That is him? I rewatched this like 3 times trying to figure out who he was. I didn't even recognize Jim Carrey the first time. I had no idea this movie even existed, but I'm curious to watch it now.
People massively underestimate Jim Carrey’s talent and commitment to acting. He seems like a goofball, but there’re probably few actors in history with his raw skill and dedication.
I’m hijacking this in the hope that maybe Mr. Carrey bumps his rumpus in here and we can all relish in the parasitical (purposeful) relationship us fans have on his productions.
I’m continually amazed at how he takes roles we have a grievously clarified understanding of and blows us away. It’s time and time again he does this, with no lack of adversity (seasonally appropriate pointing to the grinch), Kaufman, and the Robotnik(s).
These examples really show the benefit of understanding the goal of the work, and even more so than just the perfection of the character.
I can’t wait to walk my child back through this filmography and discuss the how’s-and-why’s.
I hope the future is candied with sunshine, friends, and enjoyment for Mr. Carrey, and if he ever needs a place to be welcomed into for an escape or intrusion, I have a 155sqft room I’d gladly have prepared.
They said they were hijacking this in the hope that maybe Mr. Carrey bumps his rumpus in here and we can all relish in the parasitical (purposeful) relationship us fans have on his productions.
They are continually amazed at how he takes roles we have a grievously clarified understanding of and blows us away. It’s time and time again he does this, with no lack of adversity (seasonally appropriate pointing to the grinch), Kaufman, and the Robotnik(s).
They believe these examples really show the benefit of understanding the goal of the work, and even more so than just the perfection of the character.
They also can’t wait to walk their child back through this filmography and discuss the how’s-and-why’s.
They hope the future is candied with sunshine, friends, and enjoyment for Mr. Carrey, and if he ever needs a place to be welcomed into for an escape or intrusion, they have a 155sqft room they’d gladly have prepared.
They said they said they were hijacking this in the hope that maybe Mr. Carrey bumps his rumpus in here and we can all relish in the parasitical (purposeful) relationship us fans have on his productions.
They are continually amazed at how he takes roles we have a grievously clarified understanding of and blows us away. It’s time and time again he does this, with no lack of adversity (seasonally appropriate pointing to the grinch), Kaufman, and the Robotnik(s).
They believe these examples really show the benefit of understanding the goal of the work, and even more so than just the perfection of the character.
They also can’t wait to walk their child back through this filmography and discuss the how’s-and-why’s.
They hope the future is candied with sunshine, friends, and enjoyment for Mr. Carrey, and if he ever needs a place to be welcomed into for an escape or intrusion, they have a 155sqft room they’d gladly have prepared.
Eternal Sunshine is one of my favorite movies. Between that and Truman Show it really helped me understand his range. And frankly most "silly" actors are actually really talented. It takes a lot of effort to go big and have the comedy actually work ya know?
They did a handful of these animated films where part of the schtick was that the same actor played a bunch of main roles. The two that come to mind are this one with Jim Carrey playing Scrooge as well as all the ghosts and Polar Express where Tom Hanks plays every adult male in the movie except the train engineers.
Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind is a masterpiece an his performance, albeit being under VERY controversial circumstances, was absolutely incredible
Enlighten me. I have never heard about any controversy surrounding Eternal Sunshine. I suppose the ass 2 ass scene can be a bit much but hey you gotta do what you gotta do
No idea what scene you are talking about but while filming Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind Carrey was dealing with depression, which is why the director found him so quote "beautiful and broken" and asked him not to get better in order to perform more authentically as his character in the movie struggles with depression too. Very fucked up if you ask me.
Honestly, his performance on the bottom makes me dislike the final result even more. I hate the way that movie looks. And this makes me realize had they just used the same cast for a new live-action adaption it might have been great.
Was it completely unnecessary to be animated? Yes, yes it was. But did that stop us? No, no it didn't. did anyone watch it? Yes, enough people did. The next animated movie Zemmy made tho? Let's not get into details about that one, please
During the filming of A Christmas Carol (2009), Robert Zemeckis took his technological obsession one step further… and Jim Carrey did too. 🎄🎬
The film was shot almost entirely using performance capture: the actors not only provided their voices, but every gesture, bodily movement, and facial expression. Jim Carrey played five different characters—Scrooge, the three spirits, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come—changing posture, energy, and physical rhythm for each one, even when the set was nothing more than an empty space filled with cameras and sensors.
Carrey performed without makeup, without costumes, and without real sets, relying solely on his body and on Zemeckis’s direction. The result did not aim for traditional realism, but for something closer to a Victorian illustration in motion, with an almost caricature-like physicality that connects directly with the spirit of Dickens’s tale.
While it’s great that actors act thing it’s not a 1:1 conversion. The capture system usually has to have a lot redone by actual animators. It’s more like a guide and some netines the director will change the acting layer in 3D.
I would think that makes i t easier. Carrey here has a strong idea of what he's trying to convey, and what he is interacting with.
Takes out the guesswork.
Actors that aren't "illustrating" each action and emotion clearly are probably more work for animators. And I do a bit of animation myself ... you could almost just slap a filter on Jim and call it a day.
Carrey only played four characters a Scrooge and the theee spirits (Past, Present, Yet to Come). Seems like you (or the AI you used for this blurb) included Marley in the count of three spirits, but he’s played by Gary Oldman
even when the set was nothing more than an empty space filled with cameras and sensors.
That's the part that blows my mind the most. It seems like it would be impossible to properly get into character without the right environment and wardrobes. But people like Jim Carrey can just do this shit in an empty room full of sensors and still act as if he's right there in the scene.
People tend to think mocap is a plug and play thing. Especially back then it was a pretty rough process and basically just a loose guide that had to be “cleaned up,” which often meant completely hand animated, but sticking to the choices made by the actor in the session.
It's for image reference. A lot goes into VFX work... The actor mocap is references in XYZ space, and the background camera is used to match camera motion in the same space. Both the mocap and the reference camera imaging and positioning are brought into any one of a dozen CGI/editing suites and the actor's CGI avatar is then placed accurately into the environment, and whole thing looks like it was shot from the reference camera.
Interesting I just always assumed the cameras pointing at his face and presumably the static cameras around the stage were enough. The additional cameras just kinda threw me.
Understandable. A lot goes into the process. You have to map out the set space, the actors positions within that space, and the camera locations and viewing fulcrums in the same space. You then have to accurately map out the accoustica so the sounds of the actors and anything else audible you want to capture is also in the same XYZ space.
Once that's done you get polygonal surface animations that then have to have either (a) the captured video mapped on to those surfaces in the case of CGI in Live Action, or (b) the rendered surfaces in the case of CGI in CG generated sets.... And then you have to put the avatars of the actors into that space.
It ain't easy, and there's a lot of math going on...
Back when this movie was shot and filmed it was even harder... CGI was a lot more crude, and all of the servers doing all of that work were a lot slower. In the early days they would frequently crash during mocap. The actors loved that. 🙄
They had markers on the camera, so the same shot can be used to drive the virtual camera in the rendering software. You get performance capture from not just the actors but the camera man as well
I think I like the documentary cuts better than the actual cinematic views! Seems like a great deal of detail in the actors’ movements and expressions were eliminated or missed in the final rendered video.
-Edited for missed word.
The funny thing is as much as Scrooge complains, he still gives the man the Christmas day off with pay. We live in a time when Scrooge is a better employer than a lot of current day employers.
I saw a thing that compared what they say he pays Cratchit with inflation and even the overworked, underpaid minion in a Dickens story made more than today's US minimum wage.
I’d happily watch the whole movie like this, to be honest. It’s such a beautifully acted film. Unfortunately, time hasn’t been kind to it, the animation looks ridiculously dated, which is exactly why I’d love to see the whole thing like this.
Same year, month apart actually. Zemeckis had used the same tech on The Polar Express and Beowulf before this. The tech was being experimented with for a while before as well, such as with Gollum.
It was filmed much earlier though I believe, so the performance capture wasn't as advanced yet. you can see in behind the scenes they had less tracking dots on their face.
Jim Carrey can ACT, boy! He's often underestimated as just phys comedy ace Ventura dumb and dumber etc, but watch eternal sunshine or truman and you can see what a fantastic actor he is. Here too, it's more theater than film.
The fact that this movie came out in the same year (and season) as Avatar is WILD, and just highlights how the technology that Zemeckis was using was not just outdated, but wrong-headed, in approach to get emotion across on screen.
Man this shit just hit. I’m currently grinding my brain out just trying to get ahead at my job just so I can be off Christmas and Friday and the business doesn’t implode. Gonna turn into a Scrooge at this rate 😞
By far the BEST and most faithful version of A Christmas Carol. Whenever I listen to Majesticas "A Christmas Carol" I picture this version in my mind. S tier version!
If these production companies hold on to all of the raw footage of the motion capture, does that mean that someday someone could just redo and update all of the graphics?
So fun story about this movie, one of the lead animators was married to my animation teacher in school and apparently each face in this movie was drawn on one side and then mirrored to the other. The result is that weird uncanny look they all have, because we’re not used to seeing faces with perfect symmetry
But why? They're still going for a pretty realistic look, all they're doing is reducing the performances for animation that will look relatively bad.
I'd get it if it had some style you can't easily replicate, but they could slap together the costumes from what the people in the room are wearing and the story has been made so many times they've probably got access to some scenery for it. Just a huge waste of time for a worse result.
Google says the estimated budget was ~200 million, so seems like a waste of money, too. Though this was at the same time that Avatar came out, so maybe not really a waste of money. They definitely broke even. But I bet a live action movie with Jim Carrey woulda done well too, at a lower budget.
This clip just makes me think how better off it would've been with them in makeup in a real set. Either that or axe the mocap and just have them voice it and leave the animation to animators.
I agree. I know CGI movies were really big at the time, but it's pretty silly to see that Jim totally could've done a good live action without the massive CGI budget they'd used.
On the other hand, I'm sure the creative freedom that the "set" designers had was extra freeing, with the whole world being digital and no filming restrictions on locations and all that. I guess the one place it'd definitely benefit them, is the 3 ghosts and him flying and all that... But still, that can be done in live action movies too. As a creative person, I think physical set design sounds way more fun to problem solve on and interact with anyways.
This one and Polar Express both did something really fun and cool - they had a single actor anchor several roles and used animation and motion capture to bring it all together. Love it or hate it - it was a neat idea and I think the movies ended up pretty good.
After seeing this, I just think... filmmakers created a lot extra steps to make this movie for not very a lot of payoff. I would have rather just seen the actual actors on screen.
I hated this version so much. I saw it while I was backpacking New Zealand alone back in 2009 (I also saw the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus and 500 Days of Summer). It just feels void of any joy compared to something like Muppet's Christmas Carol. I think we have enough Christmas Carol movies. The only two that I think are important are the George C Scott one and the Muppets one. Everything else is just repetitive, imo 🤷♀️
TIL Gary Oldman was in A Christmas Carol!
Ya fun fact is both he and Carrey played multiple roles in this film.
Oldman played Bob Cratchet and the ghost of Marley.
Carrey played Scrooge and also the ghosts of Christmas past and Christmas present.
CARREY DID THE GHOST VOICES TOO?!
I could never tell... Good voice acting.
How the FUCK did I not recognize him?! Fucking chameleon.
Well, honey it's a cartoon.
It's also Gary Oldman. Man could play anything and anyone. He could be you. He could be me. He could even be--
(phone unfurls, revealing it's Gary Oldman in disguise)
Gary: Merry Christmas! (throws a gift to me then leaps out the window)
Me: (unwraps gift, looks inside) ...It's my phone. (looks out open window, back at phone) ...Probably.
Can’t be John Malkovich that’s the true man behind the mask
No no you're thinking of Bill Hader who created the Malkovich persona.
He sounds nothing like him
No no, he sounds ex act ly like him.
Still shocks me. I recognized him instantly in Hannibal, but not this.
I'm not talking about in the animated portion. I'm talking about in the motion capture here.
I know, I was just teasing ❤️
I thought it was Mickly love
For a second it could have been Eddie Redmayne going by the voice
Yeah me too!!
You too? And who else was in the movie
Some guy who didn't Carey, I think his name was Joe or something?
Yep, that was me.
I honestly don't even remember this film existing. As a fan of Gary and Jim I suppose I should put it on my list to watch.
TIL how much taller JC is than GO!
That is him? I rewatched this like 3 times trying to figure out who he was. I didn't even recognize Jim Carrey the first time. I had no idea this movie even existed, but I'm curious to watch it now.
He played Cratchet and Marley in it. Pretty cool to have both Scrooge’s business associates be the same guy
People massively underestimate Jim Carrey’s talent and commitment to acting. He seems like a goofball, but there’re probably few actors in history with his raw skill and dedication.
Have you ever seen the YT clip of his Sammy Davis Jr. Impression in his standup routine? Before he was even cast in Living Color?
It's amazing.
I’m hijacking this in the hope that maybe Mr. Carrey bumps his rumpus in here and we can all relish in the parasitical (purposeful) relationship us fans have on his productions.
I’m continually amazed at how he takes roles we have a grievously clarified understanding of and blows us away. It’s time and time again he does this, with no lack of adversity (seasonally appropriate pointing to the grinch), Kaufman, and the Robotnik(s).
These examples really show the benefit of understanding the goal of the work, and even more so than just the perfection of the character.
I can’t wait to walk my child back through this filmography and discuss the how’s-and-why’s.
I hope the future is candied with sunshine, friends, and enjoyment for Mr. Carrey, and if he ever needs a place to be welcomed into for an escape or intrusion, I have a 155sqft room I’d gladly have prepared.
The fuck?
They said they were hijacking this in the hope that maybe Mr. Carrey bumps his rumpus in here and we can all relish in the parasitical (purposeful) relationship us fans have on his productions.
They are continually amazed at how he takes roles we have a grievously clarified understanding of and blows us away. It’s time and time again he does this, with no lack of adversity (seasonally appropriate pointing to the grinch), Kaufman, and the Robotnik(s).
They believe these examples really show the benefit of understanding the goal of the work, and even more so than just the perfection of the character.
They also can’t wait to walk their child back through this filmography and discuss the how’s-and-why’s.
They hope the future is candied with sunshine, friends, and enjoyment for Mr. Carrey, and if he ever needs a place to be welcomed into for an escape or intrusion, they have a 155sqft room they’d gladly have prepared.
The fuck?
They said they said they were hijacking this in the hope that maybe Mr. Carrey bumps his rumpus in here and we can all relish in the parasitical (purposeful) relationship us fans have on his productions.
They are continually amazed at how he takes roles we have a grievously clarified understanding of and blows us away. It’s time and time again he does this, with no lack of adversity (seasonally appropriate pointing to the grinch), Kaufman, and the Robotnik(s).
They believe these examples really show the benefit of understanding the goal of the work, and even more so than just the perfection of the character.
They also can’t wait to walk their child back through this filmography and discuss the how’s-and-why’s.
They hope the future is candied with sunshine, friends, and enjoyment for Mr. Carrey, and if he ever needs a place to be welcomed into for an escape or intrusion, they have a 155sqft room they’d gladly have prepared.
The fuck?
"Fuck him". They want to fuck Jim Carrey.
For commitment to acting, you should watch the documentary “Jim & Andy”. Holy shit it’s one of the wildest things I’ve ever seen.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7214762/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Forgettable movie but that documentary lives rent free in my brain. The wrap party had me welling up.
The documentary is surreal. Even taking it with a grain of salt, the bare facts of what they show you are fascinating.
That was my exact thought but instead I am one of those people
I always see him as liar liar or ace Ventura, but I forget he's eternal sunshine and other good ones I can't name right now
Truman show?
Ace Ventura 2
The number 23
Eternal Sunshine is one of my favorite movies. Between that and Truman Show it really helped me understand his range. And frankly most "silly" actors are actually really talented. It takes a lot of effort to go big and have the comedy actually work ya know?
Man on the Moon
No one who has heard what he went through in the Grinch would question his commitment to acting. He gives 100% to every role and is an icon
I literally did not realize until just now watching this that Jim Carrey played scrooge. I saw his face and was like hey wait a second
They did a handful of these animated films where part of the schtick was that the same actor played a bunch of main roles. The two that come to mind are this one with Jim Carrey playing Scrooge as well as all the ghosts and Polar Express where Tom Hanks plays every adult male in the movie except the train engineers.
Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind is a masterpiece an his performance, albeit being under VERY controversial circumstances, was absolutely incredible
Enlighten me. I have never heard about any controversy surrounding Eternal Sunshine. I suppose the ass 2 ass scene can be a bit much but hey you gotta do what you gotta do
The what scene now? Lol. Are you talking about Requiem for a Dream?
No idea what scene you are talking about but while filming Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind Carrey was dealing with depression, which is why the director found him so quote "beautiful and broken" and asked him not to get better in order to perform more authentically as his character in the movie struggles with depression too. Very fucked up if you ask me.
Honestly he's one of the reasons why the Sonic movies are such a success.
Honestly, his performance on the bottom makes me dislike the final result even more. I hate the way that movie looks. And this makes me realize had they just used the same cast for a new live-action adaption it might have been great.
How has nobody mentioned Kidding?!
The absolute GOAT, IMO.
Yeah I'm happy like he doesn't get his notoriety he deserves
No thats widely known
His Scrooge face is craaaazy
The capture footage looked more expressive than the end result.
Yeah, my conclusion watching this was they should have skipped the computer stuff and just put Carey in a costume.
Is the cost of CGI less than building sets and making costumes? It looks worse.
100%
Was it completely unnecessary to be animated? Yes, yes it was. But did that stop us? No, no it didn't. did anyone watch it? Yes, enough people did. The next animated movie Zemmy made tho? Let's not get into details about that one, please
Which movie do you mean? Mars needs mums?
How does he look 20 years younger with dots all over his face?
DON'T TELL ME THIS MOVIE WAS FILMED 20 YEARS AGO AHHHH
I mean, it is almost 20 years ago...
The trick, I think, was doing it 16 years ago. That gets you most of the way there, the makeup does the rest.
During the filming of A Christmas Carol (2009), Robert Zemeckis took his technological obsession one step further… and Jim Carrey did too. 🎄🎬
The film was shot almost entirely using performance capture: the actors not only provided their voices, but every gesture, bodily movement, and facial expression. Jim Carrey played five different characters—Scrooge, the three spirits, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come—changing posture, energy, and physical rhythm for each one, even when the set was nothing more than an empty space filled with cameras and sensors.
Carrey performed without makeup, without costumes, and without real sets, relying solely on his body and on Zemeckis’s direction. The result did not aim for traditional realism, but for something closer to a Victorian illustration in motion, with an almost caricature-like physicality that connects directly with the spirit of Dickens’s tale.
While it’s great that actors act thing it’s not a 1:1 conversion. The capture system usually has to have a lot redone by actual animators. It’s more like a guide and some netines the director will change the acting layer in 3D.
Yeah but with an actor as talented at facial control as Jim Carrey they have their work cut out for them lol
I would think that makes i t easier. Carrey here has a strong idea of what he's trying to convey, and what he is interacting with.
Takes out the guesswork.
Actors that aren't "illustrating" each action and emotion clearly are probably more work for animators. And I do a bit of animation myself ... you could almost just slap a filter on Jim and call it a day.
Just FYI, this expression actually means that a job is hard or requires a lot of work. I think, from context, you meant to say the opposite.
Thank you. Producers would have you forget this as these animators and creative artists are criminally underpaid.
Carrey only played four characters a Scrooge and the theee spirits (Past, Present, Yet to Come). Seems like you (or the AI you used for this blurb) included Marley in the count of three spirits, but he’s played by Gary Oldman
That's the part that blows my mind the most. It seems like it would be impossible to properly get into character without the right environment and wardrobes. But people like Jim Carrey can just do this shit in an empty room full of sensors and still act as if he's right there in the scene.
Jim is crazy skilled
Why do the need the camera/camera man for performance capture?
Probably point of reference for the editors, so they can see what Carrey and company were actually doing, and not just what the sensors picked up
Corrections and such
So just like a double check to make sure they got everything they wanted?
To double check and to inspire
You have to remember that the MoCap comes a long way before the finished product
People tend to think mocap is a plug and play thing. Especially back then it was a pretty rough process and basically just a loose guide that had to be “cleaned up,” which often meant completely hand animated, but sticking to the choices made by the actor in the session.
Exactly that.
Also. it helps with the lighting.
It's for image reference. A lot goes into VFX work... The actor mocap is references in XYZ space, and the background camera is used to match camera motion in the same space. Both the mocap and the reference camera imaging and positioning are brought into any one of a dozen CGI/editing suites and the actor's CGI avatar is then placed accurately into the environment, and whole thing looks like it was shot from the reference camera.
Source: me. I started a few CGI VFX companies.
Interesting I just always assumed the cameras pointing at his face and presumably the static cameras around the stage were enough. The additional cameras just kinda threw me.
Understandable. A lot goes into the process. You have to map out the set space, the actors positions within that space, and the camera locations and viewing fulcrums in the same space. You then have to accurately map out the accoustica so the sounds of the actors and anything else audible you want to capture is also in the same XYZ space.
Once that's done you get polygonal surface animations that then have to have either (a) the captured video mapped on to those surfaces in the case of CGI in Live Action, or (b) the rendered surfaces in the case of CGI in CG generated sets.... And then you have to put the avatars of the actors into that space.
It ain't easy, and there's a lot of math going on...
Back when this movie was shot and filmed it was even harder... CGI was a lot more crude, and all of the servers doing all of that work were a lot slower. In the early days they would frequently crash during mocap. The actors loved that. 🙄
They had markers on the camera, so the same shot can be used to drive the virtual camera in the rendering software. You get performance capture from not just the actors but the camera man as well
It captures the actors faces, they aren't filming the scene in the typical sense. They are gathering data for the animators to use.
You could just hire jim carrey and he'd do the job of making a life action performance looks incredibly cartoony
Honestly a live action with Jim Carrey as Scrooge would probably be great.
I think I like the documentary cuts better than the actual cinematic views! Seems like a great deal of detail in the actors’ movements and expressions were eliminated or missed in the final rendered video. -Edited for missed word.
The funny thing is as much as Scrooge complains, he still gives the man the Christmas day off with pay. We live in a time when Scrooge is a better employer than a lot of current day employers.
I saw a thing that compared what they say he pays Cratchit with inflation and even the overworked, underpaid minion in a Dickens story made more than today's US minimum wage.
Carrey's portrayal is probably my favorite version of the tale. We watch it every year on Christmas day.
Just rewatched it some weeks ago. Its still fucking amazing.
Muppets is the Pinnacle Christmas Carol movie, you can't change my mind.
It’s all about how old you are I think. I was past being a kid in 09, of course I’m gonna like muppets more
It's the peak Christmas movie period
I like both the Muppets and Jim Carrey versions
Muppets was def the best, but this one for me has become a close second.
It’s always fascinating to watch behind the scenes footage of masters of their craft like Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman at work.
Two legends
Agreed. One the best movies out there
Huh, this was interesting. I think I could watch the entire film like this side by side lol
I’d happily watch the whole movie like this, to be honest. It’s such a beautifully acted film. Unfortunately, time hasn’t been kind to it, the animation looks ridiculously dated, which is exactly why I’d love to see the whole thing like this.
It’d be a great Black box theater experience.
Rango was filmed in a similar way but the animation holds up waaaay better as it still looks amazing 14 years later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QshY1QsP5oo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDyYGBL0HKw
Avatar came out at or near the same time as this. It just shows how much more work was put in.
Same year, month apart actually. Zemeckis had used the same tech on The Polar Express and Beowulf before this. The tech was being experimented with for a while before as well, such as with Gollum.
It was filmed much earlier though I believe, so the performance capture wasn't as advanced yet. you can see in behind the scenes they had less tracking dots on their face.
"Hey that guy looks like Jim Carrey"
Oh wait it is
Jim Carrey can ACT, boy! He's often underestimated as just phys comedy ace Ventura dumb and dumber etc, but watch eternal sunshine or truman and you can see what a fantastic actor he is. Here too, it's more theater than film.
The fact that this movie came out in the same year (and season) as Avatar is WILD, and just highlights how the technology that Zemeckis was using was not just outdated, but wrong-headed, in approach to get emotion across on screen.
Terrible camera quality, you can't even see the black dot makeup in the film?
It never occured to me that Jim Carrey played the scrooge in this movie now I'll never unsee it
This and Beowulf really sold me on motion capture back in the day, with Beowulf being a much loved rewatch I do frequently
Where the hell is Rizzo??
Is it weird to say Jim Carrey has the face for mocap?
Canadian treasure 💜
Too bad it didn’t pay off.
The action scenes are all super dumb. If they had made this movie 15% less cartoony I think it would be more appreciated.
But the filmmakers obviously wanted to show off some 3D spectacle, and it gets tedious.
Some of them are quite in line with the original illustrations, though. Like the Ghost of Christmas Past (I think) rocketing off with Scrooge.
The whole movie is pretty close to those drawings.
Counterpoint: No it isn’t.
Read the novella again.
Naw fuck that, this movie's great
It’s great that you like it
Jim Carrey is such a talent actor
2 masters at work
This looks like a good movie I will have to check it out.
This getup and permanent scowl probably didn't bother Jim in the least, considering what the Grinch makeup put him through.
I didn't know that they actually acted it out. Super cool but it looks really tiresome to do.
This movie is incredible. Loved it as a kid and still now
An acting challenge, for sure.
Love that movie. So awesome.
Man this shit just hit. I’m currently grinding my brain out just trying to get ahead at my job just so I can be off Christmas and Friday and the business doesn’t implode. Gonna turn into a Scrooge at this rate 😞
I hope you get the days off and all people you deal with are good to you. Sleep well good human.
Thank you. I hope you have a restful Christmas as well
That little look down at 1:25 from Oldman broke my heart. Such a charismatic actor!
Thank you, I enjoyed seeing this process!!!
By far the BEST and most faithful version of A Christmas Carol. Whenever I listen to Majesticas "A Christmas Carol" I picture this version in my mind. S tier version!
I think Patrick Stewart's version was the most faithful.
If these production companies hold on to all of the raw footage of the motion capture, does that mean that someday someone could just redo and update all of the graphics?
Absolutely. Data is data.
It does look dated, but it is still my favourite Christmas film. It has such a great tone, both at its darkest and its lightest.
I wish this was live action.
He’s to be the worst Scrooge, and what is that accent supposed to be?
One of the best memories i have from my childhood. This whilst it snowed outside. Nah climate change says f u no more snow now :/ and i am not old
This was awesome. I just wish there was video of Outtakes!
you can watch whole movie... its an option picture in picture on blueray... and I can assure you that it is as touching as the animation
So fun story about this movie, one of the lead animators was married to my animation teacher in school and apparently each face in this movie was drawn on one side and then mirrored to the other. The result is that weird uncanny look they all have, because we’re not used to seeing faces with perfect symmetry
But why? They're still going for a pretty realistic look, all they're doing is reducing the performances for animation that will look relatively bad.
I'd get it if it had some style you can't easily replicate, but they could slap together the costumes from what the people in the room are wearing and the story has been made so many times they've probably got access to some scenery for it. Just a huge waste of time for a worse result.
Google says the estimated budget was ~200 million, so seems like a waste of money, too. Though this was at the same time that Avatar came out, so maybe not really a waste of money. They definitely broke even. But I bet a live action movie with Jim Carrey woulda done well too, at a lower budget.
JIM CARRY WAS SCROOGE?!?
This clip just makes me think how better off it would've been with them in makeup in a real set. Either that or axe the mocap and just have them voice it and leave the animation to animators.
It just seems weird to me to film real people in order to make a animated cartoon.
I agree. I know CGI movies were really big at the time, but it's pretty silly to see that Jim totally could've done a good live action without the massive CGI budget they'd used.
On the other hand, I'm sure the creative freedom that the "set" designers had was extra freeing, with the whole world being digital and no filming restrictions on locations and all that. I guess the one place it'd definitely benefit them, is the 3 ghosts and him flying and all that... But still, that can be done in live action movies too. As a creative person, I think physical set design sounds way more fun to problem solve on and interact with anyways.
This one and Polar Express both did something really fun and cool - they had a single actor anchor several roles and used animation and motion capture to bring it all together. Love it or hate it - it was a neat idea and I think the movies ended up pretty good.
That would be so annoying
This tech was pioneered by Donkey Kong.
I did not know that was Gary Oldman! Love it!
Like theater
But where are the cheeses for us meeces?
They made it 3d when the three of them in costumes would be awesome
Damn, modern CGI is just glorified rotoscoping.
The ghosts of Christmas present and Christmas future killed this movie with constant harkening to their respective catch sound.
puh puh puh and OHHHHH HO HO! this, every 3-5 seconds. The hallmark saccharin sweetness hurts my teeth.
I want to watch the entire film like this.
you can watch the entire movie on blueray in picture-in-picture mode or as a separate movie
Great film imo.
I want to show it to my daughter's when they're a few years older.
Alright, that's cool as hell
Am I watch this movie again
Not seen or heard of this film. But...I think that's dire
I wonder how this tech has evolved in the last 15 years
Why they didnt Just do It in the normal way?
So funny and awesome 😂
Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman acting the shit out of this here. Really excellent to watch. Would love to see a play with them.
After seeing this, I just think... filmmakers created a lot extra steps to make this movie for not very a lot of payoff. I would have rather just seen the actual actors on screen.
If only the animation was any good
That's one scary looking face on Jim Carrey! Wow!
Seems like a lot of extra steps
I wonder if they could re-render or use the mocap to re-animate this movie
I absolutely love this movie. Jim did a fantastic job as Scrooge.
still one of the best Christmas movie for me
HOW was this easier than hiring cartoonists and having the actors voice record in a booth. It looks like shit but is 1000x better than polar express.
This movie made me puke when I tried to see it in 3d
Last night I watched this and The Muppet Christmas Carol back to back. The later is superior to the former.
I could watch the whole film like this. What incredible actors.
I miss Jim Carey
Miss him from what?
Haven't seen him in many things lately
Yeah, he's mostly retired. Most recently, he's in the Sonic movies.
Oh right
Should have just let Jim do his thing
Muppets still clear this adaption.
Live action was better.
So it was filmed like literally every motion capture ever, cool.
I hated this version so much. I saw it while I was backpacking New Zealand alone back in 2009 (I also saw the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus and 500 Days of Summer). It just feels void of any joy compared to something like Muppet's Christmas Carol. I think we have enough Christmas Carol movies. The only two that I think are important are the George C Scott one and the Muppets one. Everything else is just repetitive, imo 🤷♀️
Muppets version is the best! Just watched it a couple days ago!
When Rizzo goes back through the fence to get his jellybeans? Absolute comedy gold 😂
Love the GCS version.