I just finished watching the original 1962 version of The Manchurian Candidate. It is amazing! I was actually very impressed with a lot of the little filmmaking touches that they'd incorporated, given that it is a 42 year old film.
I'd be kind of interested to see the new remake, but I don't know how they'll pull it off. The original has all of the McCarthyist rhetoric and Cold War tension... I don't know how that'll work in the remake.
*shrug*
The DVD is also gorgeous, inasmuch as the crispness of the visuals and the quality of the audio. Go rent it!
Oh, and did I mention that Angela "Murder She Wrote" Lansbury is absolutely perfect as the villian in the original? She's just pure evil!
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