Of course I realize that. I hadn’t thought about either in some time, until this thread. But I had a visceral reaction to HANNIBAL (the book; the movie is better, about the only time I’ve ever written that), just as you have an visceral reaction to some idiot in IMHO calling Batman “a trust fund baby who dresses up as a flying gerbil.” 
I don’t think less of people who.cheer for Lecter, any more than I think less of people who like rap music. I just disagree with their taste.
Do you mean Lecter’s legally insane, or clinically unwell?
Well, let me pose this question to you, Miller, and anyone else to whom it may apply:
I read a review of * Independence Day, * in which the critic noted that the audience cheered at the destruction wreaked in Manhattan, for one. The critic himself commented on the audience’s apparently distorted values.
Are you sure the audience wasn’t applying their own philosophy in their appraisal of the movie?
Yes, I am absolutely sure that the millions of people who saw Independence Day do not actually want to blow up Manhattan.
What does it say about audience philosophies that nobody has ever seemed distressed that Mickey Mouse plucked out a tune on a sow’s teats in Steamboat Willie?
Probably because they thought “Neat trick if you can do it.”
As for the other movie, I happen to know that it was cancelled by ABC as a Sunday Night Movie a few weeks after 9/11 and replaced with * Mrs. Doubtfire. * Now why do you suppose the network did that?
Unsure as to the first, definitely as to the second. And I think that’s what Harris intended.
Comedies go over better at times like that than blowing things up.
And I thought it was just fiction and wouldn’t matter…:rolleyes:
I’m not sure what point you are trying to make, now. 
I, too, am lost.
Well, I’ve shifted my point: You say that to the audience it doesn’t matter but to the TV network it does matter. Somewhat inconsistent.
No one is saying it doesn’t matter. We’re saying that you can’t assume anything about the morals of the people watching a movie if they enjoy something you don’t.
I definitely cheered. Manhatten needs to be destructed. Wall Street Fat Cats secretly running, and non-secretly ruining, this country. That corrupt evil institution the UN. Those smelly hippies in Greenwich Village and don’t even get me started on the theater district.
Are you aware that the TV audience and TV network are two separate entities and can have two different interests?
Because people watch movies like Independence Day for escapism, and at that particular point in time, what they wanted to escape was incessant footage of actual buildings being blown up in New York.
Nuke the smelly hippies.
Slight hijack: It looks like San Fran gets it in San Andreas. /hijack
I assume you did not feel this way on September 11, 2001.
Maybe s/he can separate life from fiction? You like to see movie bad guys get what they deserve - do you also enjoy seeing real life criminals get executed?
As an example of what I’m talking about the show Hannibal basically has Lecter as the main character, or at least sharing equal screen time. And this depiction by Mikkleson actually makes him seem like a serial killer cannibal, cold inhuman and creepy. He is not only killing the rude here.
Yet bizarrely everyone around him seems to regard him as the more charming version played by Hopkins, apparently he is a social bon vivant although we the audience get no hint as to why he would be regarded so.