I agree. Someone mentioned on line today that the song was clearly a rip off of Oliver... Know what? Don't care. Love the movie.

I'm happy to jump aboard this train. After nearly 50 years (Dear God, really?!) I can still sing along with almost every song from memory. I always feel somehow ashamed to admit how much I love this version, but honestly, why should I? Because it's a musical and it's fashionable to think of those as childish and unsophisticated?

At any rate, as a musical I find it superb, with many sing-able and dance-able and joyful musical numbers, and real heart.

And I can say it here: I tested myself again this year, and damned if I don't still get a tear in the eye at this line:

"I don’t know whether you can hear me Old Jacob Marley, and I don’t know whether or not I imagined the things I saw, but between the pair of us we finally made a Merry Christmas, didn’t we?"

Some will tell you the Alistair Sim one or the George C. Scott one is better. I disagree. Seeing young Scrooge... seeing the heartbreak when he commits his life to work... the scary bits... the songs (I Hate People!) and Thank you Very Much... It's a great film.

Oh, if I had to rank all the ones I've seen, the Alistair Sim one is the one I could not live without. But that does not diminish my love for the musical one bit. It's a joy ride from beginning to end. Except that now I've got to figure out a way to get "Thank You Very Much" out of my head so I can get to sleep tonight.

We watch it last year and my wife and I totally forgotten the song but remembered every word just by watching again. Stored back in our childhood memories. I WISH they would play movies every year at the same time like they used to for this, Wizard of Oz, It's a Wonderful Life, and even Gone With The Wind. They really helped cement those films into our memories.

Oh, so do I.

I'm not a social media type, but I have found one wonderful pleasure in Twitter. When a network like AMC airs one of my old favorites like Scrooge or It's a Wonderful Life or Meet Me in St. Louis, I can log on and find at least one hashtag channel with hundreds of people who are as much in love with these movies as I am, and we watch them together. It's like going to the movies and being allowed to talk. It's a blast.

yes! Just found the joy of watching TCM and searching #TCMparty hash tag. Also, lately I've been using letterboxd.com to track my movies. It's powered by TMDB but the community is huge! Every movie has comments and reviews. It's amazing.

I'll check that out. Thanks.

It's a shame the TMDb message boards haven't taken off for classic films, like how it used to be on IMDb that no matter what movie, how obscure, or how far back it was from, there'd be either a lot, or at least some, extent of a message board presence following the latest airing of a film.

I've for the most part given up on trying to get discussions going here about films of the '20s, '30s, and '40s that I'm interested in, as I've repeatedly tried, and normally absolutely no one ever responds anything. It's ongoingly extremely disappointing. Trying to get discussions going about even regular current or recent popular t.v. series, or interesting, intelligent stuff that airs on PBS, usually doesn't have much (if at all) better of a result, as on TMDb there's seemingly only a small limited range of type things that the active message boards users are willing to discuss, or to respond about, and everything else gets completely ignored.

I use this and MovieChat, but I'm also hugely disappointed. I assumed that it would only be a matter of time until there emerged definitive website with forums to fill the void left by IMDB's.

Mostly, I come here every once in a while and skim through the "Discussions: Catch Up Now" link on the main page, replying to any that catch my eye. If you find anything worthwhile, maybe you'll post here and let the rest of us know?

the forums here are mostly nasty unfortunately. And 99 percent about comic movies. I'm sticking with posting about movies I watch on letterboxd and reading other reviews -- that's in the place of a forum.

I've throughout the last two years kept telling myself (and at this point am not holding out high hope that it'll ever come to pass) that the TMDb boards just need more time, for the active message boards community to grow, develop, and become more varied. But every time I look anew (which normally is daily), there's still mainly just a whole lot more of the "same old same old" type stuff listed as having the latest active discussions on TMDb.

Anytime anyone creates a thread about anything that's not of "the chosen few" (type of subject matter-wise) ilk, it normally gets completely left in the dust by everyone and talked around.

As a result, obviously we've lost many good message boards users, who got tired of being endlessly left with no one to discuss stuff with.

yeah. Maybe we should all form a group. Let's start with 1947 films. Lol. Then I'd have someone to talk film noir to

That's the other problematic issue: There's a limited number of actually active TMDb message boards users, I get the general impression that probably (and I may be completely mistaken) the vast majority fall into the ages 20-50 sort of range, and to find others around here who've actually watched and are familiar with the same specific things, enough to be able to chime in and have something to say or an opinion to express, may be easier said than done if only just a person or two (if anyone), from within the active TMDb message board using crowd, is familiar enough with a particular movie, series, celebrity, etc. to be or feel able to discuss whatever it is.

I have kept wanting to discuss Silent and Pre-Code films, as well as various PBS documentaries and the such, though rarely (close to never) has there been any takers when I've created threads about any of those sorts of things.

Of course it's nothing that a few extra hundred active message board users couldn't fix.

@genplant29 said:

That's the other problematic issue: There's a limited number of actually active TMDb message boards users...

Of course it's nothing that a few extra hundred active message board users couldn't fix.

I agree. Although I don't expect the number of active users to grow much in the foreseeable future, it would be nice if there was a viewer count added. It might give an idea of how many, if any, people have seen the opening post (and not reacted).
I guess that is already somewhere on Travis' huge to-do list.