I would have checked it out much sooner if I hadn't been so turned off by The Following. This is really great, and I much prefer this Hannibal to the hammy Hopkins stuff, even though he scared the shit out of me as a kid.
I would have checked it out much sooner if I hadn't been so turned off by The Following. This is really great, and I much prefer this Hannibal to the hammy Hopkins stuff, even though he scared the shit out of me as a kid.
I'm 4 episodes in and finding this to be total garbage. People have been praising the writing on this. Really?
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Yeah this just gets worse and worse. Horrible show.Quoting Qrazy (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
No, I'm a completionist, don't tell me what to do. Better still don't recommend this kind of garbage in the first place so I don't have to go down this hellish road.Quoting Winston* (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Okay. Will try to stop recommending things I enjoy. Not sure why I continue to post on this site these days.
It's clear that beneath the thin veneer of your comic persona beats the heart of a sensitive soul.Quoting Winston* (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Finally watched through the season within a few days, and I'm simultaneously upset I waited this long to do so, and completely relieved I did because it means I only have to wait a few weeks for Season 2 to start up.
Visually, thematically, atmospherically, textually, and just generally performed and executed at a level more accomplished than most shows out there. Not to mention a significant amount of it is clearly filmed extremely close to where I live, adding another uncomfortable layer to its often unresolved foreboding mood.
Best show on network TV? (And not just because it feels insane that NBC even gets away with airing a lot of its content.)
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
Wow-- did not realize until I decided on a rewatch that I never saw episode 4, "Œuf." That was the one that was pulled after the Boston bombing, and they only showed a few short clips to clarify the metastory. I'm watching it on Amazon Prime now.
...and the milk's in me.
Yeah, I only remembered that one was never aired because people had referred to it as "the Molly Shannon one" more often than not. But considering how late she and the other "controversial" elements of the episode come to light, I was surprised how much other fairly essential character stuff, particularly with Abigail Hobbs' relationship with Hannibal, that could've definitely been lost if no one check out NBC's reduced webisode version of the episode.
One of the things the show does best is making its Case of the Week stuff (which can be the most boring and fleeting elements of any series) actually reverberate through the rest of the series and have certain victims and killers recur.
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
The Hannibal & Abigail stuff was far more effective shown in relief to the case of the week in that episode. It had a completely different level to it. I strongly recommend people seek it out.
...and the milk's in me.
Gonna watch episode 9 of this soon. Not bad so far, not bad at all, but utterly preposterous in how there's a hugely elaborate murder scene every single episode. Perhaps it's part of a masterplan yet to be revealed, but this bothers me a bit at the moment. And I also still haven't quite tuned in to Graham's nearly psychic abilities complete with the silly yellow laser-like line sweeping across the screen accompanied by a swoosh swoosh sound.
The scenes I find nearly the strongest are whenever we see Hannibal cooking and serving food to his guests and explaining what he's whipped up. I honestly can't get enough of those scenes.
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I just finished Season 1 and my verdict is that this show is totally fucked up. I don't know how it lasted this long on broadcast TV. I also don't know how Mara has been able to stomach it.
If you thought Season 1 was already fucked up... wait for Season 2, which is glorious and still my favorite season.
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
A combination of three factors:Quoting amberlita (view post)
1. It's heavily stylized.
2. It's sooooooo good.
3. Sometimes I hide behind my fingers.
Also, season 2 is great, but season 3 is next-level amazing.
...and the milk's in me.
Finished this season the other day and am loving it! Started season two tonight. I agree that there's a bit too much serial killing going on for this to be a realistic story in any way shape or form. I'm also a bit disoriented, except for the first killing is everything else going on in Virginia/Maryland? Where exactly are scores (have we hit 100 yet?) of people being killed? They need to add location text to the opening scenes - or maybe the lack of that accentuates the unreality of it all. Also I'm pretty sure that there is no place that looks anything like the Grafton West Virginia beach scene in West Virginia - that was filmed next to an ocean or Great Lake. That just added to all the disorientation. I also love the style!
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