VerseAndVermin comments on And he does a superb job too

[–] VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Oh, I just finally watched this for the first time. If your interested, I wrote my thoughts but you can skip that if your just looking for a good Christmas movie then do it. Out of six or so I have watched, this definitely was my favorite.

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If you can, find the non-widescreen DVD version.

They left the most important, emotional scene of the film (along with the song they used a "pop" version of for the ending credits anyway) out of the theatrical cut of the film.

It's the scene where Scrooger gets dumped, and there's a beautiful duet of Michael Caine singing along with his ex-fiance as his heart breaks and he starts to become human.

Without that scene, he suddenly goes from being the man at the beginning of the film to the much friendlier Scrooge with the Giant.

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[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

They put it back in recently!

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[–] VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I'm going to make it my homework tonight. I may have to revise my thoughts as well if it makes a great movie into a perfect one. Thank you very much. 😄

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The reason you have to find the non-widescreen version I think is because they released the scene initially for the VHS cut and I don't think they have a surviving copy of the original non-4:3 cut.

Also: find the soundtrack. There's a few songs that didn't make the film. There's a forgettable Sam Eagle song, but a lovely Bunson and Breaker song with a Beaker solo.

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