This should have been really good
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Hannibal
JacksImdbAccount — 13 years ago(May 04, 2012 07:29 PM)
what with the talent involved.sir ridley scott, imo one of the great directorswriters david mamet and steven zaillianand anthony hopkns back as hannibal lecter as well as gary oldmani dont know how it went wrong.
thats the most dissapointing thing about the movie, the amount of really talented people who worked on it but ended up producing something very average -
britten_mark — 10 years ago(November 06, 2015 02:58 PM)
Great sig.
And yes this was better than SOTL + the following films put togetherbeatifully paced, shot and scored. Hannibal Rising was just moronic.
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Geeky Randy — 13 years ago(May 27, 2012 03:17 PM)
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joke_ster36-2
on Sat May 26 2012 20:44:37
I agree it was just lacking something that SOTL had.
It was the Foster/Hopkins chemistry that was lost. Also, the ending with Hannibal feeding a little kid human brains? This would have worked if it was an adult, but a kid? Dr. Lector may be a cannibal, but he has turned from villain to anti-hero due to his intelligence, class and charisma. And that one last scene contradicts everything else we saw in
Hannibal
and even
Silence
. Hannibal feeding human brains to an adult is chilling, yet fitting with the character. Hannibal feeding human brains to a child is creepy in an uncontrolled sort of way.
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joke_ster36-2 — 13 years ago(May 28, 2012 01:14 AM)
Not only that but Hopkins performance was best in SOTL. I guess people were right saying that he was like superman in this movie. I guess he's just more interesting and menacing in smaller doses like in SOTL than in this. He did seem more like a real person in SOTL rather than an anti hero. Also his performance in Red Dragon wasn't as good either probably because Anthony was much older. I think SOTL was perfect on it's own and didn't need a franchise.
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starwolf — 12 years ago(April 15, 2013 08:22 AM)
I think it was because it wanted to concentrate too much on the gore and less on the character.
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tommy_rawhead — 13 years ago(July 07, 2012 01:35 AM)
In a way I sort of preferred this to SOTL, because I feel Hopkin's Lecter is truer to the character in the book. I love the novel Silence of the Lambs, and Lecter in the book is described as sleek and otter-like, seems subdued and almost ageless. . . Hopkin's portrayal was way too hammy and theatrical. I LIKE hammy and over the top, when it fits, but this didn't work right for me. Whereas Hannibal was a pretty silly book; enjoyable but kinda trashy, like a good Stephen King novel, and Hopkin's Lecter fit perfectly. Great reading, not great literature. Great movie, not great cinema. I read that Harris was forced into writing Hannibal when he didn't want to by his publishing company, and purposefully wrote what he considered to be a crappy book. I enjoyed it anyway, and I better appreciated Hopkin's acting as an older and far more unrealistic Lecter. Still I think SOTL was overall the better movie and Jodie Foster was a far better Starling. But I wouldn't expect a better movie based off that book, I'd have expected a better book based off its predecessor.
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kryp44 — 12 years ago(April 15, 2013 08:13 AM)
Harris was obviously saying F-U to his publishers writing Hannibal. Lecter was at his best as a supporting character. A tremendous amount of work went into Red Dragon and SOL. Not so much with what Harris wrote after that. I enjoyed reading all of them, but I was pissed at the same time that Harris didn't care if his readers got crap. Enjoy your money dirtbag.
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aasoloway — 13 years ago(October 08, 2012 01:44 PM)
I think Hannibal is far superior to SOTL - call me crazy. I thought SOTL was over-rated. I've watched Hannibal a dozen times and SOTL three or four times.
Hannibal has a better atmosphere, a better score, location and it was just crazy enough for me. Also, Giancarlo Giannini! I prefer Julianne Moore to Jody Foster
and the bizarre cameo by Osama Bin Laden. Ray Liotta eats his own brain. That's better than Buffalo Bill in my twisted book.