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The Elizabeth Berkley School of Arm Flinging Acting
This movie is now promoted as being "camp" but not so when it debuted. Even Gina Gershon thought the script was camp, only realizing it wasn't shortly after filming started. Bless her professional heart for not quiting. Liz Berkley is not only an awful actress but a horrible dancer. I lost count the number of times she flung out her arms, either in anger or "dancing." Fries over here, ice over there. Her character is supposed to be irrestitable to men & women alike but she looks like a cheap hooker throughout the whole film. Blonde is not her color. And that overbite is not Gene Tieney sexy at all. I have to agree with some of the other reviewers; her body doesn't look so hot when she's naked, which is frequently. I don't know why Joe Eszterhaus hates women so much. His films are very mysoginistic. I will give it credit for one of the best (unintentionally, of course) movie lines ever. I use it as a joke all the time. "It's a versase." Versace
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OMFG! How did I miss this? ONE OF THE GREAT FILMS OF THE 90'S!!!
The editing in this thing is spectacular!!! Here it is! Trash as high art, and here I was writing Paul Verhoven off after a string of irritating Hollywood bores (basically everything after 'Robocop.') I never bothered with 'Showgirls,' for years, but this is Directorial Genius - all the more impressive for turning an absolute P.O.S. script into visually ecstatic gold! Verhoven has regained his former (pre-Hollywood) stature in my eyes, and then some! A masterpiece - don't let anyone say otherwise! The visual exploitation of female bodies achieves some kind of transcendent apex here that one can only mavel at. I am completely dumbfounded. Verhoven is beyond redeemed as a filmmaker here.
And, yes, it is utter crap, but glorious crap of the calibre most films don't have the imagination to aspire to.
Genius!
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A Cult Classic
Showgirls is an excellent cult film. Its filled with terrible dialogue delivered by actors in performances that they'd surely rather forget. Paul Verhoeven - usually a top notch director - fails spectacularly with his fourteenth film and the script by Joe "I Don't Know Anything About Women" Eszterhas is laughable.
It stars Elizabeth Berkley as Nomi Malone (She's alone in the world, get the joke?), an ambitious young woman who has dreams of becoming a famous dancer in Las Vegas. Berkley's performance is something else. She smiles, she pouts, she shouts, she screams, she gyrates, she vomits, and often all of the above in the same scene. She is joined by Gina Gershon and Kyle MacLachlan, both similarly hamming it up to the extreme as Berkley's fellow dancer and the "Entertainment Director" respectively. Glenn Plummer also waves goodbye to any credibility in his performance as Berkley's quasi-love interest.
From reading this review you may wonder why I have given it five stars. The reason is this: You will never be more entertained in your life. It is hilarious, outrageous, ridiculous, completely unrealistic, shallow, stupid and ultimately a misunderstood masterpiece of everyone involved in the production doing everything wrong in perfect synchronicity.
The complete ignorance of all involved is obvious if you take a look at the Special Features on the DVD. If you watch the short making-of programme, the film is described by Eszterhas as "an all out rock and roll musical" which is unbelievable. First of all, the choreography of the dance scenes at the 'Goddess' show is ridiculous, there is no rock music in the film (apart from the song played over the end credits) and there are no songs in the film at all - so how is it a musical, you may ask?
A great piece of trash, go on, come over to the dark side!
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more than expected
i bought this as a gift for a friend of mine - and boy were they excited. Where else can you find a vinyl poster of Elizabeth Berkley from the waist up, nude, with suction cup pasties to play pin the pasty on the showgirl?! now, i'm not saying this is the best movie made - but for a fan, or for someone who just wants to own a discussion piece, this is amazing.
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why is it considered a bad film?
This is a very good film indeed. Why the critics did not realize that this is really the way Las Vegas is. The film is so accurate and documented. One of Verhoheven's best, with 'Starship Troopers'.
People have a hard time accepting the truth I guess.
