I’ll confess that one of my guilty pleasures when reading a newspaper are bad film reviews. I suspect that film reviewers enjoy writing them almost as much as finding the glowing verbiage for a good review of a small budget film they’ve ‘discovered’, and want to impress on the world. The vernacular and imagery is a special craft, that really should be relished, and The Guardian’s review of Basic Instinct 2 falls very much into this delightful (to me, anyway) camp.
You certainly feel that they want cutting revenge for having perhaps wasted a few hours of their day watching rubbish. So without further ado, I’ll give you my favourite quotes:
…as sexy as a pair of old Y-fronts.
and, my favourite:
he gets very frowny and shouty and looks as cross as two sticks, like Gordon Brown, though not as sexy.
… doubly good because, of course, David Morrissey played Gordon Brown in “The Deal”, that excellent political drama/comedy/factual/thing about the supposed deal between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair at the forever infamous Granita restaurant, in Islington.
I’ll admit old Y-fronts and Gordon Brown are not exactly nice images to take away with you this morning, but come on, you’ve got to enjoy it really. It certainly brightened up the otherwise grey, drizzly and cloudy Glasgow morning for me.
