Friday, 24 December 2021

The Viewing Files: Deck The Halls...

🎁I know right?  More Christmas movies. I seriously have a problem.  And would you believe I've still got even more to watch.  How awesome is that.  Then again my brain has probably turned to mush from all the snowy overload.  It's either that or all the Christmas cake I've eaten.

Christmas in Connecticut
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck
Original release: 1945
Synopsis: A Martha Stewart type journalist invites a soldier to her home for a traditional Christmas, only she's not quite the homemaker she makes out to be.
 
She can't cook, isn't that fond of children and has no want or need on how to be a housewife. (OMG it's me in a movie.)
 
Of course some man has to come along and ruin it all...

Surprisingly funny and good.
Holiday Affair
Starring: Robert Mitchum and Jamie Lee's mom.
Original release: 1949
Synopsis:  A young widow keeps running into the same man.
 
I never thought I would say cute and Robert Mitchum in the same sentence but can this movie be any cuter or Robert Mitchum more bad boy swoony.  I think not.
Christmas in Montana
Starring: That guy from Eureka
Original release: 2019
Synopsis:  A financial advisor goes to Montana to help a rancher save his ranch.
 
Colin Ferguson needs to make all the Hallmark movies. He's just so nice and charming. Extra points for being set in Montana and that house. Minus points for Kellie Martin whose just all kinds of boring.
Too Close For Christmas
Starring: The guy from One Tree Hill
Original release: 2020
Synopsis:  Two annoying people find each other
 
I like Chad MM in most of these kind of movies but his character in this one is beyond annoying. Then again so she is. So maybe a perfect pairing after all.
 
All the minus's for zero chemistry and annoying characters.
The Twelve Trees of Christmas
Starring: Who knows, who cares
Original release: 2013
Synopsis:  A library is threatened with closure
 
A Christmas movie about libraries. My idea of heaven. Sadly this movie isn't that. No chemistry, annoying female lead and totally unrealistic about libraries. I did however love her clothes so fashion bonuses for that.
Crown For Christmas
Starring: The blond guy from Spooks
Original release: 2015
Synopsis:  A struggling artist is hired as a governess to a princess.
 
Zero chemistry between the 2 leads but there's a ton of snow and the man from Spooks riding horses and looking all pretty so I'm fairly happy.
Sense, Sensibility and Snowmen
Starring: Smiley people
Original release: 2019
Synopsis:  A party planner clashes with her Scrooge like client. 
 
How is it possible for a Christmas romance movie to be so boring? I nearly had a nap it was such a snooze fest.
Angel Falls Christmas
Starring: One Tree Guy again
Original release: 2021
Synopsis:  A workaholic doctor is shown how to enjoy Christmas by a mysterious stranger.
 
I thought I had seen some bad Christmas movies and then I watched this.
Fir Crazy
Starring: Cute Guy
Original release: 2013
Synopsis:  In between jobs a woman helps to sell Christmas trees. 
 
I've changed my mind. Eric Johnson should do all the Hallmark movies. He's just so swoon worthy nice and cute. As for the rest... well the story was kind of okay despite the zero chemistry between the 2 leads.
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas
Starring: From TV shows I can't remember
Original release: 2015
Synopsis:  A DJ receives Secret Santa gifts
 
Love, love , love.
 
Just all kinds of perfect. Snow, chemistry and Secret Santa's. What more could you ask for.
A Dickens of a Holiday
Starring: Gravelly voice man
Original release: 2021
Synopsis:  A actor returns home to star in the local Christmas play.
 
I liked this more than I thought I would. Great chemistry between the 2 leads and a nice quirky story.
 
Of course I may have been swayed by Kristoffer Polaha's gravelly voice.
Dashing in December
Starring:
Original release: 2020
Synopsis:  Christmas and Cowboys
 
My kind of Christmas movie in every way. Just 2 guys who fall in love, face a few obstacles along the way (mostly themselves) and finally realise where they belong and with whom and all set in snowy. horsey mountains.

Love.

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