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Jude Law, Forest Whitaker Misfire With Awful 'Repo Men'

HollywoodChicago.com - Mar 19, 2010
CHICAGO – Reminiscent of vastly superior work by David Cronenberg and Paul Verhoeven but with none of the directorial skill apparent in the work of those ...

Midnight Movie: Starship Troopers at The Belcourt
Nashville Scene - Mar 18, 2010
If the Third Reich had won World War II, pop entertainment would look a lot like Paul Verhoeven's gleefully sardonic send-up of Gulf War-era ...

'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'

Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal - Mar 18, 2010
You'd never guess she's the dazzling Dutch actress who starred as the heart and soul of Paul Verhoeven's World War II thriller "Black Book."

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Starship Troopers (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]

Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris
It's a boy has girl - boy loses girl - boy gets girl back, movie containing every one of your favourite Hollywood movie cliches ever written (all in one place).

TBH, 5 minutes into this movie, I was thinking 1* for special effects. 1/2 an hour later, I had figured out that you must switch off your brain in order to follow this movie.

If you try to figure out, how it is that bugs, with no technology described, are able to shoot meteors across billions of miles of space to crash into densely populated Earth cities, .
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Showgirls (Fully Exposed Edition)

Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer, Robert Davi
It's hard to believe that Dutch director Paul Verhoeven actually had serious intentions when making this film. I can only guess that the Duch must have a very different sense of humor to not "get" the joke with this film. Or Verhoven just simply blindly accepted whatever screenwriter Joe Eszterhas threw at him in light of the success they both had with Basic Instinct. No matter, if you love "so bad, they're good" films, you'll love this. With it's over-emphasis on sex and nudity along with some of the most enept and over-the-top dialogue you've ever heard, you can't help but be entertained.
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Total Recall

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside
Paul Verhoeven's Arnie-boasting sci-fi saga is a whirlwind of violence and pace that investigates the connection between actuality and fantasy, and does so with swagger. Based on a story by Philip K. Dick, this film, which also stars Sharon Stone as Schwarzenegger's wife, was a great financial success (despite its then-huge $65 million budget) and added to the appeal of both of its star actors. As one of the more memorable articles of Contemporary Era science-fiction cinema, Total Recall is a worthy addition to your DVD (or even Blu-ray) collection.
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Robocop [Blu-ray]

Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith
I don't think too much can really be done for Robocop visually as it's never been a really great looking film in whatever format... be it VHS, DVD or now Blu-ray high-definition. It's always looked grainy because of the film print used during that time. Many films from the 1980s have suffered in that respect. I have the Criterion Collection DVD, the Robocop Trilogy set with the MGM remaster and this Blu-ray release as well. This BD is by far the best the film has ever looked in the home market. Don't let anyone fool you into thinking that there's no upgrade from the DVD, those people are out of their minds.
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