It's Kind of a Wonderful Life

Jimmy Stewart, overacting

We see the film It's a Wonderful Life every December with friends. It's a nice tradition- I never get tired of it. You can get food and drinks at the theater, so I settle in for a couple of hours with my Christmassy beer and a pizza and get ready to cry at all my favorite parts. I cry at the same parts every year.

Anyway, I was thinking about the movie today, and, even though I truly love it, there are some things about it that bug me. I guess this happens with any movie that you watch multiple times, but besides the Wizard of Oz, which I find pretty much flawless, except for that part when the Witch throws fire at the Scarecrow from the rooftop and then they meet the Tin Man and afterwards they all go skipping down the yellow brick road: I still wonder every time if that really is a member of the crew that hung himself and is swinging in the background between the trees, I haven't watched any other movie as many times. (My high school English teacher would HATE that sentence.)

Back to It's a Wonderful Life. I love Jimmy Stewart, and Donna Reed is adorable, and I am still waiting to get a cat that I can name Zuzu.  But here's what I don't love about it-  what I downright have problems with:

~ Every time a bell rings, an angel does not get it's wings. God made angels, then He made people. People don't turn into angels.

~ If your life was so horrible before, wouldn't going back to the same kind of life be just as depressing? Just sayin'.

~ The worst thing that could happen to a woman is that she becomes a librarian? I love libraries- I've always secretly wanted to become a librarian! And, if George had never lived, Mary would have needed to get glasses?! That makes no sense!!

~Clarence writes in the book that he gives George something about how you can tell how good someone's life has been by the number of friends they have. I'm sorry, but after all that drama, I'm always let down by the fact the moral of the story is to just try to be more popular.

~ Why do they have to end the movie with Auld Lang Syne? It's not even a Christmas song! And it's awful, and depressing!

~George steps on Mary's belt and her whole robe falls off?

~That whole dumb "Hee-Haw" thing.

So, that's my mini review of It's a Wonderful Life. Most of it is wonderful. I'm just being a little Grinchy.