does anyone watch Hallmark xmas movies? I don't understand how I got addicted to them

[Anonymous]

I'm watching Christmas at Holly Lodge right now. This one has been on a gazillion times this year. I'm going to miss these after the Holiday season. Someone should make a DVD of the all Hallmark Holiday movies released by year, I'd buy them.

[Anonymous]

I like to watch them also.
We don't have the Hallmark channel, but there are a bunch of Hallmark movies on youtube.

[Anonymous]

My friend and I used to joke that the writers for these movies probably come to work in the morning, write one in the morning and another in the afternoon! So formulaic

[Anonymous]

I live for "12 Dates of Christmas" to be on! It's sooooo bad it's good!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The clothes, houses, kitchens and decorating all have a look of perfection.

They make everything seem pleasant , clean, orderly and managed. It's the deepest desire of women.

Spot on. The deepest of desires.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was at my inlaws' last week, we ended up watching about 5,000 of these Hallmark Xmas movies. (My MIL loves them.) They are so so not my life - I am a city person, no kids, already happily married, Jewish, don't particularly like Xmas - but I ended up getting a little obsessed with these movies.

Like, getting obsessed with them on a couple of levels - one, trying to figure them out: what needs or desires they are tapping into with the target audience. And also trying to figure out why in the heck I got so into them.

Re: needs - it seemed like the key was that there was a young-ish woman who feels under-valued in nearly every part of her life. Through celebrating Christmas, she ends up winning the heart of a man who appreciates her and also teaching him the meaning of Christmas - primarily family, tradition, and community. And it's all with the background of being (mostly) white and well-off. There is often a tragic child in the mix there, too, who helps a resistant adult learn that there's more to life than work and the big city.

The people are all super super bland and generic. Just about entirely white. In many cases, not even especially nice or interesting.

Why are these so fun to watch? Why am I still thinking about them, days later??

Talk to a priest. It sounds like you should explore converting to Catholicism. Many Jews have, it's actually sort of trendy.

[Anonymous]

The Christmas Train has an AA film director in it.

[Anonymous]

SNL did a great spoof on these movies

[img]https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=35s&v=MSzytvDsPfo[img]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=35s&v=MSzytvDsPfo

[Anonymous]

Why are these so fun to watch?

Predictable happy ending. Love conquers all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friend and I used to joke that the writers for these movies probably come to work in the morning, write one in the morning and another in the afternoon! So formulaic

Yes! And I think that they film them all in a month, in the same place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SNL did a great spoof on these movies

[img]https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=35s&v=MSzytvDsPfo[img]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=35s&v=MSzytvDsPfo

Awesome!

[Anonymous]

Warm, cozy, comfortable homes. Fireplaces. A focus on food and family. Nice-looking, well-dressed people living in picturesque towns. The movies focus on social connections that we all wish for during the holidays.

[Anonymous]

They are mindless and not as violent or disturbing as what is on TV most of the time. I also do not celebrate Christmas but love these movies. I won't be up with nightmares or feelings of being unsettled. There is nothing disturbing. Always a satisfying happy ending.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Why are these so fun to watch?

Predictable happy ending. Love conquers all.

+1. We cut the cord on cable last year and one of the few things I miss are the hallmark xmas movies. Even my DH didn't mind them because he thought they were so bad that they were funny.