Scrooged: A film review
Friday, December 21, 2012 | Doug Ferguson 
- Vancouver, British Columbia - Christmas movies are something kind of special because when they're any good, they really last and get watched year after year. And you know what? They often don't even have to really be any good. If you see them as a kid, one almost feels a sense of obligation to fulfil the holiday nostalgia quota in order to function through December. I've tried to remain as objective as possible toward the Christmas classics that I indulge in through the holiday season. What are classics for me aren't what everyone grew up with and felt attached to. For example, so many of my peers grew up with A Christmas Story, a tale about a young boy who wanted a toy gun for Christmas and has many misadventures at school and home. It warms their hearts and makes them remember when they were a kid so they will likely share with their children the movie and the chain will continue. Me? I watched A Christmas Story for the first time in my twenties and found it to be not particularly funny and poorly paced for a family film. This is a controversial opinion, I know, and I have nothing against the movie or any of its fans. I just don't like it. Sue me. I have a Christmas classic between my brothers and I though. When I first watched this film, it was on a VHS tape recorded off of TV so there were a few missing scenes filled in with commercial tails as my mom did the best she could to cut the ads out. So, every year my older brother and I would dig out from the collection of tapes full of old Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes & Wonderful World of Disney specials our tape of Christmas specials. And we would often skip right to Richard Donner's Scrooged.
