Seems that everything that i saw recently comes in pairs.
Aunt and cousin came down to Singapore recently for a holiday. They brought us 2 boxes of mooncakes. Gosh, how sinful it was to have 2 boxes of mooncakes in a week.
Yesterday morning, catch Basic Instinct and Basic Instinct 2 on DVD. Double the thrill for Basic Instinct, double the frills for Basic Instinct 2. Despite being released 15 years ago, it was still thrilling to see Michael Douglas trapped into a labyrinth created by Sharon Stone. And Stone was beautiful...
13 years after Basic Instinct was released, we have Basic Instinct 2. Stone is now older, with David Morrissey as her victim. Rather than having more thrills, it was more boredom and frills that send audience falling asleep.
In the afternoon, i catch Rogue Assassin for the second time in Lido. While i told myself i would never watch a movie that has been edited for a lower rating (original rating is M18, which has been edited to NC16 to draw younger crowds) , i made an exception for Rogue Assassin. The reason(s) is because:
1. It stars Jet Li. Before his The Warlords opens in mid December this year, this is the only offer that is worth watching in theatres twice after Royston Tan's 881. (in fact, i believed there are people who catch 881 more than 3 times.)
2. I missed the first 15mins of the show when watching it in GV Marina last weekend. In fact, the whole experience in GV Marina was totally ruined. While GV had the practice of starting the movie 20mins after the stated showtime, GV Marina starts the movie punctually! And that explains why i did not get to see Singaporean actress Steph Song making an apperance in the movie. The only Asian babe that appears throughout the whole movie was the eye candy, Devon Aoki.
3. It's not that often you get Jet Li and Jason Statham kicking ass on the big screen together. Sad to say, you will be disappointed if you watch the show. You got 2 great actors that sparks no fire in the end.
At night, Ch 8 had a repeat telecast of SBC Telemovie entitled Dark Obssession. For those do knot know what the heck is SBC telemovie, this is the explanation: When the first TV station was founded in Singapore, it was known as RCS (Radio Cooperation of Singapore.) Then, it was named SBC (S'pore Brocasting Centre) before known as Mediacorp today. Telemovies are movies shot in drama series style which last less than 2 hours.
And Mediacorp has made a bad choice for making a repeat telecast of their telemovies, which shows that the standard of their telemovies was just like some B HongKong flicks made in the 90's, or some Hollywood ripped offs. Dark Obessession was a mixture of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction. Francis Ng plays a artist who takes a ah lian (Mainlander actress Xu Qing) home and wants her to dressed like her sister, so that she looks like a model he is long looking for. With several murder taking place around him, with Ng as the prime suspect, we get to see that in the end, the murderer was a lady who loves him, played by former SBC actress turned housewife Chan Hui Fen aka Zeng Hui Fen in Mandarin.
In this place, Chan has become the next Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. She kills the people around her, minus the cooking of a rabbit in Fatal. And when Ng confronts Chan, she cuts herself with a kris (a Malay dagger) on her thigh, just like Glenn Close did when confronting Michael Douglas. She was shot once by the police when she attacks Ng and Xu, and everyone though she died. However, she stands up after lying for a while, and slashes Ng. Once again, she was shot. This time round, she died.
Close slashes Douglas with a kitchen knife and Douglas had her drowned in a bathtub. It appears she died. But when she stands up from the bathtub and attemp to stabbed Douglas, she was shot dead by his wife (played by Anne Archer.)
Did i smell body double in it?