Random movie review: Manchurian Candidate redux

Sometimes remake reviews are well deserved. Sometimes its nostalgia that gets the best of the remake and people dont like the remake simply because it's not the original. I saw the remake of True Grit before I saw the original and thought it was better in every way. We have originality bias. That can make it hard to compare movies because instead of judging it on its own merits, we compare it to the look and tonation of the original. Having said that...

As far as Manchurian Candidate, I haven't seen either one.