(March 5, 2014 at 11:44 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Well, as an adaptation of the book, Manhunter is not that good. As a film, it's easily one of Michael Mann's best. I'm still glad they remade it, though.I might have to disagree on that a bit. Maybe.
The problem might be that I saw Silence of the Lambs before Manhunter. In fact, I never heard of Manhunter before SotL, and it was only because of SotL that I read Red Dragon then learned there was a movie made of it.
Now, I have no problem with Mann, and I'm an 80s baby, but Manhunter was so 80s stylized, clean, sterile, etc... that it just left a sour taste in my brain. Maybe it was a good work relative to Mann, but being part of the Lechter series I just can't look past its shortcomings from that perspective.
SotL, and eventually the new Red Dragon, were far more close to what I'd expect from those books.... Earthy, dark, surrealistic..etc.
But that's just my 2 copper. (Adjusted for the king's inflation that would probably be about 1 electrum and 4 silver these days)
