I watched "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) yesterday on DVD. It is an excellent movie, and I hope to see it again someday (preferably in an actual theater).

Good Stuff:

• Surreal scene with the bad guys showing off their new trained "toys".
• Angela Lansbury played a 55 year old woman in this movie. That was 40 years ago.
• Go jump in a lake, buddy.
• Was written before mind control was cool.
• Good understandable plot and ending.
• I liked Frank.
• The press falls for Angela Lansbury's trick.
• 57.

Bad Stuff:

• The movie was a little slow, and I had a hard time keeping up my interest at the beginning.
• Sweaty foreheads.
• Look at all my queens! I OWNS YOU NOW!
• I have no idea why he beat the daylights out of slave boy.
• The figure head was too one-dimensional. This is forgivable.

The "Manchurian Candidate" world is a world that begs to be explored. I want to see the movie again so I can look more closely at the slow introductory scenes that didn't keep my interest the first time.