Oh the second is much better, I think, although oddly Oedipal for a 2004 remake, in ways I'm pretty sure the first wasn't, really, and it came out on the tails of the 1950s, when every hollywood movie had a mother sleeping with her son, IIRC.
Ok, they don't actually sleep together but Ms. Streep does look like she's ready to give a blow job to Liev Schreiver, who plays her son. The hypnosis sequences are a little less corny but definitely walk the corny line pretty closely. Manchurian Global=Halliburton, pretty much, and they have the technology to brainwash and control the vicepresident, kill the president, and outsource all the really evil stuff to crazed scientists from evil foreign countries... |
