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Well, the time has finally come. We're working on a re:View of Showgirls.

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Please, no Jay shaming allowed, your majesty.

William Peden

I mean, in a very broad sense, you weren't wrong?

Arthur Bright

Awesome

David Willis

Why are you even subscribed?

LearnedAndVile

Figure "former wholesome theater kids who chased their dreams and gradually pretended that what was happening was not really happening" is a nontrivial source of personnel for the adult film industry, etc. Other such kids eventually join Red Letter Media.

Jeremy _

Asphinctersayswhat?

TheSingingBush

Girl, interrupted, The Golden Girls, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

AllGoodNamesRGone

I listened to the podcast again, and advise for others to listen or watch the podcast or RLM's Re:View for better deep analysis. However, basically Karina was saying the film is a treatise on the objectification and commodity of women and sex in a puritanical society as ours. Also a bit of it is Vegas is America as a metaphor. I wouldn't be surprised that the boys note the satire in this film. It seems to be something people with a more critical eye are noticing about Paul's films nowadays.

AllGoodNamesRGone

This is a good idea. I rolled my eyes at the time when it came out (oh no Jessie what have you done!!), but after figuring out from you guys this movie is made from the same director as Starship Troopers and Robocop, I think there is probably some worthwhile commentary here.

Tara S

Showgirls and Starship Troopers are actually same-universe. Part of the expanded cinematic Verhoeverse.

Jeremy _

Part of the shared cinematic Girlverse: Showgirls, Girls Gone Wild, Paper Girls, Golden Girls, Girls (by Lena Dunham).

Jeremy _

It's the Rapture.

Lisa

Ok, so you hack frauds are going make fun of abused women who survived on dog food and obvious SA?! WTF?! I know this is creepy Jay's idea and its a bad idea.

Amy Nelson

Get to the part where they show us girls

Jeremy _

Oh God not Showgirls…

Tyree

I don't envy whoever has to edit the video considering how much nudity is in Showgirls 😅 I unironically love the film so very happy it's getting a Re:View.

George L

Ok this is not a joke. I always thought Showgirls was about a girl trying to get into musical theatre. I just read the synopsis on IMDB and now I feel like a damned fool.

Matt Evans

Who has the more beautiful hair, the lady in Showgirls or Jay?

Matt Evans

Pfffftt… que the ‘face jazz hands’ John Sena envy.

Frazzled Doo

‘Showgirls’ !? It’s not a BoTW episode then? :)

KuroNekoPoptart

Interesting. So this could be a satire like Starship Troopers?

Alessio Roic

yes! Yes!! YEEEEEEEEEEES!!!

d1eg8

Ohlala, this is going to be epic! Everything is so awkward in this movie...the dance and the sex scenes...

Line Behr

Um, random. Ew. This is a creepy Jay pick, right?! Dude, you are so gross

Amy Nelson

you're in good company, it's enjoyed a massive reappraisal in the past 5yrs or so

Jon

I like it gave me whiplash especially at the end but it's certainly an interesting one

The Rookie

Am I insane for thinking that Showgirls is unironically a good movie?

llgg

This should be intersting.

the Apache !

I still haven't seen it. Well, actually I saw part of it on IFC but it was the pool scene and I was mortified and couldn't keep watching.

Faith Martin

It was an event in the theatre when it came out. Almost felt obligated to see it due to the press, like the Barbenheimer of its year.

DonMac

Finally. The spin-off of the saved by the bell episode of when Jessica Spano took speed pills and spiraled out of control!

TheSingingBush

The time has come and so have I.

Curtis Hohbach

Oh hell yes

Stephanie Lloyd

Fuck yes

ComicPop

TNG trivia round 3 or Showgirls re:View?? In the words of thr grail guardian: "You chose... Wisely."

JTruts

To be fair Kyle is the best part of this flick

JTruts

*Jay voice* Oh My God!

Allison PM

I hope you give a shout-out to the David Schmader commentary track, which is a work of pure genius and the primary reason that more people show own this film on physical media.

Lance Hunter

Man, that one sold out so fast. Now they go for $140+ on ebay.

Miles Long

Hopefully you took advantage of Vinegar Syndrome's recent 4K release to bring back the class and dignity of watching sex pervert movies with your friends, family, and clergy.

bertsy

Just a quirky movie about a young woman following her dreams in beautiful Las Vegas

The Rookie

Certainly a rite of passage in every young man’s life. Not the movie, doing a re:View of it. I remember when I was a young buck, of no more than 13, back in the winter of ‘72, fiddling with my shortwave radio, trying to conceptualize a movie that wouldn’t even be conceived for two decades, while my father yelled at me because he was trying to watch the moon buggies. Mom just sat there. She always just sat there.

Banta

That's staying in!

Anjelika Cornelius-Witte

God bless us, everyone…

Montague Films

Dolphin humping for everyone!

Anjelika Cornelius-Witte

It'll just be a private stream of the movie. No commentary.

Adam Atom Ant

Time isn’t the only thing that has come with this film.

David Stripinis

As long as someone brings a comfort-animal Enterprise nothing can hurt me!

THE_GnomeChomskee

Jay's fetish for Kyle McLachlan strikes again!!!

Alessio Roic

RLM: Always with the finger firmly set on the pulse of pop culture!

Alessio Roic

YEAH!

Sam Garland

I love doggy chow too!

Jacob A. Wright

I hope this is a children's suicide video.

The Real Zam

Yay!

Kate HL

I remember my old friend Sergio say it was one of the great American movies. Looking forward to this.

Durlan

"This is slowly becoming a show where we review porn"- Rich Evans. j/k, I'm actually interested to hear your opinions on this. "You Must Remember This" actually did an episode on this movie. If I remember describing it as Paul Verhoeven's critique on sex and American culture. I should brush up on critiques on the film.

AllGoodNamesRGone

I'm surprised it took this long tbh

Imjusthereformemes

"Brown Rice, Vegetables, And A Bottle Of Evian."

Lionel Mandrake

This Patreon subscription is really paying off.

Thomas Dorney

You are not 🤣 side note I had this soundtrack on cassette back in the day. Those songs are still bangers 💅

InMyLastBreaths

Pervert!!

cynthia

Well I'm hard. Why aren't you?

TooterFishPopkin

YESSS!!!!

cynthia

Good luck and Godspeed

Joseph Charlesworth

The real sequel to RoboCop

Brandon Marcello

“I’m so excited, I’m so excited”

Joe

Only if Mike and Rich recreate the Pool Sex Scene.

Bill Lehecka

I used to pray for times like this

Jazz Jackrabbit

Verhoeven’s OTHER sci-fi masterpiece.

Ovadia

All Verhoeven conversations are good conversations.

Michael Puttré

I just bought it, lol

Evan Sotelo

Oh great, another one of Jay’s sex pervert movies.

William Cox


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