I watched this movie because I heard a reviewer say that even though it was bad, it wasn't boring. I now know that this is not a good enough reason to see a movie. "Not boring" does not always mean entertaining. Sometimes it can mean that you may not like yourself for having sat through it.
Basic Instinct 2 is an erotic thriller, which must be the genre that is easiest to produce a piece of trash from. In this movie, the main character is the psychiatrist who becomes obsessed with Sharon Stone's character and makes every possible bad decision until it eventually ruins his life. Now, because it involves temptation, murder, and a career in jeopardy, it may seem to justify its existence as a cautionary tale for adults. Actually, the behaviors in this movie don't reflect real life adults any more than Spongebob contains real children.
I'm not going to give in to the argument that this was just meant as entertainment, is supposed to be escape or enjoyment and not taken seriously. This movie takes itself VERY seriously and works very hard to be grown-up. I don't mind a movie that has a dark tone if it does so to show us that sometimes the world really is bleak. Basic Instinct 2 is sour and joyless because it wants to appear deadly serious.
If you were to watch a movie about, say, Darfur and the difficulties its people are going through, imagine how upset you would be if you found out afterward that the writer had never been there and nothing you had seen about the people or the place resembled reality. Even when a story is set in a complete fantasy world, it can still show you something truthful about human nature. Here is a movie that is set in the real world, but employs characters that are complete fantasies. I think that kind of emptiness is a reason not to recommend a movie.
Basic Instinct 2 is an erotic thriller, which must be the genre that is easiest to produce a piece of trash from. In this movie, the main character is the psychiatrist who becomes obsessed with Sharon Stone's character and makes every possible bad decision until it eventually ruins his life. Now, because it involves temptation, murder, and a career in jeopardy, it may seem to justify its existence as a cautionary tale for adults. Actually, the behaviors in this movie don't reflect real life adults any more than Spongebob contains real children.
I'm not going to give in to the argument that this was just meant as entertainment, is supposed to be escape or enjoyment and not taken seriously. This movie takes itself VERY seriously and works very hard to be grown-up. I don't mind a movie that has a dark tone if it does so to show us that sometimes the world really is bleak. Basic Instinct 2 is sour and joyless because it wants to appear deadly serious.
If you were to watch a movie about, say, Darfur and the difficulties its people are going through, imagine how upset you would be if you found out afterward that the writer had never been there and nothing you had seen about the people or the place resembled reality. Even when a story is set in a complete fantasy world, it can still show you something truthful about human nature. Here is a movie that is set in the real world, but employs characters that are complete fantasies. I think that kind of emptiness is a reason not to recommend a movie.