It's a Wonderful Life (1 Viewer)

[dickey moe]

Donna Reed gives me the jumpy and quo.

I need nudes.

 

[Jules Winnfield]

What I hope happens to Jules Winnfield - starting at 2:30

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7sqx2_its-a-wonderful-life-lost-end_shortfilms

How many people in that office?

 

[AAABatteries]

'Tis the time of the year this shmaltzy crap starts getting played on tv.

No ####. I hate this overly sweetened piece of #### film

I hope that every time we hear a bell an angel ### rapes the two of you.

 

[Otis]

Donna Reed gives me the jumpy and quo.

+1

 

[El Floppo]

Donna Reed gives me the jumpy and quo.

+1

god yes

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Still trying to obtain a copy of the Donna Reed/Natalie Wood home movie.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Still trying to obtain a copy of the Donna Reed/Natalie Wood home movie.

Sounds a lot better than the Christopher Walken/Robert Wagner home movie.

 

[zamboni]

Donna Reed gives me the jumpy and quo.

+1

god yes

Agreed - she was something else in that Buffalo Gals robe.

 

[shuke]

I've been driving this bandwagon forever.

 

[cstu]

Ayn Rand helped analyze the film for the FBI as communist propaganda:

“IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE”

Released by RKO Pictures, Inc. on December 19, 1946
Producer — Frank Capra
Director — Frank Capra
Screen play — Frances Goodrick, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra
Cast: Starring — James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore

According to the Informants [redacted] in this picture the screen credits again fail to reflect the Communist support given to the screen writer. According to [redacted] the writers Frances Goodrick and Albert Hackett were very close to known Communists and on one occasion in the recent past while these two writers were doing a picture for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Goodrick and Hackett practically lived with known Communists as Lester Cole, screen writer, and Earl Robinson, screen writer. Both of these individuals are identified in Section I of this memorandum as Communists.

With regard to the picture “It’s A Wonderful Life”, [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented a rather obvious attempt to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as “scrooge-type” so that he would be the most hated man in the picture. This, according to these sources, is a common trick used by Communists.

In addition, [redacted] stated that, in his opinion, this picture deliberately maligned the upper class, attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters. [redacted] related that if he had made this picture portraying the banker, he wold have shown this individual to have been following the rules as laid down by the State Bank Examiners in connection with making loans. Further, [redacted] stated that the scene woundn’t have “suffered at all” in portraying the banker as a man who was protecting funds put in his care by private individuals and adhering to the rules governing the loan of that money rather than portraying the part as it was shown. In summary, [redacted] stated that it was not necessary to make the banker such a mean character and “I would never have done it that way”.

[redacted] recalled that approximately 15 years ago, the picture entitled “The Letter” was made in Russia and was later shown in this country. He recalled that in this Russian picture, an individual who had lost his self-respect as well as that of his friends and neighbors because of drunkeness, was given one last chance to redeem himself by going to the bank to get some money to pay off a debt. The old man was sympathetic character and was so pleased at this opportunity that he was extremely, inferring he might lose the letter of credit or the money itself. In summary, the old man made the journey of several days duration to the bank and back with no mishap until he fell asleep on the homeward journey because of his determination to succeed. On this occasion the package of money dropped out of his pocket. Upon arriving home, the old man was so chagrined he hung himself. The next day someone returned the package of money to his wife saying it had been found. [redacted] draws a parallel of this scene and that of the picture previously discussed, showing that Thomas Mitchell who played the part of the man losing the money in the Capra picture suffered the same consequences as the man in the Russian picture in that Mitchell was too old a man to go out and make money to pay off his debt to the banker.

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Movie still sucks

 

[flapgreen]

Movie still sucks

You suck

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Movie still sucks

You suck

Baa Baa Baa"I like the movie because everyone says that I have to and it plays during Christmas even though it isn't a Christmas film"

The movie is tripe

 

[snogger]

Movie still sucks

You suck

Baa Baa Baa"I like the movie because everyone says that I have to and it plays during Christmas even though it isn't a Christmas film"

The movie is tripe

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Movie still sucks

You suck

Baa Baa Baa"I like the movie because everyone says that I have to and it plays during Christmas even though it isn't a Christmas film"

The movie is tripe

Not fishingIt isn't a Christmas film and the movie is not good. It's sugar filled crap

 

[ebcpastor2004]

But, Jimmy STEWART! Probably my favorite actor ever.

 

[jhib]

Movie still sucks

You suck

Baa Baa Baa"I like the movie because everyone says that I have to and it plays during Christmas even though it isn't a Christmas film"

The movie is tripe

Not fishingIt isn't a Christmas film and the movie is not good. It's sugar filled crap

Hark the herald angels sing...

 

[whoknew]

Movie still sucks

You suck

Baa Baa Baa"I like the movie because everyone says that I have to and it plays during Christmas even though it isn't a Christmas film"

The movie is tripe

Not fishingIt isn't a Christmas film and the movie is not good. It's sugar filled crap

I disagree with you.

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Movie still sucks

You suck

Baa Baa Baa"I like the movie because everyone says that I have to and it plays during Christmas even though it isn't a Christmas film"

The movie is tripe

Not fishingIt isn't a Christmas film and the movie is not good. It's sugar filled crap

I disagree with you.

Awesome that you do but the movie sucks. ####### guardian angel should have let his ### drown

 

[whoknew]

Movie still sucks

You suck

Baa Baa Baa"I like the movie because everyone says that I have to and it plays during Christmas even though it isn't a Christmas film"

The movie is tripe

Not fishingIt isn't a Christmas film and the movie is not good. It's sugar filled crap

I disagree with you.

Awesome that you do but the movie sucks. ####### guardian angel should have let his ### drown

That makes no sense. Then he wouldn't've gotten his wings.

 

[whoknew]

Movie still sucks

You suck

Baa Baa Baa"I like the movie because everyone says that I have to and it plays during Christmas even though it isn't a Christmas film"

The movie is tripe

Not fishingIt isn't a Christmas film and the movie is not good. It's sugar filled crap

I disagree with you.

Awesome that you do but the movie sucks. ####### guardian angel should have let his ### drown

That makes no sense. Then he wouldn't've gotten his wings.

I mean, what the #### is the point of a guardian angel, if you aren't going to go for the wings?

 

[skol asylum]

Never seen it.

 

[flapgreen]

Never seen it.

liar

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Never seen it.

Not missing anything

 

[skol asylum]

Never seen it.

liar

No lie. There are actually a ton of classic movies i've never seen.

 

[Brony]

Never seen it.

Not missing anything

and happy new year to you, in jail!

 

[zamboni]

But, Jimmy STEWART! Probably my favorite actor ever.

True - the movie is Jimmy Stewart. Without his otherworldly performance, it's just a kitschy little story.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Movie still sucks

You suck

Baa Baa Baa"I like the movie because everyone says that I have to and it plays during Christmas even though it isn't a Christmas film"

The movie is tripe

Not fishingIt isn't a Christmas film and the movie is not good. It's sugar filled crap

I disagree with you.

Awesome that you do but the movie sucks. ####### guardian angel should have let his ### drown

That makes no sense. Then he wouldn't've gotten his wings.

And the movie would have been a lot shorter.

 

[Jayrod]

This movie, Christmas Vacation, Elf & A Christmas Story are now the Mt Rushmore of Christmas movies.

And Jules can suck it.

 

[Jules Winnfield]

It's not a Christmas movie

 

[pantagrapher]

It's not a Christmas movie

Your mom's not a Christmas movie.

 

[skol asylum]

It's not a Christmas movie

Your mom's not a Christmas movie.

She's more like a Thanksgiving movie because she gets passed around at the dinner table between the redskins and the white man?

 

[Jules Winnfield]

It's not a Christmas movie

Your mom's not a Christmas movie.

She's more like a Thanksgiving movie because she gets passed around at the dinner table between the redskins and the white man?

And she's stuffed?

 

[Cold Dead Hands]

I don't like this either, but then again, my wife says I have no soul.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

What exactly is there not to like? I mean I get not enjoying it but hating it? That's plain weird.

 

[eoMMan]

So it's not worth seeing? I missed this one.

 

[cstu]

So it's not worth seeing? I missed this one.

Of course it's worth seeing.

 

[netnalp]

I think it's worth seeing.

Now, White Christmas is another "classic". I tried to watch it last night for the first time, and couldn't make it through it. Even though as a kid I watched Danny Kaye movies whenever they were on Saturday/Sunday tv.

 

[oso diablo]

I think it's worth seeing.

Now, White Christmas is another "classic". I tried to watch it last night for the first time, and couldn't make it through it. Even though as a kid I watched Danny Kaye movies whenever they were on Saturday/Sunday tv.

try to find "Holiday Inn" instead. It preceeded WC, and was the film that originally contained the song White Christmas. I think HI is much better.

 

[Pop Tart]

I think it's worth seeing.

Now, White Christmas is another "classic". I tried to watch it last night for the first time, and couldn't make it through it. Even though as a kid I watched Danny Kaye movies whenever they were on Saturday/Sunday tv.

I watched it twice in a row the other night.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I think it's worth seeing.

Now, White Christmas is another "classic". I tried to watch it last night for the first time, and couldn't make it through it. Even though as a kid I watched Danny Kaye movies whenever they were on Saturday/Sunday tv.

try to find "Holiday Inn" instead. It preceeded WC, and was the film that originally contained the song White Christmas. I think HI is much better.

Good post. WC was kind of a cash grab on the popularity of the song itself.

 

[squistion]

I think it's worth seeing.

Now, White Christmas is another "classic". I tried to watch it last night for the first time, and couldn't make it through it. Even though as a kid I watched Danny Kaye movies whenever they were on Saturday/Sunday tv.

try to find "Holiday Inn" instead. It preceeded WC, and was the film that originally contained the song White Christmas. I think HI is much better.

Good post. WC was kind of a cash grab on the popularity of the song itself.

White Christmas is just an excuse to string together a bunch of Irving Berlin songs with a thin plot. Fred Astaire was originally offered the Danny Kaye role, but turned it down because he didn't like the script.

As far as Wonderful Life is concerned, typical "Capra-corn" (as Capra's critics called his films).

 

[cstu]

As far as Wonderful Life is concerned, typical "Capra-corn" (as Capra's critics called his films).

Capra certainly knew how to play with the audience's emotions but that doesn't make IAWL a bad movie. A lot of it is over the top (partially due to the era and partially to Capra) but if you view the film as an allegorical fantasy (there's a freaking guardian angel in it) then it works much better.

 

[Parrothead]

As far as Wonderful Life is concerned, typical "Capra-corn" (as Capra's critics called his films).

Capra certainly knew how to play with the audience's emotions . A lot of it is over the top (partially due to the era and partially to Capra) but if you view the film as an allegorical fantasy (there's a freaking guardian angel in it) then it works much better.

plus lack of nudity <_<

 

[cstu]

On top of the sentimentality, the movie is an allegory for Keynesian economic theory so that will turn a lot of people off.

 

[Jules Winnfield]

So it's not worth seeing? I missed this one.

Of course it's worth seeing.

Why? Why is it so worth seeing?

 

[El Floppo]

So it's not worth seeing? I missed this one.

Of course it's worth seeing.

Why? Why is it so worth seeing?

anything you dislike this much is absolutely worth seeing.

see... 'cause you have terrible taste and whatnot.

 

[NCCommish]

So it's not worth seeing? I missed this one.

Of course it's worth seeing.

Why? Why is it so worth seeing?

I have never been able to sit through the whole thing. I either fall asleep or change the channel. The story is derivative. The emotion is saccharine. It's only saving grace is Stewart and even he can't get it over the goal line.

 

[Cold Dead Hands]

I don't like the movie, but Donna Reed is worth looking at.

 

[dickey moe]

I don't like the movie, but Donna Reed is worth looking at.

And the other blonde who seeks Jimmy Stu's affections. LATE 1940S SAMMICH WITH THOSE TWO, PLEAZE.