Re: The Hallmark Movie Thread - Bob, Duffy & Pylon's favorite films

[tGreenWay]

ION Television getting into the spirit with their own lineup of movies, including Merry Kissmas, and A Christmas Kiss I & II.

I saw that, any good?

No idea. The only one I’ve ever seen is the one a friend had the lead in, and that was on Hallmark.

[tGreenWay]

ION Television getting into the spirit with their own lineup of movies, including Merry Kissmas, and A Christmas Kiss I & II.

Me thinks he doth protest too much...
Do you keep a box of tissues handy when you snuggle up in your Slanket in front of the TV?

You’re embarrassing yourself.

[Guest]

This Season’s Guilty Pleasure: Binge-Watching Hallmark Christmas Movies

Crown Media Family Networks, a subsidiary of the greeting-card maker, is the company behind more than 150 original Christmas movies that have run on its Hallmark-branded channels over the past decade. There are 22 new ones airing on the main Hallmark channel this year—they started Oct. 27—and another 15 new ones on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. Together with past years’ movies, they run practically round-the-clock, 10 to 12 a day. Some fans have found the best way to keep track of what they’ve watched is with a spreadsheet.

Maybe one of you could share your spreadsheet?

[Robert J Sakimano]

The one with The Fonz in it is on right now.

[Wally Fairway]

Hey Bob,
Hope you are enjoying the holiday season.
I'll ship you one of these as a Festivus gift, leave your garage door unlocked

[Watch Out Pylon!]

I've been watching Fargo lately. It's really evens things when Mingle All the Way comes on.

[Robert J Sakimano]

Hey Bob,
Hope you are enjoying the holiday season.
I'll ship you one of these as a Festivus gift, leave your garage door unlocked

 

thanks.. but my wife will steal mine, so send two.

Happy Holidays!!

[Death Roe]

Is there a Hallmark Cinematic Universe collection available?

[Rocinante]

Is there a Hallmark Cinematic Universe collection available?

This is actually a great idea. I will invest in your Hallmark Cinematic Universe Collector Cards Series 1 idea. Secure the rights. We are going to be rich.

[Guest]

Today's lineup starting at 2pm:

Christmas at Cartwright's
(Drama, Movie, 2014, ***)

Christmas Cookies
(Drama, Movie, 2016, NR, ***)

Christmas at Graceland
(Music, Movie, 2018, NR, **+)

Christmas Under Wraps
(Drama, Movie, 2014, NR, ***)

Snow Bride
(Drama, Movie, 2013, NR, ***)

[tGreenWay]

Today's lineup starting at 2pm:

Christmas at Cartwright's
(Drama, Movie, 2014, ***)

Christmas Cookies
(Drama, Movie, 2016, NR, ***)

Christmas at Graceland
(Music, Movie, 2018, NR, **+)

Christmas Under Wraps
(Drama, Movie, 2014, NR, ***)

Snow Bride
(Drama, Movie, 2013, NR, ***)

Cartwright!

[Guest]

Today's lineup starting at 2pm:

Christmas at Cartwright's
(Drama, Movie, 2014, ***)

Christmas Cookies
(Drama, Movie, 2016, NR, ***)

Christmas at Graceland
(Music, Movie, 2018, NR, **+)

Christmas Under Wraps
(Drama, Movie, 2014, NR, ***)

Snow Bride
(Drama, Movie, 2013, NR, ***)

Cartwright!

Table for....

[tGreenWay]

Cartwright!

Table for....

Not long. Five, ten minute.

[Guest]

To help our guys plan their evening...the 2pm to Midnight lineup:

Christmas in Evergreen (Drama, Movie, 2017)
Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa (Movie, 2018, NR)
Royal Christmas (Drama, Movie, 2014, NR, ***)
Homegrown Christmas (Drama, Movie, 2018, NR)
Christmas at Holly Lodge (Drama, Movie, 2017)

[pulling69]

New channel to add to the list, some Canadian network called UPtv....They are showing almost all Canadian TV Xmas movies. Same formulaic swill but friendlier and with a funny accent.

[Watch Out Pylon!]

Ugh...

[Robert J Sakimano]

Found out today that my wife has an app that keeps track of the Hallmark Christmas movies she's watched.

Yep.

[aualum06]

New channel to add to the list, some Canadian network called UPtv....They are showing almost all Canadian TV Xmas movies. Same formulaic swill but friendlier and with a funny accent.

Usually a decent station home improvement and whose line is it anyway

[Watch Out Pylon!]

Found out today that my wife has an app that keeps track of the Hallmark Christmas movies she's watched.

Yep.

Jesus Christ. I hope Mrs. Pylon doesn't find this.

[aualum06]

Ugh...

Brings a tear to my eye

[Robert J Sakimano]

Found out today that my wife has an app that keeps track of the Hallmark Christmas movies she's watched.

Yep.

Jesus Christ. I hope Mrs. Pylon doesn't find this.

I just found out about it this weekend.

I've known this woman for 28 years.. :(

[TheReal_LWS]

Watched the one with the middle daughter from Full House with W the other night. Story was bad. Acting was terrible. But it made W feel good so I enjoyed it.

[TheReal_LWS]

New channel to add to the list, some Canadian network called UPtv....They are showing almost all Canadian TV Xmas movies. Same formulaic swill but friendlier and with a funny accent.

Usually a decent station home improvement and whose line is it anyway

Anyone else miss that "Home Improvement" was a double entendre? Referred to Tool Time, the fictitious cable home improvement TV show, but also referred to Tim improving as a husband and father.

[Guest]

Today's lineup for our guys:

A Gift to Remember
(Drama, Movie, 2017)

Homegrown Christmas
(Drama, Movie, 2018, NR)

It's Christmas, Eve
(Drama, Movie, 2018)

A Wish for Christmas
(Drama, Movie, 2016, **+)

[Robert J Sakimano]

Marsha Brady is in the one that just came on.

Been a long winter break from a TV perspective.. luckily, I was out of town for a week with no Hallmark Xmas movies. #Thankful

[Robert J Sakimano]

My favorite Hallmark Christmas movie is on right now - "Christmas Connection".

[Guest]

My favorite Hallmark Christmas movie is on right now - "Christmas Connection".

That sounds like it would be Cameron's favorite too.

[Guest]

There is one aspect of the holiday season that grows ever more fascinating, and that is the explosion over the past decade of cheap TV movies centering on the holiday. Since 2010, Hallmark has made – get this – 170 Christmas movies, which it puts into heavy rotation on the Hallmark channel beginning in mid-October. And now Netflix is following suit. It has released eight this season alone. Not since the days of the Western have there been so many films made with exactly the same plots and exactly the same setting with exactly the same effect.

What’s even more interesting is that they all suggest Christmas is a time of magical salvation from the forces of modern isolation and loneliness. The plots almost always involve a young woman from a big city who finds herself, for some reason, in a picturesque small town. She is either unmarried, or engaged to someone unexciting, or sadly widowed. In the small town she finds a manly man, usually someone who works with his hands, who was either her high school boyfriend and has remained a bachelor because he pines for her or is sadly widowered.

The town is wonderful. The man is wonderful. And yet the woman has a life back in the city. But a few poinsettias, a crackling fire with some stockings hanging nearby and somehow kept from catching fire, a spinet playing carols, and a bearded man who just may be the actual Santa Claus, and you know she’s not going back to her soulless lonely modern existence. She will stay in the small town, protected from the Christmas-lessness of the everyday world, and find peace.

The insatiable public appetite for this story is such that we have to assume it means something more than pThere is one aspect of the holiday season that grows ever more fascinating, and that is the explosion over the past decade of cheap TV movies centering on the holiday. Since 2010, Hallmark has made – get this – 170 Christmas movies, which it puts into heavy rotation on the Hallmark channel beginning in mid-October. And now Netflix is following suit. It has released eight this season alone. Not since the days of the Western have there been so many films made with exactly the same plots and exactly the same setting with exactly the same effect.

What’s even more interesting is that they all suggest Christmas is a time of magical salvation from the forces of modern isolation and loneliness. The plots almost always involve a young woman from a big city who finds herself, for some reason, in a picturesque small town. She is either unmarried, or engaged to someone unexciting, or sadly widowed. In the small town she finds a manly man, usually someone who works with his hands, who was either her high school boyfriend and has remained a bachelor because he pines for her or is sadly widowered.

The town is wonderful. The man is wonderful. And yet the woman has a life back in the city. But a few poinsettias, a crackling fire with some stockings hanging nearby and somehow kept from catching fire, a spinet playing carols, and a bearded man who just may be the actual Santa Claus, and you know she’s not going back to her soulless lonely modern existence. She will stay in the small town, protected from the Christmas-lessness of the everyday world, and find peace.

The insatiable public appetite for this story is such that we have to assume it means something more than people liking a good Christmas movie, in part because they’re almost all very bad.eople liking a good Christmas movie, in part because they’re almost all very bad.

Christmas: Looking In How Dickens and pop culture gave us the Christmas we know today

[Guest]

Confessions of a Hallmark Christmas Movie Junkie

I first became a Hallmark Christmas Movie Addict 15 years ago. My wife and I had just done one of our Christmas shows and were wiped out. We collapsed in Carmel and for three days did little more than eat, look in galleries and watch countless Hallmark Christmas movies.

Despite knowing every plot twist in advance, being able to even predict dialogue, despite often atrocious acting, I could not turn away. Watching the same soap stars and b-listers appear over and over again didn’t curb my enthusiasm. Our mocking and adding our own dubious dialogue only added to the fun.

I ultimately beat my addiction, with only the occasional dabble. However, in the last two years, it has come roaring back.

Top Fifteen Essentials for a Hallmark Christmas Movie
Coming up with a Hallmark Christmas movie isn’t all that hard. They are required by law to have these 15 elements:

A quaint picturesque village wrapped in garland and holiday lights and a blanket of snow.
A quaint name for the village or the lodge or inn or farm that is the setting for the action.
An equally quaint little kid with one or more parents dead. (In the case of Finding Father Christmas, Mom drops dead while performing A Christmas Carol.)
An apple-cheeked older woman who wants to help everyone, with husband who tells her to “leave ’em be.”
A professional woman who has lost track of her true self. She’s either given up on dating or is dating someone equally driven in his career who is perfect for where she is in life. Or so she tells people in a not quite believable way.
A sassy sidekick or sibling or assistant really hoping she lightens up.
Arrival, whether planned or accidental, in said quaint village.
A hunk who the professional woman who has lost track of herself happens upon seconds after arriving in said picturesque village. Usually the hunk is a total stranger seemingly opposite in every way. However, union rules require that one in four be a childhood or high school sweetheart who just didn’t work out for all the wrong reasons.
Cups of hot chocolate with a peppermint stick. (To my chagrin, no one ever seems to poke their eye out.)
A bakery with desserts that make you gain three pounds just from watching.
A former, aged soap star chewing scenery.
A sudden snowstorm.
A gradual falling in love, even though everyone in the family, town — even the animal life — knew it from the second they saw the two together.
A touch of supernatural Christmas magic.
A final (or first) kiss as the snow flakes fall.
In fact, in Hallmark Christmas movies there is one scientific certainty: Kisses cause snow. Lips touch and down come the fluffy flakes. Own a ski lodge? A reunion of Hallmark movie stars would be better than a snow machine. Relief groups should send Hallmark Christmas couples to drought stricken lands in order to generate moisture.

[tGreenWay]

Is Hallmark back to movies (really, they’re films) or are they still running vid of a Yule log burning in the fireplace? I looked at the guide and that went for hours last night.

[pulling69]

Is Hallmark back to movies (really, they’re films) or are they still running vid of a Yule log burning in the fireplace? I looked at the guide and that went for hours last night.

There are 2 Hallmark channels.

[tGreenWay]

Is Hallmark back to movies (really, they’re films) or are they still running vid of a Yule log burning in the fireplace? I looked at the guide and that went for hours last night.

There are 2 Hallmark channels.

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