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Young Sheldon (2017)
A kid that needs a swat on the butt
Sorry this show is terrible. "Young Sheldon" is about a "Super smart Kid" growing up with average people. That was also the premise of a much superior show called "Malcolm in the Middle".
Jim Parsons has won many Emmy Awards for playing Sheldon Cooper in the "Big Bang Theory". He made Sheldon likable even though he was nuts.
In "Young Sheldon" the actor (Iain Armitage) that plays him is not talented enough to pull off the same effect.
The show was not funny. The only person that is likable and funny is Zoe Perry who plays the mother. THE SHOW SHOULD HAVE BUILT AROUND HER!
NOT A FAN!!!!!
'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974)
Good Worth Watching Minor Lessons
In the Golden Age of Network Television they gave us all sorts of programming around the holidays. We would get lots of Variety Television Specials with the A List Entertainers. Julie Andrews Johnny Cash Perry Como and more. We would also get BETTER television movies. "The Gathering" and "An American Christmas Carol" to name a few.
Every year we would also get some sort of new Animated Special. The good ones became television staples like "Rudolph" and "Charlie Brown". Some were good but never caught on as much as those two. That is the case in point of this cartoon. "Twas The Night Before Christmas".
'Twas the Night Before Christmas is a 1974 animated Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions and based on the famous 1823 poem that opens with this line. The special first originally aired on CBS on December 8, 1974 where it aired annually until 1994, when The Family Channel (now Freeform) took over its syndication rights.
Although the opening credits mention "told and sung by Joel Grey", it is really narrated by George Gobel, as there is more emphasis on the point of view of Father Mouse, with Moore's poem read by Grey a secondary plot.
The program is set in the fictional town of Junctionville, New York around the turn of the 20th century. Santa Claus is offended by an anonymous letter printed in the town's newspaper (and signed "all of us") claiming that he doesn't exist. In response, Santa returns the entire town's letters to them unopened. Upon reading the anonymous letter printed in the newspaper, Father Mouse — a mouse assistant to the human clock maker Joshua Trundle — immediately suspects that his brainy son Albert is its author. Albert confirms his suspicions, repeating the letter verbatim to him.
Father Mouse and the Trundle Family devise a plan to appease Santa by building a singing clock tower for him, built with a special recording to play a song to coax him not to bypass Junctionville on Christmas Eve. Unfortunately, Albert enters the clock to explore it without permission, and inadvertently causes it to malfunction in front of the whole town, seriously damaging Trundle's professional reputation. Furthermore, the Mayor, publicly embarrassed at the clock tower's failure, refuses to give Joshua access to it for repairs.
Confessing his mistake, Albert volunteers to repair it himself and Father Mouse tells Joshua of the situation before waiting at his bed with worry on Christmas Eve. Although Albert does not complete his task until about one minute after the midnight deadline, the clock does play its song within earshot of Santa which convinces him to turn around and come to town after all.
There is many lessons in this little special. The hidden one I love the most is "Good and Bad Actions Have Consequences".
I look forward to seeing this when it pops on again!
Mister Scrooge to See You (2013)
Should of been better
The concept of a sequel to "A Christmas Carol" was questionable to begin with. Then add time travel we open up a huge can of worms. That is what this is "A can worms".
The once mean and miserly Ebenezer Scrooge was forever changed by his ghostly Christmas Eve encounter. Now one year later, Scrooge receives another posthumous visit from his old business partner. It seems Jacob Marley is not yet finished with Mister Scrooge! Sent on a journey 170 years into the future, Scrooge encounters a world even colder and greedier than his own, a world that includes a young cutthroat businessman named Timothy Cratchit VI. Will Scrooge be able to turn Cratchit from his selfish ways and teach him the true meaning of Christmas?
Now this film isn't terrible but it makes zero sense. Any film that deals with time travel is always tricky. What I liked about this film was that dialog that we heard in the countless films and books is once again repeated here by different people.
The blessing this film has is they have a great actor that played Scrooge. David Ruprecht is great. He plays all the layers of Scrooge that we expect but also shows a few new things that I am sure that other actors in the future will copy.
Now if I were to make a "Sequel" to the classic tale I would have had the Cratchit Children track down Scrooge's long lost love and have them reunited on Christmas Eve. That would of been a better to approach a sequel. But then again who can compete with "Charles Dickens".
The Spirit of Christmas (1950)
Charming
This Christmas program is not going to please many people because it lacks a huge WOW FACTOR in terms of visuals. What it does so wonderfully is that it lets you use your imagination. Mabel Beaton uses puppets in this program to great effect.
The story is pace beautifully. The film is made "WITH GREAT LOVE" which is apparent.
The way this program was made and produced I am sure was the inspiration for the well know "Rankin-Bass" Christmas Specials. If you have kids watch this with them during the holidays.
It may play on some PBS stations but it is however worth buying.
Trust me it is GREAT.
Salvation Street (2015)
Just Don't watch this
Terrible. That is the only word I have for this f-ing mess. I found it stupid and offensive. The white people are all good and the minorities in this film are thief's.
Whoever wrote this should of thought this out better. The idea of this film was "Interesting". A white family moving into a poor urban area to set up a church as place of not only to worship but to be a place of gathering and place that gives people in the neighbor a place to feel safe and welcomed.
The child's parts are so badly written that you feel sorry for the actress playing the part.
If you don't believe me just watch. It is bad well excuse me it is "TERRIBLE"