What Emmanuelle Movie Did You Just Watch?

[B_Metal]

*'MuricanBroFist* *Eagles Soar as electric guitars wail*

[Abraham Smashington]

Holy shit was it fun. All three of my kids, ONE YEAR OLD INCLUDED sat and watched it quietly and enjoyed it. #MilanMiracle

And yeah the kid was adorable as shit and Riley did damn good work. Surprisingly solid flick from what I thought would be decent but forgettable.

Wreck It was fucking great. The only problem I had was the shitty popsong montage they put in. But it's Disney, so it could have been worse. The reveal was pretty great and I want to play the fuck outta that Sugar Race game.

[Abraham Smashington]

Hannibal. Haven't watched it in ages and had a hankering to remedy that. I still love the shit out of this flick. The dinner scene is still fucking ACES.

[Matt]

I'll go out on a limb and say that Hopkins is better in HANNIBAL than he is in SotL. The humorous streak that he shows is a scream.

'Okee Dokey!'

I don't like that they made him chop off his own hand at the end, though. I get WHY they did it, and I agree that it fit with the story that they were telling, but I also think that it hurt the character of Hannibal himself. It also handicaps (pun intended) any further adventures, in that you need to account for the fact that he's missing a hand now.

[Abraham Smashington]

I'm with you on his take on Hannibal in this one as opposed to SotL. It's much more of a fun performance to watch.

[B_Metal]

I'm with you on his take on Hannibal in this one as opposed to SotL. It's much more of a fun performance to watch.

Totes

[PHEDG]

The only bad part about Hannibal is Julianne Moore's horribal attempt at a Southern accent.

[Timothy225]

Agreed. I loves me some Julianne Moore, but she was no Jodie Foster in this.

[IggytheBorg]

I liked the frightening intensity of Hopkins' performance in SotL better. No surprise there, I guess.

And I had problems w/ the end of Hannibal for the same reasons as Matt says above, but beyond that: the ending of the BOOK Hannibal was a pretty ballsy bit of storytelling. I respected the hell out of Harris for doing that, and was sad it never made it into the film. I can of course see why it didn't, but that doesn't assuage the disappointment. Not really.

[Matt]

I prefer the book ending as well, Iggy.

[Martin]

What was it?

[Nathan]

What was it?

Fucking crazy. Too hard for me to summarize.

[Abraham Smashington]

According to Variety magazine, the script for Hannibal was: "...quite faithful to the Harris blueprint; fans of the tome may regret the perhaps necessary excision of some characters, most notably Mason Verger's muscle-bound macho sister Margot, as well as the considerable fascinating academic detail, but will basically feel the book has been respected (yes, even the climactic dinner party is served up intact, with the only surprise twists saved for its wake)."[42] Time Out noted: "The weight-watchers script sensibly dispenses with several characters to serve a brew that's enjoyably spicy but low on substance. So much story is squeezed into 131 minutes that little time's left for analysis or characterization."[45] Producer Dino De Laurentiis was asked why some characters, notably Jack Crawford, were left out of the film: "I think if you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters. We set ourselves a limit, and cut characters which weren't so vital."[46]
In the book, Mason Verger runs an orphanage, from which he calls children to verbally abuse as a substitute for his no longer being able to molest them. He also has a sister, Margot, whom he raped when they were children and who is a lesbian. When she disclosed her sexual orientation to her family, their father disowned her. As she is sterile due to steroid abuse, Verger exerts some control over her by promising her a semen sample with which to impregnate her lover, who could then inherit the Verger fortune. Also, in the novel, Verger literally has no face and has to be kept in a sterile room at all times to keep bacteria from affecting exposed muscle and tissues. At the book's end, Margot and Starling both help Lecter escape during a shootout between Starling and Verger's guards. Margot, at Lecter's advice, stimulates her brother to ejaculate with a cattle prod, and then kills him by ramming his pet Moray eel down his throat.
The book's controversial ending has Lecter presenting Starling with the exhumed bones of her father, which he "brings to life" by hypnotizing Starling, allowing her to say goodbye. This forges an odd alliance between Starling and Lecter, culminating in their becoming lovers and escaping to Argentina. At the novel's end, Barney sees them at the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires.

WAT.

[IggytheBorg]

Yeah. That. Most of the stuff I didn't miss, but them taking off together at the end was just so outta left field in a sense, but plausible in another. Took guts, I say.

[Nathan]

Fucking crazy. Too hard for me to summarize.

Like I said.