Of the two best crime thrillers of the 90s, which do you prefer?
IMO Silence of the Lambs is overrated, and so is the character of Hannibal Lecter. 
Seven on the other hand has a much more interesting concept, you know someone is going to die but you donāt know how and when. IMO the ācorpse jumpingā is one of the most unexpcted moment in film history.
Hannibal Lecter is a great character from a great novel. The film is good too, maybe very good, but could be better.
Se7en is the best thriller of the 90s. A brilliant film.
Silence
It wasnāt the first novel, nor the first film about the subject, but most of us got familiar with this type of thriller (and murderer)
Both in print and on screen the subject became boring very soon
I donāt know how many crime writers came up with their own serial killer novel, and none of them was decent (even Harrisā sequels were poor); as far as the films are concerned: they were as poor as most novels. Maybe Copycat was the best of the lot. It wasnāt good, but at least it wasnāt pretentious and the actors did a proper job (they werenāt pretending to be in a Greek tragedy). The worst was probably the Manhunter remake with Neeson.
Hopefully weāre through with this nonsense
SE7EN is a great flick by a great director. Feeding someone to death is not the way to go. The ending was a bit over acted but then again, what could BP have done?
Agreeā¦David Fincher just got better with the masterpiece Zodiacā¦
Watching it again as we speak
āSevenā for me and i agree " silence" is over rated.
I prefer Seven and yes, Silence of the Lambs is overrated. Michael Mannās āManhunterā is much better in my opinion [one of my fave movies by the way]
SEVEN for me 
But Silence of the Lambs is a very good one. I remember I watched it in cinema and thought that it was pretty scary. Watched it later on TV and found it a bit boring. IMO Silence was a very good movie for 1991 . SEVeN has still this brilliant thriller plot.