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Not so bad it's good.


People may laugh at this movie, saying "it's so bad it's good". but underneath it all is a really interesting film that has great thematic satire. Verhoeven has this ability to talk about complex and difficult issues through the medium of big loud trashy cinema. It's a shame that it is considered one of the worst movies of all time, because if you scratch the surface it has so many levels.

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Agreed. It is admittedly bizarre, but I don't think that's a bad thing at all, and I think the main reason it tanked was because of the expectations audiences had. I think people were expecting softcore porn, or at least some kind of eroticism, but it's actually anti-erotic.

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