Showgirls

Despite all the conservatives who claim otherwise, content of Hollywood movies today, at least those made by major studios, is more puritanical than it was some twenty years ago. Scenes featuring explicit sex or full frontal nudity are becoming thing of a past, and even bare female breasts are rare in major Hollywood productions. Reason for that could be found in NC-17 rating – one of the most tragic experiments in…

Showgirls came out in 1995, directed by Paul Verhoeven, written by Joe Eszterhas, it destroyed the career of Elizabeth Berkley. Showgirls is a very bad film. It is the type of bad that has made it very popular years later in the “so bad it’s good“ vein. Considering it is about Las Vegas Showgirls, features a lot of dancing and nudity, the film is very unsexy. It is the story of Nomi, played by Berkley, who hitchhike…

I might have been excited for this movie for very different reasons than other people were. You see, i was alive and growing up in the late 80's early 90's and I knew the star of this film for quite innocent reasons that perhaps a few of you out there can relate to. Let's get one thing straight. The access to boobies on tap the way it is today with the internet didn't really exist in 1996. Sure we had the internet a…

Showgirls came out in 1995, directed by Paul Verhoeven, written by Joe Eszterhas, it destroyed the career of Elizabeth Berkley. Showgirls is a very bad film. It is the type of bad that has made it very popular years later in the “so bad it’s good“ vein. Considering it is about Las Vegas Showgirls, features a lot of dancing and nudity, the film is very unsexy. It is the story of Nomi, played by Berkley, who hitchhike…