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TOPIC: A Christmas Carol
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JK2006
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A Christmas Carol 4 Years, 4 Months ago  
Very dark and not just metaphorically; I can hardly see it. Seems to have taken an hour to reach the start. It's good but let's see how 2 & 3 work out.
 
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#194536
Jo

Re:A Christmas Carol 4 Years, 4 Months ago  
It's not like that awful depressing Poirot ABC Murders with John Malkovich, is it?
 
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#194538
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Re:A Christmas Carol 4 Years, 4 Months ago  
As I remember I rather liked that Jo (I'm SOOO difficult).
It's not perfect but it is interesting. Shouldn't be three parts though. Dickens wrote it as a short story and one hour should have been enough.
Still, I'll watch tonight and tomorrow.
 
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#194554
Sheba Bear

Re:A Christmas Carol 4 Years, 4 Months ago  
Lost interest as soon as he dropped the F-bomb.

Very un-Dickens (have never read it in his works) and to me the credibility of the whole thing was shot.
 
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Re:A Christmas Carol 4 Years, 4 Months ago  
Part Two not really enjoying this; clever rather than creative. Charles Dickens knew that you can be simplistic and complex at the same time; this version seems determined to forget the simplicity to express only the complexity.
 
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#194556
wyot

Re:A Christmas Carol 4 Years, 4 Months ago  
I love the old classic with Alastair Simms. On record, watch every year. Merry Christmas all and one.
 
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Re:A Christmas Carol 4 Years, 4 Months ago  
Part Three confirmed my thought that they got the SpiritOfDickens wrong. Charles had far better contrasts and answers. Although this looked like a modern update it in fact blurred the message by over simplification. Despite Charles tending to write in caricatures his depth of observation was extraordinary and missing totally in this slow, dark, one dimensional treatment.
 
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Last Edit: 2019/12/26 11:31 By JK2006.
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#194606
Barney

Re:A Christmas Carol 4 Years, 4 Months ago  
Spent time recently in Portsmouth.

And visited the Charles Dickens' Birthplace Museum - in the house where he was born.

Most interesting, informative and organised facility.

Just down the A3 (Old Portsmouth Road) from London.
 
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Barney

Re:A Christmas Carol 4 Years, 4 Months ago  
At the Museum, we were told that Dickens came up with 247 new words for the English language - including 'fluffiness'...
 
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Re:A Christmas Carol 4 Years, 4 Months ago  
And of course Merry Christmas.
 
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#194609
Barney

Re:A Christmas Carol 4 Years, 4 Months ago  
Flummox

Rampage

Creeps (the)

Boredom



they told us too...
 
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#194610
Barney

Re:A Christmas Carol 4 Years, 4 Months ago  
whiz-bang

devil-may-care

abuzz



I've just remembered, the Museum lady said...
 
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#194646
Titanicboy

Re:A Christmas Carol 4 Years, 4 Months ago  
Hated it. Gave up after Ep1
 
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