Everything Wrong With It's A Wonderful Life In Merry Christmas Minutes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- It's A Wonderful Life is an all-time classic. It's fantastic in almost every way. But even fantastic movies have sins. So in the spirit of giving that comes with the holiday season, we're giving the film some sin-counting. And to anyone shocked we would sin a movie this beloved and revered... well, you must be new here.
Next week: mid-aughts scary sins and recent scary sins.
Remember, no movie is without sin! Which movie's sins should we expose next?!
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Every time a sin dings, a TH-cam critic gets his wings.
wstine79 that’s right. That’s right. Atta boy Clarence
Yeah they earn their wings Alright... Large, Webbed, Bat Wings that you would find on Lord Dracula or other demons that serve the Devil and are nothing but bloodsucking ticks just to gain our attention.
DanTheMan1985ful tldr
I'm up to my twentieth pair... it's getting damn cumbersome, lemme tell you that!
@@DanTheMan1985ful the only bloodsucking tick trying to get the worlds attention is me! Lmao my vids Come from the dark prophet, hes the most unique youtuber on the planet.
"Harry broke through the ice, died at the age of 9"
Tombstone reads: 1911-1919.
That’s some home alone 2 shit
Also at 16:53 the gravestone clearly says 1911-1919. That means Harry couldn’t have been 9 years old when he died.
Yeah that was the only mistake inoticed when i watched the film
Eh, chalk it up to the tombstone engraver missing a detail.
@@musmus-culus I'm pretty sure that's what the person just said.
My main complaint about this movie is that justice was never served on the villain. I kept holding out hope that Potter would be caught and arrested the first time I saw it, but it never happened.
Look up the extended version done in a SNL skit.
@@senatorsheev6743 Exactly. Hilarious!
It was foreshadowing the state of banks and property today. There was no resolution then and has become the ultimate consumer issue now.
I always felt bad for Nick. He's the only person besides Potter who actually had it better in the George-less world. He owned the bar instead of just working as a bartender.
He looked like he was in the mob. Had some goons watching the door. lol
Yeah, financially better off but pretty much hated everyone he saw and was violent as well. I suppose the change George made is in keeping the town civil... not every person is pure down to their core in Bedford Falls, just being their better selves. Put them in a setting where they have to deal with corrupt people to get by and their darker traits rise to the surface somewhat out of necessity. So maybe he was richer Nick, but what did he do to get that way? What happened to Martini, in fact?
The gravitas of Pottersville needs to be understood in context, and I start with a blasphemy: America isn't very capitalistic. If it were, every neighborhood in America had places to work, as people would chase profit, instead social perceptions always mattered a lot.
Potter brought a lot to Pottersville that was seen as lewd, unworthy for white Anglo-Saxon protestants. Playing pool was considered dirty gamling that only Hispanics and black musicians played, while "smoking funny cigarettes". Pawn shops were connected to usury. Basically in America, wholesome Christian Americans per perception only drank moderately, if at all, and never did sinful things.
To the audience of the day, well, those who watched it anyway, Pottersville was hell. In this hell, he owned the bar that got honest working people drunk, lowering social moral. You're supposed to root for him making a smaller income, but without sin.
@@BeeWhistler Yeah, I've always wondered what happened to Martini too.
when the rich are allowed to run everything it becomes a dog eat dog world. Humans are products of their environment. If you treat a man like an animal that's how he will behave.
God: "I forgot, you don't have your wings yet."
Me: "how does an angel's vision improve or falter with or without wings?"
As much as I absolutely love this film I always think of Jerry Stiller's line from King of Queens
"With George Bailey the town couldn't be duller. But without him, there's nightclubs, casinos. It's fabulous...I wish he never had been born."
😂😂😂
Cosmic Clarence would be stellar at CinemaSins
I love the recurring pointing out of the butterfly effect.
This is a problem with about half of all time travel movies.
There is no question that even the slightest change will eventually alter literally everything.
Remember that time you found a twenty on the ground and it let you pay rent or eat or something? Someone had to lose that twenty, and it changed your life, the landlord's week, and so on. If one person didn't exist, a different team would eventually win the world series than before.
Go back far enough, and an actual butterfly's wings change would change every single thing.
57: Jeremy doesn't know what "prohibition" was back then. "Prohibition" didn't mean "You can't drink at all," it meant "You can't own drinking alcohol in your home. You can only drink in a licensed bar or tavern." Since Martini's is a licensed bar, it would've been perfectly legal to drink there during the Era of Prohibition.
67: Why are you sinning a sweet sentiment that is meant to bring hope for the future, Jeremy?
106: No, the real sin is that Clarence says that Harry died at the age of nine, yet that tombstone says 1911-1919. That would make Harry seven to eight years old.
114: Or maybe she trusts her eldest child enough to babysit for a bit! It's not unheard of.
You're not going to sin this for casting a guy who looks like he's in his mid 40s to play a guy fresh out of high school? And the whole "Violet is clearly a prostitute George has been sleeping with" plotline that keeps resurfacing throughout the movie.
What clues were in the movie that made you come to the conclusion that Violet and George were smashing? Violet was loose, I admit that, but I don't think she was messing with George.
Please, please do Everything Wrong With Gremlins 2 and Everything Wrong with Goosebumps 2 Haunted Halloween.
Mary's Towel Scene is my Favorite!
1:08
I literally just let out a laugh BEFORE I realized why the joke was funny.
Morbidly glad you did this movie. One of my favorites, yet I often chide CinemaSins for mostly going after low-hanging fruit like comic book adaptations, action escapism and kid flicks.
That said, I challenge you to Cinema Sins the following 1960s and 1970s gems: Mean Streets, Doctor Zhivago, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Manchurian Candidate, All The President's Men, Network, Barry Lyndon, The Sting, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation and the two Godfathers.
Hell, you guys took on Citizen Kane already. If you can do that, give me the Cinema Sins for 8 1/2, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Seventh Seal, Rashoman, Battleship Potemkin, The 400 Blows and Bicycle Thieves.
Anyone else want to point out the fact that George was still missing $8000 and just because he got the money back and more to cover it that it's just dropped, only it's always been a thing that's bothered me because George should still be going to jail because that was $8000 dollars after all from all the people who were with the building and loan. Jeremy I thought you would have called them out on that lol.
If nothing else, at least Uncle Billy would no longer be responsible for making the deposits
The answer lies here:
th-cam.com/video/vw89o0afb2A/w-d-xo.html
George should never have trusted his Uncle Billy with that much cash if he is that scatterbrained!
Well, maybe that's why they mentioned that Sam Wainwright was ready to give him $25K.
@@jayaom4946 I know that, I'm just saying that in the real world poor George would be serving some long jail time
George was right to berate that teacher on the phone.
You forgot the fact that Potter, Uncle Bill, and the Pharmacist haven’t aged a DAMN day since 1919... the movie takes place in 1946 and all three are at least 50-70. Those bastards should be taking a dirt map.
I don't think they used blue screen in `46, I think it was still rear projection.
Fun fact: Carl Switzer (Our Gang's "Alfalfa") was not only the trouble maker who was talked into opening the gym floor, but he was also the face of Benny Haynes, the dog-faced boy in White Christmas.
Actually bars with alcohol were very common during the probation era so he would not be a wanted criminal they usually only went to the dealers that’s why a lot of bars in New York are hidden almost because they have not updated since.
Thank you for putting the idea of BDSM Donna Reed in my head.
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER!
Honestly I’ve gotta question George’s intelligence given how fucking long it takes him to catch on to what’s happening. I mean, I can forgive the first couple times, but when NOTHING is the way it’s supposed to be and he still doesn’t get it, I can’t help wondering how he’s gotten this far.
He's still drunk so he's thinking the booze is making him hallucinate
I’m 41 and I’ve never seen this movie.
Years after the fact, Frank Capra said that he regretted the way he handled Pottersville!Mary by only turning her into a spinster librarian and that he wished he had handled it differently.
I love this movie, but hate that Mr. Potter not only didn't get what was coming to him, he ended up getting $8,000 of the building and loan's money. I prefer the Saturday Night Live sketch where Uncle Billy suddenly remembers that he accidentally gave the money to Potter and the whole town goes over to Potter's office and beats the shit out of him.
Omg that's a real sketch?
In the original planned ending, Clarence confronts Potter and he dies of a heart attack. I don't know why it was cut but my guess is it was too dark juxtaposed with the rest of the ending, which is joyous and uplifting. I prefer to think it still happened, just off screen.
Corey Lowe
th-cam.com/video/vw89o0afb2A/w-d-xo.html
It’s amazing. Check it out.
Corey Lowe
“Alright I’ll give you the money back.”
“I don’t want the money I want a piece of YOU, Potter!......You’re nothing but a fraud, you’re not even a cripple!”
Seriously!!! It was so annoying to me that he just got that money...I wanted to see justice come to Potter!
Book shown in intro
CinemaSins: so you have chosen death...
I just had to watch this movie in class a few weeks ago for an essay and loved this movie. I am.... disappointed with this video to say the least
What a well thought out and original comment. /s
It's a wonderful life is one of my favorite Christmas movies of all time
Without that movie
Christmas wouldn't exist
How did you get the font for your name that's cool
@Theresa Stevens ikr
Quick fact, the one award this movie won was for special effects for the realistic snow! The guy who made the fake snow would later be eaten by a shark while filming for another movie!!! The more you know!
Now thats a movie i would watch
Interesting.
Yeah, I saw that movie. The guy went out to catch a killer great white shark or something and the shark sinks the captain's boat and bites him in half. I think the movie was made by some kid director named Stephen Spoilberg or something. Pretty tragic.
@@Backinblackbunny009 Capra was a conservative who opposed FDR's New Deal. Nobody confused him for a socialist.
It wasn't stiffed at the Oscars. 1946 was a loaded year and "The Best Years of our Lives" was simply a more impactful movie at the time (you know, right after WWII).
I wonder if he was delicious.
An interesting thing about this movie: Jimmy Stewart could have stayed home during WWII. He was "old", too tall and too underweight. He fought to join the military. His own studio even attempted to use their influence to keep him out. But he still got in, mostly because he was already a trained pilot. Initially, they just wanted him to make movies for the military (training or propaganda films), but he wouldn't have it. He eventually became a B-24 pilot and flew 20 missions. He rose to the rank of Major, and was the Operations Officer for his unit. The stresses of the war can be seen when you compare a picture of him from 1942 to that take in 1945.
Stewart clearly suffered PTSD after the war and when he returned to the U.S., nobody really knew what to do with him.
Frank Capra had been a vital source of making war films, such as the "Why We Fight" movies that explained the war to servicemen and civilians alike. General Marshall described Capra's work as a "godsend."
But after the war, the two men were out of work. Both were seen as old news. So, when this movie was made, it blew new life into both of their careers. The irony of this film, of course, is that Stewart plays George Bailey, a man who DIDN'T go off to war.
CW M,
Thank you for that vital piece of film history; it's much appreciated.
Jimmy Stewart specifically didn't want to do a war movie when he got back.
Additional piece of trivia regarding the PTSD, this movie clearly shows Stewart battling it.
He was an amazing man!
He never talked about his individual missions. His only son (step son) was killed in Viet Nam. I recommend the book Hank & Jim about the near life time friendship between Fonda and Stewart. Two political opposites but best of friends.
Just as a minor point, while the whole gym/swimming pool seems all kinds of impractical, it was filmed in a real school gym with a real swimming pool under its retractable floor. It is many things, but sadly, unrealistic isn’t one of them.
just part of the spender of the roaring 1920's where many such impractical bits of architecture were created.
It was filmed on the lot...paved over and recovered for the filming of Star Trek 4
I noticed the same thing. The location where the dance was filmed was real, and still exists
www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/varsity-times/la-sp-vi-a-technology-marvel-the-beverly-hills-high-gympool-20141213-story.html
Unrealistic for 1919 since the real pool was built in 1939. Also unrealistic for a frankly Podunk upper-state New York small town and not Beverly Hills CA.
@@corralesmom That's awesome.
"And to anyone shocked we would sin a movie this beloved and revered... well, you must be new here."
"No Movie is without sin"
@GM3210 And because it's more interesting. It's easy to shoot down a bad movie, it's interesting to see the shortcomings of a great one.
GM3210 well of course he does. He’d be stupid not too.
But for someone who loves cinema as much as he does (and he does, a lot of his comments on movies show that), it’s probably much more interesting as well. He clearly loves both pop culture and author cinema, and I bet it’s more enjoyable watching « it’s a wonderful life » 3 times in a row than « 2012 ».
GM3210 I feel on the contrary that it just took him a while to find his pace ; every channel, every project evolves. It never starts with its best material, there’s a learning curve.
And of course there’re catchphrases ! They’re funny, and you know when they’re coming, but besides that, there are genuine remarks on narrative constructs, continuity, even the way the actors play that are really interesting.
I think it does help you developing a more critical approach to movies.
I honestly wish he would do some of his first videos again, because I think they were afraid to make them too long, and a lot of iconic movies got very short videos.
And honestly, it’s more crowd pleasing to go after hated movies rather than beloved ones ! You’re sure to offend and piss off more people with an all time classic. And I do think they needed to challenge themselves more writing sins, which is one of the reasons they’re doing more good movies now.
That being said, there are so more commercial aspects to this channel now, like the reuploading of old videos. Clever way to get more views, and I’d be more ok with it if they were upfront about that reason.
I guess they don’t have much of a choice now, since TH-cam has become so competitive. It’s a shame, but until a new platform arises, I doubt it’ll change.
I wish I could direct you to « Le fossoyeur de films »’s Channel (literally the movie grave digger), if you like cinema. He’s a french youtuber who has incredibly intelligent content on cinema, and absolutely deserves more visibility, but last time I checked, most of his videos didn’t have subtitles. I wanted to write some, but it’s so time consuming, and I don’t really have time lately. If you speak french and don’t know him, go for it. :)
GM3210 I willing to guess most people who watch this channel don’t care about the point you’re making because, as you said, this is raking in more views. On top of that TH-cam is his job so why wouldn’t he wanna make more money?
"To my brother George, the richest man in town" that line gets me every. single. time. Seriously, I'm teared up just watching it here.
Watch it every year on Christmas Eve and for all the jokes I make throughout, that line gets me too!
Take off all the sins
Bold of you to assume there is anything wrong with It's a Wonderful Life
Yeah this movie is too wonderful to be sinful
*NO movie is without sin* 😜😏
The tissue inducing happy ending alone should subtract 20 sins lol
He didn’t assume... he made a video specifically listing them.
@@jessicaburnette5224 hahahahaha you’re so funny
I always wondered about Mr. Welsh: what kind of guy would say to his wife, "Well honey, I know you're so emotionally distraught by that guy yelling at you over the phone that you cried for an hour, but it's Christmas Eve so I'm gonna go hang out at a bar."
I always assumed it's because him arguing over the phone with George may have caused some kind of argument between the 2 and he went to the bar to cool off since she was hysterical.
I'm wondering why Mr. Martini's bar is open on Christmas Eve. Martini is Italian, and for real Italians Christmas Eve is in some ways just as important as Christmas day. It isn't likely that he'd keep the bar open that night.
@@jongon0848 Maybe I don't approve of someone hitting George, but I always like that he sticks up for his wife.
@@Oppeldeldoc1 i don't either. It always pissed me off that out of everyone I wanted George to punch like Mr Potter and Mr Welch, the only person he punches is his friend Bert. I can understand why Mr Welch punched him though, I would've done the same thing if someone insulted my wife and made her cry.
@@maryk446 Martini probably wanted to make sure he got enough revenue so that he didn't have to go hungry.
“Here’s 15 sins so don’t have to count all the continuity errors.”
Keeps counting continuity errors.
I would be fine with this if they addressed the random cuts in the middle of scenes. I love this movie but that is distracting.
Ding!
Fun fact: It's a Wonderful Life was an initial failure, but the studio lost it's rights to the movie and became public domain until some time later. When it was public domain, it was broadcast on TV and that's how it became a classic.
Well not so much "lost" the rights as didn't bother to renew the copyright since it was such a loser of a film. Then after it got popular the lawyers argued that since it was a derivative work from a short story that was still copyrighted that the film itself is also still under copyright.
Fuck industry lawyers
The fun fact is Capra used all his money in this film and bankrupted himself. The distributors didn`t believe in this film so it was a huge failure until the TV channels used it on their christmas specials for free. Then it became the huge success it deserved to be since the beginning. Anyway, I won`t disturb you.
Yep. I knew that. A Christmas Story I believe wasn't as successful either, but over time it's become a classic and possibly even more successful than It's A Wonderful Life.
Today, a copyright exists the moment a work of art is put in tangible form.
The muppets and now it's a wonderful life?
Who hurt you this Christmas?
Gareth Battersby santa
@@jinx1987 no it’s th3birdman
That scene of Jimmy Stewart's face after that guy says, "But George, they'll vote with Potter otherwise!" is in my opinion the greatest-ever example of wordless acting. In the space of a second and a half, you can see half a dozen emotions go through him, without a work spoken or a sound uttered. Jimmy Stewart is PHENOMENAL.
Timestamp?
@@sinistrality Yeah I don't have the movie memorized to the exact second. How do you not know the scene?
@@sinistrality6:28
Something I’m surprised wasn’t mentioned:
“You remember the night we broke the windows in this old house?”
You mean the night my DAD DIED? Yeah, vaguely.
Dude 😂😂😂
🤣
Don't forget about the world's greatest flashlight.
This seems like something that would be in the review
Well to be fair if I'm remember correctly his dad only had a stroke that night. He could have died a little while later or something.
Sin: Mary needs glasses when George doesn't exist. What goes wrong with Mary's eyes in this alternative timeline?!
Well being employed full time in the dimly lit library would take a toll on her eyes. As a full time mother at home, she probably didn't even notice a need for glasses.
Because everyone knows that in movies since the beginning of time, girl wearing glasses = girl that is ugly
@@goodnewsgeek42 these days its sexy lol
Because when you hit your late 30's to early 40's, the age they are at this time, the need for reading glasses is apparent especially for a librarian
That she is an unhappy spinster with stuck emotions, got Liver function blocks aging her prematurely and making her need glasses. Nothing wrong there, we aren't created to live alone
I see you chose to have a mob at your door for christmas and a riot for boxing day. Brave guys.
Oh everyone will have boxing gloves and ready to punch him it's boxing day were everyone boxes each other lol even the elderly don't mess with the elderly
@@supernova582 awe, I missed the opportunity to make a boxing joke. Well played.
That would be a fun holiday and a lot less dangerous then the Purge oh you don't like this person on this day you can beat him in the streets with a boxing match but that's as far as it goes you can even fight your boss lol
I'm kind of baffled that you covered all these, including some pretty nominal sins, and skipped over things like Harry's tombstone saying 1911-1919 when Clarence said he was nine when he died, or that angry guy saying "you must mean two other trees". What two trees? There's just the one tree.
You're not the only one who noticed that mistake on Harry's tombstone. I noticed that too. If Harry was really nine years old he sbould've been either born in 1910 or died in 1920.
The man says the two other trees remark because he's assuming that George is drunk and seeing double.
@@RoulinBrooks Correct. Not a sin.
Stephen Schaefer hm, but what if he was born January 1, 1911, and died on December 30, 1919? I mean if he made it through the entire last year save a few days, some people would still say he was 9 years old. Like in the week or so before my birthday if I'm referring to my age in normal conversation I use the age I'm turning in a few days, also to get used to saying the new number. And a lot of people like to say I'm 30 to emphasize whatever point they have about judging my life, even though I just turned 29, because people care more about making the point than being mathematically precise. And I personally would refer to someone as the next year up if they died right before their birthday, like you have to reach a specific day of commemoration just to say you made it the whole year, like any of us have a choice in if we only make it 360 days or something our last year of life didn't count? But that's just me.
They handed out 15 sins to cover the continuity errors-Ya missed that bit?
They’re right Mary is the hero of the film. George is lucky to have her.
I like to think that two good people together make each other strive to be the best versions of themselves for and because of each other. Mary was wonderful because of her love for him and vice versa. We're better together.
And he realized it all long.....
Mary wearing the baseball cap as they're loading the Martini's into the car is the most attracted I have ever been to a woman
In today's world, the people would complain saying, "She's not a strong female character.". Which proves that people today don't understand movies at all.
*heroine
I love that by the time the actual plot of this movie starts, there's less than a quarter of the movie left, and it takes another two thirds of the remaining time to accept the premise, leaving only ten minutes for the everything else, and the movie still works wonderfully.
Nathaniel Olds I agree with you up until the last 6 words of your comment
@@climateanxiety3349 are you an atheist?
APAL880 Yes, but I don’t see how that’s relevant? I don’t particularly care about the angel thing. That’s one of the best ideas of the movie. It’s just that the writing and acting is hot garbage
APAL880 lmao you were right nice
@@APAL880 How in the world did him disagreeing with the last 6 words of OP's comment indicate to you that he's an atheist? That's a huge stretch. Heck, I'm an atheist and I love this movie, but the two don't have to correlate in order to enjoy a well written film.
This is a crime. I’m still going to watch this. But you know what you did.
Ironic how the channels name is "CinemaSins" but considering how many times that ring that bell, hundreds or thousands of angels get their wings every year!
Get me! I'm crankin' out wings!
Just imagine the heavenly cheering from the Home Alone 2 video!
There would be a standing ovation
CinemaWings!
Or maybe since it's a Sins channel, it ain't exactly angels that get promoted...
Me tearing up during the scene at the end DURING CinemaSins...Ding!
I've watched this movie every year at least once for my entire life.
"Zuzu's petals!" still makes me cry.
I cannot believe you missed this one: When George has never been born the hearing in his ear returns, his clothing dries, his lips stops bleeding, but he's still drunk. The power of alcohol transcends time and space!!!
Does it ever!
Thats why alcohol used to be called spirits.
I'm thinking George was masking his bad mood with booze and refused to own up to being sober because he was still too pissed off. Or he was just gross, tired and crabby, not actually drunk.
@@BeeWhistler Can't be because when they go back to get his car (and find it not there) the man who's tree he hit earlier smells George's breath before he says, "You must be thinking of two other trees."
wait was he drunk? lol
Sins you missed...Young Mary says she doesn't like coconuts, but George puts coconut on her ice cream anyway.
Even if all things transpired the same and young Harry still fell into the ice that day, would NO ONE else have jumped in to save him??
The way I took it was Harry was there by himself because without George, there's be no other kids around, since they were George's friends.
There is a lot of supposition on the part if the audience here.
I think its because only a brother would risk life and limb to save Harry.
The other kids probably been scared to death and run home to get the adults (leaving Harry to die alone).
Would Harry even slide down. Seemed he was too scared until George called him chicken. So no George means Harry wouldn't even be sliding down that hill.
All I can think of is the “Married with Children” one where Sam Kinnison shows Al Bundy that everyone around him has a better life if he’s dead so he decides to stay alive just to ruin everyone’s day.
Muppet Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life on back to back videos? Bold, Cinemasins. Bold.
wolverinefangowings I know no movie is without sin, but the only sin of this film is that they made a shitty color tv version, this and the muppet one is such a classic that I feel they don’t deserve to be sinned, very very bold move here
Edit: wait, they r reviewing the black and white one (best one) and they decide to put the color one as the Thumbnail? This is shameful
Let's see if it pays off for them.
@@griffinremenicky8642 you are clearly one of the people who doesn't understand how this channel works... no movie is without sin, because they make up the "sins" even if they are legitimate complaints or things people find wrong, or not. They will turn anything into a joke. Because that's what they do they make jokes and satirize the movies to make entertaining videos. This is not a review channel, this is not AVGNerd or Nostalgia Critic, this is just 2 guys watching a movie and writing a script. A script full of whatever funny shit they can think of while watching it and then working together to create entertainment for TH-cam...
Timothy Trex3 I agree, my point is I love this movie and wish it wasn’t sinned (I’m just saying I FEEL this movie is sin free, also the biggest sin of this vid is still the thumbnail)
Do you not know that pool is a real thing? It’s located at Beverly Hills High School and reportedly still in use.
you know these are Jokes Right?
@@Vincent_Beers Pretty cool that it's still in use, though. I appreciate the trivia even if it was in the form of a patronizing remark.
Still killing kids after all these years.
@@BeeWhistler Yeah, I don't, OP didn't have to present it like that. What a waste of energy.
@GM3210 Does that magically make it not a joke now?
This is all kinds of 'ists'. Gold.
Especially how she gives him a boatload of money at the end from her "Divorce-In-Case-I-Ever-Got-Married-Fund". Yikes!
Jesus, cry some more.
LOL.
You can recognize what's wrong with the scene and still understand things were seen differently at the time. Because I laugh at that nonsense but still cringe because... damn. I mean, what Annie saved her money for and her attitude toward marriage is her own danged business, not worried about that, but Harry whacking her tush is definitely just... awkward.
Sexist, kind of racist, anti-feminist... I’m sure there’s others.
Omg!
This movie is STILL amazing after all these years!
Yes it is old, but the core of it, the love and hate of what you you have, the fear of loosing it and the realization that you have more then you thought will always be relevant!
I am profoundly disappointed you didn't make a Bert and Ernie joke.
Watch the outtakes at the end
Audio outakes
@@bbarrett726 That was a voice over. I was talking about in the video proper. Besides, I'm joking.
@@dats3 You joked about a joke. Here's your certificate of redundancy certificate!
@@Jeff98177 Thank you. I humbly accept and thank all the members of the academy for this honor.
Please do Akira before the year ends.
I need an honest trailer for this.
The Jazz King yes we do. With the countless influences on pop culture, the anime trope of rivals yelling each other’s names, the power of anime in the west, the absolute beauty of the animation, the themes in the story, and the Olympics prediction... its somehow both incredibly important and yet somehow under the radar in pop culture.
@@avatarmikephantom153
As a kid this blew my mind.
"Akira" takes place in 2019, just before Tokyo would host the Olympics (again) in 2020. Prophetic. So, "Akira" should definitely get sinned before the summer Olympics.
Whats funny and amazing is I actually watched this movie for the first time, start to finish last night. Lmao what timing.
What did ya think of it?
SAME it's like they're in my head 😅
The scene showing Mary becoming an unmarried librarian spinster (at 16:56) was probably the most unbelievable part of the movie. Donna Reed was gorgeous with equal inner beauty. The notion that she wouldn't have had many other suitors in George's absence was a bit ridiculous.
TRUE! Donna Reed was one of the most gorgeous women ever born
I mean it is still pretty ridiculous, but it's not that she didn't have any suitors, heck she had some suitors interested in her WITH George. It was that she only truly loved George and didn't make that same connection with anyone else.
In the book, she is married to an abusive jerk. That's more believable and poignant for modern audiences, but probably wouldn't have been nearly as much of a shock to George - which is why it's changed.
Yeah, someone had suggested that Potter took away most indoor lighting for Mary's eyesight to get so poor as to need glasses.
When Clarence tells George he won't like what's happened to Mary, I thought she would be married to some very wealthy Industrialist and living a life of privilege and wealth in Europe. There' no way on earth that some guy wouldn't have snagged the beautiful Mary and made her his wife. George never existed in this scenario so she would have absolutely no connection to him.
It is a family tradition to watch this movie every year with my parents. A few years ago, we just started joking around and made a fan theory that makes this movie really fun to watch again. Basically, a demon came to Bedford falls to try and take down the Bailey's and give Potter control over the whole town in order to lead more people into sin. Since Clarence seemed to have to wait to use his powers until someone made a wish, it would stand to reason that demons would too. The demon comes to down, and is the unexplained guy who appears in the school to tempt the other guy into opening the pool under George and Mary. This causes George and Mary to end up in the situation where Mary would throw a rock at the old house and make a wish, which the demon was then able to grant.
Obviously, even though she doesn't say it, her wish is that George would stay in Bedford Falls. Everything after this is due to the wish twisting events to force George to stay in Beford Falls, which causes all kinds of interesting ideas. The demon's wish would have been responsible for everything that kept George from leaving: George's dad having a heart attack, Harry finding a wife while in college that he doesn't tell anyone about, George being too distracted by the sexual tension with Mary to invest with Sam, Uncle Billy getting the newspaper right when he did to accidentally hand over the money to Potter, and finally the demon even caused the Great Depression just to keep George from getting his Honeymoon. Basically a Literal Genie trope with a demon spin on it.
Wow, never thought of this as a crossover with Buffy, but it does explain a lot! Not a very bloody wish on Anya's part, but maybe she was tired that day.
Meanwhile another angel thinks,"nah,these people are too happy,we can't have that...
Hail Satan!"
For the record, I've seen this move at least a dozen times. Its a tradition in my family to watch it before Xmas. And I still love it to this day. Great vid CinemaSins.
They probably didn't need to get $20, even with medical bills. We have the canceled check for my uncles delivery who was born in 1928. It was $5.
Don't care, I absolutely love this movie.
@@FlameOnTheBeat that doesn't make it not a great movie
@Wolf Lover Have you? That wasn't Sarcasm in any way shape or form
@@alexchinowsky3567 True, but coming to realize how unrealistic George's constant state of denial is on top of how cherry-picky the plot is when it comes to George's supposedly good influence as a resident of the town when he existed can sully the waters a bit.
@@FlameOnTheBeat Wrong. Republic Films used a new Supreme court ruling in 1993 that says if you hold the copyright on the source material of a movie, you're entitled to copyright your movie. Guess what? Republic had the copyright to The Greatest Gift, ie. the book the movie was based on. Republic went out and filed the paperwork and paid a nominal fee and they had the copyright on the movie back again. They then turned around and entered into an exclusive broadcast agreement of the movie with NBC in 1994.
@Wolf Lover I wasn't talking about the video I was specifically responding to someone
Every time a bell rings a angel gets it's wings & Every time a film is sinned, a critic gets a column.
I don't think that's God at the beginning, it's "Joseph" who is doing the supervising.
Joseph is talking to guy before he talks to Clarence.
@ECKohns I tried looking it up, got nothing.
I don't think we hear or see God in this movie. The other angels in the movie are named Joseph and Franklin.
@@melissacooper4482 "Franklin" like Frank Capra? Only a "senior angel" is listed in the cast.
@@josephfisher426 I think I saw the name "Frankiln"on the subtitles. So I don't know for sure if that is the name of the senior angel.
“You’ve had A WONDERFUL LIFE”
*Roll Zuzu’s petals!*
That killed me!
I love the line “this is all kinds of ists”
Reminds me of his Blade II video, where he reacted to one moment with "That's several things-ist".
You’re really banking on that “No movie is without sin” thing aren’t you 😂
Now please do Everything Wrong With The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile!!!! You can throw The Godfather in there as well.
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And Sneakers. They've certainly referenced these movies enough.
And The Fugitive
I'm still waiting for them to grow big enough balls to do Shindler's List.
I think he already did shawshank redemption but he might need to reupload it
This is my favorite Christmas movie
0:23 -- MST3K reference! Take a sin off this man!
Interesting fact. The kid that played young George was actually injured in that scene where his ear was bleeding. The old guy was actually drinking to make his role look more believable and when he slapped the kid on the ear like that he actually busted the kids eardrum making him bleed. That kid is a great actor to finish that scene.
I heard that and was hoping it wasn't true. It explains a lot but it's so sad!
@@BeeWhistler yea but also that kid just kept going. He deserves a long award for his performance there
Clarence: Every time a bell rings, and angel gets his wings
Cinemasins: Hold my harp...
Donna Reed was so beautiful!!! Even when they tried to “frump” her up
And whoever the blonde is! OMG! 😍😍😍
@@williamhamilton8438 Gloria Grahame?
@@HAL-vm3wn ...thanks took 7 months but now I can look up some pics...
She was beautiful if George didn't exist Mary had lots of suitors she could of marry
"Is the one harem for love-making and the other for all the kinky shit the other harem won't do?"
Yes.
“Could you imagine a woman that never marries, god save us all from this apocalypse”
The current birth rate: yes please
Marriage doesn't equal having kids, you can get married and still not have kids. And shit ton of kids these days are born out of wedlock anyways.
The majority of children since 2007 are now born out of wedlock. And my sister has been married 10 years next month and no babies. And she was only 20 when she married. Meanwhile, I had my first kid at 19 and have had as many abortions as children. If my husband hadn't gotten snipped in 14 we'd probably have like 5 kids and as many abortions. I get pregnant from standing downwind of him.
Look at this scumbag advocating for an increased birthrate instead of our replacement by superior AI beings. For the moment I'm going to extend good faith far enough to presume you aren't trotting out a white replacement meme, even though I probably shouldn't ...
Eh, we live in a society where people generally have more freedom. A lot of people don't see the point in marriage, and a lot don't want kids.
@@Backinblackbunny009Umm, I don't think an analysis of a movie like this is where you should be over-sharing about how you've had multiple abortions. But then that's just me. Merry celebration of the birth of Christ holiday!!
for me the greatest sin is sinning this wonderful movie.
Since you did this movie can Can you do "A Christmas Story"? I would like to see the movie sin counter hit negative numbers lol
Also " A Christmas Story Live" please! Thanks!
If I were to make a top 10 of overrated movies, that boring piece of garbage would be number one.
Negative numbers? For THAT movie? Hahahahahahahaha
That movie blows
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Amen!! I’ve never understood the popularity of it.
“AND inspire the fourth Shrek movie and I CANNOT FORGIVE THAT”
Schaffrillas Producitons would like a word with you
0:24 I know that opening phrase anywhere!
Mystery Science Theater 3000!
Even as a kid and long before "The Butterfly Effect" I was a bit doubtful that everything in the past would've lined up so neatly to show us how things would be different if George hadn't been born, but it didn't bother me that much. If Heaven wanted Harry on the ice in this alternate reality to make the point I guess they could do it. But I definitely agreed with Jeremy before Jeremy came along that the Mary part was very dubious (and patronizing); if George never existed and everything else was the same, I thought it was more likely she'd have married rich Sam Wainwright and lived a fabulously plush life, then maybe divorced him over his philandering and lived a fabulously plush life on the divorce settlement. Why would she turn into a timid mousy librarian (who for some reason needs glasses she didn't in the 'real' reality??) over not getting some guy who never existed?
My real issue with the movie is it cooks the books. If the solution to George's suicidal misery is seeing how irreplaceable he is to so many people, he already knew that; it's why he takes over the Building and Loan, it's why he saves it with his honeymoon money, it's why he turns down Potter's job offer. He knows it's because of him people in town have decent homes, and that Potter has been held at least somewhat at bay. There's no way he'd think everyone would be "better off" without him; in fact, any dissatisfaction with life he feels is because he's always put others before his own dreams.
Clarence's job is actually too easy. What if he'd been assigned to a suicidal person with no family, no accomplishments, who actually wouldn't be missed if he'd never existed? How would he convince HIM life is worth living? I'd like to see that movie (but of course this movie gets me every time, just like Jeremy)
Very interesting comment. That actually WOULD BE a quality movie to view. And yes, Donna Reed could get ANY man she wanted throughout life. I doubt any man would be unhappy if able to go home to that every day.
Everyone here seems so offended and I'm here all like "I've never actually seen this movie".
When my sisters saw the part where the little girl hears the boy being beaten they started crying. Watch it if you have childhood traumas. It'll make you cry here and there. Thats why ppl revere it so.
@@skylx0812 No movie can compare to the movie that still makes me, a grown man cry. That movie is Scruffy, a 1980 cartoon.
I could never make it through it, it's kind of boring
Jena Cide rlly I watched it last year when I was 12 and enjoyed it but I am really into film and mostly older like The Godfather, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, Pulp Fiction..etc
By the way sorry for the punctuation I don’t have that patience
Oh, thank you, I've been saying the same things about this movie for years...espy the bit about Mary being an 'old maid'...and because George was never born, Mary ended up needing glasses?? HA HA!!
Maybe the glasses are fake. Mary in the alternate universe wore those, had no makeup on and dressed really plain. She did that because since George Bailey never existed she had no desire to marry. So she dresses that way to be less attractive to men.
@@melissacooper4482 And yet, she was still hot.
Didn't they also believe back in the day that excessive reading would damage your eyesight? I assume they decided she spent all her time reading books and weakened her eyes doing it.
@@BeeWhistler Yup. Alt-Mary had glasses because she spent a lifetime reading instead of cooking and cleaning for a husband and children like a good woman should. Let this be a warning to you ladies - assume your proper womanly duties or you too will become a lonely four-eyes!
Back then, "old maid" was a gal who hadn't found a guy by her early-mid 20s. In other words, her most attractive years are already past her and she didn't attract a guy. Numerous other movies of the era back that up, like The Trouble With Harry. An "old maid" isn't an old crone or anything.
As much I love Cinemasins, I love this movie even more. So, I am going to deduct all Jeremy's sins without even watching it. Happy Holidays everyone!
The biggest mistake in this movie that I've been thinking for years -- isn't even mentioned in this review. Before George was born, the town was called Bedford Falls. So even if George hadn't been born, the town would've still been originally called bedford Falls.
So then let's assume that the town was renamed Pottersville because of something George didn't do. Well that would've had to wait until George's adulthood -- perhaps after Peter Bailey died. But even that would've been a fairly involved process. Anyway, there's no way that town could've been called Pottersville for more than about 10 years.
But when George calls it Bedford Falls, the reacts like he's never heard of Bedford Falls before. How could that be possible? He was old enough that for the majority of his life, the town was called Bedford Falls. The most he could have possibly said to George is "hey, don't you remember that we re-name the town to be Pottersville a few years ago?"
It's bc George Bailey's father didn't have the strength to keep fighting potter off after losing his only son to drowning. Bedford falls would have changed names in the 20s some 25 years earlier.
@@Backinblackbunny009 interesting take. Let's run with that a second. I'm thinking the man in the movie looked like he was about 60. So even with your assumption, he would have still lived the first 35 years of his life in Bedford Falls. I just think his reaction was wrong.
It could be that only part of Bedford Falls was renamed, like split into two towns. And this guy’s house was on the Pottersville side, maybe by only a block. So it’s not that he’d never heard of Bedford Falls, it’s that he was trying to correct George.
MST3K!
Jimmy Stewart is one of the greatest human beings of all time. He's the true face of America. John Wayne wishes he was Stewart.
Definitely want more older, especially silent, films to be sinned.
You do know that they were really good friends, right???
FILL YOUR HANDS, YOU SONOFABITCH!
@@auroramariealmeara8622 Wayne insisted Stewart get top billing in Liberty Valance. Studio wanted to go with Wayne because he was the bigger draw.
@@auroramariealmeara8622 Yup.
Wouldn't it be a sin for a pharmacist to have a bottle clearly marked poison with the other drug stuff? Is there a medicinal use for poison?
I always wondered that too, why did he have poison in a pharmacy at all?
Only thing I can think of is getting people to puke in case they overdose on pills or something, but even that doesn’t sound completely right
I’ve heard it was normal for the pharmacy to have poison on hand for rats & other pests. Plus some drugs are poison if it’s not the right dosing or for your condition.
@@tangointx2947 Think they used to stock the chemicals the undertaker would use when people died
There are a number of poisons that are medicines. It all depends on how they are mixed and used as to their effectiveness.
Saying something is a cliche cliche
+50 sins
this is a cliche *in and of itself*
AltBOOPYDOOPY haha
What isn't cliche?
In the short story and in the original script, Mary was.married in the alternate reality but to Sam Wainwright who had changed to a nasty younger version of Potter. The censors at the time did not want George to go after another man's wife (even though it was an alternate reality and technically he was married to Mary first.) so they changed it to her being unmarried. Reportedly, Capra admitted that her ending up unmarried was a mistake and he wished that he had stuck to his guns with the original script idea.
Ah interesting. This movie was shown constantly when I was a kid and it was one of the few black and whites that I could get into, and I didn't notice any sins at the time, except for thinking "yeah right, no way that pretty lady doesn't marry someone else..."
Hard to believe that Clarence knowing where the money was and not telling George wasn't a sin.
I wonder if there is some kind of Angel Prime Directive against interfering in matters of earthly crime.
I love the “every time a sin is dinged an angel gets its wings” moment.
Pretty sure that the extended opening credits was because the people making the film wanted to make sure that the viewers knew who they were. Back then, you didn't have post-credits extras (you actually didn't have any closing credits at all), and when's the last time you've sat and watched the end credits? If you put them before the film begins, your name is guaranteed to be seen by the viewers.
There were opening credits in most movies up until maybe 15 or 20 years ago. Pushing everything to the end is a fairly recent trend.
Back then the only thing they showed at the end of a movie was The End title then they show a title card with the cast of the main characters. As for the extras or supporting characters they weren't listed at all. In this movie I didn't even know that Carl "Alfalfa " Switzer played the prankster.
I always watch the credits.
@Life of Rach Ironically, George Lucas got in trouble for *not* having opening credits in the first Star Wars movie.
You missed a sin. Clarence says Harry drowned in the ice at the age of 9. The dates on the headstone only make him 8 years old.
I thought that did get dinged? But maybe Clarence was counting from conception!
I doubt modern movies have any better control of continuity; they often are giving us fewer details, so they limit their mistakes, but are also less lifelike.
@@josephfisher426 But we don't count age including conception, and he distinctly said "the age of 9" or "aged 9". I'm being really petty, but it's CinemaSins, pettiness is part of the formula.
@@bryannewcombe858 I know, but in that case I wouldn't be certain that it was not deliberate. I don't know that it was ever a European practice, though.
@@josephfisher426 It appears to be an Asian thing...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning
Another "sin" / error: George goes to Bailey Park and it's a graveyard ... with stones dating from his childhood. Earlier in the film Bailey Park is shown to be an open field.
Maybe Potter redid all the streets and George got lost?
Medical Bills.... ha.... you forget that in the 1930's child birth was only about $15. Medical Bills were a joke back then.
Also remember that at the time of filming this movie James Stewart was still actively serving in the Air Force.... you make fun of AS2 because you don't understand it... in Enlisted ranks in the military... PV2 stands for Private Second Class.
Classic
Well this cinematic masterpiece is gonna be massacred.
It's not a masterpiece, it's an awful movie that was widely criticized and hated by audiences when it came out, and was so bad that the studio let go into public domain as they didn't care enough to renew the copyright.
Fast forward a few decades and a cheap-ass broadcast company used it to pad out their holiday programming schedule which tricked home audiences into thinking it's a classic movie by dint of never having heard about it and assuming that it had to be good because the broadcast company was showing it so much.
It's honestly a fascinating example of accidental social engineering; entire generations "love" a terrible movie simply because they were hoodwinked into thinking it was good from overexposure; it really proves that the old axiom "You can make anyone believe a lie if you repeat it enough times"...
@@Dargonhuman You do realize that this movie has taught us a lesson about everything in life having values, right?!
@@xgray2012 Okay, so did A Christmas Carol, which not only did it better but did it way before this piece of crap movie came along.
@neo-xgray87 did you even watch the video? Jeremy's quite right when he points out this movie rejects the notion that all life has value, and instead accepts as valuable only those lives that have net positive social productivity. Potter would indeed have nobody (human or super-) trying to talk him out of suicide should he wind up on some bridge.
This movie is so good - it’s the first time I’ve ever cried watching Cinema Sins!
Sin you missed - and one which has been bothering me for forty years... 16:20 "Your brother Harry … drowned at the age of nine." Then George scrapes away the snow to read the dates on the gravestone: 1911 - 1919. Harry was eight, dammit.
Plz do mean girls