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Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Better Than I Thought
Much better that I thought it would be, but why would John Hughes choose a movie that's practically impossible to top an earlier version.
The parts that I found irritating were trademark John Hughes like the drunk Santa showing his butt-crack. Still the story maintains its Christmas charm, with good performances from Richard Attenborough as Kriss Kringle and Mara Wilson as Susan Walker, but neither compare to Edmund Gwenn and Natalie Wood, respectively. I wonder how $$ Santa had in his sack to convince George Seaton, the 1947 version's director and screen-writer, to write another version of his inimitable classic
There are so many other better Christmas movies out there, not to mention the 1947 version. It seems a shame that the film-makers tried to redo a true classic.
Amal (2007)
Amal's Lesson
When I saw Amal, I noticed that some people found the ending disappointing. I knew exactly why this happened: The majority of the world thinks that money and happiness are basically equivalent. I can see why it has a 6.1/10 user rating because there are those who love it and those who hate it.
Then, I read this:
"It was was such a disturbing twist to me, because of how I had grown up," Richie Mehta said, referring to his self-described middle-class background growing up west of Toronto. "What I had been taught what success was
this story was a slap in the face to that." ~From http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tiff/story/2007/09/10/tiff-amal-mehta.html