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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 382028" data-attributes="member: 23">Scrooged (1988)

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This was watched on a whim. If I&#039;d stopped to think about it I&#039;d probably have decided it&#039;s too early for Christmas-themed films, but the poster doesn&#039;t look particularly festive and the film itself didn&#039;t really feel very Christmassy either. 

I&#039;d never watched this before, but I do remember it being popular with classmates when it was in cinemas. Bill Murray was quite big at the time, and I&#039;d enjoyed Ghostbusters, but something put me off watching this. Something at the back of my mind tells me I was probably put off on some level by the idea of an Americanisation of a quintessentially British story. 

Fortunately, this isn&#039;t a &quot;straight&quot; adaption. As you&#039;d guess from the poster it&#039;s really a typical Bill Murray film which happens to follow the same basic story as the Dickens novel. The only really cringey parts are the &quot;film within a film&quot;, with the Buddy Hackett&#039;s Scrooge opening the window on Christmas morning and ordering the all-American kid to buy a bird for the Cratchits. But then, since Murray&#039;s character is filming this version of A Christmas Carol it&#039;s meant to be cringey (I think). 

Bill Murray, naturally, is Bill Murray. You know what you&#039;re getting and this film is no exception in that regard.

Besides Bill Murray, I had no idea who was in this film, and I found myself more impressed with each familiar face that appeared. It feels like the world and his wife are in this, with everyone from Robert Goulet and Lee Majors cameoing as themselves to the likes of John Forsythe (as I&#039;d never have expected to see him), Robert Mitchum and Carol Kane (whose character feels straight out of a panto - in the best kind of way). 

Giving the film its grounding are Alfre Woodard as the kind-of-Bob-Cratchit character and Karen Allen as the film&#039;s kind-of-Belle. Both are truly captivating, with radiant, natural performances.

It&#039;s not the kind of film I&#039;d want to watch every Christmas. Now I&#039;ve seen it, I don&#039;t feel the need to revisit it. All the same, I&#039;m glad I watched it just this once.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 382028, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]Scrooged[/SIZE][/B] (1988) [IMG width="506px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffromthecinema.com%2Fimages%2Fproducts%2Fdetail%2Fscrooged_417b22c3.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=ca316c4199d27bf10e7c752e3c1c80df85ed07f165d6b58ac78b426b33d4d0d5&ipo=images[/IMG] This was watched on a whim. If I'd stopped to think about it I'd probably have decided it's too early for Christmas-themed films, but the poster doesn't look particularly festive and the film itself didn't really feel very Christmassy either. I'd never watched this before, but I do remember it being popular with classmates when it was in cinemas. Bill Murray was quite big at the time, and I'd enjoyed [I]Ghostbusters[/I], but something put me off watching this. Something at the back of my mind tells me I was probably put off on some level by the idea of an Americanisation of a quintessentially British story. Fortunately, this isn't a "straight" adaption. As you'd guess from the poster it's really a typical Bill Murray film which happens to follow the same basic story as the Dickens novel. The only really cringey parts are the "film within a film", with the Buddy Hackett's Scrooge opening the window on Christmas morning and ordering the all-American kid to buy a bird for the Cratchits. But then, since Murray's character is filming this version of[I] A Christmas Carol [/I]it's [U]meant[/U] to be cringey (I think). Bill Murray, naturally, is Bill Murray. You know what you're getting and this film is no exception in that regard. Besides Bill Murray, I had no idea who was in this film, and I found myself more impressed with each familiar face that appeared. It feels like the world and his wife are in this, with everyone from Robert Goulet and Lee Majors cameoing as themselves to the likes of John Forsythe (as I'd [U]never[/U] have expected to see him), Robert Mitchum and Carol Kane (whose character feels straight out of a panto - in the best kind of way). Giving the film its grounding are Alfre Woodard as the kind-of-Bob-Cratchit character and Karen Allen as the film's kind-of-Belle. Both are truly captivating, with radiant, natural performances. It's not the kind of film I'd want to watch every Christmas. Now I've seen it, I don't feel the need to revisit it. All the same, I'm glad I watched it just this once.[/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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