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Showing of reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Prime Video Verified Purchase. And while my personal Brat Pack didn't have Alex, Wendy, and Jules we were certainly close and could easily identify. While the film is dated in classic 80's clothing and excess from Jules' Pink apartment to Wendy's big collars, the movie doesn't fail to to deliver in the classic theme of moving from student to adult and all the change in finding out who you might want to be.
Parent of the year award! One person found this helpful. Back in the days of Reagonomics and self-promotion, this film stood out as a coming of age flick for young people just out of college. All the brat pack is present except Molly Ringwald, and I found it interesting to see them again as they were in youth. The film showcases just about any conflict that just out of college folk encounter--from secret love, to economic future, to ethics in relationships.
Amazing movie that most people can identify with. A great portrayal of those friend you have for life even when things change and you grow up. Awesome acting from an all star cast and great music soundtrack.
This is a definite must watch and keeper It makes me remember my college days long time ago. I saw the picture in theaters while still at college, and impacted me so well, that now at 60 makes me remember my dearly friends who most of them I have not seen them again. I anyone reading this is at college don't loose contact with your colleagues and friends. I am not a film-buff; I see maybe 3 to 5 movies a year, most of them on DVD at home. Years can go by without my even stepping foot into a movie theater. That said, I love this movie and have seen it thirty dozen times at least.
I know others have loathed this film for the overwrought "self-centeredness" of its characters, but it came out just at the right time for me: I identified just a little with each of them. I have to add, because it was important to me at the time, that the clothes were to-die-for. As a poor, not-well-dressed student I remember coveting Leslie's and Jules' wardrobes intensely, and they represented the best of trendy fashion for that period. Still, there are some things that just don't compute. Why did the film makers decide to use Georgetown University?
And how could party animals Billy and Jules EVER have passed a single class, let alone graduate from a school like that? This is not "Party State University" like the school I graduated from. Since they had to film the campus scenes at the University of Maryland, why couldn't they have just used that school rather than Georgetown?
It would have been more believable. Jules must have a few decent, undamaged brain cells as she apparently was recruited into a high-profile, high-paying job at a bank right out of school. Nerdy, awkward Wendy Beamish doesn't fit into the rest of the crowd. IRL, she might have been friendly with Ally Sheedy's character, Leslie, but I have no idea what it is she has in common with the rest them that keeps her in the core of the group. IRL, they would have considered her hopelessly uncool and dorky and would have had nothing to do with her. But, of course, this isn't IRL. Which is just as well because Kirby's storyline -- stalking a beautiful woman he admits to being obsessed with -- wouldn't have lasted 5 "real life" minutes.
He'd be hauled into court and would have a restraining order against him. Nevertheless, even with all its faults, the film still brings back a sense of nostalgia for those times, even with all the drama and trauma. See all reviews. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway. It's a corona discharge , and it occurs when there is a significant imbalance in electrical charge, causing molecules to tear apart, sometimes resulting in a slight hissing sound.
The first step in generating St. Elmo's Fire is a thunderstorm. As you can learn in How Lightning Works , a thunderstorm creates an electrically charged atmosphere.
There is a charge difference between the storm clouds and the ground, and this difference creates voltage, or electrical pressure. In between the clouds and the ground, the atoms in the air undergo changes; most important to our discussion, electrons move farther away from protons, creating an environment that allows electrons to move around freely. In other words, the air becomes a good conductor.
Once the air is conducive to the movement of electrons, those electrons continue to increase the distance between their positively charged counterpart, protons.
This is ionization , and plasma is simply ionized air. The phenomenon that causes St. Elmo's Fire is a dramatic difference in charge between the air and a charged object, like the mast of a ship, the tip of an airplane wing or the foot steeple of a church -- things we often think of as potential lightning rods. When the voltage gets high enough, usually around 30, volts per centimeter of space, the charged object will discharge its electrical energy [source: The reason why St.
Elmo's Fire occurs most often on pointed objects is that a tapered surface will discharge at a lower voltage level. The tip of a steeple, mast or airplane wing presents something like a condensed surface charge. When the air molecules tear apart, they emit light.
The Curse of Oak Island. More Top Movies Trailers Forums. The music from this movie is phenomenal. Elmo's Fire Weather Elements: Seth Jaffe as Brother-in-Law 1. The phenomenon as described, however, is more similar to ball lightning. Not one I grew up with, but I have come to appreciate this later in life.
In the case of St. Elmo's Fire, the discharge is continuous -- sometimes lasting several minutes -- and creates a constant glow.
The glow is blue because different gasses glow different colors when they become plasmas. Earth's atmosphere has nitrogen and oxygen in it, and this particular combination happens to glow blue.