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Post by kateln on Nov 23, 2012 21:23:21 GMT -4
All right, I'm going to hell for this post, but here we go; I hate the following iconic movies; "The Wizard of Oz" (which I loved as a kid), "It's a Wonderful Life", and "The Sound of Music".
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2012 22:59:08 GMT -4
I also hate 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'It's a Wonderful Life' -- you are not alone!
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Post by chonies on Nov 23, 2012 23:39:14 GMT -4
Ooh, I'm popping popcorn! What's with the It's a Wonderful Life hate? I know it has problems (up to and including Frank Capra has been described as a fascist) but I like it because I classify it as a movie that gets under my skin.
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Post by Gigiree on Nov 24, 2012 9:25:34 GMT -4
Hell, this might actually fit better under the True Confessions thread, but I've never actually been able to sit through an entire showing of It's a Wonderful Life. I basically make it to the part where Donna Reed and Jimmy Stewart are dancing and fall into the pool, and I leave the room. I will admit it has been maybe ten years since I've tried, so there's a possibility I would like it now, but frankly, I'm kind of "meh" about it. My Christmas movies are A Christmas Story ("You'll shoot your eye out!) and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. I'm sentimental enough during the holidays without having movies make me tear up, too.
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Post by kateln on Nov 24, 2012 18:05:11 GMT -4
Ooh, I'm popping popcorn! What's with the It's a Wonderful Life hate? I know it has problems (up to and including Frank Capra has been described as a fascist) but I like it because I classify it as a movie that gets under my skin. In my case, it's because I had to watch it a lot as a kid. I love Jimmy Stewart, but hate this movie. Plus Donna Reed is so sappy, Violet the flirt was much more fun. She'd have gone traveling with George. |
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Post by chonies on Nov 24, 2012 19:23:07 GMT -4
Ooh, I'm popping popcorn! What's with the It's a Wonderful Life hate? I know it has problems (up to and including Frank Capra has been described as a fascist) but I like it because I classify it as a movie that gets under my skin. In my case, it's because I had to watch it a lot as a kid. I love Jimmy Stewart, but hate this movie. Plus Donna Reed is so sappy, Violet the flirt was much more fun. She'd have gone traveling with George. I thought Mary and George were on their way to leave for a world tour when the bank run happened. It was their honeymoon, but it still looked like a pretty full schedule. That aside, I love to provoke this conversation because I think this movie is really just a big Rohrshach test.  I strongly dislike A Christmas Story because everyone in it bugs me to pieces. I don't really have any nostalgia for it, and I wonder if I just need a break from it. ETA: roisin, the librarian thing was  for me, too. I know it was portrayed as sad/bad in the film, but 21st century me is happy she had a job and didn't marry Sam Wainwright. I wonder if the story would have had the same impact if Spinster Mary had been a nurse or teacher. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2012 19:56:57 GMT -4
I HATE A Christmas Story with the white hot passion of a thousand burning suns. I might have liked it a little bit if my brother hadn't forced me to watch it so many times, but I really just don't see what's so special about it. But really, being subjected to a 24 hour marathon of something against ones will will make one hate it. So that's totally my brother's fault.
I don't really like Its a Wonderful Life Either. It's dreadfully boring until the what-if-George-was-never-born bit, and even then it's a bit annoying. I'm a librarian so I find the Oh no! Mary's a librarian! How awful! thing kind of offensive.
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Post by Mutagen on Nov 25, 2012 20:04:35 GMT -4
My people. I was overexposed to A Christmas Story before I ever saw the damn thing, thanks to other people quoting it incessantly, and It's A Wonderful Life does nothing for me either.
My favorite Christmas movie will always be The Ref. "Go ahead, shoot her."
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Post by Sunnyhorse on Nov 25, 2012 20:37:30 GMT -4
I love you people. Other than Darren McGavin, I absolutely loathe A Christmas Story. Unfortunately, everyone in my family and Mr. S's thinks it's the shit, so I end up seeing it at least twice each Christmas.
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Post by smockery on Nov 28, 2012 12:19:09 GMT -4
Even though it has the awful Mel Gibson in it, our go to Christmas movie is Lethal Weapon.
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for me, too. I know it was portrayed as sad/bad in the film, but 21st century me is happy she had a job and didn't marry Sam Wainwright. I wonder if the story would have had the same impact if Spinster Mary had been a nurse or teacher.
