You forgot the obligatory fag and eventual dog that seems to keep popping in to steal the scene or bring them closer together.  

I used to walk in on Toy in the middle and spoil the plot, (of course she already knew was coming), as did a million other women who really didn't care, they knew would play out.

Damn girl, you should write a real script and sell it to them, I know you could do better then their Reader Digest version written by a preteen dying for love....

Quote from: Solar on December 18, 2021, 06:22:26 PM           
You forgot the obligatory fag and eventual dog that seems to keep popping in to steal the scene or bring them closer together.  

I used to walk in on Toy in the middle and spoil the plot, (of course she already knew was coming), as did a million other women who really didn't care, they knew would play out.

Damn girl, you should write a real script and sell it to them, I know you could do better then their Reader Digest version written by a preteen dying for love....

He used to. I gave up Hallmark last year because of the constant insertion of a gay couple. But Solar is right Grammy you could definitely write for them. You have the formula.  Toy

Quote from: Solars Toy on December 19, 2021, 05:58:28 AMHe used to. I gave up Hallmark last year because of the constant insertion of a gay couple. But Solar is right Grammy you could definitely write for them. You have the formula.  Toy

Yep, Hallmark was the bubble gum of female TV, sweet and juicy, but never kept its flavor as it rotted your brain. The body, like the brain, needs food and stimulation, so a good plot would go a long way in this genre. Women are starved for a well written script, just like men are starved for real heroes.

Maybe you two should hammer one out together?

Quote from: Sick Of Silence on December 18, 2021, 06:18:10 PM

I only pointed it out because it stars my favorite left-ish Liberal (Mayim Bialik). She's Jewish and she is the main character in a Christmas movie.

 

Oy veh! Yeah, that seems odd at first blush.  But that's Hallmark's new thing, it seems, mixing Hanukkah and Christmas.  One of their new story lines is "girl does DNA test and finds out she's Jewish" or "girl gets guy to come home and pose as her boyfriend for Christmas but it turns out he's Jewish". Action packed.  Except it's not.    

Quote from: Solars Toy on December 19, 2021, 05:58:28 AMHe used to. I gave up Hallmark last year because of the constant insertion of a gay couple. But Solar is right Grammy you could definitely write for them. You have the formula.  Toy

Well, it's the way they insert the gay couple that's so annoying!  I'm not onboard but I'd have more respect for them if they just did a movie about a gay couple (so you could just choose not to watch it, if you didn't want to).  But no, that's not what they do.  They "sneak" it in.  Insertion is a good word.  They just show one guy calling another guy "cute" in an offhand way or some girl looking another one up and down and her friend saying "why don't you ask her out"? 

I do not love Hallmark.  (They wouldn't show the movie I would write, ha!)   

Quote from: Solar on December 19, 2021, 06:05:21 AMYep, Hallmark was the bubble gum of female TV, sweet and juicy, but never kept its flavor as it rotted your brain. The body, like the brain, needs food and stimulation, so a good plot would go a long way in this genre. Women are starved for a well written script, just like men are starved for real heroes.

Maybe you two should hammer one out together?

If we did, we'd turn them into movies about girls with guns!      

Quote from: Grammy on December 19, 2021, 10:27:21 AMWell, it's the way they insert the gay couple that's so annoying!  I'm not onboard but I'd have more respect for them if they just did a movie about a gay couple (so you could just choose not to watch it, if you didn't want to).  But no, that's not what they do.  They "sneak" it in.  Insertion is a good word.  They just show one guy calling another guy "cute" in an offhand way or some girl looking another one up and down and her friend saying "why don't you ask her out"? 

I do not love Hallmark.  (They wouldn't show the movie I would write, ha!) 

I see what you did there.            

Quote from: Grammy on December 19, 2021, 10:30:22 AMIf we did, we'd turn them into movies about girls with guns!     

       

Ok, do it, I'd watch!!!

Okay, there was one Hallmark Christmas movie with one smidgen of story line I actually liked:  the "City Girl" drove a 69 Dodge Dart, just like one I had in the early 70s.  (Only hers was blue and mine was green.) 

So....  there's that, then. 
 

Quote from: Grammy on December 19, 2021, 04:44:32 PMOkay, there was one Hallmark Christmas movie with one smidgen of story line I actually liked:  the "City Girl" drove a 69 Dodge Dart, just like one I had in the early 70s.  (Only hers was blue and mine was green.) 

So....  there's that, then. 
 

I was never a Dodge man, but the Dart was one of those special cars that literally kicked ass.

Quote from: Grammy on December 18, 2021, 03:11:37 PMWhile we're asking these kinds of questions, when did Christmas become about Hallmark romance movies? 

They make me crazy!

I have fairly severe tinnitus -- ringing in the ears -- and I turn on the TV in my room at a very low volume so that I have something to distract from the shrieking in my ears.  Hallmark is a good channel because the programming is fairly quiet, no gunfights or car chases, and in the morning I can look back at what episodes of The Golden Girls and Frasier I am aware of having heard, so I can kind of judge how well I slept.

Then in October they start smearing those poorly made, tone-deaf Christmas movies 24/7 all over the TV and I have to switch to MeTV.  Why they even have an audience for those movies is beyond me.

Quote from: Grammy on December 18, 2021, 04:55:59 PMThere ya go!  Classic example.  One of 5 probable Hallmark plots.  The most annoying one is:  roll in with some bouncy Christmas jazz, big city, girl walking with a purposeful stride, smiling at anyone or anything in her orbit, stuffing some cash into Santa's kettle, stopping by the coffee kiosk where, apparently, there's never a line and the barista just happens to know how she takes her coffee and hands it to her, along with an extra because of course, she's going to waltz into her very important office with a coffee for her very capable assistant, be told that she's "the best" then, after a quick back-and-forth with Mr. Whatever, goes to dinner with her boyfriend, fully expecting him to propose but, instead, he tells her that he's taking a job in "Bigger City" and that their relationship is just "not working".

Crushed, she decides  that she is going to spend Christmas in her hometown after all (it's been years!) so she dutifully heads off only to learn that the family B&B (substitute Christmas tree farm, diner, ranch, etc.) is about to be swooped up by a big developer but she.... yes, she....  can save it!  That is, as long as she doesn't become distracted by "Brad, Paul, Michael, David" (or whatever her old high school boyfriend's name is who was supposed to go with her after graduation to the big city but changed his mind and she has never forgiven him.  (Of course, she finds out that he couldn't go with her because his dad had just "lost his job, had to have serious surgery, died" (pick one) and he just didn't want to "hold her back" because all he ever wanted was for her to be happy. Of course, all is forgiven, and they are suddenly thrown together because he is going to use his law degree (that he earned working his way through law school at the local mill) to help her and together they save the B&B (substitute Christmas tree farm, diner, ranch, etc.) but not before City Girl's boyfriend just appears out of nowhere because his job offer in "Bigger City" fell through and he was wrong and she's all he ever wanted. Brad, Paul, Michael, David" (or whatever her old high school boyfriend's name is) walks in on this and turns to go, thereby creating the knee-jerk overreaction that always presents itself just before the final block of commercials but don't worry.  After the commercials, they all come back and fix everything in the last two minutes of the movie, have a big kiss, camera pulls away and !BLAMMO!  Another Hallmark Christmas movie is in the can!  (Or it should be.) 

Ayep!  What kind of people want to watch the same movie, albeit with different actors and place names changed, over and over?

Quote from: Grammy on December 19, 2021, 10:30:22 AMIf we did, we'd turn them into movies about girls with guns!     

Now you're talkin'!  I'd actually watch that!

Quote from: Solar on December 19, 2021, 08:36:50 PMI was never a Dodge man, but the Dart was one of those special cars that literally kicked ass.

If you had one that didn't have that awful slant-6, you at least had a 340ci V-8 to help you mosey down the road. There were versions back then that featured the famed 426 Hemi or even the monster 440 big block.

I remember taking a river trip on a 27-foot cabin cruiser in the early '80s. That boat was nice, and power was supplied by a matched pair of Dodge Super Bee 340's, each one pumping out 245hp. That boat would mosey too -- at around 30 mph at a fuel consumption rate of roughly 1 mpg.

Quote from: TboneAgain on February 10, 2022, 03:29:31 PMIf you had one that didn't have that awful slant-6, you at least had a 340ci V-8 to help you mosey down the road. There were versions back then that featured the famed 426 Hemi or even the monster 440 big block.

I remember taking a river trip on a 27-foot cabin cruiser in the early '80s. That boat was nice, and power was supplied by a matched pair of Dodge Super Bee 340's, each one pumping out 245hp. That boat would mosey too -- at around 30 mph at a fuel consumption rate of roughly 1 mpg.

Like this one.