(1995) zero starsIn a way, I should wait to write my review until I've had a chance to fully process this movie, but I kind of want to be done with it. Showgirls follows our "protagonist" Nomi as she attempts to make it big in Las Vegas, and she is willing to do an awful lot to fulfill her dream. Just don't call her a whore, because she'll go off on you. Nomi, as played by Elizabeth Berkley, is one of the least appealing characters I've ever seen on film. Rage is her primary emotion, which she portrays by flinging her arms around and walking rapidly (occasionally spitting, pulling a knife, or kneeing someone in the crotch for variety's sake). The predictable and uninteresting plot is peppered with nonsensical dialogue and egregiously bad acting. Showgirls provides us with lots of nudity, sex, and dancing, all of which should be positives, but somehow aren't in this context. There was a reasonable budget and (dare I say) a certain amount of talent behind the project, which makes the final outcome that much more unacceptable. I believe Showgirls was nominated for, and won, a record share of Razzies, all richly deserved. It may be that I'll see a worse movie this weekend, or in my lifetime, but I certainly won't believe it till I see it.
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AC, the smart chick from Saved by The Bell and Gina Gershon are naked the WHOLE movie...that is at least worth two stars!!
Seeing women who you have seen many times with their clothes on, naked, is always hotter. (Please reference Mr. Skin for verification)
miko, both actresses have undeniably rockin' bods, but by the end of this particular movie i was feeling that sex and nudity were bad things in general. their nudity could have been hot but it wasn't, because of the wretched cinematic context. not even kyle mclachlan's body double's ass could pull this film up a half star in my book. have you actually seen the movie lately or are you remembering the nudity with fondness from when you saw showgirls in the theater in 1995?
Maybe video in '96...
The movie probably benefits greatly from the ability to fast forward.
so next time you're stuck in a hotel room, watch showgirls, the unrated version, no fast forwarding, and let us know how it holds up. if you still grant it two stars, more power to you!
I'm with miko, for the sheer amount of boobage alone this rates 2 stars, hmm, 2.5 stars. Boobs!
hmm, do we have a gender split a-brewing? by this logic, all pornos earn a minimum of 2 stars. anyone else have an opinion?
I definitely don't think you can rate all porn at a starting point of 2 - there is some really bad porn out there. Er, so I've heard...
I don't think I have ever watched all of Showgirls, I may have to take up this challenge to provide another female point of view.
I'll cross the line and rank Showgirls below two stars. I hated this movie. I made the mistake of watching it by myself when it should be watched with a group of friends and at least one bottle of tequila.
My friend Mindy used to screen this at her house regularly with a bunch of people over and I could never understand why. To my mind it skipped Bad Enough to be Good, and Just Plain Bad and went right to So Reprehensible It Has a Heart Full of Squirming Maggots.
Despite that, someday I'll probably see it again because I don't know if I saw the unrated version or not, and I'll watch it with friends so we can have fun trashing it. Or so I hope.
thanks dcd and octo. dcd, please don't take this maggoty bullet on my account. octo, i did have a lot of fun watching showgirls because 1. i couldn't believe what i was seeing and 2. of the five of us, two had watched it before and were enjoying our reactions so much and 3. we were all trashing the movie so vigorously, the overall experience was quite entertaining.
sorry. gotta side with AC on this one. the rage thing really stuck out for me when i watched the 3/4 of this movie i saw 10 years ago.
what bugged me the most about it was that it wasn't attached to anything else. it was just attitude.
one time, a young friend of the family got me to sit through a couple episodes of Viva la Bam. at the beginning of each episode, a question is posed, something like, "What's Bam going to do today?" and he replies from a digital rooftop in some computer city somewhere, "whatever the f*ck I want."
i'd have found his audacity much more interesting if Bam wanted the f*ck something other than squirting mayonnaise at his friends and lighting them on fire.
back to elizabeth berkely. the scene that stuck out for me was the black dance instructor dude (who was also in south central, which also wasn't very good) following her down a vegas street after BAILING HER DUMB ASS OUT OF JAIL. and she's giving him attitude and acting like she's the queen of the frickin world, and i remember thinking, "sheesh, dude. town full of skanks and this one is the best you can do?
my brother once said about her, "she blew it. she could've been the next tori spelling."
heh heh, 50p. black dance instructor dude (james) also lost not one but two jobs for the uppity angry skank. best part: before vegas, james was with alvin ailey dancers! wonder if they sued.
My roommate works with a woman who says Showgirls is her favorite movie. She's from Russia, not sure if that means anything.
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