Red Dragon

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:01pm

What are your thoughts? I had never seen it, but I turned it on since it was the network premiere or whatever. Pretty intense movie, with some good acting.

[hedwig14]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:04pm

Is that the one with Ralph Fiennes?

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:05pm

Funny you started this because I just saw it on one of the cable movie channels a few nights ago.

I thought the actors were the best parts of the movie. I would follow Edward Norton's film career to the end of the earth, and Ralph Fiennes was amazing as well. I'd love to see Ralph tackle "Silas" in Da Vinci Code, because I envisioned the two characters to be really similar.

[CurtainUp2]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:07pm

Much better than Hannibal, but not as good as Silence of the Lambs. Not a bad movie though. Great cast! And the final scenes at the Detective's house are nerve jangling.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:07pm

I agree that the acting was excellent. The movie is just okay.

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:12pm

Yeah, the last scene was the most exciting part for me. Ralph Fiennes was great, as was Edward Norton. I agree that it was better than Hannibal. Silence of the Lambs will still stand on its own as the best in my opinion. Mary Louise Parker, though only onscreen for a small time, was brilliant as usual.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:14pm

not as good as the original

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:14pm

When you mean the original, do you mean "Manhunter?"

[Elphaba]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:16pm

it was the third Hannibal Lector movie.......it wasn't as good as the first

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:17pm

Gotcha. I'm pretty sure that "Red Dragon" is a remake of sorts of the film "Manhunter." I've heard from several people that the latter was a better film.

[Matt_G]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:20pm

Compared to that "hamfisted, ideologically repugnant waste of celluloid" that was HANNIBAL, RED DRAGON was a masterpiece.

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:22pm

So I take it you did not enjoy Hannibal? lol

[Matt_G]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:23pm

HANNIBAL ranks as one of the worst films I've ever witnessed.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:25pm

DAMMIT Matt, you stole my moment!

[Matt_G]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:27pm

Girl, I was wondering why you didn't use it when you had the chance!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:37pm

I know, I know. Well...there's always tomorrow.

Can I use it without quotations so people will think it's my very own witticism?

[Matt_G]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:39pm

Of course you can. But if you get sued by Time Out, don't say I didn't warn you.

[BEKA531]

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:45pm

i'm not a big fan of horror movies. this one especially freaked me out. the mirrors in their eyes... ewwwww. Updated On: 3/6/05 at 10:45 PM

[etoile]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 12:16am

Excellent book of that genre.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 7:53am

they got in over their heads with hannibal. they'd seen the silence of the lambs knock one out of the park, but the book hannibal was so far beyond makeable as a film it's a wonder they managed to make anything at all. reading it you could almost hear thomas harris giggling to himself and saying, "yeah, let's see you put this on the screen!"

red dragon blew, but even blowing it was better than hannibal. that said, manhunter with it's tangerine dream soundtrack and vintage michael mann look was great for what it was and holds up better than either of the latter two films in the lector series. plus brian cox made a very believable hannibal, much more grounded (a more realistic serial killer if that makes ssense), but lacking the mannered menace of hopkins' version.

[broadway86]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 8:25am

I love all of the movies in the "Lecter" trilogy. "Silence of the Lambs" is a classic, but I'm probably the only one who feels that "Hannibal" is excrutiatingly underrated. I think it's beautifully made.

"Red Dragon" was really scary. Great cast.