Upvote for Ted Levine.
Cox is scarier because his portrayal is of an actual serial killer. Hannibal is not a real world serial killer.

Cox was acting like a real sociopath (and in an extremely convincing manner). Which is fine, but not Hannibal Lecter.
Hopkins in SotL IS Hannibal Lecter as envisioned by the book (minor physical discrepancies aside).

It is implied that Hannibal was killing more often on the weeks leading to his capture. Maybe Mason was one of his last victims before Graham figured it was him doing the murders.
Also, I don't think Mason would've been able to give testimony for quite a long time given how extensive his injuries were.

Dammit! You've been spying me, right? That's what I always do when I want to watch crappy movies out of morbid curiosity but don't want to feel guilty about supporting them.

I think LOTR worked precisely because Jackson surrounded himself with people who loved and understood the original work. It also didn't hurt that he is a good director (I can't say the same about Snyder).
His work adapting the novels, though, clearly shows a deep misunderstanding of the main themes which serve as the…

Thank you! You've given me reason to restore my faith in humanity: I'll carry on believing Snyder is illiterate and not just a stupid, horrible human being.

So if a movie is successful, then it means that it is good? Are you Michael Bay?

The Watchmen movie is a horrible mess. The director didn't understand a thing about the themes of the graphic novel, just copied the look and slavishly followed the outline. Reminds of the LOTR movies, but at least Peter Jackson actually knows how to direct a movie.

But revenge does fit in movie-LOTR. Peter Jackson has the sensibility of an emotionally-stunted 13 year old wargamer.

During the original run of 24 I promised I would stop watching when they killed Chloe, but they never did! THEY NEVER DID!

Me too. It felt weird crying over the death of someone you've never even met, but Phil Hartman can do that to you.

Check the book Ereasing Death about how the current resucitation protocols are not very good and are performed for too short time.
Also, it is a known medical fact that Ed Harris can command your heart to beat by his sheer force of will.

Exactly. An amoral monster is more respectful to her (after his initial tear down to test her mettle) than the so-called civilized world.

The thing I missed the most about the adaptation is the reduced part of Ardelia Mapp. She is the other strong, intelligent woman who is fighting within a male-dominated structure to get ahead. She is a lawyer, though, not a psychologist/warrior, and she tacitly accepts the rules and laws imposed upon her. Clarice's…

Read Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal and then we can argue.
The novel explicitly states that Hannibal liked toying with Clarice because she was like a baby predator. At the end of the novels she is no longer a baby, she's her equal.

Hannibal is afraid of Clarice. It's in tje book. She isn't her puppet, like Will in the series, or trying to keep her life, like Bedelia (also in the series). That wasn't his intention: he wanted her sister back and wanted to use Clarice for it (he was also going a bit insaner than usual there). He underestimated…

Did you read the novel? Clarice won. Or at least came to a standoff with the monster who always wins.
And she going willingly with Hannibal is just a natural consequence of her principles: that monster had more integrity than the FBI.
Hannibal mind games (and drugs) only served to free Clarice from an internalized male…