A Christmas Carol

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There was a reason A Christmas Carol sold out its first printing in a matter of days. It's the same reason there have been so many remakes on film of this classic story. It touches the heart, and gives hope that anyone can change. Unfortunately, this new version does neither of those things. From the beginning, the dialogue is a mystery. The "modern take" goes in the direction of profanity, poor lighting, loud background noises, and totally unlikeable characters to create a mishmash of someone's idea of trying to one-up Dickens. There's just nothing evident to redeem this farce. Like so many modern adaptations of classic books, it only carries the name of the source material and nothing of the content.

Turns Scrooge into a real person. Hes known trauma and abuse and like a some victims of abuse becomes a sort of abuser himself. You feel sorry for him you feel anger towards him it's great. I also loved Mary. Dont know what magic she was into but I was into whatever it was. She was very compelling. Also Andy Serkis I mean come on...amazing. I wanted a darker take on the classic tale and I got it so A+