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I'm quite partial to the Patrick Stewart one but I find myself liking the Muppets version more and more lately.

Alastair Sim is my favorite one

I have a soft spot for the Reginald Owen version. It's charming that Mr. and Mrs. Cratchit were married in real life and that the eldest daughter of the family was their real life daughter.

The Beavis and Butt-Head version is the only one I care about.

Scrooged

The Epic Rap Battles of History version because it contains both donald trump and kanye west >_>

The Muppets one for sure. Even the musical numbers are fantastic. Michael Cane played such a good serious af Scrooge too with all those Muppets.

Muppets is the goat version of Christmas carol.

Kamil posted...

The Muppets one for sure. Even the musical numbers are fantastic. Michael Cane played such a good serious af Scrooge too with all those Muppets.

Agreed, the music is really catchy. The Ghost of Christmas Present's song is so good

I have to watch that tomorrow or on Christmas. I have it on VHS and DVD still. I haven't seen the whole movie in a few years though around this time I usually "dial up" a few clips on youtube. It's really such a good and emotional movie.

Scrooged, with the Albert Finney version running it a very close second.

I also went to see a stage version this evening to celebrate breaking off from work for Christmas, and it was really excellent, one of my favourite versions I've seen. It had an interesting spin on things where the chap who played Bob Cratchit was deaf IRL, so they obviously played the character as deaf, too. What made it really interesting was that every other character apart from Scrooge did sign language for all their lines as they spoke them (in a subtle and unobtrusive way, which isn't easy to do - because it's on the stage people naturally tend to act with their whole body more, so the signing was done as if it was just exaggerated hand movements as they spoke, and in the rare musical moments the sign language was incorporated into the dance routines - gonna be completely honest, if I hadn't read the program while I was in my seat waiting for the start, I probably wouldn't have clicked on that they were doing the sign language for a good half hour, so seemlessly was it incorporated). Scrooge not doing it was a really brilliant and subtle bit of characterisation, and I'm not gonna lie, when it got to the end and he slowly and awkwardly signed "Merry Christmas, Bob" to Cratchit, I cried a little. It was a really wonderful show.

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That's cool Tom! I feel so uncultured oft times even in my happier years hah, I'd love to go to an art museum or a theater play and be all this is real life people doing something. More so the theater because it's live :D

Kamil posted...

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That's cool Tom! I feel so uncultured oft times even in my happier years hah, I'd love to go to an art museum or a theater play and be all this is real life people doing something. More so the theater because it's live :D

It's the first time that I've been to the theatre in a few years tbh.

I do go to the local art gallery relatively regularly, though, because it's free entry and it's less than five minutes away from work, so it's often a great way to spend a lunch break, haha.