Is anybody actually going to see HANNIBAL RISING?

[abcdefz]

Just curious. The movie sounds like a pretty bad idea, but I don't exactly have my thumb on the pulse of the people.

This (http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/gallery/1164811/photo_07.jpg) looks mighty mighty homosexual, but this (http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/gallery/1164811/photo_06.jpg) looks pretty darned creepy, actually.

[camo]

I might after I scope some decent reviews

[abcdefz]

So far, the reviews are mostly bad. (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hannibal_rising/)

[camo]

So far, the reviews are mostly bad. (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hannibal_rising/)

cheers, I guess not then!

[abcdefz]

The director did Girl with a Pearl Earring, which I really liked. :(

[Genocide Tulips]

no thanks. This movie looked horrible within the first scene from the trailers.

[abcdefz]

You should see movies before judging them, Hannibal was awesome.


Just to get some barometer, did you like Hannibal (not Hannibal Rising) and Red Dragon?

You just went from "really good" to "awesome," by the way. If you were still talking about Hannibal Rising.

[abcdefz]

Pretty loose with language, huh? :D

[abcdefz]

Red Dragon was so-so, which was better than I'd thought it would be. Hannibal pretty much sucked through and through.

[abcdefz]

Silence of the Lambs is great. The only problem I have with that is the bullshit at the end where Gumm clearly would kill Starling (or at least wrestle her down) but instead reaches out in front of her eyes, etc.

Then there's the weird cut where as soon as she shoots him, the lights have suddenly come back on. I never figured out how that happened.

[abcdefz]

They're basically saying the kid doesn't have gravity, there are laughable lines, the movie takes the mystery out of the character, there are lots of dead spots/it's too long, etc. About the only thing people agree on is that the cinematography looks great.

[Nivvie]

Red Dragon was so-so, which was better than I'd thought it would be. Hannibal pretty much sucked through and through.

I thought Gary Oldman was good in that, and it could have been worse.
I also thought i'd hate Red Dragon as I liked the original Manhunter a lot, but it was OK. Brian Cox was the first Hannibal I knew, and worried when Silence of the Lambs came out that Anthony Hopkins wouldn't be as good, but of course, he was. With two such great actors plyaing the part before, I can't see Hannibal Rising being much cop, and four of something is difficult.

[abcdefz]

I liked Manhunter except when Peterson talked to himself and then that fucking Inna Gadda Da Vida plastered over the ending. That was actually bad enough to ruin it for me. (n)

[abcdefz]

It's really whoring. But I had to wonder, you know, if I were Harris and I'd written this guy and he was my cash cow, would I stop? I'd like to think so, but who knows? I'd think that having $100million in the bank would be satisfying enough, but if I could trot out my character again for another $5 million, wouldn't that be tempting?

I dunno. God, I hope not, unless I really thought I had something to say.

[roosta]

Silence of the Lambs is great. The only problem I have with that is the bullshit at the end where Gumm clearly would kill Starling (or at least wrestle her down) but instead reaches out in front of her eyes, etc.

This is a man who makes dresses out of people, and you want to apply logic to him?

Then there's the weird cut where as soon as she shoots him, the lights have suddenly come back on. I never figured out how that happened.

i saw this scene in a documentary about film editing we were shown in college just the other day, one of the gun shots shoots a whole in board which was covering the window thus illuminating the room. admitedly by way too much, but they do explain it.

SOTL is on again tonight on telly, same time as The Enforcer. I havnt seen Enforcer, but i always watch Lambs when it comes on tv..i love it. I really liked Red Dragon too, mainly cuz it stuck closer to the novel. I can appreciate it and Manhunter seperately.

[abcdefz]

This is a man who makes dresses out of people, and you want to apply logic to him?



At least that much. A serial killer doesn't do what he does for however long by not being smart. And if you go with the "he wanted to be found out" theory, why run from her in the first place?

[adam_f]

Hannibal is assistant manager at a Kinko's in St. Paul.

[abcdefz]

He's fiction. Sort of a composite of several serial killers. Bundy, Dahmer... that dude that they based Norman Bates on... They talk about it on the DVD documentary.

[abcdefz]

Yeah, that would be bullshit.

[abcdefz]

Here's an interesting bit (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/drugs/facepeel.asp) connected to the Mason Verger thing -- peeling off his face and feeding it to dogs.

Snopes sort of debunks it, but it ran around as an urban legend for a bit.

There's just text, but it does link to a pretty nasty photo, so be forewarned.

[Genocide Tulips]

That was truly a disturbing photo...ugh.

[abcdefz]

I dunno. It's so extreme it doesn't seem real.

[Genocide Tulips]

I dunno. It's so extreme it doesn't seem real.

True, but it's disturbing regardless.

[abcdefz]

I've watched Hannibal now.

I loved it, and everybody else hated it. It's now my favourite of the series and everybody else's least favourite.



Your opinions are officially meaningless now, Congratulations. (y)