Verhoeven trivia:
In this Flesh + Blood scene, Jennifer Jason Leigh's maid is played by none other than BART SIMPSON.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad2LNbqgusI
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 06:33 (fourteen years ago) link
for me it's black book and show girls in a tiethen robocop and starship trooper tied for secondthen total recallthen all the rest
haven't seen fourth man or soldier of orange though
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 10:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Showgirls 7Black Book 6
You people are mad, or on drugs. Or both.
― DJ Angoreinhardt (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
on mad drugs
― ledge, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
top 4 movies OTM
― he is substituite by Crime Club (HI DERE), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 13:49 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3YIU64sy8A
― the shock will be coupled with the need to dance (jim), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link
HA HA HA, you think this is the real Quaid...? ... IT IS!
― Neil S, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Didn't ever see the results but YAY Robocop/Total Recall split!
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/articles/for-his-next-awesomely-insane-thing-paul-verhoeven,46412/
― Simon H., Saturday, 16 October 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I watched a bunch of trailers for his lesser known films (Rutger Hauer seems to be in most of them), Flesh+Blood appealed most. Katie Tippel looked intriguing too. Anyone seen the majority of these?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
Spetters, Soldier of Orange, Fourth Man and Turkish Delight are all worth watching
― tayto fan (Michael B), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
Flesh & Blood is great, Michael Parkinson walked out of it in disgust
― bellendery hooks (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 20:22 (eight years ago) link
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Wednesday, September 2, 2009 4:01 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Widespread critical appreciation of both of these films make me feel like "taste" is not completely arbitrary, b/c I remember even as an 11/12-year-old watching them feeling like there was something special about them beyond the typical action flick.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
http://variety.com/2016/film/global/first-look-paul-verhoevens-elle-trailer-isabelle-huppert-1201699088/
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 23:30 (eight years ago) link
Could be trouble, but at this point I trust him.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 April 2016 00:14 (eight years ago) link
oh! i get it! i'm dreaming! this is all part of the delightful vacation your company has sold me.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 14 April 2016 00:26 (eight years ago) link
From the Guardian's Cannes coverage:
“We thought it would be an American movie,” says Verhoeven. “We basically translated the novel into English and I knew a very good American scriptwriter. We were basically replacing Paris with Chicago or Seattle. It was only when we got the reaction of female American stars that we started to realise this kind of story without a revenge was not for the American market.”
― Wes Brodicus, Sunday, 9 October 2016 16:10 (seven years ago) link
Cannot wait
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 October 2016 08:56 (seven years ago) link
There's a strange cheesiness to this guy's movies that's not like other cheesy movies. It's a kind of uncanny creepy cheese I can't stomach for long.
Poll closed forever ago, but Robocop by far.
― punksishippies, Monday, 10 October 2016 10:13 (seven years ago) link
seeing Elle next weekend
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 05:32 (seven years ago) link
Might be good except looking at that interview Huppert lends a cred to what could be shabby material. Verhoeven needs something thrashy to make something great or really awful, but always compelling and which sticks.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
Slant ranks 'em all
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, 14 November 2016 02:09 (seven years ago) link
i saw Spetters last night for the first time, which was ooookay except for, say, the rather disturbing portrayal of a character coming out as gay after being gang-raped by some toughs in Rotterdam.
ditto Total Recall which rather massively dumbs down that Dick story, but features all kinds of crazy shit (telepathic Martian rebel leader hanging from a guy's torso, dwarf prostitute firing a machine gun, more punctured human heads than any 'R' movie ever).
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 November 2016 02:29 (seven years ago) link
oh yeah Elle is the best thing i've seen from this guy. it's quite funny and also a very tough watch.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 November 2016 02:30 (seven years ago) link
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius)
I like it but it might be the most violent film I've ever seen: human shields on elevators, pokers sticking out of eyeballs, arms crunched off, Schwarzenegger checking into a Hilton...
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 November 2016 02:45 (seven years ago) link
Flesh+Blood is ranked way too low in that list, and Basic Instinct way too high.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 14 November 2016 02:50 (seven years ago) link
human shield on an escalator
i found Starship Troopers profoundly stupid; MAD Magazine looks like Swift in its light
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 November 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
I cannot recommend the Troopers commentary track w/ Verhoeven and the cast enough. Let's just say there are some sublime moments of intellectual disconnect.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 14 November 2016 02:58 (seven years ago) link
at the NYC retro PV will be appearing with Casper whatzisDiem at a Troopers screening. Perhaps there'll be a whipping.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 November 2016 03:09 (seven years ago) link
Because I saw Total Recall when I was 12, I don't think I realized until just now how truly fucked up it is.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, 14 November 2016 04:40 (seven years ago) link
That said--and while I haven't seen either film as an adult--I remember finding the violence in RoboCop more unnerving than that in TR when I was a kid.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, 14 November 2016 04:54 (seven years ago) link
Yes, Robocop has a cruel streak that gives its violence a real nastiness. TR is basically expensive splatstick.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 14 November 2016 17:37 (seven years ago) link
robocop has that melting guy who gets hit by a car and explodes, which i guess is funny but disturbed the shit out of me when i was a kid
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 14 November 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
when i went through a bunch of verhoeven movies a few years ago, i was surprised at how much i still loved total recall, which i watched all the time when i was a kid; i guess it dumbs down its source material but it's so fun and well-constructed and michael ironside
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 14 November 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
Robocop was on TV last week when I was getting a haircut. The violence really is brutal in that one.
I liked Flesh & Blood a lot; I'm surprised it wasn't higher on that list, in this post-Game of Thrones era.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 14 November 2016 17:58 (seven years ago) link
total recall has stuff in it left over from a cronenberg treatment that doesn't have any reason to be in the film. if you tell verhoeven about three boob lady there's no way he's cutting it.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Monday, 14 November 2016 23:30 (seven years ago) link
Sharon Stone's best performance imo
and yes on Michael Ironside
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 November 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1FS_vKJl8U
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 November 2016 23:47 (seven years ago) link
Total Recall is terrible u guys are crazy
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 November 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
Nah, it's the best kind of trash: sustained, well-wrought trash.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 November 2016 23:57 (seven years ago) link
I find it joyless and offensive unlike his other, better sustained well-wrought trash tbh
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 November 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link
part of it's that I just can't watch Arnold, he's such a painfully terrible actor, I can't get past it. Then there's the relentless misogyny, the butchering of the source material, the willfully stupid plot contrivances, it looks cheap... idk I can't think of anything to recommend it. At least with Robocop and Starship Troopers it feels like something sly and subversive is going on. Showgirls is pure nonsensical camp. But Total Recall is just some reactionary Republican wet dream, it's creepy.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Basic Instinct is the Hollywood effort I take no joy in, despite the Jan de Bont factor
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 00:12 (seven years ago) link
i don't see a whole lot that's 'Republican' about TR, unless all their divorces are done w/ a bullet. Agreed that Stone is a blast in it. It is dense, entertaining trash (with a brain, sort of).
Once the Schwarz came on board, it was apparently rewritten to his "strengths." In the previous incarnation they'd been considering Matthew Broderick for the lead.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 02:17 (seven years ago) link
She looks smashing in period Madonna suits too.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 02:28 (seven years ago) link
i get bored w/ Ironside's deadeye shtick after 10 mins. He even did it in a Charles Burnett film.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 02:30 (seven years ago) link
Total Recall is just some reactionary Republican wet dream, it's creepy.
― Οὖτις, Monday, November 14, 2016 6:01 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'd argue that it's knowingly so, as opposed to 90% of the other action movies released from like '80-'92.
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 02:36 (seven years ago) link
it fades to white at the end, suggesting Ahnuld has gotten a long-overdue lobotomy
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 02:37 (seven years ago) link
i also love the scene where the head of Rekall (?) comes in and explains why everything is a dream, before A.S. sees a bead of sweat and offs him. Nice narrative jerk.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 02:39 (seven years ago) link
SWALLOW IT
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 02:41 (seven years ago) link