hannibal lecter movie discussion

[Aria.]

this stuff is sweet discuss everything here

[Robert Crumb]

You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed? Pure West Virginia. What's your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you... all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars... while you could only dream of getting out... getting anywhere... getting all the way to the FBI.

[metallicaman8]

So, did anyone see Hannibal Rising, or whatever it was called. I wanna know i that dweeby looking fella did the part of Hannibal justice.

[EightMilesHigh]

I only saw Silence Of The Lambs. Great film. Scared the pants off of me, especially the end with Lecter on the phone with Jodie Foster.

[simplephotographinthesun]

silence of the lambs...great
red dragon...pretty good

everything else in the series is forgettable. however, i haven't seen the original Manhunter movie from the mid 80s

[Der Übermensch]

Manhunter was sooo horribly 80's. Too Miami Vice in my opinion. I've heard a lot of people prefer it to Red Dragon, but Ed Norton just kicks ***...

[Opulent Cow]

So, did anyone see Hannibal Rising, or whatever it was called. I wanna know i that dweeby looking fella did the part of Hannibal justice.

He didn't, don't even bother renting it, seriously.

[trustxdialect]

This honestly isn't that bad. It's not a great film (doesn't live up to Silence of the Lambs at all, but it's considerably better than the schlock that was Hannibal and the mediocre Red Dragon), and it's obvious it's a cash cow and serves no real purpose seeing as no one really cared about Hannibal's past, and if they did, they did't want to know because that's what made him so sinister and creepy. The reason behind his turning into a cannibal is pretty ho-hum, but those nitpicks aside and taking the film as it is, it's certainly not as bad as everyone seems to see it as. The actor is good in his own right and is pretty effective at becoming slowly the man Hannibal is, especially when his eyes are always smiling even when he's not. The killings are pretty gruesome, and the romance is by-the-numbers but works, even if the actress (whose name escapes me) is a little stilted in her english. Overall, though, it's just getting slacked for being an obvious cash cow and not holding up to Silence of the Lambs.

6/10

[simplephotographinthesun]

Manhunter was sooo horribly 80's. Too Miami Vice in my opinion. I've heard a lot of people prefer it to Red Dragon, but Ed Norton just kicks ***...

ralph fiennes = <3

[Opulent Cow]

I think Anthony Hopkins made Hannibal, and is the only person who can play him.

[Kaleid]

The part that freaked me out when I was little was the bit from 'The Silence Of The Lambs' where Clarice finds the head in the jar, complete with lipstick

[AIRIC]

I read both Silence Of The Lambs and Red Dragon and have yet to see either movie.

[Der Übermensch]

ralph fiennes = <3


The guy in Manhunter was pretty good though.

Norton's counterpart is whats-his-name from CSI...

[AlienEater]

He's called William Peterson I think

anyway I liked Manhunter

[Tillius]

I actually quite enjoyed Hannibal Rising. No, nodoby but Hopkins can portray Lecter the way that he did, but you can't hate a movie just for that. The guy playing Lecter did a very good job.

That said, my order from best to worse goes Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, Hannibal Rising, and Hannibal.

[magicbus]

I'd like to read Red Dragon, cause the movie was really cool but I bet the book is even better.