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Well, FlyBy's was intrigued, so we did some searching around on Wegame and it looked pretty harmless. Next to the "Name" field on the registration form, Wegame.com writes "Welcome to WeGame! What is your name? Keep it real :) " Smiley face = harmless. Just think Hannibal Lecter...
...Lately, virtually all serial killers are derivative of Thomas Harris' Hannibal Lecter series and its spawn, the Saw films, where the killer is (1) gloriously nuts and (2) convinced he is wreaking divine vengeance on his victims. He's meant to be pitied as much as reviled. In Unfaceable the killer - revealed fairly early in the proceedings, so I'm not spoiling much - is a young man (played by Joseph Cross) bereft over his father's suicide, and driven to punish those he believes responsible. Don't blame me, blame society. Sadly, this sympathy-for-the-devil tone permeates modern...
...pleasure to report that the new Rush Hour is... OK. Brett Ratner, who directed the first two episodes (as well as the third X-Men and the Hannibal Lecter movie Red Dragon), isn't out to win an Oscar here; the movie is as lacking in visual elegance as it is in pretension. Its first reel or two sets a fairly low bar for the viewer, so that when it perks up it exceeds expectations. The division of labor is the same as in the first two films: Jackie kicks ass; Chris kicks sass. Ratner's challenge, and that...
...each tries to one up the other. Hopkins plays his role with his usual skill and control, delivering each line with just the right inflections and matching calm, pensive expressions. Perhaps typecast as an intellectual killer, he harks back to his portrayal of cannibalistic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter in “The Silence of the Lambs.” But he also adds subtle layers of complexity to his character. Crawford is more than a cold murderer, and viewers sympathize with him at moments and laugh at his clever retorts at others. At times, his performance is almost too perfect...
...always salubrious for the actors who play the nasties. Anthony Hopkins, who, as Hannibal Lecter, was voted the No. 1 all-time villain in an American Film Institute poll (and who is currently on screens as a cunning wife murderer in Fracture), acknowledges that "audiences are drawn toward the magnetism, toward the darkness. But I don't want to glorify them. There's nothing funny or sympathetic or redeeming about them. And I don't relish playing a guy who's immoral. I've got no kind of buzz off playing monsters...