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will it be successful without whats-her-face?

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I dunno them cannibal hogs make it sound kinda B-grade to me....

The Book sucked ass.

From what I hear so did the hogs...

I absolutely refuse to see this movie.

i really liked the first one. i thought it was genuinely disturbing. but, i liked the fact that lecter was a genius. that just made it very appealing to me (in a lex luthor sorta way).

however... this second one... i've heard the plot is kinda corny. is it true they ..

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..fall in love?

my cousin read the book, and when he told me thats what happened, i thought he was just messin around... then i heard the story from others, as well. .... thats pretty bad.

Have so far skipped the flick, having read the book a few years ago. But I did go out and buy the Special Edition DVD of "MANHUNTER", which I actually enjoy more than "Silence of the Lambs", because in my opinion, "Red Dragon" is Harris' best book.

Falling in love would be getting off light.
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After a wildly implausible series of really dull chase scenes and anti climaxes, Lector drugs and hypnotizes clarice (with a crossbow string) and they both eat the brain of her CO. He then suckles from her breast and makes allusions to his dead sister. Clarice in turn, promises that this is one breast he will never be turned away from.
3 years later, the orderly from SoTL just happens to be in Rio, and just happens to see Clarice and Lector whoring around town. It sends a chill down his spine and he runs away. It is revealed to the reader that clarice is still entranced (after 3 years) and if she ever hears that crossbow string again, she'll wake up.

I wouldn't make something this inane up.

And Red Dragon was the best book of the 3.

me am not read books goodness.

well, at least that hypnotize thing sounds better than the love situations i heard of.

i liked silence of the lambs because hanibal was ruthless, pure evil... but yet INCREDIBLY intelligent (again, like a lex luthor). i did NOT like it because he ate brains and/or made out with chicks.

I never got around to seeing Cannibal. What happened?

Gaaah, despite reading this thread and my own better judgment, I just got back from seeing Hannibal. It was exactly as I expected: an unnecessary sequel full of shock value to squeeze money out of fans of the first one. And I totally deserved losing five bucks and two hours of my life, because I was warned.

The hog thing was just ludicrous. What kind of stupid revenge plot is that? It sounds like something a loser James Bond villain would pull, only with something genuinely cool, like sharks or crocodiles! Gary Oldman was pretty hard on the eyes too, and he used the same voice he used in The Fifth Element.

There was no love story as I had feared, but the anticlimactic dinner scene was completely gratuitous. I don't mind violence, but I hate gore for gore's sake, which is why I don't watch slasher/horror movies. Completely over-the-top and silly. And again, I guess I shouldn't complain because I saw it coming a mile away.

Also, I know we're supposed to empathize with Lecter, or like him to an extent, but I cannot. He is an evil monster. I didn't like him in the first movie either--lesser of two evils, maybe, but an evil serial killer cannibal nonetheless! I refuse to think of him (or Freddy Krueger, or Jason, or DC's Lobo, etc.) as an "antihero." He is a villain, and I can't root for the villain. This is also why I've lost my patience with the WWF, but that's another rant for another time.

Here there was no sense of closure or justice having been done, and I left feeling rather unfulfilled. I thought it ended too abruptly, but that brings to mind an old joke: Two women at a Catskill Mountains resort, and one of them says, "The food is really terrible here!" And the other woman says, "Yes, and such small portions!" Well, Hannibal is predictable, unnecessarily disgusting, and over much too quickly... and yes, the food is really terrible too.