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Title: Red Dragon
Post by: 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 (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0091474). 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.

Title: Red Dragon
Post by: Zigrat on May 18, 2003, 08:59:21 AM

i didnt see orig but i think ed norton is awesome

Title: Red Dragon
Post by: Creamo on May 18, 2003, 09:34:59 AM

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

Title: Red Dragon
Post by: Sandman on May 18, 2003, 10:29:26 AM

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

Title: Red Dragon
Post by: Creamo 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.

Title: Red Dragon
Post by: Sandman 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.