Another vote for A Muppets Christmas Carol. You just can't beat Rizzo!!
ABC
Posted on: 12/06/2006 12:00
The Alastair Sim version, I think its 1951. Everything about it was good. The choice of actors, the way they portrayed the characters. All the ghosts were excellent and a great example of casting. Alastair was excellent and his epiphany near the end still makes me laugh and smile with him. A Christmas Carol is a wonderful story, doesn't matter which version is shown. Its worth the look.
All 4 Him
Posted on: 12/06/2006 12:17
Alastair Sim! Alastair Sim!!
It's not Christmas until we turn off all the lights, turn on the Christmas tree and play our worn out black-and-white copy... (would you believe my brother and I have to argue with my parents every year to get them to watch B&W when they so desperately want to use the color version!? *Shakes head in disgust*)
sighsnootles
Posted on: 12/06/2006 14:26
muppets.
jeanct62
Posted on: 12/06/2006 14:38
Ditto to Muppets, then Alastair Sim.
Witch
Posted on: 12/06/2006 18:46
I used to vote Sim wholeheartedly.
But I have begun to enjoy the version with Patrick Stewart more. Patrick seems to capture the stern frugality of speech and emotion that I imagine in Scrooge.
Of course when Geordie and Worf kick down the door and stun the entire Cratchit family while Data pins a transporter beacon on Tiny Tim who is actually an alien child held hostage in a holographic prison..... ahhhhhhh.... never mind
klaatu
Posted on: 12/06/2006 21:23
Patrick Stewart reminds me that I have a CD of Patrick Stewart READING "A Christmas Carol," which reminds me how much fun it used to be when I was a kid to go to the annual reading at the university in my home town. A local radio announcer was the reader, and he did a great job of making the story come alive.
I don't recall the part about Geordie and Worf, though. Maybe we had an abridged version?
Bill
Posted on: 12/07/2006 00:27
Alastair Sim 1951 version. My personal favourite played every year on Christmas Eve.
MadMonk
Posted on: 12/07/2006 21:12
Patrick Stewart version makes me believe. (In humanity, not in Patrick Stewart, as nice as he seems.)
eileenlavigne
Posted on: 12/22/2006 17:47
At the end of the movie when Scrooge changes and helps Bob Crachit and his family on Christmas and the statement from Tiny Tim " God bless us everyone"
Fairmoon
Posted on: 12/22/2006 22:35
it's a toss up between the Sims version and the muppets. Alastair Sims was the 'first' scrooge I ever saw and it was so good it freaked me out, it's not on all that much anymore, the George C. Scott version usually is, and it's good, but I'll always have a soft spot for Alastair.
I like to watch the Muppets one with my son though, he enjoys it a lot and is still to young for the 'grown up version' so it's a 50/50 split for me.
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GordW
Posted on: 12/06/2006 10:37
THe muppets of course :)
paulivany
Posted on: 12/06/2006 11:39
Another vote for A Muppets Christmas Carol. You just can't beat Rizzo!!
ABC
Posted on: 12/06/2006 12:00
The Alastair Sim version, I think its 1951. Everything about it was good. The choice of actors, the way they portrayed the characters. All the ghosts were excellent and a great example of casting. Alastair was excellent and his epiphany near the end still makes me laugh and smile with him. A Christmas Carol is a wonderful story, doesn't matter which version is shown. Its worth the look.
All 4 Him
Posted on: 12/06/2006 12:17
Alastair Sim! Alastair Sim!!
It's not Christmas until we turn off all the lights, turn on the Christmas tree and play our worn out black-and-white copy... (would you believe my brother and I have to argue with my parents every year to get them to watch B&W when they so desperately want to use the color version!? *Shakes head in disgust*)
sighsnootles
Posted on: 12/06/2006 14:26
muppets.
jeanct62
Posted on: 12/06/2006 14:38
Ditto to Muppets, then Alastair Sim.
Witch
Posted on: 12/06/2006 18:46
I used to vote Sim wholeheartedly.
But I have begun to enjoy the version with Patrick Stewart more. Patrick seems to capture the stern frugality of speech and emotion that I imagine in Scrooge.
Of course when Geordie and Worf kick down the door and stun the entire Cratchit family while Data pins a transporter beacon on Tiny Tim who is actually an alien child held hostage in a holographic prison..... ahhhhhhh.... never mind
klaatu
Posted on: 12/06/2006 21:23
Patrick Stewart reminds me that I have a CD of Patrick Stewart READING "A Christmas Carol," which reminds me how much fun it used to be when I was a kid to go to the annual reading at the university in my home town. A local radio announcer was the reader, and he did a great job of making the story come alive.
I don't recall the part about Geordie and Worf, though. Maybe we had an abridged version?
Bill
Posted on: 12/07/2006 00:27
Alastair Sim 1951 version. My personal favourite played every year on Christmas Eve.
MadMonk
Posted on: 12/07/2006 21:12
Patrick Stewart version makes me believe. (In humanity, not in Patrick Stewart, as nice as he seems.)
eileenlavigne
Posted on: 12/22/2006 17:47
At the end of the movie when Scrooge changes and helps Bob Crachit and his family on Christmas and the statement from Tiny Tim " God bless us everyone"
Fairmoon
Posted on: 12/22/2006 22:35
it's a toss up between the Sims version and the muppets. Alastair Sims was the 'first' scrooge I ever saw and it was so good it freaked me out, it's not on all that much anymore, the George C. Scott version usually is, and it's good, but I'll always have a soft spot for Alastair.
I like to watch the Muppets one with my son though, he enjoys it a lot and is still to young for the 'grown up version' so it's a 50/50 split for me.
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