Chattanooga Pulse

I am not a Jim Carrey fan. For me, he hasn’t done anything that really taps into his undeniable talent since In Living Color (OK, maybe “Eternal Sunshine”), and like many, if not most, comics, is misused and misdirected in many of the films he’s made since that classic TV show. (I should probably mention I am also not a fan of Jerry Lewis, Benny Hill or The Three Stooges, although I adore anything Python.)

I am also not a big fan of director Robert Zemeckis’s work. Here at The Pulse, they will joke that I am much more likely to be sighted weeping over an independent film from Poland with subtitles than Forrest Gump.

Yet I fully plan to see Disney’s A Christmas Carol, and luckily for me, it looks as though it will be playing all the way through the holiday season.

There have been at least 30 film versions of A Christmas Carol, dating all the way back to a black-and-white version in 1901. Dickens has been credited with “re-inventing Christmas” and there is certainly something eternal about the tale of a miserable more »