Basic Instinct 2: a downmarket version of Basic Instinct is actually possible!

8 February 2006 Rob Buckley Film Post a comment

In case you haven’t yet seen the ‘leaked’ footage of Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction, I envy you. Would that I could go back to those heady, innocent days. You can view it over on Rope of Silicon (hmmm…) if you want, but I warn you:

  1. It’s very, very bad
  2. It’s so very, very bad, you’ll be pining for the high quality writing that Joe Eszterhas brought to the original
  3. You’ll wonder what the hell David Morrissey was thinking. Okay, you probably won’t. It’s quite clear what he was thinking. But will you be able to take him seriously again? Could you take Michael Douglas seriously once you’d seen him in that v-neck down the night club? No. You couldn’t.

But you’re a grown adult, I take it, so if you want to make that choice, it’s up to you. But you won’t be able to go back. Oh no.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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