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Sharon was supposedly 30, she looked at least 40+


I always notice how nowadays 40 years old look like 30 or even younger when you compare them with people from the last century: in the 80s at 40 you were a woman, middle aged, almost considered old.

Well, Sharon Stone is supposedly 30 in Basic Instinct (she was 33 while shooting), yet she dresses like a mature woman, does her hair like a middle aged woman, and behaves like the best of her years are past her. I bet part of her femme fatale allure is that she's "that old" and yet is not married nor with kids. The only thing she does that doesn't scream "over the hill" is banging (in a very ordinary kind of way too, although the movie tries to sell it as some out of this world sex).

Do you think it's the movie that strangely portrays a 30 year old female as a "woman" (instead of a girl), or is it me/us in 2019, that we strangely still behave like teenagers after our 30s and well into our adulthood?

Now excuse me but I have to go play with my ps4/dick:-)

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Idiot ..πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„

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'Very good, Pris. Now tell him why...'

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Why?

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I saw this on its opening night when I was 17 and neither me or my friends had any complaints about how Sharon Stone looked in this movie ;)

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I'm not sure where I stated that her look is not satisfactory. She's a total milf in my book!
I'm just saying that 30 years old women today don't look anywhere like her in this movie from 1992, and that for 2019 standards in Basic Instinct she looks and behaves like a 40+ woman.

In most modern movies 30 year old of todays are portrayed as still partying hard, doing drugs, having silly relationships and jobs. Not as grownup women. Even less so are men.

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I think being in your 30's in 1992 simply looked different than being in your 30's in 2019. I think people generally matured faster in the past than they do now for a variety of reasons. You had the fashion of the time into the mix and you have a character who would appear to be "older" by modern standards.

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Exactly.

It's more a case of today's forty-year-olds looking like they are in their thirties, than 1992's thirty-year-olds looking like they are in their forties.

People are doing more to maintain a youthful appearance, particularly in terms of fashion, these days.

In any case, Sharon Stone looked amazing in this film (tbh she still looks great).

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Yes I agree, it's more a case of today people looking younger, but if you go further back, in the 50s for instance, it's staggering.
Look at "rebel without a cause": those kids (and we are talking teenagers) look like they are 40! Their fashion style, behaviour, problems, are crazy for kids nowadays. And at 40 they are old people (like their parents). At 70 you are a fossil!

In 2050, middle aged millennials will look like they are 20 now :-)

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Part of that has to do with those teenagers being played by people in their 20's and 30's. Modern movies and TV shows are more likely to employ teenage actors.

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Burt Young was 36 in Rocky but he looked 50+

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Oh my god! That's awful! George Clooney today looks younger than him on Rocky.

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He's always looked old like Ernest Borgnine. He probably could get served booze when he was 10.

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So how old do you look Heisenberg? I doubt you'd be objecting to Catherine Trammel touching you up while you're glued to your Playstation πŸ˜‰

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Like I said already, Sharon Stone looks perfectly hot in this movie. Totally awesome milf.
On an average day, I look about 10 years younger than what I actually am. Thanks for asking:-)

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You're blind if you think she looked 40+, if anything she looked even younger than her real age. What a ridiculous post.

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Most over 40 girls I know today look like Catherine's younger sister, almost daughter.
NOBODY in her early thirties looks like her, unless heavy smoker, drinker, junkie with 2 kids.
What girls do you know?

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Like I said, you're blind and seemingly delusional too. She wouldn't have become an international sex symbol from this movie if she looked like a heavy smoking 40+ year old.

What girls do you know?


I think the more appropriate question is - do you know ANY girls? It doesn't seem so from your post.

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I didn't realize you don't know how to read. I didn't write what you say I did, if there's a blind one here that's you.

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I don't think you know what you're writing yourself it's such nonsensical drivel. Go back to jacking off and playing Playstation.

NOBODY in her early thirties looks like her, unless heavy smoker, drinker, junkie with 2 kids.


Utter drivel.

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He's obviously trolling. The idea that the average 30+ woman today looks better than her is ludicrous.

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How old do you think she looks in this one?
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000232/mediaviewer/rm788884736

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33
But her clothes are for 50+:-)

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History has judged this movie.

Generations have loved it.

Generations have called her sex queen of the MF'n world in this movie. Look it up. LOL.

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What an excellent reply to the OP. Very relevant stuff.
Also: Basic Instinct is a movie of 1992. Take that, LOL.

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High Five!

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