https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvcw6LQhUno
― Stevie D(eux), Friday, 18 October 2013 10:59 (ten years ago) link
Can't wait to see how the judges react to "319."
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 18 October 2013 12:16 (ten years ago) link
http://f.cl.ly/items/150u2c1r022S3E2T3v3e/Capture.JPG
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 October 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
The pain, it is still there
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2471328/Elizabeth-Berkley-breaks-DWTS-rehearsal.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 15:32 (ten years ago) link
...I think not.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/road-house-remake-fast-furious-659589?utm_source=feedburner
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 November 2013 03:19 (ten years ago) link
Meantime (and that's a perfect title, really):
https://twitter.com/brofromanother/status/405756998219612160/photo/1
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
Adam Nayman is one of my favorite film writers out there right now so I'm pretty excited to read ^^^.
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link
adam is a good buddy, i am happy to read both those posts!
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I went out for lunch with him when I visited Toronto last year, super nice/intelligent guy.
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
OMG I AM CHRISTMAS LISTING THAT SO FUCKING HARD
― Homo schaduwkabinet (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
not out till the spring :/
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 20:00 (ten years ago) link
But if you're in Toronto on March 14...
http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiffbelllightbox/2014/2550013121
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 23:42 (ten years ago) link
i'm going
― socki (s1ocki), Sunday, 12 January 2014 02:21 (ten years ago) link
I should throw on my DVD at the same time in solidarity.
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 12 January 2014 05:26 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/04/its-still-ok-to-hate-em-showgirls-em/360644/
Nayman talks a good bit about Susan Sontag's theories of camp, as well as about what might be called pop understanding of camp. His discussion centers, again, on intentionality as it relates to quality, summarized by Sontag in her quip, "it's good because it's awful." For Sontag, Nayman argues, the essence of camp is the fact that it is unintentionally dreadful, and therefore wonderful—it's camp as outsider art. Nayman adds, correctly I think, that in many pop discussions of camp, that dynamic is reversed— something is campy, and therefore good, if it recognizes and revels in its own awfulness.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 13:27 (ten years ago) link
i like berlatsky a lot but showgirls doesn't suck, it's incredible
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
Road House was released 25 years ago today.
https://twitter.com/Kevin_Church/status/468436907173875712
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BoA44nlIYAAkfAP.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 May 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
http://i.giphy.com/UaMZmlXSUAvYs.gif
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 03:29 (nine years ago) link
^
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 09:26 (nine years ago) link
i just skimmed a gajillion 'contrarian' takes on showgirls (ACTUALLY, ) and it's kind of amazing how many of them seem to disdain things that aren't even bad really ... like everyone feels the need to acknowledge how 'awful' certain aspects of it are ...
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 15 November 2014 09:59 (nine years ago) link
Now that I've finally seen showgirls I can appreciate all the gifs!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 15 November 2014 12:16 (nine years ago) link
what did you think? bad, good-bad, or just straight up sensational?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 15 November 2014 12:32 (nine years ago) link
Me or enbb? I think its perfect
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 15 November 2014 13:02 (nine years ago) link
I saw part of a trailer for that 50 Shades of Grey movie and realized the only director they should have considered is Verhoeven
― jenny holzer, ilxor (mh), Saturday, 15 November 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, April 15, 2014 11:15 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah, that's why i think this comparison is kinda wrong. showgirls is a legitimately good movie. road house isn't (though it is legitimately enjoyable).
― Các yếu tố khác ảnh hưởng tới quỹ đạo Sao Diêm Vương (Eisbaer), Monday, 29 June 2015 10:20 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, this should really be like Showgirls vs. Mommie Dearest or something.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Monday, 29 June 2015 13:59 (eight years ago) link
Masterpiece against masterpiece.
a tourbus full of showgirls breaks down in a small sleepy town; these tough young ladies end up patronizing the local bar, where one of them discovers that she and the taciturn bouncer share a sordid past that could leave them both dead
music by Brad Paisley
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Friday, April 26, 2013 2:15 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
[...]
this is a totally new cast
starring Mark Wahlberg, Maria Menounos, Emma Stone, Hayden Panettiere, Minka Kelly, Kaley Cuoco, Jamie Chung, Brad Paisley, LL Cool J, Scott Caan, Dermot Mulroney, Dylan McDermott and Aasif Mandvi
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Friday, April 26, 2013 2:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm a genius IMO
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Monday, 29 June 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
only substitute Channing Tatum for Mark Walhberg and Allie Grant for Maria Menounos
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Monday, 29 June 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link
road house is more watchable and entertaining than show girls
― goole, Monday, 29 June 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
saith jacques rivette,
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)I’ve seen it twice and I like it a lot, but I prefer Showgirls (1995), one of the great American films of the last few years. It’s Verhoeven’s best American film and his most personal. In Starship Troopers, he uses various effects to help everything go down smoothly, but he’s totally exposed in Showgirls. It’s the American film that’s closest to his Dutch work. It has great sincerity, and the script is very honest, guileless. It’s so obvious that it was written by Verhoeven himself rather than Mr. Eszterhas, who is nothing. And that actress is amazing! Like every Verhoeven film, it’s very unpleasant: it’s about surviving in a world populated by assholes, and that’s his philosophy. Of all the recent American films that were set in Las Vegas, Showgirls was the only one that was real – take my word for it.I who have never set foot in the place!
I’ve seen it twice and I like it a lot, but I prefer Showgirls (1995), one of the great American films of the last few years. It’s Verhoeven’s best American film and his most personal. In Starship Troopers, he uses various effects to help everything go down smoothly, but he’s totally exposed in Showgirls. It’s the American film that’s closest to his Dutch work. It has great sincerity, and the script is very honest, guileless. It’s so obvious that it was written by Verhoeven himself rather than Mr. Eszterhas, who is nothing. And that actress is amazing! Like every Verhoeven film, it’s very unpleasant: it’s about surviving in a world populated by assholes, and that’s his philosophy. Of all the recent American films that were set in Las Vegas, Showgirls was the only one that was real – take my word for it.I who have never set foot in the place!
― drash, Monday, 29 June 2015 17:40 (eight years ago) link
yeah, that's the general idea. even though i wouldn't call mommie dearest a masterpiece. if anything, mommie dearest would be better TS pairing with road house in that both are bad-yet-entertaining movies.
that said, to me showgirls delivers what others (definitely NOT me) claim they see in Douglas Sirk's films -- namely, over-the-top spectacle that undermines its purported story -- though it's a good bit drier (in a good way!) than any Sirk movie i've ever seen.
― Các yếu tố khác ảnh hưởng tới quỹ đạo Sao Diêm Vương (Eisbaer), Monday, 29 June 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
lol I was talking w/Stevie about Basic Instinct and how Eszterhas really writes these garbage ott scripts that Verhoeven crafts into cinematic gold
― Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, 29 June 2015 18:52 (eight years ago) link
That Eszterhas ebook about his interactions with Mel Gibson is amazing in that it reveals lots of personality quirks of the writer and the subject, along with making the point that his nonfiction writing is ridiculous and random
― Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, 29 June 2015 18:53 (eight years ago) link
lol damn jacques
rather than Mr. Eszterhas, who is nothing
― johnny crunch, Monday, 29 June 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
i watched the first 27 min of roadhouse today and i can't believe i lived without it this long john doe is the bartender?! gahi can't wait to watch the rest
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 21:05 (eight years ago) link
!!!
http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/9/9/9285575/ronda-rousey-to-star-in-remake-of-1980s-cult-classic-road-house
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
It's like rolling both movies in one!
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
(Sorry. I don't really believe that for the record.)
Annnnnd a Paul Verhoeven interview. Happy 20th.
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/showgirls-paul-verhoeven-on-the-greatest-stripper-movie-ever-made-20150922
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 22:18 (eight years ago) link
why did they interview him about Magic Mike XXL?
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 23:19 (eight years ago) link
Pump and thrust
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 23:27 (eight years ago) link
As for the finished product: I thought it was perfect. Otherwise I would have changed it.
<3 <3 <3
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 00:39 (eight years ago) link
just bought this on blu-ray, it's still so great
everything in this interview shd go w/o saying but this is a great primer for ppl who still don't ~get~ this movie
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
i get it. you can have it.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link
I need to watch all Verhoevens films again. He's my god. Well, after Haneke.
― nathom, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
i've been doing that myself in preparation for a thing i'm writing that may or may not ever get finished. anyway i've basically liked-to-loved everything except spetters
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
Verhoeven >>> Haneke (who I like very much)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
Are you going chronologically, brad? Turkish Delight is special.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link
i'm glad he finally made a really good film last year
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 17:10 (seven years ago) link