to think that anyone who considers 'It's a Wonderful Life' 'a bit meh'..

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..is a highly suspect individual?

I find it terribly depressing. All his dreams quashed... Just sad. I get it and I get the message but i can't understand how it got so popular.

Guess I'm one of them naysayers.

But I love a classic film Mildred Pierce is a favourite...

I've had to peel my own grapes.

You think that's bad. I have to keep manually readjusting the oscilation of my fan

How anyone can claim Humphrey of ridiculous acting escapes me though.

I'm in your camp OP, IAWL is one of my favourite films.

will I think it's a film that shows how life doesn't always turn out how we expect and how we all have an impact on other peoples lives even if it is quietly and without fanfare.

accuse^ Humprey of ridiculous acting...

how we all have an impact on other peoples lives even if it is quietly and without fanfare.

Yes, exactly that emotions.

My favourite Christmas film....not Christmas till I've watched it! Op, YANBU!!!

It's a great film, wonderful in fact. YANBU.

I really really wanted to love the film

but I just didn't

Yabu

I really dont get what's so wonderful about it.

The message as I watched it was: sod your own dreams and what you want in life. Just make everyone else happy by being unhappy or unfilled in yourself.

Yea yea they all rally round in the end, man made the community that makes up for 20 plus years of what others wanted of him.

I've never seen it all the way through. Have fallen asleep in front of it numerous times though.

My favourite is Now Voyager with Bette Davis.

YANBU.

If it doesn't make you cry you have no heart.

I never seen it and not really bothered about going out of my way to change that tbh. I don't really enjoy watching films.

its pretty shite actually

The message as I watched it was: sod your own dreams and what you want in life. Just make everyone else happy by being unhappy or unfilled in yourself.

There's an element of duty and self-sacrifice in there, but I'm not sure I'd go that far.

Are you a die-hard Thatherite or something?

My favourite is Now Voyager with Bette Davis.

She gives me the creeps. In a very big way.

Thatcherite^

I love IAWL but I absolutely hate Titanic, with Decaprio. I thought it was cringy.

I only like her in two films, now voyager and all about eve.

No not at all.

Normally quite liberal, but just don't the its a great feel good movie/ Christmas movie.

Not sure if me n my partner were expecting something totally different of the film when we first watched it a few years back from all the hype. It's just not that great or happy of a film.

I think it's the eyebrows Set

Sorry for the mis words. Phone playing up when typing

but just don't the its a great feel good movie/ Christmas movie.

It is less sugary than the more recent idea of a 'Christmassy' film, I think. Maybe that's what jarred?

I don't think it's depressing. Most people have dreams that they never achieved because circumstances got in the way, but they still have good things in their life, as George realises.

I just love Capra though, his films are so nice. I love You Can't Take It With You.

They are pretty grim. But she's wonderfully melodramatic. Now Joan Crawford really creeps me out.

Oh, yes, 'Mildred Pierce', william! Fantastic.
I have loved IaWL forever; I love Jimmy Stewart and am singing 'Buffalo Gals' to myself right now.
I'm a sucker for a Bette Davis film, too, and for Katherine Hepburn, and Cary Grant ..... I'll be serenading my cats with 'I Can't Give You Anything But Love' to my cats for an encore.

I'm just switching my oscillating air cooler on with its remote control, Fide. Not that I'm smug, or anything

Maybe thats our problem, as our favourite Christmas film is Muppets Xmas carol and we do watch a xmas film most days every December.

Bloody Americans and their film industry for sugaring up everything up!

I think it's a beautiful film, to imagine how the world would have been if you hadn't been in it, how we affect people in ways we can never imagine, wish I could do it for my own life. To me, it's saying, you matter and what you do matters.

I think it's unfair to judge older films by the values of today. You have to try and regard them of their time. It was a different time, values were different and technology was massively different. Some of those films can look naive through our cynical jaded eyes but if you can see past they can be fascinating and still teach us something