Despite my foreknowledge that I probably wouldn’t like the film, I went a head and rented “The Manchurian Candidate” (2004) on Blockbuster Online a few days ago. Jen and I watched it tonight and as you might have guessed from my first sentence, it pretty much sucked. A few months ago we watched the original 1962 film, I drifted off to sleep in the middle of it, but Jen watched the whole thing. From what I did see of the original, I can say that they should have just let it be. The 2004 version wasn’t all bad, I thought Denzel Washington did an OK job. I usually like his work pretty well, however I don’t think this was by any means his strongest roll. Aside from that I thought the cinematography, lighting, sound editing, and pretty much everything else was bad. Add that to the fact that Meryl Streep was in the movie and had a major roll…UGH!

I can’t complain too much, I knew I probably wouldn’t like it, but I was curious to see what it was all about…”Curiosity killed the cat.” In this case curiosity killed about two hours of my life.