I want to live in a Ch5 Christmas movie

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I'd be skinny with long hair and full make up on at all times. I'd eventually meet a hunky man. I'd have a great career but would enjoy the Christmas break. My mum would be alive and cute and bake cookies. Her house would be gorgeous and full of twinkly lights.

And it would snow every year.

Where do you live? Sounds lovely.

I just started watching Virgin River and it kind of reminds me of a Christmas film (but not at Christmas!)

Life in soft focus.
As a lot of those films have a subdued colour about them.

Thank you!

I need more perfection in my very imperfect life 🤣

Love these too, even the predictability is comforting.

Very!

The heroine always has red lipstick on and swishy hair and the hunk has a cozy hand-knitted jumper and a manual job. He usually has a cute kid who is never in a bad mood. And definitely a mom making Christmas cake to feed the whole village on gala night.

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I think the relentless American schmaltz would give me diabetes. Two hours is more than enough, then I need to go sit in my drizzly British garden and grumble at pigeons.

I just watched a good one on YouTube. Hallmark “Believe in Christmas”. It basically sends up the premise of all of the Christmas films - cynical beautiful brunette and kooky friend “observe” car breaking down, hunky City returns to small town rescue man, enter “Christmas Town”, obsess over hot chocolate, bake cookies, have toboggan ride, enter a contest, go to a gala, fall in love. So cheesy but it’s fab!

I do the book equivalent of this every December. I read about 5 of them...always blue and white covers, with glitter. Always a lovelorn woman going somewhere remote for Christmas to avoid all of the "perfect" stuff and ends up surrounded by exactly that and being won over, eventually encountering a grumpy neighbour / caretaker / nephew of the owner who had to come and check the track up to the house is free of snow.

It's the amount of decorations they have everywhere that amazes me! So much to pack away in the lofts in January.
Must take hours

I liked the one on the Christmas channel (from September onwards!) called Christmas Eve which had a number of people trapped in a lift on Christmas Eve. Leonard's mum (big Bang Theory) was in it. She was in an orchestra. Everyone obvs anxious to get home for Christmas! She had a gun and was not afraid to use it!

The hunk always has a cool name - Brad, Chuck, eyc. There’s never David or Paul or Fred.

and so many twinkle lights. I feel like anything looks 400 times better and more christmassy when covered in twinkle lights.

Just saw this on fb with the line if it ain't broke don't fix it!

I was just saying that the other day, these films all have a formula and no-one appears to have the imagination to change them. Lazy film making.

so every woman has a red dress in!

Just started watching a random Christmas film on Netflix (Meet me at Christmas) , and in the first scene, the main star has a red coat on!

I'm determined to watch one of these movies on Friday afternoon with a large hot chocolate. I need some Christmas schmaltz in my life!

I just switched on Channel 5 and this was the scene. It had it all! Overdecorated trees, candy canes, a smooch with an ex - all in the first ten seconds! 'Our Christmas Love Song' is the movie.

We've now reached sisters cooking together, an obedient child and a visiting country music star.

There was of course a red dress!

Candy canes. Does anyone actually eat these in real life? (And it’s not something I recall from my childhood).

We were in the USA earlier in the year. In one edge-of-town hotel the receptionist waxed lyrical about the local town, describing it as a "Hallmark Christmas movie town" - and it was too 😄

I can confirm the independent shops wrap purchases as a matter of course, hence the characters staggering around with pretty parcels.

The volume of Christmas decor in the big shops was breathtaking. They're clearly used to decorating whole towns.

every character wears something thats red or green