Rank your versions of A Christmas Carol:
A) A Muppet Christmas Carol
2) George C Scott
D) Mickeys Christmas Carol
-----------------That really old one
-----------------Patrick Stewart
999) Jim Carey
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Agreed.
Michael Caine was amazing
Michael Caine acted like the muppets were real actors that is why his performance was great.
1 - Die Hard
GTFO
Batman Returns is a better Action/Christmas movie
You are so wrong. Get outa here with your wrongness.
Lol. I love die hard. I get annoyed every year when people do the is it a Christmas movie thing. I can watch that movie any time of the year. You don't watch Christmas movies all year long. The same as you don't listen to Christmas music all year long.
You haven't met my wife. She is whole-heartedly supporting the Hallmark Channel's business model.
Nobody held a gun to your head and made you marry a weirdo.
You don't know how she courted him
Tell that to my wife and the fucking Hallmark channel. They show Christmas movies all year long and she watches them.
Edit: too early to drink on a weekday, but I'll be throwing back some bourbon later.
that is a spicy, and wrong, take :-)
Scrooged should probably be on that list
I think it's Spirited with Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell - I couldn't watch more than 20 minutes or so.
So...
Like most of them. Except maybe that really old one.
I don't know, I feel like I've liked a number of them. Spirited is a musical and the songs all seem just very, not good. Like they hired a second or third rate person to do that part. I might have made it a lot further if the singing wasn't so bad. The story seemed like it might be interesting.
That one with Ebenezer was pretty good.
The first time I watched the Zemecis/Jim Carrey version, I did not like it. I've since watched it a number of times and for some unexplainable reason has become my favorite version of the Dickens classic.
However, Scrooged is the GOAT
I kind of liked the Mr. Magoo version. But the old would be the best in my book.
1) The Ref
2) The one with Scrooge McDuff
The rest
9999) Scrooged with Bill Murray. The burned alive bit gives me nightmares to this day.
I mean none of them. Instead we have great Christmas movies like A Christmas Story, Polar Express, Elf, Die Hard and Klaus.
Elf is for basics and while I loved the Polar Express book growing up, the movie is a disturbing fever dream.
But at least you didn't say Bad Santa.
You know why it's "basic" because everyone likes it, there is a reason.
It's the macaroni and cheese of Christmas movies.
Well played
It's a Wonderful Life.
Overplayed, seen many, many times, but it's a great film. Miracle on 34th Street (original) also good.
All of these movies are Ok. Elf is just obnoxiously over rated. Don't get me started on Die Hard again. Polar Express is worth watching once, but boring. I won't mess with A Christmas Story but you have branched too far from original topic.
None of the above. This is the best, creepiest, version. From 1971.
Scrooge, the 1970 version (Albert Finney as the lead character and Alec Guinness is Marley) is our family's all-time favorite, with nothing, ABSOLUTELY nothing else coming even close. This is a musical version of the story, so it may not be everyone's cup of tea but it has catchy tunes, fun scenes, good acting and has special meaning for our family.
My Dad was killed in an accident in August of 1971, ten days before my sister was getting married. I was already in the Air Force and stationed overseas. My Mom faced raising three (ages 7, 11 and 17) of the five kids in our family as she had to adapt to her own new circumstances. Facing their first Christmas without my Dad, Scrooge came to the theater is our area. It provided a much needed up-beat change of pace. Our family has bought and given out multiple copies of the movie to kids and grandkids and it is family tradition to watch the movie after the Thanksgiving Day meal. The introduction music is played Christmas morning was a way to get everyone downstairs to start the day's festivities.
If you have not seen this version of the story, I highly recommend it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcvClSBQnDw
Leg. I've actually played Scrooge in a performance of this show, lots of hard work but it was a blast
This is my favorite version as well. I remember it from ~ 1980s Sunday night TV and being allowed to stay up a little longer to finish the whole show. I've tracked down DVD and digital copies so that I can watch it every year (thanks for the link). I'm currently forced to watch it on my own late at night because my kids are too afraid of the scary parts and my wife just rolls her eyes at me and goes off to bed. I usually put it on Xmas Eve or a couple nights before after wrapping presents.
I realize I'm in the minority but Patrick Stewart, hands down. I'm always amazed at how slept-on that rendition is. He nails the essence of Scrooge. NAILS it.
I rate the George C Scott version about where most people seem to have Stewart's.
FTFY
Followed the Beard's suggestion. 20 minutes in and it's spot on. Really enjoying it. (You just have to get past that mid to late 90s TNT vibe)
You are welcome my good sir
Skip all of them and watch Sam Elliott be grumpy in Prancer.
So probably unpopular opinion but the BBC did a dark retelling of A Christmas Carol in 2019 with Guy Pearce as Scrooge. I thought it was great. But then my other favorite version is the black and white one with Alistair Sim, so proceed with caution.
Obviously in the minority, but as for the topic, I believe the George C. Scott version was the best, hands down and drop the mike.
You want a real not traditional xmas movie to claim as your favorite for hip points? Go with Krampus. I am 100% NOT advocating for this, some people just like being contrary.
I don't think anyone has commented on this yet, so I wanted commend you for your Home Alone reference by listing them as A, 2, and then D.
Bravo good sir.
I don't have a rank but I did already start taking down Christmas decorations two days ago. It was very satisfying. I'm the opposite of Christmas Creep.
If we lived close, we could SHARE decorations. I'll probably put some up today.
and in no particular order:
you can add Lethal Weapon as well
I think the difference is that Die Hard is a Christmas Movie and Lethal Weapon is a movie that happens during Christmas. The major premise of Die Hard has everything to do with Christmas: the movie takes place in the span of Christmas Eve, it's a Christmas Party where it all goes down, characters use things about Christmas as tools (the ribbon to hide the gun on his back), even the wife being saved by getting rid of the "Christmas Gift" and Hans falling to his death for it. In Lethal Weapon, Christmas is just incidental to the plot.
We're gonna get bloody on this one, Rog.
Chiming in to agree that Just Friends is a Christmas movie. I also consider Eyes Wide Shut to be a Christmas movie.
Christmas porn.
You have to get Violent Night in there somewhere. New on Prime it is definitely Home Alone meets a combo of Die Hard/Bad Santa. It just hit all the right buttons for a Santa willing to get his hands dirty to get the presents delivered. Kid in the movie employs some sweet ambush tactics like Home Alone aimed to maim not just give comedic effect.
Watched it again last night, I think the level of kill scenes is what you would expect from a John Wick movie, only executed by a Santa with a sledgehammer and Candy Cane.
Lol I saw it last year. It was fine.
One of my buddies pointed this out to me today. Not sure I had ever really contemplated First Blood as a Christmas movie.
One of the bad guys in Violent Night uses Krampus as his code name.
Santa Clause is Coming to Town with Topper the penguin is by far the best Christmas special. All the stop animation ones are good though.
There's a lot of "Christmas movie" debate broadly being conducted under the very specifically named "a christmas carol" thread. Fascinating, but not unexpected.
I was going to say something similar. This thread was supposed to be focused specifically on which version of Dickens Christmas Carol was the best (Muppets). Then somebody derailed the train...
Sometimes (always) the train just begs to be derailed.
Supposed...you're not new here.
Happy Holidays.
Muppets hands down.
The next best Christmas movie is the claymation Rudolph.
Bumbles bounce. Don't at me
But what about the seminal classic, "El Camino Christmas" featuring Dax Shepard, Jessica alba, Tim Allen, AND Vincent D'Onofrio...
(It's ok. I'm not actually offended you didn't mention it.)
Ha. Never heard of it. Visiting my sister's place, she put on a few Christmas movies in a row. I hadn't seen Miracle on 34th street in a long time, which is obviously a good one.
Then she put on the Christmas Chronicles, which if you haven't heard of it, is a kids movie where Kurt Russell plays Santa. It was a little corny like all kid-targeted movies are, but it was actually pretty good!
We watched chronicles like last year or the one before that. Thoroughly enjoyed that for what it was, and Kurt brought it.
Hell yeah he did. Especially in the last scene where he had to deliver that last gift to the Mexican girl. Pure Kurt Russell action. Also absurd and hilarious but total action scene.