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Post by pandaeyes on Sept 16, 2020 9:02:40 GMT
As of Thursday (24th), this now becomes Sony Movies Christmas. All Christmas films until after the Big Day. You have been warned.
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Post by HoraceCoker on Sept 16, 2020 9:53:51 GMT
As of Thursday (24th), this now becomes Sony Movies Christmas. All Christmas films until after the Big Day. You have been warned. .....yikes.....also spotted Christmas Puddings in Morrison's....just gets worse..... |
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 16, 2020 11:30:15 GMT
Christmas decorations were in The Range
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Post by profbooboo on Sept 16, 2020 16:01:16 GMT
What a load of rubbish. Why don't they just open a new channel or give over the morning and keep the evening for classic cinema. I don't mind a Christmas movie, but not for 3mths with nothing else to break it up.
...I wonder if they'll still show Strongroom. That's on every week in the early hours.
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Post by spinninghead on Sept 20, 2020 15:46:19 GMT
It's actually a game of 'musical chairs' for Sony. We're now told that Sony Movies Action will be Sony Movies Classic during the week. I can live with that  |
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Post by yankee on Sept 22, 2020 15:57:25 GMT
Hallmark Channel in the US shows Christmas films all year long. Mostly low-budget, very lightweight romcoms made in Canada.
Most follow the same theme. Young, driven, career woman from New York, who only lives to work, work, work and has endless ambition for life in the Big City is sent by her employer to some sleepy little rural community where its always winter to "close the deal" on some sort of corporate take-over that will change the locals simple way of life. Close down a ski lodge, put a giant hotel where a Christmas tree farm is, put a Starbucks that requires forcing out a quaint tea room, something that like.
Whilst she is there, she stays at a bed and breakfast owned by some whimsical and wise couple, falls in love with the lumberjack type guy who wears flannel shirts and always had 3 days worth of designer stubble, and discovers a renewed love and joy of the holidays.
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Post by Miranda on Sept 22, 2020 18:54:41 GMT
Sounds lovely.
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 23, 2020 11:29:43 GMT
I think Yankee failed to mention that said lumberjack type chap usually owns the mountain and runs an international banking conglomerate from the laptop in the back room of his super duper log cabin!!!! Oh and he likes a woman with curves - although the woman in the film doesn't actually possess any!!
Just joking, they're fine for a winter afternoon with a mug of something nice.
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Post by yankee on Sept 23, 2020 13:36:46 GMT
Indeed. The actresses would usually blow away in a stiff wind. Very prim, buttoned down Ivy league ice princess. Blu-tooth in her ear, all business on her mobile, Starbucks coffee in one hand, typing away on her laptop on the other. Until she meets the lumberjack and trades the hustle and bustle of the city for a basket of flowers and hot chocolate in front of the fire.  Just to show I wasn't exaggerating, Hallmark sells their branded Christmas romcoms on DVD and currently are featuring no less than three pages, close to 100 films on offer. www.hallmark.com/christmas/christmas-gifts/christmas-movies/  |
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Post by undertheparapet on Sept 23, 2020 15:26:56 GMT
You guys have been watching too many of these..........
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Post by profbooboo on Sept 23, 2020 20:30:32 GMT
This is one I like to find on the Christmas channel. The woman on the posted, writes letters to people in the armed forces who might not get any mail. I think she sends a card with a picture of where she lives (?#!@) and he goes there because it's so picturesque. It's supposed to be a New England, Montana, Washington type place, up north, but it's so far up north it's usually filmed in Canada! He ends up getting a job at a logging company (He's a lumberjack and he don't care!) He goes to church, helps Ed Asner (wouldn t be Christmas without him) finish off a wooden craved bench seat for him and his wife. Turns out the girl is the daughter of Ed Asner the logging boss man. The army guy and girl get all lovey dovey and she dumps her curly haired beau who was in Sex And The City.  I also like 12 Days Of Christmas Eve. It's basically Groundhog Day. Steven Weber plays a business guy who needs to realise the true meaning of Christmas. Molly Shannon is the nurse/angel at the hospital where he goes to after each of the over the top accidents.  |
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Post by yankee on Sept 26, 2020 0:49:45 GMT
You guys have been watching too many of these.......... Guilty pleasure. |
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Post by yankee on Sept 26, 2020 0:58:18 GMT
The reason these films are all made in Canada is because the production costs are very, very cheap up there. In the US all productions have to use Union workers at every level. Actors, directors, writers, every camera, lighting, sound tech, the drivers that haul the people and the equipment, the electricians that plug in the chords etc. And every place you film you have to get costly permits, etc. In Canada you dont have to use any Union workers and British Columbia could double for any rural rustic part of the US...Toronto could double for any US big city setting. Because they are so cheap to make they can crank these films out like a factory. Sort of ironic that Profbooboo mentioned Ed Asner starring in one of these films. Asner served 2 different terms as President of the Screen Actors Guild, the labor Union for actors in the US. In 1980 he led the actors out on strike and the work stoppage basically shut down production of films and television series for nearly half a year. That labor strike is what led to the trend to start to use Canada as sort of a discount-store Hollywood and weakened the power base of the Screen Actors Guild to some extent. Seems out of character for him to work as part of a non-Union "scab" crew up in Canada. But even activists have bills that have to get paid. |
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Anymore to come?
