Showgirls (1995)

Bring Showgirls to Blu-Ray

This is like my favorite stupidist awesome film ever. I will watch it, without interuption anytime I see it, I cannot pass it up! Even the Tv version is awesome! This neeeds to be on Blu-Ray, it's begging to be on Blu-Ray, I'm begging for it to be on Blu-ray! With all these extras of course, and maybe a new cast commenentary on cast memebers cellulite in HD, kidding! Most awesome cast ever, a new commentary would be nice August 30, 2008

Saved by the Bell: What happened to Jesse when the others went to college

Ah, Showgirls, the best worst movie of all time. Oh, how I love it so.

Poor Jesse Spano (Elizabeth Berkley in the most masochistic role in cinema history), after being caught cheating on the SATs, her offer letters now nothing more than trash, she didn't get into the university of her dreams, she hit rock bottom; and when Slater dumped her for image purposes, her whole world crashed. Jealous of how Zack, Screech, Slater, and Kelly were hanging out in college, she sunk into a deep depression, changed her name to Nomi Malone, and thought about the next step. Out of nowhere, she began hooking, counting Mr. Belding as one of her first clients at Bayside. Realizing she wanted more in life, she soon gave up selling the goods and began hitch-hiking towards Las Vegas.

Soon after arriving in Vegas she befriends James Smith (Plummer), a club dancer with an apparently progressive form of hyperopia; that's the only way one can explain his appreciation for Nomi's dancing, giving him about as much talent-scouting credibility as Tom Cruise has in the field of psychiatry. Other than dancing all they have in common is that down on her luck Nomi would probably snatch a watch, and James would, well, you get the point.

Unfortunately for Nomi - fortunately for all others - she finds work as a grungy stripper to pay the bills. In her initial, on-screen strip-club appearance, she meets up with Zack Carey (MacLachlan) and Cristal Connors (Gershon). Naturally, she gets bitterly nostalgic, thinks of her old buddy Zack Morris, and attempts to inflict a severe case of Peyronie's disease with a violent, non-erotic lap dance given to Zack Carey. Cristal and Zack can't help but to notice Nomi, and in a matter of no time she's in the "Goddess" show where Cristal is the star.

To advance, Nomi's plan is three-fold: First, she has sex with Zack in a pool, no doubt taking out her past academic failures while thinking of Zack Morris while writhing around in what is widely regarded as the best gran mal seizure ever captured on film. Second, she overacts to the extent of torture, causing others physical discomfort while displaying less range than Coolio showed in "Leprechaun in the Hood". Third, and most important, she plans on teaching Cristal about compound leg fractures. Pretty solid plans if you ask me. Will she get the lead role? Will she succeed in Vegas? Will she chuck it all and enroll at the local community college?

It's failed soft-core porn, laughably bad, deplorable acting and detestable dialogue, the pinnacle of unintentional comedy. There is no way a sane person involved with this production can actually think it's good. Saturated with enough nudity to warrant the dreaded NC-17 - and Berkley IS gorgeous, especially when nude - it's perfect for the target audience. I love it! August 5, 2008

i'm sorry but i love this movie

i don't know why, but i love it.

it's fun, sassy, sexual, and AMAZING.

i know everyone else thinks it sucks but i love it <3

i wish it didn't bomb so they would have made a sequel like the ending suggested D: July 20, 2008

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 June 2, 2008

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! March 28, 2008

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