Watched the Monkey last night and, while I understood going in it's a meant to be a a gory, silly horror comedy and not supposed to be scary, I was just waiting for it to be over. There were a couple cool scenes that you wouldn't expect in that type of movie, which I always enjoy. The best horror movies these days seem to follow a formula you expect, than drop some scenes that make you feel like you accidentally took some hallucinogens.
Loved Perkin's previous movie Longlegs, but I'm glad I watched the monkey free with streaming subscription. It was miss for me, maybe just not in the mood. Hoping Perkin's next one, Keeper, will be darker.
I wanted to like it so badly but it's not much more than a poorly paced Final Destination film that also decided to bait and switch me into watching half the thing with goddamned kid actors. Two thumbs as far down as possible.
Jurassic World Rebirth is far from perfect but it's the most enjoyable Jurrasic movie since 1993.
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Not awkward at all. Will make for a good laugh. Thankfully I'm not confined by the same mental prison/bitter and judgmental existence you're stuck in 24/7.
I watched a movie that upon release 30 years ago in 1995 it won several Razzie awards, ended up on both Siskel and Ebert's worst of the year list and was generally considered to be one of the worst movies ever. Since that time the movie has developed a cult following and I legit consider it a masterpiece. Of course I'm talking about Showgirls. Fantastic film that was way ahead of its time. The film reminded me of the same structure of films like Scarface or Babylon where you see the rise and fall of our hero. There were plans for a sequel where Nomi would have gone to LA and take down Hollywood but because of the poor reception it sadly never got made. Fantastic film that needs to be critically re examined because it's amazing. Even if you hate the movie you can never say you're bored.
Now follow that up with the sequel that actually got made, the incredible 'Showgirls 2 - Penny's From Heaven" starring Rena Riffel. Not familiar with that particular actress? She was a stripper in Showgirls at the first place Nomi works, gets possibly less than 1 min of screen time.
To answer my own question right off the bat, no, no it isn’t. Obviously art is subjective, but if you were to ask a lifelong movie lover like myself if Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls (1995) deserved the hate it got upon release, I would say yes it did. Seeing the narrative go from “This is a terrible movie,” to “This is so bad it’s good” to “This is actually a feminist masterpiece and you’re misogynistic for mocking it” the past three decades has been asinine as hell.
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For the next thirty years, Showgirls went from being everyone’s favorite movie to make fun of, to the gay community embracing it as camp and amusing, to Verhoeven fanatics claiming it’s intentional satire and everyone missed the point. What’s the truth? Well, probably a little bit of everything [but mostly the former two]. The problem with viewing the movie as intentionally comedic is that it doesn’t feel like a comedy. It’s a whooping 131 minutes of nudity, sexual harassment, sexual violence, backstabbing and bitchiness.
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Watching something bad for entertainment is pointless in my mind, though I understand everyone has different tastes. With Showgirls, I can easily see why people think it’s unintentionally hilarious. The acting is bad, particularly Elizabeth, who doesn’t have the range for dramatic material. The script is even worse...
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In more recent years Verhoeven and Eszterhas have embraced Showgirls’ camp legacy and insist the movie was always supposed to be a dark comedy. No. No, no. The director’s fans will point to this, as well as Robocopand Starship Troopers (1997), as proof general movie viewers ‘didn’t get it.’ But that’s not what initially happened. Verhoeven and Eszterhas were trying to repeat the success of Basic Instinct. Only this time, more boobs! More sex! Catfights! Dancing! NC-17!! Eszterhas was also a writer on Adrian Lyne’s romantic drama Flashdance(1983), which has a similar theme and male gaze heavy sexualization. What people don’t seem to realize is that the satire in Robocop and Starship Troopers is more because of screenwriter Edward Neumeier. The tone of Showgirls is completely different from the other two movies because of the writing, not the direction. There’s a reason Eszterhas spent years bragging about being the highest paid screenwriter of the 1990s and not the most awarded.
