Hey folks, Harry here... Sweet Fillet of Bicep, this trailer looks great. Man, I'm there. Sign me up... Let me at em... This is AWESOME! A great trailer. Drool.... frothing at the mouth.... WANT TO SEE NOW! Can't wait.... Release it early... sweep the oscars again, get Ridley his Oscar.... Get Hopkins another, get Julianne her first.... Let's go.... I'm ready. There is nothing coming out for the remainder of the year in league with this. HANNIBAL is THE film I want to see. It will be HUGE. Here's the trailer.... and.... ANOTHER REVIEW of last night's top secret screening in San Diego!!!
The review does have alot of spoilers THOUGH NONE OF THE ENDING! But more info than many of you will want.... but here is a paragraph excerpt that ought to get your juices going if this trailer didn't do it already.
They did ask us not to tell anyone how
the movie ends, but I don't want say because that was the tensest half hour
Ive seen in a movie since the end of Se7en, but it probably wouldn't have
been if I knew what was going to happen. It did make me squirm the whole
time, though. The girl in the couple next to me was freaking out and
covering her eyes. These guys are serious.
Man...... I'm there with friggin Bells on.... It can not get here soon enough. Here's the trailer:
Download the Hannibal Trailer in ASX format now from ETonline
Here is the review from Wagner... beware of SPOILERS... Again though... the ending is not contained... If you know the ending, do not be an ass... DON'T TELL ANYONE. I don't want to know EITHER. STAY QUIET.
Harry,
This is my first time writing you but I've been reading your site for about a year and love the scoops. I got into the Hannibal screening on Thursday night and started writing this review last night when I got home, but couldn't finish it until today.
I want to first say that Hannibal is an intense movie. The deliberateness of certain, erm, strong scenes, the fact that they take their time, and are so beautiful to watch even while you're squirming, gives this film such a sharp edge that watching it is like spending a couple of hours in a really intense fight (or really intense sex, depending how you look at it).
The movie starts like this: Barney the prison orderly from Silence has been making a pretty good living selling Hannibal shit to Mason Verger. Mason, who is incredibly rich and powerful, is hunting Hannibal. He's the only Hannibal victim who lived, but barely. His face is one big scar. He gets Barney to talk about what happened between Hannibal and Clarice.
Clarice Starling is in charge of a drug raid that goes bad. She ends up shooting the main druglord, which is a lady with a baby strapped to her chest. Clarice goes down for this. The media labels her an angel of death and the FBI takes her down a notch while they investigate. But in the meantime she is put back on the Hannibal Lecter case. You get the feeling that Mason may have something to do with this.
Clarice goes down to the basement of the FBI building and starts digging through old files about Hannibal. She punches Hannibal's name into ebay and finds out someone's making a lot of money off him and then she goes and talks to Barney, and gets from him the tapes that were made during her talks with Hannibal back in the day.
Cut to: Florence and "Dr. Fell". He's up for the job of curator of a museum while Inspector Pazzi is investigating the death of the first one. Of course Dr. Fell is really Dr. Lecter, and after he mind fucks Pazzi, it ain't long before Pazzi figures out that Fell and Lecter are the same. He gets into the FBI Ten Most Wanted List and finds out that there is a 3 million dollar reward for Hannibal, alive, and starts trying to get Hannibal's fingerprint.
Pazzi hires a kid on the street to get it. Hannibal easily kills him but Pazzi gets the fingerprint. You pretty much know from that point on what's gonna happen to him. There's a great scene at the opera when Hannibal meets Pazzi's hot wife. Then you find out that Mason has been paying these pig farmers to raise wild boars and train them to eat people. These are the guys that come after Hannibal. The scene where Pazzi tries to "catch" Hannibal is fucking brilliant, but instead of Hannibal getting caught, Pazzi ends up hanging out the window with his guts falling out. This is also the scene where Clarice and Hannibal first talk on the phone.
Hannibal escapes easily (but not before killing one of the pig farmers) and goes to Virginia where he moves into a house that also happens to be FBI agent Krendler's house. Mason Verger figures out a way to use Clarice to lure Hannibal out in the open, and Clarice also starts trying to catch him.
I don't want to go past there. They did ask us not to tell anyone how the movie ends, but I don't want say because that was the tensest half hour Ive seen in a movie since the end of Se7en, but it probably wouldn't have been if I knew what was going to happen. It did make me squirm the whole time, though. The girl in the couple next to me was freaking out and covering her eyes. These guys are serious.
About the acting, I thought they were all really good, especially Anthony Hopkins. It was beautiful to watch, and moved pretty quickly. It was about two hours long. The sountrack was temporary, but I liked some of it. There was a lot of classical, but some ravey stuff mixed in. My favorite part about the movie were the scenes between Hannibal and Clarice, the way they talked to each other. It's like they're saying one thing with their words, but another thing with their voices. These are people who have lived with each other for a long time, even though they haven't actually talked in years. And the ending rocked.
I've been to other test screenings and this was probably the best looking film I've ever seen at one (it was fuzzy during some special effects sections toward the end). I would be surprised if they changed anything. I hope they don't.
Wagner
