I think this is a pretty bad film.
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MovieManCin2 — 1 year ago(December 15, 2024 03:25 AM)
A lot of great films got poor ratings when they were first released. That means nothing. It's a great film and loved by most people. But then that's why they make chocolate and vanilla.
MAGA! FAFO!
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder. 
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PygmyLion — 1 year ago(December 14, 2024 04:26 PM)
I hadn't watched the movie for many years (10-20), until I watched it last year just before Christmas. I found the movie to be very uplifting. So I think its rating of 8.6 on IMDB is justified.
It was nominated for an academy award in 1947, losing out to
The Best Years of Our Lives
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WarrenPeace — 1 year ago(December 14, 2024 11:38 AM)
George's own wife is reduced to an old maid that runs from him in just a minute of screen time.
Yeah, and she ends up wearing glasses just because she didn't meet George!
LOL
I guess that means that masturbation is bad for eyesight!
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LucasBrown295 — 1 year ago(December 14, 2024 11:43 AM)
It's not a bad film at all. Just say you don't like or understand it. To spend that much time trying to trash it (unsuccessfully) shows you have no heart or (seemingly) have never known the deep support of friends and family.
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LucasBrown295 — 1 year ago(December 15, 2024 09:47 AM)
Your response pretty much confirms that he successfully trashed it. You can’t even counter his points and instead resort to ad hominem attacks.
Wrong. As I said, he
tried
to trash it. He failed miserably.
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PygmyLion — 1 year ago(December 14, 2024 10:42 PM)
The sequence, while ingrained in popular culture, is in itself a take or rip-off of a A Christmas Carol. Instead of Past, Present, and Future, it's Never Been Born. I'd even argue that Potter is Scrooge here, and George is Bob Cratchit, and they switched who gets the spirit.
Charles Dickens is considered by many to be a great novelist, and his story
A Christmas Carol
(1843) is one of his better stories, so the fact that
It's a Wonderful Life
bares some similarity to it, might be considered as a positive by many.
In the end, I think there are enough differences in the story of
It's a Wonderful Life
to make it not a take-off or rip-off of
A Christmas Carol
.
