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Spoiling Scrooge

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We watched the animated movie Scrooge (2022) as our New Year’s activity, and while the songs are nice and actors have beautiful singing voices, the visual effects are so overwhelming that they are almost epilepsy-inducing. Whoever belongs to the intended audience of over-stimulated screen victims, I feel bad for them. As it is, I had to look away for at least 70% of the movie.

Half of the population of Dickensian London in this movie is black and at least a third is severely obese.

A timeless, beautiful story was drowned in opulent, overstuffed, insistent self-obsession.

5 responses to “Spoiling Scrooge”

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    Demotrash

    If you ever want recommendations for classic American children’s movies and animations, say the word. We have a treasure trove here but none of it’s recent.

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    methylethyl

    I find that is true of most children’s movies these days– it’s distressing. We mostly watch older movies with the kids, because the fast-cut flashy-flashy stuff makes me vomit. Not hyperbole. Now and then I go to a movie with husband, just to be a good sport, but… I wear dark sunglasses and cover my eyes for anything blinky.

    I used to like movies. I can’t figure out if it’s the movies that’ve changed, or me. Maybe both.

    Even back in the day, when I went to a lot of movies, and they didn’t make me barf… I remember Yi Yi being a bit of a revelation: a riveting film, nearly three hours, done in long, fixed-camera cuts. Why aren’t there more of those?

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      People, especially children, are so overstimulated (and, consequently, neurotic) that they can’t get engaged with any content that doesn’t hit them over the head with flashing lights and screeching sounds. To a normal person with a healthy brain, it’s torture to be exposed to this for any length of time. But for people with a shallow, impoverished inner world, that noise and those lights are necessary to drown out the inner vacuity.

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      1. Tal Hartsfeld Avatar
        Tal Hartsfeld

        Back-up beeps, anyone?

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  3. Tal Hartsfeld Avatar
    Tal Hartsfeld

    Retrofitting items from the past to conform to modern-day elements and priorities is always going to result in inaccurate portrayals of “what was”.

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