Brats

[thatguy]

Not a documentary about sausages...



--tg

[King Bob]

We watched this the other night. I was doing the crossword through part of it so not paying total attention. Andrew McCarthy apparently was still irked about the Brat Pack label, so he made this. He starts out talking to Emilio Estevez, who is also still irked. I got the impression that both of them thought they would be huge stars, and when they weren't (although both have worked steadily all the way up to now) fixated on this as the reason. It gets better after that when he talks to other people, basically the cast of St. Elmo's Fire minus Judd Nelson, and it would have perhaps been more complete with him. Rob Lowe is the best spoken of them and perhaps the most insightful. Older people interviewed, mainly an agent and a director, also had more/different insights. Related stars like Molly Ringwald, John Cusack, and Anthony Michael Hall are mentioned, but none of them appear. John Cryer does and as always (except in Pretty in Pink) annoys me. Ultimately it winds up being about McCarthy coming to terms with the Brat Pack label, and in the end he is apparently content. It ends with him talking with Timothy Hutton, who also started young, and who McCarthy looked up to. That part could have been edited out; I would have rather he talked to other teen movie actors of the day, maybe James Spader or Anthony Michael Hall.

All in all it was pretty good, although probably not DOOM recommended - but since I'm the only one with Hulu that's irrelevant anyway. McCarthy has directed a bunch of things, mostly TV, but here he has cameramen wandering in and out of the frame at times; I couldn't decide if it was just because he did the whole thing informally or if it was a decision on his part. It's a little distracting.

[Drunk Monk]

Unless there's a sword fight between Ringwald and Sheedy, I'll probably give this one a miss...

[King Bob]

Ringwald doesn't appear. Christina said she seems to be sort of a snob, so probably wants to distance herself from all that.

No swordplay. A brief mention of Young Guns is as close as it gets.

[thatguy]

It should have been about sausages...

--tg