Yes, Hallmark Christmas movies are cheesy

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I know you didn’t come up with it. Grounded in it, does not equal it. I think Bear offered the perfect explanation.
 
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I think it’s because the movie shows a perfect man and the (female) viewers will start to view the men in their real lives as being less attractive in comparison and while away their days fantasizing about the perfect man.
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That’s a strong word. I don’t think it’s that great of a likelihood, much less a certainty.
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Sorry. Should’ve been more clear in what I wrote. It’s not that _I_believe they will, it’s that some people fear that they will. I personally don’t buy into the fear or concerns.
 
My fav Hallmark Channel Christmas movie is “A Bramble House Christmas.”
 
Thank you, Irishmom2. Autumn’s made several movies for the Hallmark Channel. This one’s her best.
 
At the risk of sounding like Scrooge or the Grinch, I think there are way too many Christmas movies, which also begin too early in the season. Keep the classics since they are good; but the others are essentially so similar to one another and, as you say, cheesy, that they lose all meaning, for me at least.
 
But does everyone have to be a story about a poor damsel in distress who needs to be rescued?
 
I’ll take cheesy (wholesome, family friendly) movies over violence laden movies any day.
 
Welp, enjoy your cheesy movies, friends, time for me to doze off trying to get all the way through the BBC doc on King George III for the fifth time.
 
There’s nothing wrong with taking a break from the ugly in the world.
I used to subscribe to Victoria magazine because it was all about pretty things, and there was no controversy or politics.
And no, there’s no danger that watching Hallmark movies will disconnect you from the “real world “.

Trust me, the real world will always find it’s way into your life to muck it all up.
 
I don’t know how popular the Hallmark movies are compared to old episodes of Law and Order or other cable fare, but from what I’ve read romantic comedies on the big screen and with big budgets (like ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’) have fallen on hard times for some time now so the stagnation of that situation has brought about a resurgence of these things on the small screen with no-name actors. There is an audience for romantic comedies and it needs to be fed something, anything (which is fine by me). These Hallmark movies should be seen as rom coms first and Christmas movies second, if at all.
 
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I like hallmark movies.

Theyre about some of the nicest things about human existence, family and friends with just a little bit of grit to make it interesting. Idealised maybe but what’s wrong with ideals.

Nihilism I can get by reading the paper or listening to the news or just about anywhere else!

I like 🧀 cheese.
 
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I am a male, and I like emotional, sentimental movies, particularly faith based. But the Faith basis can be implicit, indirect. Dickens was a Christian, and A Christmas Carol has a genuine personal conversion.

Some Hallmark movies include that, but most don’t. Boy meets girl, circumstances, bad luck and bad choices get in the way, boy reunites with girl. And it happens in December, so it’s a Christmas movie. Well, not bad, ok movie by 2018 wretched standards.

A few movies on Hallmark, or better, in the Evangelical channel, do touch my heart. They actually have something to do with Christmas, lead me to a little change, myself.
 
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Yes, Hallmark Christmas movies are cheesy. Here’s why we still love them. | America Magazine
The Hallmark Channel will debut 22 new Christmas movies this winter, down from 33 last year, bringing the grand total to more than 150, each of which take about three weeks to make and are rebroadcast year after year.

Despite how formulaic the movies are, audiences eat them up. The Hallmark Channel posted record numbers for viewership during the Christmas season last year, reaching more than 72 million viewers and skyrocketing The Hallmark Channel to the highest-rated station for its primary demographics (women ages 25 to 54 and 18 to 49) during the holidays.
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More bonus points if they feature a man and a woman workin through some stuff and committing to one another in marriage. Bonus points if families come together. Bonus points for no bleeding corpses, more bonus points for no naked bodies.

Bonus points for me if I can sit through one with my wife without falling asleep while she tears up. 😃
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Bonus points for me if I can sit through one with my wife without falling asleep while she tears up . 😃
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Have you tried the Hallmark drinking game?

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(Disclaimer: I’m guessing anyone who is truly faithful to the aforementioned drinking game would die.)

I’ve seen a couple because my mother watched them. So formulaic, but nice in a way.
 
That’s a lot of drinking in the space of two hours. If we get this started all my buddies will be over lovin the Hallmark channel.
 
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