Even in less controversial films like ROBOCOP, TOTAL RECALL, or STARSHIP TROOPERS, his sarcastic approach to attacking the jingoism and bloodlust of action films has often been misinterpreted as simply an obsession with violence. Even more troublesome to some people is the way he has portrayed sexually assertive women in an exaggeratedly predatory manner to achieve queasy comedy in BASIC INSTINCT, SHOWGIRLS, and THE FOURTH MAN.