3. Nick Curran - Basic Instinct
Basic Instinct is exactly like Fatal Attraction, except that it's horrible. I will not even pretend to give this movie, box office hit though it may have been, credit for being anything more than an over-the-top, raunchy piece of garbage. Once again this movie presents us with a morally unstable Douglas getting too familiar with a homicidal maniac, Sharon Stone. It's almost kind of fun to imagine that Nick Curran is actually Dan Gallagher a few nasty years after a divorce. What makes this barfing served up by the dynamic duo of lewd, Paul Verhoeven and Joe Eszterhas, is that the amorality in this film is taken so far that the entire thing rings ridiculous and heavy-handed to the point that it's almost funny. According to Brad Pitt in an interview he gave once for Rolling Stone magazine entitled, "The Unbearable Bradness of Being", Basic "Stinky" as he calls it is worth little more than to be used as a gauge for guys to select who they should date. Pitt says that if your date for the evening exclaims that Basic Instinct is one of her favorite films you should quickly and gracefully end things as soon as possible and run for the hills. Hey, now you can say that you've received dating advice from Brad Pitt. Pretty cool, right? Once again for the third time in this article I am going to mention just how much crap saying this is going to get me, but I am going to say it anyways. Like in the case of Glenn Close's homicidal psychotic stalker rage in Fatal Attraction, I also fail to see how Sharon Stone acting like a b**** and uncrossing her legs has anything to do with female empowerment. Sorry.