basic instinct is fucking hilarious, finally watched it as a teenager w my best friend when i was going through paul verhoven’s filmography and we were just hooting and hollering the entire time. the ice pick going thru the guy’s eye and coming out his nose in the opening is so fucking raw. sharon stone’s hair is perfect in every scene and i love her hot bitchy lesbian gf. i love how its got this like played completely straight 1950s noir soundtrack and these really well shot hitchcock-esque car chases but everything is like melodramatic john waters acting and lynchian moments where people like the internal affairs guy who sounds like a DJ Screw track psychically attack michael douglas for an entire scene. its like if vertigo was about jimmy stewart developing traumatic brain damage from seeing a flash of pussy and snorting fat rails of cocaine
theres a fucking club scene where everyone is doing tons of coke and michael douglas just keeps stumbling around dressed like a star trek voyager character while sharon stone fucks her girlfriend and its amazing lol. hes a completely abysmal scumshit of a man whose terrible at sex and its incredible. he starts pretending like hes cool because he gets laid ONCE.
the part where he does a 90 degree bend and just goes THATS SOME VERY UPSTANDING COCAINE is just burned into my brain forever. why did he BEND like that. who cares its hilarious.
i think im just going to BLAST this jukebox for 3 seconds and stop and apologize and move on and never mention it again because its hilarious. it rules
IM TALKING TO A POSSIBLE WHACKO HERE!!
why does michael douglas go cross eyed when he eats pussy
in a lonely place fucking rips. god bogart finally embracing his inherent ugliness to portray the truest vision of violent masculinity in classical hollywood. goddess grahame completely carrying the second of the film as her cool demeanor slowly fades away as her confidence in bogart is challenged. nick ray the king. finally realized that grahame was the jennifer tilly of her day.
Gosh I remember the brief period when “erotic thriller” was a thing. Basic Instinct is really fun, yeah. I saw it on VHS with my family when I was like ten and my mom kept making my dad cover my eyes during all the sex. There is an intensity in that movie that does not reappear until Verhoeven does Showgirls with Elizabeth Berkely.
Sharon Stone was in another erotic thriller the very next year after Basic Instinct, called Sliver. In that movie William Baldwin owns a fancy apartment building in NYC that he’s got outfitted with a bunch of hidden cameras so he can creep on everyone.
There was some weird horniness going on in the 90s.
OH MY GOD I LITERALLY USED TO WORK IN THE BUILDING THAT THE BASIC INSTINCT CLIMATIC SCENE IS FROM!! it was a shitty canvassing job but I USED TO TAKE THAT ELEVATOR aaaa
michael crichton turning out to be like a global warming skeptic/ men’s rights dude or whatever makes me wonder what clues in jurassic park i missed when i read it when i was like 8
like what psychotic programming did i receive from that text that just hasn’t unveiled itself yet ya know
Does Striptease fall within ‘erotic thriller’. Like Basic Instinct it was on all the time when I was a kid and I somehow still remember it. I think it was the ludicrous congressman who just fetishes out in every scene.
I watched this before we did the CONGOcast and then I made everyone who recorded said sit through it again with me in gaywatch. By the last three minutes everyone was “oh, I see why you were going so hard about Michael Crichton being a huge piece of shit, etc.”
Imagine the Jordan Petersonisms he’d be up to now, if only he’d lived long enough for all the appropriate internet platforms to mature!
