02 August 2004Cinema
The Manchurian Candidate

It always bothers me when a great Hollywood classic like The Manchurian Candidate gets remade. What's the point? The remake is almost never as good as the original. What they should do is remake bad movies. Take some old piece of tripe from the 30s or 40s, rework the script, add some stars and a dose of modern movie magic and you could have a great film.

The idea of this updated< i>Manchurian Candidate is absurd, because the brainwashing that takes place during the Korean War when the opposition was significantly Chinese is replaced in the remake with the first Gulf War. Where are the Manchurians in the Middle East? What kind of supidity is this?

Posted by andrew at August 2, 2004 06:02 PM


Comments

brian Says:

So it doesn't make sense.

But I doubt as many people would go to see a movie called "The Mujahadeen Candidate."

Money trumps common sense.

August 6, 2004 10:05 AM




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