Friday, October 7, 2011

Classics #36

12 comments:

  1. Thumbs up for Albert Finney who stars in the only Scrooge movie that I like!

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  2. Albert Finney played the character of John Newton in the film Amazing Grace (2008). :D

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  3. Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

    Having Calvinistic Cartoons on the computer screen is awesome. :-P

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  4. Hey look! there's even a Corky grenade beside the computer monitor. :)

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  5. and to the right of the computer is the comic book cover (based on the movie) of "The Sons of Cotton Adams".

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  6. I've got to get one of those Romans 9 grenades to put next to the wooden TULIP sculpture on my computer desk.

    Oh, and...THE absolute best Scrooge ever was Michael Caine in A Muppet Christmas Carol. George C. Scott is a close second.

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  7. Old Dude: Chad, have you seen this website called "Calvinistic Cartoons"?

    Young Dude: Yes, thay Eddie guy makes me so stinking mad with his Arminian jokes.

    Old Dude: Why don't you call him and let him know what a real Arminian thinks?

    Young Dude: I had his number last week but I lost it this week...

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  8. Great lines from A Muppets Christmas Carol

    Ebenezer Scrooge:
    What business has brought you here?

    Ghost of Christmas Past:
    Your welfare.

    Ebenezer Scrooge:
    Heh, a night's unbroken rest might aid my welfare.

    Ghost of Christmas Past:
    Your salvation, then.

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  9. People who like the Muppets version haven't seen the 1973 with Albert Finney. He played both young and old Scrooge, and we get a bonus with Obi Wan Kenobi as Jacob Marley. And the most memorable songs.

    Though this new musical play is pretty good. I think Kelsey Grammar was in the tv version.

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  10. @ Meghan Smith

    Oh yes, the version with Finney and Sir Alec was great. It has been a while since I watched it.

    I must say, though, that the graveyard scene in the George C. Scott version surpasses all the others that I have seen.
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    And while we're on the subject, Buggs Bunny's Christmas (with Yosemite Sam as Scrooge) has one of the best lines ever:

    Buggs: "If you don't change your ways, I'm going to take you to see the guy in the red suit."

    Sam: (cheerfully)"Sandy Claws?"

    Buggs: "No. The OTHER guy in the red suit."

    Sam: (pointing downward) "You mean....down there?"

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  11. John Locke was my favorite character (in Lost, not philosophy). Nice to know he was a Calvinist after all.

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