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A Christmas Carol--Favorite Version - Greg - 12-09-2020
Is it Scrooge? Muppet Christmas Carol? The Jim Carrey one?
I just saw a ranking on Collider. They had 21 different versions to rank. I'm going to say I've only seen a couple all the way through. The reason this comes up was I saw the 1938 version last night with Reginald Owen. It was terrible. They cut out so much. Death looked like a guy in a robe who could barely act.
I will say that I do agree with their number 1 which is the 1951 version with Alastair Sim. I think I saw it in the Town and Country theater for the first time. They must have been doing a retrospective or rerelease of some kind. But it stayed with me. I'm curious about George C. Scott's version as well as Patrick Stewart's version. I did catch a bit of the Jim Carrey version and it wasn't as terrible as I expected.
If I was good forum master, I would pull all the CC threads into this thread for one stop shopping.
RE: A Christmas Carol--Favorite Version - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 12-09-2020
Muppet Christmas Carol is #1!
RE: A Christmas Carol--Favorite Version - Greg - 12-25-2020
We saw the Muppet Christmas Carol last night.
No. Just no. Although it probably had more of Dickens's prose than any of the other version.
Saw a bit of Scrooged today on TV. Need to find the full uncut version for viewing. Also caught bits of FX's Guy Pierce. Boy that is dark. Might want to see more of that, too. Although I did see lots of additions and liberties in the story telling.
RE: A Christmas Carol--Favorite Version - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 12-25-2020
Commie.
RE: A Christmas Carol--Favorite Version - Greg - 12-25-2020
And?
RE: A Christmas Carol--Favorite Version - Drunk Monk - 12-25-2020
Rewatching Scrooged during tRump was annoying. Reviewed here then - http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=638&pid=24442#pid24442
Coincidentally, I watched A Very Murray Xmas last night, but bailed before finishing it and went over to Kim’s Convenience
RE: A Christmas Carol--Favorite Version - King Bob - 12-27-2020
I thought this performance looked interesting, but I thought a bit expensive to take a chance on.
Watched the Muppets and but only caught a little bit of Scrooged this year. Read it again, like I do every year and always enjoy that.
RE: A Christmas Carol--Favorite Version - Drunk Monk - 12-24-2022
It's Christmas, Carol! (2012)
This is one of those Hallmark specials. It resets Scrooge as Carol, a female president of a book publishing company. Marley and the ghosts are all rolled into on character played by Carrie Fisher (and yes, she makes a Star Wars joke). There’s no Bob, but there is a loyal assistant player by Olivia Cheng (and no, she does no Kung Fu, naked or otherwise).
It’s predictable and tepid. I was only in it for Carrie and Olivia, which was interesting. The weird perspective on publishing was icing.
Not D00M recommended.
RE: A Christmas Carol--Favorite Version - Greg - 12-25-2022
I've only caught bits this year of the Alastair Sim and the one from 1938. I keep meaning to get Apple+ so I can watch Spirited.
RE: A Christmas Carol--Favorite Version - King Bob - 12-25-2022
We saw maybe 20 minutes of Spirited and bailed. There were about five songs in that stretch, and they were all bad.
There is a 2019 version with Guy Pearce as Scrooge that I noticed while browsing, but looking through the theads here I discovered that I had seen it and forgotten it, and didn't like it. There is also a new animated version but I'm skeptical.
RE: A Christmas Carol--Favorite Version - Greg - 12-25-2022
That version with Guy Pearce has been running on FX nonstop south the Alastair Sims version.