I see from Google Maps that she is now at the Wichita Falls equivalent of a Whole Foods so no doubt some fine foods for our Christmas celebration are being procured.
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Those are Raleigh sportsball radio dudes. Joe Ovies (left) rags on Joe Giglio for not liking xmas movies.Foggy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 1:07 pm I am not gonna watch JT8's video, and if you can't trust people who don't watch Christmas movies, it is time to consider emigration to another planet or sumpin'. 'Course, I trust a lady who watches every freakin' Christmas movie ever made, and she is totally in Heaven when she's at the beach, in July, getting tanned during the day and watching Christmas in July on Hallmark at night.
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If you can tolerate Kevin Spacey, The Ref is my 2nd favourite x-mas movie behind Bill Murray's Scrooged. The Ref is funny in a mean, anti-holiday sort of way. That's my season this year.Foggy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 7:49 pm Yeah, I figured it wasn't serious. It's just that in this house there is a definite dividing line between people who do, and do not, watch Christmas movies. So it's kind of a standing joke around here. But I have to walk through the room where the Christmas movies live.
I have seen enough snippets of Christmas movies on Hallmark to realize that they aren't Christmas movies at all.
Not one of 'em is about the birth of Jesus, or the spirit of Christmas, or anything like that. They are love stories set in a Christmas setting. They are romantic love stories, in little towns, where it snows, at Christmastime, and even the one that did have Santa and some elves, was a love story. "I'm in love with Santa's daughter!"![]()
So now you can skip them, since I have now effectively mansplained more than 400 movies in just a few paragraphs.
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The real beauty of Hallmark movies is you can drift in and out of sleep for 123 hours in front of them and never lose the plot because they're all the same movie, different actors and they play the public domain music in different orders.Foggy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 7:55 pm Oh, and one of the beautiful things about Hallmark movies about love stories at Christmastime is that you don't have to pay any silly royalties for the music. You just get an orchestra to play Christmas carols with various types of arrangements, and it's all public domain. Priceless!
My beloved watches these Hallmark Christmas movies with regularity. Many of the cast members appear in some of their other franchises.Foggy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 7:55 pm Oh, and one of the beautiful things about Hallmark movies about love stories at Christmastime is that you don't have to pay any silly royalties for the music. You just get an orchestra to play Christmas carols with various types of arrangements, and it's all public domain. Priceless!
humblescribe wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 3:59 pmMy beloved watches these Hallmark Christmas movies with regularity. Many of the cast members appear in some of their other franchises.Foggy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 7:55 pm Oh, and one of the beautiful things about Hallmark movies about love stories at Christmastime is that you don't have to pay any silly royalties for the music. You just get an orchestra to play Christmas carols with various types of arrangements, and it's all public domain. Priceless!
Not only are all the plots nearly identical, but it is obvious that they are filmed during more temperate months. In movie after movie, very rarely do the actors have condensation on their breath while enjoying the outdoors doing their thing. Actors with "snow" on their jackets go inside to a function. Twenty minutes later those "snowflakes" still cling to their clothing or hair. Other actors are bundled up for the cold weather and encounter a friend in town who is dressed like its 65 degrees. There is never--never--any snowmelt throughout the movie. The temperatures plummet below freezing and never rise high enough to melt some of the snow or ice.
Maybe I am too anal, but stuff like this in scene after scene distracts me from the weak plot, and I focus on all the goofs and other oddities that litter their Christmas movies.