{"id":14178,"date":"2021-04-22T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14178"},"modified":"2021-04-21T22:34:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T02:34:59","slug":"basic-instinct-1992-paul-verhoeven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14178","title":{"rendered":"Basic Instinct (1992, Paul Verhoeven)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am, thirty years late, the last person in the country to watch <em>Basic Instinct<\/em>.  I watched because it&#8217;s A Paul Verhoeven Film and on all the best-movies-of-whatever lists, but then, impressed by the degree of nudity in this I decided movies need more nudity and sought out more naked 90&#8217;s films.  Unlike the others, this would seem to have little rewatch value &#8211; it&#8217;s kind of a brown\/grey cop procedural.  Some noirish aspects, Michael Douglas smart enough to draw connections but never the big ones, surrounded by smarter women who are playing him.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/basicinstinct1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>After Mr. Boz is killed with an icepick, Douglas and partner Gus question Boz&#8217;s girlfriend Sharon Stone, who got rich writing novels about icepick murders.  Either she committed the dumbest murder, or one of the other psycho women in this movie is framing her &#8211; Stone&#8217;s hottie friend Roxy, or the police psychiatrist both investigating and sleeping with Douglas, Jeanne Tripplehorn.  At the end a couple cops and suspects are dead and we don&#8217;t know for sure that Stone wasn&#8217;t the killer all along.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/basicinstinct2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am, thirty years late, the last person in the country to watch Basic Instinct. I watched because it&#8217;s A Paul Verhoeven Film and on all the best-movies-of-whatever lists, but then, impressed by the degree of nudity in this I decided movies need more nudity and sought out more naked 90&#8217;s films. Unlike the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,1717,424,119,2132],"class_list":["post-14178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-michael-douglas","tag-nudity","tag-paul-verhoeven","tag-sharon-stone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14190,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14178\/revisions\/14190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}