The Shrine

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>"Red Dragon" was fantastic. Great acting, great scripting, great direction, and damned good score.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Smart man. Two teenagers kept laughing too long and too loud and ruined the movie for everyone on opening night for us.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>I don't Know G-man some of that shit was funny, god the flaming wheel chair alone (need to make that my desktop image somehow)</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>...what about the extra "twist" at the end? That's the only thing I didn't like about the film, I wish they woulda left it out. It was done much better than expected, but just didn't fit</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I loved the score. Elfman rocks.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Oh, that was great. Perfect ending for Lecter's sense of humor.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I laughed, but it wasn't funny. Laughing is one of the ways we react when we don't know how to react.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>...the part before that, the "twist"</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>...where he comes to their house? They had to do that, having him blow up in the mansion is far too anti-climatic.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I didn't realize it was Elfman. Normally I don't notice a good score until the second time I watch a movie, but this one got me right away.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I went to a place in D.C. watched it opening night. Me and my friend were as high as kites and we couldn't stop laughing long and loud. I think some people were quite angry but I blame the dope.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah, that part. The fact he came back. Before that, they spent the whole freakin' film building him up to be a tragic villian, an abused child who did what he did because he was so tortured. I thought they did an amazing job of really providing a lot of sympathy for him and making him into a tortured guy, particularly by using the relationship with the blind woman, a brilliant move and fit amazingly well. And him dying in the fire woulda solidfied that whole concept, particularly by him sparing the blind woman. Making him come back just turned him into another killer with a tortured past. I just thought he was much more that until that point, particularly considering the strength of his character and Finnes' performance. If he woulda just jumped directly to Lecter writing the letter instead of making him come back, it wouldn't have affected the trilogy at all and would made the Tooth Fairy character MUCH better, IMO</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>...that takes away from sympathy for him. I mean, christ, they already had him brutally kill all those people.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>They did SUCH a good job of showing a soft side to him that you could, in a very small way, feel some sympathy for him. And you're talking to someone who has a hard time feeling sympathy for ANY TV or movie character. I just feel that all that effort they put into separating the Tooth Fairy from the standard serial killers we see in basically every thriller out there - which is what separated the movie from a standard thriller - was nearly wasted by that extra "twist". The sole fact that he left his girlfriend alive saved a shred of that sympathy.

Please remember, I absolutely loved what they did with the Tooth Fairy character. The only reason I bitch so much about it is because that's the ONLY thing wrong with what they did with him (not withstanding the other minor problems in the film) that I can find fault with. He was such a strong character with such strong story support that this little problem is magnified</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Indeed. Indeed, indeed, indeed, and indeed. Hopkins was hopkins (translation: better than you deserve) and Fiennes was especially cool. Talk about a crazy phuck...</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Yes, everyone chuckled for a short time. But these two kept trying to heckle the movie every 15 minutes. The two nearly came to blows with a few others who told them to shut up.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Connelly, to Satan HE SCORES!!! MIROSLAV SATAN! AND THAT'S A HAT TRICK!</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I actually thought he was dead right up until the part where they said the DNA wasn't his. I just don't understand where the body and all the blood came from, I don't remember seeing anyone else in the room in that circle of fire.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>That's what I mean. It just didn't belong</div>