Favorite Paul Verhoeven Movie?

[garbon]

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

Most formative for me: Basic Instinct

[Viking]

 1 Total Recall
2 RoboCop
3 Starship Troopers (anybody who still thinks this isn't a parody of fascism still doesn't get it)

[Capetan Mihali]

RoboCop, after not seeing it for a while, really stands up.  And it seems like half the baddies/best characters from Twin Peaks are in there!

[Queequeg]

Who besides George Clooney's cousin?

[katmai]

Who besides George Clooney's cousin?

Well the great Ray Wise for one.

[grumbler]

Starship Troopers is such a ham-handed parody of fascism that I don't see how people find it good or even interesting.  Robocop does the same thing, but much better (which is one of the reasons I didn't realize ST was even a Verhoeven movie).  Satire really only works when it is subtle or outlandish.  Satire that screams "this is satire" doesn't work (at least for me).

[Caliga]

Total Recall for the one liners.

GIF DEES PEOPLE AYRE
SEE YOU AT DA POTTY RICHTA
CONSIDDADATTADIVOHSE

[CountDeMoney]

Starship Troopers is such a ham-handed parody of fascism that I don't see how people find it good or even interesting.  Robocop does the same thing, but much better (which is one of the reasons I didn't realize ST was even a Verhoeven movie).  Satire really only works when it is subtle or outlandish.  Satire that screams "this is satire" doesn't work (at least for me).

What wasn't humorous was how dumbass kept chasing Denise Richardson like an imbecile, when Dina Meyer was so much hotter and chasing him.  Talk about outlandish.

Despite its ubercampiness, it does get bonus points for Michael Fucking Ironside, as with all things that have Michael Fucking Ironside.

[Josephus]

I voted for Showgirls.

[FunkMonk]

Robocop, easily.

[DontSayBanana]

Can't decide between Total Recall and Robocop.  Total Recall was the better movie of the two, but Robocop toys pretty much filled up my playtime as a kid.

God, I miss the '90s- when parents could get their 9-year-old kids Robocop and Predator toys and not have to worry about getting dragged in for child study team meetings.

[Eddie Teach]

Dina Meyer was so much hotter

Nuh uh.

[fhdz]

Starship Troopers is such a ham-handed parody of fascism that I don't see how people find it good or even interesting.  Robocop does the same thing, but much better (which is one of the reasons I didn't realize ST was even a Verhoeven movie).  Satire really only works when it is subtle or outlandish.  Satire that screams "this is satire" doesn't work (at least for me).

What wasn't humorous was how dumbass kept chasing Denise Richardson like an imbecile, when Dina Meyer was so much hotter and chasing him.  Talk about outlandish.

Despite its ubercampiness, it does get bonus points for Michael Fucking Ironside, as with all things that have Michael Fucking Ironside.

I liked the part when all the Space Mormons got slaughtered.

[Drakken]

I'm erect. Why aren't you erect?

[garbon]

I'm erect. Why aren't you erect?

Is that a seduction community pick up line?

edit: Better would have been does the seduction community now use that as a pick up line?