IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE-OBSERVATIONS

1. Its unrealistic depiction of Heaven and angels, including the fact the Bible never says each person has a guardian angel assigned to them, though God does send His angels to protect us.

2. If you contemplate suicide, then change your mind, all your problems don't get instantly solved in a Hollywood ending. I think the originally planned ending, with George Bailey dropping to his knees and reciting the Lord's prayer, would have been much better. "You're in control, God, and you gave me my life. I don't have the right to end it, no matter how terrible the circumstances. I've got to keep on keeping on and realize you're in control and that there's a whole eternity coming and that there will be justice for the Mr. Potter's of this world in the end."

3. Couldn't Clarence have gone down to Earth at the beginning of the film, rescued George, taken him up to Heaven, and shown him all the parts of his life the audience sees to prove to George the impact he has had on those around him?

4. Too much lame humour. "You're eighteen? Seems like only last year you were seventeen." That's funny when someone says it to you when you meet them on the street, not when you're watching it on the screen.

5. Would it have been so bad if Bedford Falls had a few more bars and other kinds of places?

6. Lunkhead Uncle Billy is allowed to handle large sums of money in amounts such as 8 thousand dollars.

7. Bedford Falls was Pottersville all along, if for no other reason than George and the townspeople had to constantly prevent Mr. Potter from officially taking over everything. When you devote so much time and mental energy to someone you hate, that person controls you.

8. Even though Clarence tells him several times, George never seems to realize he's being shown the world as it would exist had he never been born, though really;

9. George was actually being shown the world as it really was. The townspeople would have been quite happy to have Potter take over Bedford Falls tomorrow and turn it into a den of iniquity if it meant jobs for people, seeing as how the town's one major employer, the factory where George wanted Sam to put the plastics factory, had closed, throwing half of them out of work, in edition of course to however many other residents of Bedford Falls were already unemployed.