I have to add a couple to this great list! 1) Tons of them end with someone uprooting their entire lives and moving and/or marrying someone they fell madly in love with, even though they only met them a week ago. 2) There's always upbeat music featuring sleigh bells playing in the background. No exceptions!
So accurate! Lol, another Troupe would be when the guy and girl both meet for the first time and they bump into each other. 😂😂 Along with the tragic stories...one or both characters loses a parent or both parents. Also the christmas traditions tend to be the same, like you mentioned the 'carolers'. Also making gingerbread houses and baking christmas cookies.
This was so awesome, because I think about these exact things everytime I watch these Hallmark movies! Lol! You forgot to mention it snows on cue during a kissing scene or joyous moment, the obligatory black character with no back story, and the sponsor getting camera time all over the movie scenes. One year it was Eye works glasses, another Folger's Dark Roast, and last year Balsam Hill...Lmao!
Don't forget ~ there always HAS to be ice skating and/or making snow angels in every movie. Usually one person cannot skate and the other one is an expert.
LOL, I feel like I'm at an AA meeting here with my people...sitting in a circle, hi, everyone I'm Dax ("hiiii, Daaaax) and I like Hallmark Christmas Movies. I just wanted to share a couple of additions to your list: Tying in with the "unfortunate misunderstanding", I think 80 percent of these also have a subplot where the person who misunderstood has an impossibly great job offer in another country, i.e. someone who is pretty good at designing a window display is offered a position as head of marketing in their new Paris, France division. They weren't going to take the job, because they fell in love with the other pretty white person, but oh no, now there's a misunderstanding, so they decide at the 11th hour they ARE going to take the job. They are intercepted in the final act by the love-interest, usually at the airport ticket counter, where miraculously, they love-interest caught up to them in time, and DIDN'T get tackled by TSA. Also, I'd say a little under half of them have a trope, maybe not as common as your awesome list, but prevalent enough to mention, one key character has some time of creative talent (painting, singing, etc) that they flat-out *refuse* to share for no reason what-so-ever, until the final act when they do it as a tie-in to saving the business/tradition/town. Great job, keep these coming.
I'm looking for "the making of" of every Hallmark movie... from the 50s to now. Could you show me where to find it or do the behind-the-scenes of all of them? Plus you are naturally entertaining couple. Sub'd. 👍
Fake snow and fake snow men. The snow looks a lot like white felt and the snow men look like Styrofoam. They will tend to move when the characters try to put scarfs and hats on them.
An appealing subject to Vlog, but I had to stop watching by one third the way through because when ever she spoke you would talk and speak over her cutting her off almost every time she spoke. Then you fished her at one point with a question, as she began to respond and speak by her fourth or fifth word you cut her off and stole her answer. Why have a cohost if you do ALL the talking? If you are going to have a cohost, you must show restraint and respect to let everyone speak and allow them to finish their sentences to make their point. Merry Christmas
Great list, but it is overexplained. This video easily could have been less than 5 minutes and would probably get more views as a result. Both of you seem really nice and genuine, but the banter slows the flow and doesn’t move it forward. Consider alternating who introduces the next item on the list. Since you don’t ever disagree with each other, there isn’t much reason for both of you to talk about the same thing. Don’t give up, just work on tightening it up.
And when I say first video, I mean the first with us in front of the camera. I've been working on the "safe side" of the camera for 20+ years. It's totally different over there, staring at the big, unblinking eye. :-)
Plus the single mom works in a store that sells......mittens. And somehow lives in a 3400 sq ft Craftsman Style home with an AMAZING kitchen.
If they kiss in the middle of the movie, you're watching a Netflix Christmas movie
Let's not forget about the impromptu snowball fight where someone falls and the other one falls on top of them. LOL
I have to add a couple to this great list! 1) Tons of them end with someone uprooting their entire lives and moving and/or marrying someone they fell madly in love with, even though they only met them a week ago. 2) There's always upbeat music featuring sleigh bells playing in the background. No exceptions!
So accurate! Lol, another Troupe would be when the guy and girl both meet for the first time and they bump into each other. 😂😂 Along with the tragic stories...one or both characters loses a parent or both parents. Also the christmas traditions tend to be the same, like you mentioned the 'carolers'. Also making gingerbread houses and baking christmas cookies.
So much gingerbread...
Please don't forget the (ugh) Annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in the Town Square - the highlight of the town's celebrations
-kind of what it would be like if Thomas Kinkade made movies!
This was so awesome, because I think about these exact things everytime I watch these Hallmark movies! Lol! You forgot to mention it snows on cue during a kissing scene or joyous moment, the obligatory black character with no back story, and the sponsor getting camera time all over the movie scenes. One year it was Eye works glasses, another Folger's Dark Roast, and last year Balsam Hill...Lmao!
Don’t forget the hair! Beach waves and curls. Every. Single. One.
Yesssss
Great start. I'm looking forward to more.
Don't forget ~ there always HAS to be ice skating and/or making snow angels in every movie. Usually one person cannot skate and the other one is an expert.
LOL, I feel like I'm at an AA meeting here with my people...sitting in a circle, hi, everyone I'm Dax ("hiiii, Daaaax) and I like Hallmark Christmas Movies. I just wanted to share a couple of additions to your list:
Tying in with the "unfortunate misunderstanding", I think 80 percent of these also have a subplot where the person who misunderstood has an impossibly great job offer in another country, i.e. someone who is pretty good at designing a window display is offered a position as head of marketing in their new Paris, France division. They weren't going to take the job, because they fell in love with the other pretty white person, but oh no, now there's a misunderstanding, so they decide at the 11th hour they ARE going to take the job. They are intercepted in the final act by the love-interest, usually at the airport ticket counter, where miraculously, they love-interest caught up to them in time, and DIDN'T get tackled by TSA.
Also, I'd say a little under half of them have a trope, maybe not as common as your awesome list, but prevalent enough to mention, one key character has some time of creative talent (painting, singing, etc) that they flat-out *refuse* to share for no reason what-so-ever, until the final act when they do it as a tie-in to saving the business/tradition/town.
Great job, keep these coming.
😂😂😂 don't forget the old geezer that never left the town and is only happy to grin like a cheshire cat at everyone else finding love
Ya'll are awesome! I love this!!!
me too
So funny! And so true!!😂
I'm looking for "the making of" of every Hallmark movie... from the 50s to now. Could you show me where to find it or do the behind-the-scenes of all of them?
Plus you are naturally entertaining couple. Sub'd. 👍
...the European royal countries bit was hilarious.
Fake snow and fake snow men. The snow looks a lot like white felt and the snow men look like Styrofoam. They will tend to move when the characters try to put scarfs and hats on them.
I want a relationship like this
An appealing subject to Vlog, but I had to stop watching by one third the way through because when ever she spoke you would talk and speak over her cutting her off almost every time she spoke.
Then you fished her at one point with a question, as she began to respond and speak by her fourth or fifth word you cut her off and stole her answer.
Why have a cohost if you do ALL the talking?
If you are going to have a cohost, you must show restraint and respect to let everyone speak and allow them to finish their sentences to make their point.
Merry Christmas
We've been married for 22 years. Trust me, she always gets the last word!
Great list, but it is overexplained. This video easily could have been less than 5 minutes and would probably get more views as a result. Both of you seem really nice and genuine, but the banter slows the flow and doesn’t move it forward. Consider alternating who introduces the next item on the list. Since you don’t ever disagree with each other, there isn’t much reason for both of you to talk about the same thing. Don’t give up, just work on tightening it up.
Thanks for the feedback. It was the very first video we did, so we were still getting our feet under us at that point.
And when I say first video, I mean the first with us in front of the camera. I've been working on the "safe side" of the camera for 20+ years. It's totally different over there, staring at the big, unblinking eye. :-)
I think it’s a great first effort, keep at it!
Everything is great about this. Except the guy. Lose the guy.
One cannot lose that which is already lost. Seriously, I have no idea where I am. Send help.
+Wannabe Films lol
I like that a husband watches HM. Another theme is marriage and kids vs. Career.