I loved the new Robert Zemeckis/Jim Carrey version of A Christmas Carol — it is toasty, dazzling, touching, and spirited; rousingly old-fashioned and, at the Read the full post.
Nov 6
2009
05:58 PM ET
'A Christmas Carol': Is it coming out too early?
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It’s nice in Canada that Thanksgiving comes in early October. The Christmas season starts here right after Halloween (unfortunately). I really want to see this movie but my husband and I decided to wait a couple weeks because it’s WAY too early!
I’m in the Philadelphia area and the cheesy pop radio channel switches over to Christmas music at midnight on Halloween (well, technically Nov. 1st). Starbucks started giving out the holiday cups on Nov. 1st as well. It’s just the way things are, I blame it on the malls and department stores…they start doing the holiday change-over right after Halloween. As far as marketing strategy is concerned, it will prove to be a very smart idea…I saw A Christmas Carol yesterday and I already know that I’ll be seeing it again once the holiday spirit takes me over.
Aw, you’re all Grinches! Just kidding. Seriously, though, am I the only person in the country who loves the holidays and wants to extend them as long as possible? Christmas music makes me happy–it brightens my mood and helps me have a better day. It’s like oatmeal for the soul. The release date does seem a little early, but not offensively so. And really, to me, what’s so wrong about wanting to spread some happiness and cheer before the technical start of the “Christmas season?” I mean, I get that there’s a profit motive here, but you can choose not to be cynical. And isn’t that what the holidays are supposed to be about?
I’m with you Laura K.- I love the holidays and don’t mind an “early” start to the Christmas season. I currently live in Italy and if people are complaining about the beginning of November being too early they should have seen the Christmas displays up in some shops in Florence in early October! (Not that it is common to have them up that early here, but it happens.)
I take it that most of you don’t work in retail stores. Try listening to Christmas music non stop for eight weeks and see what that does to you. Most people who work in retail are not that festive when the actual holiday rolls around. It’s become mind numbing. As for the movie, I just saw it and it was awesome. I’d watch it if it was released in July. There’s no such a thing as a holiday season anymore, it’s ongoing.
Because Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, I’m always frustrated and annoyed by the rest of the country jumping straight from Halloween to Christmas as soon as November starts. Christmas doesn’t officially start for me until after Santa arrives in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and after I’ve eaten my Thanksgiving dinner. I think Disney could have waited at least another weekend or two before releasing “A Christmas Carol,” but it will still probably do fine no matter how early they had released it.
I think a reason why Disney released it this early is so this movie wouldn’t clash with the company’s other big holiday movie, “The Princess and the Frog.” That movie has already received more promotions than “A Christmas Carol,” so I think it’s clear that Disney really wants that movie to succeed. Hence, they decide to release “Carol” over a month before “Princess.”
My thoughts exactly
Disney had better just hope it doesn’t bomb so badly that it is no longer in theaters at Christmas.
It should be illegal to even mention Christmas before Thanksgiving (December 1st would be even better). Humbug!!!!
You bet it’s too early. In my family, Christmas decorations and everything else do not come out until the first advent Sunday (this year November 29th), and I refuse to see a Christmas movie until then.
I detest Christmas creeping in before Thanksgiving – before Halloween in many places. I’ll boycott this film for this year.
I spent an Advent season in Austria where Advent was celebrated, a season of joyous anticipation. Christmas carols weren’t heard until the beginning of the “real” real Christmas season – December 24. Anyone who says they put up their Christmas decorations on the first Sunday of Advent has completely lost the meaning of Advent and they have bought into the Macy’s-inspired Giftmas Season.
I love the holiday season, particularly Christmastime, but this is too early. for me, Christmastime doesn’t start until the cartoon How The Grinch Stole Christmas is on TV and my mall puts up the Christmas decorations [which is around Black Friday/end of November]. I can’t get into a Christmas movie now.
My SO turned on the radio last weekend and out came Jingle Bells! Are you kidding me? I said to him, “Wasn’t Halloween just last week?” What the heck?
just kidding this review rocks