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It's a Wonderful Life (1 Viewer)

rockaction said:
Anybody know what I meant by this? I'm genuinely confused. I know Servo got a kick out of it just now. 

I have to watch this movie this year. This is the year, darn it. 
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The mental image I got was what triggered the reaction GB. 

 
Tom Servo said:
The mental image I got was what triggered the reaction GB. 
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Thanks GB. I honestly have no idea what I'm talking about there. I must have seen something on television and been liveblogging what I saw. Makes for a confusing read a few years later. 

 
Joe Mammy said:
you do realize he's gonna have squirrels and crows crawling all over him? He has a way with critters.
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Im surprised how much “new” stuff I noticed this year. I only remembered the crow. When George was interrogating Billy at his place there was a squirrel, an owl and something else crawling around.

That’s the beauty of watching things hammered and high AF. 

 
I would be sick if I lost 8 grand!! Even in 2021 money!

In 1946, Ernie the taxi driver got a loan for a new home worth 5 grand. If I just misplaced the value of a new house and a half, I can understand the idea of wanting to jump off a bridge. 

 
Jayrod said:
Watching it tonight while we decorate the tree.  It is the only movie we own on Amazon Prime (B&W version).

My kids haven't learned to love it yet, but they haven't haven't really lived yet either.  George's struggle is real and its one of the most related movies I've ever seen.
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My 11 year old has loved it for a couple years now 

 
Probably said way upthread, but Mary’s cannon arm throwing the rock at the old Granville house was real. Donna Reed was a baseball player IRL during high school.

 
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whoknew said:
Jimmy Stewart was the greatest actor ... ever?
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If you gave me the proverbial desert island choice of one actors catalog of movies I would have a short list with some of the all-time greats - Brando, Bogart, Hanks, Ford……but I’m pretty sure I would pick Stewart because his catalog of films is just incredible and he’s fantastic in just about everything he did.

If you are looking for a couple of his lesser known roles, check out 

Another Thin Man

Call Northside 777

 
AAABatteries said:
If you gave me the proverbial desert island choice of one actors catalog of movies I would have a short list with some of the all-time greats - Brando, Bogart, Hanks, Ford……but I’m pretty sure I would pick Stewart because his catalog of films is just incredible and he’s fantastic in just about everything he did.

If you are looking for a couple of his lesser known roles, check out 

Another Thin Man

Call Northside 777
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I can’t imagine this one is very good. 

 
Another bit of trivia that also may have been mentioned relates to Nick the bartender, who was played by long-time character actor Sheldon Leonard.

From wiki:

Leonard's name served as an eponym for the characters Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter in the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory because the writers were fans of his work.

 
Gets better every year.

I never used to get very emotional at the end.  Today I had to joke about sniffling & tearing up to my wife and kids to keep myself from sniffling & tearing up.

 
Also gets funnier every year. 

Stewart's delivery is so awesome during this exchange George has with Clarence:

G: Now how do you know that?

C-- I told you. I'm your guardian angel. I know everything about you.

G: Well, you look about like the kind of an angel I'd get. Sort of a fallen angel, aren't you? What happened to your wings?

C-- I haven't won my wings yet. That's why I'm an angel second class.

G: I don't know whether I like it very much being seen around with an angel without any wings.

C-- Oh, I-I've got to earn them and you'll help me, won't you?

G: Sure, sure. How?

C-- By letting me help you.

G: Only one way you can help me. Y-You don't happen to have eight thousand bucks on you?

C-- Oh, no, no. We don't use money in heaven.

G: Oh, that's right, I keep forgetting. Comes in pretty handy down here, bub.

C-- Oh, tut, tut, tut.

G: I found it out a little late. I'm worth more dead than alive.

C-- Now look, you mustn't talk like that. I won't get my wings with that attitude. You just don't know all that you've done. If it hadn't been for you...

G: Yeah, if it hadn't been for me, everybody'd be a lot better off. My wife, and my kids, and my friends. And my... Look, little fellow, why, you go off and haunt somebody else, will you?
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jhib said:
Gets better every year.

I never used to get very emotional at the end.  Today I had to joke about sniffling & tearing up to my wife and kids to keep myself from sniffling & tearing up.
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I tear up every time at the end. So great 

 
STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
ETA My goodness the one on the left is adorable.  :wub:
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I found myself staring at the girl on the right thinking, 'I know her from somewhere.'  I don't know her, but she looked familiar to someone.  Thought it must have been a celebrity, then it hit me.  Old gf.  Doppelgangers.  I love her smile and that laugh kills me.  Totally smitten. :wub:

zamboni said:
I’ll have to check it out. I could also watch the two of them for about 2.5 hours.
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Don't want to derail the thread but check out the  channel.  Its addicting.  See the JAWS vid.  I've been binging since I found this channel.  Really fun.

 
shuke said:
Watched parts of it a couple times over the past few days.  Always thought it was the greatest Christmas movie, now think it's one of the greatest movies ever period.

Fell in love with Donna Reed all over again.  Stewart is incredible.
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Thank you. 

 
Seeing this thread made me think it’s Christmas time lol. 
 

Saw vertigo the other day. Stewart is just a tremendous actor.  

 
Capella said:
Saw vertigo the other day
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Saw this in a freshman seminar called Love In The Western World. The class was a survey course in great literature and art about love and attraction. We studied everything from Plato's Symposium to my first ever real critical experience with a movie, which was Vertigo. I'll never forget the night screening of it. When the opening credits rolled, I was amazed, and my jaw hit the floor throughout the whole movie. It seemed so timeless, this metafiction about obsession, women, and the creative process, and Stewart and Novak were just outstanding. First Hitchcock movie that I was asked to watch and take seriously.

What did you think of it?  

I still have not seen It's A Wonderful Life 

 
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rockaction said:
I still have not seen It's A Wonderful Life 
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I was lucky. i might not have seen IaWL til much later had i, as an impatient lad, not audited a course @ the Lordsburg Institute for Refrigerator Repair, Interstate Trucking & Existential Dread called Suitcases of the Mind. I also wouldnt then have known the phenomenology behind Violet's name, how much the loose newel in the Bailey home represented the emasculations of post-war corporate culture and that Zuzu's petals were surrogates for Circles of Hell. Merry Christmas, you old institute for Refrigerator Repair, Interstate Trucking & Existential Dread!

 
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