This Life is Beyond Wonderful!

Today I examine a Christmas classic.  Rocky, of the liquor store, also sells deeply discounted DVDs, and I couldn't justify buying the actual movie, "It's a Wonderful Life," so I picked up, "Henry Potter and the Financial Crisis."  He assured me that it was "just as good" as a real Harry Potter movie and the bottle of vodka was inexpensive too.  So, it was a "win-win" situation.

This follows the day-to-day activities of Henry Potter, who owns a payday loan store.  Instead of a wand he points a pen at customers, and growls things like, "Where's my fucking money, you fucking deadbeat?  And tell your fucking kids to stop looking at me."

Sometimes he growls at employees to, saying things like, "The fucking line at your window is backing up you fucking dumb-ass."

Despite Potter's surly disposition, he proves to be an important source of liquidity during the financial crisis brought on by the reckless practices of George Bailey, owner of Bailey Financial Group, played by an obviously drunken Jimmy Stewart.

He made dangerous sub-prime loans all over Bedford Falls and then insured them, telling his banker pals during one of his extensive Martini lunches, "What could possibly go wrong?"

He decides to jump off a bridge (which seems totally reasonable - given that he has nearly destroyed the economy of Bedford Falls) but is accidently saved by a guardian angel, who thought Bailey was somebody else.  The angel says, "Goddammit, you're not Paulson!  I'm in the shit now."

The movie then plods along for two more hours.  I could have done without the lengthy (and graphic) domestic violence scene.  Luckily I had this bottle of vodka.  I feel ripped off and won't be getting anymore movies from the liquor store.