So, I finally saw Showgirls..

(some spoilers, but does it really matter?)

So, I finally saw Showgirls. After years of hearing how I have to see it because it's one of the most spectacular crappy movies of all time (albiet entertaining crap), Leslie NetFlixed it.

In case you were wondering, yes, it was *that bad*. From Elizabeth Berkley's ridiculous amount of overacting to a plot that really didn't make that much damn sense. It was just terrible. But, unlike Gigli, it was an entertaining trainwreck to see (and not just because of the proliferation of boobies everywhere, but it didn't hurt, obviously). And really, compared to Verhoven's follow-up Starship Troopers, this was practically a masterpiece.

But what really bothered me was the last third of the movie. The first two-thirds at least had some sensibility and continuity, but around the end, I was just stuck in a perpetual bliss of WTFness. Like, why did the rock star guy who seemed perfectly nice suddenly brutally gang-rape Nomi's (Berkeley) infatuated roommate? In the end, Nomi, reaching the pinnacle of her career and at the point where her dreams are coming true, just goes and hitchhikes her ass out of Las Vegas. Why? That makes no damn sense. There's no explanation whatsoever.

The sex scene between Kyle McLaghlin and Berkley is about the least erotic pool sex scene ever done in a movie. Berkley looked more like she was having a mechanical bull ride induced seizure than anything remotely resembling sexual pleasure.

Oh, and the big twist, that Nomi in a past life was a crack whore with a broken family was a REAL SHOCKER. I mean, it had only been hinted at throughout the ENTIRE FILM.

I mean, it's Joe Eszterhas writing, so I'm not expecting masterful levels of continuity, but, c'mon. Eszterhas' Flashdance made more sense than this movie. Of course, Flashdance didn't have boobies.

Anyway, this movie was a steaming pile of crapulence, but see it, at least once. If nothing else, Berkley's hilarious overacting and mugging for the camera makes it quite the unintentional comedy. Oh, and there's lots of boobies, too. Did I mention that? This is one of the better awful-yet-entertaining movies that I've seen.