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WWAWD It's A Wonderful Life?

UnPRePared

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Gosia and I watched it tonight, I don't think I've watched this in maybe... Thirty years? Probably a bit early for a Christmas movie, but I didn't have anything else to watch.

There's a real joyous simplicity to this film. Sure it's preachy, and loaded with Capra-isms that I can't say age very well (I'm a cynic I suppose). But it's a simpler escape, and a lovely message, even if Jimmy Stewart plays a stammering prig.

And I had forgotten this part, but Donna Reed... Wow. What a stunning bird she was.

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Anyway, if you can let yourself see the world with rose tinted glasses for two hours, there's far worse ways.
 

wbgreen

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Of all the things that changed in Bedford Falls without George Bailey, the fact that Nick became a sarcastic asshole bartender was always the weirdest change. George Bailey was the only thing keeping him from being a dick.

Also, I always figured Mr. Potter was angry because he had to use those old timey wooden wheelchairs that looked like a dining chair with wheels. They are hard to move around and had to be uncomfortable.
 
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wbgreen

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Also, Potter=Jew. There you can enjoy it even more now.

Most villains in Christmas movies are Jews. The only exception is Scrooge, as his extended family celebrated Christmas, and the whole story was his redemption.

The Grinch was Jew who hated his Christian neighbors and wanted to destroy their holiday. But when he saw that Christianity was really about love, his heart grew and he wanted to join them. The story ends with the Grinch accepting Jesus as his savior.
 

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My parents watched it every year growing up so I fawkin hate it

This is coming from a movie fan: if I watched it every year, I'd hate it.

I'm not going to go into a rant criticizing the movie because I'm just going to sound like a cunt. It's a beautiful message that surrounds the film, Reed and Stewart act their fucking asses off, and it actually has a very up front anti-suicide message.

Can it be difficult to sit through all the way? Yeah, a bit. But you feel better about yourself after.
 

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I love it. The Buffalo Gals scene when they walk home together is one of my favs in movie history. I might be a quarter gay but what the heck ya know.
 

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Every single year it never fails to deliver.

I dont care about the backstory how it was a box office bomb that only started airing every Christmas because it was public domain.
The message hits home 80 years later and will forever be a timeless classic.

Also, Potter=Jew. There you can enjoy it even more now.
The other Christmas movie that has an obvious Jew/landlord/lender (Mr. Barnaby) who is the bad guy, is March of the Wooden Soldiers. If you watch in that context, it's timeless.

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Uncle Floyd

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George Bailey was the only thing keeping him from being a dick.
And why is Donna Reed a librarian? She was a hep kitty cat, frolicking with boys in bushes in high school. And, and, and, and now you're telling me she's a mousey school marm?

I'd say because she didn't have a boy she'd "love for her whole life" like she did George Bailey, she never got that pussy to tingle. Not exactly many studs running around after the only other good-looking kid in town drowned in the lake.

But, Nick, I can't even come up with an answer. Maybe he was a swell guy in Bedford Falls but Pottersville turned him into a dick. You try being a happy bartender in a town that became a shithole...
 

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I'd say because she didn't have a boy she'd "love for her whole life" like she did George Bailey, she never got that pussy to tingle. Not exactly many studs running around after the only other good-looking kid in town drowned in the lake.

That was George's brother and he saved him, at the cost of his left ear going deaf.

But, Nick, I can't even come up with an answer. Maybe he was a swell guy in Bedford Falls but Pottersville turned him into a dick. You try being a happy bartender in a town that became a shithole...

I've heard stories about Detroit, you're very much right.
 
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