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TRUE STORY: I saw this at a theater in 1995. After Molly's rape and her hospitalization, the doctor who examined her solemnly told Nomi and the others, "There's been a vaginal tear." Someone in the very small crowd then angrily screamed out, "This MOVIE is a VAGINAL TEAR!!!!" The few people present burst out laughing.
Elizabeth Berkeley has always been willing to make light of herself. The year after Showgirls came out she started in the film The First Wives Club where she played a bad actress. God bless for her being such a good sport.
The saving grace in this movie was Gina Gershon. She looked amazing & delivered her lines in the most beautifully catty way. It’s my favorite sh!tastic movie.
Was gonna say Joe Pesci for Samy, but Paul Sorvino could work too. Just toss on a gray wig. If Joe Torre was an actor, he could do it too. Basically any Italian actor that ever played a role in a mafia movie. As for Ramsay, he should just play the part himself.
Best reference to Showgirls is in Scream 2 when Randy's talking with Ghostface. "what's your favourite scary movie" Randy replies, Showgirls absolutely frightening lol
I like to imagine this as a spin-off/crossover of Saved by the Bell and Twin Peaks. After graduating from Bayside, Jessie relapsed on caffeine pills and it got so bad that she fled to Vegas, changed her name and became a prostitute to feed her crippling addiction. So throughout half the movie she's hopped up on Red Bull and energy tablets, which explains why she flies off the handle so often, why her actions seem so erratic and unfocused, and why she dances like an electrocuted dead squid. Likewise, Kyle McLaughlin's character is actually Dale Cooper working undercover, trying to stack as much evidence as he can against the rapist he's pretending to protect. And since this is a secret David Lynch production, it explains why no one has a consistent personality.
I'm actually inclined to believe that - although, if that WERE exactly the case, would it successfully accomplish the same level of surrealism as Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive? For that matter, would it actually successfully be intentionally funny AND sexy?
* E L James watching the Cheetah’s scene * Guy: “ I saw you dance. I thought, ‘Yes!’ “ * E L James, typing * : “My Inner Goddess is doing the bolero, shouting ‘Yes!’ at me.”
@@wstine79 There are boobies in Robocop, there's a scene at the beginning where the cops are changing in the locker room and you see one of the female cops breasts
I remember when this came out. Here in the Netherlands we were so proud of Paul Verhoeven, the first Dutch director to make it big in Hollywood. The pride faded very fast after this movie.
6:40 That moment is even more amazing when you consider the fact that Will Smith had no acting experience before Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He was just a rapper.
I love that at the beginning of the film, Nomi claims to have a name that's Italian yet she's so stupid she can't pronounce Versace correctly. Brilliant screenwriting Joe Eszterhas, brilliant.
Not knowing how to pronounce foreign labels and names isn't stupid, it's ignorant. And completely forgivable for someone who came from poor families with almost no chance of good education.
Most Americans of Italian descent don't know how to correctly pronunce a single word in Italian although they think they do and proceed to butcher the few terms they have heard at home (which 9 times out of 10 are not even actual Italian to begin with, but some dialect from Southern Italy). As an aside, "Nomi" is not an Italian name and I don't think it is a real name in any part of the Western world: the closest name used in Italy is "Noemi", which is the equivalent to "Naomi".
Nicholas Cage: "A movie role? For ME? Aw, hell yeah... I'm gonna ACT THE SHIT OUTTA THIS!!" Elizabeth Berkely: "HOLD MY GODDAMN RED BULL, BITCH!!" **smashes can into face.**
There was an episode of "Roseanne", when Darlene kept making David watch "Showgirls" with her, and she'd heckle it all the way through and get them both in trouble. David hated it, but I think it would have been really fun, owing to Darlene's biting wit.
I saw this opening night. The theater was packed! It was like Mystery Theater 3000 with everyone shouting out commentary. The sex scene being referenced her someone shouted out flipper and some one else on the other side of the theater started humming loudly the opening credit music to Flipper. That movie going experience was one of the funnest I ever had.
6:33 This scene is even better once you learn that Will mostly ad-libbed everything. He explained in an interview that while he had both parents in his life growing up (albeit divorced), his friends weren't as lucky, so he took their experiences and channeled it into that one moment in the show (apparently Karen Parsons (Hillary) was crying off-screen). In 6:43 when Uncle Phil hugged Will, James Avery whispered in his ear: "Now that's real f*cking acting".
5:50 Yeah. I mean it’s easy to forget now that Tom Hanks got his start on a sitcom where the premise was he had to dress up as a woman in order to live in an apartment.
I love Showgirls. I really like watching it as a double feature with Roadhouse. Both movies are similar in tone, have ridiculous dialogue, paper thin characters, barely any plot, exist in a weird universe where nightclub staff are famous celebrities, hilarious and endlessly entertaining.
The funniest thing about this video: discovering that Americans apparently consider "Saved by the Bell" to be a sitcom, rather than an embarrassing kid's TV show.
It's both. Well,...- technically,- like, it is a situation comedy, but it was also a kids' tv show. It really was kinda the first, like, live-action kids sitcom that really took off. It's a sitcom in the same way that, any of the Nickelodeon or Disney Channel multicam sitcoms are sitcoms. It's a technicality.
@@benderbendingrodriguez420 At the time when "Saved By the Bell" was out, it wasn't thought of as a sitcom the same way that other shows were thought of as sitcoms. It's hard to explain if you weren't around, but especially since it aired exclusively on Saturday mornings, next to, mostly cartoons and other shows specifically promoted to and made for kids, as opposed to airing in Primetime or even a later afternoon/evening syndicated spot, nobody who was around at that time, would've thought of it as a sitcom. Not in the same way that, say-eh, what were the big sitcoms at that time, um, say "Cheers" or "Murphy Brown", or "Roseanne", or "Friends", etc. etc. Even something like "Full House", because it was on in Primetime, was thought of higher; that was a "family sitcom", and not a kids show. Only now, after there's been dozens of other shows that came out after "Saved..." that were promoted or aired similarly would people look at the show and think sitcom, but back then, people would think of it in the same category as like, "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" or-eh, something like that. In those days, such distinctions mattered a lot more. Nobody back then would think "Saved By the Bell" and think "Sitcom" or vice-versa.
This movie is one of a kind gold. I have watched it so many times...and now when someone asks where I am from I say"Different places!" I haven't figured out how to use "it must be weird not having anybody *** on you!"
I knew a girl just like romi... She was an aspiring dancer. The emotional stuff is spot on. You have to be almost crazy to think you can make it, and you have no idea what to do to make it happen. So any sort of perceived change in your chances causes an immediate and massive mood change. And yes, everyone was drawn to her.
11:05 that actually is an exercise/stretch dancers do, it’s especially good for pole dancing (you need strong abs for that), but I’ve never seen it done that... aggressively.
I can explain one of the oddities about this movie: Kyle MacLachlan's hair. It was the '90s. Every second white guy in America had that floppy hair. It was an epidemic at my college. My brother had that hair.
7:15 not to totally defend Ms Berkeley's talent (or lack there of) but do you seriously believe anyone could pull off that stellar writing. Helen Mirren couldnt make that line believable
This is the most underrated channel on RU-vid. My god, the dead-pan humor and facial expressions are just GOLD!! Also, you're rocking the quarantine hair, boi. lol
The rape scene may not be so illogical: they say rape is not so much about sex but more about exercising power. The guy was not after sex, he was a control and power hungry douchebag. Of course the scene was played for shock value, just like EVERYTHING in this movie is.
The rape scene was to remind us that in Las Vegas, the house always wins. This movie is not going to have a happy ending because that is what we are taught to expect in movies. The inane and unrealistic expectations that Nomi will win it all at the end. Indeed it is an exercising of power. Even as a star, Nomi was essentially as powerless as when she was pole dancing at the Cheetahs and Molly was deluded to think she had any leverage by association with Nomi.
You could've just used the censored cut. They tried to CGI-add bikinis on all the actresses, and in one scene used a full CG woman. It looks AWFUL. Hovering crayon Bikinis and a woman more off-shape than the early Lara Crofts.
Nomi dancing in the club pretty much sums up the entire film. Like a dead animal on the side of the road, you know it's disgusting, but you have to look😂.
@@alishastephenson1437 There are a lot of Showgirls fans who would say that. But just because a movie has a rape scene committed by a show-business character who is viewed in a positive light by the other characters, including his future victim, doesn't mean it is a "brilliant, ahead of it's time" commentary. Though obviously that scene is more chilling now.
I've always hated when people use "it's satire!" excuse, as if they think of it as a magical get-out-of-jail-free card that grants movies and TV shows 100% immunity to all forms of critism and should immediately be forgiven for any flaws, though they fail to realize is that, like with anything and everything, there's a right way to do satire and a wrong way to do it.
@@rsfilmdiscussionchannel4168 You should check out the "Bad Movies and A Beat" review of it where the reviewer really goes into why its so genuinely problematic for that scene to have even been in there in the 1st place
This movie is terrible... and terribly entertaining! I've seen it multiple times. There's something about it that makes you keep coming back for another viewing. If not for that horribly out of place rape scene it would have been the best worst movie ever!
i remember when this came out, i was still in school, about 16 and we all watched it, just to watch the uptight one from "Saved by the bell" going at it like flipper in the pool!
Elizabeth Berkly.... everything in 'saved by the bell' her character was not. I feel this movie was her protesting against how over the top insufferable they made her in saved by the bell.
Well Elizabeth Berkley's career wasn't harmed too bad she is still working film , tv and theater has even received good notices from critics now and then.
Am I the only one distractingly annoyed by her lipstick outside the edges of her lips? I don't know why some women do that, it looks ugly. And is always very obvious.
If the pioneers took a wrong turn heading out west and ended up on a boat bound for Europe .....and the boat sank otw there. And the life boats were eaten
The 90's were victorian compared to the late 70's, early 80's. Check out Paradise, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Private Lessons, My Tutor and the entire Emmanuelle movie franchise just as an example. Then there are European movies of the same era, With those movies clothes free is the theme.
It only earned $38 million at the box office but it generated well over $100 million in rentals. Even Tarantino said this movie had a lot of redeeming value in terms of exploitation cinema!
I legit love this movie. I think this movie does exactly what a movie is supposed to do...it keeps you entertained. No matter how many times I watch it I am in it.
Nomi being thin despite the food she eats isn't strange at all. She's very young and she's a dancer. You know how many calories you burn dancing? Holly Madison mentioned in her memoir when she did her burlesque show (in Las Vegas of all places) she danced a lot and said she was in the best shape of her life, despite eating lots of junk food. So that's not strange at all. But while she's thin, that doesn't mean she's healthy, so that's why she was instructed to eat healthier foods.
I like to imagine that Desperate Housewives creator Mark Cherry specifically casted Kyle McLaughlin to play supreme douchebag Orson Hodge based entirely on his performance in this movie
I drove by that strip joint when I lived in Vegas in 2019. I was so shocked because I didn't realize it was real AND still in business lol Also regarding that one r*pe scene, Molly probably would've slept with the singer yes. Not his entire entourage! That's why she fought back.
YES!!! I was so looking forward to this review! I can safely say that this is one of my favorite “so-bad, it’s-good” movies I love to watch along with the Sharknado movies; it is strange seeing the man behind the brilliant RoboCop went on to direct this movie but eh, it’s still fun to me. Also, who can forget the unforgettable line, “Man everybody got AIDS and shit!”, truly a piece of poetic cinematic history
Actually Sean I do have a question: when you reach the worst picture where you've already covered are you going to skip them or make a new review of them?
Since he already went ahead and re-reviewed “Cocktail,” I’m gonna guess the answer is yes, albeit with a bigger emphasis on the Razzies themselves sprinkled in with any opinions that may have changed over time. :)
