BASIC INSTINCT 2
KEVIN- Guess what? I can't move
CATHERINE - Yeah? Well you don't have to. You're in a car
KEVIN - Am I driving?
CATHERINE - Like a pro
Cut to Catherine Tramell in a Spyder getting fingered by Kevin until she reaches such an orgasm that she veers off the road and flies right into the Thames. The car fills up and although she tries to help Kevin, she fucks off out the car to safety leaving her car and her paramour to drown.
And so begins the raunchiest and possibly worst movie ever made - which makes it so deliciously good and camp. The stilted dialogue has to be seen to be believed - as do Sharon Stone's hair extensions and various styles of a severe fringe issue. It's been almost twenty years since Sharon showed the world that her collar and cuffs match and she's kept the fab body but it seems to me that she went on with this film purely for the cash. She's monotone throughout which is to pass for dangerously seductive and carries very cheap lighters which is semi important to the plot.
Catherine Tramell has put away her icepick and shipped her crazy ass all the way to London to start her new cobweb of deceit and risk addiction. She's involved in a murder and David Morrisey's psychiatrist character of Michael Glass is assigned to assess her. He falls for her and is haunted by her questions, lingering looks and general raunchiness. He is unsure whether Catherine is guilty of the murders that continue to happen or whether someone is framing her. The confusion builds as Catherine's mind games drive him crazy and he doesn't understand truth from fiction. It also doesn't help that Catherine writes a book based on her experiences in London and creates her own ending - involving murder. It all seems high drama but it's basically a chance for Sharon Stone to look moody, spout some woeful dialogue as the enigmatic Catherine Tramell and wear black outfits whilst slinking around London's chic buildings.
The twists are quite good and I didn't really see the ending. Like the original Basic Instinct, the viewer is left to decide whether Catherine Tramell is a serial killer or whether someone else wants to frame her. There's no icepick in the finale although it does make an appearance along side Sharon Stone's left tit in a particularly aggressive scene where Michael Glass tries to drown Shazza.
David Morrisey is rather good although no Michael Douglas - he does manage a nude scene where he looks at a picture of Shazza on the back of her book so shags the life out of a plain looking researcher. David Thewlis is intent on getting Sharon Stone's character in jail although his awful Welsh accent is rather off putting. Throw some raunchy sex into it all and what was made to be high drama viewing turns into comedy. Sharon is acting by numbers, mainly the millions going into her bank account - in the extras on the dvd she seems so excited and serious about the project but I can't help thinking that surely someone must've said "Sharon - this is shit" It's not shit though - it's campy, vampy and the perfect viewing for when you need a laugh. It wants to be serious but fails on all counts - in a word "Heaven" Here's a taster of some great one liners or filthy dialogue............
CATHERINE - When it came down to it, I guess my life was more important to me than his. Selfish huh?!
CATHERINE - Kevin was definitely breathing when we went off the road
DETECTIVE - How do you know?
CATHERINE - He was making me come.
DETCECTIVE - You were having sex at 100 miles an hour?
CATHERINE - 110. I must've hit a pothole
WASHBURN - You don't seem too upset at what's happened.
CATHERINE - Of course I am, I'm traumatised. Who knows if I'll ever come again??
WASHBURN - I want that cunt in jail.
CATHERINE - Do you want to beat me up (as she straddles a chair)
CATHERINE - Even Oedipus didn't see his mother coming
CATHERINE - When you think about fucking me, and I know you do - how do you picture it? Do you want it from behind? On your knees, my face in the pillow. Do you wanna beat me up?? Just a little, not too hard. Oh a little harder than that. Do you wanna come in my mouth? I guess we're out of time for today. I'm terminating therapy. Send me the bill.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
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2 comments:
I didn't like it as much as Basic Instinct 1. Incidentally I don't think that one's on your list? Why ever not?!
Nah, it wasn't bad but it was very "talky" and wordy - one of the positive aspects of the original was there were more action sequences and I think it needed more of this to keep the viewer ont the edge of their seat. The only really dramatic bit was right at the start - the car crash/orgasm scene that you mention, after that it was quite subdued!
I think the fact that BI2 was made in the UK kind of points up the difference though - a more restrained, talky "drama". I agree David M wasn't as good as Michael Douglas (tho given the choice I'd rather have him in my bed than the horrible scrawny-arsed Douglas). Sharon Stone was just....weird... and even more unpleasant than in the first movie. At least in that she had some redeeming features, showing her softer side when her lesbian lover died etc.
Do you think they'll ever be a BI3?
I have to agree with Mr Cheeser. The first Basic Instinct is one of my favourite Sharon Stone films (after Sliver), but this sequel was completely rank. Actually, my mother and I went to see BI2 together and we-could-not-stop-laughing.
And yes, David M is much, much hotter than Michael Douglas.
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