I watched this on DVD about three Christmases ago. I was highly impressed with the CGI and the voice acting. If you visit Broadstairs in Kent, you can see the famous door knocker on the front of Charles Dickens' cottage along the seafront. It was even featured in Disney's cartoon version of A Christmas Carol (aka "Mickey's Christmas Carol"), which I remember seeing on TV in the early 1980s. I didn't know a video game was made to accompany the 2009 film, so I'm looking forward to seeing it.
@@jaethemanchild I've visited Broadstairs lots of times since the 1970s, but it was when I was at college in the early 1990s, I went there for the day, on the last day of term, and one of my friends pointed out the famous door knocker and told me it inspired the haunted door knocker in A Christmas Carol. I remembered it from Disney's 1983 version, in which the haunted door knocker turns into Goofy's face. I think that was the first Christmas Carol film I ever saw on TV. I remember my sister being involved in a stage production of it at our primary school, so that was probably the first version I saw of it. I've got at least four versions of it in my DVD collection, including the two Disney versions. I haven't watched any in about three years, so I might dig one out to watch over Christmas.
@@jaethemanchild Patrick Stewart who appeared in the late 1990s TV version (one of the best versions IMO) saw the ghost of John Baldwin Buckstone (a friend of Charles Dickens) while performing in "Waiting for Godot" at the Theatre Royal in Haymarket. I found out three years ago that John Baldwin Buckstone is buried in my local cemetery (Ladywell & Brockley Cemetery). I had a ghostly experience myself at Welling train station in August 2016. It happened in broad daylight and I believe it was the ghost of Hilary Evans because, unbeknownst to me at the time, he looked just like him and I've since found photos of him wearing the same clothes and carrying the same bag. I believe it was a warning from the other side, something Hilary Evans talked about in his books on ghosts and in a documentary about ghosts on The Discovery Channel. Also, something paranormal was captured on camera in my family home in 1985 and it's covering my face in the photo, which was supposed to show me playing on my ZX Spectrum. In 2017, the photo was added to Hilary Evans' paranormal photo collection in the Mary Evans Picture Library in Blackheath Village. I didn't really believe in ghosts until that photo was taken, so I've had a long interest in the subject.
I watched this on DVD about three Christmases ago. I was highly impressed with the CGI and the voice acting. If you visit Broadstairs in Kent, you can see the famous door knocker on the front of Charles Dickens' cottage along the seafront. It was even featured in Disney's cartoon version of A Christmas Carol (aka "Mickey's Christmas Carol"), which I remember seeing on TV in the early 1980s. I didn't know a video game was made to accompany the 2009 film, so I'm looking forward to seeing it.
Oh wow! I didn’t know the knocker was real. Thanks for that factoid.
The movie is fine, it’s pretty close to the original story.
@@jaethemanchild I've visited Broadstairs lots of times since the 1970s, but it was when I was at college in the early 1990s, I went there for the day, on the last day of term, and one of my friends pointed out the famous door knocker and told me it inspired the haunted door knocker in A Christmas Carol. I remembered it from Disney's 1983 version, in which the haunted door knocker turns into Goofy's face. I think that was the first Christmas Carol film I ever saw on TV. I remember my sister being involved in a stage production of it at our primary school, so that was probably the first version I saw of it. I've got at least four versions of it in my DVD collection, including the two Disney versions. I haven't watched any in about three years, so I might dig one out to watch over Christmas.
@@jaethemanchild Patrick Stewart who appeared in the late 1990s TV version (one of the best versions IMO) saw the ghost of John Baldwin Buckstone (a friend of Charles Dickens) while performing in "Waiting for Godot" at the Theatre Royal in Haymarket. I found out three years ago that John Baldwin Buckstone is buried in my local cemetery (Ladywell & Brockley Cemetery). I had a ghostly experience myself at Welling train station in August 2016. It happened in broad daylight and I believe it was the ghost of Hilary Evans because, unbeknownst to me at the time, he looked just like him and I've since found photos of him wearing the same clothes and carrying the same bag. I believe it was a warning from the other side, something Hilary Evans talked about in his books on ghosts and in a documentary about ghosts on The Discovery Channel. Also, something paranormal was captured on camera in my family home in 1985 and it's covering my face in the photo, which was supposed to show me playing on my ZX Spectrum. In 2017, the photo was added to Hilary Evans' paranormal photo collection in the Mary Evans Picture Library in Blackheath Village. I didn't really believe in ghosts until that photo was taken, so I've had a long interest in the subject.