A friend came over this afternoon with the video Hannibal that we watched before he had to leave for work.
GOOD HELL! What a boring piece of gory crap that was!! I found myself actually dozing off a few times then wishing it would just get the hell over!!
Did anyone like this movie?
Just saw it last night and I couldn’t agree more. What a waste of two hours. Much less of a thriller than Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal was more of a horror movie - and quite a bad one at that. The critics gave bad reviews for a reason.
I just saw it Wednesday night, and I thought it sucked. It was gory, creepy, gross, even disgusting (the end, with Ray Liotta - good Lord! I couldn’t even watch!) but not good. I nearly dozed off myself. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Definitely not worth the two hours I wasted on it.
I just bought the DVD this afternoon, haven’t watched it yet. I thought the book was pretty good…
What a coincidence, I just watched it now-- I thought it was okay, but the end kiss/handcuff/wrist-cutting (hope that’s vague enough not to spoil the movie) seemed very… Fake. Unnecesary. Uncharacteristic. Whatever. It was good until the end.
Hate to break it to you, but the movie isn’t anything at all like the book. I liked the book’s ending and was sorely disappointed when I saw the movie.
Good thing there’s Manhunter and The Silence of the Lambs.
Well, if I don’t like it I’ll file it next to my Mission to Mars DVD and pretend I never bought it. 
I didn’t like the way the book ended to tell you the truth. It’s been awhile since I read it, but I remember wanting something more.
I thought it was fairly boring. Starts off with a nice action scene. Then an hour and a half of nothing. Then some gore. Another half hour of nothing. Top it off with one of the most disturbing scenes I’ve seen put to film.
I don’t know. If you’re not disgusted by the end scene, you should probably start examining yourself and your world view.
I’m wondering how they defended themselves with that scene. It’s quite obviously gore for gore’s sake. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for gore, but movie studios don’t do that sort of thing without an explanation.
Whatever. Two hours of nothing and that scene. I thought it made it worth it (almost). Especially entertaining with an audience. You should have heard the sounds coming out of the audience when I saw this one.
But hey, it was beautifully shot, wasn’t it?
I liked the movie very much. Not a lot of killing that’s not so important but I found myself on the edge of my seat thinking that it probably would happen right around the next corner. Anticipation, I love it.
The ending (last 30-40 mins) did kinda turn my stomach but I kinda got a kick out of that too. Sort of like the dinner scene in “Indiana JOnes and the Temple of Doom”.
Just finished watching it on DVD.
This Movie Sucked
Period
Nothing but gory scenes with more gory scenes added on. I usually have a strong stomach for movie gore, but the ending was close to too much. Whoever thought that up is one sick f**k ;). There must have been some reaction in the theater during the brain scene if the reaction of me and my friends was any indication.
Was so boring I didn’t bother to go through the special features on the DVD. I usually go through all of them, including when the director/producer talk though the entire movie again. For this one I had no interest.
Have never really liked Ridely Scott in his most recent work, and this doesn’t help.
SPOILER ALERT!!!
I can apply the same epitaph to this movie as someone did to 200 Motels :
“A visually exciting waste of time.”
I loved the photography and it was wonderfully produced and filmed. Sad that it couldn’t have had a better story to go with the photography. I liked the book quite a bit better and although I was dissappointed in what happens to Starling at the end, at least it had an arc, and the book leads you to that conclusion. In the movie it just seems like an extended chase scene where the killer continues to get away, even at the end. I fear that the producers see a gold-mine in this: the ending screams for a sequel and they are really in danger of making Hannibal into a cartoon character like Jason or Mike Myers.
Also, was it just me or did anyone see and real impetus for the doctor who was caring for Mason Verger to push him over the side? Maybe I missed it, and there seemed to be some mild abuse on Verger’s part, but nothing that I saw that would drive him to such an extreme act.
I also never really understood why Starling was so intent on trying to find Lechter herself. If he was as bad as everyone thought he was, he would have been the subject of an international manhunt. Even if her ties to the FBI were being broken, all she would have had to do was place a call to Interpol and give them the information.
All I can say is that I’m glad I rented it before I decided to buy it. I can’t really say it’s a bad film … just a waste of a lot of talent.
Good idea.
The book ending left me thinking “And…?” But I found it more satisfying than the movie ending. I could understand why Clarice did what she did in the book; in the movie, I stopped caring about what she did after the shootout scene. And I thought Lecter stayed truer to his character in the book.
The book sucked but the movie kicked ass.
No Tony, the movie sucked ass.
Did anyone see a huge resemblence between Mason Verger and the Jim Carey’s Grinch?
I agree Euty, what the hell did I miss that made him push Verger off the platform? Was he in his Verger’s will? Did he want to see him stop suffering? Had he been abused by Verger? If so, why didn’t he just quit?
Yeah, I thought the part on the plane with the poor little boy about to eat brain out of a Tupperware container was gruesome to the point of stupidity. Was that supposed to be funny?
Yuck, yuck, yuck. Yuck.
Heh … I just got this weird vision of Jim Carrey playing Mason Verger as Fire Marshall Bill.
OMG! I think they are all the same character!
READ THE BOOK!!! It’s so much better.