Author Topic: Red Dragon (Read 308 times)

Sandman · « **on:** May 17, 2003, 10:55:15 PM »

Just saw Red Dragon. Other than the ending, there really is little difference between this and Manhunter. Of course, I really didn't expect much difference.

FWIW, I thought William Peterson did a better job as Graham and Tom Noonan was far better than Fiennes as the killer, Dollarhyde.

Bottom line... IMHO, the original is better.

Zigrat · « **Reply #1 on:** May 18, 2003, 08:59:21 AM »

i didnt see orig but i think ed norton is awesome

Creamo · « **Reply #2 on:** May 18, 2003, 09:34:59 AM »

The book was better, read it, you'll hate both movies equally.

Sandman · « **Reply #3 on:** May 18, 2003, 10:29:26 AM »

I didn't like the book all that much either.

Creamo · « **Reply #4 on:** May 18, 2003, 10:49:31 AM »

Really?

I read it several times, even got the book on tape. This was years before the “Silence of the Lambs” movie. Once that was a hit, I reread it again and found “Manhunter on video. I didn’t like it much.

The bad part for ManHunter, or Red Dragon, was the actors trying to “act” out, what the book described in great detail during the crime discovery phase. It was comical actually. The book was a page turner.

If you didn’t like the book, I take your movie review accordingly. Nonsense.

Not that it would matter, but the John Sandford "Prey" series is equally is good, and in the same veign.

Sandman · « **Reply #5 on:** May 18, 2003, 11:14:36 AM »

I read Red Dragon after seeing Manhunter. Typically, I expect the book to have more depth than the movie. IMHO, it just wasn't there. I guess that's the real problem with the screen adaptations. The book is so thin, that both movies managed to be nearly identical WRT dialogue.

I've never read SOTL, but I have read Hannibal. Thought it was a crap book destined to be a crap movie. The only big surprise was the change to the ending because the studios don't have the stones to write off the Starling character.

I'm not really into this genre, but I've read some of Caleb Carr's work. IMHO, he's better than Harris.