Paul Verhoeven has been made a knight

They should have all future releases of SHOWGIRLS say "Directed by Sir Paul Verhoeven".

"this blonde snatch, brought to you by sir verhoeven"....about time!!

Come on, reducing him to Showgirls all the time is just mean. :)

X that, mention of showgirls immediately stuffed my head between sharon's sniffer. congrats to sir paul, nonetheless!

To be honest I even respect Sir Paul for Showgirls, because to this day he is the only director who actually picked up his razzie for worst director in person during the 1995 awards ceremony AND had a speech prepared!

That was classy as hell and a nice display of his wicked sense of humor.

He agrees Showgirls is pretty bad but still toyed with the idea for a sequel: "Nomi Does Hollywood". Strangely enough nobody wanted to invest...

I was about to call you on the "only director to pick up his Razzie for Worst Director" when I noticed the "AND had a speech prepared". The other director who showed up was Tom Green for FREDDY GOT FINGERED - I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume he had no prepared speech.

Neither of them really deserved it, particularly Green IMHO. FREDDY GOT FINGERED is one of the most unfairly bashed films I've ever seen, and it's definitely long overdue for re-appraisal at this point. No way in hell was it the worst movie of a year that gave us the dismal likes of SAVING SILVERMAN, HEARTBREAKERS, BLACK KNIGHT, and PEARL HARBOR. If it had been made by someone else, preferably in another language, critics would have been far more receptive to both its surreal subversion of the gross-out comedy genre and its strange, but ultimately good-natured and sweet love story. I love the film, and I speak kindly of it every chance I get, even when I'm supposed to be talking about Verhoven's SHOWGIRLS, a film which is definitely not as good as FREDDY GOT FINGERED, but remains very, very entertaining in its own way.

Rhythm-X,

Feel free to call me out because I didn't know about Tom Greene. I should have said: "The FIRST director who actually picked up...".

(And knowing now that Tom Greene did the same thing I'd be terribly surprised if he didn't have a speech!)

But anyway: Paul did it first and he is considered to be a director instead of a comedian, so I think that's cooler.

Green was the first Worst ACTOR to accept, at any rate. Apparently (just now looking it up) he had not only a speech but a song prepared, and he also brought his own red carpet for the occasion.

(I definitely consider Tom Green a "real" director - his movie has a real affection for its characters (even when those characters are complete bastards and/or totally insane) that so much modern comedy lacks. Any comedy that obviously aims to offend audiences by any means necessary, yet goes out of its way to establish a nymphomaniac in a wheelchair as the personification of sanity, reason, dignity, ambition, love, desire, and ultimately balance... well, that is just fine by me. With that I'll stop talking about this film - just because FREDDY GOT FINGERED's drastically underrated doesn't mean it's anything close to on topic.)