Please react to Ghostbusters 2 and Ghostbusters Afterlife! As well as Garfield and Osmosis Jones.

Please also react to Christmas With The Kranks with Tim Allen. And Jingle All The Way with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I hope it's "White Christmas" and/or "Scrooge" (1970)

React to this movie called ben 10 alien x tinction

All George wanted to do was get away. Everything ‘Mary’ was the opposite of that. That was the emotion in her house. Keep in mind that earlier he found out that Harry wasn’t coming back to take over the business too.

That's also why there's the running gag in the first two Home Alone movies... In the first movie they are all in France waiting to find out about if they can get back to Kevin and everyone is sitting around the TV watching It's a Wonderful Life dubbed in French. Then in Home Alone 2 they are all in Florida waiting to find out about Kevin and sitting around the TV watching It's a Wonderful Life dubbed in Spanish.

That is partially right…they later were able to reestablish the copyright because they also owned the source material and the music rights.

And most importantly, because it was a terrific movie.....

I cry everytime

That line and "Attaboy Clarence!" from George always make me cry tears of absolute joy

I love that Harry, who is a national hero for his war service, considers his big brother George to be HIS hero, and for all the right reasons.

That's the line that does it for me every time too.

And Jimmy Stewart's reaction to that line is perfect!

In my opinion, the final scene in this movie may be the single greatest scene ever filmed.

Although throughout the film, they are narrating. They just take some long breaks inbetween.

@@fynnthefox9078 Yeah, and in addition to that they never do show/mention Clarance heading down to Earth to help George. It’s a clever move to build the tension the more discouraged George becomes.

YEah I cry like a baby every time and at all the same places he cried.

Watched it in Black and white. Didn't know can see it colour. 🥰

@@surjitbadhan68 It was filmed in black and white. It was colorized in the "80s; I prefer the original black and white.

@@surjitbadhan68 There was a colorized VHS version that I owned that was horrendous but it was in the dollar bin and that's what I had playing every year I brought down the Christmas decorations and put up our tree. I then purchased the double DVD set with both the colorized and original black and white version. I found my preference was the colorized version with the television set to Vivid as the colors and the excellent quality of the movie transfer made it seem like the movie was recently shot. It's almost blasphemous to like colorized versions of b&w movies but I watch Miracle on 34th Street the same way. It simply makes the movie more cheery to me. In both instances, the colorization is excellent.

It’s “colorized” which means the color was added ling after the movie was filmed. Fake color

There's a story about W.C. Fields in his vaudeville days. He was doing his act on stage, and backstage someone collided with some equipment, creating much crashing noise. When it subsided, Fields looked at the audience and confidentially told them, "Mice."

Frank Capra liked the sound effect, he paid the PA $10 ($152.67 today’s money)

I like that story. Here's another one: Lionel Barrymore, who played Potter, didn't believe Donna Reed (Mary)'s claim about being born on a farm in Iowa, so one day they had a live cow backstage. Barrymore bet Reed $50 that she couldn't milk it.. Reed won the bet and said it was the easiest $50 she ever made. There's another story about Donna Reed: When filming the scene where Mary throws a rock through the window of the Granville House, director Frank Capra hired a sharpshooter to shoot the window out, but Donna Reed broke the window herself on the first throw. They later found out she played baseball in high school and had a strong pitching arm.

@@j.woodbury412 I loved her growing up. I'm only 42, but I did watch Donna Reed show on Nick at Nite. I think I love her most in this movie. ❤️

@@goldilox369 I don't think I've ever watched the Donna Reed Show, but I do like her in this movie. She was a beautiful woman back then and she didn't look too bad when she got older.

I think he was definitely dealing with some feelings towards Mary that didn't help with the rest of the mess on his brain and spirits. He didn't know quite what to do with them and frankly, didn't WANT to deal with them there and then because of everything else. But they inevitably won over. ❤

I think it's both - in that as you said, his brother's return and finding out he has a SIL and also that his brother has an opportunity that George knows damn well would mean a bright future for Harry, but also means that once again he's going to have to give up his own future for someone else's - he adores his brother and he's going to do it, but he's also human, so of course it hurts. He shows up at Mary's in the middle of still processing the pain of swallowing his own dreams in large, jagged chunks. And then Mary re-enters the picture and his mom pushes him at her, and Mary - well, this is the 40s. They're at the age they should be marrying and having children. And so at this point all he can see when he looks at Mary is another weight waiting to be tied round his neck to hold him down in Bedford Falls. She loves the old house, that's a tie to BF. He's baffled she came back when she'd gotten out - something he's never done and can only be jealous about as every single friend of his has left. And her response - that she was *homesick* for a place he sees as a prison - yeah, Mary's just another piece of the picture of his future that he sees clearly and *hates*. I have some feelings about this movie. Had he succeeded, it's possible he could have helped far more people than he did in BF and been a happier man. And meanwhile BF's citizens all benefit off his losses. To pin the success or failure of another person, let alone *an entire town*, on one person is a really terrible burden. Having said that, it is only a movie, and the acting is top notch. I just think it's interesting, some of the unhealthy mindsets our media can paint up to look beautiful when, had the writers not written him out of his troubles, he really would have gone to jail and his family would have suffered terribly, the B&L would have failed after all his work, and he'd be left with a ruined life, because he gave and he gave and he gave, and never said "no, I'm sorry, but I cannot keep being the only thing between everyone and utter disaster."

Yes. but I think he's made at her, too. Everyone else got out, including her, and got to go to college and see the world. He was anchored by duty and everyone else left him behind. that makes a person resentful even if they try not to be. so I think that's what he was feeling there. he was feeling almost betrayed by her, just like the other girl.

@@bettrhalf8006 Don’t forget that it was George who convinced Sam to build the plastics factory in Bedford Falls. That must have been a huge benefit to such a small town, especially since it was in the height of the Depression in 1932 and would have later done terrific business during the war and after. I really think that the factory and George’s Bailey Park providing affordable housing saved BF from either becoming a ghost town or a seedy dive like Pottersville.

Wasn't George also drunk?

Yeah, I’ve always hated the colorized version. It wasn’t meant to shown in color in the first place, the black and white was a deliberate choice from the director. The colorized version just takes away so much the visual charm.

LOL I didn't even notice it was in color 😂🤣😂

Okay, so, my grandfather passed away a few days ago and this was one of the movies we always watched around Christmas. I’m so excited to see your reaction.

Aww thanks so much, glad you enjoy them!

I recall that Colorization "hit the fan" when Frank Sinatra was rendered with BROWN eyes! The Brouhaha from "Old Blue Eyes" Frank Sinatra turned the tide against Ted Turner's Color Crayon crusade.;)

@@Otokichi786 I haven't heard that, but I am glad it ceased. Also that is hilarious.

They tried to colorize Citizen Kane but director Welles' contract was too strong.

Bomber pilot, actually.

@@sparky6086 cool

Yes, he definitely needs to watch this every year, just like the rest of us.

My mom bought them both from a Walmart as a package set years ago and so I think of one I think of the other. I didn't actually watch either until after I saw a Friends episode talking about It's a Wonderful Life being depressing lol

Yeah, both stories are very different. It's like comparing an apple to an orange.

Oh thanks for letting me know, wasn’t sure if the color versus black and white would be a big deal, seems I should have watched the black and white haha.

Wonderful reaction, Nick, to a movie that never gets old no matter how many times it's seen. Just as a general rule, any time a film has a black-and-white and color version, the black and white is the original version. This started back in the nineties when it was felt they would sell more movies on VHS, later DVD by adding computerized color. Problem was, they looked washed out and unnatural. But no matter, you enjoyed the film and that is the important thing.

Well back in the 80’s it would have been shown a lot because of public domain status, but when it went back to being copyrighted it is only shown once a year on NBC.

The first time I watched this is when I was overseas while still in the fourth grade. I’ve loved it ever since.

@@jamesmoyner7499 It's more accurate to say it's shown only a few times every year during the Christmas season, on NBC and one or more of its affiliates. This year, for instance (2022), it was shown twice on the USA cable channel on December 15 in addition to being broadcast on NBC, I think again twice, once close to Thanksgiving, and once upcoming on Christmas Eve.

@@oliverbrownlow5615 Well this is news to me because I thought because of the copyrighr status the studio or whoever only allowed it to be shown once a year.

Why would they try to make it nonexistent?

That would have been a bad scene. No need for Clarence to play the angel of death.

Awww thanks so much! Really didn’t have to donate but I appreciate it! Happy holidays!!

An era where people NEEDED happiness.

@@fynnthefox9078 We still need it! People are literally more depressed and lonely now than they were back then.

It was like a mixture of this and Polar Express too. Very well done. I also grew up with iCarly which also did a parody of this movie. I just got around to reading the book a few weeks ago. It was good but not near as fleshed out as the movie.

@@oliviarogers2808 Yeah,but Mitch got a plate of Chicken wings. I love that episode too!

I prefer the Monochrome original as well, where possible. (I wonder if "They Shall Not Grow Old" can be found in "shades of grey"?)

Happily, the Constitution of the United States gives every American the right to choose between black and white and colorization.

Same here.

Less a Christmas story and more a story of a man who's done so much for others. I guess you can call George Bailey "Santa Claus".

Haha sorry got my titles mixed up.

I thought I read that the Sesame Street characters were named after Bert and Ernie from this movie.

The run on the bank isn't part of the Stock Market Crash of 1929, and here's why. Mary's and Harry's high school graduating class was the class of 1928. A banner at the dance states this quite clearly. After George is appointed as the executive of the Building & Loan, he sends Harry to college. When Harry returns from college it is four years later, and George visits Mary and falls in love with her on that same night, which means that their wedding takes place no earlier than 1932. So the run on the bank followed by the bank being closed for a week is almost certainly intended to represent the national Banking Crisis of March, 1933, which, as you suggest, resulted in the creation of the FDIC. As of 2010, with the passage of the Dodd-Frank law, the FDIC insures bank deposits up to $250,000, and no depositer has ever lost a penny that was insured by the FDIC.

I would say there wedding was in March 1933 about 8 months after both Mary’s & Harry’s return from college with degree’s.

😊😊😊

Black and white version much better.

A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart is the best!!

Maybe, but it gained a cult following like many good movies.

It was actually a member of the crew tripping over a table. The poor man thought he would be fired, instead he got a $10 bonus for “improving the audio.”

Good for you! Do what makes you happy;)