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And Joe Queenan explains why a movie as god-awful as this one sounds, is yet not the worst movie of all time … I think it’s hard to find something more entertaining to read than a review of a really bad movie.  Money quote …

But to make a movie that destroys a studio, wrecks careers, bankrupts investors, and turns everyone connected with it into a laughing stock requires a level of moxie, self-involvement, lack of taste, obliviousness to reality and general contempt for mankind that the average director, producer and movie star can only dream of attaining.

I think Showgirls would be way up there on my list.  A movie bad enough for a college freshman and his buddies to turn off a half-hour in, well before any of the promised nudity and sexual situations.  Some things just aren’t worth the cost.  And sorry, I just didn’t like Independence Day much either, despite it perhaps not dropping to a Showgirls level. Maybe it’s because they’re both such huge masturbatory fantasies. Any movie that features BOTH alien ships that apparently run Microsoft Windows, being brought down by a run of the mill computer virus, and the President of the United States personally flying the lead plane that brings the United States Air Force to victory, deserves a spot in the list.