ever get to actually watching the movie. Im a Gen- Xer, but I can't stand histrionic angst.

[@cwellofgreen8175]

This is a horrible movie about horrible people, with a killer soundtrack

[@paulbates2626]

Every character in this movie is a self centered knucklehead. I hated this movie when I first watched it at 15. I hated even more when I watched it in my 30s. I’m gonna cold myself to death in an apartment with open windows? TF?

[@gyobfan22]

I found this one quite boring and couldn't care for any of the characters, the same with Pretty In Pink. I like the other Hughes films though.

[@jasonaugustine3370]

What they were navigating was infidelity The breakfast club was a masterpiece I could barely get through this thing

[@Omar-wq9dz]

If the characters were likable, it would have been a better movie

[@denisefreitas6727]

The cast has great names, but the movie isn't good...

[@porcupinecraig]

I was a teen in the 80's but never actually watched this movie until recently. I didn't like it at all and was totally appalled. Every character in the movie is a terrible person who does terrible things. They are all supposed to be friends but mostly treat each other like crap the entire movie. Emelio stalking Andie was just painful. Demi's "suicide" attempt made me laugh out loud. This is not even close to how my life was post college graduation. If I would have had any of these jerks as friends, I would have ditched them forever.

[@jarellano1014]

This was one few "brat pack" movies I never watched in the 80s an in fact I finally watched it a few yrs ago.....at least I can say is the song was the only good thing about this movie!🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@raynwolfsbane2084]

It's impressive that a movie with so much talent produced zero likable characters.

[@pa.encema2821]

I usually skip this one