"Inspired by..."

[Mr_Vindictive]

FearlessFreep:



Hannibal

[FearlessFreep]

Thanks, I haven't seen any of the four movies or read any of the three books so most of my knowledge is second hand

[Grumpy Guy]

I both loved and hated Manhunter.

The ending was a rip-off.  The book ending (and the ending they used in Red Dragon) was much, much better.

The guy playing Hannibal in Manhunter, though...

I had read about how he was so much better than Hopkins.  So much scarier, and truer to the book.  After watching Manhunter, I was left with a question...

WHAT THE HELL WERE THOSE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT????

How in the hell do you get that a young, snotty brittish guy is more true to the book, when in the book Hannibal was a middle-aged Baltimore psychologist?  And American psychologist, at that.  There was nothing scary about Hanibal in Manhunter.  He was lazy and disinterested.  How is that scary?

*sigh*

On the plus side, Manhunter is very pretty.  The cinematography is excellent.

The difference between Manhunter and Red Dragon was mostly one of artistic style.  Manhunter was trying to be a pretentious art piece.  Red Dragon had no such illusions - it was a blatant attempt to cash in on Anthony Hopkin's success with the Hannibal role.

But they were both based on the original book.  Red Dragon wasn't ripped off of Manhunter.  It couldn't have been - there were to many little things in it fron the book that weren't in Manhunter.

[Susan]

Manhunter was good in that the character was far more like the book than Ralph Fiennes could be. If they had put him in the red dragon movie, well there might have been something there.  In fact the red dragon was a bit over the top catering to the thrill of flashy horror scenes and such. However, Manhunter had too much of a slow pace to it, some scenes with the Miami Vice music were so uninvolving...that it would pull my attention away from the film. Anthony Hopkins was a far better Hannibal, personally i couldn't stand the actor who played the cop in "Manhunter"