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  Review by Griffin Newman 10

  1) I can't believe that Michael Douglas' reign as a major star was so long.
  2) I can't believe that Sharon Stone's reign as a major star was so short.

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  Review by eely ★★½ 6

  this movie has many unintentionally funny moments but the two that are the funniest for me are 1. the fact that these people describe their vanilla sex as sadomasochistic because sometimes they like to tie each other’s hands to a bed post with white silk hermès scarves and 2. the idea that sharon stone would ever fuck michael douglas

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  Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★½ 51

  I love how the opening scene of Basic Instinct is filmed. You're almost certain you know the identity of the killer, but by never showing the killer's face, you have just the right amount of doubt in your head. Paul Verhoeven's Basic Instinct is a game of Tomcat and Kitty between Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone, and it forever changed the mainstream erotic thriller.

  The interrogation scene. Who doesn't love it? Of course, there's the ultimate money shot, but Sharon Stone completely flips the script. She's the one being questioned, yet by the end of the scene, she's the one in total control. That's real fuckin' power.

  Was the San Francisco setting done on purpose? The early '90s was a…

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  Review by lauren ★★½ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  catherine tramell walked so amy dunne could run

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  Review by mia 🦇 ★★★★ 1

  if i get killed by sexy bisexual sharon stone that is on ME, do not prosecute her because she caught ME slipping

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  Review by Joe ★★★★★ 5

  "She's evil! She's brilliant!" Doctor Beth Garner on Catherine Trammel - note the order.

  In Vertigo, a man falls in love with the image of a woman and the woman dies as a direct result. In Basic Instinct, the image takes her revenge. This is a thriller about the seductive power of the thriller, how deep down we're all attracted to killers and psychos, and how fear, excitement, and arousal can all be substituted with one another at will (but whose?). Most Hollywood thrillers are built on a rote good-vs-evil paradigm, but here that prism is irreverently skewered at every opportunity, and we have a villain who might be innocent and a hero who is unquestionably guilty.

  I remember Ebert's…

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★

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  Sex not just as power, but as the ferocity of power. Captures the energy and the sweat behind the curtains of Noir; a sticky, coked-up dance in early 90s garb. Sure, it's a Verhoeven picture, but all I see is Sharon Stone.

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  Review by bailey 🏹 ★★★★½

  the women in this movie are very attractive

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  Review by pd187 ★★★★★ 4

  found a lot to relate to in this story of an alcoholic loser getting drunk and watching hellraiser & the jeffersons

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  Review by kayla ★★★★ 2

  “I could fix her” - Michael Douglas in this movie

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  Review by Baronpontmercy ★★

  if i have to see michael douglas have sex one more time im going to rip out my eyeballs

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★ 1

  verhoeven goes de palma mode and stylistically indulges every possible obsessive, violent, horny impulse and detail of this lurid paperback thriller of a plot that takes the psychology of noir characters to their most perverse extremes. references hitchcock and hellraiser and lives up to both of them. if any line from any movie sums itself up more than "that magna cum laude pussy on her done fried up your brain!" than i'm not aware of it. the fuck of the century!

  full discussion on episode 9 of my podcast SLEAZOIDS.