What's Up With "It's A Wonderful Life"???

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SonOfAbraxas	What's Up With "It's A Wonderful Life"???	Lead	[-]
Posts: 7862 (12/23/08 10:10 AM) BB Forum Moderator Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Is it really THAT good? I've never seen it - never CARE to see it - but SO many people make it a part of their Christmas routine. I don't get it. I remember growing up and my parents just HAD to watch it every year it was on TV. Yet, the whole time it was on, they looked bored while watching it and usually moved on to other things while it played in the background. I know the story and all that angel gets it's wings crap, and knowing how it all ends makes me not want to watch it even more. It just sounds silly and like it's for really old people. When the movie has it's 100-Year Anniversary, will people still be watching it EVERY year? Hopefully by then people will have moved on. So, am I nutso or what? Has anyone else here never seen it?
NlGHTCRAWLER		#1	[-]
Posts: 19781 (12/23/08 10:11 AM) >: \| Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	It's pretty blah, but back in its day, I'm sure it was a special effects masterpiece.
SuperJude		#2	[-]
Posts: 12276 (12/23/08 10:15 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	No, it's great. Takes a LOOOONG while to get to the action, but all the build up is for good reason. Well directed, acted, and had a Twilight Zone spin 20 + years before Zone even hit the airwaves. So I guess you could say it's a fairly blah character study that suddenly turns great and has a feel good ending the studios have tried to recreate countless times since. Frank Capra, FTW! -SJ™
SmrtAss		#3	[-]
Posts: 4931 (12/23/08 10:17 AM) Lazy ass bitch, please Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	If you've never seen it, how can you say you don't get it? You've got to see it to get it. SJ is right, there's a long set up, but the pay-off is worth it.
youfist		#4	[-]
Posts: 1275 (12/23/08 10:18 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	worth it. awesome story
bitwrangler		#5	[-]
Posts: 2549 (12/23/08 10:19 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	It's a socialist masterpiece! Yay for everyman! The FBI put Capra on it's blacklist for this movie. There is submitted herewith the running memorandum concerning Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry which has been brought up to date as of May 26, 1947.... With regard to the picture "It's a Wonderful Life", [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a "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. linkage: http://www.wisebread.com/...ommunist-propaganda#memo1
Seahawketti		#6	[-]
Posts: 1260 (12/23/08 10:21 AM) Thinks Jay Leno is funny Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	It's a very nice, heartwarming movie. Watch it.
CatNamedRudy		#7	[-]
Posts: 2730 (12/23/08 10:22 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	In the serious, sappy genre of Christmas flicks, it my favorite. It's quite well made and it has a great villian in Mr. Potter.
youfist		#8	[-]
Posts: 1276 (12/23/08 10:22 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	bitwrangler wrote: It's a socialist masterpiece! Yay for everyman! The FBI put Capra on it's blacklist for this movie. There is submitted herewith the running memorandum concerning Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry which has been brought up to date as of May 26, 1947.... With regard to the picture "It's a Wonderful Life", [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a "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. linkage: http://www.wisebread.com/...ommunist-propaganda#memo1 well for fucks sake SPOILER ALERT That fat douche bag banker stole that sack of cash and got the fuck away with it, too..rich greedy scum bag!
huskerluv		#9	[-]
Posts: 1047 (12/23/08 10:23 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Zuzu's petals make the whole thing worth it.
bitwrangler		#10	[-]
Posts: 2550 (12/23/08 10:24 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	You know YF, I saw a radio play version of this movie and that was my reaction at the end. And then I turned to the person I was with and went, JUST LIKE THOSE BANKERS ARE DOING NOW WITH THE MONEY WE GAVE THEM IN THE BAILOUT. Nothing changes. Nothing at all. :smirk
StatelyWayneManor		#11	[-]
Posts: 10489 (12/23/08 10:25 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Wiki says its a rip-off of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."
UrbanRenewal		#12	[-]
Posts: 338 (12/23/08 10:25 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Must You People Crap On Every Great Work of Art???!!!
pussycow		#13	[-]
Posts: 3788 (12/23/08 10:26 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I've never seen it either. Keep saying I am gonna watch it but never do. Shit, I just got around to watching A Christmas Story like two years ago. I should get a major award!
StatelyWayneManor		#14	[-]
Posts: 10490 (12/23/08 10:28 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	If someone put coconut on my ice cream; I would have kicked him in the nuts.
UrbanRenewal		#15	[-]
Posts: 339 (12/23/08 10:32 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	What thread is next? Shakespeare SUCKS Michelangelo Isn't That Good The Ninth Symphony Is Faggy & Redundant
youfist		#16	[-]
Posts: 1277 (12/23/08 10:36 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	UrbanRenewal wrote: What thread is next? Shakespeare SUCKS Michelangelo Isn't That Good The Ninth Symphony Is Faggy & Redundant As for the Renaissance (the rebirth) they were very passionate and no one can doubt the brilliance of the Italians work...the Sacrifice of Issac, the Sistine Chapel, the fiery paintings of heaven and hell... but I prefer Vermeer and Van Eyke..
StatelyWayneManor		#17	[-]
Posts: 10492 (12/23/08 10:45 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Yeah, what have Shakespeare & Michelangelo done lately? Screw them.
bitwrangler		#18	[-]
Posts: 2552 (12/23/08 10:53 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I'm sure the FBI would have had it out for Shakespeare...not to mention the Jewish Antidefamation League...
SonOfAbraxas		#19	[-]
Posts: 7863 (12/23/08 10:54 AM) BB Forum Moderator Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Hey now, I'm just asking if it's really as good as the hype. I've never seen it, so I can't take a crap on it - it's just a movie I've never seen and thought I would never care to see, but some of you are saying that it really IS that good, so now maybe I'll give it a try.
StatelyWayneManor		#20	[-]
Posts: 10494 (12/23/08 10:55 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Keep an eye out for Bert & Ernie...I'm serious.

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