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I watched a Wisecrack video that stuck with me on the unique evil of the Hallmark movie. It's really that real deal hard-line capital L Liberalism straight into your fuckin' dome. It's really the niceties of Christmas with all of the dressings of cheer and goodwill with none of the substance. Hallmark movies wear the flesh of Christmas cheer to hide the Eldritch great beast underneath.

(For the record I love Christmas as any holiday that promotes goodwill, kindness, giving, all that stuff is dope. Also people do a lot of home cooking during Christmas season which is also rad. It really bums me out all the happened to it.)

There was a whole episode about them and their scabbing during the WGA strike. Actually there might have been that one and another directly addressing the bland, soulless, and of course propagandizing elements of hallmark's movies.

My ex family friend is a huge loser who loves these movies and she's a shitty person. Coincidence?

Is there any conceit given that insufficient holiday decorations is absurd?

I had a similar moment recently while staying with my mom who was recovering from a stroke. She was watching this Netflix show, Virgin River. All the male leads are veterans or criminals, and there's a teenage boy who's hiding from his girlfriend that he wants to join the marines. I've noticed that trend lately, trying to market joining the military as essentially rebellious, that other people just don't get it. There are flashbacks where the lead is underfire, a comrade dies, he's shook. Dunno who the enemy is, don't see em, don't know why they're there. At one point a doctor tells the lead ex marine that it's a shame that Iraq was just about oil, to which our hero pauses, then says I think it's a little more complicated than that. And does not elaborate. MORE COMPLICATED HOW MAN?? And marine recruiters just appear everywhere a teen could be. Our female lead is a doctor from LA who goes to this small town and learns that it's a good life and big city bad. There's also a woman who becomes pregnant despite basically hating the guy now (the lead marine) and abortion is never mentioned. I mean of course it's her choice but there's sooo many complications brought on and the fact that she could not have the kids -they're twins!‐ is completely absent.

Very hallmark-y, I had a similar feeling about it after seeing a good amount of it. An eldritch horror dressed in the skin of a holiday/lifestyle is a good way to describe it. I'd thought of letting it go with my mom being a boomer on the mend, until my millennial cousin stopped by, mentioned having recommended it to her, and asked what I thought and isn't it soooo gooood?

they started using my city to make their non union films that are just as bad as any pureflix atheist youtube film critic bait, sucks they don't get dragged for it enough and everyone pretends they're just cheesy fun shlock instead of being dangerous

This sounds like something Paul Verhoeven would put on in the background of his sci-fi dystopia movie to show how spiritually hollow and dead inside the whole of society has become

The only thing an HOA president would do in something I write would be [redacted]

Ah we had the sequel on at my dad's place where a new family moves in but they do Christmas stuff different and that's the whole conflict

Big oof.

These are great movies if you are new to the process of riffing, and want to learn how to improvise dunks on cheesy movies. Do not watch them sober otherwise

My mother watches these religiously because she likes “the decorations and everyone’s makeup”

real landlord shit

jeb lund and david roth podcast where they watch hallmark movies

it's christmastown https://daveandjebarentmean.libsyn.com/