"its a wonderful life" thoughts

I had never actually seen this movie before as it was one of those things where I knew enough about it I never actually WANTED to watch, but hey its Christmas. 

SPOILERS AHEAD

- there are moments that are not aged at all, like "do you know how long it takes an adult man to save $5,000?!" or his monologue about how a job should give a man a nice place to live with everything he would need

- his pickup line about lassoing the moon is actually VERY romantic I even swooned a little

- he almost immediately ruined it by basically holding her hostage in the bush, keeping her clothes to himself and not wanting to give them back until she agrees to go on a date

- later scene he gets rejected by her and a whole sidewalk of people laugh. That's negative rizz right there

- Mary smashing the record to get the music to stop, mood. 

- If a man told me he got a job at a factory bc he found a way to make plastic out of soybeans I would turn heterosexual for him. environmentalist king george

- i had seen the scene where there's a run at the bank and he spends his money to help but i didn't know the true context of it and oh my GAWD its heart warming and also so sad

- "can i have 17.50?" and he kisses her that made me laugh :3c so cute

- did people really say 'hee-haw!' for everything?

- "What is it a boy or a girl" "mmm-hmm!" awwww lol

- why do we need to know the fate of literally everyone during the war? including ernie the taxi driver??

- MR POTTER U EVIL SOB 

- Honestly I don't even blame George for lashing out like that, its $8,000 in 1946 money. uncle bill essentially lost a million bucks

- george is so stressed about the money he asks 'why did we have to have all these kids' now that is S T R E S S E D 

- maybe i blame george a lil bit this is a lot

- mr potter is actually sickeningly evil 

- mr welch is a real ride or die for his wife i respect that

- i hate the way blood looks in this movie it makes me nauseous

- this man looks and sounds a LOT like jk simmons what da HELL

- "it's against the law to commit suicide around here" who tf are they going to charge? the dead person? 

- every single parody of this movie has the person being escorted by the angel being completely invisible in the world, but not here? he's not invisible? he's able to talk to people as he figures out this is the world he wasn't born in. . . why do the parodies make the characters invisible?  

- he basically turned an entire town into a red lights district its kind of wild to see in this old movie. speaking of surprising things, idk many PG movies that deal with suicide 

- that house is haunting looking. . . 

- THE ANGEL BIT THE COP I REPEAT THE ANGEL BIT THE COP!! NO PIGS!

- his own mother not remembering him oh my god im crying this is so sad. theres actual tears i can't handle this

- him staring directly into the camera when he's so close to his lowest is borderline lynchian 

- (almost) TITLE DROP!

- that's how you can tell she's an old maid, she suddenly needs glasses!

- HE PUNCHED THE COP LETS GO ANOTHER PIG DOWN

- THE ENTIRE TOWN COLLECTED THE MONEY HE NEEDED AWWWWWW MERRY CHRISTMAS 

- its such a man thing to contemplate suicide before considering asking for help