Recently I have had a chance to watch a few of these ABC Family movies, and I just had to rant a bit about them. They are just so corny! Why is the moral of these movies if you're single you're a loser? Every singlee movie, the woman winds up with some guy whether she loved him or not. I'm not a woman and I feel this way.
I had to discuss a few of these that I have seen, and if you haven't consider yourself lucky. Spoilers ahead!
Three Days-This was came out ten years ago, and was unique twist on It's a Wonderful Life. This move the guy has the nerve to be a successful businessman who doesn't give his wife enough attention. When she is killed on Christmas Eve, and angel gives him a chance to relive the prior three days so that his wife will die knowing he loved her. They forget work and play in the snow, there is a plot thread stuck in to lengthen the movie about the guy patching things up with his father. In the end, he learns that work is meaningless and you should shower your wife with attention. Well, something like that. He saves her so she doesn't die, and of course he lives also. At the end we see they have a baby.
The Christmas List-In this movie a woman is stuck in life. She has a boring boyfriend and a dead end job. She fills out a wish list for Santa and put in his mailbox (in a mall display) and suddenly all her wishes start coming true. She winds up dumping her boyfriend and realizing she needs to shake up her life. Of course, she meets a guy and falls in love with him within a matter of days. I stopped paying attention to this one. It ends with her and the guy together and having a baby (again).
Santa Baby-Jenny McCarthy is cute but the script is, meh. We learn that Santa has a daughter who is, once again, a career minded type. When Santa has a heart attack (cheery) she has to fill in. Her attempts to modernize the workshop are a disaster, and of course she falls for the local boy. There is an antagonist who tries to sell out the North Pole for an amusement park. It fails, and Mary learns....I'm not real sure what she learns. To lighten up I guess. To be honest, I kind of like this one.
Chasing Christmas-This movie is horrible! Tom Arnold stars in this film which begins as A Christmas Carol knockoff. However, Christmas past (a guy)is disgruntled and abandons the mission, leaving Tom's character trapped in the past. Christmas Present (a girl) steps in to find Past and fix the mess. Christmas Present then proceeds to flirt with guys, get drunk, and sit in a hot tub with Tom Arnold. (Serious!) They turn A Christmas Carol into a bad Back to the Future knock off, even including a few jokes refering to that movie. The worst thing is that with all the time travel stuff, and they do change things in the past, when Tom finally get sent home NOTHING HAS CHANGED except he is happy now. I mean, if you're going to do a movie about time travel do it right!
Snow Globe-Sigh! A woman has an overbearing family who bosses her around and even tries to fix her up with a guy she barely knows. Inside a snow globe she experiences a perfect Christmas. By the end of the movie, she learns that a "perfect" Christmas is relative. She realizes her family isn't so bad, and winds up falling for the guy her family sets her up with. I was on the main character's side through this, only to have it end with her realizing she was wrong and her family was right. This movie lost me when two characters from the globe escape, and live as normal people. So what is the snow globe, some kind of alternate reality? What are these people, are they really trapped there? Answering these questions would have helped this movie, but they don't bother.
12 Dates of Christmas-This one premiered this year and has a woman reliving Christmas Eve 12 times. She isn't a bad person, she just has the nerve to be single and career driven. NO! Why is this the moral of these? At the end she falls in love with a guy she just met that day (this is understandable from her point of view, but for this guy to fall for her after only knowing her for a few hours is pushing it)The worst thing is that this the third version of this type of story ABC Family has produced.
There are others. The Dog Who Saved Christmas is a blatant Home Alone rip off. Christmas Cupid, another Christmas Carol knock off where a woman learns having a job and being a single maker her a loser, she hooks up with an old boyfriend at the end, and Christmas in Boston which I still haven't really seen.
I think I have made my point. These are ok to put on as background noise, but these movies just suck. As a single person who is not in a relationship, I resent the implications in them. Now you may be asking, why watch these movie if they're so bad? Boredom, mostly.
Merry Christmas everyone!!
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