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What a total crapfest!

Who the hell throught it was a good idea to take a 75 minute or so beloved classic and turn it into a 3 HOUR live musical?

I lasted about 15 minutes and it looks like it was universally panned. One thing that really stood out to me was how PC they made it. The townsfolk in the movie were primarily white (hey it's 1950's middle class Michigan), but in the musical it was a careful 1/4 white, 1/4 Asian, 1/4 Hispanic and 1/4 black. I read they also eliminated the whole Chinese restaurant "Deck the Halls with boughs of horry" scene.
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Agree - shit show

Lasted about the same 15-30 mins or so.

Total waste of time...


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Recorded it on the dvr, and will watch it later. Doesn't sound too promising....


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We switched back several times through the evening and it was consistently terrible. I'm glad we did, it has set a new standard for memorably awful entertainment. Wow Red Face Red Face Red Face




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Recorded it on the dvr, and will watch it later. Doesn't sound too promising....


Don't even waste your time.


 
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It was on par with the Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978.

I’m still traumatized from that all these years later.


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I made it five minutes.
 
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I caught about 1 minute of the opening.
Horrific.


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It was on par with the Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978.



That is an awesome observation! Big Grin


 
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It was terrible! My wife and I lasted 5 minutes max.


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It was on par with the Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978.

I’m still traumatized from that all these years later.


Like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJDAmBQ1u2g

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The Original is still the BEST.

And agreed on the PC 1/4, 1/4, etc CAST.

I was surprised they even kept the BB gun in the show. Bet it killed them.
 
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Turned it on right at the leg lamp scene. Turned it off halfway into the major award song. Not for me.
 
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Yep, about a minute in and I could tell I wasn't going to like it. Held off about 10 minutes before voicing the concern to my wife and she concurred haha.

Made me want to watch the movie pronto!



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Sounds great. Smile
 
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Did they replace the terrible gun with a selfie stick?


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Did they replace the terrible gun with a selfie stick?


As PC as it was to me, they shockingly kept the air rifle and didn’t make it into something else.


 
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Dear Lord
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Apparently a beloved movie set in the 1940's with a funny scene that gently makes fun of Asian accents is SUPER RACIST in 2017 and no longer tolerated.

They redid the entire "Deck The Halls With Boughs of Horry" scene for the TV musical I found out:

WTF, people. Confused

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‘A Christmas Story Live!’ Changed That Racist Chinese Restaurant Scene

Cutting out problematic stereotypes does a lot to improve this holiday tale

The creators of A Christmas Story Live!, Fox’s just-aired live musical version of the 1983 film A Christmas Story, had a couple of key tasks at hand. One, they had to avoid stepping all over a holiday film that is loved by many, and two, they had to update that awful, racist Chinese restaurant scene.

For the unfamiliar, the scene in question features the Parker family taking in a Christmas Day meal at a place called Chop Suey Inn, after their own homemade meal falls apart. A few Asian-American servers sing “Deck the Halls” in over-exaggerated accents, pronouncing the refrain as “fa ra ra ra ra.” Mrs. Parker shrieks in horror when a whole roasted duck (which looks delicious, by the way) arrives at the table, and Mr. Parker explains that the problem is, “it’s smiling at me.” It’s a gross two minutes.

Instead of replicating this scene verbatim, director Scott Ellis, producer Marc Platt, and writers Robert Cary and Jonathan Tolins updated it so the servers sing the song flawlessly, without any trace of the bad stereotype. The waiters were played by members of the Filharmonic, a Los Angeles-based a capella group. When Chris Diamantopoulos, the actor playing Mr. Parker, declares he “wasn’t expecting that,” Ken Jeong, playing the restaurant owner, coldly asks, “What were you expecting?”

“We wanted to do something that realistically felt like it took place in the 1940s, but also asked, what if this was a progressive town?” Jeong tells Vulture. “So, it wasn’t about transplanting a 2017 Asian-American into the 1940s; it was about creating a new world in which this could all actually happen.”

A Christmas Story Live! has received mostly negative reviews from critics, and it didn’t draw many viewers, but kudos to the cast and crew for taking an ignorant, racist joke and turning it into a joke about ignorant racists.


‘A Christmas Story Live!’ Changed That Racist Chinese Restaurant Scene


 
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