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Subj: Scrooged is the most awesome holiday movie EVER.
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 at 03:54:11 am EST (Viewed 395 times)
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> 1) The REF

The Ref. I have seen this one, actually, but it was a while back and I didn't recognize the quote. Nor does it quickly leap to mind when I think Christmas movies... so good, tricky choice.


> 2) Bad Santa

I caught this in bits and pieces last year on cable. I just laughed out loud when he started beating up those younger kids who were picking on the main kid. To few movies ever let the adults just beat the snot out of teens who deserve it.


> 3) Miracle on 34th street

Even after all these years, the resolution to this one is still genius.


> 4) Wonderful life

I always laugh because a guy I know came up to me, amazed, one Christmas after discovering how much there was to that movie before any of the famous scenes happened. "It's like there's a whole movie beforehand!"


> 5) Christmas Carol

You know, I tried to think of my favorite version of "A Christmas Carol", but I'm not sure I really like any of them enough to decide. I don't dislike the story, but maybe having heard it so often I just can't get drawn into any of the adaptations.

Athough I do get some chuckles out of "Scrooged".

Years before Rushmore or Lost in Translation came out, this was the movie that made me realize Bill Murray's potential as a dramatic (and jaw-droppingly DARK) actor. It makes The Nightmare Before Christmas (which I love) look like Davey & Goliath by comparison, and unlike far too many stories which try to make a character's emotional peak highs seem higher by plunging them to their lowest emotional depths possible, this one succeeds in both its lows and its highs. Most versions of Scrooge make the character into too much of a melodramatic caricature, but ironically enough, the fact that Scrooged doesn't ask us to take Murray's version as seriously (and in fact, that it demands that we don't at times) makes his grim moments all the more shockingly stark and bleak, which gives his arc a much more moving sense of pathos. And Murray's closing speech, which comes across as totally unscripted, is one of the few scenes in a holiday film that actually brings me to tears, simply because he looks like he's actually just plain losing his shit for real onscreen, and his emotion is infectious.



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