A Christmas Carol

I'm a great Christmas Carol fan, and watch most of the versions over December so looking forward to watching it.

Just watching the first part and will reserve judgement 

Still got a long way to go to better the Alastair Sim version though,  the standard by which all others should be judged I M H O  !!

Absolutely + 1

Watched it yesterday and the acting was brilliant.

Not for me, found it very slow and last night gave up on it and watched the "Three Cooks" in Morocco. Much more light hearted and brought back a few memories of our trip there.

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Reports in todays papers that there was a lot of mumbling. Anyone remember Jamaica Inn? If you can't hear the dialogue, it seems a bit pointless. I hadn't watched it yet. Given those comments I shan't bother.

Peeing on a grave and bad language, I don't think the genius Charles Dickens included stuff like that in his books.  Only watched 1 episode so far and I think the BBC has managed to somewhat devalue the original story.  Further episodes will tell if I change 

Superb, their(creators) remit was to bring Scrooge into the modern era & that was done with stunning effect. I found the writing & acting left me feeling hollow so was it’s power. I’ve enjoyed all & every version I’ve watched but this one is the most powerful. Another piece of the jigsaw was put in place as Scrooge the boy sat in that coach with his sister post boarding school. Truly horrific in its unspoken pain. 

You may know it's part of GCSE Literature and I would say there isn't a school anywhere that doesn't have wall displays on it, and it's the staple last week of term English lesson watching the video, while all us poor maths teachers can do is get the class to add up all the gifts in the 12 twelve days of Christmas (it's 364 btw), you can imagine which lesson is the more popular.

Some English teachers say they prefer the George C Scott version as being the most accurate to the book having more dialogue from it, personally I think it has the best Scrooge but not the best other actors like Bob and Mrs Cratchit (which I think Miss Piggy does a better job on)

I wonder how this version will go? 

Everyone have a great Christmas and ... God bless us everyone.

The original text and illustrations are so good it's worth getting a copy. Nothing beats the descriptions Dickens used about life in London, the swirling fog and mean streets jump off the pages!