Saw with Jaimee this afternoon
The Manchurian Candidate, starring my good friend
Shankar D as Frank Sinatra, Meryl Streep as Hillary Clinton, and Etti's dad as that random Albanian scientist.
It was all right. I don't have much to add beyond Frinibarf's
review. Just a few random notes:
Director Jonathan Demme has perfected the art of the creepy ultracloseup.
At least one of the writers has a tic wherein their characters all repeat a line of dialogue twice: "I worry about you, Captain Manchuria. I worry."
They changed the ending a little bit, in the least surprising manner possible, and to the detriment of the movie. Original ending here.
I don't really understand why this movie was remade in the first place. The first one was a classic, and this remake is hardly different. And if you wanted to make a movie about mind control to tie into the presidential election, an original script could have been a LOT more interesting.
Probably worth renting though.# posted by
Gerry Canavan @ 6:56 PM
|