Post by klee on Jul 2, 2004 10:15:56 GMT
From today's Guardian.
Simon Fanshawe, writer and broadcaster
Showgirls is collagen acting. It's a Vegas story about strippers clawing their way to the top. When Elizabeth Berkley pole danced I thought her lips were in danger of attaching to the pole like a sink plunger. She had all those lips but with none of the mobility of Linda Gray in Dallas. When Dusty died, Linda must have gone into at least 23 separate pouts. What was so ghastly about it was that it wasn't just trashy but offensive. It was written by that awful man, Joe Eszterhas. At the time he was hot, hot, hot. He wrote Flashdance, Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge. It's a bit like a car, gathering speed, and just winging out of control, starting to slalom on the ice until it explodes.
I feel shocked and betrayed. Showgirls is one of the greatest movies of the past twenty years (for all the wrong reasons, of course). It has glamour, glitter, Footballers' Wives nails before Footballers' Wives was a twinge in Zoe Lucker's breast implants.
Does anyone else out there have horrendous movie favourites?
Simon Fanshawe, writer and broadcaster
Showgirls is collagen acting. It's a Vegas story about strippers clawing their way to the top. When Elizabeth Berkley pole danced I thought her lips were in danger of attaching to the pole like a sink plunger. She had all those lips but with none of the mobility of Linda Gray in Dallas. When Dusty died, Linda must have gone into at least 23 separate pouts. What was so ghastly about it was that it wasn't just trashy but offensive. It was written by that awful man, Joe Eszterhas. At the time he was hot, hot, hot. He wrote Flashdance, Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge. It's a bit like a car, gathering speed, and just winging out of control, starting to slalom on the ice until it explodes.
I feel shocked and betrayed. Showgirls is one of the greatest movies of the past twenty years (for all the wrong reasons, of course). It has glamour, glitter, Footballers' Wives nails before Footballers' Wives was a twinge in Zoe Lucker's breast implants.
Does anyone else out there have horrendous movie favourites?
