Taylor Cole's Character
So Taylor Cole is a movie star who is playing a movie star (Jessica) who is making a movie where her character is a movie star.
I'll be in my padded room in my special jacket and crash helmet for a while!
So what's your point? I thought she was lovely. She did the part superbly! I came to IMDB to see what other movies she played. I sure expected higher than a 6.3 rating.
shareI agree Taylor Cole is very lovely!
As far as the ratings, people rate on different levels. As far as me, I take in consideration the script, the actors, the directing and if it held my interest. The other BIG consideration I take into effect is the cost of the movie and what it's trying to do. Being a Hallmark movie plus a Hallmark Christmas movie, they don't have the budgets of the Big Screen Studios nor the time (30 days of shooting is normal for Hallmark not 6-12 months). I rate them a star or two higher than what I rate the other movies. I gave it a 7 star rating. IMO, the secondary story was better than the primary story.
That's how I rate Hallmarks too-Unless it's Hallmark Hall of Fame. Even so this one was only a 3 or 4 to me. Did not engage me at all.
shareBased on your observations and the way you write, you seem to have a pretty good grasp of movies and cinematic storytelling.
With that in mind (and I won't bore you, for the moment, with why I am asking; suffice to say it's for business reasons) I need to know this:
I've been watching Hallmark Christmas movies over the last three days. Again, I won't bore you with why, but I've been practically shooting them into my veins, and it appears that they mostly lack real conflict or any kind of bona fide villain à la Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life, or Cruella Deville in 101 Dalmatians, etc.
And this can't be a coincidence. It cannot be a coincidence that out of the dozens and dozens of Hallmark Christmas movies I've been sampling on YouTube, virtually all of them lack real personal conflict, and any sort of bona fide villain.
Indeed, they seem to play as commercials for the Christmas holiday. The imperative of a TV ad is to make viewers happy, and to provide uplift and reassurance, and virtually every scene of these movies plays like a warm toothy advertisement for Christmas.
It's as if Christmas itself hired an ad agency to promote the holiday, and that ad agency went off and made a bunch of movies. If that happened, THIS is what those movies would look like.
The dominant impression you're left with is one of thick snow, colorful trees, toothy smiles and sweaters.
Am I wrong about this? Can you think of any Hallmark Christmas movie that had a real, bona fide, Mr. Potter-type villain -- male or female -- who remained a villain until the very end?