stunt_muppet

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They've made a Hannibal Lecter PREQUEL? About his BACKSTORY?

Thank you, Hollywood, for making want to throw hard candy at you all over again. Cuz, you know, we just didn't have enough of that with X-Men 3(I still hate you all for that movie, by the way).



Remember that whole schpiel I had in my Miami recap, about how overdone the sympathetic villain had become? This is PRECISELY what I was talking about. Hannibal Lecter was so scary because you had no idea why he went from a brilliant psychologist to a cannibalistic serial killer. This man knew everything and gave up information only as he saw fit. He knew more about you than you did, he could think circles around you without even trying, and you didn't have the slightest chance of prying your way into his mind. You coun't break him. You couldn't get any insight into him. Clarise Starling, Buffalo Bill, and whatever that girl's name was that Bill captured were all completely at his mercy.

I don't want to know why Hannibal Lecter is the way he is. I don't care. I don't want him to have some tragic past that drove him mad. I don't want Lecter to be that...that simple. Once you explain him and analyze him, he's just not that interesting anymore. And thus, not as scary.

Also, it's not that I dislike Gaspard Ulleil. It's just that I will accept one man, and one man only, as Hannibal Lecter. And his name is Anthony Hopkins. Discussion over. I'm sorry.

While we're on the topic of movies, if I may address Nic Cage and the cast and crew of Ghost Rider?

PLEASE let this be at least a halfway decent movie. I don't expect it to be good - hell, I don't think even you do. I just want it to be decent. I want to be able to not scream in rage at the movie screen. I want there to be a reason I don't walk out of it besides my $10.50 investment. And Nic, while you're here, I JUST WANT YOU TO BE IN A GOOD MOVIE FOR ONCE. I do. I really, really do. Can't you just sense that? Couldn't you hear me *hurting* during Wicker Man and Gone in 60 Seconds?

So please. For all our sakes.