I prefer the term Holiday Movies.
Hallmark, Lifetime and more channels that are non stop commercials. Dish gets $55 a month for this dreck? Time to stick a antenna on my roof.
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How about movies about Festivus!!
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I'd complain that white people are cliche, but every culture has its own rom com cliches. Korean dramas have a suspiciously high number of chaebols who fall for spunky, poor girls. Bollywood co-stars always start out hating each other but get forced into some situation together. I could keep going but go watch international rom coms for yourself and learn a little something new about a different culture.
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These productions keep the fake snow people in business!
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One is too many.
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Is this the all-out war on Christmas we've been hearing about from Republicans, Evangelical Christians in particular? After all, it has the hallmark (sic!) of an organized, rear-guard feint to smother America in enough cloying treacle to neutralize the bitterness so many of us feel about the sinister work they simultaneously do to undermine the nation's democratic institutions. And some people still wonder what fantasy fiction is good for. Bah humbug!
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There are amazing wonderful older movies that are actually good -- and you can't get them even on Netflix. The new ones stink.
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Yup, they tend to be cheesy, and one seems very much like the other. But they are a welcome respite from all the rather graphic sexual shenanigans on a lot of TV shows, or people killing each other, left and right.
I’m having coffee and watching one on Hallmark right now.
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I used to enjoy Xmas until it became a money-grab beginning in October. Any Xmas movie aired before December is one too many...The only Xmas movie I have ever watched and still love to this day (for over 60 years) is "A Christmas Carol" with Alastair Sims (1951). The best version of that classic (but in the interests of political correctness, now advertised as "Scrooge" by some stations). It is one of my very, very few Xmas traditions to watch it every year.
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@Ann The title of the movie, as you will see in the opening credits, is “Scrooge.” Somewhere along the way it became “A Christmas Carol,” which is, of course, the title of Dickens’s story. By any name, the Alastair Sim movie is the interpretation par excellence.
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My kids created "Christmas Movie Bingo" using the stock elements of these totally formulaic movies. That turned watching them into an interactive experience for the whole family - even those who claim to be too sophisticated to enjoy the tripe! (That would be all of us . . .) Yes, a glass of wine helps; in fact, it is almost obligatory.
(If Hallmark markets this idea, I want a share of the proceeds.)
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@george Please, please share some/all of the squares with us! This sounds fun.
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I love Christmas movies, but I'd prefer fewer well-made films to the endless panoply of cheesy tinsel: here today, gone tomorrow.
For me Christmastime viewing will still be "It's A Wonderful Life," "Little Women," and a few others I love to cozy up and rewatch each year.
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@PurnaPhD, and "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol." :)
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Love them, the more the better! I am listening to Christmas music nonstop already.
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Today it’s just quantity over quality. I would much rather Hallmark give us back the Hallmark Hall of Fame movies (Quality) and maybe do a few less of the ordinary Christmas movies (Quantity).
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No thanks. I watch Hallmark's Movies and Mysteries channel for the mysteries. I stop watching the channel each year when it turns into non-stop Christmas shows. I'm just sorry it happens earlier each year.
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