Initially I was going to post about a shower I had yesterday (exciting stuff I know but h0ld on and listen for a minute). After playing badminton at lunchtime yesterday I was pretty minging so I headed for the shower, “Oh” one of my colleagues said “there is still no hot water”. I shrugged and went in anyway to the most painful shower I had in my life, washing my hair gave me an ice cream headache and I managed to stand under the ice cold shower (literally) for around half a second, the rest of the time I huddled in a corner and washed strategic parts of my body with handfuls of water.
Anyway, when I finally exited the shower room (much to the relief of my colleagues who thought I might succumb to the cold) the scene was surely reminiscent of the moment Mr Darcey walks out of the lake in Pride and Prejudice.
But, that’s not what I’m blogging about today, I’m blogging about this, Basic Shitting Instinct:
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H wanted to see this, so we popped into our local DVD store the other day and picked up a copy on Blue Ray (nice in HD by the way, in “that scene” you can literally resolve individual hairs).
Anyway, we watched through the entire film right to the climax (the film is pretty dreadful by the way and has aged badly), we reach the scene where Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone are in bed together right at the very end and you think she’s innocent. Then she reaches down the side of the bed while he’s not looking and starts to lift her arm up and you’re thinking “maybe she’s not innocent, is this an ice pick or is she going to attempt the New of the World Crossword” (such is the level of this movie) when with a quiet clunk we’re back at the first menu, with literally 20 seconds of the movie remaining (I won’t tell you what actually happens at the end in case you’ve not seen it).
In the end we had to run to the office and finished off the movie by searching on www.ruinedendings.com
Yes yes yes, I know what you’re going to say, this is what happens when you buy pirate DVDs but unfortunately we’re a bit stuck for alternatives here in Shanghailand. Anyway, it was only Basic Instinct..
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thanks for the translation, dingle.
No Craig that’s how the movie ends. You have to watch Basic Instinct 2 to find out if she’s the killer.
Update! H took it back to the shop today and got in a massive row with the shop staff.
They couldn’t believe we would want to change it, “yes” they said, “all the copies are like that, nobody has the ending”
“But it’s useless, the ending is missing where you find out if she was the murderer” says H
“I’ll tell you how it ends, she is the killer, you don’t need to change it for a different movie, it’s only a few seconds missing”
etc etc etc.. until they finally gave in and let her change it.
Anyway, the outcome is that I’m banned from shopping there ever again, (real forever)
No, I was going to say that’s what you get for watching shit movies. You should check out Jade, you’d like it.
Also, Mr. Darcy? Hardly honey, hardly.
Blimey Dingle where do you buy your DVDs from? At Dagu, firstly they’d TELL YOU if the ending was missing before taking your money and they’d change it no questions asked if you returned it.
Kristi, I don’t mean to be rude but have you had your eyes tested recently?
Woai, it’s actually a game shop near my apartment, yes, customer service was never a strong point at games shops anywhere. Actually the staff in the evening are normally quite pleasant, but anyway..
i am convinced linda fiorentino is really a man.
Hmmm maybe you need to reenact the scene but I’m pretty sure I’m right here. I’ve seen that series and more specifically that scene probably 25 times.
I have a problem.
Are you ever going to watch it again? Why do you need a new one?
Oh we didn’t change it for the same one, they were all like that! We changed it for DeathRace which was only marginally better than Basic Instinct.
What’s the going rate for pirated Blue Ray DVD’s in SH?
Well, there’s at least three different types. Blue Rays on a Blue Ray disk cost over 100 rmb, then there are blue rays compressed down to fit on a DVDR (still look good though) for 48rmb, then there are blue rays on a DVDR which are “optimised for PS3″ which my local game shop sells for around 23rmb.
The 48 rmb ones don’t work if you have a recently updated PS3, they used to but the recent update blocked these.
They’re all a bit of a rip-off, especially the ones on DVD-R, they shouldn’t cost any more than your standard DVDs (it doesn’t cost them any more to produce).
Oh, the cheapest ones tend to have a lot of faults (see above), I had to return 10-20% of the ones I bought.