PLEASE NOTE: there is a major difference between the scale with which modern movies are being judged and the "classics scale" with which the...well...good ones are being judged.

*******SPOILERS BELOW*******

the manchurian candidate (frankenheimer, 1962)

it's not often that i think i know exactly how a movie is going to play out and i turn out to be wrong (so instantly we know this to be a better movie than D2--at least on some level). it really didn't stick to any of the conventions, which has been my biggest complaint about this "classics" journey: these movies invented conventions, but that also means that i know them all before i've seen them. with TMC, this wasn't the case. a true joy.

classics scale: 6.5/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/

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