Well I like the movie except the angel is shown as a namby pamby when in reality they are awesome powerful beings. Also in reality the Building and Loan should have turned the corner with its success and been much more profitable. Oh, the plot holes!
Wow Michael, what a twisted POV!
Perhaps.
However, the difference is that OWSies do not understand the concept of "community". They don't wish to contribute to a community, rather they expect to be provided for by the community.
So OWSies, being the leaches of society, would naturally cheer for a George Bailey. But there is no way that they could BE a George Bailey.
And if there ever was an "Its a Wonderful Life 2" and George Bailey became wealthy from his head for business, he would still be George Bailey.
Like you could get a fair review out of a Boston paper? I think the editor was desperate for page filler material and some young puke came up with this.
This piece is not worth buttwipe.
How responsible was George to trust his idiot Uncle billy with 8 big ones?
Once or twice fine but I’d no more watch it again than I’d re watch “The Wizard of Oz” or the one with the boy who wanted a b.b. gun for Christmas.
Bah humbug!
This movie bacame a Christmas classic because it’s owner failed to renew its copyright. As a result, TV stations could show it without paying a royalty - so it always got stuck in somewhere on the air every Christmas.
Strange way of looking at the movie.
The character George puts others before himself, not as a matter of political ideology, but as matter of Christian morals. He does the right thing by his family, because he sees them as his responsibility. He keeps his mother, younger brother, and uncle from being wards of the state.
Yes he sees the Savings and Loan as an altruistic venture, but it is still not a handout, just a niche market with less return. Given that he has renovated a large worn down house, has clothed and fed a large family, and isn’t in debt are not signs that he is in poverty. Far from it.
He is not much different than every farmer I’ve ever met, who prefers doing a job they love and value over a job that pays more money.
And the ending is based on voluntary charity based on strong character.
This is NOT an Occupy feel good movie.
I guess Graham doesn’t get the gist of the movie. The evil banker angle only supports the basic thrust of the movie that George Bailey’s life really is worthwhile. The money Uncle Billy lost is really incidental. It’s like the McGuffin in the Hitchcock flicks.
I hate that movie. It is just too sappy for me.
All Christmas movies seem to wallow in the sap this time of year except A CHRISTMAS STORY. When it starts to get sappy something happens to stop the sap. (Grownups like to say things like that. We kids new better. We knew it was best not to get caught!).
This Idiot must have issues with bells and christmas trees..
Couldn’t be Angels that crawled his nape.. could it?..
Never regarded it as a Christmas story- felt the same way about the ‘shoot your eye out’ kid movie. I like the Hallmark TV stories. There was a made for TV movie in the mid 90s about the Rockefeller Christmas tree [Sister Anthony] that was very good. For fun Christmas Vacation.
If George Bailey was an occupier, he would have selfishly taken Potter up on his offer. Occupiers do not impact others lives positively, they are a drain on society. They are liberals.
Well, he does make me wonder what “It’s a Wonderful Life” would have looked like if Ayn Rand (who was in Hollywood in those days) had written the script ...
Love this movie. However I think ANYONE associated with the manipulative tripe known as “To Kill a Mockingbird” should have been banished to Siberia.