Comments on: It’s a Wonderful Life – Movie Review

By: Vokalist

Vokalist — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:48:24 +0000

I know how you feel. I was not in a good place when I first saw this movie. Ididn’t have a lot of friends in high school. I had a lot of hopes for my life that never seemed to materialize. I felt that I would never be able to make a difference to anyone’s life, including my own. But then I saw this movie and I felt better about my life immediately.

Now, whenever I’m down, I just watch this movie and it brings back all the joy in life. This film makes me try to be a better person. It centers me in a way that no other film can. It is one of the reasons I enjoy film so much.

By: Vokalist

Vokalist — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:43:56 +0000

I actually read that book around the same time that I first saw It’s A Wonderful Life. It was the first reference to the movie I noticed and not a week goes by that I don’t see more references to this great film.
Off the top of my head, I remember an episode of Beverly Hills 90210 based on it, Elbow has a song called George Lassos The Moon, in Home Alone they are watching a French dubbed version of it, there’s a character in Ford Fairlane named Zuzu Petals, the list goes on and on.

By: Q-Dog

Q-Dog — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:43:43 +0000

And to add to the films more “Geeky” cred, it is also Dave Lister’s favourite film in Red Dwarf. In the Novel of “Better Than Life” Dave Lister is trapped in the VR world of a fictional Bedford Falls in which it’s always christmas eve and Kochanski is his loving wife.

Of course Rimmer has to show up in a massive petrol rig to destroy it all. lol.

its such an emotional movie and it really does remind you that one man can be important to so many others…

its pure cheese at the end, yeah, but hey… its emotional…and sweet.

By: brob

brob — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:09:26 +0000

Have to say that i too have a soft spot for this movie. Having said that, i simply cannot remember a time when this movie was actually shown on TV on a Christmas Eve in Australia. i’m sure that it has been, but my family were always more of a Carols by Candlelight kinda group.

I do know that my first experience with this film was many many years ago. I was living in Sydney, by myself, a young guy without friends or family around me and kinda miserable. One of my co-workers took me aside one day and told me that i had to watch “Its a Wonderful Life”, she told me it changed her life and that i would be “good for me”.

So, off i trotted to the video store, rented out the most battered VHS copy you’ve ever seen and went home to watch.

About halfway through this film, i felt like throwing myself off the bridge with George, How on earth could watching this good decent guy get completely fracked over make me feel better.

But, by the time that George gets home and the angel gets its wings, I was in tears like a small schoolgirl whos lost her doll. At the time, i thought that i would never again watch a movie that moved me as much as this did at that very particular time of my life.

Sure, 20 yrs on and i now recognise that i was being manipulated and that the cheese is pretty thick towards the end, but to me, i will always remember being uplifted and inspired by this film and i put it in the same catagory as Henry Fonda’s “12 Angry Men” as one of the movies where i realised that i could like films that weren’t genre blockbusters and that black and white didn’t necessarily equate to boring