The Hallmark Christmas Movie Thread

[DarkKnight88]

Emilia Clarke's already done her big budget Christmas Hallmark movie.

 

[Dark Raven]

Emilia Clarke's already done her big budget Christmas Hallmark movie.

That's why she's unlikely to downgrade to a TV budget version.

 

[Prison Mike]

I want her to do more big budget rom-coms

 

[Dr. Evil]

Looking forward to The Noel Diary

Yeah, it's a bit more dramatic than other Christmas movies on Netflix.

Spoiler

people on the comments of the YouTube trailer think that we'll find out that the characters played by Justin Hartley and Barrett Doss are half siblings because the dad (played by James Remar in the trailer) might have slept with the mom of Barrett's character and she got pregnant. I don't think that happens.

 

[Prison Mike]

Yeah, it's a bit more dramatic than other Christmas movies on Netflix.

Spoiler

people on the comments of the YouTube trailer think that we'll find out that the characters played by Justin Hartley and Barrett Doss are half siblings because the dad (played by James Remar in the trailer) might have slept with the mom of Barrett's character and she got pregnant. I don't think that happens.

Spoiler

It looked to me that they were love interests for each other so I don’t agree with the siblings angle…unless those commenters are from Alabama lol

 

[Babillygunn]

The definitive Hallmark Christmas film was The Nine Lives of Christmas starring Brandon Routh. I love that one:


Good, goofy fun. It was much better than the sequel, The Nine Kittens of Christmas:


I have to love Hallmark movies, even if they all have the same ultra-simplistic and borderline dangerous messages:
Guy wearing suit = bad
Guy wearing flannel = good
Living in city = bad
Living on a ranch, farm, or orchard = good
Women should not pursue jobs in corporate world, but they should work 70 hours a week working to keep a fledgling family store open that only her parents cared about.

And when the guy in the suit comes to offer to buy said business (for reasons that make no sense because the business has been failing for a decade) either:
a) don’t trust him, but instead fall in love with your flannel-shirt-wearing former high school sweetheart, and keep the store open with him; or
b) fall in love with the suit guy, but only after convincing him to ditch the suit and wear flannel and work the store with you.

 

[Lily Adler]

The definitive Hallmark Christmas film was The Nine Lives of Christmas starring Brandon Routh. I love that one:
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Good, goofy fun. It was much better than the sequel, The Nine Kittens of Christmas:
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I have to love Hallmark movies, even if they all have the same ultra-simplistic and borderline dangerous messages:
Guy wearing suit = bad
Guy wearing flannel = good
Living in city = bad
Living on a ranch, farm, or orchard = good
Women should not pursue jobs in corporate world, but they should work 70 hours a week working to keep a fledgling family store open that only her parents cared about.

Good old fashioned conservative values.

 

[Babillygunn]

Good old fashioned conservative values.

Still, I find the movies incredibly entertaining and enjoy watching them with my wife.
She enjoys pointing out that because I grew up farming, but then left the farm, moved to a city and became a lawyer, that I am basically the epitome of every Hallmark villain.

 

[Lily Adler]

Still, I find the movies incredibly entertaining and enjoy watching them with my wife.
She enjoys pointing out that because I grew up farming, but then left the farm, moved to a city and became a lawyer, that I am basically the epitome of every Hallmark villain.

Whatever you do don't return to your hometown cause you'll have to save the family farm.

 

[Dr. Evil]

The definitive Hallmark Christmas film was The Nine Lives of Christmas starring Brandon Routh. I love that one:
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Good, goofy fun. It was much better than the sequel, The Nine Kittens of Christmas:
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I have to love Hallmark movies, even if they all have the same ultra-simplistic and borderline dangerous messages:
Guy wearing suit = bad
Guy wearing flannel = good
Living in city = bad
Living on a ranch, farm, or orchard = good
Women should not pursue jobs in corporate world, but they should work 70 hours a week working to keep a fledgling family store open that only her parents cared about.

And when the guy in the suit comes to offer to buy said business (for reasons that make no sense because the business has been failing for a decade) either:
a) don’t trust him, but instead fall in love with your flannel-shirt-wearing former high school sweetheart, and keep the store open with him; or
b) fall in love with the suit guy, but only after convincing him to ditch the suit and wear flannel and work the store with you.

It also fits the Netflix Christmas Genre trope of "rich and famous woman living in the city who goes to a small town and falls in love with a local man in the town, despite the fact that she is dating a pretentious, shallow man in the big city"

 

[Batgirl0202]

And in small towns all over America (or actually Sudbury/North Bay in Canada), you can find all these handsome, buff, blue collar, single daddies just waiting for beautiful yet wholesome career gals from the city to open their eyes and discover what truly matters in life: traditional values, domesticity, and honest physical work.

I also love how these manly single men always have an adorable little moppet who instantly bonds with the big city gal, and how they've managed to remain single even with all the local women relentlessly pursuing them. I guess the local gals ain't good enough...

I also love how these small towns have economies so robust that they can support stores that only sell antique books or Christmas ornaments all year round. And I love how everything is always free at these establishments. "Don't worry hon, it's on the house!" How do these economies function when nobody ever pays for anything?

Anyway I hope I don't sound cynical haha. I love Hallmark Christmas movies and devour as many of them as I can each season. It would be nice though if they shook up the formula every once in awhile. That's why I tend to enjoy the ones with a mild supernatural slant the most...

 

[Dr.]

I'm sure there are many mainstream movies that contributed to the basic Hallmark formula. But two come to mind: Baby Boom (w/ Diane Keaton & Sam Shepard) and Notting Hill (w/ Hugh Grant & Julia Roberts).

 

[Prison Mike]

Notting Hill is such a classic…

 

[DarkKnight88]

I'm sure there are many mainstream movies that contributed to the basic Hallmark formula. But two come to mind: Baby Boom (w/ Diane Keaton & Sam Shepard) and Notting Hill (w/ Hugh Grant & Julia Roberts).

It goes way further back than that. They’re mostly copy-paste modernizations of the romantic comedy boom of the 1930s and ‘40s.

Just without the stars or production value lol

 

[Dark Raven]

Watched this tonight. It had Katie McGrath in it in an early role. She looks gorgeous. It's fairly predictable Hallmark though. Oh, and it has Roger Moore.

 

[Dark Raven]

This looks fun

 

[Dark Raven]

I watched the Royal Nanny tonight starring Rachel Skarsten. It was pretty good. It was set in London and had an underlying spy theme and intrigue as well as comedy and some action. Although Hallmark wouldn't let Rachel fight like Alice from Batwoman with actual fist fights or kicks but more like how Mary Poppins might fight bad guys. I guess since it's lower than a PG they probably can't do that.

 

[Silvermoth]

 

[Lily Adler]

Is that a mustache?

 

[Lily Adler]

I see no lies here.

 

[lespaul59]

I think this year might be Hallmark's bet year yet. I've only disliked one movie which I need to look up the name. #xmas has been my favorite. I've watched it 4-5 times all the way through. After last year in which I thought was Hallmark's weakest year since I've been watching I was glad to see how much better this year has been. I hope the rest of the movies are as good as the rest have been.

 

[Dark Raven]

I watched this the other night:



Was pretty fun and Mallory Jansen is great to watch.

The actresses I enjoyed watching most this year were (in no particular order):

1. Elizabeth Henstridge
2. Autumn Reeser
3. Mallory Jansen
4. Merritt Patterson
5. Katie McGrath
6. Rachel Skarsten
7. Jessy Schram
8. Lacey Chabert
9. Laura Osnes
10. Lyndsy Fonseca

 

[Dark Raven]

 

[Dark Raven]

I'm surprised that we haven't had a superhero Hallmark Christmas movie yet.

Superman and Lois could easily be done as a Hallmark movie. It has a small town, people dress in lumberjack shirts, Lois Lane is a big city girl originally and Clark works on a farm. He just needs to cut down some Christmas trees now.

 

[Mani-Man]

I'm surprised that we haven't had a superhero Hallmark Christmas movie yet.

Superman and Lois could easily be done as a Hallmark movie. It has a small town, people dress in lumberjack shirts, Lois Lane is a big city girl originally and Clark works on a farm. He just needs to cut down some Christmas trees now.

You know, thats not even such an awful idea...would at least be more unique than "Character A has to travel to small town and falls in love with Character B who somehow can make a living out of doing stuff for one month" Formula.