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A Maple Valley Christmas (2022)
A bit too stressful for a hallmark movie
Like someone said above, Erica was a bit too much when it comes to wanting things going her way. It almost felt like by the end everyone just conceded to keep her happy and she finally had her cake and ate it too. I found also that there were more misunderstandings and stressful moments that I'd expect from a hallmark movie. I found it a bit hard to relax to it honestly, but I still enjoyed it, it's not a bad movie, especially for those who enjoy a bit more racier or spicier hallmark movies. I found this one to be too much about bonding over negative stuff between two characters which isn't something I usually like.
Making Something Great (2021)
Excellent rendition of the standard hallmark's formula
I've seen many of hallmark's romantic movies with the identical story structure and hooks, this one contains all that but also somehow puts a much better spin on it and it's hard to articulate why.
I've seen the main actress in 3 other movies and I think this is a movie where she has the best chemistry with the male lead. Both of them deliver wonderfully in their respective roles.
It seems like this films pays a little bit more attention to the development of the side characters (main character's shooting partner, aunt/Bill romantic mini-subplot, scenes where main character drinks with her shooting partner while rehashing what has happened in the movie so far) added a bit of a kick to the movie in a way that makes it feel more alive than any of the hallmark movies I've seen so far while still hitting the usual amount of runtime (85 mins).
The sets were well made and didn't have the same on the nose theme or artificial arrangements that are usually so common in hallmark's movies. I'm not even gonna criticize the fact that it was very obvious that somebody scattered sheep feed on the road to film the scene, that's how much I liked the movie.
A film that lives up to its own title.
If you're a fan of hallmark movies, this is a must see. It's filmed by the same director who did 4 episodes of The Expanse (tv series).
Love's Match (2021)
Sweet movie
When I read what the movie is about, I wasn't too enthusiastic, I'm a bit more into autumn themed hallmark romantic movies, but I was like w.e, I'll give it a go I guess.
It ended up being a sweet enough film even though the premise with the matchmaking guy is ridiculous, I mean someone organizing dates through headsets and whatnot, dictating at people what to say to score a date, making them into cyranoids is kinda scary, but it went away quickly, so I wasn't too horrified.
It was also really fun to look at design of the scenes and how funnily neatly organized they were, like food on plates being completely untouched and uneaten (but put on plates): (it's such a hallmark staple, very amusing), as well as filming various scenes at the same gazebo (like at least three, but i wasn't really attentive during the movie). As one of my friends said, it's possible that the designer has really bad ocd with how sets are organized, symmetrized and color coordinated, I guess it comes with the territory of churning out dozens of hallmark movies.
When they spied on their matchmakees (idk if it's a word) their disguises were ridiculously low effort it was really amusing, that's the land of hallmark. It's very obviously not about believably but wonderful sense of romance.
Main actress is likeable (and/or endearing), I wanted to see what other hallmark movies she did but it seems like there's only one which is disappointing, I'd watch her new hallmark movies if she decides to make any more of those. She reminds me of Hillary Duff and her love interest reminds of the guy from that tv show "Last man on earth".