Review of Showgirls

Showgirls (1995)
Not the worst movie of all time ...
10 October 2009
but very close.

Can't think of one right now, but there has to be something filmed that's worse than this: bad writing, bad editing, bad directing, horrible acting, atrocious dancing (which the movie is sort of supposed to be about), the list is an endless "badness" festival.

Others have detailed how unrelenting the poor acting and directing and all the rest, so let's talk about the glimmers of the positive: Nudity. Man, Elizabeth Berkeley may be a dreadful actress and dancer, but she is quite a beauty, and has no problem wandering around in her all together. Which is actually quite nice.

Double that for Gina Gershon. Her character is quite unpleasant, but Gershon plays her quite pleasantly. And the fewer the clothes she has on, the better she is. And she has very few clothes on during the movie. So there is that. But she is a very likable actress, perhaps the most redeeming aspect of the movie.

In a dreadful series of awfulness, there are two standouts: First the tendency of Berkeley to splunk herself down on a car in ire, and Kyle MacLachlan with a sklopf of hair hanging down across his face most of the time. Very annoying.

This move should be shown in college film classes as how not to make a film.
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