I've said it before. Red Dragon is a terrible excuse for a remake. Manhunter is excellent the way it is. It chose to follow the book's interest in Graham and not to follow Dollarhyde. The problem is, even if you remove all the crap from Red Dragon you will still be missing the character development and other important bits that were given to Lecter. They basically made a comedy of the movie. People only saw it to watch Hopkins as Lecter.