Funny, but mean-spirited and maybe Bill left a little too much of himself on the screen?
He’s not THAT different in Groundhog Day, but i feel like the corners in that movie are ground down a lot more.*
*Mind you the sharper contrasts in Scrooged do make the scene of him seeing himself as a child fairly moving.
It’s one of my favorite Christmas movies. Saw it in a packed theater when it came out and I remember the audience really liked it too.
Surprised now days to hear people think of it as a “bad” Christmas movie and not very well liked.
Maybe I’m just burned out. The film doesn’t have the ‘it’ factor to me any longer.
I think its still in most critics top 20 Christmas movies.
I still enjoy it. It smartly turns the Scrooge story around a bit.
I still like it, but now that I’m a parent, the bad future for the “Tiny Tim” character hits a lot harder.
Two actors from episodes of Star Trek:TOS appear together in a scene from “Scrooged” - can you name them?
This thread reminded me of this fantastic article in the Ringer a few years back:
Funny enough I love both Bad Santa and Elf as well. Maybe I’ll take the article’s advice this year.
Mean, and the movie was a little overstuffed.
I really don’t think Scrooge needs an active love interest either, takes away from the pathos. That was the movie trying to hit too many bases (overstuffed.)
Don’t like Bad Santa either, so YMMV.
Michael J. Pollard from “Miri” and Logan Ramsey from “Bread and Circuses”. I feel about “Scrooged” as I did when I first saw it, it’s a good adaptation, but my favorite version is the 1951 Alastair Sim.
I absolutely love this movie. I never saw it in theaters, but I watch it every Christmas.
The only really cringe moment comes at the end when a woman forcibly kisses a guy tied to a chair and it’s played off for laughs. Otherwise it seems to hold up.
Exactly right.
I always loved Bill Murray’s commercial from this movie:
“Acid rain… drug addiction… international terrorism… freeway killers.”
I never saw Scrooged in theaters but it is probably in my top 10 Christmas movies and by far my favorite version of a Christmas Carol which I don’t really like.
I also dig Bad Santa which is definitely in my top 10 watch every year movies. Elf is hit or miss with me since Will Ferrell drives me nuts.
In the theater at the end when he asks half of the audience to sing, then the other half, no one sang when we saw it. It doesn’t work at all when watching at home. I like the movie otherwise and will watch it every few years.
I either saw it in the theater or on cable shortly after its release. I remember after thinking meh about it. I think I’ll give it a re-watch this year.
I didn’t like it when it came out, and my memory is neither did many other people. It was not a huge hit, but a mediocre minor success, I thought. The song was bigger than the movie.
When Groundhog Day came out, a largely similar concept of redemption through becoming a better person, I figured it was a repeat of what the Scrooged creators were going for but failed to achieve.
I like the movie, but it bugs me that Murray’s character is clearly based on Brandon Tartikoff, the legendary 1980’s head of programming of NBC and actual youngest president in television history. I knew Brandon - he and my father were close friends - and he not only was he a supremely nice guy, he had a reputation in the industry for being a nice guy, too. I know for a fact that neither he nor my dad were actually offended by Murray’s portrayal, but it still bothers me a bit.
Too young to have seen it in theaters, but it’s one of my favorite Christmas movies and still holds up.
I have no real hot take on the movie other than when I describe it to people I make sure to mention it was back when Bill Murray was still funny and not just hipster funny (read: not) like he is today.
I wound up becoming a journalist and have frequently had to work on holidays, so the movie’s notion that it’s the height of insensitivity to have people working on Christmas Eve strikes me as, oh, a little quaint.
I saw it in the theatre on my first high school date. I didn’t want to go on the date (long story) but at least the movie was funny. I still think it’s funny though after I read an article where Bill Murray said the director made him yell constantly, I can’t unhear it and several scenes could have been better with out. Still one of my favorites- love the Christmas present ghost and Bobcat of course. Total child of the 80s here- it’s a classic.