So. The remake of The Manchurian Candidate.

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.

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