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A Christmas Angel Match · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: This is a bramble jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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Speaker 1: Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. We're
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Speaker 1: back with the movie number two of the Countdown to
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Speaker 1: Christmas season, A Christmas Angel Match, which originally aired on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: chatting with you guys around the table, Wendy, what are
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Speaker 1: you drinking this morning? My classic black tea because I'm
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Speaker 1: super fun? An English breakfast, yes, ma'am, not even the
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Speaker 1: joy tea, not today, No, what about you? I have
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Speaker 1: a Starbucks an espresso Pumpkin spice coffee pod, and I
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Speaker 1: added to it the new or new to me Starbucks
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Speaker 1: Brown Sugar Espresso oat milk creamer, which is delightful. I
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Speaker 1: of the brown sugar shaken espresso, which I am. I
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Speaker 1: cannot quit them. I feel like you used to make
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Speaker 1: your own at home, though I did. I did, But
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Speaker 1: I like this creamer. I used to make my own
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Speaker 1: brown sugar shaken espressos at home. I liked very much.
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Speaker 1: But I like this screamer is for adding to hot
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Speaker 1: coffee sometimes I like a simpler approach. Got it cool? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: All right, well let's jump right into a Christmas Angel Match, which,
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Speaker 1: for some reason, my brain wants to call Project Angel
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Speaker 1: Match every single time. With a synopsis, two Christmas Angels
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Speaker 1: with opposite styles must unite soulmates before the holiday while
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Speaker 1: dealing with department downsizing and their own unexpected connection. Christy
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Speaker 1: will Wolf takes on double duty as both director and
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Speaker 1: executive producer of a Christmas Angel Match. This marks her
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Speaker 1: forty six project as a director and her third collaboration
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Speaker 1: with Megan Ory in just three years. The script was
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Speaker 1: written by Megan Ori According to IMDb, this is her
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Speaker 1: first writing project. Megan also stars as Monica. She's best
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Speaker 1: known for her longtime roles on Chesapeake Shores and Once
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Speaker 1: Upon a Time, but we last saw her opposite her
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Speaker 1: husband in the twenty twenty four holiday movie Believe in Christmas.
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Speaker 1: I did read an interview with Megan where she says
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Speaker 1: she's already working on a sequel. She's got some ideas
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Speaker 1: wait as sequel to this indeed. Now, oh it's just
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Speaker 1: early days. Nothing that has been picked up or announced,
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Speaker 1: but she definitely she would love to move on to
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Speaker 1: the next one, got it. Benjamin airstars as Michael, with
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Speaker 1: an impressive one hundred and seven acting credits. Ben currently
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Speaker 1: appears in the CW's Family Law and will soon return
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Speaker 1: to Hallmark as part of the True Justice sequels. Yes,
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Speaker 1: parts two and three are on the way. I'm guessing
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six sometime, but who knows. I here's having Yeah. Lendera,
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Speaker 1: she only goes by Lendera joins the cast as Daisy.
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Speaker 1: She's best known for portraying Sydney in the CW's Sullivan's
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Speaker 1: Cross Sing. She's also familiar to Hamewark fans from her
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Speaker 1: Apparents and Believe in Christmas. Francesco Filiche stars as Patrick,
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Speaker 1: marking his first ever Hamewark appearance with fourteen acting credits.
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Speaker 1: French has previously been seen an Alert, Missing Persons Unit
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Speaker 1: and The Manhattan Project. Michael Dixon plays Gabrielle. Michael has
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Speaker 1: thirty seven acting credits and appeared last on Hallmark in
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Speaker 1: Head Over Hills in twenty twenty four. Amanda Jordan plays Mirabelle.
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Speaker 1: She's both a singer and an actress, and this movie
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Speaker 1: marks her eighth acting credit. She previously appeared in Feeling
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Speaker 1: Butterflies from twenty twenty two. Jordan Shore plays Daisy's bestie Marcus.
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Speaker 1: This is his fourteenth acting credit and first time on Hallmark.
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Speaker 1: Danielle Evie Chambers plays Darcy with just nine acting credits.
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Speaker 1: This is also her first time on Hallmark. Linda McCurdy
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Speaker 1: plays Patrick's adoptive grandmother. Linda has just two acting credits,
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Speaker 1: but Linda is also a real life criminal defense lawyer
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Speaker 1: practicing in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Whow As g Simpson plays
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Speaker 1: Daisy's grandfather Nathan, with six acting credits. He is also
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Speaker 1: a new face on Hallmark. This movie was filmed in
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Speaker 1: Ottawa on t Canada and the spring of twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: Before landing on a Christmas Angel Match, the movie had
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Speaker 1: two earlier working titles. It was first called Touched by
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Speaker 1: a Christmas Angel, then later Christmas Angel Effect. Maybe this
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Speaker 1: is why you can't land on a final title for it,
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Speaker 1: Maybe because it just has had so many different titles.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps maybe let's take a quick break and we'll come
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Speaker 1: right back with our first impressions. Hey, Wendy, what is
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Speaker 1: your first impression of a Christmas Angel Match? Well? I
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Speaker 1: didn't think I'd ever say this, but I thought that
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Speaker 1: flash Mob be kind of slayd I was. It is
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Speaker 1: one just what? Oh? No, my first impression is I
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Speaker 1: knew this movie would take us to Heaven, but I
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Speaker 1: didn't know heaven looked like the inside of an Ikea.
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Speaker 1: Oh the exposed indust real ceilings. Yeah, I hear you.
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Speaker 1: I gotta I have some thoughts on Heaven. I haven'kay
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Speaker 1: thoughts on Heaven. Let's talk what we liked, Okay. I
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Speaker 1: liked the concept of this movie, like angels. I like
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Speaker 1: a like an angel storyline, and I like angels helping
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Speaker 1: people who are super distracted in a tech heavy World.
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Speaker 1: I thought this was an interesting out of the box
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Speaker 1: kind of storyline for Hallmark. Yeah, I agree. I like
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Speaker 1: the take that it's harder for people to make connections
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Speaker 1: romantic or otherwise because we're so insular and focused on
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Speaker 1: our devices. It's kind of so true. You know. It
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Speaker 1: kind of made me feel bad about myself. Yeah, believe me.
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Speaker 1: I was like, maybe this is why I have no
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Speaker 1: friends because I am constantly have aer pods and or
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Speaker 1: my face is down in my phone. You know, do
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Speaker 1: you have you ever heard of a device called the brick? No,
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Speaker 1: it's basically a small magnetic device that is designed to
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Speaker 1: curb your screen time. Like basically, you set it up
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Speaker 1: however you want, and when you tap your phone to it,
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Speaker 1: it locks you out of whatever apps. Oh and you
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Speaker 1: can't get back in until you physically tap the device again,
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Speaker 1: So you can't just like bypass it with a password.
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Speaker 1: So if you say, like I'm going to block all
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Speaker 1: my social media and then you go run errands, you
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Speaker 1: can't get back in until you get home and unblock it,
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Speaker 1: or for me, I'm considering it. That's how bad the
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Speaker 1: addiction is right now. So to say that this movie
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Speaker 1: spoke to me would not be overstating it, right, right.
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Speaker 1: I do think this movie was a little polarizing, and
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Speaker 1: I have some thoughts perhaps on why a little later on,
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Speaker 1: But overall, like you said, I enjoyed the movie itself,
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Speaker 1: and I enjoyed the concept a lot. I think it's
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Speaker 1: a nice contrast to our first movie, which was very
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Speaker 1: classically Hallmark or Royal Montana Christmas, really classic Hallmark Christmas
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Speaker 1: movie in a lot of ways, and this one stepped
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Speaker 1: outside of that box. Not too far, though, No, I
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Speaker 1: think it. I don't. I agree with you. It still
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Speaker 1: fits within the parameters of what people are looking for.
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Speaker 1: But I think it's it's trying new things. Right. You're
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Speaker 1: not wrong about polarizing. We do that first impressions on
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Speaker 1: our Instagram, and I've seen some really on the spectrum
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Speaker 1: comments about it. Kind of surprised. Yeah, it's really run
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Speaker 1: the gamut. I've seen multiple people both on our Instagram,
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Speaker 1: in our Facebook group, and then other places across the
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Speaker 1: internet saying they didn't even finish the movie, which honestly
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Speaker 1: blows my mind. Me too. But I do have some thoughts,
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Speaker 1: But let's keep putting on what we liked. Okay, I
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Speaker 1: liked the magical realism elements to this. It's charming, you know,
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Speaker 1: a little like snappy fingers and some snow is falling,
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Speaker 1: or a little like twinkle or whatever. I'm you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm easily entertained by that stuff. Oh me too. I
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Speaker 1: like that too. It makes me feel Christmas magic when
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Speaker 1: I'm still in a pumpkin spice cocky frame of mine.
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Speaker 1: Exactly exactly. I also really enjoyed the pacing and the
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Speaker 1: dialogue between Michael and Monica. I thought they spoke to
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Speaker 1: each other in a snappy, sarcastic way that I enjoy
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Speaker 1: quite a bit. I didn't think it was mean spirited.
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Speaker 1: I did see some commentary that they thought some people
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Speaker 1: thought the things they said to each other were mean.
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Speaker 1: I didn't feel that way. There was one line that
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Speaker 1: made me lol. She tells Michael, we're not arguing, You're
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Speaker 1: just wrong, and I was like, I am stealing that
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Speaker 1: for myself. I thought the dialogue was great too, and
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Speaker 1: I think they were a little rough around the edges
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Speaker 1: and learning how to interact with each other because they
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Speaker 1: both did things in very different ways. But I agree
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Speaker 1: it wasn't mean spirited. They just were kind of like
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Speaker 1: a square peg in a round whole situation. They couldn't
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Speaker 1: quite find their footing together. And I liked later on
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Speaker 1: in the movie when they talk about why they were
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Speaker 1: perhaps paired together, and she was like, Oh, maybe I
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Speaker 1: should have had this conversation before we started working together.
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Speaker 1: It's a nice self aware moment. Yeah, Benjamin Ayirs and
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Speaker 1: Megan or are the stars of this movie, but not
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Speaker 1: just in that they receive top billing. I mean they
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Speaker 1: carry this movie for me. They do a really nice
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Speaker 1: job of having an innocent, earnest vibe about them, which
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Speaker 1: sets them apart from the tender hearts. And it was
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Speaker 1: very interesting for me to note because we started watching
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Speaker 1: the movie. My husband goes, oh, the dead people are
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Speaker 1: going to find love, and I was like, well, if
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Speaker 1: their matchmaking goes, obviously they're going to get together. But
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Speaker 1: what was interesting to me is halfway through the movie,
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Speaker 1: I go, they're not dead. Angels and humans are separate
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Speaker 1: beings in this movie, and oh my god, wait and
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Speaker 1: let me just stop you there. This is all in
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Speaker 1: my wishes. Oh no, okay, Well, I just have a
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Speaker 1: lot of questions about it, but like, go ahead and
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Speaker 1: we can circle back to this. I have questions about
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Speaker 1: it too. Well, let me just stick with the like part,
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Speaker 1: which is simply that I think their acting did a
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Speaker 1: really nice job of sending that message that they were
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Speaker 1: separate from the tender hearts, that they had separate experiences,
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Speaker 1: that innocence that they brought to their acting. I'm often
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Speaker 1: tempted to describe it as like a buddy the elf,
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Speaker 1: like you know, Benjamin kind of had that like excitement
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Speaker 1: about life. It wasn't quite what's a fad for color?
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Speaker 1: But I really liked it. I thought it was a
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Speaker 1: good choice on their parts. Yeah, two thoughts here. They're
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Speaker 1: not dead. She says that one time we were born angels,
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Speaker 1: so they're not dead, right, No, there, which is my point. Like,
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Speaker 1: going into this, I assume that angels are simply people
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Speaker 1: who have passed, and because I think that's often how
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Speaker 1: they're purtray right, like right, I don't actually know how
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Speaker 1: angels work, but that was the assumption going in. And yes,
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Speaker 1: they are fully separate beings who are born as angels. Right.
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Speaker 1: My second thought is I really enjoyed Michael's fun philosophy.
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Speaker 1: I was into it, you said, like, you know, he
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Speaker 1: was like Ernest And I read some commentary that he
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Speaker 1: came off as egotistical. I don't think so at all.
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Speaker 1: I mean either completely different way of approaching things and
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Speaker 1: not egotistical. I just think he was His philosophy was
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Speaker 1: totally different, and I was into his philosophy. I don't
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Speaker 1: I was not. That doesn't diminish like what Monica's way
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Speaker 1: of doing things in my mind. To me, they were
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Speaker 1: just different, but I enjoyed both of them. To your point,
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Speaker 1: when he look you talked about the dialogue in this movie,
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Speaker 1: the Great Snappy Dialogue. There's some great lines lines they
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Speaker 1: call them devious dms, which really hit home for me.
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Speaker 1: They say he dodges responsibility like a snowball fight. And
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Speaker 1: my favorite is the cheeky little moment where Michael talks
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Speaker 1: about like the life of the tender hearts that he's
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Speaker 1: interested in and he's like, I'm interested in human activities
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Speaker 1: that require a partner. And it's like long pause and
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Speaker 1: he goes like snowball fights, and I think that speaks
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Speaker 1: to what you're talking about, Like he's just here for
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Speaker 1: a good time right right that particular line, I was like,
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Speaker 1: where are they going with this? For like a half
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Speaker 1: a second, I was like, where are they going with
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Speaker 1: this and it turned out real sweet. Yes, speaking of
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Speaker 1: the DVUS DM's line, that was from Mirabel, and I
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Speaker 1: just thought she was adorable. Her delivery landed every single
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Speaker 1: time for me. Yeah, she's I think they could have
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Speaker 1: done more with her like I would have. I would
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Speaker 1: have been happy to see more of her. Agree. Agree?
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Speaker 1: I have several more likes. Do you want me to
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Speaker 1: just run through them? Sure. Ben's wardrobe I thought was sharp,
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Speaker 1: looked great just and she even made a comment at
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Speaker 1: one time I bought his fitted shirts and I was like,
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Speaker 1: I don't hate it. I don't hate any of it.
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Speaker 1: I love that. The holiday decor throughout I thought was
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Speaker 1: absolutely stunning. I have dogged on so many movies where
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Speaker 1: just I have said, you know what looks like copy
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Speaker 1: lobby has thrown up all over the place. But I
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Speaker 1: thought the Christmas decor in this movie looked really nice.
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Speaker 1: I agree, very classic. Yes. The another thing I really
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Speaker 1: liked was the subtle LGBTQ moment we have a her
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Speaker 1: best friend. I was like, it was a quiet yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, quiet yay, A quiet yes. I mean I
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Speaker 1: need more, I need more homework, but a quiet yea
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Speaker 1: came from me and my last thing. I really liked that,
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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna circle to the flash mob scene. I
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Speaker 1: thought it was so joy filled and cinematic. It was
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Speaker 1: like slow most and low laughing, and it set a
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Speaker 1: whole vibe. But what was really funny to me was
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Speaker 1: right as it's starting and they're trying to get Patrick
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Speaker 1: to dance, or trying to force Patrick to dance, and
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Speaker 1: they're like almost mashing him into like this, and I
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Speaker 1: just thought that was so hilarious. It was executed beautifully.
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Speaker 1: I just thought it was really funny. Now, would I
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Speaker 1: ever participate in a mob dance? No, would I want
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Speaker 1: to see one unfold in front of me. Sure, I
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Speaker 1: thought it was fun. Well, we'll come back a little
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Speaker 1: bit to the flash mob. It's nothing to be worried about.
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Speaker 1: Let me just wrap up my legs here. I think
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Speaker 1: they did a really nice job of world building this
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Speaker 1: Heaven the DCC. We take the time in the beginning
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Speaker 1: of the movie to set the scene. We learn who
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Speaker 1: these people are, we learn their motivation. We know about
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Speaker 1: Monica and Michael and why their mission to set up
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Speaker 1: Daisy and Patrick is so important. Gabriel, there is a
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Speaker 1: real opportunity to make him exist off camera the entire movie,
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Speaker 1: and he doesn't, which I appreciate. I like the humorous
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Speaker 1: take that they're being, the thread of them being merged
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Speaker 1: with the cupids and the Valentine Department, the economy spars
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Speaker 1: no one that being said, I loved. I liked all
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Speaker 1: of that. As we transition to our wishes, I would
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Speaker 1: like to say, this movie is very dialogue heavy, and
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Speaker 1: I like those scenes, like the yoga scene. Right, there's
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Speaker 1: not a lot happening, but they're connecting, they're having a conversation,
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Speaker 1: and I think particularly when the dialogue is being delivered
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Speaker 1: by Megan and Ben, who had this great on camera
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Speaker 1: rapport who I really connected with. I liked it a lot.
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Speaker 1: I think it is possible that there could have been
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Speaker 1: viewers who wanted a little more showing than telling. If
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Speaker 1: you look at the top of the movie, it's like
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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes the whole like pre commercial, is them setting
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Speaker 1: the stage. I like it. I like details, but I
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Speaker 1: wonder if that's where they lost people. Oh interesting, I
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Speaker 1: don't think you're wrong, And isn't that ironic considering the
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Speaker 1: theme of this movie is that we live in a
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Speaker 1: distracted world and we don't have any you know, attention
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Speaker 1: span to listen to details. Where's alanis when you need
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Speaker 1: her exactly? I love that. Well, let's talk more about
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Speaker 1: your wishes. Why is Heaven downsizing? Yeah? I will. What
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Speaker 1: is there a financial issue? That's a great question. That's
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Speaker 1: a great question. Why are there real world problems in Paradise?
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Speaker 1: I don't understand. This should not be an issue. At
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Speaker 1: the end of the movie, Gabriel's like you saved Christmas,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, what happens if these two don't get together?
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't understand how that save what? What's
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Speaker 1: the consequence? Yeah? I don't. I don't know. I also
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Speaker 1: don't fully understand the connection between like Matt, like the
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Speaker 1: Department of Christmas connections, Like why is there a Christmas
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Speaker 1: deadline on these matches other than it being like the
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Speaker 1: most wonderful time of year. I don't know. That's a
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Speaker 1: good question. That is a good question. One of my
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Speaker 1: biggest wishes. I hate it. I hate the uptight female
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Speaker 1: meets the fun guy trope. Sure, I hate it. I
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Speaker 1: will talk about it in every single movie we watch
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Speaker 1: when it comes up. I hated it. But but Ben
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Speaker 1: is so charming as the punk guy. I was like,
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Speaker 1: all in, yeah, you're right, I do need to loose
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Speaker 1: it up, you know, as he's talking about fun. You
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Speaker 1: know I personally have a problem with fun, right, So
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Speaker 1: sure he was speaking to me in a in a sense.
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Speaker 1: Well look at one point he's like, you're all about
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Speaker 1: the rules. Husband just is like finally laughing to him,
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Speaker 1: because I am a rules girl. I am like, if
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Speaker 1: this then that these things must be in place for
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Speaker 1: the following things to happen. And it spoke to me
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Speaker 1: that said. I didn't find a grating again because I
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Speaker 1: thought you're right. Ben was so charming in his delivery,
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Speaker 1: and part of me is like, can we flip the
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Speaker 1: script because the person, the person who has to mellow
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Speaker 1: out was Monica here like she was the one, but
20:34
Speaker 1: he does acknowledge later on that they both have their
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Speaker 1: own strengths in this department. So yeah, it grates on
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Speaker 1: me too because I feel like people are like that
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Speaker 1: bitch right, and I'm like, that's not fair, that's not fair.
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Speaker 1: She's had to play by the rules the whole time.
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Speaker 1: Listen to tailor ships the man right exactly exactly? Can
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Speaker 1: somebody explain the ending to me? Are they human now, like,
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Speaker 1: do they live on earth? This is what I don't understand,
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Speaker 1: because these people were like magically appearing in and out
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Speaker 1: of places, right And at first I was like, oh, no,
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Speaker 1: one can see them? Yes, same for a long time,
21:15
Speaker 1: I was like, nobody can see them, Okay, that makes sense.
21:18
Speaker 1: And then the guy at the Christmas tree lot sees them, yeah,
21:22
Speaker 1: and wants to take their picture under the mistletoe, and
21:24
Speaker 1: so on and so forth. And then there's another instant
21:27
Speaker 1: as well, and I was like, wait, okay, people can
21:30
Speaker 1: see them. So are these angels that are living alone
21:32
Speaker 1: amongst humans? Like they're appearing as human? Like, what is happening?
21:37
Speaker 1: I don't understand that. I struggled with too, Like when
21:41
Speaker 1: they disappear in front of the Christmas tree eye and
21:43
Speaker 1: he like, oh, it's like, oh where'd you go? What?
21:46
Speaker 1: They literally disappeared before your eyes. The details this goes
21:50
Speaker 1: back to us not being any fun. The details of
21:53
Speaker 1: how the angels exist among the humans are unclear. And
21:56
Speaker 1: then at the end, Gabriel's like, you're being promoted to
21:59
Speaker 1: a life of love? What does that mean? He's fingers.
22:03
Speaker 1: They're in all white, but they experienced their first kiss,
22:06
Speaker 1: which we forgot to talk about. It's confusing to me.
22:10
Speaker 1: Was there a scene that was cut out that perhaps
22:12
Speaker 1: explains it better? Or am I just demanding too many
22:15
Speaker 1: details from a movie about matchmaking angels? Yeah, exactly, exactly.
22:20
Speaker 1: Sometimes we just have to go all right. I accept
22:23
Speaker 1: it for what it is, right. I think you're right.
22:26
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that scene. Were their first kiss with
22:29
Speaker 1: the eyes open? Yeah? I mean it was like they
22:34
Speaker 1: were like testing it a little bit, right. I mean,
22:36
Speaker 1: if you've gotten nearly six hundred years without a kiss,
22:38
Speaker 1: maybe you're like a little nervous. Agree. Agree? I thought
22:42
Speaker 1: I thought their kiss was nice. I mean, it's no
22:44
Speaker 1: Warren Christy. Now I'm glad that they He's like, should
22:47
Speaker 1: we do that again? Oh yeah, oh yeah, it definitely
22:51
Speaker 1: needed a do over for sure. Very cute, very very cute.
22:56
Speaker 1: Can we talk about the flash mob? I'm not gonna
23:00
Speaker 1: I'm not going to I'm not going to ruin it
23:02
Speaker 1: for you. I'm just surprised because I literally wrote in
23:05
Speaker 1: my notes, the flash mob? Is that your biggest nightmare,
23:08
Speaker 1: that that erupts around you? Oh no, I don't care
23:12
Speaker 1: if it's happening around me. I don't want to be
23:14
Speaker 1: pulled into it. I don't want to be mosh pitted
23:17
Speaker 1: into That's my point. It rose up and they were
23:19
Speaker 1: in the middle of it. I mean, poor Michael. That
23:22
Speaker 1: scene with Michael is my worst nightmare. You and I
23:25
Speaker 1: have been adjacent to a mob, A mob, a mob scene,
23:28
Speaker 1: a flash mob right in San Diego. You were there
23:33
Speaker 1: at that time, right. I don't even know what you're
23:35
Speaker 1: talking about. At blog her eleven when we met, there
23:37
Speaker 1: was a flash mob at like lunch that day. Oh gosh, wow,
23:42
Speaker 1: I've erased that from my memory. Okay. I mean, well,
23:44
Speaker 1: that's the thing though, is like flash moobs have kind
23:46
Speaker 1: of fallen out of the zio. It's very dated. Yeah,
23:50
Speaker 1: but I guess when you're six hundred years old, maybe
23:52
Speaker 1: time has a different meaning. True, true, ten years recent? Sorry,
23:57
Speaker 1: go ahead. My question is this, though, the flash mob
24:00
Speaker 1: is like a pre organized, choreographed dance, right. I don't
24:05
Speaker 1: think normal people just jump in on it, unless it's
24:08
Speaker 1: like line dancing, which maybe people did know, or the
24:11
Speaker 1: macarena or something like that. Yes, correct, which I think
24:16
Speaker 1: is demonstrated in the fact that Megan and Ben do
24:19
Speaker 1: what I can't even describe as dancing now, I can't
24:22
Speaker 1: dance no shade for me, but they're just kind of like,
24:25
Speaker 1: I don't know, they're just kind of jumping and flailing
24:28
Speaker 1: their arms around. Look, I thought it was damn delightful.
24:31
Speaker 1: It when this scene ends and everybody has dispersed and
24:35
Speaker 1: they're just still there like dancing. Totally reminded me of
24:39
Speaker 1: a time where my husband and I went to the
24:42
Speaker 1: House of Blues and we saw a cover band and
24:45
Speaker 1: everybody's on We're all on the dance floor dance in
24:48
Speaker 1: to this cover band. It was playing Jesse's Girl, and
24:50
Speaker 1: all of a sudden we look around and we're the
24:52
Speaker 1: only two out theres. How funny you are. It was
24:56
Speaker 1: twenty five years ago. That fun anymore, but it totally
25:02
Speaker 1: reminded me of that scene, and it just thought it
25:05
Speaker 1: brought so much joy to me. I just thought it
25:07
Speaker 1: was very funny. I'm laughing to myself as you say,
25:10
Speaker 1: not that fun anymore, because I was as I was
25:12
Speaker 1: watching this movie with my husband last night, I turned
25:14
Speaker 1: up and I go, do you like my new glasses?
25:17
Speaker 1: Do you like my readers?
25:21
Speaker 2: I needed an extra pair so I could keep one
25:24
Speaker 2: in every corner of the hilarious That's Romance twenty years later.
25:33
Speaker 1: Oh, this brings up a really good point. This brings
25:36
Speaker 1: up a really good point back to the movie. So
25:40
Speaker 1: Ben is built on making I'm sorry, Ben is wants
25:45
Speaker 1: to make these relationships built on like fun, right, And
25:48
Speaker 1: it made me think about it. It really made me
25:51
Speaker 1: think about it because like after like the romance has
25:55
Speaker 1: kind of died, like the attraction like if but if
25:58
Speaker 1: you are in a relationship built on common interest and
26:02
Speaker 1: fun like that is a solid relationship. Yes, you genuinely
26:06
Speaker 1: need to enjoy being around each other exactly. The other
26:11
Speaker 1: thing that made me think is a lot of the
26:14
Speaker 1: relationships that Michael set up. My undertanding is they were
26:17
Speaker 1: not forever relationships, right they ended? Am I remembering that correctly?
26:22
Speaker 1: That's correct? And I was thinking that's really interesting because
26:26
Speaker 1: as a person who's been married for twenty years, if
26:30
Speaker 1: I were to get divorced tomorrow, would you be like, oh,
26:33
Speaker 1: her marriage failed, or would you be like, oh, she
26:36
Speaker 1: had a twenty year relationship, like she raised a family, right,
26:40
Speaker 1: Like are we looking at things? Does something have to
26:43
Speaker 1: last forever for it to be valuable and meaningful? Right? Exactly?
26:47
Speaker 1: It would just have been like the right thing at
26:49
Speaker 1: that time. I did think about that. This was a real,
26:53
Speaker 1: real thinker. I guess it was one last little wish.
26:57
Speaker 1: I mean, it wouldn't be me if I did and
27:00
Speaker 1: mention it. I do want to say most of our
27:03
Speaker 1: classic Hallmark tropes in this movie do appear in the
27:06
Speaker 1: strategies used to connect our two souls, which I thought
27:08
Speaker 1: was a nice, fun little twist. However, we do have
27:11
Speaker 1: a misunderstanding trope check womp yep, yeah, which they cleared
27:17
Speaker 1: up quickly, but you know, I was like, come on,
27:20
Speaker 1: stick around for ten extra seconds. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I'm
27:24
Speaker 1: telling you me, if I overheard somebody, I wouldn't just
27:27
Speaker 1: like walk away. I'm bar Yeah, I want to hear
27:31
Speaker 1: the whole conversation at least exactly. Well, are you ready
27:35
Speaker 1: to talk to you? See that? I am. Let's hear it. Okay,
27:38
Speaker 1: Well I have a I'm gonna save my my big
27:41
Speaker 1: one for a second. I really only have one. Okay,
27:44
Speaker 1: so let me hear yours. It's Benjamin Ayer's hair. Okay,
27:49
Speaker 1: now it's not a negative. Best hair in the bits. Okay.
27:52
Speaker 1: My husband was watching this movie with me, and my
27:54
Speaker 1: husband has an eye for good hair. Like you know,
27:58
Speaker 1: we have our thing. He has an eye for hair.
28:02
Speaker 1: So as we're watching, when they would jump from place
28:05
Speaker 1: to place, heaven to earth or within earthly locations, his
28:09
Speaker 1: hair would often change because they were He's like, oh,
28:13
Speaker 1: his hair's got a lot shorter. Oh his hair got
28:14
Speaker 1: a lot longer. Oh his hair's curlier than it was
28:16
Speaker 1: on that scene. Because obviously there are different locations that
28:19
Speaker 1: are filmed on different days. But right he was like,
28:21
Speaker 1: oh his hair changed again. He was on hair alert.
28:24
Speaker 1: I didn't notice one time until I went back and looked,
28:28
Speaker 1: but my husband was on hair patrol. You know, it's
28:30
Speaker 1: so funny that you say that, because if you follow
28:34
Speaker 1: Vinjamin Air's Instagram, often he'll mention his hair like it's
28:40
Speaker 1: very curly and sometimes it's like curly and wild, and
28:42
Speaker 1: he'll be like, the hair is doing hair today. Yeah,
28:46
Speaker 1: the hair is hairing. Uh huh yeah. So like it's
28:49
Speaker 1: so funny. Maybe your husband needs to follow him on
28:51
Speaker 1: Instagram and like, my husband's not on Instagram. You're right,
28:55
Speaker 1: I forgot, okay, whatever. Anyway, I love Ben's hair. I
28:59
Speaker 1: thought he like a real sharp in this entire movie,
29:03
Speaker 1: I do looked great. One hundred percent agree with you.
29:05
Speaker 1: There is zero shade being thrown at Ben's hair just
29:08
Speaker 1: one of those true did you see that moment? My
29:11
Speaker 1: digit see that are one? The footloose joke I thought
29:15
Speaker 1: was so good. I did the show how do you?
29:20
Speaker 1: How do you? Because yeah, what is this footloose? I died,
29:23
Speaker 1: and then he had to explain it to her because
29:25
Speaker 1: she didn't know what yes was. Just thought it was
29:28
Speaker 1: great that it was so great, especially like his reaction
29:32
Speaker 1: was like, how yeah, I thought it was so good.
29:36
Speaker 1: The other thing is that they call their department in
29:39
Speaker 1: the DCC, and you know the the DCC is Dallas
29:43
Speaker 1: Cowboys Cheerleaders. I had to write it down because I
29:48
Speaker 1: could not was like, what could it possibly stand for?
29:52
Speaker 1: It was so funny to me, so so funny. And
29:55
Speaker 1: my final dig you see that was a true did
29:58
Speaker 1: you see that? As I was watching the movie, I
30:00
Speaker 1: flipped out. Michael and Monica are somewhere they're trying to
30:04
Speaker 1: match make. They're like at a market or craft fair,
30:07
Speaker 1: I don't remember. And what do I see in the
30:09
Speaker 1: on a display and the background is a bunch of
30:13
Speaker 1: Romance University sweatshirts, and I to that, I applaud you. Yes,
30:18
Speaker 1: that's so fun I thought that was so amazing. I
30:22
Speaker 1: hope that other people noticed it as well, because you know,
30:25
Speaker 1: Ben is so he's a champion for his Romance University brand,
30:30
Speaker 1: and I like their mission over there. I just thought
30:33
Speaker 1: it was so fun and clever to see it in
30:35
Speaker 1: the background of this movie. I think the hardcore airs
30:37
Speaker 1: heads definitely noticed airs heads. Yes, you're right, you're right.
30:42
Speaker 1: Before we get to our rating, where are we ranking
30:47
Speaker 1: this on the smoochimeter smoa meter? What was the what
30:53
Speaker 1: was the range? I forget well, the pulled out of
30:56
Speaker 1: a hat yesterday. I mean I said ten out of ten,
30:58
Speaker 1: flaming lips, I give it, yeah, solid seven. That's exactly
31:03
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say. Hey, I love so I
31:06
Speaker 1: love this new little, you know, segment of our We
31:11
Speaker 1: need to create the image. We need to get it
31:13
Speaker 1: up on Instagram. We got to. We got to, Yeah
31:16
Speaker 1: for sure. All right, let's talk. What did you rate
31:19
Speaker 1: a Christmas Angel Match? I gave it three point seven
31:22
Speaker 1: five stars? Whoa? I gave it four point two five stars. Oh,
31:27
Speaker 1: I liked it. I'm just you know what, I think
31:31
Speaker 1: I'm just tiptoeing into this season that maybe a little conservatively. Sure, sure,
31:37
Speaker 1: you want to save those ratings exactly just in case. Well,
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