Thread: Your opinion - Best "Christmas Carol" movie adaptation?

Okay, which one is the best?

My vote goes to Albert Finney's 1970 version, "Scrooge." I know some people think the end is hokey and doesn't fit with the tone of the rest of the movie, (he goes to Hell) but this is the version I always remember watching with my parents growing up and I like it. It's also got Alec Guiness as Jacob Marley.

I thought of something really geeky when I was watching it the other night though... so you've got Albert Finney playing Scrooge and Alec Guiness as Marley. Of course Alec Guiness would go on to play Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars. Years later, Tim Burton made "Big Fish," which had Albert Finney (now an old man) and his younger self was played by Ewan McGregor, who played a young Obi Wan in the Star Wars prequels. (Yes, like I said I'm a geek...)

But I digress... what's your favorite version?

Why, The Muppet version of course.

We actually watched that one the other night too, Bruno, and I agree... it's a good version!

The Flinstones Christmas Carol is probably the finest adaptation.

Hmm... don't think I've seen that version.

Haha... Joseph, I found this on the Flinstone's Christmas Carol Wikipedia entry... sounds like someone has really given it a lot of thought.

Logical Fallacies
The Flintstones is set in the Stone Age; roughly 6000 BCE. The origins of Christmas had not occurred yet so the holiday could not have been celebrated. One could argue that the Flintstones had other technological marvels that did not exist during the Stone Age however this argument does not address that most of the inventions in the Flintstone's are replaced with an animal based equivalent. Christmas was not given a suitable backing so the holiday does not have a place in the Flintstone's universe.

That's hilarious. It doesn't bother him all that much that the vacuum cleaner is a baby mammoth, but it's a problem that Christmas is an anachronism? Some people have way too much time on their hands. "One could argue..." Ha ha!

I like "Mickey's Christmas Carol" the best. My dad used to always watch that with me. ;0)

i like the old one with reginald owens. i guess the flintstones one is alright.

Mos'def The Muppets one.

Bah, humbug.

No contest - The 1951 version with Alastair Sim - All others are a pale imitation, even if they are in colour...

I like the one with Patrick Stewart.