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A further look at A CHRISTMAS CAROL with Zemeckis, Jim Carrey and apparently not that To Catch a Predator guy...
Hey folks, Harry here... Robert Zemeckis' A CHRISTMAS CAROL just got very interesting to me. That bit of footage that was shown the other day... didn't quite capture my imagination, but here... with the video linked below, I'm in. I love Zemeckis' claim that this is the greatest Time Travel story ever written. I like the look of the characters and world. I think they're doing an interesting job. What do you think?
Click Here To Watch The Interview and Footage!!!
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and that's all I'm sayin
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Ah nuts
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Here's hoping this captures some of Jim's 90s magic.
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That ain't no Chris Hansen, that's Steve Kmetko from E! fame. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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May 21, 2009 1:29:18 AM CDT
And it would be awesome if this movie was live action...
by gibsonusa returns
With Jim Carrey playing all the spirit roles. That would have been so cool.
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...made me think this movie contained some sort of Shrek-like pop culture joke where Scrooge gets busted by Chris Hanson for showing up at some underage kids house presumably for sex. I'm kinda disappointed that that's not the case now.
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As for Christmas Carol, not sure if (cool as it looks)I can handle that much Carrey, but I'll give it a shot.
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till I see actual footage as opposed to stills. I'm not 100% sold on mo cap, although I enjoyed Beowulf for the most part. The stills at least DO LOOK better than Beowulf.
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...especially THE POLAR EXPRESS. Thought it was a really wonderful Christmas movie and an amazing visual experience. I still remember those wolves in the snow and the train gliding across the ice. I also liked the musical numbers. A CHRISTMAS CAROL is perfect material for Zemeckis. Jim Carrey will be awesome in this.
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Seeing that Jim Carrey is playing Scrooge along with all three ghosts and then seeing him act out a bit... I'm intrigued.
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heheheh
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Maybe the interviewer was on "To Catch a Predator" as one of the pervs? 'Cause that ain't Chris Hansen...
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...how many times can "A Christmas Carol" be retold? Will, one day, someone get it so perfect that everyone else that is ambitious with other people's stories just give up and say "fine, its done"? Obviously, it can be told via many different interpretations, but wow... I've seen more than two handfuls in my lifetime. I'm not bitching... I'm just really curious about why this attracts so many producers (besides the original story being brilliant).
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I don't know...Carrey is hit or miss, Zemeckis is hit or miss...motion capture is hit or miss...
fuck, DICKENS is hit or miss...this is a lot of balls to juggle. I'm just gonna wait and see... -
Or didn't Jim Carrey already play this character in LEMONY SNICKET?
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Muppets set the bar.
Scrooge McDuck is a force to be reckoned with.
But first you gotta try to even hang with Alvin and the Chipmunks.
But that aside, I am a fan of Zemeckis and look forward to seeing this (in non 3D version, those glasses give me a headache that last into the next day).
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Is the end-all-be-all version of this story and no other versions should have been made after that.
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And fuck anyone that thinks what he does is "entrapment". Only pedos would think that. Oh wait, what are we talking about...?
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1985.
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If that was a weekly series, that'd be appointment television! But all I ever see these days are reruns on MSNBC, does Chris Hansen not care about our children anymore?
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That was interviews and storyboards.
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Is Cousin Eerie in this too?!?!?!
J/K.
That chin on Scrooge could give the T600 a run for it's money. The new thing in Hollywoods is bad guys with impossibly long chins! -
There's no way Disney would want that kind of version made. They will want it kiddified and loads of crazy shit happening that wasn't in the book. The Muppets was a surprisingly brilliant adaptation. If Zemeckis gets anywhere near that (doubtful) then we've got a movie.
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May 21, 2009 4:29:43 AM CDT
I refuse to pay money to see another Jim Carey movie.....
by infiniteregress
....until him and his idiot woman stop spouting dangerous crap about vaccines. First she was on that ridiculous 'indigo child' bandwagon, now they're both spreading disinformation about the supposed (but, in reality, non-existent) dangers of MMR vaccines. Despicable.
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As the best Scrooge? You have a choice of a few dozen going back to 1910 as far a film versions go. This better be the last one or so help me I'm hopping in my T.A.R.D.I.S. and destroying the manuscript with Marty McFly and Bill S. Preston Esq.
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...locked in a mental hospital, watching a To Catch A Predator marathon on MSNBC. No lie! Best NYE ever. I love how the pedo's always say shit like "I swear, I was just coming to check on her to make sure she was safe 'cos her parents are out of town!" as 5 packs of condoms fall out of their jackets. Comedy gold!
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May 21, 2009 5:19:49 AM CDT
Back to the Future is the best time travel story
by most excellent ninja
but since Zemeckis stopped using film he's lost the plot.
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it had to be said. Anyway, i love Carrey, but I'm not sold on Zemeckis 3D CGi adventures. Polar Express, horrible, Beawolf, terrible... Zemeckis needs to make another Dark Comedy again... Death Becomes Her.. criminally underrated.
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...when that guy reviewed Wolverine without having actually seen it and then people got mad at him and then he did go to see it but his alienating his readers was hard to fix and stuff? That was funny.
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Anyone see his stage performance of the novel? That guy is amazing!
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. . . was actually a little creepy.
I HATED Polar Express, but this little clip has me intrigued. Maybe I'll actually get around to reading the book. I've been working my way through Dickens, but Christmas Carol never really struck my fancy. -
And the Ghost of Christmas Past is a living candle? Not sure if that's what Dickens originally envisioned, but it's still queer. Give me Jiminy Cricket, anyday.
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they went motion-capture for Beowulf, and THAT sure turned out to be a crock of shit. Robin Wright's character aged so little I was confused as to whether any time had passed at all, whether it was a flashback, whatever. Hope he actually DID it this time around.
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I'm a fan of Zmeister, but jez... I guess there's room for one more. Giving Jimmy Carry *all* of the roles seems a little extreme though
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I hated Limony Snicket. This looks a little better.
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i think you'll find that scrooge McDuck was the best scrooge, and even spawned his own, lighthearted spin off from the story.
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He can be such a good actor. He needs to find a sweet project and at least get an oscar nom. Man on the moon, Truman show, eternal sunshine, etc. He needs to get out from his very wierd limbo, fire his agent or something. Where's his One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest?
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And evil.
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To date the best Christmas Carol movie HAS to be Scrooged.
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I think it's time Robert Zemeckis do one of two things. Either stop making all these motion capture CGI chunks and get back to REAL live-action filmmaking, or go crawl under a rock somewhere and baskin the glories of your past achievedments. These motion capture movies Zemeckis has done have gone from being semi-cool (BEOWULF) to utter crapola (THE POLAR EXPRESS). He's not proving anything to anyone except how narrow his parameters have gotten. Come on, Zemeckis, you're capable of SO MUCH BETTER than this. Drop the computer and pick up a camera, for Christ's sake!
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Is he still banging Greg Louganis?
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Yeah...the man does have some acting ability. Problem is, the stuff where he shows his acting juice doesn't make any money. The public-at-large seems to ONLY want to see Carrey in mega-stupid comedies wher he does the same shtick over and over ad infinitum. Hiding behind motion/performance capture isn't going to change that. If he wants to do funny voices, maybe he needs to get into doing voice-over for Nickleodeon junk.
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He's one of the best populist directors. The whole Back To The Future trilogy was great and Roger Rabitt was way ahead of its time. Loved Contact and Castaway. Dont care for animated Zemeckis but his live action stuff is great.
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and the actor can truly become buried in the character, then might not they have gotten a finer actor for this?
This is one of my favorite stories. I'll even watch the Mister MaGoo version. However, I avoid Jim Carrey like the plague. He kills my interest in this project. -
why don't you take a seat over there?
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You are incorrect
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Yet ANOTHER remake of "A Christmas Carol." Yaaaaawn. No thanks. And yes, I agree with early posts: Zemeckis, get back to real moviemaking, not this creepy faux-world. Put toys down and get back to real actors ACTING and telling a story.
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There is no footage in that clip.
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Listen, I only report facts here. The guy loves chinese babies. He eats 'em by the case.
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that's all I need
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jim carrey could not act his way out of a wet paper bag let play 4 parts this is going to suck
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It seems he got really discouraged with his attempts at more serious roles. He does Truman Show, Man On The Moon, and The Majestic. He gets critical raves (at least on the first two) but no Oscar love. It's like he just said, "Fuck this, why bother with drama?" That being said, this does look interesting.
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I hear "I Love You, Phillip Morris" is quite a turn for Carrey. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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didnt capture the essense of the dickens novel? really? truly?
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could be improved upon with his mo-cap gimmick?
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everybody gets hungry an hour after eating Chinese babies. There's so many of them, it ain't like there should be a limit.All U Can Eat Buffet, indeed.
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Motion capture has almost limitless possibilities since it's basically the worlds best makeup. In animation they just need to fix that whole "uncanny valley" problem. We're already seeing the benefits in live action, Davey Jones is a good example. I seriously thought that was mostly prosthetics at first.
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I thought Davey Jones was mostly make-up as well, and that the tentacles were added later in post. It's a pretty amazing achievement. I wish Zemeckis was pushing this technology forward with films I actually want to see.
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May 21, 2009 9:20:27 PM CDT
I guess Zemekis gave up on working with actors or making real mo
by flip63hole
He should seriously retire...
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He needs Bob Gale to work with him again.
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Just Let Abrams do the Christmas Carol and throw Faraday in there
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Fuck you
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BEST SCROOGE EVAH. Muppets...come on. Michael Caine lost a big of cred by starring with those overrated escapees from a lint trap.
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No offence dude, but you're saying mocap is makeup (look at your first sentence)? No, mocap is - motion capture. Fancypants tracking of many elements of a live performance. That's separate from what they translate it to. Could be old Brad Pitt, could be a penguin. Which of course is exactly the point of it. Conversely, the same "digital prosthetics" can be completely hand-animated if you want (if you've got an infinite amount of time).
And that was the other weird part of your post. Whether it's rendered photorealistically to match a live-action background (BB, Pirates, Kong, Gollum) or a more stylised implementation and surroundings (Happy Feet, Monster House, Beowulf), it's all the same stuff - cg model with movement driven by mocap data (and much more hand-tweaking than they like to admit). Only the level of detail and rendering changes.
And the whole reason for that cg 'makeup' is what makeup Genius Rick Baker has been saying for aeons: Prosthetics can only ADD to the mass of a face, they can't take away. CG lets you gouge away. Unless it's Beowulf and you just end up adding some crow's feet (rolls eyes) thus defeating the point!
I'm not saying mocap is evil OR cg or oldschool prosthetics, I just wanted to clarify because you got a bit mixed up with your terms. Pirates used CG well because they did things like lop Jones' nose off (and in Harry Potter that's pretty much ALL they did to the bad guy but it's effective), have the Hammerhead guy's eyes so close to the top of the head it couldn't be guy-in-suit etc etc. Then there's stupid stuff like U.S. Godzilla where even though thy CGd it the design's proportions were achievable by a guy in a suit (and stuff on the bridge was even done that way) and worse still they didn't really utilise the design's big-arse arms anyway...
So just to clarify I'm not lording it over you, just trying to help out with some clarification. Hope it comes through with the right intention. Cheers man! -
this is junk based on the 1951 version
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Play ALL the roles in his version?
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May 24, 2009 10:57:09 AM CDT
So are Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd in this thing or what
by togmeister
That's what i heard here a while ago. Marty and the Doc returning to the Zemeckis fold would have me geeking out all over. Oh, and as for "Zemeckis, get back to real moviemaking, not this creepy faux-world. Put toys down and get back to real actors ACTING and telling a story".... well, Beowulf actually had the best performances that Anthony Hopkins and John Malkovich have given in some considerable time. On the Blu-Rays of Beowulf and Polar Express, you can see the original mo-cap performances side by side with the end product - it's uncanny how much of the actor's performance and movement is retained. Bob Z should ignore the Luddite movement and keep blazing his trail....
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