Enough already. I don't care if it makes me sound like the biggest Scrooge that ever lived but I never, EVER want to hear about somebody doing yet another version (remake, update, snazzy musical version, whatever) of "A Christmas Carol"!
No more theatrical movies...no more TV movies...no more "very special" holiday episodes of sitcoms...no more "clever" modern twists on the old story...no more. Leave Scrooge and Tiny Tim and those sanctimonious ghosts alone...leave us all alone. WE GET IT...Christmas is a time to be good to each other, yadda, yadda, yadda...and there's nothing...NOTHING...new to be wrung from Dickens' holiday fable by this time (poor Charles must turning over in his grave...undoubtedly muttering "Bah humbug!" with sarcastic venom as he does...especially since his little story is in public domain and none of his heirs, presuming there are some, are making even a farthing from any of these productions.)
No Kelsey Grammer musical versions...no Mickey Mouse animated versions...no George C. Scott stentorian versions...no more versions, we're all full up!
May God bless us (every one) with the gift of never again having some creatively bankrupt Hollywood producer or writer deciding that what the world needs is another take on "A Christmas Carol".
(And...um...Merry Christmas...)
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