# Hi, my name is BaldDude and I'm a Hallmark network Cheesy Christmas movie Addict **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [November 26, 2014, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662 "2014-11-26T12:38:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/41 "2014-12-25T07:06:21Z")
We just finished “Christmas At Cartwright’s” starring Alicia Witt. She still looks great! ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/42 "2015-11-09T07:30:53Z")
Aaaaannd _bump_ for the 2015 Hallmark Christmas movie season, which began immediately after Halloween. Just watched another Alicia Witt movie–_A Very Merry Mix-up_. Man, I love her. A few days ago I saw _Nine Lives of Christmas_ (mentioned above, last year). It was cute. I’ve got the new one with Sarah Lancaster–_Tis the Season for Love_–on my DVR, but haven’t watched it yet. Anyone else getting an early start on cheesy Christmas movies? ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/43 "2015-11-09T07:36:17Z")
Nope, since I have a husband who gets very cranky about Christmas movies before Thanksgiving evening (and he considers that pushing it. He’d prefer December 1st). ---
**Author:** ![BaldDudePeekskill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/44 "2015-11-10T03:04:02Z")
Had “Mrs Miracle” on just know. Glad to see this thread resurrected! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/45 "2015-11-10T14:07:49Z")
Watched this movie in my doctor’s office while getting a few stitches put in my finger. Nicolas Cage and his two retarded brothers Dana Carvey and John Lovitz try to rob a small town bank during the holiday season. I thought perhaps the prescription strength Tylenol was making me hallucinate. ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/46 "2015-11-10T14:57:40Z")
Here’s a real treat for you: Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Cottage. Now, I don’t do xmas movies and I most certainly am not a fan of Mr. Kinkade, but I have a special group of friends who get together on the day after Thanksgiving to drink a lot, talk shit and watch this cinematic treasure. It’s all sorts of treacly, trite cliches all rolled up into one sugar coated ball! Oh, and Peter O’Toole for the late-career bad choice role win. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/47 "2015-11-10T16:33:03Z")
My wife’s already started DVRing these things… aren’t they on Lifetime and Oxygen as well? I’m not complaining- it gives me time to play the games and do the stuff that I don’t always have time to do when hanging out with her normally. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/48 "2015-11-10T16:41:17Z")
I watched the 1938 “A Christmas Carol” before Hallowe’en, as I was sure it would disappear off Netflix soon. It wasn’t bad, but Reginald Owen’s Scrooge make-up was horrible. The Alistair Sim version is still the best, but the George C. Scott version comes in a CLOSE second. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/49 "2015-11-10T17:12:53Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I watched the 1938 “A Christmas Carol” before Hallowe’en, as I was sure it would disappear off Netflix soon. It wasn’t bad, but Reginald Owen’s Scrooge make-up was horrible. The Alistair Sim version is still the best, but the George C. Scott version comes in a CLOSE second. How would you say it compares to _Matchmaker Santa_, starring Lacey Chabert, Florence Henderson & John Ratzenberger, and airing tomorrow night on Hallmark? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/50 "2015-11-10T17:21:06Z")
Lacey “Jailbait” Chabert? Boogers, I don’t get the Hallmark channel. :mad: Chabert comes in a close second to Alicia Witt–I’m remembering a black top hat and…excuse me. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/51 "2015-11-10T17:51:10Z")
STRAPLESS BLACK BRASSIERE! Boy-cut drawers? Gotta go! ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/52 "2015-12-06T21:58:49Z")
I won’t watch any before Thanksgiving, but yesterday I caught a long run of them. Three had the theme “Your ‘professional’ dreams are stupid. Don’t pursue a career. That only leads to sadness. Find a nice, hardworking guy in a small town and marry him. Then you will have a happy life with lovely Christmases.” “Just In Time for Christmas” caught my attention not just for the above plot or because it had William Shatner as Santa-in-disguise but also because it had Victoria standing in for Seattle rather than Vancouver (which usually stands in for Seattle). There were a few lovely scenes that were filmed in the inner harbor. It was also filmed in summer during a drought so there are brown lawns everywhere. The pattern breaking one had Danica McKeller as a scrappy, poor, but honest artist with math skills who becomes the Christmas governess to a precocious princess whose father was widowed. Amazingly enough, the king falls in love with her. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/53 "2015-12-07T04:20:46Z")
I finally got around to watching _Tis the Season for Love_ yesterday. Pretty ‘meh’ story, but the only thing I love more than Sarah Lancaster in these sappy movies is… Alicia Witt! I watched her today in _I’m Not Ready for Christmas_, which basically steals the plot of _Liar, Liar_. Not as good as Witt’s other holiday movies, but I can’t help myself from liking her in it. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/54 "2015-12-22T05:39:11Z")
I’ve been going through a lot of these movies in the past couple of weeks: Christmas on the Bayou Last Chance for Christmas Naughty or Nice (all of the above starring Hilarie Burton) also: Dear Santa, with Amy Acker Help for the Holidays, with Summer Glau One Starry Christmas, with Sarah Carter Magic Stocking, with Bridget Regan Finding Christmas, with Tricia Helfer Heh, I just realized my cheesy holiday movie viewing skews toward movies starring actresses from sci-fi/fantasy tv shows. Has Jewel Staite done one of these Hallmark movies? ---
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/55 "2015-12-22T07:20:27Z")
Last night we watched “A Dog Named Christmas.” We loved it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2015, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/56 "2015-12-27T05:28:57Z")
Whoo hoo, I finally found a copy of **Christmas With Holly** at the local Hallmark this month. They were sold out online. Anamorphic, **Karroll’s Christmas** is awesome. I’ve seen it several times since it first aired on A&E 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BaldDudePeekskill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/57 "2016-11-29T10:46:43Z")
On my fifth viewing of."It’s Christmas, Carol ". No regrets. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/58 "2016-11-29T11:02:37Z")
you know this year they split the Christmas movies up this year between hallmark channel prime and hallmark movies and mysteries ? the first has all the rom coms and most of the new movies on the weekend on it and the second has all the sad weepy “dramas” … they had one last week with the lead from eureka on it and I missed it … was it at least tolerable ? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/59 "2016-11-29T13:08:34Z")
The best part of the Hallmark Christmas slop is that the actresses are very attractive and dressed up very nice. But the plots are very similar and the guy always gets the girl he wants, the girl always gets that special guy, the family always comes together at the end, etc. Once in a while I’ll watch the non-holiday HMM stuff to see the psychotic obsessed person inevitably get their just desserts at the end. The Uverse comment is outdated, Hallmark is back on U-Verse as of last year sometime. As is NHL network- I can get my Don Cherry fashion god fix every Saturday now. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662/60 "2016-11-29T14:40:29Z")
I decided to stop watching Hallmark as apparently only white people can fall in love cheesily at Christmas time. (Seriously, they make one or two dozen of these movies a year and it’s never people of color as the main characters? never? at a certain point, it isn’t an oversight, it’s intentional and they’ve hit that point.) Luckily, Lifetime and Ion who produce approximately the same movies. I can watch those. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-my-name-is-balddude-and-im-a-hallmark-network-cheesy-christmas-movie-addict/705662.md?page=4)