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General_Dodonna
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12/7/07 12:52pm
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RE: Total Film's 100 Greatest Directors Ever - 92. Paul Verhoeven
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Verhoeven is a very good director and satirist who has seen his career rise and fall in the space of the last few years. The financial and critical failure of SHOWGIRLS virtually doomed Verhoeven's career in Hollywood (although he would make the since critically reevaluated STARSHIP TROOPERS some two years later). He would go on to make the forgettable HOLLOW MAN before returning to his native Holland. His recent BLACK BOOK though ranks among the very best films of 2006 and a genuine triumph. It combines lurid spectacle, Hollywood-style melodrama, and contemporary action violence to a strangely moving, quietly devastating effect. On the success of that film, he's finally getting offers from Hollywood again, albeit strange ones not particularly well-suited to his unique talents (THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR sequel?). But even if you don't like the cartoonish and satirical SHOWGIRLS, you can always fall back on films like ROBOCOP, SOLDIER OF ORANGE, ZWARTBOEK, TOTAL RECALL, and STARSHIP TROOPERS, films which form the backbone of an extremely solid filmmography. Verhoeven's place on this list shouldn't be nearly as controversial as it might be; certainly less controversial than Pakula's.
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12/7/07 3:11pm
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The only Verhoeven movie I've seen is Starship Troopers, but what a FUN movie.
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Zaz
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12/7/07 3:16pm
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Why doesn't he stick to Europe?
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Erk
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12/7/07 5:47pm
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On the basis of robocop and ST I'd say we don't want him.
Still Soldier of Orange I want to see.
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Erk posted:
On the basis of robocop and ST I'd say we don't want him.
Except that Robocop is AWESOME.
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12/7/07 8:07pm
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I think Verhoeven did a superb job with Starship Troopers, which is such a good piece of satire. Of course, as with so many things, it's gained more weight in recent years thanks to real world events. It's also a good action film  .
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12/7/07 9:29pm
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"Why doesn't he stick to Europe?"
Money. And what better a target for satire than the Great Satan itself?
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12/7/07 11:48pm
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Robocop is so good.
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12/7/07 11:55pm
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Didn't he direct Total Recall as well?
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12/8/07 6:49pm
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He did...
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[arnold]"Damn it, Cohaagen! Give the people the air"[/arnold]
Love that movie ... so friggin' much.
"Oh Recall? Recall, recall, recall."
I miss hardcore, in your face action of the '80s and early '90s. Robocop and Total Recall are prime examples. I hope Rambo can help usher those movies back into the mainstream.
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12/9/07 4:29am
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What we need is a new star. A new Sly... a new Arnold. I'm thinking of more of an clint eastwood kind of hero, like bruce villis minus the 90s-irony, though. A guy that can renew the genre like craig did to bond just now.
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Well, for better or worse, the action movies of today are the bajillion superhero movies we get every year.
Thomas Jane will get there though. Mark my words.
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Erk
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12/9/07 2:13pm
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Yeah you're right. The antihero of today is spiderman listening to my chemical romance.
Thomas Jane did better than I expected in The Punisher and you got to look forward to The Mutant Chronicles. But I don't think he's the next bruce.
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Ray (Titus Pullo) Stevenson is taking over from Jane as The Punisher. He might well go on to be an action star, at least for a while.
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