Red Dragon was a prequel to Silence of the Lambs, I thought it was good, but the book was way better. I’ve always thought that Red Dragon was just a way for Anthony Hopkins to get to play Hannibal Lechter one more time.
Catching Fire is the Sequel to the Hunger Games movie. If you haven’t seen Hunger Games, and Catching Fire, I highly recommend them. They are based on a series of Young Adult novels, where a corrupt centralized government forces children to compete in a to-the death battle. I really enjoyed Catching Fire more then the first one. Hunger Games focused more on the training and the battles, this one was a lot more story-driven, which I enjoyed more, but it did have the action as well.
It’s really fun to watch all these kids loving these movies and books that basically say “Hey, centralized government control is a really bad idea!”
Sorry,
I found this 3 minutes on you tube about Phillip Seymour Hoffman and it did not impress me...:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXAeLWn5AYQ