Showgirls has become a major cult film over the years (especially with gay audiences) and there are serious film writers who now regard it as a satirical masterpiece, so it's not THAT strange to like it anymore.
Most bad films are not as consistently entertaining as Showgirls is. It features some of the weirdest dialogue ever written and a WTF/car crash performance by its lead actress. But it is very well directed by Verhoeven in terms of pacing and with its candy colour aesthetics it looks beautiful. It's All About Eve with strippers in some weird parallel universe where people talk and act in a weird, hyper-sexualised way and it never fails to make my jaw drop.
Not only am I not embarrassed to have it in my collection, I've forced it on and converted quite a few people to it.
). It had me gripped from the beginning and the tension was high throughout. Felt almost like a horror film at times, but without the tension/scare/relief cycle.
Whilst the film overall can be a little melodramatic and plodding, I don't think many action films have managed to match the adrenaline rush of the 15 September sequence.)
