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It's a Wonderful Life (1 Viewer)

Our POS NBC affiliate here in Milwaukee, chose to show the :trainwreck: Sound of Music Musical, again, last night instead of this.

Good thing I have the DVD.

 
Vladislav Tretiak said:
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This movie is pure dreck. It is pure crap.

It is sugar coated so bad that diabetics cannot watch it

I do not understand all the love for it. It isn't even a Christmas film. Sure it took place during Christmas but it isn't about that. It's about how much one can be important to the others. Why is it pegged as a Christmas film? Hell, they didn't even get the stolen money back at the end! They had to have the townspeople bail the ******* out!

Crap crap crap crap
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Hi Mr. Potter. You know, George was the richest man in town.

 
Wonderful Life is OK as a Xmas flick but it does not compare to Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, Bad Santa, and countless others. I do try to watch it each year but once is enough. Other movies, like Christmas Vacation, get watches a handful of times.

 
Ahhhhh, I love that my thread from 6 years ago is back from the scrap heap.

Mr. Gower cabled you need cash, stop.

My office instructed to advance you up to twenty-five thousand dollars, stop.

Hee haw and Merry Christmas, Sam Wainwright.

:clap:

 
Greatest Xmas movie ever, hands down.

If you disagree, you're going straight to hell. After a 20-year stint in Pottersville, of course.

 
wikkidpissah said:
'Ignoratio Elenchi said:
This movie sucks and everyone who loves it sucks. The best Christmas movie of all time is Buñuel's Le crotte de le cheval dérangé de Noël. You can't get it on DVD or anything but they show it once a year on Christmas Eve at the Cines Aragonia. If you don't weep during the orgy scene you're not human.
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:thumbup: and when Gerard lifts the horse's tail to stare at le œil brun de l'indifference before making a gift of his ennui to Yvette is a triumph!!
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Look forward to this every year.

 
Otis said:
Has to at least be in the conversation.

At a high level it's a good old feelgood Christmas classic. But beyond that, the subtleties and the stuff below the surface is what makes this one of the all-time greats.

It's a great example of how simple life seemed back then. And man, what a genuinely good guy George Bailey is, and how incredibly likeable he is -- and yet, in a departure from Christmas movie cheesedom, he's not perfect. Like his character would in the real world, he sometimes gets moody and surly and impatient. He gets jealous of his buddy Sam Wainright who moved away to big New York City and became a big shot. It really eats at him -- he wanted to get away, to see the world, to build things, to move to the big city, but he never got that chance. He is too proud sometimes. He is torn between his romantic view of the adventure that life should be in his head, and yet shows his interest in the material parts of life (like when he nearly accepts Mr. Potter's offer to come and work for him) and ultimately gets caught up in a girl, and a family, same as everyone. Jimmy Stewart is such a wonderful actor and just absolutely nails the part. He is George Bailey. Both at the surface, and in all of these nuances, he plays it perfectly.

And the dialogue is just wonderful and so clever. In some places it's downright funny. And despite how simple life seemed back then, there are some great almost racy nuances that remind you things really haven't changed all that much -- like when the guys and BSing in the street and Violet walks by, and they all stop and stare mouths agape, and then very subtly Bert the cop mumble rushes off to see his wife. Awesome!

Then you've got some more obvious imagery, like the crow in the scene every time things are about to go bad. What other stuff have I missed here?

All in all, just such a fantastic movie.
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All this. :goodposting:

 
Otis said:
Otis said:
Has to at least be in the conversation.

At a high level it's a good old feelgood Christmas classic. But beyond that, the subtleties and the stuff below the surface is what makes this one of the all-time greats.

It's a great example of how simple life seemed back then. And man, what a genuinely good guy George Bailey is, and how incredibly likeable he is -- and yet, in a departure from Christmas movie cheesedom, he's not perfect. Like his character would in the real world, he sometimes gets moody and surly and impatient. He gets jealous of his buddy Sam Wainright who moved away to big New York City and became a big shot. It really eats at him -- he wanted to get away, to see the world, to build things, to move to the big city, but he never got that chance. He is too proud sometimes. He is torn between his romantic view of the adventure that life should be in his head, and yet shows his interest in the material parts of life (like when he nearly accepts Mr. Potter's offer to come and work for him) and ultimately gets caught up in a girl, and a family, same as everyone. Jimmy Stewart is such a wonderful actor and just absolutely nails the part. He is George Bailey. Both at the surface, and in all of these nuances, he plays it perfectly.

And the dialogue is just wonderful and so clever. In some places it's downright funny. And despite how simple life seemed back then, there are some great almost racy nuances that remind you things really haven't changed all that much -- like when the guys and BSing in the street and Violet walks by, and they all stop and stare mouths agape, and then very subtly Bert the cop mumble rushes off to see his wife. Awesome!

Then you've got some more obvious imagery, like the crow in the scene every time things are about to go bad. What other stuff have I missed here?

All in all, just such a fantastic movie.
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All this. :goodposting:
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I have really noticed the dialogue tonight. That scene you mentioned with Violet had a great subtle line...

As Violet walks away Ernie says......."how would you like to take...."

And George interrupts his sentence and says "yes"

 
I always get teary-eyed when Harry says George is the richest man he knows. Great great movie! Always look forward to it

 
Messed up to name a chick Violet in a black and white movie.

I always thought she was hotter than Zuzu's mom.

 
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