What people that get on those of us for hating this don't realize is, you can't capture lighting in a bottle!! What I mean is, the movie was the right cast, right place, right time!! The chemistry between the whole cast was perfect in the movie!! Doing the play is just ridiculous!! You go trying to hard to cast people to recreate the ones who did the movie back in 1983. That doesn't work!! They don't have the chemistry, they don't have the "magic" that the original cast had!! Also, they are focusing on being politically correct in what they do this day and time & none of it works!!! You can't have an all white or black or Latino or Asia cast with a different race mother!! What made the older movies classics are the cast & crews!! The director fought for what they knew the film needed to succeed!! Look at the Dirty Dozen, the cast was great & the direction was great but the studio wanted things changed. The director fought to keep his movie intact & he won over the studio & the rest is history!! That movie has gone down as a game changer & is the war movie that has lead to war movies today being able to show how awful war can be!!! I hope this helps people understand why this play and other remakes are awful!!
Review of A Christmas Story Live!
