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Saw the Disney 3D Scrooge this weekend - I give it 5 stars!

It was faithful to the Dickens book.

Jim Carey was amazing as Scrooge.

The 3D technology was truly amazing - none of that red-blue nonsense. I assume they do it with two projectors with polarized lenses set at 90 degrees apart and the glasses have corresponding polarization filters.

It also reminded me of some of the great quotes from the book that apply to the Healthcare debate:

Jacob Marley: In life, my spirit never rose beyond the limits of our money-changing holes! Now I am doomed to wander without rest or peace, incessant torture and remorse!

Ebenezer: But it was only that you were a good man of business, Jacob!

Jacob Marley: BUSINESS? Mankind was my business! Their common welfare was my business! And it is at this time of the rolling year that I suffer most!

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Spirit of Christmas Present: My time with you is at an end, Ebenezer Scrooge. Will you profit from what I've shown you of the good in most men's hearts?

Ebenezer: I don't know, how can I promise!

Spirit of Christmas Present: If it's too hard a lesson for you to learn, then learn this lesson!


Ebenezer: Spirit, are these yours?

Spirit of Christmas Present: They are Man's. This boy is Ignorance, this girl is Want. Beware them both, but most of all, beware this boy!

Ebenezer: But have they no refuge, no resource?

Spirit of Christmas Present: Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

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Jacob Marley: Look to see me no more. But look here, that you may remember for your own sake what has passed between us!

Ebenezer: Why do they lament?

Jacob Marley: They seek to interfere for good in human matters, and have lost their power forever.

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2nd Portly Gentleman: What may we put you down for, sir?

Scrooge: Nothing, sir.

1st Portly Gentleman: Ah, you wish to remain anonymous.

Scrooge: I wish to be left alone, sir, that is what I wish! I don't make myself merry at Christmas and I can't afford to make idol people merry. I have been forced to support the establishments I mentioned through taxation, and God knows they cost more than they're worth. Those who are badly off must go there.

2nd Portly Gentleman: Many would rather die than go there.

Scrooge: If they'd rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population. Good night, gentlemen.



Scrooge: Humbug!

Perhaps Alan Grayson was taking notes from Dickens a few weeks back? Perhaps we ought to be using them to make our point too?

Doug D.
Orlando, FL