"It's a Wonderful Life": The Most terrifying movie ever made?

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  1. guy incognito

    guy incognito Senior Member Thread Starter

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    Salon's Rich Cohen thinks so.

    A very interesting interpretation of an old classic.
     
  2. JamieC

    JamieC Senior Member

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    If it wasn't levened with humor it would be the Twilight Zone. And scary.
     
  3. Scotian

    Scotian Amnesia Hazed

    I think some of these "writers" sit around trying to think of ways to generate contoversy & get a little publicity. I also think they're running out of ideas.
     
  4. SBurke

    SBurke Nostalgia Junkie

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    Wasn't there a piece on Salon or some other such site a couple years ago taking the position that Pottertown looked a lot more fun?
     
  5. Vidiot

    Vidiot Now in 4K HDR!

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    Scared the hell outta me as a little kid. I think I saw it when I was 10 or 11, and it had quite an impression on me. I'd never seen a movie change gears in telling the story like this before, going from grim, to happy, to hopeful, to despondent, to utter despair, and then undoes everything and goes back to happy again.
     
  6. music4life

    music4life Senior Member

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    Was also mentioned in a "King of Queens" episode where Carrie's father (Jerry Stiller) never saw the film before and says that Pottersville seemed like a better place than Bedford Falls.
     
  7. sprocket

    sprocket Active Member

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    +1
     
  8. jriems

    jriems Audio Ojiisan

    "It's a Wonderful Life": The Most terrifying movie ever made?

    Ummm...no.
     
  9. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    ...what is terrifying...the fact that someone would even contemplate IAWL as terrifying!:laugh:

    smoke and mirrors...
     
  10. Oatsdad

    Oatsdad Oat, Biscuits, Abbie & Mitzi: Best Dogs Ever

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    Not an original thought - I said the same thing when I reviewed the DVD back in 1999!
     
  11. shokhead

    shokhead Head shok and you still don't what it is. HA!

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    + another
     
  12. BradOlson

    BradOlson Country/Christian Music Maven

    It is not a completely terrifying movie to me, I call it haunting.
     
  13. Digital-G

    Digital-G Senior Member

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    Parts of it are dark, very dark even, but I wouldn't call it terrifying. Love it though, maybe because it has such breadth.
     
  14. BradOlson

    BradOlson Country/Christian Music Maven

    I love it for the same reasons.
     
  15. That's why it stiffed at the box office but still resonates.
     
  16. Dan C

    Dan C Forum Fotographer

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    Hmm. Cute headline but in reality a very smart essay on the movie. Yeah, I get that. It's making me think about the film in a new way all over again. Cool. :righton:

    dan c
     
  17. jojopuppyfish

    jojopuppyfish Senior Member

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    The main lesson I got out of the movie is that in real life, we all live in Pottersville.
     
  18. paulisme

    paulisme I’m being sarcastic

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    Not even close.

    If you want terrifying and deceptively non-kid-friendly, check out Return to Oz. That movie scarred me for life when I was a kid.
     
  19. jjhunsecker

    jjhunsecker Senior Member

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    The movie taps into a primal nightmare- that people we know don't know who we are. That's one I'm sure many of us have had, and that's why it's so effective, because those scenes touch such a raw nerve
     
  20. moople72

    moople72 Forum Resident

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    The movie gets better every time I see it.
     
  21. slipkid

    slipkid Senior Member

    I'm waiting for a remake set in modern times with a realistic ending of George getting arrested for drunken driving & bank fraud.

    The guy who's tree he hits probably sues him for damages on top of it all. George becomes an abusive angry drunk and is marched off to jail for 7 years. Mary & the kids leave him.

    Merry Christmas in Pottersville (the real world)!
     
  22. Dillydipper

    Dillydipper Space-Age luddite

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  23. His Masters Vice

    His Masters Vice W.C. Fields Forever

  24. guy incognito

    guy incognito Senior Member Thread Starter

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    That link seems to have died as well.

    Try this one.
     
  25. Drifter

    Drifter AAD survivor

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    Weird, all three links work for me!

    James Stewart is my favourite actor of all time and he doesn't disappoint in this film. His transformation is fantastic.
     
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