{"id":8612,"date":"2005-02-10T09:17:56","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T07:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/10\/the-manchurian-candidate\/"},"modified":"2005-04-17T06:11:38","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T03:11:38","slug":"the-manchurian-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/10\/the-manchurian-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Manchurian Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"\"\/This post will be the first movie review done in the different way. Since some people complained that I have spoilers and irrelevant stuff sometimes and it is difficult to separate these with one glance from the rest of the review, I decided that I will be splitting movie review posts into brief and full texts. Brief text will contain a link to appropriate IMDB page if any, IMDB rating at the moment of writing, my rating, and celebrity highlight, which is basically a list of well-known people associated with the film. The full text (“Read more” link) will contain the brief part as well as my thoughts, descriptions, spoilers, complains and anything else I might right about the film. This way it will also be possible to read the preferred version in RSS feed too.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the good thing about immediate blogging (right after the event\/happening) is that one doesn’t forget to write about what happened. Yesterday I watched “The Manchurian Candidate<\/a>” and forgot to blog about it.<\/p>\n

IMDB Rating: 6.7
\nMy Rating: 5.0
\nCelebrity highlights: main parts played by Denzel Washington<\/a>, Meryl Streep<\/a>, and Liev Schreiber<\/a> with brief appearences of Jeffrey Wright<\/a> and Jon Voight<\/a><\/p>\n

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I was waiting for this movie for some time now. I didn’t have great expectations for it, but I thought that it might be interesting. It turned out to very boring and pointless though. There weren’t enough happenning for the 2+ hours that it lasted and the story, being obvious from the very beginning, didn’t help.<\/p>\n

The film as it is lacks identity. It is not an action movie. It is not a drama. It is not a phylosophical piece with food for thought. No points were made. No relationships or circumstances that would play with audience’s emotions. And no entertainment.<\/p>\n

All actors performed quiet well, and there was nothing that they could have added. Character development was very poor and there were many lose ends to the story.<\/p>\n

As things stand, I am glad I saved some money on the cinema tickets.><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

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