So.
Hannibal Rising, the movie.
Brown eyes not blue. Hello. Brown so bright they flicked red. That was only described seventeen hundred times in _each book_. Alright, okay, being too nit picky, pulling a Harry Potter, yadayada, I'll behave.
Oh, for fuck's sakes. First off, let's not only skip the scenes with Hannibal's tutor entirely and when he, at five years old, figured out how to measure buildings based on their shadows. Yes. Let's skip on him learning advanced mathematics which would become one of his defining characteristics as an adult at a young age and developing a strong bond for his tutor which would be one of the first people to die.
Instead lets show him all giggly and happy and playing around like a cute normal little boy. Awww. Inn he cute? Aww, wooky at Hannishnookins. He's such a cute little boy.
For fuck's sakes, way to miss the point.
The thing with Hannibal is that he'd always shown the advanced intelligence which would one day lead him to become one of the most thorough and uncatchable serial killers. He was always intelligent and cunning, freakishly so, so that he operated on an entirely different plane of thought than normal people- Which was why he was so successful. They couldn't catch him because they couldn't predict him. They didn't know how. He'd always shown an intelligent emotional detachment for everything save for his sister, which is why her death marked him.
Honestly, how do you not get that and completely gloss it over?
Hannibal was not a normal kid because Hannibal was never normal. Thats the whole frikking point of the whole frikking book and the whole frikkin series. Hannibal Lecter !/= Normal.
DID THEY JUST SHOW HIM CRYING?
Screw it. No way can I watch this. I refuse.
Be honest. These are the same people behind the atrocity that was Hannibal, aren't they?
Fine. I'll keep watching it because I'm a horrible glutton for punishment.
AND AGAIN WITH THE CRYING.
AAAAAAGHGJKFL:HJKLDS:JLMMFHKL. DID YOU SIMPLY NOT READ THE BOOK, DIRECTORMAN?
Hello. Even when his sister, the only thing he cared about, ever, died, He, get this, DIDN'T CRY. jkdlg;zdgd. Because. Yet again. HE IS COMPLETELY EMOTIONALLY DETACHED. ALWAYS HAS BEEN. THIS WAS NOT A BOOHOO POST WAR TRAUMA DISORDER. THIS WAS HOW HE ALWAYS WASL:F:"FD:S".
The point of the book was never, ever to sympathize with Hannibal. Ever. It was to show how he got to be what he was. Hannibal is not a sympathetic character because he is not like us, and that was one of the things the book had to show.
Oh dear God.
They showed Hannibal, Hannibal Lecter, of Silence of the Lambs fame, being afraid of someone eating a bird raw.
..Hello.
Hannibal. Afraid.
God. I'm just. No. Not worth it. I'll break my keyboard. I'll just eat this here apple in RAGE.
DID YOU JUST SKIP ON THE WHOLE EATING MISCHA BIT AND WHEN HE FINDS HER BABY TEETH?
Sweet mother of God. Did- But- The WHOLE THING with the bathtub is- But- AAGHFJKJKKJLKLJ:KJ:LG.
MAY YOU DINE IN HELL, DIRECTORMAN. DINE IN HELL.
Atleast teenager!hannibal actor is dead on. Yes please. Hot AND accurate? Awesome. (Hot in the same way Anthony Hopkins was hot. Aaaall in the attitude.)
Also. My memmory is hazy, but didn't Hannibal's uncle find him and not the other way around?
Please tell me his uncle is not dead in this. Please, please tell me his uncle is not dead in this. If you love me, you will tell me his uncle is not dead in this.
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RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKLGDS:DKSGDSL"GKDLG"
JGKLDS:GJDSKGJD:GC KVBLK:DK:L DGKL:DGLK:DGLK:
*HEADESKY DESKY DESK DESK*
Canon. Fuck. His uncle wasn't dead and pretty much adopted Hannibal which was what made his whole crush of NinjaBabe all the more perverse and taught Hannibal self fucking control. AHFJGKL. HOW DO YOU NOT GET THAT. I DEMAND TO KNOW.
This movie makes me angry.
It makes me angry.
Aw, he has a dimpl-
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I approve of this actor as Hannibal. But, just like Anthony Hopkins in Hannibal, too bad his talents go to waste in such an epic LOSE of FAIL proportions.
GODDAMNIT I JUST WANT TO HUG HIM >:(
........Icky icky plotdevice!Butcher taping ninjababe on the ass? I so don't think so.
OH MY GOD HIS VOICE.
He has George Takei voice. It's just. OMGVOICE. You hear it and you're like. OMGVOICE.
"yum!" I would go. So straight. So fast. For that man.
'Good evening, my lady' Do. me.
HAH, DIRECTORMAN. You just screwed yourself in the ass with a rusty tailpipe! When he takes the polygraph they say he reacts to nothing, but not four scenes ago you had him crying and screaming. I don't think one wakes up one morning with a complete lack of emotions that had at one point been there, you utter dumbfuck. Yet again, way to miss the whole point. You understand part of this series was to be a psychological thriller? So how's about you study some, oh I don't know, psychology!
Hahaha. They play the music from the Hannibal. They come together like that, sharing a bond of book rapeage and suckage.
I LOVE THIS ACTOR. And, I assure you, for purely sinful reasons. Oh, take me. Take me now <3
What. The fuck. When did Ninjababe ever go with him on his death rampages?
And on that note, in the riverboat scene. SHOVE OFF, NINJABABE X(
What part of HE ATE MY SISTER and POURED ACID DOWN PEOPLES THROATS and OWNS SLAVES do you NOT GET? Hello SLOW AND PAINFUL DEATH.
Um.
WHAT IN THE WHAT IN THE WHATTYNESS HOW ABOUT WE JUST SKIP THE ENTIRE ENDING ALTOGETHER??! WHATWHATWHAT HELLO WHAT?! LETS IGNORE ATLEAST FOUR CHAPTERS?! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAHJKLDG WHERE THE- HOW THE- BUT YOU- AND- AAAAAAHJKldGGDbvdsBV.
YOU FILL ME WITH RAGE, DIRECTORMAN!
He just- He just- He just skipped the whole ending?!?! What the fucky fuckingness fucker? AAAGH!
So. I am angry. Very angry.
Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragons VS Hannibal and Hannibal Rising movies.
The win and suckage are even.
These are not good odds.
Hollywood, I was going to forgive you for Hannibal. I really, really was, Hollywood. We had such a good history, you and I. What with Silence of the Lambs and Anthony Hopkins. I really thought we had something going, you know? But then you spring up Hannibal on me and I just.. I didn't know if I could ever trust you again. And then you bring up Red Dragon and you remind me just why I loved you in the first place, and with that it was a promise that you were over Hannibal and that you would never do something like that to me ever again. But now.. You spring this up on me? I'm sorry, Hollywood. I just.. I can't do this anymore. I'm going to have to move on.
Oh, Thomas Harris. I still love you. Now I know what to read, at least. Yes, I might as well have it memorized, but Silence of the Lambs, you'll always be there for me <3