Make sure you see the original Manchurian Candidate. It’s a great movie, and a masterfully told story. I’m not saying the new movie is bad, I haven’t seen it yet. Just see the original one first so that it doesn’t get spoiled by the redux. This is one of the few cases where I think knowing the ending will spoil the movie. I’m not against remakes per se. I thought the new Italian Job was fantastic and definitely deserved to be remade. (The original was a muddled story which seemed to have run out of money halfway through production and makes little sense). If you do it in reverse order, you’ll be missing out.