SHOWGIRLS fans rejoice!!!!

[Khephra]

'Showgirls' Bares All in Self-Mocking DVD

LOS ANGELES -- It was "42nd Street" with pasties, "All About Eve" with a G-string. Only those movies were cinema classics, while "Showgirls" was so bad that adjectives such as awful, wretched and appalling somehow seemed too kind. But if a film festers in video stores long enough, its audience eventually will sniff it out.

Since it imploded critically and commercially in 1995, "Showgirls" has gained such a fringe following of movie masochists that distributor MGM is releasing a "V.I.P. Edition" DVD set on Tuesday, playing up the film's campy atrociousness.

The elaborate package includes shot glasses and playing cards for "Showgirls" drinking games; glossy pictures of star Elizabeth Berkley; plus pasties, a blindfold and a poster of Berkley for a "pin-the-pasties-on-the-showgirl" game.

Among DVD extras are a tutorial on how to give a lap dance and audio commentary titled "The Greatest Movie Ever Made."

"We've targeted the DVD release to adults who have embraced the campy, fun and even outrageous aspects of the film and provided extras that deliver on that notion," Blake Thomas, MGM executive vice president for worldwide marketing, said in a statement.

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/wire/sns-ap-film-showgirls,0,7757919.story?coll=sns-ap-entertainment-headlines

[LynneSin]

1. I have to confess, that film is so bad it's fun to watch!

It was on Sundance (could have been IFC) this past weekend and I watched it for the first time in ages. I laughed my ass of while watching it and for some reason just thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

[Khephra]

2. It has to go down in history for the most unatractive sex scene ever

How can you go wrong with Kyle and whatshername in a pool? It boogles the mind.

[tcfrogs]

3. It's so bad, it's good

IMHO

[Khephra]

4. Good old Edward D. Wood Jr.

couldn't have done worse if he tried. I agree. It is so bad that it is good.

[tcfrogs]

6. I confuse the two channels, as well

549 and 550 on my system...lots of weird movies on both IFC/Sundance

[Khephra]

7. Last night I had to choose between Hell House

(The doc on fundies doing anti-Halloween Haunted Houses) and the DNC. It was a hard choice.

[LTR]

5. "Showgirls" is the best trashy movie ever!

Just utter trash.

Bad story, bad acting, and lots of outrageous sex and nudity. Lots of catfights and snotty behavior.

So bad it was good. I thought "Showgirls" was a hoot!

[Atlas Mugged]

8. Just got it off Amazon!

Thanks for the heads up.

Now for the "shocking" part. I've never seen it. But it comes so highly recommended, and I love these kind of package deals, that I couldn't resist. I remember an interview with John Waters where he just gushed over it, so I've been wanting to see it for a loooong time. And, since the current political situation, quite literally, makes me physically ill on occasion, it'll be a nice antidote.

[Khephra]

9. You a fantasy fan?

I can't remember the author's name, but I know there's a fantasy book with the same title as your handle.

[Atlas Mugged]

10. Uh...there is?

I haven't read fantasy in years. Used to love it, but now I read mostly history, poetry, archaeology and such. Also, I have a huge (and I do mean MASSIVE) collection of horticulture related books, since that's what I do now.

My handle is from this:

Sailing To Byzantium

That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees -
Those dying generations - at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.

O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.

Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

-- William Butler Yeats


This part:

Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.

...has always amazed me.

[Khephra]

13. Ewww...I feel like an idiot. I actually have read Yeats too.

I don't like much poetry (haven't read any in about a decade), but I like Yeats. There's actually a couple of fantasy novels/series with that title. Evidently the borrowed from Yeats.

[dr.strangelove]

11. Pin the pasties on Elizabeth Berkley

That is just too funny.
I might buy this DVD just to play this while drinking with my friends.

[BigMcLargehuge]

12. here's the review at www.horrorview.com

enjoy

http://www.horrorview.com/Showgirls%20VIP.htm