Thomas Harris...

morgan_mom · #1 (**permalink**) 01-19-2007, 09:02 PM

anyone read the Hannibal books??? I just finished and have restarted Hannibal Rising. and I saw a preview for the movie tonite!! I cant WAIT to see this... though of course it wont be as good as the book... Hannibal was no where NEAR as good as the book.

BUt I will have to see it anyway...LOL

lawgal2002 · #2 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 08:11 PM

I have read all but the one that is just about to be released in theaters. One of my ALL time favorite movies is "Silence of The Lambs!" It is about to be released in a new DVD with 22 deleted scenes! I cannot wait to get it!

morgan_mom · #3 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 11:47 PM

Well I will have to rebuy it then...LOL

HR is a very very good book. Definatly gives insight into what makes him the way he is.

hammerwoman · #4 (**permalink**) 01-24-2007, 02:23 PM

I want to read HR really bad. I have read Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, and Hannibal. I heard some guy on the radio crapping all over this book...he was saying that it was weak and was not at all like the other books.

I agree the Hannibal the movie was not even close to being as good as the book. I liked Red Dragon as movie although I think they could have found a better Francis...I didn't think Ralph Fiennes was physically the right guy for the part.

Okay everyone is probably thinking that I am a weirdo now....I promise I am not....I just love scary books..

morgan_mom · #5 (**permalink**) 01-26-2007, 05:00 PM

The Hannibal movie was great. But they should have ended it like the book. THat is what sux about making books into movies... they can really ruin a good one!!

lawgal2002 · #6 (**permalink**) 01-27-2007, 07:09 PM

Refresh my memory of Red Dragon. Did that one have the guy that got burned up in the wheelchair? And the Dragon guy (Fiennes) lived in that big house? I have seen so many creepy movies that I cannot keep them apart.

I bought Hannibal Rising the other day but haven't started it!

morgan_mom · #7 (**permalink**) 01-28-2007, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by lawgal2002

Refresh my memory of Red Dragon. Did that one have the guy that got burned up in the wheelchair? And the Dragon guy (Fiennes) lived in that big house? I have seen so many creepy movies that I cannot keep them apart.

I bought Hannibal Rising the other day but haven't started it!

Thats the one...

The guy that worked at the photo lab....

**jetta_07** · #8 (**permalink**) 02-01-2007, 05:39 PM

Ive read all of the Thomas Harris books except this one...I LOVED Red Dragon (read it before movie came out.) I liked Silence of the Lambs a lot, but it was fairly predictable since I'd already seen the movie a few times. I remember the other books hinted at what Hannibal's childhood was like and I've always wanted to learn more.
I think I am alone in that i did not care much for Hannibal the book...I enjoyed the other 2 a lot more. I need to go to the library and check this out or else wait until its out in paperback.

**jetta_07** · #9 (**permalink**) 02-01-2007, 05:42 PM

Did anyone else know that the first movie version of Red Dragon came out in 1986?
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morgan_mom · #10 (**permalink**) 02-03-2007, 10:06 PM

Yep, I have had it for a long time, I like it much better than the new one.
THat movie is when I fell in love w/ William Peterson

scatterusaway · #11 (**permalink**) 02-04-2007, 08:54 PM

I finished HR yesterday, and I liked it, although I was expecting something much different. I don't think it was quite as good as the first three books with Hannibal in them, but those three made me wonder about the character so much that it inclined me to read HR. I would probably read almost anything Harris wrote at this point

**shelley** · #12 (**permalink**) 02-10-2007, 06:54 PM

I'll never forget in Red Dragon when Fiennes stuffed that drawing into his mouth. I cracked up.

scatterusaway · #13 (**permalink**) 02-10-2007, 07:20 PM

I was just thinking today...did anyone else find it odd that they didn't mentioned the six-fingered thing at all in Hannibal Rising? They mention it in all of the other three books, and I figure something would have happened about it in Hannibal Rising, but it wasn't in the book at all. Maybe I'm just a weirdo and am thinking about it too much

morgan_mom · #14 (**permalink**) 02-10-2007, 07:23 PM

^ There was a few things that I thought should be addressed that werent and that was certainly one of them....

lawgal2002 · #15 (**permalink**) 03-25-2007, 10:03 PM

I finished HR over the weekend and am now obsessed with seeing the movie!!

morgan_mom · #16 (**permalink**) 03-26-2007, 11:34 AM

did you love it?

lawgal2002 · #17 (**permalink**) 03-26-2007, 12:45 PM

I loved it more than I thought! I wonder if there is room (age wise) for another prequel between HR and Red Dragon!!??

ecks_oh · #18 (**permalink**) 03-26-2007, 05:33 PM

You can watch the film Hannibal Rising on Youtube. The user 'everydaymushroom' uploaded the entire film into like 15 parts. Really good quality too.