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[Karrit]

I don't know if this is necessarily an unpopular movie opinion, but my favourite feel good fluffy movie right now is "Just Wright," with Queen Latifah and Common. Yeah it is a formulaic romcom, but I watch it every time it is on. Like now! :-)

[twodollars]

I own this movie. It is the perfect feelgood movie.

[mmmkrimpets]

I like the movie Project X way, way, way more than I should considering my age and the thousand outrageous and highly illegal things that happen in it. The soundtrack somehow just appeared on my ipod, I swear.

my favourite feel good fluffy movie right now is "Just Wright," with Queen Latifah and Common

A *friend of mine* may have spent way too much time trying to find the adorable butterfly covered dress the golddigging cousin character wears in the scene where she was showing Queen Latifah the house (that BTW my friend is also fully prepared to move into assuming the interior is not in some movie studio backlot because the same friend also discovered the exterior is some school or association's HQ in NY)

[newmanium]

So I finally watched It's a Wonderful Life in it's entirety this x-mas, and all I can say is, "First world problems very much, George?" Seriously, he has his health, a beautiful wife, healthy kids, friends, a nice, big house, and last but not least, he inherited a freaking bank!

So he didn't get to travel, boo hoo hoo. He was doing a heluvalot better than 95% of Americans at the time. I can see why this flick bombed in the theaters when it first came out. I can only imagine how the folks who'd barely survived the depression and the war felt about this whining choad.

Count your blessing you self-pitying jerk! You shouldn't have needed divine intervention to tell you that.

ETA: Pottersville looked like a fun, lively place, and NO, Mary not marrying and working in the library was NOT a terrible fate.

[Karrit]

Jan 4, 2013 15:53:50 GMT -4 newmanium said:

So I finally watched It's a Wonderful Life in it's entirety this x-mas, and all I can say is, "First world problems very much, George?" Seriously, he has his health, a beautiful wife, healthy kids, friends, a nice, big house, and last but not least, he inherited a freaking bank!

So he didn't get to travel, boo hoo hoo. He was doing a heluvalot better than 95% of Americans at the time. I can see why this flick bombed in the theaters when it first came out. I can only imagine how the folks who'd barely survived the depression and the war felt about this whining choad.

Count your blessing you self-pitying jerk! You shouldn't have needed divine intervention to tell you that.

ETA: Pottersville looked like a fun, lively place, and NO, Mary not marrying and working in the library was NOT a terrible fate.

I watched IAWL last month for the first time in about 5 or 6 years and I came away with a new appreciation for it. Yes, the bit about Mary was lame...but I thought the whole film was rather timely. Here was this little Savings and Loan that kept the middle class going in Bedford Falls. It helped people buy homes and businesses and get a piece of the American dream in a way that Mr Potter would never had allowed. It just seemed so ironic to see again after the 2012 election where the nearly-have-it-alls wanted to win so they could be the have-it-alls just like Mr Potter. I would love to see what Sarah Palin and her ilk say about this film.

And I don't think that George hated his life, in fact I think he was happy until the money went missing and he thought he was headed for jail and what that meant for his family. That would put me in a pissy mood too!

[chonies]

Jan 4, 2013 19:35:13 GMT -4 Karrit said:

Jan 4, 2013 15:53:50 GMT -4 newmanium said:

So I finally watched It's a Wonderful Life in it's entirety this x-mas, and all I can say is, "First world problems very much, George?" Seriously, he has his health, a beautiful wife, healthy kids, friends, a nice, big house, and last but not least, he inherited a freaking bank!

So he didn't get to travel, boo hoo hoo. He was doing a heluvalot better than 95% of Americans at the time. I can see why this flick bombed in the theaters when it first came out. I can only imagine how the folks who'd barely survived the depression and the war felt about this whining choad.

Count your blessing you self-pitying jerk! You shouldn't have needed divine intervention to tell you that.

ETA: Pottersville looked like a fun, lively place, and NO, Mary not marrying and working in the library was NOT a terrible fate.

I watched IAWL last month for the first time in about 5 or 6 years and I came away with a new appreciation for it. Yes, the bit about Mary was lame...but I thought the whole film was rather timely. Here was this little Savings and Loan that kept the middle class going in Bedford Falls. It helped people buy homes and businesses and get a piece of the American dream in a way that Mr Potter would never had allowed. It just seemed so ironic to see again after the 2012 election where the nearly-have-it-alls wanted to win so they could be the have-it-alls just like Mr Potter. I would love to see what Sarah Palin and her ilk say about this film.

And I don't think that George hated his life, in fact I think he was happy until the money went missing and he thought he was headed for jail and what that meant for his family. That would put me in a pissy mood too!

I agree with Karrit, especially the last part. George was facing a crisis that could have brought his whole family down with him, and in the chaos of that, I think everything flashed before his eyes, as they say. I think he was fairly content with the cards he'd been dealt--some choices, some luck (good and bad)--until he had a potentially disastrous day with tiny, crummy things on top. George needed some perspective, and he got it.

Personally, I'm relating a lot to George Bailey these days. I have some dumb, first-world problems and sometimes I remember that other people have it far worse, but gratitude and a positive mantra don't erase my actual concerns.

[Shalamar]

Yeah, me too. His house was big, sure, but it was also old and drafty.

I ... kinda love that movie. We always play it while we're decorating for Christmas, and the end always makes me cry!

[Hamatron]

I sort of love that movie because it's so unique to its era, and it would never be made today. It's about a guy who faces disappointments and compromise, but ultimately is happy with the lot he is dealt in life. When faced with a crisis, he loses himself in booze and suicidal thoughts for a little bit, but ultimately his past generosity and kindness bring people to come to his aid. And in the end everyone is so happy they all cry with joy.

Had that movie been made today? George would have had a glamorous job (on Wall Street... or something!). The good deeds he does in life would be over-the-top rather than simple, real things people do for each other. And the whole town would give him a paid vacation to Europe (he always did want travel) on top of bailing him out. The movie would star Tom Cruise, and the message would not be about finding joy in life's unexpected kindnesses and compromises, but rather about "being true to yourself no matter what" and "having a heart" or some lame BS.

[eclair]

So that's another thing to be thankful for, we're spared seeing George run with arms-a-pumpin'.

[Shalamar]

Hee!