Every year on Christmas Eve, Jane and I watch our favourite festive films and today will be no different.
We kick things off with Trading Places, which holds up against the test of time, except for the fact that casual racism was clearly a lot more acceptable back in the eighties.
This is followed by Home Alone, which is probably only entertaining to adults if you were a kid when it came out. I was so I'm set. Plus there's nothing more Christmassy than a grown man being shot in the groin with an air gun.
Third up is Die Hard, which IS a Christmas movie and a brilliant one at that. Hands down my favourite ever action movie, by the time "Let it Snow" starts playing you can't help but feel in the Christmas spirit, especially whilst surrounded by dead terrorists.
Finally we have Scrooged, with the excellent Bill Murray tackling on of my favourite stories (A Christmas Carol) in what has to be my favourite adaptation. Karen Allen's smile reminds me of the Joker, which is both fun and terrifying at the same time (much like the Joker himself I suppose).
So that's our day...what are you doing?
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Showing posts with label Scrooged. Show all posts
Saturday, 24 December 2011
Friday, 9 December 2011
Disney Does Dickens
Due to a barrage of busy Christmases, I never saw Disney's A Christmas Carol when it came out at the cinema nor when it was released on DVD. I've only just caught it as it hit my Sky Box (really not a euphemism).
Based on the classic Dicken's text, which incidentally is one of my favourite stories, this motion capture version sees Jim Carrey play Scrooge along with all the ghosts, ably supported by Colin firth and Gary Oldman.
It's good fun and they've kept to a lot of the original text. Where it goes off the rails is the scenes between Carrey delivering the classic lines, which involves (but isn't limited to) Scrooge being shrunk and chased around London by the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come. It's weird and unnecessary, and feels like it's only in there because the animators wanted to show off the cool stuff they could do.
As versions of A Christmas Carol go, it's nowhere near as Scrooged, which I'll be watching on Christmas Eve, as I do every year.
Based on the classic Dicken's text, which incidentally is one of my favourite stories, this motion capture version sees Jim Carrey play Scrooge along with all the ghosts, ably supported by Colin firth and Gary Oldman.
It's good fun and they've kept to a lot of the original text. Where it goes off the rails is the scenes between Carrey delivering the classic lines, which involves (but isn't limited to) Scrooge being shrunk and chased around London by the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come. It's weird and unnecessary, and feels like it's only in there because the animators wanted to show off the cool stuff they could do.
As versions of A Christmas Carol go, it's nowhere near as Scrooged, which I'll be watching on Christmas Eve, as I do every year.
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
I did warn you
So in my excitement for Christmas, which is getting increasingly closer, I've begun a gauntlet of Christmas films.
I tend to do it every year, and it usually contains (but is not limited to) Elf, Gremlins, Christmas with the Kranks, a version of A Christmas Carol and if Jane gets her way, Santa Claus: The Movie.
The whole thing culminates on Christmas Eve with Trading Places, Home Alone, Die Hard and Scrooged; with the grand finale being my all time favourite film It's a Wonderful Life on Christmas Day.
Good times.
I tend to do it every year, and it usually contains (but is not limited to) Elf, Gremlins, Christmas with the Kranks, a version of A Christmas Carol and if Jane gets her way, Santa Claus: The Movie.
The whole thing culminates on Christmas Eve with Trading Places, Home Alone, Die Hard and Scrooged; with the grand finale being my all time favourite film It's a Wonderful Life on Christmas Day.
Good times.
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