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nkleszcz t1_iy44yhs wrote

Saw it a few years ago. You’re right… it’s terrible no matter how they spin it. I suspect they needed more time to capture the tone just right, and they rushed certain scenes, trusting that the costumes, set design and musical numbers would work.

It was a huge setback for the same director behind one of the very best Christmas Carol adaptations, the 1984 George C Scott version.

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Liftin-Larry-92 t1_iy45udu wrote

Was the Christmas Carol with George C. Scott a made-for-TV movie? Because I remember watching it on TV in 1984 and 1985 but then it never appeared again. It was good but seemed pretty low-budget, so I don't think it was a theatrical release.

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TServo2049 t1_iy4ba5e wrote

I’m not sure how much additional time to capture the tone could surmount diabetes-inducing musical numbers, or costumes and set design that feel like Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny if it had an actual Hollywood budget. I remember that when I watched it after I was older, I and the other person I was watching it with both ragged on how dopey the costumes and sets looked.

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nkleszcz t1_iy4hn81 wrote

Well, obviously the time they needed was to improve the costumes, the set design, and the songs themselves. By contrast, nobody complains about a gorilla mask, a demon mask, and a walrus with a chin resembling one’s butt being part of the famous cantina sequence in Star Wars Episode IV:A New Hope.

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