We've all walked out of the movie theater, shaking our heads, stunned at the insane pile of crap we just sat through. On this blog we count the many ways Hollywood thinks you're a mouth-breathing moron, a hormonally-addled 12-year old boy, a right-wing whackjob, or a religious nutcase . . . and makes you pay for the privilege. Here, we talk back to the screen.

The Manchurian Candidate (2004): Global Idiocy

Denzel is usually brilliant in his selection of scripts. Not this time.

The film is nicely done except for its politcally correct tilt: instead of the Chinese doing the kidnapping and brainwashing of the U.S. soldiers (as in the original 1962 film), the remake now has an American corporation, inexplicably named "Manchurian Global" (contradiction in terms?), that does the evil deed. And instead of an assassination attempt, the plot has been "updated" with an attempt to hijack the presidency itself.

Hollywood has no guts whatsoever. If it weren't for Nazis, every antagonist in every film would be a Wall street financier or a crazy right-wing gun-toting, Bible-quoting hillbilly inbred.

Stick with the original.
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