Is it as bad as this Wiki entry implies? Yes, I understand that it got some award nominations at the time, but it was done in 2004, which not coincidentally was a period where Bush Derangement Syndrome was rapidly spreading through the self-appointed arbiters of our culture. Sinatra’s The Manchurian Candidate is one that I am extremely fond of; so I have no real desire to kick through my TV screen out of sheer nerdrage if I can avoid it by simply never watching the remake.
Continue reading So. The remake of The Manchurian Candidate.