Saturday Night Cinema: It’s a Wonderful Life (Uncut)

uh…i like Christmas Story best…”you’ll shoot your eye out kid”…”and a thing in the stock that tells time”..
and Pammy is seemingly full of feeling (and hot) nonetheless..

I could not count how many times I have watched “It’s a Wonderful Life” . The movie taught me a message nearly 50 years ago that we should all hold dear when we look at our family and friends. That message is of course how we may effect their lives one way or another as the way they affect ours.
Another story that you might find of interest: There may have never been a Donna Reed playing the role of Jimmy Stewart’s wife, by a sudden quirk of fate less then a year earlier. Donna Reed was scheduled to board an American Airlines DC 3 returning to California on the night of January 9th. 23 year old Donna Reed had boarded the airliner when it made its scheduled stop at El Paso,Texas. However, the actress was bumped from the flight just prior to takeoff to make room for a military officer holding a wartime-travel “priority” pass. On the morning of January 10th 1945 At 4:10 Am the DC 3 she was bumped from crashed while making an attempt to land at Burbank Airport (now Bob Hope Airport).The DC 3 had tried to land at the fog shrouded airport but had to go around again in a 2nd attempt. Had the plane turned right it may have survived,but the pilot turned left and crashed into the mountains above Burbank, all passengers and crew were killed instantly.

Merry Christmas to the righteous and the warriors … except Elisabeth Sabaditch Wolff and Tommy Robinson, right?
All of Pamela’s followers can note how she now refuses to cover ESW’s story, and there’s been no mention either of Tommy’s being assaulted the other day … I wonder what GB would have been like if we’d all taken Pamela’s orders like you lot, and abandoned Tommy and followed Roberta … er, what was her name again … er, Roberta … oh she’s disappeared off the face of the earth, so she’s not important. Certainly no one of the calibre of say … Tommy Robinson. Or Elisabeth Sabaditch-Wolff.
Merry Christmas to you too Pamela. Btw.

Here is a little something to make you smell . . . er; I mean smile.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZreIZ5EAQU
BUT I HEARD HIM EXCLAIM AS HE DROVE OUT OF SIGHT, “HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!”

Merry Christmas @Happy hanukkah to all.

Pamela, you have been given a gift from G-d. Happy Hanukkah.

Who says George wasn’t happy in Bedford Falls? Good triumphs over evil in this
story–Potter found the money and knew the loss would ruin the Savings and Loan and that he would benefit, so he kept silent, in effect stealing from the community–who came together to save George’s business, which was founded on selfless ideals. There is also the idea that ultimately friendships and family are more important than financial wealth, To George, the richest man in town. What’s not to like?

Sparrowhawk, it is a very corny looking movie. It has a lot of post WWII cliche images in it. That is probably why I never was able to watch it before. I finally just made myself sit and suffer through it so that I could understand what it was about. If you suspend your incredulity at some of it, it ends up being a very good and exciting story with a message that you can succeed by following your heart and your concience instead of your common sense and your worldly needs. The cute part is that the main character doesn’t even beleive in God, yet God chased him down to bring him to realize that there was more going on than what he could see.
I still can’t deal with Ayn Rand’s books. This I like now in its own weird way. It is like saying you don’t need to have it all to actually have more than you need. I think that when you are good to others, you get secret rewards that you don’t even realize. When you only serve yourself, you only get what you work for. So you never know who is really the richer in the long run, because the kindly person can call in favors that the selfish person can’t.
I think the hero in it cared about his relationships rather than just his worldly needs. He wanted to feel important by doing exciting things but in the end, he saw that he was more important than he ever could have imagined. I admit it looks really stupid at first with the talking stars and stuff, but if you stick with it and just keep watching it even with condescension, you eventually fall for the story and it is really good.
I think that life was also a little different back then. Everyone in the community seemed to matter somehow, and there was more tolerance for people’s quirks and mistakes. It seems if you slip up any more, you get branded and banned for life, and everyone lives pretty much the same life and follows the same path. It is very boring, despite all of the outward reckless behavior.
Look at it as like some stupid modern movie from another era, and then you will see the quiantness of it. It is only a movie after all, so if you don’t like it, you don’t like it.