Daily Cascade

On Some Hallmark Movies

Prompt:
Do you like Hallmark Romance movies? Do you like the Christmas ones?
Write about these in your Blog entry today.

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I might be committing, with this entry, a writer's sin, and in this case, possibly provoke a movie goer's ire, when I say that I don't like anything strictly romance. Especially when it is unrealistic (in my opinion) and silly. I just checked the audience of Hallmark romance movies and found out that their main viewers are women aged 25-54. It just goes to show that my age might also be the culprit, here.

After blaming my age and the influence of my late husband's dislike for silly romances, "Not humanly possible" (his words, not mine), I still think Hallmark deserves an applause for dragging so many viewers along to watch religiously its so-called princes, though they might be waiters at a hotel restaurant--or some such thing--who save damsels in distress. Also, it just takes courage to force the viewers' imaginations by coming up with many and different plots of trophy wives, common women (by common I mean those who do not belong to high society) being saved by a prince, or a (commoner) prince being picked up by the princess, or women fighting over a man, or men fighting over a woman, or love at first sight, etc. All plots can be recycled, too. So kudos to Hallmark for honoring the "Green" movement!

Before anyone who is an afficionado of such plots comes for my throat, let me just say that I have no problem with romance as long as it makes sense and it is, for my liking, a part of a much larger theme, but when it is the only theme in a plot and not written well, it makes my hair stand on end. Sorry, Hallmark lovers, let's leave this as, 'each to her own taste!'

But it is not just the plots, I guess when the script is too cheesy, the acting also goes down the drain. This may be because goofy romance movies does something ugly and slimy to even the best actors. Since I haven't watched such movies much, I dare say that there has to be exceptions as there are exceptions to a general rule, always.

I have, however, watched more of the Christmas movies, especially when my children were little. After all, I have allowed myself during Christmas to be excited about family time, school break, Christmas magic, fancy cookies and food, and also movies. I'm not sure if the Christmas movies we watched were done by Hallmark, but they just might have been. I can only recall the title of "Home Alone," just because both my kids were high school to college age then, and I sat to watch it with them, for old times' sake. A friend of mine said she laughed at "Elf" but I haven't seen that movie and neither do I plan to.

Still, during that time of the year, I mean Christmas, most of us allow ourselves to be excited about even the silliest things. So, from that point of view, Hallmark could be a good possible choice, after all.