For real? Mind blown.

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I wonder if Ted Levine gets tired of calling people on the phone only to have them scream and hang up on him as soon as he starts talking.

It's like the Clark Kent effect, but with icy creepiness instead of glasses!

I can't recall if that ever got retconned out of the novels? Even Thomas Harris must picture Anthony Hopkins as Lecter by now.

I'm afraid to imagine what Hannibal fans would send to NBC offices to convince them not to cancel…

Yeah, Hannibal is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, in that I know what I'm watching isn't exactly great cinema, but it's just so fun to watch.

I hope you drop the "First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself?" line on them!

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I agree, Fiennes was amazing in that role.

There are few films that dropped so precipitously in enjoyment for me as when the synth score erupted into the first few minutes of Ladyhawke.

In the films, I get a dark thrill out of watching Hannibal's exploits — I can't say it's "fun" when he kills someone in those movies, but it's presented in a very entertaining way, and usually the victims have it coming to them to some extent, so the violence is similar to gangster films where I'm not emotionally or…

Gaspard Ulliel does physically resemble Mads more than Hopkins. I haven't seen it either, but it seems like if you separate it from the other films/books it might be reasonably entertaining as just a gruesome revenge flick.

Was Will's fate detailed in Red Dragon? I can only remember an offhand reference in Silence of the Lambs to Will being an alcoholic wreck (and feeling depressed about that).

Yeah, I hate to admit it but the score alone makes it impossible for me to sit through that movie now.

I honestly believed I was the only one who thought that elbow was weird. At last I am not alone in the universe.

Yeah, as depressing as her story was, she totally captured the Weltschmerz of a Clarice on the downward slope of her career, just totally beat down by the system and unable to get out from under the heels of the sexist bastards in charge of her career.

I thought the operatic tone was completely appropriate for a film in which Hannibal is the central character. Unlike in Silence and Red Dragon, here we're seeing Hannibal as he is when completely in his element and within the world he's been set free to construct for himself.

"I must confess, I'm giving serious thought to…eating your mom."

That's what…Miggs said?