Every year mate, every year! Even get teary eyed with the occaisional wobble of the bottom lip during a couple of scenes. Whatever the ordeal filiming was, a beautiful movie it is.
I absolutely love this movie. Lots of fond memories. Plus I had an unreasonable crush on the ghost who hit him with a toaster. I was a weird kid. So anyway, to summarise, second only to Die Hard as my favourite Christmas movie and I wholeheartedly agree that this is massively underrated.
A definite Christmas classic in my family! When Scrooged was 1st released in theaters, I was 4 maybe 5 years old at the most and had a big crush on Bill Murray. My aunt and uncle took me and my 2 brothers to see a movie and at the theater ,they asked us to pick the movie we wanted to see. I immediately saw the theatrical poster for Scrooged which had a skeletal hand lighting a match for Bill Murray holding a cigar (thumbnail of this vid) and I said "let's see this one!" And my brothers agreed. I remember our uncle was cool and about to get us tickets when my aunt looked at the rating and said it did not look appropriate for children, "especially a little girl " (me) I think we spent the next 20 minutes pleading but my aunt wouldn't have it. We were so disappointed. The following evening our mom who had heard what happened told us to get ready and in the car, we had to go grocery shopping but much to our surprise, she took us to see Scrooged at the theater. One of those small but memorable childhood memories. The audience we saw it with was laughing and clapping throughout it and even singing along with the end credits. As soon as it started airing on HBO we recorded it and watched it every season from Thanksgiving to New year's day. It's not a perfect movie but it's great for what it is. Kind of underrated IMHO.
I absolutely love this film, its sad that the making of it was so miserable. But for one of many "Christmas Carol" films in existence, this is the only one that keeps me coming back to watch year after year.
I thought this movie was great. I saw it when it first came out. The ending had the audience singing and clapping "Put a Little Love in your Heart." It was a beautiful experience.
@@arnvonsalzburg5033 - We did. In the end credits, Bill Murray broke the 4th wall and said things to the audience, prodding us to sing. "Okay, now this side of the aisle," and "Now, only the men sing." AND WE DID! It was a really fun energy.
Workplace violence was a thing when this movie was made. ‘Going Postal’ was coined because it happened with disturbing regularity. But people understood back then that laughter robbed something of its power, a skill very much lost today.
I love when Frank looks under The Ghost of Christmas Future’s robes, sees the souls trapped and screaming and just says, “We’re gonna get letters about that.” 😂😂😂😂
I loved this movie when it originally came out in 1988 and have watched it every year since during the Christmas season. It’s my favorite adaptation of A Christmas Carol and one of Bill Murray’s best performances.
The part that slays me every single time is when the three homeless folk are convinced he's Richard Burton. "I swear, therefore I fore swear." Kills me.
Despite all the shenanigans involved in the making of this movie, this one of my favorite christmas movies and was actually way ahead of it's time in it's meta themes. It features Bill Murray at the peak of his comedy powers.
This was Murray's decade, and he closed it out in style with one of his last all-out-gonzo performances. It's nice that people caught up to it and appreciate it now.
Love this movie; I have watched it every year since it came out to VHS, then DVD. It's the last of my list for each Christmas season, but still fun! Oh, and Karen Allen was such a BABE!
I absolutely love this movie, so many great quotes I still recite to this day, and an absolutely perfect ending scene. This and Christmas Vacation are my go-to Christmas movies
The nipple line will always be my favourite in the whole movie because it's not only hilarious due to what Murray says and the other actors expressions, but it also shows you can make a movie for the whole family without needing to censor every adult reference.
Who would have thought Scrooged had such a troubled production history? I also was not aware it was poorly received critically. This film is required viewing for me around the holiday season. I am glad the cast and crew soldiered on through such hardship. Thanks for such an informative video JBV!
I love this movie I was lucky enough to see it in the theater. It's a tradition of mine to watch Scrooged, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation back to back every Christmas eve.😁
A Christmas classic that my wife and I watch every year. Another thing this movie predicted - TV programming for pets. While Preston seems intent on entertaining his cats, he also asks if Frank knows how many dogs are in the US (Bill Murrays face during this scene is great!) - and now I see commercials all the time for Dog TV, programming for dogs. Who would have thought?
One of my favorite christmas movies. One of the reasons, among many others, is that Frank Cross is young and has a longer time to be good to redeem for when he was bad.
I work with people who have never seen this movie and because of that don’t know who put a little love in your heart is played with the Christmas Songs.
Thank you so much for this post. This has been my number one favorite Christmas movie for over 20 years now, I really enjoyed the information that you gave here...GREAT JOB!
i love that movie, i grew up with ernest. ernest seemed more popular than pee wee herman here in the uk when i was a kid too. Saves christmas is on my top 10 christmas films list definitely 👌👌
Still love this movie. It's always in my annual Christmas movie rotation during the holidays. Carol Kane will always make me laugh out loud the minute she makes her entrance. She totally steals the show in my mind. "The bitch hit me with a toaster."
When I was younger I didn't like Scrooged because I thought it was too mean and violent. I avoided watching it until my mid 20's. I finally reluctantly watched it, and now I love it.
Great video and deep down i want to see those deleted scenes. Why, well it is one of my favourite Christmas movies, and one of the best (non traditional) adopted versions of A Christmas Carol ever.
Me and my wife have been together for 15 years, and we've got a tradition that Christmas isn't official until we get to watch our Christmas films together. The wife's choice is The Muppets Christmas Carol, while mine is.... yep - Bill Murry's Scrooged!!! It really is a brilliant, funny, modern twist to The Christmas Carol story. Only when I watch Bill as Frank Cross, then I know it's Christmas!!!
Love this movie, and yes, it's an annual favorite, But it's only officially Christmas when Hans Gruber finally falls from the Nakatomi Plaza Tower, and when Clark W. Griswold has his infamous living-room meltdown.
@@scottcrawford3745 You get a like for Clark W. Griswold - that is a classic! "Shitter's full!". Die Hard is also a great movie, but NOOOOO - you're not having that one. That's not a Christmas movie!!! :)
@@ShR33k Even Bruce Willis himself, although he always countered that Die Hard was NOT a Christmas movie, even he eventually caved-in to relentless pressure that it IS one. And since it makes the top 10 of nearly Every Xmas movie list.... ya gotta at least give it the nod...Besides, it will leave you humming Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th Symphony for days.. and you'll appear to all observers to be " in the spirit".
Just certain movies i must watch every holiday season like Die Hard, Grimlins, Christmas Vacation, Home Alone and A Christmas Carole. But the absolute favorite has to be Scrooged.
Like most people that watched this segment and have made comments, I also saw this in the theatre when it was released. I absolutely loved it then and still watch it every single year (usually more than once) during the holiday season. So many great quotes and one liners from Francis Xavier Cross. I really don't give a sh*t if someone wasn't happy with the script or somehow got their feelings hurt.
This has been my favorite Christmas movie since the day I saw it in theatres as a kid. The entire scene at Franks brothers house with the ghost of Christmas present is one of my favorite scenes "Look Frank, It's a toaster!!!"
Love this movie, from the first time I saw it as a kid I would watch it every time it came on. Even as an adult it's one of my favorite Christmas traditions.
I can't imagine Bill Murray repeating memorized lines like a automaton. If you want Bill Murray and his trademark form of comedy in your movie, you gotta let Bill Murray do Bill Murray.
i absolutely love this movie have loved it every since it came out that and fletch which is also one of my favorite movies i have thwm on dvd somewhere in storage
"The workplace gun violence certainly feels uncomfortable at a time with active shooter situations happen with alarming frequency" God, almighty.... hearing comments like this feels like I'm watching a 50's public service film on the perils of reeeeeefer! It's a movie!
I remember this movie! I was 15 and still in Soviet Uniot and saw it from a SAT TV channel, probably FilmNet, and it was ammazing! Strange, crazy, hardly to understand. It was the Zeitgeist!
One of my First VHS's I ever purchased as a kid. Would love to see more unseen footage/outtakes and documentaries on this film one day. It would be magical
You missed one of my favorite cameos. Bill Murray walks by a street band playing 'We Three Kings' and jeers them. The band is actually composed of Miles Davis, Larry Carlton, David Sanborn, and Paul Schaffer!
"Maybe learn to play your instruments". Schaffer would appear with Murray in appropriately enough, A Very Murray Christmas, written by Mitch 'Scrooged' Glazer.
This was one of my top 3 Christmas movies as a kid, beside Die Hard and the Ref. My family (when I was in my teen years) used to watch them every holiday. Well except Die Hard, that I just watched all the time haha.
My favourite Christmas film along with Gremlins and Black Christmas (1974) Bill Murray was King of comedy films back then, Tootsie, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Stripes, Groundhog Day
I used to hate this movie. And being a massive Bill Murray fan since I was like 3, it pained me that I didn't like this movie. It was only when I entered my 20s and my own sense of humor became much more cynical and I started to really appreciate improvisational comedy that I went back to Scrooged. Now I love it and is one of those 'watch every Christmas'-type of movies, right along with A Christmas Story and Christmas Vacation.
My Fav Christmas movie.. Bill Murray in his comedic prime. A twist on a classic tale.. Watch it every year..
It never gets boring.
It seems it was before its time with regards to the reviews. Its always been the Christmas schlock I and everyone ive ever asked loves
The mix of reality and fantasy hits the spot everytime. I loved it as a kid and each time I watch it, the film seems to grow with me.
Every year mate, every year! Even get teary eyed with the occaisional wobble of the bottom lip during a couple of scenes.
Whatever the ordeal filiming was, a beautiful movie it is.
@@broganfreeman8958
Great movies are often made under duress. This is def one of them..
Underrated classic
I absolutely love this movie. Lots of fond memories. Plus I had an unreasonable crush on the ghost who hit him with a toaster. I was a weird kid. So anyway, to summarise, second only to Die Hard as my favourite Christmas movie and I wholeheartedly agree that this is massively underrated.
@@adamwest8711 Agreed. A totally brilliant movie.
@@adamwest8711 you forgot Lampoons xmas vacation
And often forgotten that the legendary *Richard Donner* directed 🙌🏼
I always thought that the scene where he slips on the floor was the best slapstick acting I'd ever seen because it's a brilliant fall.
I'd have to say the most touching part was at the end. When the kid finally speaks and says "God bless everyone"
“I can’t get the antlers glued to this little guy. We tried Crazy Glue, but it don’t work.”
Frank Cross: “Did you try staples?”
🤣🤣🤣
This and National Lampoons are the only Christmas movies I watch all year round whenever I catch em' on t.v. or streaming
A definite Christmas classic in my family! When Scrooged was 1st released in theaters, I was 4 maybe 5 years old at the most and had a big crush on Bill Murray. My aunt and uncle took me and my 2 brothers to see a movie and at the theater ,they asked us to pick the movie we wanted to see. I immediately saw the theatrical poster for Scrooged which had a skeletal hand lighting a match for Bill Murray holding a cigar (thumbnail of this vid) and I said "let's see this one!" And my brothers agreed. I remember our uncle was cool and about to get us tickets when my aunt looked at the rating and said it did not look appropriate for children, "especially a little girl " (me) I think we spent the next 20 minutes pleading but my aunt wouldn't have it. We were so disappointed. The following evening our mom who had heard what happened told us to get ready and in the car, we had to go grocery shopping but much to our surprise, she took us to see Scrooged at the theater. One of those small but memorable childhood memories. The audience we saw it with was laughing and clapping throughout it and even singing along with the end credits. As soon as it started airing on HBO we recorded it and watched it every season from Thanksgiving to New year's day. It's not a perfect movie but it's great for what it is. Kind of underrated IMHO.
I am very surprised at the shambolic inception of this movie, because it feels so tight and perfectly executed.
I absolutely love this film, its sad that the making of it was so miserable. But for one of many "Christmas Carol" films in existence, this is the only one that keeps me coming back to watch year after year.
This and it’s a wonderful life (a movie about self deletion) are my go to X-Mas movies
I thought this movie was great. I saw it when it first came out. The ending had the audience singing and clapping "Put a Little Love in your Heart." It was a beautiful experience.
Awesome..
I saw it too when it came out and it was much the same experience
I was born too late but always wondered if any audience actually did this :)
@@arnvonsalzburg5033 - We did. In the end credits, Bill Murray broke the 4th wall and said things to the audience, prodding us to sing. "Okay, now this side of the aisle," and "Now, only the men sing." AND WE DID! It was a really fun energy.
Workplace violence was a thing when this movie was made. ‘Going Postal’ was coined because it happened with disturbing regularity. But people understood back then that laughter robbed something of its power, a skill very much lost today.
I love when Frank looks under The Ghost of Christmas Future’s robes, sees the souls trapped and screaming and just says, “We’re gonna get letters about that.”
😂😂😂😂
Back off, man. That might work with the chicks but not with me.
"The bitch hit me with a toaster." One of my favorite film quotes.
I loved this movie when it originally came out in 1988 and have watched it every year since during the Christmas season. It’s my favorite adaptation of A Christmas Carol and one of Bill Murray’s best performances.
Favorite part is when he adds hardly any Tab to his vodka because he is so shaken.
and the way he did it too
Watching this every year. Such a classic. And every year I find new appreciation for it.
The part that slays me every single time is when the three homeless folk are convinced he's Richard Burton. "I swear, therefore I fore swear." Kills me.
And when he collapses on the other guy because Richard Burton is performing for him.
@@davidjames579 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Despite all the shenanigans involved in the making of this movie, this one of my favorite christmas movies and was actually way ahead of it's time in it's meta themes. It features Bill Murray at the peak of his comedy powers.
Scrooged is my absolute favorite Christmas movie
This was Murray's decade, and he closed it out in style with one of his last all-out-gonzo performances. It's nice that people caught up to it and appreciate it now.
Love this movie; I have watched it every year since it came out to VHS, then DVD. It's the last of my list for each Christmas season, but still fun! Oh, and Karen Allen was such a BABE!
"When Attila the Hun saw his mother, Niagara Falls."
Attila the Hun
I absolutely love this movie, so many great quotes I still recite to this day, and an absolutely perfect ending scene. This and Christmas Vacation are my go-to Christmas movies
Just watched this movie again after a looong time and will make it my Christmas tradition from now on!
The nipple line will always be my favourite in the whole movie because it's not only hilarious due to what Murray says and the other actors expressions, but it also shows you can make a movie for the whole family without needing to censor every adult reference.
I can't imagine this NOT being seen as legendary from the bat, when IMO it's one of the best Christmas movies ever created. It's so classic!
I watch Scrooged every Christmas with my family. Definitely my favourite Christmas movie
Second best Christmas Carol adaptation after Muppets Christmas Carol.
Agreed
Are you bonkers?!?? The BEST version is Mr Magoo’s Christmas Carol!
Ha, watched both today. Merry Christmas!
“We wouldn’t want to scare the dickens out of people. The Dickens out of people. NOBODY gets me.”
Absolute classic. As is Groundhog Day
Absolutely love this film would watch it every Christmas eve when I was little 😂
Who would have thought Scrooged had such a troubled production history? I also was not aware it was poorly received critically. This film is required viewing for me around the holiday season. I am glad the cast and crew soldiered on through such hardship. Thanks for such an informative video JBV!
Love this. I make time to watch it every Christmas. It's a real feel good movie. Bill Murray in a 80s comedy, you can't beat it!
I love this movie I was lucky enough to see it in the theater. It's a tradition of mine to watch Scrooged, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation back to back every Christmas eve.😁
Classic 🎄 Masterpieces!👏🏻👍🏻👌🏻✌🏻......
A Christmas classic that my wife and I watch every year. Another thing this movie predicted - TV programming for pets. While Preston seems intent on entertaining his cats, he also asks if Frank knows how many dogs are in the US (Bill Murrays face during this scene is great!) - and now I see commercials all the time for Dog TV, programming for dogs. Who would have thought?
One of my favorite christmas movies. One of the reasons, among many others, is that Frank Cross is young and has a longer time to be good to redeem for when he was bad.
I work with people who have never seen this movie and because of that don’t know who put a little love in your heart is played with the Christmas Songs.
This was a really good classic
Thank you so much for this post. This has been my number one favorite Christmas movie for over 20 years now, I really enjoyed the information that you gave here...GREAT JOB!
Karen Allen was in “ Animal House”.😀
“Ernest saves Christmas” was number 5 on that list box office list haha aww good ol Ernest always saving things or going places...
i love that movie, i grew up with ernest. ernest seemed more popular than pee wee herman here in the uk when i was a kid too. Saves christmas is on my top 10 christmas films list definitely 👌👌
I love this movie. One of the few movies that my dad and I have watched and enjoyed together. 🐾
One of my must watch movies for the holiday period! Love it. Great video as per usual!
"You've been a good boy this year Lee"
Lee's nod and chuckle is a classic 😏
A top 10 christmas film for me, easily. i watch it multiple times over christmas and never get fed up of it.
For the love of God, will you please stop the god damn hammering
@dave4248 lmao .quality line
"No problem!"
*set immediately falls apart.
Still love this movie. It's always in my annual Christmas movie rotation during the holidays. Carol Kane will always make me laugh out loud the minute she makes her entrance. She totally steals the show in my mind. "The bitch hit me with a toaster."
Stand out highlight in my mind. Was thanks to this movie i watched more of Carol's work
Thanks!
When I was younger I didn't like Scrooged because I thought it was too mean and violent. I avoided watching it until my mid 20's. I finally reluctantly watched it, and now I love it.
One of my top 3 Bill Murray favorites along with Groundhog Day and Kingpin.
Great video and deep down i want to see those deleted scenes. Why, well it is one of my favourite Christmas movies, and one of the best (non traditional) adopted versions of A Christmas Carol ever.
The Only Christmas Movie I Watch Every Year.
My uncle took my brother and I out of school to go see that,the theater was almost empty but I’ve loved it ever since. I was 8
This was and still is one of the best Christmas movies ever released. National Lampoon comes as a close second.
Throwing in another "this is one of my all time favorite Christmas movies"
Thanks for reminding me of this movie. Gonna watch it again.
the making of every bill murray movie is a horror-story
Me and my wife have been together for 15 years, and we've got a tradition that Christmas isn't official until we get to watch our Christmas films together. The wife's choice is The Muppets Christmas Carol, while mine is.... yep - Bill Murry's Scrooged!!! It really is a brilliant, funny, modern twist to The Christmas Carol story. Only when I watch Bill as Frank Cross, then I know it's Christmas!!!
Love this movie, and yes, it's an annual favorite, But it's only officially Christmas when Hans Gruber finally falls from the Nakatomi Plaza Tower, and when Clark W. Griswold has his infamous living-room meltdown.
@@scottcrawford3745 You get a like for Clark W. Griswold - that is a classic! "Shitter's full!". Die Hard is also a great movie, but NOOOOO - you're not having that one. That's not a Christmas movie!!! :)
@@ShR33k Even Bruce Willis himself, although he always countered that Die Hard was NOT a Christmas movie, even he eventually caved-in to relentless pressure that it IS one. And since it makes the top 10 of nearly Every Xmas movie list.... ya gotta at least give it the nod...Besides, it will leave you humming Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th Symphony for days.. and you'll appear to all observers to be " in the spirit".
Just certain movies i must watch every holiday season like Die Hard, Grimlins, Christmas Vacation, Home Alone and A Christmas Carole. But the absolute favorite has to be Scrooged.
Don't forget Lethal Weapon (1987)!👏🏻👌🏻✌🏻👍🏻.....….
Like most people that watched this segment and have made comments, I also saw this in the theatre when it was released. I absolutely loved it then and still watch it every single year (usually more than once) during the holiday season. So many great quotes and one liners from Francis Xavier Cross. I really don't give a sh*t if someone wasn't happy with the script or somehow got their feelings hurt.
I can’t believe that my favorite movie everyone was so disappointed in
It is more blessed to give than to receive. And thus, the Shotgun Scenes makes Sense.
This has been my favorite Christmas movie since the day I saw it in theatres as a kid. The entire scene at Franks brothers house with the ghost of Christmas present is one of my favorite scenes "Look Frank, It's a toaster!!!"
One of my favorite movies of all time. It’s a classic. Period.
Bill Murray is a legend and Scrooged as one of my favorite movies of all time!
One of my Christmas favorites
Love this movie, from the first time I saw it as a kid I would watch it every time it came on. Even as an adult it's one of my favorite Christmas traditions.
Scrooged is my favorite holiday movie.
Top notch filmmaking.
Proto-Fincher vibe.
This is on in my house EVERY CHRISTMAS....Legend
Watched it last weekend and watch every Christmas. Love it. There was a rumour of a new one.
Thanksgiving dinner, this was the first holiday movie that came to my mind. This and muppets Christmas carol are pretty dark takes on scrooge
Watching this movie...Growing up in the 80's
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Always loved this movie as a kid. Had just the right mix of humor and drama.
This is still a fun movie to watch around the holidays. It's a classic for sure.
I wonder what an R rated version could've been though.
One of my favourite movies as a kid.. Always tried to stay up late to watch.
One of the 🎄 Classic Masterpieces!👍🏻👌🏻✌🏻👏🏻.......
One of my favorite childhood movies!!! Doesn’t get enough credit!!
Say. That's really interesting.
Love this movie watched it all the time as a kid 9/10 ☆☆☆☆
One of my favorites
This and Christmas Vacation are the two Christmas films I'll watch every year for the rest of my life.
I love THIS movie.
A double header of Scrooged & Gremlins are my Christmas go-to's
This is one of my very favorite Christmas movies
Great video guys! #1 Christmas movie in my book
One of my favs...along w home1..2 and vakay
I don't know, I think "Scrooged" is a fantastic update to the Scrooge tale that we know so well; I'm glad audiences responded to it.
I can't imagine Bill Murray repeating memorized lines like a automaton. If you want Bill Murray and his trademark form of comedy in your movie, you gotta let Bill Murray do Bill Murray.
I believe people who don't understand the finer elements of comedy, won't like improvisation.
i absolutely love this movie have loved it every since it came out that and fletch which is also one of my favorite movies i have thwm on dvd somewhere in storage
"The workplace gun violence certainly feels uncomfortable at a time with active shooter situations happen with alarming frequency"
God, almighty.... hearing comments like this feels like I'm watching a 50's public service film on the perils of reeeeeefer!
It's a movie!
and movies are dangerous
But the media tells us that mass shootings are almost constant, and they would never lie to us as part of a Marxist plot.
Definitely a classic I try to watch it whenever I can quite honestly and it’s so underrated in it’s day😎
I remember this movie! I was 15 and still in Soviet Uniot and saw it from a SAT TV channel, probably FilmNet, and it was ammazing! Strange, crazy, hardly to understand. It was the Zeitgeist!
Such a good movie, one of my favorite holiday movies.
One of my First VHS's I ever purchased as a kid. Would love to see more unseen footage/outtakes and documentaries on this film one day. It would be magical
How versatile is Richard Donner? He did Superman: The Movie, Lethal Weapon, The Omen, and Scrooged. Amazing.
You missed one of my favorite cameos. Bill Murray walks by a street band playing 'We Three Kings' and jeers them. The band is actually composed of Miles Davis, Larry Carlton, David Sanborn, and Paul Schaffer!
Yeah, they are in the soundtrack 💿 too!👌🏻👍🏻✌🏻👏🏻.......
"Maybe learn to play your instruments". Schaffer would appear with Murray in appropriately enough, A Very Murray Christmas, written by Mitch 'Scrooged' Glazer.
Great video! thank you!
This was one of my top 3 Christmas movies as a kid, beside Die Hard and the Ref. My family (when I was in my teen years) used to watch them every holiday. Well except Die Hard, that I just watched all the time haha.
My favorite version of a Christmas Carol and a family favorite of ours every year.
My favourite Christmas film along with Gremlins and Black Christmas (1974)
Bill Murray was King of comedy films back then, Tootsie, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Stripes, Groundhog Day
I used to hate this movie. And being a massive Bill Murray fan since I was like 3, it pained me that I didn't like this movie. It was only when I entered my 20s and my own sense of humor became much more cynical and I started to really appreciate improvisational comedy that I went back to Scrooged. Now I love it and is one of those 'watch every Christmas'-type of movies, right along with A Christmas Story and Christmas Vacation.