A Christmas Carrey

But it’s Dickens – but with cool inyaface rollercoastery CGI goodness!

Yeah, it looks like complete guff. I can’t believe it’s from the same guy who gave us the sublime BTTF trilogy.

It’s quite sad really.

> As a fan of Dickens? work, it does annoy me slightly that the most faithful motion picture adaptation of the novel has so far been A Muppets Christmas Carol.

Maybe not faithful, but Scrooged has to be my favourite adaptation.

>Am I the only one who thinks that this looks absolutely abominable?

I’m a bit cynical aboutyet another Scrooge addaption, and I can’t say if it will be good having not seen it yet, but it definitely doesn’t look abominable. It looks amazing.

>The CGI looks shite

If by that you mean it doesn’t look real, then you’re right. Except it’s not supposed to look real. It’s a 3-D animation, essentially a 3-D cartoon* and as that it looks great. Just look at the texture the, detail the amount of work that’s gone into it.

*although they tend not to be referred to as that nowadays.

>Am I the only one who thinks that this looks absolutely abominable?
>Yeah, it looks like complete guff
>The CGI looks shite

All of this.
Plus : Wilfred Bramble as Scrooge …?

>Didn?t he learn his lesson with The Polar Express?

*shrugs* I like The Polar Express, it’s a lovely family Xmas film.

Are you all on glue?

Oh behave, the Patrick Stewart adaptation was great.

I made my girlfriend depressed when I told her Tiny Tim died regardless.

>Oh behave, the Patrick Stewart adaptation was great.

I found it flat and uninteresting. That said, it has to be one of the most overfilmed stories in existence. Aside from the spin-offs (Blackadder’s Christmas Carol, Mickey’s Christmas Carol, Scrooged, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (!) etc) there tends to be a straight adaptation almost every other year.

I like how the story and every adaptation with a narrator ends with the claim that “Tiny Tim did NOT die”.

As a consequence, Timothy Cratchett is still alive to this day.

How close to the original is Bobby’s Winslet cartoon version?

If that was in reply to me, Seb, then I wasn’t actually disagreeing with you. I also questioned Ben’s claim that The Muppet Christmas Carol was the “most faithful”. That said, I would claim that it is slightly more faithful than Scrooge, in that it adds relatively little to the BASIC story.

If your introduction to A Christmas Carol was The Muppet Christmas Carol and you were intelligent enough to realise that this is the Muppets spin on the story and comedic elements have been added, you could still take away a pretty good understanding of the plot.

Whereas if you were to watch Scrooge, you could be under the belief that, because of the lack of talking fruit and singing rats, this is pure Dickens. But that would be a misconception. There’s a bunch of stuff you’d take away from that adaptation that have no foundation in Dickens’s original story.

Incidentally, I can only think of one time where it’s actually addressed that Bob is a frog, and that’s a throwaway comment that probably wasn’t even scripted.

No, there is mouse with antlers though.

Or that might be something else.

Scrooged is my favourite too, closely followed by Blackadder. I’ve never read the book. I’ll have to give it a whirl this christmas.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a186476/zemeckis-to-adapt-the-nutcracker.html

Christ. Give it a rest, Bob.