Dr. Lecter.......which of the 3 was the best ?? he..a little question.... Which of the 3 movies form the series about Dr. Hanibal Lecter was the best in your opinion...and which was the worst..........and ofcourse why?

P.S. I wrote "which of 3" couse the old Red Dragon movie "Manhunter" was not a part of trylogi with Hopkins as Lecter.

I can't imagine that Silence of the Lambs would not top everyone's list of these movies.  After all, it is one of only 3 movies, to win best actor, best actress, best director, best picture, and best adapted screenplay.  Easily one of the best movies made in the 90s.  The other two are on par with each other.  I know some hate Hannibal, but after reading the book and being so disappointed with the book, I thought the movie was much better.

I have huge problems with Hannibal (a plot that goes nowhere, style over substance...), yet I did find it far more memorable than Red Dragon.

The first one was the tops simply because of the initial impact of Hopkin's performance.  I remember walking out of the theater with some friends when Silence of the Lambs opened and we all felt disturbed and unnerved by the Hannibal character.  We speculated that it's what audiences must have felt like back in the 1930's when they first saw Lugosi's Dracula or Karloff's Frankenstein.  Hopkins was riveting---but he always is.  I had the good fortune to see him in his New York stage debut in 1975 in Equus---masterful!  But I will have to admit that my next vote would go to Hannibal for that grisly dinner scene with Liotta toward the end of the movie.  One of the most disturbing scenes in the history of the movies!

captmarvel wrote: The first one was the tops simply because of the initial impact of Hopkin's performance.  I remember walking out of the theater with some friends when Silence of the Lambs opened and we all felt disturbed and unnerved by the Hannibal character.  We speculated that it's what audiences must have felt like back in the 1930's when they first saw Lugosi's Dracula or Karloff's Frankenstein.  Hopkins was riveting---but he always is.  I had the good fortune to see him in his New York stage debut in 1975 in Equus---masterful!  But I will have to admit that my next vote would go to Hannibal for that grisly dinner scene with Liotta toward the end of the movie.  One of the most disturbing scenes in the history of the movies!
Same thing when I saw it the first time...

I was shivered when came out of my house going for a meal...oh boy!! oh boy!!

Red Dragon
Silence Of The Lambs
Hannibal

All good in thier own special way

I can't believe that the new lecter movie would make it out this year.  I thought they were waiting on Thomas Harris to finish penning the novel.

1. Silence of the Lambs
2. Hannibal











3.Red Dragon (I f**king hated it, pointless remake, with great actors acting bored, and the s**ttiest, non-art direction I've seen in a long time. The film had no style it's own.)

Gabe Powers wrote: 1. Silence of the Lambs
2. Hannibal
3.Red Dragon (I f**king hated it, pointless remake, with great actors acting bored, and the s**ttiest, non-art direction I've seen in a long time. The film had no style it's own.)I have to agree with Gabe except I also thought that Hannibal sucked as well....

Silence of the Lambs.

After that, in my opinion, it almost felt like Anthony Hopkins was doing a characteration of himself playing an iconic figure.
The need to be live up to a uberlegend was played to hard core.

Yeah. Hopkins is useless. What's he ever done that's good. Not fit to lick Cox's boots. Acts like he's never acted before.

I love "Silence" but they should have Mr Hopkins do a cameo for the "Young Hannibal" movie