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| Submitted by: | Max Rosen 11/15/2009 9:24:38 AM PT |
| Location: | NYC |
You forgot to mention the Muppet's Christmas Carol, which I believe is the best. Unlike this lifeless one, it presented a plausible depiction of joy--and without that joy, A Christmas Carol is just a scare tactic, a film that tries to frighten its viewers into Christian charity, instead of convincing them that there is joy to be found in interpersonal relation. Which makes sense--what with this film being the scariest version I've seen, and the one with the least personality by far, in script and presentation.
| Submitted by: | s.p. (spencer_polluck4@aol.com) 11/6/2009 3:53:26 PM PT |
| Location: | los angeles |
| Occupation: | gift rapper |
I totally agree with you, Todd. That animation technique is distracting, not dilligent. And ''Beowulf'' made me want to slay myself.
| Submitted by: | Bill Weber (bill@billweberstudios.com) 11/4/2009 9:42:02 PM PT |
| Location: | New York |
| Occupation: | Family media |
If you want to see Dickens the way Dickens originally did, see Gerald Charles Dickens (great-great-grandson of the old master) in his one-man performance of A Christmas Carol in New York on December 4 and 5: www.parkavenuechristmas.org
| Submitted by: | Tom Snyder (tlsnyder42@aol.com) 11/4/2009 12:52:23 PM PT |
| Location: | Simi Valley, Calif. |
| Occupation: | writer |
Todd is way off base with this stupid review. This may be the best,
most redemptive version of Dickens' tale yet. The motion capture
technique, which every major critic seemed to agree worked perfectly
fine with the depiction of Gollum in the LORD OF THE RINGS movies
works extremely well here. Zemeckis captures the expressiveness of
Carrey's eyes and movements in an emotionally powerful way. If some
of the other actors don't come off quite as well, perhaps it's because
they lack acting skills, bot because of the technical aspect of this
movie. The technique also heightens the nightmare quality of the
admonitions that Scrooge receives from the three spirits and the
ghosts, which increases the depth of Scrooge's transformation like no
other version ever really has. This is a great movie!!!
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