The intense, grand George C Scott version and this glorious musical are my two absolute favorites. It's just not Christmas if I haven't watched them both! They are just, well, they *are* Christmas to me. (The runner-up for me is the giddy, unorthodox Scrooged with Bill Murray. It has a lot of heart. Oh, and I like Mickey's Christmas Carol. And the Muppets' one, too. And the one with Henry Winkler).
@@kellybills29871;38 to 1:50 Scrooge:that’s all very well for you, but not for me I hate life Ghost of Christmas: nonsense, man why Scrooge : because life hates me that’s why
Agreed. Albert Finney just NAILS it. You hate him when he's mean, you adore him when he's kind and happy, and you feel heartbroken for him when he's sad.
"I like life, here and now, life and I made a mutual vow. Life and I, 'til I die, we'll both try to be better somehow!" Amen to that. I love this song!
Best scrooge ever it's a shame other scrooge movies never came close to this moment with the ghost of Christmas present if they used this song I Like Life in the others those movies would have been more magical this was the turning point in changing scrooge and the past moment with his ex girlfriend singing Happiness Is What Ever You Want It To Be wish the other movies captured that magic that's why this Scrooge hands down is the best
@@zandernewson9933 Yes really, You yourself can control your own emotions, because seeing yourself so low makes you become a little man or a meaningless pseudo-man. 😂
my wife bought this for me on Blu Ray . The picture is outstanding. They did such a Good job restoring it in HD. we have made it a yearly tradition to watch it.
Why waste time when it comes to toxic behaviors, war, hatred, and negativity?! We are not meant to spend it this way! Human beings are made to love life and experience all the positive and good things that come from it, not dwell on the negative! Happy holidays everyone, and make the best for what you have that life has to offer. ❤️💚🤍🎅🏻🎄❄️🎁🍷
under any horrid circumstance, we find the choice of choosing to be happy or to be miserable. Song is a good venue to impart a lesson. We find a melody catchy and we slip easily into listening to the words. At that time the message comes across more easily than any parent, boss or doctor ever could get it through our thick heads. just choose happiness and stop trying to control everything and everyone. let go misery and fear. excellent song. thx
best part of the movie Ghost of Xmas Present was amazing he motivated the Scrooge character to be good and the actor was brilliant definitely the best out of all Scrooge movies
I hope one day they remake this movie with the same songs this was the most magical moment along with scrooges ex Izabel singing Happiness Is What Ever You Want It To Be just amazing hope they remake it as I stated
Watch this every year, get the biggest lump in my throat every year when it ends and he speaks to the door knock (Jacob marley) after redeeming himself and leaving the city in song 👏👏
My parents and I have been watching this movie FOR DECADES NOW and I WILL ALWAYS LOVE this whole part in the movie!!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE, AND GOD BLESS US..... EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US!!!!! LOVE Y'ALL!! 🥰🥰🎄🎄🎄❤️❤️❤️💚💚💚
Susie , although it's not Christmas but I think what the song was conveying is we can live everyday like it's Christmas if we choose. Why because we like life 😊😂🎉❤
I love this as a Kid and still watch it every year. I live my life just like the Sprit, There's never enough time to do or say all the things in life. The thing is to do as many as you can in the time you are giving
I have watched this muscial almost every year of my life since my childhood (with some years being missed admittedly) . I just saw it again this year after a 2 year hiatus and it brought back so many fond memories of my childhood holidays. This song is a classic and so uplifting! Also Thank you very much is a hoot!
The song says it all! Whenever I am feeling down or just need a booster shot... the song picks me up and brings me back and makes me realize that there are others out there who may have a much tougher life. Embrace it, make it yours! :-) THE BEST VERSION OF SCROOGE EVER! :-)
I usually watch this movie twice a year. Once around Novem 1st or 2nd to Kickstart the holiday season, and once when it's closet to Christmas day. Strange to think I'll be watching it again in less than two months.
My favorites are this one and the 1951 Alistair Sim version. Both Finney and Sim are magical in their transformations on Christmas morning. Hard to believe the two versions were made only 19 years apart. The George C. Scott version is also very good. I would suggest reading the book. In the Finney movie version, when Scrooge is in hell, Obi Wan Marley makes a comment about Scrooge being as dead as a "coffin nail." This is a reference to a comment made by Dickens in the first pages of the book. The book is quite short (compared to other Dickens novels which can be massive) and will fill in a lot of details and character information that a film doesn't have time to address.
learning about the book in school and i will admit despite being his shortest story (and designed as an allegory for the poor) he still manages to devote 4 whole pages to describing the Cratchits
This is my, and my family's, favorite of all the Holiday movies. I wish it got more of the recognition it deserves. It should be a network special, so more people can see it and fall in love. :) Amazing songs, humor, and Albert Finney is just amazing as Scrooge. Thank you for posting this!
SCROOGE: It's all very well for you but not for me I hate life! THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT: Nonsense, man! Why? SCROOGE: Because life hates me that's why. LOL!!!!!
Scrooge, you’re an even bigger fool than I took you for! I never heard such a lot of self pitying dribble. You don’t even know how to live. Now you listen to me. I like life. (pause) Well, go on!
Dealing with a mother that's insecure within herself, and a mundane Hebrew religion that she's gotten herself into that requires no joyful happy holidays or Merry Christmas, my mom has turned from a bitter non greedy version of Scrooge. Even her own sister says to my mom that she's tired of her self-pitying dribble. Everyday even around the holidays we all need to remind ourselves to like life so it can make us into better people. Why see the light in others, if you don't see the light within yourself? Think about it. Have a Happy Holidays everyone. 💜🎅🎄🎁
I love Kenneth More as this portrayal of the Ghost of Christmas Present, because he behaves like a father to Scrooge, who through his eyes is like a misbehaving child to him, which is what most ignorant or miserable people are like nowadays sadly when it comes to Christmas, which is just plain immature. We need more Kenneth More Christmas spirits!
The BEST Scrooge Film!!!
***** Amen!!
+M. Rosen Except for the George C. Scott version.
The intense, grand George C Scott version and this glorious musical are my two absolute favorites. It's just not Christmas if I haven't watched them both! They are just, well, they *are* Christmas to me. (The runner-up for me is the giddy, unorthodox Scrooged with Bill Murray. It has a lot of heart. Oh, and I like Mickey's Christmas Carol. And the Muppets' one, too. And the one with Henry Winkler).
More bright and fun.
I personally say the best is Alastair Simm.
"Come over here, you weird little man.". :)
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Come in! And know me better, man
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I like a Ghost of Christmas Present with a little bit of edge. Part proselytizer, part reveler. Sort of a bridge between Christmas and Yule.
if your feeling down listen to this...life is short.
And suddenly; you're not there anymore.
Yeah, Kevin Smith just tweeted this video and said the same.
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Scrooge:that’s all very well for you, but not for me I hate life
Ghost of Christmas: nonsense, man why
Scrooge : because life hates me that’s why
1:38
Seems long .
Considering we can't dislike anymore, it's nice to view that fact that 2K people like life.
🤓 Technically you can still dislike, but you just can’t see the counter unless you use a browser extension. 🤓
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there's only 42 dislikes. The people have spoken, and they like life
Rip Kenneth More and Albert Finney, they are up there in Heaven singing this.
Agreed. Albert Finney just NAILS it. You hate him when he's mean, you adore him when he's kind and happy, and you feel heartbroken for him when he's sad.
"I like life, here and now, life and I made a mutual vow. Life and I, 'til I die, we'll both try to be better somehow!"
Amen to that. I love this song!
"And if life were a woman she would be my wife."
"Why?"
"Why? Because I LIKE LIFE!"
Rest in Peace
Albert Finney .... best Scrooge ever!!
Best scrooge ever it's a shame other scrooge movies never came close to this moment with the ghost of Christmas present if they used this song I Like Life in the others those movies would have been more magical this was the turning point in changing scrooge and the past moment with his ex girlfriend singing Happiness Is What Ever You Want It To Be wish the other movies captured that magic that's why this Scrooge hands down is the best
I can't get over that he was 34 when he did this
Muppets Christmas Carrol as well for me
Indeed...
Hopefully he doesn't have chains.
Best Scrooge ever made :-)
1986thehitman I agree with you on that
My all time favorite version of SCROOGE! Absolutely love this movie and watch it every Christmas Eve. :D
WOW...awesome, have for 17 straight Christmas Eves and always will. ❤❤❤❤
Albert Finney's greatest performance and the best version of 'Scrooge' ever made - and there have been some great ones!
100% agree to ALL you wrote...have watched it 17 Christmas Eves in a row...and will until I'm in the grave!!
Agreed
I start my day with this song. “I like thinking the thoughts I’m thinking”
Of all 3 Spirits, I always liked the Ghost of Christmas Present the best. And who couldn't?
+PiperFreeze06 I used to hate him with a burning passion when I was a child :P
.....tmi
I like Kenneth More in this movie.
@@SaintCharlos dang, not even a normal hate but hatred with burning passion
My hero.
This it a great song for when your depressed
So true because I like life
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Y'all idiot loooool 😂😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😂😂
@@zandernewson9933
Yes really, You yourself can control your own emotions, because seeing yourself so low makes you become a little man or a meaningless pseudo-man. 😂
My absolutely favorite Christmas movie. We watch it every Thanksgiving night, to welcome in the Christmas season. :D
I think a lot of us could do with singing this song in the morning.
I saw this at the theatre in 1970! I'm 59 now, never missed a year!
This is the best Scrooge ever made
I watched this movie on Christmas for the first time with my Grandma when I was 7 years old. Time sure flies by fast.
my wife bought this for me on Blu Ray . The picture is outstanding. They did such a Good job restoring it in HD. we have made it a yearly tradition to watch it.
Why waste time when it comes to toxic behaviors, war, hatred, and negativity?! We are not meant to spend it this way! Human beings are made to love life and experience all the positive and good things that come from it, not dwell on the negative! Happy holidays everyone, and make the best for what you have that life has to offer. ❤️💚🤍🎅🏻🎄❄️🎁🍷
I love the milk of kindness symbolism. Present fills his cup with kindness even after singing about Scrooge’s evil
This song never fails to get me really motivated. I want to shout on the roof tops, "I LIKE LIFE, LIFE LIKES ME!" My theme for 2021 and on!!!
This is my favorite Christmas Carol.. I watch it every year.. Finally have it on DVD
this is my favorite version of A Christmas Carol!!!
Can we appreciate how genuinely happy Scrooge was singing this song?
Yes we can. Genuine happiness is one of the parts that imporve this whole scene
He liked the drink he was drinking :)
One of the most under-appreciated films of all time!
I love this movie so much, my family and I watch it every year
RIP Albert Finney T_T Thank you for giving my husband many years of enjoying this movie.
Watched this movie with my mom 3 or 4 times EVERY CHRISTMAS. Can't believe she's been gone 10 years. Love you!!!!
It's become a tradition in my family to watch this movie at Christmas every year.
under any horrid circumstance, we find the choice of choosing to be happy or to be miserable. Song is a good venue to impart a lesson. We find a melody catchy and we slip easily into listening to the words. At that time the message comes across more easily than any parent, boss or doctor ever could get it through our thick heads. just choose happiness and stop trying to control everything and everyone. let go misery and fear. excellent song. thx
best part of the movie Ghost of Xmas Present was amazing he motivated the Scrooge character to be good and the actor was brilliant definitely the best out of all Scrooge movies
It's cute & funny when Scrooge gets drunk. Albert played the best Scrooge.
I hope one day they remake this movie with the same songs this was the most magical moment along with scrooges ex Izabel singing Happiness Is What Ever You Want It To Be just amazing hope they remake it as I stated
This movie is the best and most underrated version of a Christmas Carol.
Watch this every year, get the biggest lump in my throat every year when it ends and he speaks to the door knock (Jacob marley) after redeeming himself and leaving the city in song 👏👏
This version of Scrooge/Christmas Carol is my favorite version! This song is a top favorite song! I like LIFE!!
I was trying to remember where I heard the "milk of human kindness" in a Christmas Carol film. Thank you for bringing it to me.
RIP Albert Finney I’ve watched this movie every Christmas since a young lad. Best Scrooge ever !!
I haven't heard this song in nearly 20 years and I still know it by heart.
Saw if in 4th grade and watch it every. Christmas
I like thinking the thoughts I'm Thinking! Because I like life!
My parents and I have been watching this movie FOR DECADES NOW and I WILL ALWAYS LOVE this whole part in the movie!!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE, AND GOD BLESS US..... EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US!!!!! LOVE Y'ALL!! 🥰🥰🎄🎄🎄❤️❤️❤️💚💚💚
Susie , although it's not Christmas but I think what the song was conveying is we can live everyday like it's Christmas if we choose. Why because we like life 😊😂🎉❤
This is definitely one of my favorite productions!! "...I like drinking the drink that I'm drinking..." XD
Wow, that stuff is potent!!
You can watch this in July and it's relevant, it helps. Tremendously .
RIP, Mr. Finney. Thank you, very much!
"perpetual spree" XD
This is a very true song. We should enjoy each and every day because we’ll be a long time dead.
I love this as a Kid and still watch it every year. I live my life just like the Sprit, There's never enough time to do or say all the things in life. The thing is to do as many as you can in the time you are giving
My Great granny had this movie on VHS and we bought it again on DVD
Love it too ! The ghost is " Father Christmas " in England he wears green - not red as Coca Cola depicted- grrrrr
Watching this movie today! My favorite film!
Had not seen or heard this since I was 5. Thank you so much for reminding me that "I like life."
I have watched this muscial almost every year of my life since my childhood (with some years being missed admittedly) . I just saw it again this year after a 2 year hiatus and it brought back so many fond memories of my childhood holidays. This song is a classic and so uplifting! Also Thank you very much is a hoot!
The song says it all! Whenever I am feeling down or just need a booster shot... the song picks me up and brings me back and makes me realize that there are others out there who may have a much tougher life. Embrace it, make it yours! :-) THE BEST VERSION OF SCROOGE EVER! :-)
Family Christmas tradition every year since my ma was a kid. Decorate the Xmas tree while this is on, then again on Christmas Day
I usually watch this movie twice a year. Once around Novem 1st or 2nd to Kickstart the holiday season, and once when it's closet to Christmas day. Strange to think I'll be watching it again in less than two months.
My favorites are this one and the 1951 Alistair Sim version. Both Finney and Sim are magical in their transformations on Christmas morning. Hard to believe the two versions were made only 19 years apart. The George C. Scott version is also very good.
I would suggest reading the book. In the Finney movie version, when Scrooge is in hell, Obi Wan Marley makes a comment about Scrooge being as dead as a "coffin nail." This is a reference to a comment made by Dickens in the first pages of the book. The book is quite short (compared to other Dickens novels which can be massive) and will fill in a lot of details and character information that a film doesn't have time to address.
learning about the book in school and i will admit despite being his shortest story (and designed as an allegory for the poor) he still manages to devote 4 whole pages to describing the Cratchits
It's a shame they don't show this on network television
BEST VERSION OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL EVER! SCROOGE 1970 IS THE BEST!!!
Albert Finney;s Scrooge is incisive and phenomenal -Rest in Peace, Dear Albert Finney -one of the last greats of the British acting world. ❤️
I like this song and love this movie!!
This song always lifts my soul!
The definitive version. Nothing tops it.
Thank you for this wonderful and rare upload!
My favorite Christmas movie!!
Thanks for posting this clip. It is my go-to whenever I need an attitude adjustment 😊
I nominate the Scrooge! (For Holiday Cheermeister).
It's just not officially Christmas for me until I watch this film every December.
2:59
Scrooge: Weee-Wait, the windowthewindowTHEWIND-AAAH! Good lord; my head!
This is still an under-rated film.
More bright and cheerful than the other versions.
Glad they brought this back in the Netflix 2022
This is my, and my family's, favorite of all the Holiday movies. I wish it got more of the recognition it deserves. It should be a network special, so more people can see it and fall in love. :) Amazing songs, humor, and Albert Finney is just amazing as Scrooge. Thank you for posting this!
SCROOGE: It's all very well for you but not for me I hate life!
THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT: Nonsense, man! Why?
SCROOGE: Because life hates me that's why.
LOL!!!!!
Scrooge, you’re an even bigger fool than I took you for! I never heard such a lot of self pitying dribble. You don’t even know how to live. Now you listen to me.
I like life.
(pause)
Well, go on!
This and the Muppets Christmas Carol are the best versions of Charles Dickens beloved classic ❤
Thank you Albert Finney the best movie all of time
I love this song. Never fails to cheer me up after a bad day.
Dealing with a mother that's insecure within herself, and a mundane Hebrew religion that she's gotten herself into that requires no joyful happy holidays or Merry Christmas, my mom has turned from a bitter non greedy version of Scrooge. Even her own sister says to my mom that she's tired of her self-pitying dribble. Everyday even around the holidays we all need to remind ourselves to like life so it can make us into better people. Why see the light in others, if you don't see the light within yourself? Think about it. Have a Happy Holidays everyone. 💜🎅🎄🎁
One of the best movies ever. And this is my favorite song from it. Your state of
And then we get a redone version of this in Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022)
Love this movie so much! Thanks for uploading.
I been looking at this movie every sense I was a Youngling love this song
A family tradition. We watch this every year
I watch this every Christmas!
Family song!!! Gotta love this life!
My favorite version of scrooge is this one watched. It the other day
I am so very happy that you published this on Christmas Eve.
R.I.P Albert Finney 😢💔
God I wish I was a kid again when all the magic seemed real
This is brilliant...! Great film. Also Bill Murray's 'Scorrged' is great. And 'Bad Santa' is awesome.
I absolutely love Scrooge as a drunk.
“Drinking wine!” That’s going to be me and my friend when we go wine tasting in Paso Robles and Cambria in August 😂
I simply love it!!!!
It is great...I don't think I get the line correct...but I remember "Come here SCROOGE you weird little man" wish movies like this were still made...
I love Kenneth More as this portrayal of the Ghost of Christmas Present, because he behaves like a father to Scrooge, who through his eyes is like a misbehaving child to him, which is what most ignorant or miserable people are like nowadays sadly when it comes to Christmas, which is just plain immature. We need more Kenneth More Christmas spirits!
Finney was 34 years old at the time!
This part of the film makes me laugh! I love this film so much!
I like life why? because I like life, I love JESUS CHRIST
As much as I love a Muppets Christmas Carol (since I was little), this version has grown on me and is now my favourite Christmas film.