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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 15:43:34 GMT -5
Yes we passed on this back when the kids were little for that very reason...in fact the whole thing was horribly depressing and not joyus at all. Other offensive themes were the psychological assumptions and theorys promoted...(you know where they tried to lock up santa) also the obvious materialism and feminist savour of the Mothers attitudes. The loneliness and abandoning of the little girl. The promotion of the urbane as the hight of civilization. Yeah ...dreck! The only movie we play every year is the Allister Simms portrayal of scrooge and maybe the animated little drummer boy. I'm a big fan of It's a Wonderful Life, personally. Although it isn't free from subversive cultural ideas, at least you have to nitpick to find them. With Miracle on 34th Street it's impossible to miss them! Seeing that it is only February, I feel like I am not overly late to this discussion. My wife and I have had a tradition that on the night we put the Christmas tree up and after the kids go to bed, we watch the 1934 edition of A Christmas Carol. Though the movie is really a protestantized setting when it comes to his dreams (I'm assuming those are Anglican Churches), we just enjoy the fact that version is just over an hour long, still has an air of classic to it and kind of sets the stage for beginning the Christmas movie season. It really is a clean movie much like It's a Wonderful life (pretty much same era.) My wife grew up with a tradition they always watched It's a Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve, so we still do that too. This year we took in much more of the Hallmark Channel for Christmas movies. I had never heard of Miracle on 34th Street until my wife told me about it. I tried watching it once and I could not even get through the whole movie.
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Feb 23, 2018 16:16:00 GMT -5
Is that the allister simms scrooge? Flawless
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 18:11:47 GMT -5
Reginald Owen. I think it was shot in 1938, but it's a classic.
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Feb 24, 2018 10:40:38 GMT -5
Yeah we hold to Alistair Simms as the one and only Scrooge on film worth watching.(just to be clear thats a jest)
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