REWATCH: Showgirls [1995]

We had extra time at Bad Movie Night this week so we decided to do a rewatch of "Showgirls." It seems hard to believe that it has been three years since we last watched this movie but I can't find evidence that we watched it more recently than 2015 so there you go. 

At this point we have watched this movie enough times that we can quote the significant moments, so we spent a lot of time speculating about how one might try to fix this movie (not that it needs to be fixed really; it's a masterpiece). To us the biggest plot hole seems to be the fact that Nomi has so many things handed to her seemingly because people immediately like her or want to have sex with her. However, she is not likeable . . . at all. Or sexy. She's mostly just violent and bitchy. So we tried to imagine this movie with Nomi as an actual likeable character, maybe even with a character arc, and decided this would solve at least half of the problems with the film. The question remains though: is Nomi unlikeable because of how she's written or how she's acted? Either way this wouldn't fix everything since the dialogue is a mess and there are more plot holes than just Nomi but still, it's a fun thought experiment.

I literally cannot top what I wrote about "Showgirls" last time so read my older review here complete with GIFs.

Spoon Rating: 9 or 10