Both of those are totally accurate. I also get choked up by >What's the matter with everybody?! Janie, go on. I told you to practice. Now, go on, play!
I still can't believe that James Stewart literally took a break from his acting career to be a fighter pilot in WWII. People back then were just made of different shit.
Same anon. I've always considered it an absolute masterpiece, and it doesn't really age either. Like that scene where the pharmacist hits him and then cries gets me every time
I still can't believe that James Stewart literally took a break from his acting career to be a fighter pilot in WWII. People back then were just made of different shit.
Same anon. I've always considered it an absolute masterpiece, and it doesn't really age either. Like that scene where the pharmacist hits him and then cries gets me every time
it has many layers which is why it works for people of all ages. On one level you can watch it as a simplistic christmas movie with a happy ending. But it has many dark themes of life disappointment, loss of ones dreams , having to change plans , business failure , depression and suicide.
By turning it down he basically ensured he'll be wealthier than Potter one day. Remember that realisation was what caused Potter to make him that offer?
You have us anon. This is a social club of mostly like-minded individuals and we're friends. I don't care what anyone else says. Sure there's the occasional nutjob that shoots up a supermarket because he doesn't understand that most people here are just hazing or talking out of their asses—sharing some truths about how they feel too; I won't deny that, but deep down we all have more in common in here than we'd like to admit.
He didn't really see them as friends, though. Only Bert and Ernie were really 'friends' to him.
His life had meaning because when every major decision was forced upon him, he made the choice of self-sacrifice, even though it cost him a dream every time.
Isn't it: >as long as you made the world a better place?
A lot of the differences were just about how much worse off many would be, irregardless of being his friends.
No the message is >be a good person >be kind to others >help other people and think nothing of it >and then one day when you might find yourself in the unfortunate need of help, those people who you suffered for or inconvenienced yourself for will come rushing to your aid because they all love you.
It's a Wishful Life does the concept better. >look how much better off everyone is without you existing >everyone's lives would be improved by you not existing
I still remember seeing Sam Kinison in that episode and looking up at my dad (he had let me stay up to watch him on HBO) and my dad just starts making these faces like "stfu" your mom can't find out. It's a funny episode too. That was like the best era of Married with Children.
Yes, it's what happens in It's a Wishful Life. It's why it does the concept better than the movie which shows everyone's lives being worse without him.
Five years ago I thought this movie was awesome when I saw it, but now that it's spammed a lot here and everybody's going crazy for it, I don't like anymore. It's not a good movie.
I hate that fricking clumsy uncle. He was useless and should have kys himself, He almost dragged down Potter with him. Lucklily for him potter was saved by his friends. The uncle wouldn't though, he had next to none who care for him, none would pray for him, so no guardian angel would arrive if he decided to neck himself over two dollars, mama and papa.
>No don’t have a nice day! >Remember how you were always the most popular person in town? >Remember how since the first grade every girl in school wanted your dick? >Remember how as soon as you turned 18 the council of elders handed you control of the town? >Remember how the one and only disappointment in your entire life was when you had to delay a vacation to France? >…Oh….. that wasn’t you? >Nevermind, go ahead.
>Remember how the one and only disappointment in your entire life was when you had to delay a vacation to France?
His disappointment was giving up his dream.
he wanted to go to college be an architect travel the world since he was a child.
then his dad died and he had to take up his responsibility (something he never wanted to do) in order to prevent potter from preying on the entire town
He gives up his entire college fund to his little brother with the promise that he would return and take his place at the building and loan, then his brother gets an amazing job offer and george makes the sacrifice to let his brother follow what he wants to do instead of tying him to what george personally doesnt want to do. he gives up on ever getting an education for his brother.
He gets married during a bank run and is forced to pay out of his own pocket to keep the rest of the town afloat, preventing him from leaving town even for a honeymoon with his new wife.
And then by the end it seems like his reward for giving up his dream is having his uncle misplace money for which he would take the fall.
A detail i never really noticed until recent rewatches is that when he comes home and wrecks his house, what he is destroying is a bunch of architecure models and what not. He had his own private little workshop in the corner for his passion which he had still dreamed of pursuing even up to this point in the movie. Only at the very end does he realize that he has all he ever needed.
It's a wonderful reason to jump off a bridge
Of all the male stars of Hollywood's studio-dominated 'classic' era, James Stewart was the hammiest. He almost always shouts when a whisper would do; instead of striking an impressive pose, he's always squirming about, arms flailing. He's the melodramatic version of Jerry Lewis.
His way-over-the-top performance in "It's a Wonderful Life" lingers like the taste of lettuce fried in lard atop a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich on a moldy McDonalds burger roll.
But then there's the story itself. It's notable that Capra waited until the Depression was largely over before putting together this dreadful lie about it (which is what this film is really about). Apparently the banks didn't spend years foreclosing homes and farms? No one was displaced, we all held together in the small towns we grew up in? Family's weren't shattered and careers not ruined? It's wonderful baloney to serve with peanut-butter and fried lettuce.
It's deplorable that American's think of this as a "Christmas classic." Christmas should be about joy, not self-centered delusion. The truth is, the world would have been the stronger is Stewart's character had never been born. The people in it need to find real reasons for living, not Capra's pandering.
Remember when that feminist b***h on CNN said the movie was unrealistic because it showed donna reeds character as an old maid who never married when george did not exist when in reality she didn't need him and would have found another dick to suck.
I watch this every holiday season and I cry every fricking time. It's such a pure and perfect piece of cinema.
I can guess the exact moments:
> George Bailey, I'll love you 'til the day I die
> To my brother George, the richest man in town
Both of those are totally accurate. I also get choked up by
>What's the matter with everybody?! Janie, go on. I told you to practice. Now, go on, play!
That scene gets me too, anon. Great movie.
>Please god, let me live again
I still can't believe that James Stewart literally took a break from his acting career to be a fighter pilot in WWII. People back then were just made of different shit.
Same anon. I've always considered it an absolute masterpiece, and it doesn't really age either. Like that scene where the pharmacist hits him and then cries gets me every time
Ted Williams chose to do the same thing with Korea. He was on pace to set just about every batting record in baseball.
Some Americans still do this
Yeah but now they get killed by their own guys and the government lies about it.
They had a country worth fighting for back then.
it's fricking cheesy and simplistic
it has many layers which is why it works for people of all ages. On one level you can watch it as a simplistic christmas movie with a happy ending. But it has many dark themes of life disappointment, loss of ones dreams , having to change plans , business failure , depression and suicide.
Yeah, I'm not watching it ever again
George should have taken Mr. Potter’s deal. Frick those wops.
>~~*Mr. Potter*~~
OK, but he should have at least followed through on Sam Wainwright’s investment advice.
By turning it down he basically ensured he'll be wealthier than Potter one day. Remember that realisation was what caused Potter to make him that offer?
True. He had to act while he could still convince George he had no future at the building and loan.
>the film's message is: Your life is worthwhile as long as you have friends
You have us anon. This is a social club of mostly like-minded individuals and we're friends. I don't care what anyone else says. Sure there's the occasional nutjob that shoots up a supermarket because he doesn't understand that most people here are just hazing or talking out of their asses—sharing some truths about how they feel too; I won't deny that, but deep down we all have more in common in here than we'd like to admit.
that's why I find it depressing and don't like it. I could watch Taxi Driver all day though so I don't get it.
Yeah I have none and get treated like shit by family. I can understand when a boss acts like an butthole but it's my own fricking family and
He didn't really see them as friends, though. Only Bert and Ernie were really 'friends' to him.
His life had meaning because when every major decision was forced upon him, he made the choice of self-sacrifice, even though it cost him a dream every time.
>Bert and Ernie
Did Sesame Street really?
Yes.
They STOLE the names from this movie.
Happy new year to you, Jim Henson. IN JAIL.
Isn't it:
>as long as you made the world a better place?
A lot of the differences were just about how much worse off many would be, irregardless of being his friends.
No the message is
>be a good person
>be kind to others
>help other people and think nothing of it
>and then one day when you might find yourself in the unfortunate need of help, those people who you suffered for or inconvenienced yourself for will come rushing to your aid because they all love you.
It's a Wishful Life does the concept better.
>look how much better off everyone is without you existing
>everyone's lives would be improved by you not existing
that's a Bundyful life
I still remember seeing Sam Kinison in that episode and looking up at my dad (he had let me stay up to watch him on HBO) and my dad just starts making these faces like "stfu" your mom can't find out. It's a funny episode too. That was like the best era of Married with Children.
>shh moms gonna FREAK
Back when you were allowed to be mean what happened to mean humor?
The "punch up not down" bullshit.
WHAT IS MY MONEY DOING IN YOUR HOUSE FRED?!
Yes, it's what happens in It's a Wishful Life. It's why it does the concept better than the movie which shows everyone's lives being worse without him.
That's not better, just different.
Stewart flew B-24's & did his 20 combat missions over germany, later flew B-52's in the reserve
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/jimmy-stewarts-rise-from-private-to-colonel/
>Not anymore. Our Jimmy Stewart read Mein Kampf and never reported for duty.
I should watch this. I want to commit suicide myself
Just be prepared you may feel even more suicidal afterward
stable diffusion is pretty good at making donna reed images
George could have just agreed to testify against uncle billy and the feds would have given him immunity. He didn't need friends just a good lawyer.
I've seen it once in spanish and the dubb made it sucked ass.
>hola xmas, hermanio yadayadaya POTTER!
how can spaintards even accept such travesty?
Five years ago I thought this movie was awesome when I saw it, but now that it's spammed a lot here and everybody's going crazy for it, I don't like anymore. It's not a good movie.
>le contrarian brain
no its not. its november. give it a frickin rest
>it's the 28th already
>it might as well be November 28th 2047
This has to stop happening.
I hate that fricking clumsy uncle. He was useless and should have kys himself, He almost dragged down Potter with him. Lucklily for him potter was saved by his friends. The uncle wouldn't though, he had next to none who care for him, none would pray for him, so no guardian angel would arrive if he decided to neck himself over two dollars, mama and papa.
Hi
Can you guys help med create a reddit pasta for this movie.
I'm in desperate need for some +1 as there's a karma-requirement of 150+ for a competition I wanna enter.
>Story of a small business man fighting off a ~~*bank*~~ that wants to completely take over a town and reduce it to Black folk
What's not to like?
>No don’t have a nice day!
>Remember how you were always the most popular person in town?
>Remember how since the first grade every girl in school wanted your dick?
>Remember how as soon as you turned 18 the council of elders handed you control of the town?
>Remember how the one and only disappointment in your entire life was when you had to delay a vacation to France?
>…Oh….. that wasn’t you?
>Nevermind, go ahead.
>Remember how the one and only disappointment in your entire life was when you had to delay a vacation to France?
His disappointment was giving up his dream.
he wanted to go to college be an architect travel the world since he was a child.
then his dad died and he had to take up his responsibility (something he never wanted to do) in order to prevent potter from preying on the entire town
He gives up his entire college fund to his little brother with the promise that he would return and take his place at the building and loan, then his brother gets an amazing job offer and george makes the sacrifice to let his brother follow what he wants to do instead of tying him to what george personally doesnt want to do. he gives up on ever getting an education for his brother.
He gets married during a bank run and is forced to pay out of his own pocket to keep the rest of the town afloat, preventing him from leaving town even for a honeymoon with his new wife.
And then by the end it seems like his reward for giving up his dream is having his uncle misplace money for which he would take the fall.
A detail i never really noticed until recent rewatches is that when he comes home and wrecks his house, what he is destroying is a bunch of architecure models and what not. He had his own private little workshop in the corner for his passion which he had still dreamed of pursuing even up to this point in the movie. Only at the very end does he realize that he has all he ever needed.
Best parody coming through
Nuh huh. It's a wonderful knife is better
Me and my mother watch this every christmas.
smart. i bet it makes her extremely wet. got any pics?
Is there a porn parody of this movie?
schizo
Is there a porn parody of this post?
Is there a porn parody of (you)?
is there a porn parody of this film?
https://m.imdb.com/review/rw2038836/?ref_=tt_urv
It's a wonderful reason to jump off a bridge
Of all the male stars of Hollywood's studio-dominated 'classic' era, James Stewart was the hammiest. He almost always shouts when a whisper would do; instead of striking an impressive pose, he's always squirming about, arms flailing. He's the melodramatic version of Jerry Lewis.
His way-over-the-top performance in "It's a Wonderful Life" lingers like the taste of lettuce fried in lard atop a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich on a moldy McDonalds burger roll.
But then there's the story itself. It's notable that Capra waited until the Depression was largely over before putting together this dreadful lie about it (which is what this film is really about). Apparently the banks didn't spend years foreclosing homes and farms? No one was displaced, we all held together in the small towns we grew up in? Family's weren't shattered and careers not ruined? It's wonderful baloney to serve with peanut-butter and fried lettuce.
It's deplorable that American's think of this as a "Christmas classic." Christmas should be about joy, not self-centered delusion. The truth is, the world would have been the stronger is Stewart's character had never been born. The people in it need to find real reasons for living, not Capra's pandering.
Remember when that feminist b***h on CNN said the movie was unrealistic because it showed donna reeds character as an old maid who never married when george did not exist when in reality she didn't need him and would have found another dick to suck.
I've never actually seen this, despite its pedigree. I just figured it's dated crap with hammy acting and have never given it the time of day
Is there a porn parody of this flick?
i dunno but there are several SNL parody bits.
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one of my favourite sketches of all time, they nailed every thing, from the actors, the voices, to the dialogue and script, can't stop laughing