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Favorite Paul Verhoeven Movie?

Started by Queequeg, January 27, 2014, 07:32:36 PM

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Favorite film by director Paul Verhoeven?

Turkish Delight
1 (2.3%)
Keetje Tippel
0 (0%)
Soldier of Orange
5 (11.4%)
The fourth Man
0 (0%)
Robocop
12 (27.3%)
Total Recall
12 (27.3%)
Basic Instinct
1 (2.3%)
Showgirls
3 (6.8%)
Starship Troopers
8 (18.2%)
Hollow Man
0 (0%)
Black Book
0 (0%)
Other
0 (0%)
I'm a joyless motherfucker who can't so much as admit that Robocop is wonderful
2 (4.5%)

Total Members Voted: 43

Queequeg

Threeway tie between Robocop, Soldiers of Orange and Black Book for me, might vote for Soldiers of Orange because Robocop will get it's share of votes. 
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grumbler

Bad poll, so can't answer.

I enjoyed Flesh+Blood more than even Robocop; certainly more than Soldier of Orange.

You just don't see many well-done 30 years war movies.
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Sheilbh

Let's bomb Russia!

grumbler

BTW, I didn't realize that Starship Troopers was a Verhoeven movie.  His movies have some flaws (sometimes serious ones), but that one is so unrelentingly bad that I never thought for a moment it might be one of his.
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LaCroix

voted before i read the last option  :(

Ed Anger

I forgot about Total Recall. Younger Sharon Stone.....
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dps

Quote from: grumbler on January 27, 2014, 07:40:07 PM

I enjoyed Flesh+Blood more than even Robocop; certainly more than Soldier of Orange.

You just don't see many well-done 30 years war movies.

Flesh + Blood isn't set during the 30 Years War. 


sbr

I was fully prepared to come in with my standard 'I haven't seen any of these' but was surprised to see that I had seen a few.

Close call between Total Recall and Robocop.  I had to go Robocop though.

Liep

Starship Troopers. With Total Recall as a close second. ST is just the right amount of bad, at least it has entertained me many times.
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Admiral Yi

Robocop is watchable. Total Recall, Starship Troopers, and Showgirls are crap.

grumbler

Quote from: dps on January 27, 2014, 07:47:13 PM
Quote from: grumbler on January 27, 2014, 07:40:07 PM

I enjoyed Flesh+Blood more than even Robocop; certainly more than Soldier of Orange.

You just don't see many well-done 30 years war movies.

Flesh + Blood isn't set during the 30 Years War.

I could have sworn it was, but you are right, and I was just mis-remembering its setting.  It was set in the Italian Wars a hundred+ years earlier.

Don't see many good movies in that setting, either.  :P
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Bayraktar!

Grinning_Colossus

Starship Troopers was meant to be bad. It was conceived as the sort of movie that a fascist society like the one depicted in the film would produce as a propaganda piece.
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Ed Anger

I liked Doogie Howser, space Gestapo.
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CountDeMoney

Quote from: Ed Anger on January 27, 2014, 07:59:11 PM
I liked Doogie Howser, space Gestapo.

The better gag would've been Doogie Howser, SS.

Anyway, fuck Verhoeven.  He's not a household name like ROBERT FUCKING ZEMECKIS

Eddie Teach

Highest quality- Total Recall
Most entertaining- Showgirls
Suppose I should see again- Robocop
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