Not as bad than expected

Yeah, i thought the same too. If this movie´s name wasn´t "BASIC INSTINCT 2" and had another title, people wouldn´t make so much fuzz about it. I kind enjoy it. Of course, you don´t have to compare......

Prostitute: What the *beep* are you doing?
Johnny: I'm gonna kill a bunch of people.

i actually think that this one is better than the first, or at least as good. I gave 8/10.

I thought it was an ok pic...nowheres near as sensational as the 1st, but OK. The box art was curious-the "2" fades into the dvd box art giving a quick-glance view the impression this is "Basic Instict". Deliberately deceptive?

"There's my buttercup!"

I'm the same. I read terrible review and sat to watch it from a Sky recording pretty much for a laugh. Suprisingly, the dialogue was very well written, the story carried itself along well and it was full of solid quality acting. It wasn't a masterpiece but nor are lots of films, the first BI included.

Like's been said elsewhere, if it was just a film in its own right and not pushed as a sequel, people would probably be less harsh on it.

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well as far as Basic Instinct 2 ... i seen that about 2 years ago (which so far is the only time i seen it so far) and it was quite bad as the overall feel of it was a little to cheesy etc etc and i just got done seeing the first film from 1992 for the first time a few moments ago and i can easily see why people don't like the 2nd as it's overall quite a bit worse than the first... i think some of it is due to no Michael Douglas cause Stone still did her part fairly well in the 2nd film but something was just missing from the film as a whole and it just felt crappy but not as bad as it's rating currently is... cause i think if you don't compare it to the first film it's not nearly as bad as it's 3.8/10 average rating claims it is.

bottom line...

-Basic Instinct (1992) = 8/10 (but if i had to choose a 7 or 9 i would say 7)
-Basic Instinct 2 (2006) = 5/10 (it felt to cheesy etc etc but after seeing the first one i might have to re-watch it and it might be better than my initial rating but as of right now the 5/10 is my rating for it... but most likely i wont go higher than a 6/10 for it at most though even if my rating changes for the better after another viewing or so)

really? i havent seen it and im not sure if i should. See im not old enough to see all R rated movies and im a little worried about seeing this, idk if its a worse R than the first. And if its worth seeing after how great the first was?

Oh yea..so true. Yeah Catherine was way slutty and yeah i didn't like how everyone died S&M style instead of with an ice pick, but yeah it kept your attention. the two best scenes by far were the chair scene (which i personally love) and the end where she tells Michael about the book and how he was really the bad guy. It wasn't bad it was just pushing it to try to be like the first which everyone knows it never could be, so yeah

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