For a while now, Hallmark and Lifetime have been playing their classic romance Christmas movies. Now if you’re anything like me you have a love-hate relationship with these movies. Every year my mom turns them on and every year I joke about how they all end the same, the guy and the girl fall in love and everything works out and their lives end happily ever after. I find myself watching one on Hallmark as I sit here and write this and I can only laugh at myself because they are just so cliché, but every once in a while you just really need to watch them.
Everyone is a sucker for love stories, which is probably what makes these movies so popular. Even though they are not the greatest movies ever produced, they’re pretty good for what they are. They’re the perfect thing to turn on whenever you it is cold and snowy/rainy out and there is literally nothing else on.
The movie that Hallmark had on was called “The Nine Lives of Christmas,” a very cliché movie about a firefighter who has a rich girlfriend and started taking care of a cat that he rescued from a dog. He meets this girl who loves cats and is studying to be a veterinarian. They go through some adventures and they start falling in love, but they don’t want to admit it, but at the end they admit their love for one another and live happily ever after with their cats, who by the way are also in love. (Kind of weird but whatever I guess.)
When I turned it on I realized that I had just watched it about a week or two ago when I was home for Thanksgiving. My mom had turned it on and I remembered that I watched it with her and made fun of it then, and said that it would be a much better movie if they were dog people rather than cat people. (Personal bias toward dogs).
However, I couldn’t turn it off because I had been disappointed that the “Nightmare Before Christmas” had been on for the 25 Days of Christmas and in my opinion that is definitely more of a Halloween movie than Christmas. Plus, I can’t wait for finals to be over so that I can go home and watch these goofy movies with my mom and little sister.
So if you’re in the need of some lame, cliché Christmas movies just head on over to the Hallmark Movie Channel or maybe the Lifetime Movie Channel. Sure they’re goofy and they all have the same plot and conclusion, they somehow manage to touch your heart and give you that goofy love that you’ve been wanting.
