TS: SHOWGIRLS vs. ROAD HOUSE

i guess it's a good thing Jubilee! wasn't the basis for Showgirls, woulda been sorta boring

Man! This film's longer than Citizen Kane!

Oh, and the 'moment' with KMc in't pool is very have you shagged ariane yet?

Number 8: I think this film just jumped the shark!

Yeah, sacking this now.

Don't you dare.

I'm off. nightnight

^^^Cannot believe this guy

So has anyone braved Showgirls 2 yet?

http://www.amazon.com/Showgirls-Exposed-Marc-Vorlander/dp/B004KKYA7A/

This trailer is like a synaesthesia of the shittest chillwave:

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/showgirls-2/red-band-trailer-b

I never want to see this.

I don't think that has anything to do with the first one at ALL, not even loosely?

Doesn't look like it.

''In Paul Verhoeven's movie, the character Nomi spelled her name with an i at the end,'' says German director Marc Vorlander. ''In my movie, Nomy has a y at the end.''

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20402041,00.html

Showgirls 2: The Nomy Song

She came from outer space
Had guys come on her face

"Smithers, get me Verhoeven--or at least his German non-union equivalent!"

I would also like to take this time to point out that there are no battles taking place in space and animals cannot talk.

THAT WE KNOW OF

Hi.

Yeah, this jumped the shark just after Kyle Mac said "Let's take a gamble", up to then it had been fine.

I watched past that point, and maybe because I knew what was going to happen having read upthread, but all the particular story elements looked like they were being racked up ready, and also the whole "You're a star" biz was overfanciful.

The 12 'inaccuracies' are funny, they are trying to generalise, whereas who can say that there are no showgirls living in trailers, or are lesbs, or like coke, or champg. And "she'd never get into a show she can't act or sing" had me, yeah, showgirls have never bitched about someone else's lack of talent right? really? no?

aaaaaaaaaaaanyway:

Convince me that the last 30 mins had something vital I missed. (It was 01:25 by then, and the film finished at 1:50)

did you make it to the hospital scene with gina gershon, i.e. one of the creepiest, weirdest scenes ever committed to film?

cannot imagine skipping the end of this movie fwiw

No, the exact moment was when "Rock star" walked into the party, Nomi was "ooh, nice to meet you" and he says something, her face falls, and yeah.... I can guess how it plays from here.

well if you knew what was coming i don't blame you for missing the deeply, deeply unpleasant scene that follows

I suppose the scene was meant as a "hey, this is not a "Fabulous" world here" reality check/slap.

Particularly after the two from the strip-club had popped in to see her, and you see they're not bad people really..

"Even the biggest guy in the world can smash his knee and drop like a stone."

"How do ya' like havin' 'em?"

RIP Brad Wesley

http://i.imgur.com/oQvTG.jpg

http://gawker.com/5901364/so-weird-its-weird-showgirls-2-doesnt-suck

"I used to fuck guys like you in prison"

"You want to fight, dickless?" "Well, I sure ain't gonna show you my dick"

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/18/gina-gershon-on-killer-joe-tom-cruise-showgirls-bound.html

Gershon doesn’t talk much about her film career in her book, but in person, she dished about all her movies. She said she auditioned for Showgirls—which she thought would be more serious, like director Paul Verhoeven’s Dutch films, a modern-day retelling of All About Eve set in Las Vegas—for three months straight. She wore extra makeup in all of her meetings and lied that she was older to convince the studio she could handle the part of a weathered, diva bitch. When she got to the set, she realized she was making a different movie from the serious drama she had imagined. “I was hanging up by a rope looking down, going, Oh, my God, I’ve studied the classics. I want to do Greek theater. I want to do Chekov. What the fuck am I doing here?!”

She loves merkins so much that she even wrote a song about them that she hopes to one day perform for a Funny or Die music video.

This is an exceptionally sad sentence.

I think the more telling quote about Showgirls is: “I just thought, I’m going to camp it up and have a good time and still be good.”

I've given up on trying to convince people that Showgirls is awesome. They can keep Magic Mike.

I'll take both. The rest of the world can have Boogie Nights.

It'd be disingenuous to say Showgirls isn't "entertaining," but it's all downhill after "It must be weird not having anybody come on you." Also the Nicest Girl Gets Raped axiom is nauseating.

They really needed a George Sanders character too.

That would have been pretty cool, I agree. (And agreed on said axiom.)

but it's NOT a rich dissection of the Dream Factory; fuck, writers really push it sometimes.

I mostly felt sorry for Berkley and her, uh, naked performance, but Gina Gershon did a smooth Raquel Welch channelling Anne Baxter thing.

Damn if you're not right about Raquel, how did I miss that!

she looks v much like her.

I only felt my jaw drop once: the pool sex scene.

I honestly think that scene serves no other function.

I mostly felt sorry for Berkley and her, uh, naked performance, but Gina Gershon did a smooth Raquel Welch channelling Anne Baxter thing.

i feel very sorry for berkely, to the point where it interferes w/ my enjoyment of the film. suspect that her naivete was exploited by the filmmakers, but of course i don't really know. maybe she understood exactly how awful and idiotic she was being made to look.

I think I read an interview where she said she only realized it when she saw the film?

Keeping the sound on interfered with my enjoyment of the film.

Pervert.

hah, I read your dvd review, and I'm the pervert!?

What kind of career did the Mama Bear whose tits popped go on to have?

Career?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0875696/

http://i.imgur.com/h3TON.gif

Wanted to post the flailing pool sex gif, but thought that went a bit too far. But it is this:

hxxp://i48.tinypic.com/ddpehg.gif

Looking lik Sheryl Crow these days:

http://pics.livejournal.com/closet_monster9/pic/0006324h/s640x480

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/59908/bill-murray-likes-to-call-kelly-lynchs-husband-every-time-he-sees-patrick-swayze-having-sex-with-her-in-road-house