We recently watched Hannibal Rising and finding out that Jeff had not seen any of the Hannibal movies, I had to get them from the start. So, we watched Silence of the Lambs and then Hannibal.
I am amazed by the acting of Sir Anthony Hopkins. He is impeccable as Dr. Hannibal Lecter. You almost feel sad for him, knowing his background. You cannot help but feel that his victims' fates were well deserved. I mean, in Hannibal, both Ranaldo Pazzi and Paul Krendler are characters that you almost want to cheer the deaths of; one for greediness and stupidity; the other for just being a downright sexist jerk.
I will also never in my life forget the last scene of that movie where Dr. Lecter very carefully lifts Krendler's crown (his physical crown, not something he wore as a King). He then slices a piece of his brain carefully off, sautes it and then feeds it to Krendler. I do remember I had no trouble watching the scene when I saw the movie 5 years ago. I had to avert my eyes this time when the knife neared Krendler's frontal lobes.
Just as a sidenote, I like Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling. Julianne Moore just doesn't play a poor white girl growing up in Virginia as well as Foster did.
