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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2021 14:49:50 GMT
Which of these films with Dr. Hannibal Lector do you personally prefer?
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Post by JangoB on Jul 26, 2021 14:58:51 GMT
Easily the one with Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 26, 2021 14:58:54 GMT
Love em both but The Silence of the Lambs is a perfectly made movie - like there's not many of them - even if you don't like it - I can't in dissecting the movie locate something that doesn't work - and that's sort of my thing, locating stuff that doesn't work  I mean that aside from the obvious things about it (acting, editing, cinematography, pacing).......it's possible to read that movie in a lot of different ways - not the least of which is as a feminist movie - without it ever once forcing that issue down your throat and throwing off the balance of the piece overall. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2021 15:03:25 GMT
Easily the one with Dr. Hannibal Lect er. I was fusing both versions of the name together! |
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Post by JangoB on Jul 26, 2021 15:23:55 GMT
Easily the one with Dr. Hannibal Lect er. I was fusing both versions of the name together! I wasn't correcting you, mate! Just my way of answering that I prefer Demme's flick  |
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Post by DeepArcher on Jul 26, 2021 15:44:16 GMT
Voting for Manhunter since it's getting clobbered. The two are basically neck and neck for me.
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Post by jakesully on Jul 26, 2021 15:55:00 GMT
I went with The Silence of the Lambs without hesitation. Just a superior film all around and easily one of the best films of the 90s.
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Post by Nikan on Jul 26, 2021 16:46:19 GMT
There are things that I really like in The Silence: Foster, Shore, tackling a number of themes at the same time and communicating them successfully for the most part... it might be the better movie all things considered, but Manhunter "clicked" with me more. So much so that I actually sat and read Red Dragon; which is it's own beast and somehow made me appreciate Mann's personal take in a new light. I prefer Cox to Hopkins too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2021 17:45:22 GMT
There are things that I really like in The Silence: Foster, Shore, tackling a number of themes at the same time and communicating them successfully for the most part... it might be the better movie all things considered, but Manhunter "clicked" with me more. So much so that I actually sat and read Red Dragon; which is it's own beast and somehow made me appreciate Mann's personal take in a new light. I prefer Cox to Hopkins too. I can't go this far, but I would say that Cox makes Lecter seem like a person who could absolutely live and work among us, and we would be none the wiser to his psychotic tendencies. If Hopkins' Lecter moved in next door to me, I'd have my torch and pitchfork ready... |
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jul 26, 2021 19:24:35 GMT
Manhunter is a good movie where Michael Mann gets to flex his atmospheric muscle in ways that paid dividends later on in his career, and Tom Noonan gives one of the more chilling performances in the serial killer genre.
The Silence of the Lambs is on the shortlist for greatest American film ever made. Foster, Hopkins, and Levine all give virtuoso performances that work in angles the genre had never even attempted before, and is the apotheosis of Demme's experimentation with camera POVs and sound as surrogate for audience emotion. It is a movie so good that the entire crime genre, all the way to today's true crime documentaries and legions of BS Ted Bundy biopics, has been aping it to diminishing returns ever since. And yet despite being ripped off and parodied mercilessly (especially that Buffalo Bill scene which every parody misconstrued to push transphobia further than the film itself ever tried to), it still holds up as a masterpiece.
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Post by ibbi on Jul 26, 2021 20:19:43 GMT
I love Mann, and I used to be able to enjoy Manhunter on its own terms once upon a time. It's 80s as a motherfucker, and not in the way something like... Carpenter movies are, but in a way that watching today is dated and corny and it's tough not to laugh at, but it works.
That said, after I read Harris' books, and those first two Hannibal books are sooooooooooooooooooo good, it is impossible for me to really be anything but massively disappointed in that movie. Why adapt that book if you're going to get nothing that's really good about it out of it? Just make up your own stupid serial killer story.
The Silence of the Lambs is not only about as good an adaptation of a book as I have ever seen in my life, especially in feature form, but it's just generally awesome anyway. Foster? Great. Hopkins? Great. Demme operating slick as a whistle at the peak of his powers? Yes.
That thing hasn't aged a day, feels fresh as a daisy, it's mainstream moviemaking at its best. People spent like 10 years trying to replicate it, and nobody came even a little bit close.
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Post by themoviesinner on Jul 26, 2021 20:59:08 GMT
I don't like either. I've expressed my opinion before on Silence Of The Lambs, that I find it extremely dull, and it's a film without any suspense or tension and ultimately fails as a thriller big time for me. I just don't like it at all. Manhunter isn't much better, definitely Mann's worst film, but I'll vote for it because at least it's quite atmospheric and more visually interesting.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Aug 9, 2021 8:53:43 GMT
Manhunter is very good. The Silence of the Lambs is great. It's painfully close to a 10 for me.
Also, Silence gets bonus points for bringing a pretty okay book (bordering on stale) to life. Manhunter took a very good book and didn't drop the ball at all...now that I think of it, perhaps that is just as impressive.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Aug 9, 2021 20:54:22 GMT
The one with the closeups! |
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Post by hugobolso on Aug 12, 2021 23:13:25 GMT
Manhunter, I never heard of it.-
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Aug 13, 2021 6:05:42 GMT
Manhunter is brilliant  TSOTL is iconic  |
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