And I always wondered, you know, "how do you sometimes geta movie with a great director,...
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And I always wondered, you know, "how do you sometimes get
a movie with a great director, great cast, an okay writer, and they come up
with something terrible?" It's not on my list
of worst movies ever for exactly that reason,
that it is so watchable, but it's up there with my list
of the most pathetic in that the filmmakers
themselves seem to view it now, based on recent interviews
I've read, as misunderstood or full of overlooked virtue
or value
a movie with a great director, great cast, an okay writer, and they come up
with something terrible?" It's not on my list
of worst movies ever for exactly that reason,
that it is so watchable, but it's up there with my list
of the most pathetic in that the filmmakers
themselves seem to view it now, based on recent interviews
I've read, as misunderstood or full of overlooked virtue
or value
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And I always wondered, you know,
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"how do you sometimes get
a movie with a great director,
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great cast, an okay writer,
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and they come up
with something terrible?"
00:00:13.887 --> 00:00:17.471
It's not on my list
of worst movies ever
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for exactly that reason,
that it is so watchable,
00:00:20.436 --> 00:00:23.001
but it's up there with my list
of the most pathetic
00:00:23.999 --> 00:00:26.897
in that the filmmakers
themselves seem to view it now,
00:00:26.942 --> 00:00:30.434
based on recent interviews
I've read, as misunderstood
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or full of overlooked virtue
or value.
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Movie Summary
Released in 1995, Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls was met by critics and audiences with near universal derision. You Don't Nomi traces the film's redemptive journey from notorious flop to cult classic, and maybe even masterpiece.
