Movie of Hannibal sucked!

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I try to keep wifey barefront, pregnant, and in the kitchen but this afternoon she insisted we go see that there movie Hannibal. Well let me tell ya, that was the fakiest show I've seen since Porky's 2! For one thing in this part of the country, when we feed somebody to the hogs we do it differently. A lot different! We don't use them big toothy wild boars cause they don't make it last long enough. You got to use them Yorkshires with medium length ivory in their mouths so it takes longer to chew. Have to strip your victim naked cause belts and suspenders get stuck halfway down and ya got to fish it out! And the most important part is the seasoning. We mix 1 quart of molasses, 1 pint dill pickle juice, and half can of Copenhagen cause them pigs love chewin tobacco!

-- Boswell (cjseed@webtv.net), March 03, 2001

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Boswell: the real problem is the producer changed the ending of the movie from Harris' original book. The movie ending didn't make sense and did make Starling look like an absolute loser. Also, in the movie, Hannibal comes off as monster. In the book, there's more motivation given for his habits, and while he's still horrific, readers can occasionally sympathize with him. I liked Silence of the Lambs a lot better.

-- (Weeble@wee.ble), March 03, 2001.

I didn't think much about the pigs. I did like the dinner hannibal prepared at the end. I started laughin and I couldn't quit. Everyone in the theatre thought I was sick. It reminded me of back home. How my dad would prepare cows brain. Dad cutten and sawen while the cow just stood there lookin at me. Boy did that bring back some good memories. I left there and had a steak dinner.

-- Bullshiter's Daughter (nm1jt@juno.com), March 03, 2001.

Man Allegedly Attacks Moviegoers

The Associated Press Friday, March 2, 2001; 7:32 a.m. EST

STAMFORD, Conn. –– A screening of the movie "Hannibal" included some real-life violence when a man attacked three movie-goers, police said.

Michael O'Neil, 24, started acting irrationally minutes after the movie began Wednesday, said police Sgt. Andrew Gallagher.

"He got up and started screaming and yelling and proceeded to strike three patrons," Gallagher said. "All the people in the theater fled for fear of their safety and notified management."

He was charged with assault, breach of peace and interfering with police.

When police arrived at the Stamford theater, O'Neil struggled with officers and tried to kick several of them before he was restrained, authorities said.

The thriller starring Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore is about a cannibal serial killer.

Two people suffered minor injuries, but did not require medical treatment, police said. © Copyright 2001 The Associated Press

-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), March 03, 2001.

Man Allegedly Attacks Moviegoers

The Associated Press Friday, March 2, 2001; 7:32 a.m. EST

STAMFORD, Conn. –– A screening of the movie "Hannibal" included some real-life violence when a man attacked three movie-goers, police said.

Michael O'Neil, 24, started acting irrationally minutes after the movie began Wednesday, said police Sgt. Andrew Gallagher.

"He got up and started screaming and yelling and proceeded to strike three patrons," Gallagher said. "All the people in the theater fled for fear of their safety and notified management."

He was charged with assault, breach of peace and interfering with police.

When police arrived at the Stamford theater, O'Neil struggled with officers and tried to kick several of them before he was restrained, authorities said.

The thriller starring Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore is about a cannibal serial killer.

Two people suffered minor injuries, but did not require medical treatment, police said.

© Copyright 2001 The Associated Press

-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), March 03, 2001.

Weeble, you're right about the movie not not bein as interesting as the book. If I could have directed it I would have Hannibal cut that guys diaphram and let everything hang out when he dropped out that window and let his lungs bounce up and down on his windpipe. They would really head for the exits then! Would have grossed twice as much! Bullshitters daughter, I reacted the same way you did when that actor Ray Liotta was just sitten there with his scull cap off with his gray exposed. Wifey and I were up about 2 rows from the front and when they showed that I laughed my ass off. They were all whisperin behind us after that and wouldn't shut up. I told the usher they were disruptle.

-- Boswell (cjseed@webtv.net), March 03, 2001.


We saw the movie last weekend, but I hadn't read the book. I was disappointed that the movie lacked the suspense of Silence of the Lambs. SO is a big fan of classical music, so he thought the movie was great just for the music.

I don't pretend to know anything about wart hogs or wild boars, but are they really carnivorous? Some say that a really good movie leads one to think about the movie for hours [even days] afterwards. I'd admit that I thought about some scenes for hours [even days] afterwards, but I can't say that the thoughts extended beyond the carnivorous question and "What in the world IS the drug they called Pappy?" What drug could lead one to slice off one's own face, thinking it was a good idea at the time? Is it the same one that had the guy sitting in a chair at the end not noticing that his brain was being sliced?

I probably wouldn't have noticed this had Betty Bowers not done a preview of the movie, but the guy who'd sliced off his own face said something to the female FBI agent [If I had a memory for names, I'd use them] to the extent that he was at peace with his God, noting that she could look at his face, but averted her eyes when he mentioned God.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), March 03, 2001.


I'm not normally a Roger Ebert fan because of his sarcasm, but I think he nailed "Hannibal":

http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2001/02/020901.html

Ridley Scott's "Hannibal" is a carnival geek show elevated in the direction of art. It never quite gets there, but it tries with every fiber of its craft to redeem its pulp origins, and we must give it credit for the courage of its depravity; if it proves nothing else, it proves that if a man cutting off his face and feeding it to his dogs doesn't get the NC-17 rating for violence, nothing ever will.

The film lacks the focus and brilliance of "The Silence of the Lambs" for a number of reasons, but most clearly because it misplaces the reason why we liked Hannibal Lecter so much. He was, in the 1991 classic, a good man to the degree that his nature allowed him to be. He was hard-wired as a cannibal and mass murderer, true, but that was his nature, not his fault, and in his relationship with the heroine, FBI trainee Clarice Starling, he was civil and even kind. He did the best he could. I remember sitting in a restaurant with Anthony Hopkins as a waitress said, "You're Hannibal Lecter, aren't you? I wish my husband was more like you."

[snip! see Eb ert Review for the rest.

-- kb (kb8um8@yahoo.com), March 03, 2001.


Anita reads Betty Bowers?

-- pep boy (peppy@preppy.petty), March 03, 2001.

pep boy aka bardou, do you want to tell us why you are so jealous of Anita?

-- (quit@hiding.coward), March 03, 2001.

Anita, you get them hogs hungry enough they'll eat ya dirty underwear and all. Mostly the boars "male" will eat you because that's just their nature. You throw meat to em and it don't matter whether it's pork or fish and with the teeth that they've got, by God, you got the makens of some pretty shocking things. Sloppin the hogs means more than just feeding time. The old boys in Arkansas and Missouri know what I'm talkin about!

Had a six year old kid once in Grangeville that disappeared around 80 or 81. The last time they saw him he was playin out next to the hog sheds. His folks had a huge pig farm and that was the only thing they could come up with that made any since. Tragic thing!

-- Boswell (cjseed@webtv.net), March 03, 2001.



pep boy if you really are Bardou, why don't you talk to us? I'd like to know what's happened in your life in the last year.

I'm not going to bother giving my "real" name if you don;t though.

-- (How@have you.been?), March 03, 2001.


Take your fucking war with Bardou to some other board! Nobody here gives a damn, we've all moved on.

-- (notthis@shit.again), March 03, 2001.

Hi Bardou. Does that mean you're not going to answer?

-- (Old Glory@home.nest), March 03, 2001.

Oh please don’t stop the music! You ignorant morons that argue in cyber space are the only reason I visit this zoo. You people must be a real load, IRL.

-- Play (it@gain.Sam), March 04, 2001.

I thought that the first movie in the series, "Manhunt," sucked like a Hoover vacuum. The second, "Silence of the Lambs," was very good. I haven't seen Hannibal yet (thought Sandy really wants to do so), but from what I've read, I'm not exactly dying to do so.

-- Stephen M. Poole (smpoole7@bellsouth.net), March 04, 2001.


You people must be a real load, IRL

Anyone care to translate for 'this' forum moron.

um, thanks.

-- sumer (shh@aol.con), March 04, 2001.


Good morning.

-- (good@morn.ing), March 04, 2001.

Good morning???

Hell,it's still last night,ain't it?

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), March 04, 2001.


hey good morning to you too!!!

Its a good thing to wake up w/out a headache, eh? :-)

-- sumer (shh@aol.con), March 04, 2001.


Who in the hell is this ‘sumer’? I was commenting on the ‘morons’ in the above argument and ‘sumer’ raises his/her hand. Thanks for the heads up.

-- Play (it@gain.Sam), March 04, 2001.

Alright, who's the wise ass? Somebody found out where I live and turned the pigs out last nite. I had the boar in a separate pen from 9 sows and they're all out in the barn lot this morning. Lester porked 2 sows before I got em separated! And some time in the night he raided the chicken house and I'm short 3 hens. So don't tell me them damn things ain't carnivoros!

-- Boswell (cjseed@webtv.net), March 04, 2001.

Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sendig pigs to a slaughterhouse inBonn Germany. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two helpless protesters to death.

-- Boswell (cjseed@webtv.net), March 05, 2001.

I saw the flick - The Hannibal character has been dumbed down, and the violence is more prevalent and gross than in TSOTL.

I agree with Ebert's take on it, it's nothing but an spiring geekshow, if this doesn't get NC-17, nothing deserves to.

A local columnist recently wrote about how when he went to see this movie, there was a 3-year old girl with her parents two rows behind him throughout the whole thing. The parents never walked out, even when other patrons mentioned that maybe this wasn't material for a 3-year old to witness. Those parents should be fed to Boswell's Yorkshires.

-- Bemused (and_amazed@you.people), March 06, 2001.


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