Year after year, since I first discovered them I have been more and more watching the "Hallmark" type Christmas movies.
It has been a progressive annoyance from those who had to have a town celebration in a barn in a two week period of time and where it had to be cleared of the animals, cleaned of the straw, and decorated... right up to their "Hallmarks" progressiveness into more and more woke.
It was with happiness that I learned that one of the big wigs at Hallmark left and the Great American Family Christmas movies were birthed and many of the stars on Hallmarks payroll jumped ship to the new GAF.
We were not given GAF by Verizon until last year, but the movies were fresh and not embarrassing to have my mom watch them.
Finally it seems as if Hallmark has seen the light from GAF and also UP and has toned the woke down.
Though I will more often check out Up and GAF before anything Hallmark these days.
Once bitten and the sting remains.... I guess.
But I have another peeve and this one is seen all over the place.
You have a silly Christmas movie only centered on romance.
People reunited from high school, or people who meet for the first time.... each and every single one of those movies is a romance. A Christmas romance.....
Except for one last year on GAF with Candace Cameron Bure ....."A Christmas... Present"
If you get a chance... this one IS worth watching.
Anyway...
I actually find it so offensive when they get through the fru fru of these shows and at the end the "boy" asks "the girl" to dance... in response to her saying "I love this song", or "This is my favorite" and they end up romantically slow dancing to a christmas hymn... Especially like one that came on this morning
we all know... Silent Night.
What a smack in the face to our Savior.
So now there will be weeks and months on unviewable television because the other garbage that is on is not worth watching.
OKAY... Off my rant
I love it! Nice rant!
I must admit, though, I love a good B&W Christmas movie.
I can't account for my taste, really, but I grew up watching some that I have a hard time not breaking out every year.
I particularly love these:
(In no particular order)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Christmas In Connecticut (1945)
It Happened On Fifth Avenue (1947)
The Shop Around The Corner (1940)
Remember The Night (1939)
My wife likes "We're No Angels" (1955) for a reason I can't disclose (spoilers, you know), and I watch along with her because I was a hopeless Humphrey Bogart fan as a child.
And for a real treat, you have to see the Oscar-winning short film: "Star In The Night" (1945). About the only place you'll find it, though, is on TCM between feature films. Although I have spotted it on YouTube before.
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