Posted on 08/21/2022 7:05:05 PM PDT by massmike
It is my very favorite Christmas movie, and maybe my all-time favorite movie, too. I have been called a modern day Mary Bailey by one of my closest friends, and I take that as a huge compliment.
I married my college sweetheart that I met our freshman year. A ew years after we graduated college, we married. Our first Christmas together I was ending my first trimester of pregnancy with our son. He was unexpected but we did what we could to be ready for him. We both worked so hard to make a good life for him and for each other.
My husband is the apple of my eye, always has been from the minute I met him. So our story is something like George and Mary’s without all the drama of the bank examiner and Clarence. We know we are incredibly blessed. We have been through a lot of tough times together, and we know we will always have each other’s back. That’s just how it is, and how it’s supposed to be.
RIP to Virginia Patton. May her family and friends be consoled.
Me too, and Jimmy as well
I liked Pottersville better.
Wouldn’t miss it. It’s a must see, every year.
I can see how that film would have been written as a tribute to that generation of Americans. There were a lot of Archetypes used: The shifty businessman, the befuddled but sincere average Joe. The chance to get rich quick, followed by the crushing, breathtaking but nonetheless predictable disappointment of losing almost everything you have.
Act Three begins with: A chance of redemption and making it all better.
She was beautiful! RIP.
We always watch ‘A Christmas Carol’, too; but we fight over whether the George C. Scott, or the Patrick Stewart is the best,..
George C. Scott.
That’s my husband’s choice. I agree that he’s the better actor in the role, but I just like the production values of the later one.
You made me cry. I am rough and tough seen a squatch, shoot guns etc. I’m on my third wife, she don’t love me like that.
I hated it that Potter got away with his crime. OTOH, I read the story behind the movie and what James Stewart was emotionally going through since this was his first movie after being discharged. Then I understood it better. I still hate Potter though.
George C Scott, hands down.
The guy who played Bob Cratchitt in that one died just recently
Our tradition too! It’s a wonderful life and then die hard. Not the same night though. :)
Nonsense! Scrooge (A Christmas Carol) (1951) The 1951 version of Charles Dickens’ classic tale was first released as Scrooge in the UK, but the American markets changed the title to A Christmas Carol. Character actor Alastair Sim gives a dynamic, multi-layered rendition of Ebenezer Scrooge. Effortlessly, Alastair Sim portrays this flawed human, who is both despicable and deserving of empathy.
Wonderful Life is for the old timers on Christmas Eve, after they get their medication and opened their presents around 9-sh. I have around 12 nieces and nephews from 5- 12 who can recite “ho ho ho, I have a machine gun” at the same time, it’s scary..
Christmas Day when more family fly in, it’s unanimous Tombstone’s the movie. Or when the kids boss the idiot adults and throw a tantrum, it’s Toy Story. But the adults mostly win..
My life is a constant nightmare. I realize that life is a constant series of disappointments, crushing defeats, petty revenges, upheavals and routs, loathed outcomes manifested, horrifying choices, antagonism and misery, lonely torment, anxiety and despair, a despondent sorrow that cannot break. Life is the darkness that only death itself can quench. The pain of existing outweighs the anguish of angst-ridden desolation in all ways.
It is pointless to exist. The insufferable ennui of the drudgery of simple existance destroys, like a cancer in my heart, the shallow vanity of life. All that I ever do, all that I ever think, speak, or see: my life, my dreams, my hopes, my fears, my emotions, they all have no meaning, or effect, or hope, whatsoever. A lifetime of f***ing things up — no more important than if I had succeeded in all my efforts — both without meaning and without purpose. The wisps and cobwebs of this temporary reality have falsely proclaimed themselves as real, and in it’s doing, destroyed all they touched.
Other than that, I’m great!
Virginia Patton is hot.
Well, was.
Gamblin', booze, showgirls... what's not to like?
We have a rare love. Been together 43 years now, 3 amazing (grown) children, and one grandson. We take care of each other…through thick and thin. We are living the dream.
But just so you know it hasn’t all been hunky dory, we did go through marriage counseling around our 14th year. All of our friends were getting divorced. We didn’t want to end up like that, so we needed someone to help us get through a rough patch. We knew we were in the same boat, but we didn’t know how to row together in the same direction. Our counselor helped us sort that out. Worth every bit of effort it took to learn how to be a team again. No problems since then, and that includes getting three kids though grade school, high school, and college, one married, one about to be married, and one in a relationship that we hope is his soulmate.
We talk about how we would have a hard time if the other passed. The hope is that we will die holding each other’s hands sometime in our 90’s. I know that sounds crazy in a way, but yeah, that would be pretty great.
Work on it with your wife. You never know. God bless.
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