Yes makes perfect sense..That also makes sense as a sentence.
Yes makes perfect sense..That also makes sense as a sentence.
Ok I take it back. It is actually great story.What do you like best? Whatever it is is fecking terrible
I'm going It's a Wonderful Life and Die Hard. Preferably in a double-bill.
Some men are Baptist, others Catholic; my father was an Oldsmobile man.
It's the soap guys, It's the soap..........Some men are Baptist, others Catholic; my father was an Oldsmobile man.
First reply nails itMuppets Christmas Carol for me.
Gremlins
Die Hard
Muppets
That's really neat.That also makes sense as a sentence.
I know it's cheesy as feck and overacted, but it's Jimmy Stewart overacting we're talking about.Ok I take it back. It is actually great story.
I heard Clark Griswold mention it before...White Christmas?
It's Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye for crying out loud!
People underestimate how brave James Stewart was in his acting in It's a wonderful life.I know it's cheesy as feck and overacted, but it's Jimmy Stewart overacting we're talking about.
Fair enough, I should pay due respect to the context in which the film was made.People underestimate how brave James Stewart was in his acting in It's a wonderful life.
He was portraying a suicidal man in 1946 - an incredibly brave choice in an era when suicide was still seen as a mortal sin, never mind being a marginalised / under-reported statistic.
Also remember this film was also shot just after the war ended and was his first film after he had finished flying B24's on bombing missions over Germany winning numerous medals and volunteering to fly extra missions than he needed to. He could have coasted in the Air force film unit but he actively campaigned to see active service as his family had done in previous American wars
He actually experienced A Post Traumatic Stress Disorder reaction while filming and this is what you see on screen - raw brutal emotion and desperation that he saw in colleagues exposed to the horrors of war.
That's not overacting
no problem -it's often just presented as a twee Christmas movie and that winds me up! Yes acting was more melodramatic then, this was filmed one year before the "actors Studio" was set up, that championed the "method" approach that is more subtle.Fair enough, I should pay due respect to the context in which the film was made.
That said I find some of Stewart's lines when he's in the grips of confusion ('Mary!' 'dontcha know me?!') hilarious and eminently quotable in his voice.
It's a moving film beyond doubt but to me there are funny moments both intentional and unintentional, the latter mostly brought on by the gusto-filled, stagey style of the acting (which I find from all kinds of films from the period, not just IAWL).
"We're gonna have the hap-, hap-, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tapdanced with Danny feckin' Kaye!"White Christmas?
It's Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye for crying out loud!