Christmas cheesy films - is there already a thread?

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Have I missed the Hallmark/Netflix/ Amazon prime thread on all those cheesy Prince from (insert unlikely name for snowy European country) meets girl from New York films?

Anyone share my guilty pleasure of these so awful they’re good films?

please tell me I’m not the only one here.

Nowt wrong with sci fi, I'll add Christmas perfection, when I next update the list x

Oh and too many to mention but just putting in Hallmark Xmas Movies into YouTube brings many delights x

The Road To Christmas was good. Jennifer Grey almost unrecognisable.

Last Christmas, it's up there with Love Actually!

Guys. Guys! C5 have a Christmas movie called Christmas on Alpaca Farm starting in a few minutes!

Alpaca Farm???
This could be the best one yet. I hope it's got Lacey Chabert as a high-powered, yet burnt-out, newly single business executive.

Sorry, no Lacey (although she is in the one right after this) but many, many cute alpacas!

Oh I do like The Family Stone! To me it's a proper film though (like The Santa Clause tier), not cheesy Hallmark. Hated A Castle for Christmas, I love a bit of cheese as much as anyone but it was just ridiculous stereotypes and accents.

The Christmas Train/Express and the Mrs Miracles are my favourite Channel 5 type films. I watched A Family for Christmas for the first time recently and spent the whole film wondering where I recognised Lacey Chabert from!

Currently watching The Santa Clauses mini-series on Disney Plus. It starts pretty poorly but has picked up.

@VillageFete @FinallyFinalGirl @70isaLimitNotaTarget 🤣 thank you! I’ll let you know when it happens they make it into a ‘very loosely based on true events’ hallmark film! Maybe they’ll sponsor my flights…!

On a similar thread a few years ago, somebody recommended a Norwegian series (2 seasons, 12 episodes in total) called 'Home for Christmas' (I think it was/is on Netflix). Very Christmassy, very funny, a bit more modern and a little less cheesy than your average Hallmark cringe-fest. The soundtrack is all catchy feel-good Scandi pop. Really worth watching!

Link to trailer:

What’s happened to the forum; is the layout different for everyone else too? I don’t like it 😭

A kindhearted Christmas on Netflix - starring ex Hallmark hunk Cameron Mathison (He’s abandoned ship to Great American family) Jenni Garth is also in it.

Ticks all the boxes

Just about to start A Very Merry British Christmas on My 5. I'll let you know what I think

Current scene is crowds shopping in London. No carrier bags in sight or even bags for life. Everyone is carrying their shopping in festive paper gift bags or as wrapped up parcels.

The film was cheesy and very predictable, and I'm not sure if a lot of it was actually filmed not in England but a lot of the British cast had 'questionable' British accents. But I loved it!

That isn't realistic at all!😂 It sounds good though...I do like the ones where an American arrives to spend Christmas somewhere in Britain or Ireland. It's fun to laugh at the actors trying their best with the accents and getting them totally wrong.

Yes, the shopping scenes are alway like something out of 'Pretty Woman' - huge paper/shiny bags and massive boxes, with ready made fancy bows.
In my bit of the UK, it would be a crumpled Aldi bag that had been in the boot,-with a mouldy banana in the bottom and or a 'tesco plastic one dd2 used to take her trainers to school in once, and left on the back seat and it's still a bit muddy still , but you're in a rush so it will have to do'

or you forget bags altogether, and moan about buying one at the til my mother And it would be neither fancy, nor big enough for the purchase that has been unceremoniously stuffed into the non-festive plastic bag.

With this one it’s poor Will Kemp (British) who produces the dodgiest (American) accent. Why set something in London with an entirely Brit cast and then decide your leading man needs to he American?

The Christmas Hope with Madeline Stowe & James Remar aka Richard from SATC

@Raahh or you do what I do, think your milk carton is covered in mould then realise it’s blue glitter from the Christmas decorations you used the bag for previously 😂 oh I miss the days of destroying the planet free bags!

Best Christmas ever on Netflix from Thursday, there's a few others too

Tonight I'm watching A Kindhearted Christmas. So far the slightly grouchy but kindhearted news anchor has offered to cover for the roving reporter over Christmas whose job it is to cover community upbeat stories. I'm guessing he's going to cover a story involving a woman doing good deeds in the community and fall in love with her and Christmas!

I'm watching Family for Christmas on Prime tonight. I was hard to find - I had to add lacey to the search as it just wasn't coming up! Prime is rubbish for hiding things away.

Ahh news anchor. Up there with greedy land owner for popularity
There should be a bingo card

There's always an outdoor Christmassy place in these films isn't there, where characters congregate on multiple occasions. Often serving hot chocolate.