HANNIBAL (NBC)- Page 2

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/6/13 at 6:44pm

Even when Hannibal was grisly, Jane--didn't it seem beautifully put together? That was my sense--every scene, and that's how I felt about this show.

My main worry is it already seems like it's going for procedural of the week--but with frills!--show wise.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/6/13 at 7:10pm

nope, can't say the same, Eric. When I think of Hannibal, this is what comes to mind -

The guy hanging out the window with his guts hanging out in front of all the tourists
The monster that Gary Oldman had become
Ray Liotta at the dinner table with the top of his head gone and his brains hanging out
The scenes with those wild boars eating men alive

SHART!

[StockardFan]

Posted: 4/6/13 at 7:35pm

I completely forgot to watch it.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/6/13 at 8:13pm

But Jane, weren't all those scenes aesthetically well filmed and pleasing? :P I get what you're saying--I just think everything Scott directs is insanely beautiful cinematically speaking--often to the detriment of the film itself (see Legend, White Squall, etc)

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/6/13 at 8:54pm

Eric, seriously, of course I know what you're saying. As an artist, I'm the last one to deny the existence of beauty, even in the least expected places. I've seen beauty in the way war was photographed, for example.

But this time, I think the subject matter was too trashy and horror show for me to get past.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/6/13 at 9:14pm

ERic, for example. I think one of , if not the most beautifully photographed film is Death In Venice. Even with the shots of cholera, Visconti made it beautiful. Mmm, I'm due for another screening!

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/6/13 at 11:21pm

Mann's novella is sorta the same--at least the experience of reading it (and that Mahler music in the film! No wonder Stritch wanted to go to his bakery.) I think it's an awful film. I think the tv show is pretty junky too--and not in the way I like my junk. I actually didn't realize you got what I was saying--so thank you for spelling it out (I can be pretty thick about getting the tone of posts on here.)

I do think Ridley Scott's a better director than Fuller is a show runner--but that's tit for tat, I guess.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/7/13 at 12:00am

Which film and tv show are you saying are awful?

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/7/13 at 12:03am

Hannibal and Hannibal.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/7/13 at 12:07am

I'm confused. So you're saying the film was beautiful, and you extolled the work of Scott, but it was an awful film?

I know it's too late for me to be up and running, so I"m going to bed!

Later, Eric!

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 4/7/13 at 12:09am

Watched it tonight and though it was okay. I'll give it another week.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/7/13 at 12:20am

Jane--you pretty much got what I was saying. Hannibal (the film) is a lot like, for me, Ridley's brother's film The Hunger. I think it's a bad movie. But I think it's beautifully done--not to the extent I think it's elevated by that fact, but.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 4/7/13 at 2:37am

I put it in the, "give it a shot," category until I saw the preview for the rest of the season. This is, "must see," for me. Eddie Izzard?! Gillian Anderson?! I'm in.

[javero]

Posted: 5/23/13 at 7:47pm

Bumped b/c I'm completely hooked on this show.

I swear the show has me thinking of becoming a vegetarian. I'm not really affected by the brutality of the killings. But, the cannibalistic undertones of those ritualistic dinners creep me out.

I saw the similarly named film but missed SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/23/13 at 7:51pm

Oh you must see Silence of the Lambs. One of the best films ever, IMO.

[javero]

Posted: 5/23/13 at 8:00pm

ok, Jane.

Back then, a Jodie Foster film was still a hard sale for me because at the time I still remembered her work as a child actor. I found Kristy McNichol and her a bit annoying growing up.

I liked her work in The Accused seeing it years after it's premiere so I'll take your word and check out Silence of the Lambs soon.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 5/23/13 at 8:22pm

I am just over all the coy "chewing" scenes. "we know something u don't know!" BWAH HA HA HA!
I did like the big fight sequence tho from a professional sense, it was well done. As opposed to rare.

See? u can't escape the lousy food humour!

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/23/13 at 8:38pm

Javero, I think you will find Jody Foster perfect as Clarice Starling. She was an integral part of the superb casting with Anthony Hopkins and TED LEVINE, who puts in a most memorable scene which was a standout for me. Besides having a copy of the film, I still watch it each time it's on tv. I must have seen the thing at least 25 times.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/23/13 at 8:40pm

What is with the moose?

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/23/13 at 8:45pm

I only watch the show for Mads. The fact that the other guy can transport himself to the original scene of the crime makes it science fiction, which Silence and the film Hannibal were not. Yeah, they were bizarre, but not totally out of the realm of possibility.

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/23/13 at 9:58pm

How many of you recognize Dan Fogler (the patient with the crush on Hannibal) from the original cast of Putnam County Spelling Bee?

[John Adams]

Posted: 5/24/13 at 9:30am

>> "The fact that the other guy can transport himself to the original scene of the crime makes it science fiction, which Silence and the film Hannibal were not."

I don't think he transports himself. I think he has an abnormal psychosis (like Hannibal) that allows him to imagine a crime scene so specifically that it seems "real" (he's a kind of savant regarding analysis of criminal behavior).

The filming makes it look like he's "transporting" himself, though. In that sense, it's not really sci-fi.

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/24/13 at 9:55am

I see. But whatever it is, it's sci fi to me. Which is fine, I think what happened with me is that I'm now confused about the story. Maybe I missed a episode. I thought Hannibal himself is the killer, and then it turns out that other people are doing the killing. I'm only going by the films.

Oy, they really lost me last night. I had no idea who that young girl was.

I think I give up.

[John Adams]

Posted: 5/24/13 at 10:16am

I stopped watching a couple of weeks go, but not because the show isn't good.

They have a really good handle on the concept of "it's not what you see that scares you - it's what you don't". A little too good for my sensibilities. The murder/torture scenarios they set up are so grisly that I can't stomach them (literally - my stomach gets in knots).

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/24/13 at 10:20am

yeah, how 'bout that totem pole.