Best Christmas Movie for Adults of Our Times: "Scrooged" with Bill Murray & Other Suggestions?

[KoKo]

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Best Christmas Movie for Adults of Our Times: "Scrooged" with Bill Murray.. (IMHO)

It's 35 years old but shows the MEDIA WHORES in their PRIME EVIL...and it seems Very Contemporary!

Sadly it's hard to find it. Amazon Prime Videos has it (couldn't find it on Netflix) but maybe it's available in Library or at Barnes & Noble or somewhere.

ON EDIT..UPDATE...NETFLIX has BOTH FILMS:

Here's Amazon Link:

Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol. Frank's childhood wasn't a particularly pleasant one, and so he doesn't really appreciate the Christmas spirit. With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Frank realises he must change.

AMAZON.COM REVIEWS FOR SCROOGED (1988):

Most critics couldn't get behind Bill Murray's modern retelling of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, finding it too unfocused at times andnot nearly wicked enough. Still, if you're a Murray fan, you have to enjoyhis deliciously nasty portrayal of the world's meanest TV executive, whohas his cathartic moment one cold Christmas night in New York City. Thevarious ghosts lead him on a ghost-town tour of Manhattan, with stops atholidays past, present, and future and a Kumbaya moment when Al Green andAnnie Lennox sing "Put a Little Love in Your Heart." The effects areotherworldly, but one wishes the writing were as sharp as Murray's edgyportrayal. --Marshall Fine

AMAZON RENTAL...OR, FIND IT..WHEREVER YOU CAN!


http://www.amazon.ca/product-reviews/6305609764


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NEXT FAVORITE is GEORGE C. Scot's "A Christmas Carol"which has been family favorite of ours for years because it goes way beyond all the earlier versions into explaining WHY Ebinezer Scrooge became the nasty Miser he was... It was his Childhood and Lost Love ...and this Movie does a Nice Job with Background beyond earlier Hollywood versions. Lovely Version and very romantic with cinematography...




http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Carol-George-C-Scott/dp/B0006419KA

[Omaha Steve]

1. Marta and I watched the George C Scott version today

Both films are on DVD and Blu-ray BTW.

I talked briefly by phone with Mr Scott when he was on Larry King promoting The Exorcist III.

Marta and I met Michael J. Pollard when he showed up unexpectedly at TZCon II (2004)

[Dr Hobbitstein]

2. 25 years old...

And it's quite easy to come by. It was a popular movie when it came out, and it's still highly rated.

https://www.google.com/search?q=scrooged&client=firefox-a&hs=N0G&rls=org.mozilla:en-US fficial&channel=fflb&source=lnms&tbm=shop&sa=X&ei=zJe3Usm7EIiO2wWqmIDACw&ved=0CAsQ_AUoAw&biw=1440&bih=771#spd=17952698043113863707

That netted 20 shops that had it. And I just saw bluray copies at Target the other day.

But I'll take Bad Santa over A Christmas Carol (even if it does have George C Scott).

[onehandle]

3. Scrooged is our goto Christmas movie. nt

[KoKo]

6. We thought it even more darkly funny today than the last time

we watched it...maybe six years ago or so. The crassness of the media these days has gotten worse and with the aftermath of the Wall Street Crooks and general craziness of the last two decades it somehow seems current...

[GoCubsGo]

15. That, and "Trading Places" are my two favorites.

"Trading Places" isn't technically a Christmas movie, but it's set during the season.

[KoKo]

16. Thumbs Up on "TP"

One of our top faves, too.

[liberal_at_heart]

4. Mickey's Christmas Carol was my favorite as a kid and still is my favorite Christmas movie.

[JI7]

5. i just read the book again recently and was wondering which movie to watch

i did see scrooged before but it's been a long time so don't remember much.

[KoKo]

7. You Tube says they have the full Movie. Here's a link...hopefully.

My internet has been spotty the last week...so I couldn't check it out but here's the link if you want to see it free. (The George Scott is the traditional version, though and is well worth the watch if you aren't in the mood for contemporary dark humor "Christmas Carol."


Supposedly the full film is available on You Tube:

Scroogedp.b[...Review
A darkly comic and surreal contemporization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, this effects-heavy Bill Murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the former SNL funnyman assuming the role of television executive Frank Cross, the meanest and most depraved man on earth. Cross will stoop to unheard of levels to increase his network's ratings -- even if it means mounting outrageous programs to retain an audience, such as "Robert Goulet's Cajun Christmas" and Lee Majors in "The Night the Reindeer Died," with an AK-47-toting Santa. Cross plots his foulest move, however, for the Christmas holiday, when he will force his office staff to mount a live production of A Christmas Carol on national television -- and thus work through Christmas Eve.

Cross's life is turned upside down with visits from three ghosts: a craggy-faced cabbie known as The Ghost of Christmas Past (David Johansen); the sugar-plum fairy Ghost of Christmas Present (Carol Kane) (who gets her jollies by bonking Frank across the face with a toaster oven); and, eventually, the caped, headless Ghost of Christmas Future, who will send Frank sliding into a crematory oven -- just before he gives the sleazoid one last chance to redeem himself. Along the way, the spirits carry Frank to scenes from his past, present, and future (per Scrooge) and impart a glimpse of how he became so thoroughly rotten. The radiant Karen Allen co-stars as Frank's girlfriend, Claire Phillips, and the film packs in cameos from countless celebrities -- among them, Mary Lou Retton, John Houseman, Jamie Farr, and, in a truly grisly and tasteless bit, John Forsythe. Richard Donner directs, from a script credited to the late Michael O'Donoghue and Mitch Glazer. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

http://www.fandango.com/scrooged_v43277/plotsummary

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[Paladin]

8. "Scrooge" (1951)

Nobody comes close to Alastair Sim's vivid portrayal.

[KoKo]

9. Oh that's a great one... I was focusing on later ones with more effects

but the Alastair Sims movie is a classic. Thanks for posting about it.. Love the classics for Dickens. And, his stories of poverty, class and cruelty seem to ring so true to these times we live in. Can't get enough of Dickens whatever the version.

[Paladin]

11. +1 regarding Dickens. (nt)

[Orrex]

10. Easily David Johansen's best role in which he isn't killed by cats

Just watched this three days ago. Great stuff!

The part with ol' Bobcat threatening the control room with the shotgun hasn't aged especially well IMO, but funny to think that the Solid Gold Dancers used to be a thing, but even so it's still a lot of fun.

John Glover's performance is so magnificently 80s that it's worth the price of admission all by itself!

[Octafish]

12. MinM turned me on to ''A Carol for Another Christmas''...

...written by Rod Serling, aired on national tee vee only once in 1964. Got onto TCM cable last year and this year.



Outstanding update, anti-war, anti-nuke, anti-Big Brother. Of course it was forgotten, along with its message of peace.

PS: I'm partial toward Alastair Sim's Scrooge.

[KoKo]

13. Hey Thanks! Here it is on You Tube (just looked it up) Outstanding Cast!

My internet is spotty-- but it looks like this might be the whole movie. ???

Published on Mar 8, 2013

Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Written by: Rod Serling
Adapted from: Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"

The copy of this science-fiction holiday classic is courtesy of thepiratebay user loninappleton; he or she kindly requested someone upload it onto YouTube. Enjoy! [=

[Octafish]

14. Awesome! Thank you, KoKo!

The cast is out of this world, Sterling Hayden, Peter Sellars, Eva Marie Saint...

Merry Christmas to You and Yours, KoKo! Happy Holidays! Peaceful and Joyous New Year to All!

[randome]

17. Best Christmas short for adults and children is Raymond Briggs' 'The Snowman'.

Short and sweet. Beautiful song, which are the only spoken words.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[KoKo]

18. Kick for Dickens who lived through times that can be compared with our Own Times...

and for those who have movies they like that talk to the "income disparity" we are living through in our own sophisticated times here in the USA.

Sometimes I think we need to re-visit history and learn and re-learn the lessons...

I worry when AmazonGoogle and MSM control it all...if we will just be "Force Fed" like the Ducks for Pate (sorry I lack the French Accent in my ability to do Pate) on my computer. )