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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I've never seen A Muppet Christmas Carol, but just looking at these pictures has caused me to start weeping uncontrollably.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's considered one of the better adaptations. Gonzo plays Charles Dickens, as Dickens historically made a fair bit of money in his later years narrating his stories in person. Michael Caine plays Scrooge. It's excellent. Kermit and Piggy are Bob and Emily Crathit.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Michael Caine put more love and care into playing the role straight than I would have expected.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Agreed. He treated the muppets as fellow actors and it created a wonderful energy that still shines through all these years later.

There’s a few Scrooge movies I like to catch each year: Muppet Christmas Carol, Scrooged, and Spirited has joined the ranks recently. There’s one particular scene in that last one that absolutely horrifies me in the best way. They modernized a lot of it and made it more accessible to people who might otherwise see these concerns as outdated.

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

i cri evrytiem 😭😭😭

[–] alansuspect@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We watch it every Christmas Eve, it's great.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

We've watched Scrooged (NSFW) at Christmastime for the last few years.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The bitch hit me with a toaster!

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I’m still partial to the mouse antler scene, or the nipple scene.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Check out spirited too!

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago

Watched this tonight and yeah that was heartbreaking.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Seems to me like that bunny should GET A JOBBBBBB

Also i really want the government to be run by unregistered sex offenders. Every night I pray that God will let my guy get away with it.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We had a thing at work where we were being trained to handle payments. As part of the class, we had to run through United Ways poverty simulator and talk about the experience. The idea was to reinforce empathy or something before unleashing us on the payment lines.

One of the girls gets on mic and says she doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about. She never has to worry about money or poor people because “god provides for me.” And she laughed about it.

This was following the rest of sharing our own hardships we’ve been through and the troubles we’ve heard from other callers on the phones.

Fucking psychopath.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So sickening and what a lot of people think right now. Wealth is gods reward. The poors are just not Christian enough. It's all part of gods plan.

[–] Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I call it neo liberal calvinism. Really pisses them off. (Mainly coz i think they dont know what it means.)

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Whatever it is it’s not Christianity. Christianity has plenty of faults but this is a whole new horror of its own. They kept the branding and swapped out literally everything else. It’s just putting a cross of Republican politics and pretending it’s a religion now.

[–] Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sorry here is some context on what calvinism is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Christianity

[–] Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] gointhefridge@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bean bunny deserves better. Wildly underrated muppet.

[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago

Why isn't he burrowing? He would be much comfier in a nice den.

[–] Jimjim@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I bet that you think you might, but id wager you'd be wrong.