David Schmader Explains Showgirls for You

We seem to be covering the benefit beat lately--Wednesday night David Schmader takes over the Triple Door to "annotate" Paul Verhoeven's "film" Showgirls. It's to raise money for the the Urban Rest Stop, a "hygiene center" downtown. We're for a free place for people to freshen up, don't get us wrong. It's just funny to have the Showgirls tie-in, in that the one and only time we watched it we had to take a long hot shower afterwards.

Here's a representative quote from a review of Showgirls: “A film of thunderous oafishness" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, who went on to say: "the filmmakers' incessant talk about vision, artistry and honest self-expression lead one to expect a sexually explicit biopic about the Dalai Lama").

Schmader's take is "part art-appreciation lecture, part sit-down comedy routine, [set] against the backdrop of Verhoeven’s peerlessly offensive, flesh-drenched disaster." And he gets much better reviews than the movie:

What Schmader does is crystallize the consistency of the movie's badness. He brings an organization to your viewing, a recognition that even seemingly innocuous moments are part of an intricate pattern of badness that affects every aspect of the film.. Marvelous.” (Hollywood Reporter)

Who doesn't want to get themselves some of that? Plus, it's at the Triple Door, so you can drink your way through the soul-destroying parts.