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Watch: NSFW New Re-Release Trailer for Paul Verhoeven's 'Showgirls'
by Alex Billington
August 1, 2016
Source: YouTube
"You're out there on stage, hoping on a spot, someone gets in your way - step on ’em." Pathe is planning a 4K restoration re-release of the cult classic, critically-panned film from Paul Verhoeven that killed his career in Hollywood - Showgirls. To announce the upcoming re-release in theaters as well as on Blu-ray and VOD, they've unveiled a new trailer for the film which starred Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle Maclachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer and Robert Davi. Showgirls actually received the "NC-17" rating for "nudity and erotic sexuality throughout", perhaps because Verhoeven was given final cut after the success of Basic Instinct and didn't hold back, and it bombed at the box office. This trailer is obviously NSFW with nudity throughout, but that should be expected. Perhaps there are a few devoted Verhoeven fans out there.
Here's the new restored re-release trailer for Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls, direct from Pathe's YouTube:
Nomi, a young drifter, arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become the top of the Vegas showgirls. Showgirls was directed by acclaimed Dutch director Paul Verhoeven back in 1995, after he made Basic Instinct, and was infamously known as the film that killed his career in Hollywood. It ended up receiving a total of seven Golden Raspberry Awards for 1995, including Worst Picture and Worst Director. Despite dismal reviews and the negativity during release, the film has earned a kind of cult following in the years since. Pathe in France will be re-releasing Showgirls as a 4K restoration in theaters starting September 14th this fall. For more details on the French re-release, visit their website. No word if it will be hitting US theaters again. Anyone want to see this on the big screen?
32 Comments
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It's trash classic.
DAVIDPD on Aug 1, 2016
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Not just boobs, Jesse Spano boobs!
grimjob on Aug 2, 2016
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The girl whose career was ruined by Paul Verhoeven. As a trivia, Charlize theron was supposed to take the role, but was dismissed when she did the casting.
tarek on Aug 2, 2016
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I did not know that. I wonder if it would have had the same effect on her career. Probably a good thing she didn't get it.
grimjob on Aug 2, 2016
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It would have probably ruined her starting career. she was 20 or so at this time, and without any experience. Thank god, she did Monster few years later.
tarek on Aug 2, 2016
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One of the few films most often viewed in ten minute increments.
DAVIDPD on Aug 1, 2016
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Certain scenes....
TheOct8pus on Aug 2, 2016
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Oh agent Cooper say it ain't so.
Charles Knowlton on Aug 1, 2016
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I would rather have a re-release of Total Recall. Or RoboCop. Or Starship Troopers. Damn he was awesome.
grimjob on Aug 1, 2016
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Oh yeah, Starship Troopers was interesting. Totally agree on that one,sir ...
shiboleth on Aug 1, 2016
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Hey Bo! Well I did find some sarcasm in it. The whole idea was quite good at showing where organized and intense violence of states lead. I didn't watch it for some 'action', I watched it for representation of shallow world devoid of social and civil sense people don't want to see. Anyway, I like films when author, director is trying to invest some symbolic, imaginary and ironic sense in it. And I think that what he was trying to do in American environment. To be honest, my experience was ironizing American interventions in the world in that film ... I think Verhoeven left US because he was not being able freely to do things like that ... And that's why Black Book, for example, is also so good ... Cheers Bo ...
shiboleth on Aug 3, 2016
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Hey Bo, shi... is quite all right. Don't worry about it. It' snot really my name, but it helps on the internet. So I guess Bo is also some version of something. Or not. Anyway it's good for me. As for the reading or watching Verhoeven. Well, thanks for you appreciation, but I have to separate Showgirls from Starship Troopers since Showgirls was quite exploitative piece of indulgence I saw in passing. At some point I felt some embarrassment since that film relatively soon became ridiculous. As for the hidden meaning and other masses of people. Well, I can't help that since I always differed from those when it came to interpret watching movies. Or reading books. Or anything, I guess ... Yeah, I also have to see Elle, but there is so many things to see. But I hope I'll manage to catch it at some point and we can talk about it here ... Cheers Bo ...
shiboleth on Aug 3, 2016
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t was a very strange film. Yeah, a lot of sexy girls, but the whole thing was kinda weird...
shiboleth on Aug 1, 2016
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that's one way to put it....
TheOct8pus on Aug 2, 2016
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Yay! Now we can rewatch the movie that destroyed Elizabeth Berkley's career -again! ....while we ogle at her boobs....
TheOct8pus on Aug 2, 2016
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Kind of hard to destroy what didn't exist.
Lin Group on Aug 3, 2016
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She was on one of the most popular TV shows at the time and everyone thought she had a promising career - mostly because she was beautiful and wasn't a terrible actress.... Showgirls ensured that her promising career would die a slow humiliating death....
TheOct8pus on Aug 3, 2016
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Let's be honest here, she was on a popular kids tv show. Which is vastly different then non-kid tv shows. Like many kids tv shows, some of the actors break out of the kid tv type cast and many don't. She got her one shot and it was crap. Speculation about what she could have been is meaningless if it doesn't come to pass.
Lin Group on Aug 3, 2016
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Sure. But she DID have an acting career before Showgirls. Saved by the bell lasted 4 years or so....short lived, but still a career in showbiz terms.
TheOct8pus on Aug 3, 2016
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While Verhoeven has his share of responsibility in her career ruin ( he doesn't deny it), a girl knew that she was going to perform 80% of the movie naked, and was ok with that. A girl deserved her fate.
tarek on Aug 3, 2016
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That's the part of Showgirls I LIKED!! Whenever she put her clothes back on, I fell back asleep
TheOct8pus on Aug 3, 2016
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Haven't seen this movie. Is it any good? Does empower women like the Ghostbusters movie?
capitandelespacio on Aug 3, 2016
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Yes. It empowers women to get out there and show us their boobs!
TheOct8pus on Aug 3, 2016
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Any good fart jokes?
capitandelespacio on Aug 3, 2016
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Whenever one of the dancers bends over, there's a fart sound effect
TheOct8pus on Aug 3, 2016
30
I already love this movie!
capitandelespacio on Aug 3, 2016
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