I get Robocop and Starship Troopers. I think Verhoeven was off base in going after that work in particular, but I get what he was doing. I can even kind of see Total Recall as a satire of a lot things. But I don't know how Showgirls is satire.
It's a satire of the whole "fresh faced girl from nowhere follows her dreams to become a star" trope that Hollywood has been pushing for decades.
And this is why it's even more hilarious that our boy covers them.
I'll admit it took me some time to understand where he was coming from but I saw most of his movies when I was a young lad and enjoyed the action portions of them. It's only in revisiting them later that I saw what he was actually trying to say.
And he doesn't understand European (and Dutch) cinema nearly as well as he thinks he does. Verhoeven might have made Hollywood blockbusters but he's a very European filmmaker. I'm just thankful Kyle hasn't tried to review Dick Maas' films yet, I might actually be offended by his shit takes.
I doubt that will ever happen. The Discworld novels have always been a favorite of the nerd set and tend not to get too much traction outside of that circle. It's practically required reading if you're in IT. I remember when "Monsterous Regiment" came out and half the department had either started reading it, finished reading it or were planning on reading it.
It shows in his style. You can tell where a director is coming from by how they frame their shots, scene composition and stuff like that. And while he's mainly known here for the big Hollywood blockbusters, and Showgirls, I will admit my favorite of his movies is "Soldier of Orange" followed by "The Fourth Man". One a story set during WWII and the Dutch resistance and the other a psychological thriller. The man is a good director and storyteller who isn't really understood on this side of the Atlantic.
the ACAB crowd are the biggest faggots around.
That's fucking retarded. Just because she called some pale ass vampire "beautiful" doesn't mean it's coded white supremacy. I swear these people are just looking specifically to find something to bitch about.
It's the fucking far-left assholes that are behind that. It's the same in any profession you might care to look at there are good examples of them and bad examples of them. But to say EVERY single cop out there is a bastard just for being a cop is retarded.
Well it's a good thing they fixed that in the new tv-show by adding token blacks(TM), or someone's feelings might have gotten hurt!
Vampires, at least the Hollywood version we've grown up watching, have always been sexy to one degree or another. It's part of their thing as Deacon says here:
Please tell me that somebody actually said that. The utter blindness of that statement is ridiculous.
