Showgirls - re:View
Added 2024-01-28 16:28:21 +0000 UTC
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"Wow there's this weird trend of Hollywood child starlets becoming adults and doing sexually provocative films. So weird I wonder why that is." E X P L O I T A T I O N
Alison Ludwig
2024-02-10 18:31:29 +0000 UTCWe've got this now... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcRCD49SwRw
Manuel Johnen
2024-02-02 11:49:43 +0000 UTCWhen are you fellas gonna sit through Argylle and tell us about how much it sucks? I think this is what America needs most right now.
plop
2024-02-02 04:41:05 +0000 UTCOnly took 4 days. Noiselund, if you're in here, hats off to you. https://youtu.be/mcRCD49SwRw?si=Q_ZvYDpp36WTjAa4
Nada Leona Sheppard
2024-02-02 01:33:57 +0000 UTCIf you like "Weekend", we can't be friends.
Manuel Johnen
2024-01-31 22:14:19 +0000 UTCAnd one of my favorite movies ever is Bertolucci's The Conformist. Not exactly a quick pace, but man is it amazing.
Neil Peart, Lord of Drums
2024-01-31 21:57:20 +0000 UTCOh, I love Euro films. Just three slow French ones I can think of right now that I own: Weekend, Le Samourai, and Diva. And I own tons of other "slow" Euro films from other countries. It wasn't that it was slow; it's that I found it boring.
Neil Peart, Lord of Drums
2024-01-31 21:54:26 +0000 UTCI mean there were dark movies but they were *specifically* and *uniquely* dark (i.e. some Tim Burton films). "Dark" now is just the default choice, if not in fact requirement.
Jeremy _
2024-01-31 18:26:36 +0000 UTCI think you're right. Who was making dark movies in the nineties? Steven Segal, maybe, but I'm not going to watch a Steven Segal movie to find out. I wonder what changed things? Maybe enough people demanding that comic-book movies stop looking like, well, comic books?
Kurt
2024-01-31 13:23:11 +0000 UTCI was 17 when it came out, so all the kids that were went to go to see it and all the kids that weren't didn't. except someone worked at the movie theater and arrange the midnight showing off the books. But more importantly, we people who live in Pennsylvania, you confuse us with the people that live in the Alabama T. Go 30 miles north of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and all the space in between, and it's pure he haw. Suburban Sasquatch was made at the border of civilization, the rest of them in the boonies
Jeff Kleist
2024-01-31 01:12:44 +0000 UTC"pretty slow and boring" = European style of filmmaking :D "Elle" feels VERY French in a way that Verhoeven's US movies feel American, and not jut because of the title. However, there's a lot to appreciate in that movie and you can tell that he had a blast making it. There's stuff in "Elle" that's truly aggravating in the best way possible, almost like he's constantly poking the audience with a stick.
Manuel Johnen
2024-01-30 14:50:16 +0000 UTCY'know it's been hip (and correct) over the past 20 years to complain how dark most movies are. Like visually dark, verging on hard to see. But in fairness, films in the 90s were super *bright*. Like almost uncomfortably so. Everything very shiny and saturated. In a film like Showgirls it looks like a collection of Barbie dolls in a diorama lit from three different directions at once. Not a shadow to be seen.
Jeremy _
2024-01-30 12:20:42 +0000 UTCI never saw Showgirls, but I've seen the 35mm trailer. The intense colors left me with serious afterimages of tits and glitz. I'm sure this contributed to contemporaneous reviewers' irritation with the movie.
Kurt
2024-01-30 01:25:44 +0000 UTCSpeaking as one of the assholes who chides you for avoiding theaters...Rich's story is drivers-ed-scare-film-level horrifying. Seriously, fuck those people, and fuck theaters that don't care about the audience experience. Also seriously, the theaters that care can use all the help they can get. Once that experience of clicking with an engaged audience is gone, it's gone. Please don't make me have to start caring about sports to get it back.
Kurt
2024-01-30 00:55:09 +0000 UTCUpstate New York. . . Not nearly as exotic I know
Michael Parker
2024-01-29 18:23:33 +0000 UTCI found Elle pretty slow and boring, especially for Verhoeven. Maybe I was too excited when I read the premise and expected more. I'll give it another shot at some point, but I do remember watching it a second time a few months later and being equally disappointed.
Neil Peart, Lord of Drums
2024-01-29 18:08:57 +0000 UTCYes, "The 4th Man" is great. So is "Elle".
Manuel Johnen
2024-01-29 18:01:13 +0000 UTC"I typically get lucky with quiet and respectful movie goers." Where do you live and how can I get citizenship there?!? Is it Finland or something????
Neil Peart, Lord of Drums
2024-01-29 17:59:12 +0000 UTCI really want this to happen so badly. We should all just become Batmans of the movie theaters, sitting next to annoying people and out-annoying them until they leave or freak out so enormously that a video of it would go viral.
Neil Peart, Lord of Drums
2024-01-29 17:58:08 +0000 UTCAlso I really really wish we could get a release with a commentary track featuring Berkley and Gershon. That would actually make me add this to my BluRay collection.
Neil Peart, Lord of Drums
2024-01-29 17:52:49 +0000 UTCIf anyone could pull off (heh) Jesse Spano's role in this it would be Famke Jannsen, just based on her performance in Goldeneye. She knows exactly what kind of character she's playing and perfectly walks the line between absolute camp and threatening. My favorite Bond henchman, largely owing to her performance. Who else could pull off (again) basically having an orgasm every time she kills a man with her vagina and even when she just sees violence, AND make it both fun and somehow believable? That character is just amazing, and they chose exactly the right person for the role! Honestly, I don't think anyone could make this role work. But IF someone could, it would be her.
Neil Peart, Lord of Drums
2024-01-29 17:48:48 +0000 UTCThe 4th Man is pretty awesome. It's far from perfect, but you can see the beginnings of his Hollywood style of crazy violence and awesome imagery.
Neil Peart, Lord of Drums
2024-01-29 17:37:34 +0000 UTCthanks for being true to the spirit of the movie and doing most of the re:view topless, and for keeping the seizures in.
Jason Paul
2024-01-29 15:33:46 +0000 UTCAgain, I never found "Showgirls" to be an awful movie, just an fairly average one that doesn't live up to its reputation in terms of badness at all. Also, not being American, I wasn't shocked by the amount of sex and nudity even back then in '95... I don't even think this is Verhoeven's worst movie (that'd be "Black Book" for me, which basically feels like "The movie Showgirls is said to be... in a WWII setting"). I'm not even sure if I like this one less than "Flesh + Blood", which I always found to be exceptionally boring.
Manuel Johnen
2024-01-29 15:33:34 +0000 UTCI haven't seen 'Showgirls' since it was originally in the theatre in 1995 when it was a must-see event. I even had friends drive a few hours into my city to see it because it wasn't being shown anywhere in their city (a lot of theatres had 'No NC-17 movies allowed' policies back then and probably still do now). And I never wanted to see it again until now after seeing this re:View.
DonMac
2024-01-29 13:56:50 +0000 UTCAlso, I give it a week before Noiselund gives Rich's Oppenheimer story a musical makeover.
Nada Leona Sheppard
2024-01-29 11:04:36 +0000 UTCThis film may have been a box office flop, but it did exceedingly well in physical purchases. I wonder why. 🤔
Nada Leona Sheppard
2024-01-29 11:02:32 +0000 UTCSeeing one of the Fratelli brothers in this made me imagine Goonies directed by Paul Verhoeven. Chunk would not have survived the blender scene.
Twit In A Hat
2024-01-29 08:33:48 +0000 UTCWhy are the Star Trek trivia runners-up talking about a porno?
THE_GnomeChomskee
2024-01-29 07:18:14 +0000 UTCThanks! I haven't seen it. I'll try to check it out!
Michael Cooper
2024-01-29 01:40:31 +0000 UTCI just opened the post and have no idea what this refers to, but I already love it.
Neil Peart, Lord of Drums
2024-01-29 01:40:11 +0000 UTCGuys, guys: The story of the cheapie Easy Rider "sequel" is *amazing*. I mean it's horrible, but it is also amazing.
Jeremy _
2024-01-29 01:39:04 +0000 UTCPaul Verhoeven Condensed and Blended Films presents TotalShip ShowboCop
Jeremy _
2024-01-29 01:23:29 +0000 UTCI was hoping for a mention of the infamous "Jen Jensen" edit of "Showgirls" for television. After VH1 bought the television rights, they painstakingly added digital bras and panties to reduce the nudity. It was still too much for television, so they cut entire scenes, lowering the runtime from 128 to 84 minutes. The remaining content lacked any continuity. Paul Verhoeven disowned it, having them change the director's name to "Jen Jensen" in the credits. Elizabeth Berkley was asked to redub much of her dialogue, but the studio refused to pay her $250 fee and hired someone else to mimic her.
William Adderholdt
2024-01-29 01:00:05 +0000 UTCI think my favorite part of this was Jay intersplicing Kinney's death scene with the pool scene, pairing it perfectly with Rich's astute observation. Great video all around
rachel
2024-01-28 23:47:01 +0000 UTCIt lacks budget, but Benedetta is wonderfully trashy
Chloe
2024-01-28 22:32:20 +0000 UTCRich’s “Oppenheimer” story is the real horror movie.
andrew
2024-01-28 22:23:50 +0000 UTCYay, Rich and Jay.
Marvin Falz
2024-01-28 21:04:09 +0000 UTCI only remember Elizabeth Berkley spasing out and Robert Davi asking for the blowjob.
Silentphil9
2024-01-28 20:34:43 +0000 UTCRich showed the restraint that none of us would.
Tyree
2024-01-28 19:46:31 +0000 UTCI typically get lucky with quiet and respectful movie goers. Except one time recently I went where there was a group of girls who talked constantly like it was breathing for them. If they stopped they would die. Similar to what another comment mentions I was tempted to be that guy to go sit right next to them to make them uncomfortable to see if that would get them to shut up.
Michael Parker
2024-01-28 19:41:33 +0000 UTCThe only uplifting ending to that story would have been killing them both... :(
Manuel Johnen
2024-01-28 19:40:01 +0000 UTCFunniest Re:view in recent memory. Was thinking the same thing about the editing for this must be such a chore censoring all the footage from the film.
Michael Parker
2024-01-28 19:32:19 +0000 UTCRich’s Oppenheiner story made me sad.
Tyree
2024-01-28 19:19:19 +0000 UTCThe most surprising thing about Rich's story is that he isn't in jail for murdering those two. Of course, I'm not sure a jury would convict for such a justifiable crime.
Roidh
2024-01-28 18:43:19 +0000 UTCRich, you needed to go and sit directly next to those people in the theater. if they move, continue to move to sit next to them. to get rid of the bad moviegoers, you need to become a worse moviegoer.
Brian
2024-01-28 17:54:53 +0000 UTCA movie I've avoided but finally saw. To know what they were talking about. Wow. This movie said to me that 'women are whores and men are pigs'. Took a jarring turn into "I Spit on your Grave" in the last minutes. An ugly movie where sex is money but having seen it can say that - "See, I'm not gay, but those costumes ...
Jaime Gonzalez
2024-01-28 17:47:58 +0000 UTC…
Frazzled Doo
2024-01-28 17:43:37 +0000 UTCYeah, so... I wonder if anyone really knows how much of this movie is intended to be camp, vs. sending a message to its viewers about the excesses of... uhm, stuff, I guess.
AshesBoomstick
2024-01-28 17:31:18 +0000 UTCI watched it (for the first time) when you said you were gonna shoot a video about it, and I actually liked it ..... o.o
Peter Varga
2024-01-28 17:25:20 +0000 UTCMan, do I miss Paul Verhoeven's delightfully insane Hollywood era movies....someone get that man a budget and a blank cheque!
Michael Cooper
2024-01-28 17:20:52 +0000 UTCCongrats to Jay for the herculean task of editing through all the nudity. Especially that scene where Jay blurred the sides then the topless girls enter the not blurred Elizabeth Berkley area it switches to pixelation. I thought the clip of the director talking about his hyperbolic style was very illuminating. As a teenage boy, I didn't catch the ridiculousness. Clearly the sex scenes go past the erotic into camp. Little fact about the film: Joe Eszterhas named Nomi in the film after the woman he had an affair with and later married.
AllGoodNamesRGone
2024-01-28 17:20:10 +0000 UTCFinally a new Re:View! This year has just started and already we’re eating well
Tyree
2024-01-28 17:17:00 +0000 UTCThe “show me your tits” scene gives me flashbacks to the Ben and Arthur “let’s see your penis” scene.
Jon Hollifield
2024-01-28 16:55:35 +0000 UTCShowgirls and Star Trek Trivia all in just a few days. I've never felt so personally catered to and seen.
DanieJanie
2024-01-28 16:35:23 +0000 UTCWatching two dudes watch exotic dancing. Nothing odd about that.
Matthew Chambers
2024-01-28 16:32:46 +0000 UTCYes!!!!
JMow
2024-01-28 16:31:52 +0000 UTC
