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I watched Manhunter last night, and I was really impressed. Its weird for me to not have a real opinion on whether I liked the original or the remake more, but they are both really good.
I think overall, Brian Cox is a better actor, and I LOVED how he did Hannibal, but I have been trained to think of Mr. Hopkins as Mr. Lector so there was a little something missing. I adore Ed Norton and everything about him, and I think he gave Will Grahams character another dimension. The whole movie, I kept thinking the guy playing Will looks way to much like a balding Matthew McConaghey so I couldnt focus.
Manhunter handled the relationship between Dolarhyde and the blind girl much better than Red Dragon I think, and it also had a much much better ending.
Overall Red Dragon gets my vote because it gave so much more history about Hannibal and Graham, and also about how Dolarhyde became the killer that he is.
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