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   gggg gggg to neo...@webtv.net   
   Re: The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 )   
   23 Aug 22 23:26:33   
   
   From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 2:03:32 PM UTC-8, neo...@webtv.net wrote:   
   > Worse than I recalled. I like Jodi Foster as an adult actress but her FBI   
   trainee character is bland. I would think that the pop in this came from   
   Hopkins' leering, ego toxic Dr. Lecter. I found both what he says and the   
   delivery heavy handed. The    
   character seemed far more polished in Hannibal and Red Dragon.    
   > Lots of dull elements here : the final victim, Buffalo Bill, Scott Glen's   
   FBI chief, the loony bin honcho... but worse yet is Lecter's big escape... so   
   far fetched as to be comical.    
   > A good plot surprise in the search for Buffalo Bill and OK use of night   
   vision glasses but over all the direction was too often an annoyance. So   
   mediocre as not to be worth watching 3/10 Baahs   
      
   https://www.slashfilm.com/804794/the-surprising-way-2001-a-space   
   odyssey-influenced-silence-of-the-lambs/   
      
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