fabled cannibal

Silence Of The Lambsand Manhunterwere an early part of my dvd collection which at the time was probably 90% science fiction consisting mostly of red dwarf and futurama and when my book collection started to grow it didn't take to long for DR Lecter to turn up. he did however get ignored for some years and was left at the back of a filing cabinet a friend had help me liberate from a skip. so two or three months (or maybe six) after my brother bought me Hannibal rising i started to read red dragon.
well i have just finished Hannibal rising and thought i would do a big Hannibal lecter review covering all fore books and all five films,

picking up red dragon after seeing all the movies was a little odd as the actors in my head kept changing places Brian Cox with Anthony Hopkins and William Petersen with Edward Norton, but as i got in to the book this soon stopped one of the things that hit me reading the book was the use of back story which is were Thomas Harris excels building up the characters and helping get inside there heads. this was kept to a minimum in the films and i for one am glad it was because flash backs can easily kill the mood of a movie

out of the two films based  on red dragon my favorite is manhunter but i think this is for sentimental reasons. be for red dragon come out i had already seen manhunter numerous times and had grown comfortable with it's flaws like the over the top soundtrack,but i know deep down that red dragon is probably the better  movie even with out iron butterfly

in silence of the lambs the subject of Hannibal's finger comes up. Hannibal left hand has an extra finger. i found this a bit gimmicky and pointless. but once something is in a story it's in and i find continuity important. Thomas Harris carefully included the removal of the tell tell digit in Hannibal but when we go back to hannibal's youth in Hannibal rising the finger goes unmentioned.

silence of the lambs doesn't differ much from novel to film with the exception of the illness and death of Bella Crawford. unlike hannibal were the book is much meatier  than the film with more characters with more of there own lives including several characters from silence of the lams like Jack Crawford,Barney Matthews and Ardelia Mapp

and then there is hannibal rising when reading the previous books with there will written back story hope grew inside me that this would not be as bad as the movie but that hope soon died. it's far too detached from the other book and one of my biggest problem with this book is that Hannibal lecter gets arrested for murder but is let go after public outrage because the victims were war criminals with that on record his. you would think that the FBI's suspicion would of fallen on lector sooner for his later crimes.
and if the books bad the film is worse and always was going to be but this wouldn't stop Hollywood making it because they know there are a lot of people like me who wouldn't dream of having an incomplete collection no matter how shit the final installment is

fabled cannibal by ianbyfordart

fabled idiot at the movies: 2 batman

if you read his blog you will probably know that my brother is a big batman fan, as a consequence my knowing of the caped crusader is larger than the average citizen but a lot less than a comic nerd and today i'm going to give my half educated  opinion  of the big screen batman

im going to move quickly over the 1940's Theatrical serials the Batman(1943) & Batman & Robin: (1949) because i haven't seen them (yet) but i do think it worth mentioning the batcave was introduced by the 1943 serial and didn't appear in the comic until 1944 (i am getting some of this from wiki-p so don't take it as gospel)

so we come to Adam West and Burt Ward camping it up in Batman - The Movie(1966) a continuation of the 1960s television series. ok it's not darks and edgy but it's a movie that is comfortable with what it is and doesn't not mind making jokes at its own expense.

in 1989 Batman got darker and Tim Burton put the goth in to Gotham City. making the dark and gloomy city as bigger  part of the movie as any of the characters.

Tim Burton returns with Batman Returns which in my opinion is one of those rare sequels that is beter then it predecessor but the movie franchise started slipping down hill with Batman Forever with Joel Schumacher taking the directing chair from Burton now the producer and Val Kilmer replacing Michael Keaton in the cape and cowl, this film wasn't too-bad but had lost a lot of the darkness of the first two. and after seeing Jim Carrey in films like The Cable Guy and The Number 23 i can't help thinking they got the wrong performance out of the right actor.

then there is Batman And Robin and i don't know where to start with the list of faults. so why not start with the title it not the biggest issue in the world but i find it a bit odd naming the film after two of the three heroes (poor little batgirl : (

moving on to  two big problems in every sense of the words Arnold Schwarzenegger  is not the most emotional actor meant to be in lover cryogenically preserve terminally ill woman, and Bane(Jeep Swenson) how in the movie is a brainless muscle man (sound like anyone) mindlessly following Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman) far from the comic were bane masterminded a brake-out at Arkham Asylum in order to exhaust batman determined his secret identity then broke his back leaving Bruce Wayne paraplegic.
if they need some muscle for Poison Ivy maybe it would of been better to have Arnold Schwarzenegger play a character like Amygdala.

in 2005 Christopher Nolan grabbed the badman etch-a-sketch and gave it a damn good shake with Batman Begins now with the mantle of the Bat now passing to Christian Bale for a detailed origin story which sees the tone of the movie alter as Bruce Wayne becomes the batman. if i had to pick a hole in this film it would be Gotham looking just like any city but this would be just picky as it doesn't distract from the story and it was only after the credits had rolled i even thought about it.

The Dark Knight  got a shade darker and sees Heath Ledger as the Joker in a performance that blew Jack Nicholson's purple suit off, and that took some doing. instead of cluttering the move with a joker origin back story we cut get right to the action and stick with it hardly noticing the two-face(Aaron Eckhart) origin weaved in

up next will be The Dark Knight Rises and i have to say already i don't like the title, didn't the Dark Knight Rise in batman begins? but The Dark Knight Rises will see Bane back on the big screen being play by Tom Hardy and Anne Hathaway cast as Catwoman's Alter ego Selina Kyle

at the movies batman by ianbyfordart
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it got to be said that my tech is a bit on the outdated side i don't have a smart phoneor an i-anything
. but this isn't going to stop me telling people how internet connection isn't powered by steam what to download
my first recommendation is Cage Against the Machine

a cover of John Cage's performance piece 4'33"which is a recording of ambient silence lasting that length. by The Kooks, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, Fenech Soler, Scroobius Pip, Cyrstal Fighters and many more.
the signal is attempting to mach Rage Against the Machine achievement  of keeping The X Factor winner from Christmas Number One in a campaign started by Jon and Tracy Morter on face book.
. Proceeds from sales of the track will aid five charities: Calm, the British Tinnitus Association, Youth Music, Nordoff Robbins music therapy and Sound & Music.

here at fabled idiot i am not above plugging my friends stuff in-fact i am going to try and do it as much as possible so here is an i-phone app that has just published a short story by michelle goode
Ether Books app
and michelle story is called When The Music Stops
i hope you enjoy it because i can't unless one of you buy me an iphone

i am not above plugging my a family member's stuff either in-fact i am going to try and do it as much as possible
so here the Hunchbakk Christmas single www.xmas.com