Bates Motel and Hannibal

[Rev. Rye]

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)

That's pretty much what I was saying; Red Dragon is a good film and a better complement to the other films in the series. As a standalone film, Manhunter is quite good, even if you pretty much have to forget that it was adapted from another book to see that (which is more or less what I do when watching it.)