The Great Christmas Movie Challenge - 2017
Last year we did something that I'm pretty sure Evil Kneival, Chris Angel or the Flying Wallenda's would ever do, and that was watch 30 TV Christmas movies in 30 days. It was pure foolishness. But this year we are back! And while we can't do 30 in 30, we think we can do 25 in 25. or fifteen. or maybe just the one. I don't know. We'll see.
The guidelines are simple. The movie has to be TV Christmas movie, or at least a Christmas movie in the spirit of a Hallmark / Lifetime / Ion / UPTv / TVOne Christmas Movie. So there may be a few direct to DVD movies littered in there for all we know.
We also have a few things we try to avoid to keep the selection process palatable, in that we probably won't watch any movies that focus exclusively on kids or animals... so Santa Paws is out... and as of this year Dean Cain is on that avoid list. Which kind of cuts the movies we can watch by 65%.
Remember, the Vomit rating system is NOT necessarily an indicator of the quality of the film, but how true the film sticks to the Hallmark formula. The perfect five vomit film should always have canned Christmas music playing in the background, the movie should possess at least one cute kid and one wise old person dispensing sage advice, there should always be a Christmas Tree shopping scene, and the Christmas theme should be omnipresent. Meaning decorations galore, the plot is Christmas heavy, and elf hats. Sometimes we will see movies that simply take place around Christmas, and aren't Christmas movies at all. Most importantly, the perfect five vomit Christmas Movie should have a plot that is tried, true and lacks any kind originality. So if you are watching one of these and at any point you find yourself saying... 'Well, I didn't see that coming...', while what you have watched may be a great movie, it is ultimately a terrible TV Christmas movie. No time for that.
The nonsense starts tomorrow. We have no idea what we are watching.
The guidelines are simple. The movie has to be TV Christmas movie, or at least a Christmas movie in the spirit of a Hallmark / Lifetime / Ion / UPTv / TVOne Christmas Movie. So there may be a few direct to DVD movies littered in there for all we know.
We also have a few things we try to avoid to keep the selection process palatable, in that we probably won't watch any movies that focus exclusively on kids or animals... so Santa Paws is out... and as of this year Dean Cain is on that avoid list. Which kind of cuts the movies we can watch by 65%.
Remember, the Vomit rating system is NOT necessarily an indicator of the quality of the film, but how true the film sticks to the Hallmark formula. The perfect five vomit film should always have canned Christmas music playing in the background, the movie should possess at least one cute kid and one wise old person dispensing sage advice, there should always be a Christmas Tree shopping scene, and the Christmas theme should be omnipresent. Meaning decorations galore, the plot is Christmas heavy, and elf hats. Sometimes we will see movies that simply take place around Christmas, and aren't Christmas movies at all. Most importantly, the perfect five vomit Christmas Movie should have a plot that is tried, true and lacks any kind originality. So if you are watching one of these and at any point you find yourself saying... 'Well, I didn't see that coming...', while what you have watched may be a great movie, it is ultimately a terrible TV Christmas movie. No time for that.
The nonsense starts tomorrow. We have no idea what we are watching.
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