St. Elmo’s Fire is going to be re-made as a series on ABC. As you may remember, the Brat Pack film about privileged young white people feeling angst launched the unfortunate career of director Joel Schumacher — if there was something awful with a huge budget in the ’90s, he probably made it. Schumacher and Topher Grace are among the producers; you can read the rest of the details here.
I was going to say how much I disliked the original movie, then I realized I’d never seen it and was thinking of The Big Chill because of its prominent soundtrack. And wow, did The Big Chill suck. WOOF.
Anyway, what bothers me most is that this movie and its famous theme song overshadow the fact that St. Elmo’s fire is actually a badass electrical phenomenon that gets its name from sailors hundreds of years ago. St. Elmo is the patron saint of sailors, and the “fire” is actually luminous plasma that appears on pointed, grounded objects (such as a ship’s mast) during a thunderstorm. Just one more thing that white have people ruined. “Wah wah wah, I graduated from Georgetown and I have emotions.” DIE.
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Just another show I’ll never watch. The movie sucked except for Demi Moore looking hot.
Matt, I think you and I could really bond over a shared hatred of The Big Chill. I’d like to take Baby Boomers’ patchouli-scented nostalgia and wildly overinflated sense of self importance and take a hot, wet dump all over it. FUCK YOU, 1960s.
Preach it, brothers.
Caught a few seconds of a Woodstock anniversary documentary on the news last week — all I could stand — but heard everyone talking about “half a million” people being there. No. 300,000 maybe. But you self-aggrandizing motherfuckers have to round up.
You didn’t change the world, you self-centered asshats. You got high and nailed a hippie chick. Whoop-de-doo.
Add me to the list of people that hate the glorification of Woodstock.
We all know Monterey Pop was where it was at.
Elmo knows where you live!
Otto Man, you make it sound like getting high and nailing a hippie chick is a bad thing. Seriously though, my pinko-communist-leftist politics notwithstanding, if I’d been alive during the late sixties I would have despised the filthy, filthy hippies for their hygiene and complete lack of pragmatism.
Someone I follow on twitter wrote something that quoted Stephen King: “Baby boomers could have changed the world. Instead, we gave them QVC.”
I hear the Altamont Festival was to die for.
Monterrey Pop has been playing on Starzez lately. DV-R-uh is where it’s @.
Wow, there are some hairstyles that don’t need to be revisited. Holy s. And thanks for the shout to sailors. We dislike the ripoff of our phenonmenon intensely.
Otto Man, you make it sound like getting high and nailing a hippie chick is a bad thing.
Not bad at all. But it wasn’t equivalent to marching for civil rights in Selma.
(Charlton Heston Voice)God Damn This To Hell!!!!