'Showgirls 2' -- The Wait is Over!
Filed under: RumorMonger, Remakes and Sequels
When I started seeing a number of sites on the Internet talking about Showgirls 2 -- aka Showgirls: The Story of Hope -- I groaned. Then I caught the supposed official website (NSFW), and my first thought was: Suckers! There's just no way that one of the crappiest films of all time was getting a sequel marketed with a weird, newbie Dreamweaverish website like that -- even if the original is a sort of so-bad-it's-fun cult classic. But then I thought of those crappy photoshopped posters, and the most wretched one ever. If that's possible from big marketing campaigns, it's certainly understandable for an indie foreign production to have a bad website. Could this project be true?If the website is to be believed, we've all been waiting for Showgirls 2. Granted, I always thought it would be funny if they made a Showgirls sequel that turned horror, a la Randy in Scream, but only as a moment of fleeting amusement. Yet, here we may be. It's a "blockbuster motion picture coming soon" based on Rena Riffel's character Hope in the original film. Marc Vorlander is the supposed writer/director behind this soon-to-be-gem, and it will focus on "Hope's brother's search for revenge following the stripper's death from a dose of contaminated cocaine." Guess that's why there's a skull on the website. So much for the fleeting hope that my Scream wish was coming true.
Do you buy this whole deal? Is this totally legit, a complete ruse, or maybe some sly porn marketing to garner free publicity?
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10-07-2009 @ 9:32AM
Kurt said...
I can't decide what's more awkward: The still of the naked woman without nipples, or the phrasing of the tagline: "The Waiting is Over".
B'der...
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10-07-2009 @ 9:36AM
Kurt said...
Nope, figured it out. The Canon-product-placement-porn is the most awkward. So far. I'm only about 30 seconds deep into this trailer.
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10-07-2009 @ 9:50AM
Kurt said...
Must... stop... but... can't...
Photographed by Marc Vorlander on his new Super-8 Photography Camera
Featuring new music by Doris May (of Doris May and the Thyme)
Featuring a Pink Skull (the rejected Lucky Charm)
A featured: the word "the" anywhere on this website!!!!
Okay, I'll stop now.
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10-07-2009 @ 12:23PM
Yoda's House of Pancakes said...
What in Hell did I just watch? Was that supposed to be art, because it reminded me of a youtube video made by a fourteen year old girl?
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