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I'll never forget how frightening the visuals were during the Ghost of Christmas Future scene, especially the sequence of Scrooge falling into the grave with the fiery coffin. That might have been one of the most intense scenes I'd seen at the time.

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OMG I thought I was the only one. Yeah that really scared me when I was a kid. Even the Jacob Marley scene with Goofy made me a little uneasy. I just rewatched it with the family and could feel my decades old fear. :blush:
Luckily my 10 year old and 3 year old seemed unaffected. Which is strange because they're scared of everything.

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Speaking about being freaked out, Ignorance and Want living under The Ghost of Christmas Present's robes creeped me out when I was a kid.


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Here's version I've never heard of. I just happened upon it in the HBO Max catalog.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...47455386f1.jpgCarol for Another Christmas is a 1964 American TV movie, written by Rod Serling and directed by Joseph Mankieicz. Originally televised on the ABC network on December 28, 1964, it was not shown again for 48 years, until TCM broadcast it on December 16, 2012.

Sterling Hayden stars in the Scrooge role as an American industrialist, who supports an isolationist foreign policy, the rejection of diplomacy, and a build-up of nuclear weapons.

I'm gonna watch it tonight. Just 90 minutes. Quite a cast.

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Today I watched a Youtuber's reaction video to watching Scrooged. She complained that the story was too predictable because she had seen the same basic story done on the TV show "Popular". She seemed to have never heard of A Christmas Carol before.

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^I watched that last night too :D But during the taping of the Scrooge TV special, I thought I heard her say something like "Oh is this where the original story came from"?

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UPDATED WITH POLL. Check all that apply.

Take the poll and mark all that apply as the version(s) of A Christmas Carol that you enjoy and/or recommend.

Let us know in the comments why you like that one. Why do you recommend it?

Are there any stand-out moments in a particular version that are very effective, or perhaps have lingering childhood trauma, for you?

Are there any the poll misses that you would recommend?

Here's a list of films based on the original Charles Dickens story and a top 25 ranking from Collider.

The poll only allowed for 25 choice so I left a few out that I found while researching for it, like Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (1979, it's only 8 minutes), Ms. Scrooge with Cicely Tyson, and the Scrooge and Marley 1901 short film.

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My mom had A Christmas Carol (2019) with Guy Pearce on the other day and it is so depressing that I thought about calling my psychiatrist a couple of times during it.

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I grew up with the 1951 Alastair Sim version and that's the definitive version in my mind. It's the one I go back to every year and can even get my kids to sit through, sometimes. Yeah, this is the version for me, and I don't think that will ever change.

The 1984 George C. Scott version came out when I was a kid and that's good, too. It was the most effective scene of Ignorance and Want of any version I've seen; the Ghost of Christmas Present really sells it. That moment is the most true and universal teaching in the whole story, to me.

I don't love the 1970 Albert Finney version but I remember being really scared by the skeleton reveal of the Ghost of Crhistmas Future and Scrooge falling into the grave. That's a haunting childhood memory!

I really want to like the 1999 Patric Stewart version because i love Patric Stewart, but ultimatultima's far too clunky and feels cheap to me. The aforementioned Ignorance and Want scene is particularly terrible.

I didn't know Alastair Sim reprised the role for a cartoon version in 1971 until i researched options for the poll.

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Scrooge regaining his laughter is all I remember most from this. Stewart sells that moment incredibly well.

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Been a while since I watched it and I don't recall that moment. I have it on DVD. Tis the season...

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I just watched The Muppet Christmas Carol with my kids. Surprisingly, this is the first time I’ve seen it. It was actually pretty good. Michael Caine’s choice to play Scrooge completely straight was probably a questionable choice when they were making the movie but worked really well with all the zaniness of the Muppets happening around him.

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Before coming on here, my daughter told me she'd just watched this and she said the same thing about Caine's performance. Now I have to see this. I don't remember ever knowing that Caine was in it. I was more interested in ON DEADLY GROUND at the time.

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We just watched it for the first time too this year. And yeah I was expecting more Micheal Caine from Miss Congeniality instead it's more Michael Caine at Bruce Wayne's funeral in the Dark Knight Rises. It really was the right choice and serves a nice contrast from the Muppet's general zaniness.

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I too grew up with the 1951 Alastair Sim version and that's the definitive version in my mind.

I always see George C Scott as Buck Turgidson or maybe Patton so I can't buy him as Scrooge.

Scrooged is good but I'm kind of tired with Bill Murray.

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After watching a lot of youtuber reactions to Scrooged this weekend, it still manages to hold up well enough for a lot of younger viewers. But, as expected, they're clueless to a lot of the references (Lee Majors, Richard Pryor's fire incident & the casting of the TV-Movie) And to be fair to them, I wasn't aware of Robert Mitchum's status when I first saw this in it's original theatrical release either.