Wednesday, December 28, 2011

My (almost) Baby sister seems to think that I have to write for her contest. Therefore I am writing this (have you ever wondered how long they would let you make these titles?


                    Lets see... Oh yes I have been coherced to write a review of It's a Wonderful Life. I have never actually watched the full movie technically, although I acted as Violet Bick in a community theater play. I have yet to get over that enough to finish watching the actual movie. That and I have this thing against Jimmy Stewart. Maybe he's just to decent and American. I think I like my characters very good and/or very interesting. Don't get me wrong I like amazing characters who are good amazingly so. But I have difficulty in many cases with boring good characters. This is not fair to Jimmy Stewart I will admit his character in here was fairly well drawn and interesting enough. I can see why the movie is a classic. The message of the story is very good and somewhat empowering (I am not certain if empowering is usually a good thing. I am not a believer in self confidence at all costs. Sometimes we all can be dumb and we should learn of it).
                    Maybe I can not understand someone who is so friendly and likeable. I mean likeable. That is what Jimmy Stewart is likeable. Likeable.  It feels like they are trying to take away my free will by trying to force me to like them. Then either I end up liking them or hating them for the attempt. Jimmy Stewart really is neither. I just do not care for his character that he always seems to play. Although I do hear he tried to get out of the nice average American man role that he always played towards the later part of his career.
So I was supposed to write about It's a Wonderful Life. Well to be completely frank it bores me after we go through his life the first time. When he starts freaking out I lost interest him as a character, (I dislike over dramatic reactions somewhat) and since I already knew the story as every does whether or not they have watched it, I have never finished it. So this is not much of a commentary I admit. IT probably is a good a very good movie, but I never could stand sentimental heartwarming movies. They are so disgustingly emotional.

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