Miker,
Re your comment below:
> It [RED DRAGON] was a real
disappointment.
> MANHUNTER had some fantastic
> scenes in it. I thought the one where
Hannibal
> tweeked the phone with the
> gum
> wrapper to get another line out of the prison
was
> great. It was a subtle
> demon-
> stration of how smart he was. And MANHUNTER had
a
> violent, wicked,
> hardboiled shotgun ending to it that was lacking
in
> RED DRAGON. And the
> bad guy in MANHUNTER was WAY badder-looking than
the
> RED DRAGON
> one.
I haven't seen the remake with Hopkins and so can't give the
comparative analysis you do, but I agree that MANHUNTER was
great, and the main reason I haven't bothered to see RED
DRAGON yet is that I was pretty sure it wouldn't be as
good.
JIM DOHERTY
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