This is me, for sure. I’ve never seen “It’s a Wonderful Life,” not all at once, but I’m pretty sure I’ve experienced every scene at least once, via being in a room with a running television, clips in the context of feature stories, friends and family and perfect strangers retelling or even re-enacting their favorite parts. So while I don’t need to watch it, now I have to wonder if I would want to watch it.
When I finally saw “Animal House,” I was in the same boat, pretty sure I’d been through it all a bit at a time, mostly through people — okay, probably mostly the same couple of people — reciting lines. But it seemed like it would be a pretty good movie. I won’t say it was a bad movie, and I won’t say that those recitations were all that good, but they did set up certain expectations that the film didn’t really live up to.
But “It’s a Wonderful Life” is not “Animal House.” I’ve decided maybe I should watch it. But I’m going to take the same approach I took to “everybody should see Las Vegas at least once,” and that is: Do it, just don’t go out of your way to. Sooner or later, everybody gets sent to Vegas for a conference or brought as a guest. Sooner or later I’ll end up watching “Wonderful Life.”
Can’t say the same thing about “Game of Thrones.” I’m sure it’s good, but that would be just too big a chunk of my life at this point.
Frazz
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This is me, for sure. I’ve never seen “It’s a Wonderful Life,” not all at once, but I’m pretty sure I’ve experienced every scene at least once, via being in a room with a running television, clips in the context of feature stories, friends and family and perfect strangers retelling or even re-enacting their favorite parts. So while I don’t need to watch it, now I have to wonder if I would want to watch it.
When I finally saw “Animal House,” I was in the same boat, pretty sure I’d been through it all a bit at a time, mostly through people — okay, probably mostly the same couple of people — reciting lines. But it seemed like it would be a pretty good movie. I won’t say it was a bad movie, and I won’t say that those recitations were all that good, but they did set up certain expectations that the film didn’t really live up to.
But “It’s a Wonderful Life” is not “Animal House.” I’ve decided maybe I should watch it. But I’m going to take the same approach I took to “everybody should see Las Vegas at least once,” and that is: Do it, just don’t go out of your way to. Sooner or later, everybody gets sent to Vegas for a conference or brought as a guest. Sooner or later I’ll end up watching “Wonderful Life.”
Can’t say the same thing about “Game of Thrones.” I’m sure it’s good, but that would be just too big a chunk of my life at this point.
Jeff Mallet 12/23/2017