Movies you've seen recently (Part 1)

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Spice_Weasel and other fans of It’s A Wonderful Life should check out these threads:

It's a Wonderful Life - Do you like it or not?

I first saw it when I was 15. It’s schmaltzy, sure, and I can understand why a lot of people don’t care for it. But what can I say? I’m a sucker for that stuff. I’d probably rank it in my top 5 favorite Christmas movies of all time. Anyway what do you think of it?

It's a Wonderful Life: Question about the Bank Run

I’m watching It’s a Wonderful Life for my yearly viewing and trying to understand what was going on with the bank run. So George is ready to go on his honeymoon and there is a run on his Building and Loan. Potter calls and says that he took control of the bank by guaranteeing it funds. The bank will close for a week. He tells George to tell the B&L shareholders that he will pay them 50 cents on the dollar per share (and thus taking control of the B&L. George tells him to pound sand. Potter…

What should George Bailey have done with the surplus money?

I was at the in-laws for T-Day yesterday, and after the Lions loss I guess nobody was in the mood for more football, so somebody switched to a channel playing ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’. At the heartwarming end I wondered, as I have in the past, what did they do with all that surplus donated money? Bailey clearly got tens of thousands more than the $8,000 shortfall they needed. I looked up what 8K in 1945 would be in today’s dollars and it’s almost $135K. So they may have easily hauled in today’s …