I love It's a Wonderful Life. As you've probably gathered, he gets in financial trouble, and while he's off finding out what Bedford Falls would have been like if he had never been born, word goes around town about his problems. He comes home to a house full of people bringing him money. When his brother says, "To my big brother George: The richest man in town," I burst into tears. Every time.
Well, quite a lot of fuss. If I didn't know better, I'd think we were dangerous.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Ginger - Sep 12, 2013 9:57:27 am PDT #4607 of 30002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Amy - Sep 12, 2013 10:00:07 am PDT #4608 of 30002
Because books.
You're not the only one, lady.
Laura - Sep 12, 2013 10:08:57 am PDT #4609 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
DH adores It's a Wonderful Life. And yes, he always cries. Big softy that one is.
Scrappy - Sep 12, 2013 10:23:05 am PDT #4610 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Me too.
P.M. Marc - Sep 12, 2013 10:24:29 am PDT #4611 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I love that stupid movie so much.
I didn't see it until I was 18, if you can believe that.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 12, 2013 10:37:34 am PDT #4612 of 30002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I didn't see it until I was 18, if you can believe that.
I can believe - I didn't see it until I was around that age either. But it also wasn't playing umpteen million times until then.
Put down in the "love it to pieces" camp.
Amy - Sep 12, 2013 10:38:35 am PDT #4613 of 30002
Because books.
I was sixteen before I saw it. But I've watched it every year since. Sometimes more than once!
Fred Pete - Sep 12, 2013 10:40:53 am PDT #4614 of 30002
Ann, that's a ferret.
I was actually in my 20s. I don't remember it becoming one of the classics until sometime in the '80s. Possibly because most people didn't have a lot of selection in viewing older movies until the rise of video rental.
Hil R. - Sep 12, 2013 10:49:20 am PDT #4615 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I was actually in my 20s. I don't remember it becoming one of the classics until sometime in the '80s. Possibly because most people didn't have a lot of selection in viewing older movies until the rise of video rental.
I think there was also something that chanced with the copyright then, so that it could be played a million times on TV all through December.
JZ - Sep 12, 2013 12:42:16 pm PDT #4616 of 30002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I watch it every year, unless it's a year when I'm in a brutal depression downswing -- George's utter ragged raw desperation in the last couple of scenes before he goes to the bridge is too much to take if I'm already heading down myself. That moment when he yanks the finial off as he's bolting up the stairs and turns around to fit it back in place, and you can see him shaking with the effort to stop himself from just smashing it all to shit? I know that moment, so well. When I'm level or on an upswing I love the whole film with my whole heart, but the dark bleak moments are so true that sometimes they overwhelm the rest of it.
But oh, the good parts are so deeply good!
And oh how I wish we could all march into Ginger's living room in person and pour our cash into a big fruitbasket and give her a vintage book and sing to her.