Hallmark: No More Whitewashed Christmas, But It Could Make the Yuletide Gayer

Indiewire ^ | December 25, 2018 | Hanh Nguyen

[Buckeye McFrog]

If they want to go into freefall faster than the NFL, Hallmark will take that advice.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I think I could actually write a Hallmark Christmas movie or two.

Someone has actually written a computer program that writes them. You plunk in the basic elements (hard-working female veterinarian, no time to date, inherits her grandmother's Christmas tree farm, meets a handsome single man at a bake-off and falls in love when he kisses her in a stalled elevator) and it spits out the script.

[SamAdams76]

I've seen that type of "computer programmed" writing and I don't think human writers have anything to worry about in the way of competition from them.

True literature can only be written by humans who have experienced love, anger, rejection, pain, joy, and all the other human emotions and experiences. That's another reason why young adults, no matter how bright, rarely if ever write decent fiction. They need to experience some of the world - both good and bad - in order to have a credible basis from which to write compellingly.

Perhaps in a generic kind of way, computer programs can spit out a passable script for a TV show/movie given that all the pre-defined characters and situations are input into this program. But it will never have passion and it will make for rather luckluster TV. Not that there aren't any brain-dead people who will sit on the couch and watch it but it won't be inspiring, enlightening or even all that interesting.

[bgill]

Yes, same one. Bet lots of viewers turned it off. Bad move for a family Christmas movie.

[bgill]

I’m always confused on the protocol of LGBTWHATEVER’s “spouses”. Husband, wife, two wives, two husbands, pr two lunatics.

[RatRipper]

to visit the country during the Christmas season

Often visiting at a lodge that is closing because times are different.

[Buckeye McFrog]

From back when Saturday Night Live could do something besides bash Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSzytvDsPfo

[SamAdams76]

That was a great SNL clip regarding Hallmark Christmas movies. It almost could have been real especially with the closing remark that Christmas movies are "Hallmark's Super Bowl" - which is actually is.

Miss the old SNL before it got taken over by partisan politics and gratuitous hate towards our hard-working president. It will be hard to watch that show ever again.

[itsahoot]

We simply look for wholesome entertainment.

Me too, but most viewers will not notice the subtle switch to PC propaganda, in fact half our voters buy into the propaganda that they think is news. Everyone that watches Hallmark is not as alert as freepers.

[smalltownslick]

You also need lots of pumpkins and wineries.

[MoochPooch]

Hallmark is the Harlequin Romance Novel of the television tube.

For some reason, I think of Hallmark as the Poor Man's Disney. I watched their version of SNOW QUEEN and found it awful.

[x]

Hallmark is okay. It’s a chance to see the stars and near stars you may have had crushes on in the Nineties still alive and working.