Paul Verhoeven - Top 10 Best Movies By My Favorite Living Director
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2022
- My top 10 favorite movies directed by Paul Verhoeven
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Hey James, thanks for showing some love for Paul Verhoeven! Great overview! I'm from the Netherlands and I actually met him once. My father (Kees Campfens) was an actor and played in a movie (The Bunker, 1992) directed by Gerard Soeteman, a close friend of Paul and (as you mentioned) the screenwriter of many Verhoeven movies. So at the big premiere in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Paul was attending and I talked to him briefly. (I was about 15 years old then.) I wonder how Paul's Hollywood career would have developed if he hadn't directed Showgirls (or if America had been ready for it). Paul could've made so many more great Hollywood blockbusters in that period... maybe that big crusade movie with Schwarzenegger. If only...
Great video, James, and it reminded me of what a great treat it was to see Robocop, Total Recall, and especially Basic Instinct, in the theater. The kind of experience that comes along very seldom anymore.
Would love to see Verhoeven make one more deranged movie for Hollywood before he retires but sadly production companies like Carolco no longer exist.
Great list. He is a versatile director with an interesting vantage point offered in every one of his films. I disagree with his view on Heinlein's classic book but I can see why he'd think that given his background. That being said, his adaptation is great and it is what brought me to Heinlein and I am very thankful for that. The movie has aged really well and I always find it fun to revisit. Other sci-fi films of his I find it fun to revisit like Starship Troopers, is Total Recall and Robocop. The latter especially gets better with each viewing. It is so poignant how it ends with Robocop saying his true name when he's asked what he's called rather than Robocop.
'Robocop' definitely has one of the most satisfying final lines of any movie I can think of. The movie wraps up right at its emotional peak.
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Thanks so much for doing this. Benedetta was far better than I expected, and I too was prompted to then go back through his filmography…remarkable range!
Fingers crossed, 'Young Sinner' gets made sooner rather than later. He's on a serious hot streak.
Love your passion on this channel. Absolutely love it. Will you do teamups with other UA-camrs....? Critics I mean
Totally. Always happy to talk to anyone who's a fellow film freak. I do so all the time on my podcast Wrong Reel: wrongreel.com/
Amazing work man.
Great list. Amazing director!!
Another great video/essay about a modern legend in filmmaking. Definitely need to check on some earlier stuff on your list.
Take 'Spetters' and 'Turkish Delight' for a spin. Totally insane.
Really nice list, thumbs up to you for this video. I loved Verhoeven since I watched Robocop, one of my favorite movies since then. He is an amazing storyteller. I really realized that when I watched Spetters. I watched it without subtitles, I don´t know a dutch word but I was totally invested and understood perfectly what was happening in every moment.
It's funny how: when we were kids we didn't have or even care about some of this information.
Loooooooooved rococop. Loooooooved total recall. At the time I had no clue about the connection. We were just into cool movies.
I think I was around 21 or 22 when I realized how many movies I loved that were all made by one really dynamic director.
Robocop is one of those movies that has a frighteningly accurate sub-layer to the future: Allowing crime to fester like a cancer to prompt privatization of militaristic police force. Followed by Gentrification. Expunging the Middle Class so only Corporate executives can live in a clean, modern, crime free vision of the future.
Starship Troopers is such a fantastic satire on old World War II "Send the boys" ads. Total Recall is so on point with ordinary citizens unhappy with life, prefer to live in the fantasy world than the real long before "Ready Player One."
For whatever reason, Hollow Man is a guilty pleasure. It is so ridiculous but watching Kevin Bacon make a 3 cheese sandwich of a film...makes me howl.
There's always room in my heart for guilty pleasures. Showgirls might be the motherlode of guilty pleasures for me.
Great Top 10 James , its not easy to pick a No1 here but for difficult to choose between Basic Instinct and Robocop IMO . 👌
My favorite Top 10 lists to make are always those where there's some serious competition for the top spot.
@@geekinwithJamesHancock Hell yeah 😎
Thanks for this James, being a Verhoeven fan this was a joy to watch. I've turned many young adults to his work, once they get past the obstacle of watching "old" movies or a bad taste left from the Robocop/Total Recall remakes (even one who disliked Arnie), once they give his movies a chance they get back to me with their minds blown and desire to seek out his other films. He frequently succeeds in creating entertainment that works on multiple levels. The Rutger Hauer era is quality. Showgirls is an interesting film to reassess, I remember jumping on the hate bandwagon upon release thinking the repellent characters and situations to be over the top, particularly with the rock star character, but after working in the industry I became privy to certain things here and there that I started to view the film under a different light. For it's time I don't remember another movie showing the ugly side of showbiz like this one did. Certainly it's flawed, and maybe it's approach of using titillation to send out a moral message was too much for some, but looking back at the media backlash makes me wonder if it was the industries attempt at insulating itself from some of the events presented. Some serious Weinstein level stuff happens in that movie.
Mr. Henry Broke! Thrilled to hear you've successfully turned so many people on to his flicks. Fingers crossed this video will do the same.
Love these videos. I learn so much
Glad you're enjoying them. Had a blast putting this one together.
Which director would be better suited for a look back like this? Also, the great thing with Verhoeven is that it's a 15-way tie for first place if you're making a list.
I'd love to do one of these for Werner Herzog but I would need months to do all the necessary research.
@@geekinwithJamesHancock 14 years just to knock off docs. Forget about his narrative fiction movies...
@@geekinwithJamesHancock Ferrara would be a good choice.
@@jakecorenthose2901 Hell yeah. I'd be all over that.
Paul Verrrr... Paul VerHOEVEN! Hollanders have a saying in English, "If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much" and well, I don't know about that, but if you're Paul Verhoeven you're definitely a craftsman of the highest order and you'll never pay for beer, or anything else around me. Men and women want to be him and men and women want to be with him. A champion. Get a Verhoeven movie and get entertained and if you're feeling down? Take two and call me in the morning.
I hope he lives to be 100 and makes more movies every step of the way.
@@geekinwithJamesHancock Me too
well said, in addition, considering his intellect and science background, a true champion as you said
Great selection. Verhoeven is also one of my favourite directors. I had never considered the resurrection idea in Robocop. Fascinating.
So glad you made this video. Paul Verhoevens movies are surplus cinema!
Always thoughtful, often disrupting and sometimes subversive.
Black Book blew me away. Also thanks to Carice van Houten whose performance is outright fantastic. I think this is true in general: actors/characters in Paul Verhoeven's movies tend to shine as if by magic. And that's not just because the characters may be sexually charged (sometimes). There is always some ambivalent, unresolved theme: an underlying complexity or mystery to be explored.
RoboCop is definitely one of those films you can include in a list of "perfect films"
From age 11 to 45, I've loved it every step of the way.
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Robocop, Total Recall and Starship Troopers are all masterpieces in my eyes, probably in that order. I’m watching Total Recall as I type this and I just can’t get over how well this holds up.
Glad you’re a fan of Showgirls! It’s an incredible movie. One of the most misunderstood movies of all time. It’s amazing that people miss the satirical elements.
Sweet!
Thanks, Ryan! This was a labor of love.
If I'm not wrong Hollowmen is his second most profitable movie ever made.. the way cinematography works
Great director! Great movies!
Hell yeah. Filmmaking icon.
Quality
Always a pleasure singing the praises of a one of a kind filmmaker.
LOVE Black Book so much! So sexy and a war film - love a good war film.
Spetters is great with plenty of dong, someone uploaded the film on UA-cam, It was a pretty good copy with subtitles. I need to check out Turkish Delight, Black Book & The 4th Man.
10. Hollow Man
9. The Fourth Man
8. Soldier of Orange
7. Flesh + Blood
6. Black Book
5. Elle
4. Starship Troopers
3. Total Recall
2. Basic Instinct
1. RoboCop
Excellent list and I love seeing some love for Hollow Man even if it isn't one of my personal faves.
For me it's:
1.) Spetters
2.) RoboCop
3.) Elle
4.) The 4th Man
5.) Benedetta
6.) Flesh and Blood
7.) Turkish Delight
8.) Black Book
9.) Business is Business
10.) Total Recall
Hollow Ma n and Basic Instinct are the only films of his that I don't like.
Showgirls isn't a "good movie", but it's something you can't look away from, which means that it has merit. Endlessly quotable, as well.
Love seeing Benedetta already claiming a spot on your list. Absolutely loved it.
@@geekinwithJamesHancock Outstanding.
Since Black Book I think he's been doing the best stuff he's done since the 80's.
RoboCop will always be my favorite movie. it's a comfort movie. I saw it for the first time when I was 6yro. I was completely captivated by Murphy's story, he was my first hero. When he shot that guy in the dick I was so impressed. I'm so grateful my mom let me watch this movie at a young age. To this day I still adore RoboCop. And now that I'm older I appreciate it more. The human soul inside the machine is such a compelling theme. I wish my friends loved it as much as me. But I'm glad I can find people online that enjoy it.
I think he's the besy director of all time
Soldaat van Oranje is not even in your top 10?
That’s just weird. It is often considered the best Dutch film ever made, always competing with Turks Fruit. You mentioned Zwartboek was number one but that was only because it was new at the time of that poll.
Don't think I'm a huge fan if his films in general, but Robocop was ahead of its time when it came out in terms of its messaging. They don't make actions movies like that or Total Recall etc anymore. "Hey man, I've got 5 kids to feed".
Would love to see someone come along and make some more r-rated sci-fi action flicks in the same spirit as those movies. PG-13 is killing me inch by inch.
@@geekinwithJamesHancock hahaha, I know what you mean. Even the R-rated stuff today is so tame.