I don’t know what I’d call what Verhoeven does, but it’s near-camp. Something like using all the language of Hollywood against itself. It’s knowing and bombastic.
Flesh + Blood is an incredible movie where the camera lies about the script. (note: significant rape (notably it’s significantly concerned with how rape is presented in our film conception of medieval life))
is “metal gear solid 4” camp?
strong arguments for all of them up to ground zeroes imo
Jupiter ascending is terrible but you either like it or hate so give it a try.
all my friends love Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers and i think that movie is… boring? idk it puts me off kind of
it kind of feels like, what if total recall were a twitter dunk. idk i’m just saying words here ignore me
Re-Animator is quite camp, not as much as A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
TMNT: Out of the Shadows
Alita: Battle Angel
Gods of Egypt
These each had moments where my mind shouted YES at the sheer stupidity and enthusiasm.
YEAH THESE ARE THE SHIIIIIT, WATCH ‘EM
My mother is disgusted by my love of Joan Crawford, someday I’m gonna go through a rebellious phase and get Strait-Jacket Joan tattooed on my neck
showgirls is the only one i’d call camp i think. maaaybe starship troopers
then again i’d never have called speed racer camp so maybe i’m out of sync here
Oh this reminds me of The Immortals, I movie I haven’t seen since it came out but I’m pretty sure I still believe is the movie that most accurately mythologizes the Greeks the way they actually mythologized themselves. The gods are a bunch of bored looking 19 year old underwear models, it’s perfect.
Is… is 300 camp?
Starship Troopers does suck, his favored production style had become unfashionable and for all I know inaccessible by then, so the thing is shot and casted like a contemporary TV show, and it makes it super flat.
it has impeccable politics and some really inspired moments (the ending is incredible) but compared to all his American films before that and nearly all the Dutch ones, it’s terribly dull.
Black Book and Elle and Benedetta are all great though, he’s back in the saddle. I hope he gets to make his Jesus movie
boy howdy you do make it difficult sometimes
Catwoman (2004) was the Venom of its day, I think.
There’s no objective “quality” in a discussion of camp, come on now
If you screen the latter I promise to mute my mic as I recite all of the dialogue
thought about it for a while, and Bay’s Underground 6 and AmbuLAnce are tapping into campiness with how they stop to care (at all) subtly referencing former Bayhem Flicks and just go all in/revel in being overt what with their borderline stupid dialogue plugging Maestro Bayhems œuvre?
Pleading the 5th why i know that, uh 
I just put on Catwoman to my partner’s incredulity and this is exactly like Venom
Halle Berry works for Sharon Stone and The Merovingian as a graphic designer at a cosmetics company
I love Michelle Pfeiffer and Anne Hathaway but oh my god this movie has it all. I am literally in tears laughing at the one-liners and mugging
Frances Conroy is her mentor!
Only bummer is her love interest is a cop but that’s par for the course with Batman
Venom’s Ore-Ida tater tots are Catwoman’s empty cans of Bumble Bee tuna
