VanDerWerf's petals! VanDerWerf… There they are! Sheltie, what do you know about that?

Peasant: I'd like to check out this movie, It's A Wonderful Life.
Librarian: *glares* Being a librarian isn't anything to be ashamed of, goddamit.
Peasant: What?
Librarian: Just take it and go.

Peasant: I'd like to check out this movie, It's A Wonderful Life.
Librarian: *glares* Being a librarian isn't anything to be ashamed of, goddamit.
Peasant: What?
Librarian: Just take it and go.

I had this same realization after watching this movie two nights ago. Leslie is a happy-go-lucky George Bailey who has no pretensions and isn't afraid to love her "crummy little town" (though she'd never call it that, obviously).

I had this same realization after watching this movie two nights ago. Leslie is a happy-go-lucky George Bailey who has no pretensions and isn't afraid to love her "crummy little town" (though she'd never call it that, obviously).

Oh, Batman…

Oh, Batman…

"Why… you're not even crippled!"

"Why… you're not even crippled!"

I prefer the sequel, but I admit there's something special to the fact that they're basically destroying a holiday movie from the inside out. It's a subversive edge that the sequel just doesn't have, especially when you consider that it's nothing to do with the holidays that they're defeated. In fact, it's one of…

I prefer the sequel, but I admit there's something special to the fact that they're basically destroying a holiday movie from the inside out. It's a subversive edge that the sequel just doesn't have, especially when you consider that it's nothing to do with the holidays that they're defeated. In fact, it's one of…

Didn't Leonard Maltin say the exact same thing?

Didn't Leonard Maltin say the exact same thing?

Hmm…

Hmm…

Damn straight. Especially when the film breaks and the movie abandons the plot by the side of the road for a while so it can execute the weirdest things it can dream up.

Damn straight. Especially when the film breaks and the movie abandons the plot by the side of the road for a while so it can execute the weirdest things it can dream up.

But of course.

But of course.

Sorry. Perhaps a hand-carved canoe would lift your spirits?