If at the end of your adaptation of A Christmas Carol your audience feels depressed and helpless you clearly haven’t made an effective version of this story, I’d dare say you don’t understand what this story is actually about. 

Here they have pushed Scrooge to a new level of nasty that makes him unredeemable. Knight claims that his goal was to “make us understand why Scrooge is Scrooge” and yet he spends more than half of the film blaming the woes of the world on the kinds of people that he comfortably and safely feels he is not. 

Despite the three and a half hour run time this is a surprisingly shallow approach to this story and these characters. I certainly…

this adaptation is seriously amazing! scrooge stories have never interested me, i've always found them droll, boring and dry. but this one here, this is a true game changer. the plot is revamped just enough to hold a necessary air of urgency, the acting is great, the cinematography and special effects had absolutely no right to slap that hard on an fx production, and the spooky, eerie vibe was a winner. this is a fantastic way to tell this story. dickens would be proud. it was also very edgar allan poe-esque. ridley scott and my bae tom hardy were both producers on this, and they did such a good job honing in this specific soft horror vision. guy pearce gave…

I don’t care what everyone else might be saying about this “3-part mini series/movie/whatever” I am OBSESSED with the absolute terror and darkness of this new adaptation of the time honored classic. I watched it as a movie on FX, and I was on the edge of my seat for the entire 2 and a half hours. It was gory and unpleasant to say the least, and Scrooge is basically the epitome of human evil, depicted more as a severely damaged manipulative sociopath than a money pinching old miser. I’m also a sucker for things that all circle back to each other; metaphors that come into play later on, little plot twists, and nods to the original novella. If you…