The Christmas Experiment 2010: Hours 19 & 20

Viewing Thoughts: After the recent insanity, I need to watch something wonderful. I'm watching Scrooged. I need to laugh! It's like the best version of A Christmas Carol from the last few years. It succeeds on so many levels. It is definitely a product of it's time. It should be taught along with the Wall Street in a class on the Eighties in Film in showing the culture of the time. It's also wrothy because by the very nature of the movie, it's important that Frank be aware of th

First off, Bill Murray is an excellent Scrooge. He has the gradual regret change in his attitude towards the season. A trace of the old Frank (the character's name in the movie) but his change of hearts happens naturally. It's common for the change of heart to only come after Scrooge is confronted with his mortality. It should be something already happening at that point. The other strength of this movie is that it's not one ghost after another. We have a gap between them for Frank to start trying to change over his life until the next ghost appears.

Any adaptation of A Christmas Carol succeeds or fails on its ghosts. Our Marley archtype is a creepy introduction to the world but the Ghost of Christmas Past is seedy and screwed up but he's also suitably good at showing introspection. The Ghost of Christmas Present is hilarious. She smacks the sense into you. Really, I love her because she's playful but also caring. She hits you with kindness.The most important is the GHost of Christmas Yet To Come since he has to be scary but also capable of emoting. Just everything of him is creepy but that creepiness it just kinda awesome.

For that matter, Cratchett is split into two roles. On one hand we have Gloria, Frank's assistant. Gloria has some of the little parts like the family and being the mother of our Tiny Tim analogue. She's also made of awesome. We also have Eliot Loudermark who's the  one who gets fired. Unlike the original where Bob Cratchett takes everything in stridem Eliot tries for revenge and it adds a great element to the movie. We feel that Frank is in real danger most of the time.

Early Christmas Ideas: Time Travel so I can go and slap myself very time I'm about to say the wrong thing. I have a problem with that and its not something I like doing at all.


Notable Commercials: When did Corocodile Dundee become an American Movie Classic and why is AMC advertising a marathon of the two films for tomorrow. For that matter, when did two movies in a row become a marathon?

The Tally
Mountain Dews Left: 20
Energy Drinks Left: 3
Cups of Coffee drank: 0
Pumpkin Pie Left: 1/3rd left.
Sanity Rating (1 being Black Swan's dancing, 10 being Showgirl's "choreography"): 5