[worst movie ever] 5th nomination - st. elmo’s fire

Croydonian has now added his nomination ...

Hmm. There was a series of 'Golden Turkeys' hosted by Michael Medved on C4 many, many moons ago, featuring such triumphs of the film maker's art as 'Plan 9 from Outer Space', 'The Creeping Terror' etc etc.

However, bad though those films were, they did end up being entertaining, so I think it might be an idea to also look at commercially successful films that are truly terrible. The worst films I have paid money to see are the staggeringly self-indulgent and utterly lousy 'Golden Child' and the toe-curlingly awful 'St Elmo's Fire'. Re the latter, as a rule any film involving Joel Schumacher will be exploitative, badly made dreck. Conversely, the widely slated 'Heaven's Gate' has pacing problems but is actually not bad.

Right, so let’s concentrate on St. Elmo's Fire.

Wiki: This coming-of-age film revolves around a group of friends that have just graduated from Georgetown University and their adjustment to their post-university lives, the quarter-life crisis, and the responsibilities of encroaching adulthood.

Imdb: Cast: Emilio Estevez as Kirby Keger; Rob Lowe as Billy Hicks; Andrew McCarthy as Kevin Dolenz and Demi Moore as Jules. Written by Joel Schumacher and Carl Kurlander Directed by Joel Schumacher. Tagline: The passion burns deep.

Plot Outline: A Group of friends, just out of college, struggle with adulthood. Their main problem is that they're all self-centered and obnoxious.

Notes: Demi Moore. Not the same faded never-a-star of whom Wiki says: “She became well-known after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies”? 1980s!! Not the same Demi Moore whose concept of acting is insisting on revealing an increasingly aging body to the camera in almost any film she manages to scrape into? Is this the same Demi Moore? The one who posed naked and pregnant in Vanity Fair? And she’s a coming of age teenager here, named Jules Jacoby?

St. Elmo’s Fire is most definitely nominated – Erasmus of Formiae would surely turn in his watery grave. Other nominations so far include:

1] Manos 2] Tom & Vera 3] Arthur's Dyke 4] Starship Troopers .