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vmacek@mindspring.com — 10 years ago(December 23, 2015 03:42 PM)
This version has always been my favorite, between the nostalgia of seeing it for decades since childhood and its wonderful performances and (mostly) dark, moody quality - apparently distributors back in the day didn't think it was cheery enough.
Now that I've seen it all I can easily place 'Disney's A Christmas Carol' into the least-favorite spot. I give points to Jim Carrey using Sim's portrayal as a template, but the look and feel of the animationugh! The characters
all
have that Uncanny Valley goblin appearance. The use of CGI animation seems most 'justified' for its many unnecessary, distracting, spook show effects scenes. A bright, showy bonbon with a rancid center. -
cfwente — 10 years ago(December 25, 2015 08:07 AM)
To be fair, I think most performances I have seen of Scrooge have been quite good. However, Sim's interpretation is, for me, the best by far. Can't imagine anyone doing the job any better even to include the likes of Finney and G.C. Scott.
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Blackjack254 — 10 years ago(December 27, 2015 04:21 PM)
The Sim version is good, but it is not flawless.
For example, it's brilliant that it fleshes out Scrooge's past, but at the expense of the rest of the movie, and the future segment is completely reversed, for some reason.
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Blackjack254 — 10 years ago(December 27, 2015 06:05 PM)
In the book the order is:
- The business men "I only know he's dead"
- the corpse robbers
- The deathbed (Not shown in Sim version)
- A family celebrates the fact that the man they were in debt to has died (rarely shown in ANY version)
- Cratchets mourning Tiny Tim
- Cemetery
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buggerjenbutt — 10 years ago(December 24, 2015 10:37 PM)
oh this version 1951 it was a must see on christmas eve. if we were lucky we could stay up at midnight witht dad and watch it in the dark with thre christmas tree lights on. my fav memory of christmas
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dfw364-1 — 10 years ago(December 29, 2015 12:39 PM)
Believe it or not, my favorite version was an HBO special that Rich Little did a number of years ago. It featured, among others, Paul Lynde as Bob Crachit and Johnny Carson as his nephew, Fred. Eclectic and not for everyone.
My least favorite is Scrooged with Bill Murray. For the record, I pretty much loved everythig that Bill Murray ever did.