Miranda Sawyer

who I appreciate that it's ostensibly a failure of a movie.

It hasn't succeeded in what it was trying to do at all.

But it's succeeded in so many other ways.

And it is a camp classic.

It is so bad it's good.

But it's also just beyond that.

I think what makes it, for me, better than something like The Room or like these kind of so bad it's good films, and I think why it becomes almost like prestige trash, which is where I would place it,

is because of how well it's made, which I think is not really talked about enough.

Paul Verhoeven is like an incredible director.

And from the opening scenes of it, there's like crane shots in it.

There's amazing lights.

It's expensive.

It looks really expensive.

There's a scene where she's sat in front of the, I think it's a Luxor hotel with the Sphinx behind her.

And it's this really low angle, wide shot of her on this bench.

It looks like a fucking, what's his name?

Slim Aarons or David LaChapelle picture.

Like it's this gorgeous, I was like, that could be a poster.

There's shots of when Zach calls up the guy to say, hey, you guy, come back here.

And it kind of is showing us the artist that Zach's a bad guy when he ceremoniously kind of tells him off in front of Nomi and then calls him back and says, oh, just kidding.