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From: lear@topaz.ARPA (eliot lear)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Saint Elmo's Fire
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Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 01:34:10 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 29 01:34:10 1985
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	Saint Elmo's Fire left me with many impressions.  I believe the idea
to produce it as a movie must have stemmed from the success of Breakfast
Club.  The Breakfast Club successfully stirred fealings about many problems
[such as "parents" as the BC sees it].  Saint Elmo's Fire tries to do the
same with different problems such as friends getting involved with each
other, one's best friend getting involved with one's girlfriend, etc.  This
movie even borrows the stars from Breakfast Club!

	"So why should I see this movie if it is a Breakfast Club takeoff?"

	I didn't say that.  The themes in The Breakfast Club were very
simple.  Namely, girl meets boy, boy hates girl, girl hates boy, and they
fall in love after discovering that they enjoy each other's differences.
Saint Elmo's Fire is not that simple.  Saint Elmo's Fire deals with what
happens AFTER Boy and Girl fall in love and boy meets another girl or Girl
has boy or BOTH!  The characters in The Breakfast Club were seniors in High
School and The Breakfast Club dealt mostly with high school issues such as
"That old Class Tease."  Saint Elmo's deals with issues that many of us will
deal with VERY SOON.  These issues hit closer to the heart and, in my
opinion, stronger emotions.  This movie deals with a group of friends that
go through thick and thick together.  Many otherwise unrelated scenes were
strung together to make a very emotionally strong story.  In this I applaud
the writers' effort but the story is too loose after a while and very hard
to follow.

"So was it good or bad?!?!?!"

	Discover for yourself.  This movie was good enough so that I would
want to see it again sometime.  I personally rate such movies B+.  (A movies
are those where I rush back to see it again.)  Still, my rating is for
myself.  Go see Saint Elmo's Fire.

					eliot lear

p.s. Thank God for emacs whether it be GNU or Gosling!
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