cinemaforever
29Feb12
Agreed, this drives me insane after every viewing.
finally watched this movie after about 10 years of walking past the DVD in grocery stores, and it's every bit as fantastic as i hoped it would be.
I do like this, but there's just something about it that prevents it from being great.
The ending of this film is brilliant. At least, from a male's perspective. The night vision tinted first-person sequence is surely one of the great statements on voyeurism. Jodie Foster is beautiful, sexy, and vulnerable as she swipes and stumbles through the dark. We have been ogling her the entire film and we ogle her now, except for one major difference: we now share our view with that of Buffalo Bill.
The film's central theme of transformation is here writ ultimate: despite whatever desires we have to advance ourselves we are all still subject to animalistic urges. At that moment we may as well all be serial killers.
I'll never forget the day my grandmother accidentally flipped her TV onto the part when Ted Levine is dancing with his penis tucked into his legs. Good times.
Anthony Hopkins with his roughly 16 minutes screen time truly takes the movie to a whole different level.
"Well shot." The type of well shot that makes you think you'll never possibly live up to the same praise. -- DiB
One of the best whodunits ever, elevated by two brilliant central performances. Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter is a masterclass in acting, and Jodie Foster's Clarice Starling is one of the best protagonists ever written
The best bad movie of modern times. A silly comic book version of the MUCH superior *Manhunter*. Anthony Heald Dr. Chilton is so one dimensional he almost single-handedly renders the film unwatchable. And the dank, dark, cobblestone, "chamber" is laugh out loud preposterous when compared to the pristine, glowing, white of Hannibal's lock-down in MH. That contrast alone is an object lesson in Hollywood V. real life.
this was one of the few movies i could call perfect. the only thing i'd like to add to that is that being from Pittsburgh, it's really cool to see some local stuff in the movie as well.
One of the best thriller ever made. Hannibal Lecter simply one of the greatest villain ever.