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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Queequeg

It also manages to get big laughs out of a 60 year old man proposing a foursome.  It's so fucking perfect. 
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

CountDeMoney

I walked by the living room, and Mom's watching Red Dragon, the completely unnecessary Manhunter remake.  After watching about 7 minutes of it...Goddamn, what an awful movie.  Edward Norton is Jack's miscast Will Graham, Harvey Keitel is doing it for the beer money, and all I wanted was for Ray Fiennes to start shooting educated Jews, like Karl Marx.

And considering how well Mads Mikkelsen portrays Lecter on NBC, Anthony Hopkins simply comes across as boring.

I give it an F-.  Bonus negative points for 1) defacing Michael Mann's work, and 2) Mads Mikkelsen just makes this shit better.

Sheilbh

Yeah. I fell out of love with Hopkins Lecter in Hannibal. It just seemed like a dumb person's idea of a cultivated serial killer.
Let's bomb Russia!

katmai

Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 11, 2014, 09:27:05 PM
I walked by the living room, and Mom's watching Red Dragon, the completely unnecessary Manhunter remake.  After watching about 7 minutes of it...Goddamn, what an awful movie.  Edward Norton is Jack's miscast Will Graham, Harvey Keitel is doing it for the beer money, and all I wanted was for Ray Fiennes to start shooting educated Jews, like Karl Marx.

And considering how well Mads Mikkelsen portrays Lecter on NBC, Anthony Hopkins simply comes across as boring.

I give it an F-.  Bonus negative points for 1) defacing Michael Mann's work, and 2) Mads Mikkelsen just makes this shit better.

Brett Ratner is the man!
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

CountDeMoney

Quote from: katmai on February 11, 2014, 09:32:01 PM
Brett Ratner is the man!

Rush Hour was funny, and he did a good job with Tower Heist (which was a lot more enjoyable than I thought it would be) and Horrible Bosses, but Red Dragon sucks dead donkey ABCs.

katmai

Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 11, 2014, 09:46:41 PM
Quote from: katmai on February 11, 2014, 09:32:01 PM
Brett Ratner is the man!

Rush Hour was funny, and he did a good job with Tower Heist (which was a lot more enjoyable than I thought it would be) and Horrible Bosses, but Red Dragon sucks dead donkey ABCs.

No disagreement on Red Dragon, but what did he have to do with Horrible Bosses?
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

CountDeMoney

I wiki'd it to see what he's done lately, turned out he was a producer.  :P  So fucking sue me, Mr. Industry Man.

katmai

Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 11, 2014, 10:18:10 PM
I wiki'd it to see what he's done lately, turned out he was a producer.  :P  So fucking sue me, Mr. Industry Man.

I wasn't shitting on you, i really didn't know he had any involvement with it.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

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Queequeg

Quote from: Sheilbh on February 11, 2014, 09:29:45 PM
Yeah. I fell out of love with Hopkins Lecter in Hannibal. It just seemed like a dumb person's idea of a cultivated serial killer.
TBH it's actually hilarious that an intellectual property as mediocre as Hannibal Lecter has produced things as wonderful and varied as Hannibal, Manhunter and Silence of the Lambs. 
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

Sheilbh

True enough. Shows what decent directors and actors can do :)

Although I actually think Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs are decently written thrillers. Hannibal is awful though.
Let's bomb Russia!

Queequeg

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I meant the tv show.  Keep in mind, Hannibal is one of my favorite things ever, in the history of the universe. 
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

Queequeg

I kind of disagree with you on Hannibal.  I think it's self-consciously campy in most respects.  The faux-intelligence is to a certain extent by design.
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

Queequeg

Also, the Hannibal soundtrack was used on the final scene in the last episode of Hannibal, which alone would justify the existence of that movie. 
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

celedhring

Dunno, I rarely buy those kind "it's bad *on purpose* arguments". Actually I think it takes itself too seriously given how ridiculous the film is, but it is over the top fun, and if you forget both Manhunter and Lambs. The brain eating scene's got to be one of the most perverse things ever shot in a Hollywood blockbuster.

Red Dragon remake was truly innecessary and - as with most things Rattner - bland and boring. I actually think it's the best book in the Hannibal series. But Manhunter is a fine film.

What's the consensus on the Hannibal series over here by the way? I think Mikkelsen is the only thing holding it. I mean, his character and the rest of the show seem to inhabit two completely different TV worlds. Take some Criminal Minds reject material and insert an amazing character that immediately realizes how stupidly dumb everybody and everything around him is and proceeds to own it just because he can.