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I've been a bit lacking on the posting front of late.

So... stuff...

We saw Rise of the Silver Surfer last week. It was entertaining fluff - not a patch on the X-Men movies but not nearly as irritating as the pretentious, emo wall crawler. We may go and see Die Hard 4.0 tonight, which I'm quite looking forward to. Oh, and the Transformers trailer

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[bossythecow]

Manhunter is awesome, one of my favourite films. My dad made me watch it when I was about 12 or so. My 10 year old brother and 13 year old sister watched it with me on Saturday. 13 year old sister and I had a fascinating talk about human psychology and why humans have emotions like love, familial bonds, compassion, etc. (family rules dictate once you are old enough to understand fiction is fiction you can watch what you like. mad hippy parents, children are just small people and can to make their own choices, etc)

Cox's Lecktor is far superiour to the pantomime baddy Lecter by Hopkins.

Lecktor is meant to be Eastern-European, of aristocratic descent and then went to America quite young, so I think for a cultured european who believes themself as superior Lecktor does English would be the accent he would chose to adopt when speaking English to Americans. Hopkins accent is a right mangling of nothing much at all!

I want to read Hannibal Rising but have no desire to see the film. However I don't like the whole Nazis ate my sister backstory. Lecter's other brief explinations about his canibalism are far better. I love Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal even with Hopkins' pantomime dame Lecter. Red Dragon (the film) is a disaster.

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I'd heard that the film of Hannibal Rising was awful but that the book wasn't much better, because it was very much a novel written with the sole intention of making a movie of it.

Of course, seeing Manhunter and noting that it was made in '86 made me realise that Grissom is a little too old for a crush. Matters were not improved when I imdbed Petersen and discovered that he's a grandfather! I fancy a gandfather!

Red Dragon was the same book as Manhunter, yes? So was old Ralph being the Tooth Fairy? Surely he can't match up to the creepiness of Noonan? Who, incidentally, has apparently been a baddie of the week on CSI - I'll have to check which epsiode so I can acquire it and see Graham vs. Tooth Fairy round 2

How does Harris spell the name in the books? I noticed the different spelling in Manhunter.

[bossythecow]

In the books, Lecter. Manhunter is an inspired by film rather than a straight film of the novel, and I am not sure if they cahnged the name partly for that reason or because someone thought lecktor sounded or looked creepier, or more eastern european sounding. I imdb'd to see if I have seen the episode, I have - season 3 episode 5 noonan plays a magician.

I think it's to live and die in LA where you get to see Grissom's nekkid and rather nice ass. it's disturbing, nice ass, argh it's grissom's...nice ass, argh grissom! etc. I caught a film on very late one night years ago that had Peterson is it. with his nekkid backside. he has nice arms in Manhunter. an the smoking makes me laugh - nowadays only bad guys smoke 20 years ago troubled good guys were allowed to smoke too. and it's sooo eighties. the soundtrack is excellent, and in da gadda da vida is brilliantly used, I went to sleep before the end this time but I remember vividly as a kid being amazed by the final scenes with the music and crashing glass. I did try to watch red dragon a while ago when it was on film 4 but Dolarhyde is supposed to be creepy and disfigued no ralphie in rubbish make-up. Noonan was just WEIRD and the red dragon remake was only done to get in Hopkins' lecter and make it part of the hopkins/lecter franchise.

haha I forgot Cox was in Red Dwarf once. danm I miss red dwarf, must buy DVD's.....

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Grissom's bum! Not seen either episode (with Noonan or with Grissom's bum). Even Dan admitted on sunday that Grissom is a very fanciable character. For an older gentleman Petersen still has a boyish smile and those rather pretty blue eyes. Add to that my affection for gentlemen and geneii and I was bound to develop a crush.

Why doesn't Grissom ever leap through plate glass windows to save the girl?

I still maintain that Griss is borderline sociopathic, though, and that a good shove would push him over the edge and make Lecter (or, more fittingly, Lecktor) seem fluffy in comparison. I would not want to be in Vegas the day that man blows. Considering the season 7 cliffhangar, 8 might prove very interesting indeed.

[bossythecow]

it's a film with young grissom bottom in it.

Grissom is a very interesting character but I am not at all happy that he's now shagging Sarah as I thin it was a lot better when it was all angsty with the tension and unrequited love on both counts. The episode with a victim who looked like Sarah and had been killed by her older lover was just brilliant. Now it's all ruined.

Grissom is mentally attractive but he's all beardy. Beardy men mean relatives: my dad, one brother, both male grandparents and all of my uncles.

my 10 year old brother made us all laugh this weekend. Something he was doing went wrong and he explaimed with perfect inflection a very loud "oy vey!" he may be blonde with blue eyes but the (Yiddishe) force is strong in that one.

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At first I hated the thought of Grissom/Sara because I found it all a bit too Electra-ish - he was the father figure, and generally you shouldn't shag your father figure. Over the course of the season it grew on me, though, and in the one with the boxer at the bordello they had one of the most adorable exchanges in the history of everything:

Griss: I find sex without love empty and kind of sad.
Sara: Do I make you sad?
G: No, you make me happy.

If that's not the cutest way of saying 'I love you' I don't know what is. It's up there with Han's "I know".

Your brother couldn't look more goy if he tried!

[bossythecow]

I missed a lot of this series, I didn't see that one. but that is cute. He did say he loved sarah to the rest of the team in the finale, and their looks were brilliant "wait did grissom just say sarah is the thing he loves the most, what the...?"

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I loved the subtlety of what he told them; just "I took away the only person she ever loved, so now she's doing the same to me".