They're remaking the Manchurian Candidate

[T Roosevelt]

Unfortunately they seem to have missed the significance of the title:

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0368008

Plot Outline: In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Say it ain't so!!!!! THAT FILM IS PERFECT AS IT IS!!!!!

Someone needs to slap the execs in Hollywood around for a while... Maybe it will put an original idea in their heads.

[GOPisEvil]

2. WHAT?!?!? *bangs head into table repeatedly*

Why? Why? Why? The original is wonderful...

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE...set in THE GULF WAR?!?!?! :wtf:

:argh:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

3. That film can only be set during the cold war!

Who's bright idea was it for a remake?

[tjdee]

4. Denzel Washington, huh?

Now, I :loveya: me some Denzel and Liev Schreiber (adorable), but...

um...the first one was fine....

BLAME THE ECONOMY, people!

The economy sucks so much, and the movie industry's numbers are in the toilet. So there's no money for new risky projects.

There's only money for doing what worked before, with today's stars.
That's why we're getting sequel sequel remake remake.

Yet another reason to dislike Bush.

[displacedtexan]

5. at least, the new plot makes the bushies look like losers!

now, for my real reaction:
how fucking stupid to keep remaking classics!

[tjdee]

6. You KNOW it's Saddam brainwashing those Americans!

Come on, LOL...you don't think that *Great Father Bush* would brainwash anyone?

What are you, some kind of commie pinko, LOL?

[BlueJazz]

7. Geez....While we're at it...

......why don't we just remake "Citizen Kane" with Al Pacino ?
And "Gone with the Wind" with Madonna and Ben Aflack ?

[BigMcLargehuge]

9. The Maltese Falcon with

Emmanuel Lewis, Gary Coleman, and the Olsen Twins...

Everyday I like Bollywood more (insert dancing girls here) because at least they try.

[CBGLuthier]

8. Bet they rip off Ebert's theory

Roger Ebert has long held a theory that Marco too was brainwashed to play a part in the events and that the Janet Leigh's character was his trigger.

It's kind of fun to watch it with that concept in mind but I bet they add it as a twist.

Bad, bad idea to remake this movie.

[BigMcLargehuge]

10. You know

that same thing came to mind when I first saw the film. I didn't read Ebert's review until later...

I always figured the communists were using Raymond to get rid of his mother because they knew she was a nutjob and the only way they could do it cleanly (she was a senators wife after all) was to a turn the weapon against her and that's what Bennet Marco was for.

Damn... Now I have to watch it again!!!!!!

[carolinayellowdog]

12. Wow, that makes sense!

From early on, I got the impression that we were being signaled not to trust the Janet Leigh character, and that she was part of the conspiracy. But since that was never followed up in later events, I figured it was just my imagination running wild. Even her name seemed fake somehow-- Eugenie aka Rosie. HMMM.

[BigMcLargehuge]

13. "I was one of the original chinese workers who laid these tracks"

that line said it all.

[Chef]

11. Candidate

Let's see. Exactly who is doing the brainwashing, and why. Saddam brain washes the Gulf War troops? Osama? Someone make some sense of this? I mean Bush and his cabal have already brainwashed the public.

[leanings]

14. Who would be down

with a remake of "All Quiet on the Western Front"? This has been my Big Film Idea for years now. It's a classic anti-war movie and an excellent book, and you never see any WWI films. Thoughts?

[BigMcLargehuge]

15. The two existing versions are quite good

the original with Lew Ayres is fantastic, albeit a little short. The second version with Richard Thomas is closer to the book but less visceral than the 1930 original.

I try and watch both versions whenever they are on cable.

[Redbear]

16. If it is done well.

It is a wonderful idea.

The message of that film needs to be brought to today's audiences.

Is there a better rebuttal to that idiot's recent push of Joe McCarthy for sainthood than the John Eislen character?

[mitchum]

17. What a stupid stupid stupid idea!