[ SECRET POST #3989 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3989 ⌋

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Offshoot of #1

[(Anonymous)]

What Christmas book or movie do you strongly dislike, or just not get?

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[(Anonymous)]

The Polar Express is terrifying.

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[morieris]

It SO is.

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[(Anonymous)]

Lots, but more recent was last year's Love, the Coopers or... honestly, I don't even know if that was the real name. It wasn't the worst movie ever, but it tried so hard to be Love Actually. Love Actually worked because the producers knew what they were doing. Love, the Coopers was an assortment of half-baked storylines meshed together. That's not what Love Actually is.

Then again, for all the hype I don't even think Love Actually was the best Christmas movie of my generation. It's good, but A Christmas Carol doesn't have anything to worry about.

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[kaijinscendre]

I don't really like all of the claymation ones that come on TV. Like Rudolph and the Misfit Toys and such. I don't hate them, they just don't interest me at all.

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[(Anonymous)]

The Little Match Girl is horrifying and Pratchett’s spin on it is the only one I’ve ever liked. Hans Christian Andersen was fucked up about so many things, and yet for me, Match Girl wins the “holy shit you have issues” award.

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[(Anonymous)]

love actually sucks

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[cakemage]

The Christmas Shoes and Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer can both burn in hell where they belong.

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[(Anonymous)]

The Santa Clause, because I really don't like Tim Allen.

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[(Anonymous)]

It's a Wonderful Life.

The whole story is depressing. Sacrifice your life so that everyone else can have a better one.

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[(Anonymous)]

Everything that the Hallmark channel broadcasts from November onward.

Bizarre formulaic crap.

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[(Anonymous)]

Oh holy shit, yes. My roommate, who is not Christian, but identifies as a nihilist and has been called a sociopath by more than one of her friends, fucking loves Hallmark Christmas movies because they're "soothing," because she knows exactly how they'll all end. Which, well, I dunno if that makes her a sociopath, but anyone who seeks out and willingly watches that shit has issues.

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[(Anonymous)]

Oi! What are you trying to say?

Lol

I love cheesy Hallmark movies. I do know exactly how they're going to end. I know every single cliche they deploy, and I love every single second of it. They are a bit soothing. You know what will happen. Even the unlikable characters have some small moment of redemption or comeuppance.

I also have made it a point to count how many PoCs are in the movies, what their roles are, and if they're ever MCs (they're not :[ ). I also like to have a short list of my fav Hallmark movie guys -- suprise fact the guy who played Dick Roman/Leviathan #1 in SPN is in one of my favorites, helping it become one of my favorites!

I appreciate that Hallmark does use some good looking people in the movies as protagonists (both m & f), but they also use some regular looking people too.

I just love the cheesy goodness! I even get see some of my favorite actors/actresses in these movies (I always cringe when there's an English/European Prince involved, the accents, oy vey the accents...). But one of my favorites is A Princess for Christmas, with Katie McGrath (whom I love and find to be beautiful) and the dude from Outlander who plays Jamie.

I keep these feelings under wraps though. The public at large wouldn't understand.

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[el_regrs]

The longer I live, the more I find wrong with the Home Alone movies.

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[philstar22]

All Christmas movies pretty much. Just too sappy for my taste.

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[ninety6tears]

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Cannot stand it.

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[ari_griffin]

Christmas with the Kranks
The Family Stone (set during Christmas)
Surviving Christmas
The Polar Express
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Charlie Brown Christmas
Robbie the Reindeer