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Jolly Good Christmas · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: and today we are discussing jolly good Christmas from Hallmarks
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  Speaker 1: countdown to Christmas line up. Before we get into our
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  Speaker 1: thoughts about this movie, we'd like to remind you that
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  Speaker 2: our reviews for Girls Gone Hallmark, and I didn't have
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  Speaker 2: like a song behind it, and I was like.
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  Speaker 1: Really wanted the whole song to play.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted the snippet to play at least, and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, this is not working. I need some more reviews.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, Yeah, So find us on Instagram at Girls
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  Speaker 2: It's called Girls Gone Hallmark. Lots of Hamewark fans over there,
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  Speaker 2: and we're letting people in like left and right. Makes
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  Speaker 2: me so happy. People are engaging and they talk about
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  Speaker 2: the movies after the movies come out and what they
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  Speaker 2: like and what they didn't like. And over the weekend
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  Speaker 2: I did this like from where we watch movies, and
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  Speaker 2: Megan commented, She's like, I don't even know where this
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  Speaker 2: is at, Wendy, like, where are you? I was in
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  Speaker 2: my extra bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: I realized that after the fact. I think I've been
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  Speaker 1: in there once.
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  Speaker 2: Just yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's it's a couch and a TV.
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  Speaker 2: It's a couch and TA like the size of the bedroom.
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  Speaker 2: It's a small bedroom and this TV is like so
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  Speaker 2: wanster huge in there by accident.
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  Speaker 1: Yah, push yourself up against the wall.
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  Speaker 2: So yeahuse my eyes hurt when I you know. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: that's where I watched this weekend. So I always think
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  Speaker 2: it's fun to see you like where everybody else's I
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  Speaker 2: know that was fun and their movies not. So come
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  Speaker 2: find us over there.
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  Speaker 1: Before we talk about Jolly good Christmas. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: some Hallmark news and notes. Very timely, Will Camp, star
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  Speaker 1: of a Jolly Good Christmas, did sign a multi picture
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  Speaker 1: deal with Hallmark. That's very good news to me. Also,
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark has a new edition of their Countdown to Christmas
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  Speaker 1: Celebrate the Magic Book. It is currently twenty seven dollars
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  Speaker 1: on Amazon and I own the original, but the new
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  Speaker 1: one features even more festive recipes, decorating and wrapping tips,
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  Speaker 1: star photos, and memories. It's just a fun book for
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  Speaker 1: the Hallmark Christmas movie fan to own. Did they sell
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  Speaker 1: that in stores, like in Hallmark stores? Oh, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: they do. And I think they sell it in like
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  Speaker 1: a Barnes and Noble, but Hallmarks stores. We were in
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  Speaker 1: them all over the weekend, and like their front display
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  Speaker 1: is like they have like down to Christmas merch like
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  Speaker 1: t shirts, oh and sucks. So I'm certain you can
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  Speaker 1: find the book in a Hallmark store.
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  Speaker 2: I did have a feeling like over the weekend, I
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  Speaker 2: was like, I'm going to go check out my local
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark store. They're franchises, right, franchises.
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  Speaker 1: You'll say, like Amy's Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just wanted to see like what they had.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I do like a Hallmark ornament. So, and
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  Speaker 2: their wrapping paper is really good. It's just too expensive.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry. Oh yeah, go to Home Goods for yourrapping paper.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah totally.
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  Speaker 2: What else? What else do you have? Well?
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  Speaker 1: I would like to ask you. Between the Hallmark Channel
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  Speaker 1: and Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, there were four Countdown to
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  Speaker 1: Christmas and Miracles of Christmas releases this weekend. Yes, how
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  Speaker 1: many did you watch?
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  Speaker 2: As of today? I've watched two and a half movies? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So I watched the Friday Night A Cozy Christmas in
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  Speaker 2: with Jodie Sweeten.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: I watched Jolly Good Christmas, and then I watched half
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  Speaker 2: of Christmas Bedtime Stories. I think it was called I'm
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  Speaker 2: just not through it. I really want to watch the
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  Speaker 2: Sunday Night movie though.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Ghosts of Christmas always, Ghost.
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  Speaker 2: Of Christmas always with Ian Harding. Who was in Pretty
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  Speaker 2: Little Lies?
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  Speaker 1: No, Reginald Bell Johns.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, hold on, it's not pretty Little Liars. That's what
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  Speaker 2: it's called. I get like pretty little lies and big
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  Speaker 2: little lies.
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  Speaker 1: Like uh uh huh, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Sure, anyway, he was in that show, but who else
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  Speaker 2: is on that?
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  Speaker 1: Reginald Bell Johnson Carl Winslow from Family Matters.
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  Speaker 2: That is such a throwback it is.
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  Speaker 1: It made me really happy to see him on my screen. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: I think the previous to that movie look fantastic. The
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  Speaker 1: early reviews are great. That aired. It's currently Monday as
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  Speaker 1: a recording this so I've also watched two movies the
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  Speaker 1: same as you, A Cozy Christmas In and A Jolly
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  Speaker 1: Good Christmas. But I will definitely be watching Ghosts of
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  Speaker 1: Christmas always this week.
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  Speaker 2: This week, let me tell you this is a new
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  Speaker 2: phenomenon that's happening for me. Turning on a homework movie
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  Speaker 2: as I work is a new thing. Okay, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: like the background noise or whatever. So I've been turning
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  Speaker 2: on like because if you look on which I love
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  Speaker 2: the friendly app shout out. They re shared something of
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  Speaker 2: ours on on Instagram over the weekend. But there's so
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  Speaker 2: many like good movies from like previous last year and
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  Speaker 2: the year before that I've seen, so like I just
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  Speaker 2: love to like throw them on as I'm like working
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  Speaker 2: on my computer or doing something around the house or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: and like that's never happened before us what us. I know,
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  Speaker 2: my husband made some joke too, He's like, what do
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  Speaker 2: you watch in another Hallmark movie, which was like would
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  Speaker 2: have never come out of his mouth in previous years.
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  Speaker 2: So they make me kind of feel good. And I
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  Speaker 2: will tell you it's kind of made me look forward
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  Speaker 2: to Christmas a little bit, which you know, you're.
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  Speaker 1: Discovering the magic that we've all known all.
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  Speaker 2: I know, But this Weekends movie, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, I agree, I would like to say about
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  Speaker 1: a cozy Christmas in let me tell you I'm in
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  Speaker 1: with the absolute wrong mindset. Everyone was like, this is
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  Speaker 1: a sequel to Christmas under Wraps. So in my mind,
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  Speaker 1: sequel meant these are the same characters. And in my mind,
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  Speaker 1: Jody Sweeten was playing the Candace Cameron Berat character. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there are so many signs from the very beginning that
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  Speaker 1: that is not the case. Candace Cameron Beret played a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Jody Sweeten is playing a real estate developer. But my
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  Speaker 1: brain could not accept those facts. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: was wrong. I've seen that movie. My husband seen that movie,
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  Speaker 1: and the whole time we're going, shouldn't she know these people?
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  Speaker 1: Shouldn't she what is happening here? I figured it out
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  Speaker 1: very late. One hundred percent of my faul. This is
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  Speaker 1: not Hallmarks faut. This was like a I my brain
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  Speaker 1: would not let go of what was in front of it.
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  Speaker 1: Jody Sweeton played a different character, Yeah, an ex girlfriend
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  Speaker 1: of she dated him before, right he met CCB.
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  Speaker 2: I am CCB went to go do a different hospital
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  Speaker 2: work doctor thing.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Apparently she left Garland after she decided to stay
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  Speaker 1: in Garland, just like she left Hellmark. So I almost
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  Speaker 1: feel like I need to go back. And Rewatch won't
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't think it was that great, But I
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  Speaker 1: think I would maybe enjoy it a little bit better
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  Speaker 1: if the whole time I wasn't going what's happening? What
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  Speaker 1: is happening here?
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  Speaker 2: But I have a queer question. The original movie was
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  Speaker 2: called Christmas under Wraps.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, is that the movie.
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  Speaker 2: That I just mentioned to you earlier that had like
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  Speaker 2: record breaking views? What was so good about it?
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  Speaker 1: It's not that great?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, so I wonder if I did so well?
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  Speaker 1: Classic people really like it. I don't think. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's Candace Cameron Beret, and I will admit I find
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  Speaker 1: that she has some charm in these movies. Last year's
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  Speaker 1: movie was not great, but I've liked her a lot
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  Speaker 1: in previous Hallmark movies, Like, I'm not her biggest personal fan, right,
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  Speaker 1: I think she's good in it. It's a sweet Hallmark movie,
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  Speaker 1: the whole idea. I mean, we kind of got it
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  Speaker 1: from Cozy Christmas Soon. His dad is Santa Claus. That's
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  Speaker 1: developed much better in Christmas under Wraps than it is
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  Speaker 1: in this movie.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Know what the specifics are in it that make it
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  Speaker 1: such a fan favorite.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, another question. Were they in Garland in the original movie?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's Garland for you.
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  Speaker 2: Is the match line?
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  Speaker 1: Were?
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  Speaker 2: Did these same actors play the same characters?
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  Speaker 1: Now you're asking too many questions? The guy was in it?
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  Speaker 2: Hattie the diner owner? Was she in it?
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  Speaker 1: So?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: His dad is the same character, although very clearly his
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  Speaker 1: dad was not in the same location as they're filming.
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  Speaker 1: Is because all of their interaction takes place via FaceTime.
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  Speaker 2: FaceTime.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're not arguing that movie. If you loved
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Underraps, please hop into our Facebook group and let
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  Speaker 1: us know what about that movie that you love so much.
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  Speaker 2: I want to know if anybody liked a Cozy Christmas
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  Speaker 2: Stand because I didn't really like it.
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  Speaker 1: And I loved Jodie Sweeten. I thought Jody was great
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  Speaker 1: in it, but I didn't love the movie.
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  Speaker 2: She was an executive producer too. And I have a
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  Speaker 2: funny digit see that, just real quick. Her best friend
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  Speaker 2: who is the cheffer whatever his name is, Stephanie Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The restaurants called Stephanie's yeah and She's. I just thought
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  Speaker 2: it was funny. I was like, I wonder if that
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  Speaker 2: was yeah. I bumped on that too. Anyway, I was
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  Speaker 2: kind of disappointed in that movie.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: But I like Jodie Sweeten and I want more Jodie
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  Speaker 2: Sweeten movies.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think the theme of this weekend is do
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  Speaker 1: not trust your first impression of Hallmark movies, because, as
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  Speaker 1: we learned last week with Noel next Door, our first
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  Speaker 1: impression based on the synopsis of that movie, perhaps the
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  Speaker 1: actor staring in that movie and the promotion that Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: was doing was not great. And we loved it. I
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  Speaker 1: was very much looking forward to a cozy Christmas in
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  Speaker 1: and it didn't deliver on the level that I wanted
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  Speaker 1: it too. And we'll see what we have to say
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  Speaker 1: about a jolly good Christmas in regards to that. Agree.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with a synopsis.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. When by the book, architect David hires free spirited
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  Speaker 2: personal shopper Angie, he finds himself on a wild ride
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  Speaker 2: across London in search of the perfect Christmas gift, but
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  Speaker 2: finds something he wasn't looking for. Starring Will Kemp and
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  Speaker 2: Rush Machety, This.
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  Speaker 1: Was filmed on location in London in February twenty two
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like this was the first movie we
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  Speaker 1: started to get countdown to Christmas promotion for because it
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  Speaker 1: filmed so early.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it was the first like announced movie right, and.
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  Speaker 1: It was early. They were like, we got this countdown
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  Speaker 1: to Christmas movie in production, and we were both very
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  Speaker 1: excited about it because we love Will Camp specifically from
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  Speaker 1: a Christmas Waltz. So I was excited for a London
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  Speaker 1: set movie. I was excited for a Willkemp movie.
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  Speaker 2: Some interesting news and notes from this movie too, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Jonathan Wright and directed it. He has twenty directing credits
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  Speaker 2: on IMDb, including the upcoming The Royal Nanny and last
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  Speaker 2: year's Christmas Ceo, which I know we did not review
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  Speaker 2: because we were like, eh, I don't want to watch
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  Speaker 2: a Christmas toy Ceo movie.
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  Speaker 1: There's Marcel Nichols.
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  Speaker 2: No, you like her, so you better set that up
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  Speaker 2: on your friendly app and go overturns. It is the
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  Speaker 2: picture like someone on a phone.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, see I knew she's on that cell phone.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: He's on a toy phone.
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: Oh god no, boy boy boy boy.
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  Speaker 1: But no, we did not watch it, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And the Royal Nanny is that's the one I
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: don't want to watch, right?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Is that the five Agent?
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  Speaker 2: I think so, And I think our Facebook group voted
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  Speaker 2: that we watch that one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, because they hate you.
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: They hate me, they hate me. Guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is I five Agent goes under. No no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: no nout no. Perhaps it will surprise us.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know, I know, so I really quickly.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to say this. As I was watching this movie,
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  Speaker 1: I had feelings about the fact that we were going
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  Speaker 1: to be reviewing it mm hmm, and I started to
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  Speaker 1: wish that maybe because the Hallmark group did vote on
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  Speaker 1: this movie for us, we did not choose this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Although I think this may have been what we chose.
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  Speaker 1: There was this was a pretty good weekend in terms
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  Speaker 1: of anticipation. Yes, I started to wish they had chosen
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  Speaker 1: something different. And then I thought, do I always want
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  Speaker 1: to be reviewing a movie that we loved? Fair?
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: Fair point? I don't want to come on here and
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  Speaker 2: like trash movie though, so because you know, people put
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  Speaker 2: a lot of hard work into it. There's a lot
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: of money spent, like and some people probably really liked
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: this movie. So I don't want to be like the
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: naysayer who's like, I didn't like it, right, So, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's fair. If we want to be a reviewer,
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  Speaker 2: we should watch a whole slew of things, Yes, even
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  Speaker 2: the ones maybe we don't want to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Because nobody wants to hear us say I loved every
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  Speaker 1: single movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's boring.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. This movie was written by Ron Oliver, who has
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  Speaker 1: thirty writing credits eighty three directing credits. He both wrote
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: and directed A Timeless Christmas and Christmas at the Plaza, which,
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: as I mentioned to Wendy, neither of those are favorites
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: of mine, and Wendy pointed.
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  Speaker 2: Out what they both star Ryan Pavie, And maybe that's
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: the I just don't think you like Ryan Pavie.
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: Well I do after this summer.
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, with Ashley Williams that two tickets of Paradise. He
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  Speaker 2: was really funny in that because he was like loosened
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: up and a little chill and like whatever. I don't
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  Speaker 2: like when he's all buttoned up and like so serious.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I recall A Timeless Christmas was one of the first
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  Speaker 2: movies we reviewed for in twenty twenty, and I was like,
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: I don't want to watch a time travel Christmas movie.
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  Speaker 2: Like I thought it was not great. I have a
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: soft spot for Ryan Pea, I.
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  Speaker 1: Know you do. I didn't mind the time travel aspect.
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  Speaker 1: I just thought overall that love them a great movie.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: But Ron Oliver also wrote Falling for Christmas. Sorry, I'm
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: Lindsay Lowe.
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  Speaker 2: It comes out November twentieth on Netflix. Yeah. Netflix, This
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  Speaker 2: is like her return to movies.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: I think it's been hotly anticipated. I hope it delivers
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  Speaker 1: for her.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: I hope it is too. I will definitely watch it.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: I like Lindsay Lohana as an actress.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: I love Parent Drap Parent Trap is a great movie. Me.
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: Girls is one of my favorite movies of all time. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm excited for her.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: I I like to.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: Root for the underdog. Yeah, you know, so, I hope,
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: I hope I hope it's a decent movie, as do I.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: We've been all things will camp, but I do want
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: to call it. This movie co star rash Machete, who
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: I adore, and she was in over one hundred episodes
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: of the show Royal Pains, which is the show I've
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: mentioned many times, was that with Megan Markle. No, no, no,
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: that suits Royal Pains starred Brooke do or say. She
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: played one of the love interests in that show.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: There's like two dudes, right, There's two dudes that are
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: like the leads in that and they're what, well, what's
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: the story with them?
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  Speaker 1: One's a doctor, okay, and I forget how he ends up.
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  Speaker 1: He's like in the Hamptons or something, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: remember how he ends up there. I think he'd like
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: broken up with a girlfriend. He's like big city doctor
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  Speaker 1: somehow ends up in the Hampton's and now he's like
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: a boutique on call doctor. And there's this other side
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: story that he kind of like works for lives on
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  Speaker 1: the grounds of this like super duper wealthy dude who
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: also has like kind of like a nefarious backstory. And
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: then he has his brother who is like business dude,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: but also kind of a dufist, but like comes into
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: his own So you've got like business dude brother trying
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  Speaker 1: to build up the business. And then Rash Machet. He
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: plays a PA physician's assistant who works with the doctor dude,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: and she has her own storyline and there's like some
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: parental conflict because she's in a relationship that she doesn't
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: want to be in what her parents want her to be.
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  Speaker 1: Oh interesting, and the brother is in a relationship with Brooke.
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  Speaker 2: Doors says, what I like this show? I mean you
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: you might Is it like real PG thirteen?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's on USA.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Oh maybe not though, but we loved it.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: I mean I loved it. And like every week you
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: get this new cast of like ridiculous characters with their
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: health woes that he's helping out. Oh some of them
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: are like, you know, kind of high stakes.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: I see.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, we look. I watched every episode. Okay, I enjoyed it,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: all right, And I loved her.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Speaking of will Camp, like I was trying to remember,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: like do I know him outside of a Christmas Waltz?
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: And I don't think I do know at all, So
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know why I'm like so hyped on Will
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Camp and like this recent signing of him with an
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: exclusive homework contract and all this other stuff. So I
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: was digging in and I he was once called the
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: James Dean of ballet. Oh you know, because he does
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: have a dance background. Right. Two he did a gap
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: campaign like commercial that I that I looked up. I
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: am going to drop the link to this. It's on
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: YouTube in our Facebook group and it's just him dancing
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: around and a pair of Gap jeans and then like
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: it says at the end like something sexy like Gap
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: for every I don't know something or other generation. That's
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: what it was. I was like, not American, because he's
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: not American anyway, looks good, looks good in that. And
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: then finally he was in a movie called Step It Up. Two.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Do you remember the original Step It Up with Channing Tatum?
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Sure?
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Sure, Well this is a sequel his ex wife. Yeah,
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: that's where they met. Yeah, so there's a sequel to
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: this movie that she's not in. I think Channing Tatum
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: is in it, maybe just a little bit. Will Campus
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: also in that movie he's a dance teacher. So anyway,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I think I might watch.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I love movies like that I like dance movies. Look,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: one of my all time favorite movies. My brain is
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: reaching for the title of it. This is a terrible movie.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: We just talked about this terrible dance.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: It's heard the dancing is terrible. The whole thing is like.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Kerry Washington is in that movie. Yes, she plays the sister.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Save the Last Dance.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Yea, save the Last Dance.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I've seen the movie over and over again. All I'm
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: saying is I like a dance movie and it doesn't
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: even have to be good. Yeah, me too. So I
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: would totally watch Step Up two.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Me too.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Let's do our first impression.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: You can go first.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I'll never forgive Hollmark for this Mark missed, oh.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Ouch, shots fired? Mine is why was Wilcamp an American?
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Why? Why?
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: It makes some zero sense to me?
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I have like an all caps typed out like in
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: a minute.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so let's talk about what we did, Like, Okay,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: do you have anything? I have very few? Okay. I
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: feel so bad saying this because I this was highly anticipated.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: I was very much looking forward to this movie.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I watched it in real time on Saturday night with
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: a bucket of popcorn. Yeah, so I thought it was
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: very pretty to look at.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Uh huh, like London.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: At Christmas time? Didn't know what looked like that? Like
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: are there lights and her? It was gorgeous? Yeah, so pretty.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: But I asked you this morning. I was like, when
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: was this filmed? Who was filmed in February?
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: So all that stuff was just b roll.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I mean the lights were b roll, but all of
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: their like walking along the tyms.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean fine, whatever, Like I appreciate that when
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: there's like you can see a coldness, it looks real
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: or whatever. But I mean it was very pretty. I
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: was like, oh, do I ever want to go to
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: London at Christmas time? Because gosh, it's so stunning.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm, I think you do. I have a hot
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: take about this movie. Okay, I think this is, in
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: fact a good movie with a major flaw that ruins it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Do tell.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say too much because I really
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: want to have this wished moment in our next segment. Okay,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: but I think that there is something so glaring and
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: so distracting that we've touched on that ruins this movie.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Because here's what I think, as you said, the visuals
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: in this movie I think are one of its more
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: redeeming qualities. The London setting is beautiful. Rashmuchet's wardrobe is beautiful.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I loved Callum's home and his kitchen. That set was beautiful.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I loved Callum and his husband as characters in these movies.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I loved Simon, his villain boss in this movie. I
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: thought his uptight girlfriend and her uptight mother were played
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: to perfection. I think there's a lot of notes that
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: hit in this movie, and I still could not get
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: past the thing that I hated about it.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Okay, we'll get there, we will, we'll get there. I
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: enjoyed Rashmachete, Like I said, I don't. I'm not familiar
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: with her at all. You're making a face, Am I
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: saying her name wrong?
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: No?
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: All right? I enjoyed her. And what I really liked
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: in this movie is her relationship with her sister and
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: her family, like her mom and dad. I thought her
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: mom was actually quite funny. Hm.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: But that's it.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: That's it. Okay, do you have anything else you liked?
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I no, Oh, okay, here's what I wished for. Okay,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: this is typed in my notes in all caps. Okay,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: if you are going to cast Will Kemp and Rashmachete
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: in a movie alongside each other, let them both be British.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: There is no good reason that this dude needed to
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: be a generic American other than script rewrite laziness.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Mmmm yeah, perhaps so.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Now that's not a wish, that's just an angry statement.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Here's my actual wish. Okay, I wish that I could
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: see the timeline of the creation of this movie, because,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: as I imagine it, it is we acquire this script,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: we cast the movie. Oh, we'd love to have Will
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Kemp and rash Machete work together. Oh, our script features
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: an American. That'd be a real shame to cast this
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: beautiful British man in this position where he's gonna have
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: to flatten out his accent to give it a real
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: generic American frat rot quality. What we should do at
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: this point is invest a tiny bit of our budget
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: into rewriting those very few references to him being an American.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: It's not even relevant, but it story.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Isn't necessary, And if they needed to have him as
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: this like fish out of water in London, they could
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: have very easily kept the My parents traveled a lot.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I moved to the States as a teenager. I've lived there,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I went to college there, I've come back here for work.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Still get to have my accent, Still get to be like,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: don't really remember London. I haven't lived here since I
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: was a kid. So yeah, I've picked up saying Merry
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Christmas as an affectation. There's very little that needed to
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: change to make this a truly enjoyable movie. I found
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Will Kemp's accent, and I am so sorry. I adore
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Will Kemp. I will watch everything you're in. I'm thrilled
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: for your contract. It was distracting.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Oh wow.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Entire time I looked at his face, I watched the
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: way he formed his words. I tried to place his accent.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I couldn't tell if he was trying to sound like
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: a jerk or if that was just like the this
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: is how I learned to speak American.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Uh huh, it's frustrated. Oh wow, I agree. I agree.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: I did watch his mouth many times too. Thank god
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: I watched it on that big screen TV because I
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: did try to watch his mouth many many times too,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: because I was like it, it just was weird. It
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: was weird. I totally agree. I have the same note
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: here camp as an American. Was it even necessary for
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: the story? Zero? It wasn't.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: It wasn't. It wasn't.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Okay, here's something I wished for. I hated that David
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: had a girlfriend the entire time he's calling for Angie. Yeah,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: And that's like such a big pet peeve of mine
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: in these movies. And I just feel like, I get
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: that it's part of the story. Like he's got this
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: girlfriend that he's like not totally into, but he's got
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: to buy this gift and he can't find the perfect
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: gift for her because he doesn't really like hers. You know, Yes,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: I get it, I get it. I get that that's
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: the through line. But the fact that he's now falling
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: for like this other woman, and I felt very unfair
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: to the uptight girlfriend who obviously was not a match
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: for him. It's fine, but it was unfair to her,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: like to keep running into him and he's with Angie,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Like it just was like why.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: And he wasn't with Angie innocently because we know he
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: was developing an these feelings because they have their Christmas kiss, right,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I don't like that either, And they try and excuse
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: it because he and Charlotte have their moment where they're like, yeah,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: we're just not a match, so that excuses all of this,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: but it doesn't for me excuse it. And I always
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: wish in these situations that there's like a six months
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: later moment, because it feels unfair to break up with
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: one person one day and the next day you're kissing
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the person you've been following.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it happens.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Of course it does happen, but I don't have to
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: like it, and it makes it so much harder for
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: me to root for these two who I did root for.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I did feel like we watched their chemistry develop from
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: their angry meeting in the bus to falling for each
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: other in her parents' restaurant. But I don't want to
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: be the Charlotte in this situation where this guy that
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I've been dating, regardless of the fact that we realize
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: we want for each other, I don't want him having
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: developed feelings and now he's into a new relationship the
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: day after we broke up. Yeah, that doesn't feel good
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: to me.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: No, I agree. I agree.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Justice for Charlotte, I agree. I thought he should have
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: just broken off like I just but it was all
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: like tangled up because he.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Worked for her dad. This just felt like a Hallmark
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: movie that I did not want to like, Like it
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: felt like a movie from a couple of years ago,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: like a script from a couple of years ago. That
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: didn't feel as like I'm saying this lightly progressive.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I was just thinking that exactly as last week's movies.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Uh huh So anyway, well, and it's funny that you
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: say that, because someone made a comment in our Facebook
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: group about a Cozy Christmas in essentially saying the same thing.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: This felt like old Hallmark where spoiler alert fast forward
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: if you don't want to know what happens at the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: end of Cozy Christmas in but Jody gives up her
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: career to move to this small town and eventually be
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the future miss his clause and maybe help him promote
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: this in that. Of course, it doesn't do well because
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: you're too much two hours from the nearest airport, and
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: there's nothing to do, not even a coffee shop. So
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I think maybe this weekend struggles a little bit. Yeah,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: did you wish for anything else? No? Are you ready
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: for digit see that? Yeah?
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: I don't have anything, but I know you have something different.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: So I'm excited. So I have two actual did.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: You see that? Kind of and then I have a
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: different direction to go here. The first one is who
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: leaves voicemails anymore? Charlotte would be angrily texting him.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: She called so many times on laf voicemails.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Right, they could call me David. We need to talk
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: to text him, text him. I'm doing the texting motions
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: of my hand. Nobody would be leaving that many voice mails.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I don't listen to voicemails on my phone. Don't leave
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: me one.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: I don't have a voicemail because the person can see
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: that you called.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah, it's like a progressive auto insurance come yes. Yes.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: My second is I refuse to believe that Rashma Schetty's
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Twitter is in fact Reshma s nine one three zero
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: sixty six sixty four. Hallmark has tagged hers Reshma s
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: nine month threes zero six six sixty four. Ma'am, we
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: can be more creative than this, about.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: The real reshmachete or something like I'm being what are
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: all those numbers mean to her?
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I wonder that's a good question. Okay, I watched this
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: movie with my husband, and I have some husband commentary
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: to throw at you that I.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Will let me hear.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: First of all, I was kind of mean, and I
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: was like, she has an MBA and she's a personal shopper.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I was snobby. And he goes, she's an entrepreneur. Love.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I was like, okay, all right. Then he goes, these
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: are the slowest runners I've ever seen. No one is
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: playing like a champion here. Why are they.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Stopping playing like a champion?
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: How hard is it to find someone in a purple jacket?
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Then they're in David's apartment. There's like a wooden sculpture
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: on the wall. He goes, what is that? Also there's
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: a zee where they were walking along the tims and
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: there's like a you know, cement wall next to them.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: And he goes, he's that graffiti And he rewinds it
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: and he's like, it's in two different spots. They couldn't
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: edit that up. They couldn't hang some hollio. I'm never
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: moving to London.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, because the graffiti has he been to anywhere Inland
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: and Orange County. It's all over the place here either.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, I can tell I mean, I can understand
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: that graffiti in London at Christmas Time could probably be
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: a little bit of a downer. Yeah, it takes you
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: out of a moment, totally, totally.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Well it's time to rate this movie.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I gave it two and a half.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Oh so did I? Same thing? Oh nice, same thing,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: same thing. And I and I went back and forth
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: a little bit like two two and a half two
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: two and a half. I can't quantify it, but it
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: just felt like a two and a half.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Next week, don't let me down, Andrew Walker is a
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Maple Valley Christmas.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Let me stop you right there. I just saw a
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: sneak peek for that movie and it didn't look that.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Was like noel Or looked terrible.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: I know, I know, I know.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: We're actually doing a two for next week. We have
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: a magical Christmas village. Yes, stirring Ali sweet, Yes, I'm
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: actually pretty excited about that. I too, so we will
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: have two episodes next week. Thank you for listening to
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• 30:27
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• 30:30
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• 30:31
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