At the time you wrote that, Nov. 4, virtually none of the reviews had been published yet.
The name of the corporation has replaced the name of the author?
Tasteful.
Why waste time?
Yeah. I meant to touch base with you before I let them do that, but we ran out of time…
Hell may have frozen, Roger Ebert and I actually agree.
I’m a tough sell on ‘A Christmas Carol’. I think some versions of the story are great, some are OK, and some either don’t hold up over time or just Blow Eggnog Chunks.
I give credit to this version; B++ (and Nobody gets an A, short of resurrecting Alastair Sim). I definitely recomend that you fork out the money & see this in an IMAX.
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PS- this would have been an OK version even before the line about ‘The Clergy’. After I heard that part, I knew I’d be buying the DVD when it comes out.
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I think that is right out of the book Count Blucher, although it has been a long time since I have read it.
I would not be surprised. The line is brilliant and worthy of Charles Dickens.
And the Censorship in prrior films: It is Brilliant, and worthy of both The American Catholic and The American Protestant Church…
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I can’t quote it verbatim, but it went something like this exchange:
Scrooge and The Ghost of Christmas Present( TGCP) are looking at poor people making food at a bakery.
Scrooge: This is the only place that these poor people have to heat their food, yet you and your kind would close it down 1 day out of 7
TGCP: There are many of men who claim to do our bidding, so-called men of the cloth, these men have nothing to do with me and mine. Lay these works at their feet.
I went to it this weekend. I wasn’t sure I wanted to see it—I was thinking “Does the world really need yet another Christmas Carol adaptation?” and “I hope Jim Carrey doesn’t do to A Christmas Carol what he did to The Grinch.”
But I loved it. Why does the world need yet another version of A Christmas Carol? Because, until now, we haven’t had one in glorious 3-D animation. And we’ve had all too few that really work as a ghost story, which this one did.
And Dickens really knew how to tug at the heartstrings (and to write dialogue), and this version preserves that.
Those of you who were dismissive, I urge you to give it a chance.
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“Spirit,” said Scrooge, after a moment’s thought, “I wonder you, of all the beings in the many worlds about us, should desire to cramp these people’s opportunities of innocent enjoyment.”
“I!” cried the Spirit.
“You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day, often the only day on which they can be said to dine at all,” said Scrooge. “Wouldn’t you?”
“I!” cried the Spirit.
“You seek to close these places on the Seventh Day?” said Scrooge. “And it comes to the same thing.”
“I seek!” exclaimed the Spirit.
“Forgive me if I am wrong. It has been done in your name, or at least in that of your family,” said Scrooge.
“There are some upon this earth of ours,” returned the Spirit, “who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.”
I bought a ticket to finally see something in 3D and it was pretty cool, except I had to put the 3D glasses over my normal glasses and it was kind of clumsy and I felt some eyestrain.
And a lot of the movie was really dark, luminosity-wise. That’s the point I suppose, but the dreary industrial winter palette made me want to see how awesome a rich colorful vibrant 3D movie would be like. (Avatar!)
I left to meet up with some friends and actually didn’t finish the movie.