ho ho hope you enjoyed the videos this year - I know i'm directly contradicting myself in the video but this is the last video of the year. Thanks for watching this year, here's to 2025
when i was in college once i was on the bus talking to some rando student who initiated comversation, and when they mentioned they didnt have any shampoo for specific hair dye, i invited them to get off with me to my dorm so i could give them my extra. i gave them the shampoo at my dorm, they asked if i did weed, i said no, and then they bid an ambivalent farewell with a "were probably never going to see each other again"
I have a baby so like if I really needed a napkin to take care of her I would probably ask a neighbor or something. We don't know each other, we've never seen each other, we're strangers.
As a former special education teacher, I think the least believable thing about her being a special Ed teacher is that the kids were all sitting quietly in an organized circle 😂
I don’t teach but my son is autistic and I have volunteered in the class before. I couldn’t imagine anything harder than teaching special ed. in a foreign speaking country.
"I'm upset because I lost my great grandmother's necklace my mom passed down to me the Christmas before she DlED" has the same energy as "BECAUSE MUSIC KlLLED MY GRANDMA OKAY" and caught me so off guard I laughed
There’s always one actually funny moment in the better Hallmark movies, it keeps us watchers on the hook and allows them to call their movies “romantic comedies” (which they do, btw) EDIT: no one is more cynical about the Hallmark audience than… Hallmark
pre-special educator here, the idea of traveling the world comes up a lot simply because the savior is complex is hard to escape when it’s taught that we are “superheroes” and “make a difference”. the best quality a special educator can have is knowing how to remove yourself from the situation entirely and make no assumptions. students are students, no matter their location, so a special educator should let them come as they are. the idea that they have “less than” is a really harmful stereotype, that also not far from the reality of a lot of special educators, unfortunately.
i have a lot of teachers like this ( former special education student now just regular disabled person who is grown up ), i never knew that the travelling thing was real, i thought it was made up for the movie cause i had never heard of it but i see this attitude a lot in the way a lot of my teachers treated me, i also hope they actually teach people how to deal with certain things now 😭😭😭 cause even when i was in high school in 2020, they were acting like my anxiety attacks where i literally couldn't breathe were just me misbehaving on purpose but they were all mostly older women
@@draculaura_keyblade thank you so much for sharing your experience with me, and i’m sorry that you went through that. i would love to reply and say of course its getting better, but it’s not really, unfortunately - especially with the department of education potentially getting defunded. though it doesn’t mean that there aren’t good teachers in the field now or that will be joining the field soon. it really varies.
@ I am well aware of those factors but it doesn’t change my desire to help students. There are so many ways to be a special educator and that isn’t always in the classroom!
i moved to Idaho. had a roommate who got engaged. decided to make small talk, asked “how long have you guys been together?” “a month now!” i stopped. naively thought ‘ok, maybe they’ve just known each other a long time’. “oh, so how long have you known each other?” “it’s coming up on two months now!” gobsmacked. horrified. it’s been 4 years, I wonder how they’re doing now.
"you may be wondering why I'm not mentioning her name, and it's because I forgot it and I'm waiting till they say it." "Ahh, her names Georgia. Like the, ah, country." Icon.
1) Spills hot cocoa on him because she's clumbsy/quirky 2) Married by the end - yes 3) big problem - he's retiring and can't find a small coffee shop to own edit - Merry Christmas!
i was also typing a story where they meet initiated by a spill but it was cider and he works at the cider mill. but the cider mill is closing and they end up working together to save the family business. haahh i am not sure but i guess youd kind of have to marry the person who helped save your family business. XD
So, the sister has been dating the brother of a super famous soccer player for 8 months and she didn't mention it to her sister? Or she did mention it but Georgia was like "yeah whatever" and didn't look him up? lmao Hallmark, man... I love these stupid movies
tbh my sibling has been dating their gf for over a year and i’ve even met the gf’s sister once and i forget her name. when my sibling tells stories, it’s always “gf’s sister” not her actual name. of course, i would probably remember that she was a famous athlete
Also I find it hard to believe that the sister hasn’t mentioned herself in paparazzi photos because if I know anything about paparazzi they tend to also show you their family if they can’t give you the actual famous person
If she were in London, that necklace WOULD NOT be coming back lmao. That's like the most obvious thing about any big, famous city. If you lose something like jewelry, it's good as stolen - probably taken to the nearest Cash Converters before she knew it was lost.
Hallmark Christmas movies are probably my husband’s and my favorite holiday tradition. Sitting on the couch, drinking cocoa, inserting our own X-rated commentary to the storyline. Freaking hilarious.
Also, if you're an American in a foreign country, and you meet some guy who seems surprised you don't know who he is, and the longer you hang out with him the more clear it becomes that every rando on the street DOES know who he is... would it not occur to you that he might be famous? Or does Georgia think that countries outside of America don't have celebrities.
Right! She just truly believed random strangers were taking pics of him walking down the sidewalk? Though 30 Rock had a similar storyline with Liz and Jon Hamm playing her bf lol
1. They meet at a bus stop 2. They bump into each other 3. No 4. Job troubles keep them apart Predictions: Someone gets sent to the hospital, Santa makes an appearance, somebody spills a drink or something
All I hear is Peter Pevensie saying "He said he knows the faun," "No, you're trying to be smart, as usual," "Well done, Ed!" Due to this ingrained nostalgia, I can't take him seriously as a male lead, much less as a so called "Hallmark Hunk."
I actually willingly sat down to watch this movie about a week ago and could not believe how bad it was. It literally made Hot Frosty feel like high brow cinema.
I do think that Hot Frosty was a deliberate parody of Hallmark movies except Hallmark movies now have budgets big enough to film on location so the restrained budget makes it look sincere
Not even kidding, Hot Frosty is one of the most original (romcom?) christmas movies ive watched in a loooong time, such a silly concept and funny execution
During the writer's strike in 2007 (I believe) the Hallmark head honcho decided to stop hiring writers who were members of the Guild (the writer's union) and use, well, a template and non-union writers with little experience. I'm a mother of two kids with Autism. Their teachers work VERY hard, and I can't imagine trying to do their job with language and cultural barriers. It seems that this movie is trying to ride the coattails of "Ted Lasso". With a nod (ha!) to "Notting Hill". And the quality of neither.
Instead of quality scripts, they just make everyone’s names Christmas related (so many female leads named Holly) and think a Christmas tree will do it for a plot. The more I learn about Hallmark, the less I like them. EDIT: also all their movies are guilty of plagiarism in the script and I usually recognize what romantic comedies they’re shamelessly ripping off. It’s not just “Notting Hill” or “Ted Lasso”, the dialogue is stolen from movies I’ve seen before.
1. They meet at a pub 2. He notices she’s American and thinks its quirky 3. They will be engaged but not married 4. His ex gets in the way Bonus: 5. She trips and falls into his arms 6. They accidentally find themselves under mistletoe 7. Someone quotes Dickens edit: I was way off so I guess I have to write this movie now
i was a special education student in school ( i am graduated now, so obviously not anymore but now i live off disability ) but the idea of someone travelling the world to teach special education and only care about the travel aspect kinda feels weird to me, i mean its great if teachers get that opportunity ( i don't know about it, again i only have the pov of a student who's been in these programs since i started school due to my disability ) because obviously students everywhere deserve to learn and people to actually take the time to understand and make it more accessible to do so, i just get major icks from the teacher in this movie also not many of my own teachers were exactly trained to deal with me considering my behaviour would be written off as having a bad attitude / throwing a fit or not wanting to do something
Even now the US literally tortures autistic kids. Being a late diagnosed autistic kid, I’m a little relieved that I never had to go into the special education program because of the abuse. I could have used help for sure, more so in grad school and now as an adult struggling with constant discrimination. We should learn better ways from other countries
@@elsie8757 Yeah...he didn't tell her who he was in the 5 hours after they met, can you believe this? how can she even trust him anymore?? how are their kids going to grow up after this? they better file for divorce right now.
Like the US. They electroshock autistic kids to make them more “neurotypical”. It’s insane that they still are allowed to torture people for being different.
1. Grocery Store 2. Bumping into eachother 3. Yes 4. Miscommunication / Bad communication Bonus: (1) They’re going to have a very loud fight in public fight, (2) They’re going to take a short break from the relationship, (3) A lover from the past will try to reconnect.
This was so entertaining!! My sister and I watched Mingle all the way and predicted the entire plot accidentally before it started. We laughed SO hard when we were completely right. Thanks, Hallmark
The double in law thing doesn't bother me at all, honestly. But my husband's parents are first cousins so I've raised my standards of weird to blood relations
yeah my childhood friend's parents were in-laws and their older siblings who were married were also much older than them (like 15+ years)... which they don't seem to find weird at all but definitely feels weirder since they would have been in-laws long before they were dating. this at least - where the two couples form a connection before they know their siblings are also dating - is unusual but doesn't seem AS odd or uncomfortable (even if of course it still would be for some people, and if they break up that could get messy and awkward still being in-laws)
My family and I watched this together today. The main characters have almost no chemistry and there were some baffling moments in terms of the writing. This movie was followed by “Everything Christmas” where the two main characters have TOO MUCH chemistry.
Sorry, did this guy seriously go “hey let’s go on a little adventure. Do you prefer long boat rides or short plane rides? Yeah, we’re going to Ireland.”
The way I predicted "they're going to literally bump into each other at a Christmas market/shop" at the beginning of the video and then it actually happened-- I guess I shouldn't be surprised, these movies really are all the exact same. 💀
That actually didn't feel weird, I felt like it was more odd that she was so bitter at her sisters happiness. She made lots of comments like the one where she says our younger siblings getting married that made her sound really upset that she wasn't also getting married.
@sophielegay4104 someone might not fully recognize from a quick glance, but they would still have something in the back of their mind at least, usually. Like, they'd see the person who's face was on the taxi and think "Oh, that guy looks a little familiar, wonder why"
There's nothing weird about two sisters marrying two brothers. As long as they don't share DNA with anyone they're marrying, it's fine. It's not, like, incest or something.
What an insane ending, literally all it is, is “look, they’re still together a year later!” Okay??? It’s Hallmark, they’re obviously not gonna break up!
my 3 random predictions: 1: she's mad he didn’t tell her who he was (bonus: "i can't be in a relationship that started in a lie") edit: 14:27 2: she's "quirky" and/or teases him about the differences between America and England 3: first kiss on Christmas day | edit: 20:10 dang it
You really should have watched Notting Hill (or at least some clips!) to get some of the references...like the spill, and the question about how far the flat is 😝
I am a Massachusetts special education teacher and I have taught abroad in England. Everything you said correct and I didn't like this movie for this reason. 1 it glamorized the job. Special education is incredibly demanding and emotionally draining. Students are often hyped up and nervous about going home a long time right before vacation. There's often huge behavior concerns and a lot of emotional regulation training. Since you're often case manager for very difficult, high needs students, your training the classroom teacher in how to teach them. Parents can at times be extremely difficult to work with and make the job extremely stressful. I have had a lot of sleepless nights riddled with worry about students and belligerent parents. 2 there is a lot of paperwork involved in special education. I'm on Christmas vacation and at some point this week I have to write a diagnostic report that will be used to decide if a student is legally eligible for special education. I also have 3 ieps to write. These are generally 15 page legally binding contracts used to mandate what the child needs to access school. Each iep takes 4-10 hours of work. 3 special education is a highly legalistic job. Everything you do, say and write has a legal undertone that is tied to federal and state laws. It's my job to uphold and protect all of my students civil rights within very tight red tape. Its very rewarding and also very emotionally demanding. In that respect, different countries have different cultures and laws around special education. You can't just go into any country and expect to go right in and teach. Unless it's at international schools where there's specific programs designed to teach teachers. Also, many countries don't have civil rights for children with disabilities. They just don't go to "normal" school. Most European countries offer special education but many Asian and South American countries do not. Also if she did this is it paid? What happens to her current job? Given the current shortage, the district probably wouldn't be able to hold her job for a year. It would fall on her coworkers to pick up the slack while she's gone which adds a lot more stress.
Can you and others help protest torturing autistic kids please? MA uses electroshock to torture kids. They still ABA as well. It’s crazy. They banned gay conversion therapy so why are they stilll autistic conversion therapy. It’s gross. And as an autistic person, there’s nothing more stressful than knowing neurotypicals constantly discriminate against you and want you gone. It’s like having a target on your back. I don’t feel bad for any teachers . Unless you are autistic or help fight stigma with no help from others. The US currently doesn’t treat those with disabilities as equals and they discriminate against us all the time with no consequences. So we are definitely not on the good list.
This is the first time I’ve seen one of your videos and I have no idea why it was recommended to me, but I was thoroughly entertained! You are a very funny young man. 😂
As a former Hallmark connoisseur, here we go: 1. They're going to meet in the middle of the road. 2. Her car broke down and he helps her. 3. They'll only be married if there's a time jump, but my answer is no, they will not be married. 4. Something to do with him being famous for sure. Having to choose between her and his career. Random predictions: 1. There will be a scene of them making cookies together. 2. They will only kiss twice in the entire movie. One when they first fall in love and the second when they get back together after the Big Thing™️ that breaks them up. 3. They will dislike each other when they first meet. Edit: Noooo I had predicted in my head that the big conflict would be surrounding paparazzi but I didn't write it down!
1. Family owned/small town business 2. He’s hiding from fans while she’s shopping there 3. Maybe not married, just ends with a kiss 4. Big problem is he gets a contract to play soccer somewhere else How’d I do? Edit: dang I suck at this
1. some popular town public space 2. girl is good friends with guy's parents, parents introduce them 3. no, but it ends with a kiss 4. there is a kid's christmas program but it doesn't have enough funding
My prediction, although being late to the christmas party: 1) they meet in front of a christmas tree or a cozy little coffee shop / bakery. Something whimsical. 2) They run into each other, dropping coffee or presents. 3) of course they are 4) the biggest problem is the "evil" girlfriend of the dude. Random predictions: he moves to the town, he saves the school, he makes a really good eggnog everyone loves
They have a reality show called “Finding Mr. Christmas” now. It’s so much worse than any Hallmark movie. I could only stand to watch 8 min of the first episode.
My predictions 1. The guys old school (he went back to kick the ball around on his home pitch) 2. Teacher gets beamed in the head by a soccer ball that the guy kicked 3. Engaged but not married 4.media won’t leave soccer guy alone and make a hate article about the teacher Bonus 1. Teacher tried to kick a soccer ball and completely whiffs 2. There’s an annoying nephew 3. Jamie makes a reference to Wimbledon
I know twin brothers , who married sisters . Tons of local folks were weirded out by that. I thought it made sense . Twins are gonna have similar interests . Both couples are still together after decades . They are also neighbors . 😁
yeah, i dont get why its weird. there was no opportunity for them to build a sibling like relationship before and proximity plus how often people see each other is a huge factor in relationships. as far as i knew, it's pretty normal, lol
I think not enough people talk about how her sister ditches her multiple times throughout the movie to do work, leaving her alone somewhere in an unfamiliar place. And as soon as shes left alone she goes to a strange mans house.
My mom was a special education teacher. Seemed to be a very difficult but rewarding job. She liked it enough to get her masters in it. She started the community based education program in our county. Her students would have jobs at various places such as Walmart, pizza parlors, etc to help prepare them for life after school. One of her Down syndrome students actually saved his dad’s life by driving him to the hospital when he had a heart attack. My mom was so awesome. RIP
Just a little insight to the Christmas movie making business - in college I interned for a production company that exclusively worked on Christmas movies, all year around. They developed scripts, shopped them around to the big companies like Lifetime and Hallmark, and if those companies picked the scripts up and financed them, the production company I was at would further develop it and film it. If the scripts for these movies seem uninspired, it’s because they aren’t. They would either have a team of interns come up with script ideas and treatments while we were there, or they would workshop scripts that random people sent in. While I was there, they were working on a script that had gone through tons of changes, made by the writer themselves (freelance), writers at the production company and, yep, random interns. I’ve seen scripts go from having nothing to do with Christmas, to being awkwardly stuffed with Christmas locations and activities. And sometimes those changes aren’t very well made and you get weird, awkward, unrealistic scenes. I’m sure there are dozens of other production companies like these. They’re just churning out scripts on a conveyor belt, hoping Lifetime will like one of them, and give them money.
1) if she's a teacher, he totally has a neice or nephew in her class. That's how they meet. She has to talk to the family about their Christmas program. 4) He is deciding whether to pursue a new contract, and it ends with both of them moving to the US.
It IS weird that she manages to get 6 coats and at least 4 pairs of shoes (of which 2 are knee-high boots) in that suitcase with all the other stuff she needs, so there's that... I mean, seriously, Hallmark loves coats. The star has a new coat in every scene, and most Hallmark movies are about them traveling, in winter, so the coats are thick and take up a huge amount of space in the suitcase, and they are out about a week or so - and usually they have a cute suitcase, like a cabin bag, or something, not the traveling trunks they'd need for all those coats...
This is the first video I’ve ever watched of yours and you’ve got a new follower! I laughed so damn much. I watched this movie a month ago and it was easily one of the worst things I’ve ever subjected myself to, yet here I am rewatching it because you’re hilarious. Cheers!
Okay I'm actually gonna do the predictions cause it's fun 😼 1. At a Christmas market 2. The literally run into each other, like he runs, she's like carrying stuff, she falls, he helps her up yadda yadda yadda 3. Engaged at the family Christmas dinner 4. They can't communicate god dammit like some stupid misunderstanding that can be fixed by a 2 min conversation Bonus: • There's a golden retriever anywhere in the movie • Somebody says to either character "Follow your heart" • When she tells her family that she talked/met him nobody believes her
Ok, I’m a Brit, so I can tell you, 8:40 “like the cracker” would mean mostly nothing to most Brits. We have digestive biscuits, not Graham crackers. And unless that footballer has played in the States or watches a lot of American cooking shows, he has NO idea what she means. A cracker has cheese on it, or is pulled at Christmas. Oh, wait… that would have been funnier! We pull crackers at Christmas, Graham! 😂
I mean when a British exchange student cane to my school I called him a cracker (long silly humiliating story) and he seemed to know what I was comparing him too
1. Small town market 2. They bump into each other 3. Yes 4. They don't have enough money for a Christmas party at school 5. He wins her a gift, She's not into sports, and he accidentally hits her in the head with a ball Edit- dang
The only acceptable way to watch a Christmas movie these days is to have someone else watch it for you and then create a whole UA-cam video explaining to you why it’s so terrible and you shouldn’t watch it. Thanks dude.
ho ho hope you enjoyed the videos this year - I know i'm directly contradicting myself in the video but this is the last video of the year. Thanks for watching this year, here's to 2025
Going to a strangers house for a napkin is wild
But look how pristine her coat was when she left… totally worth the risk.
Maybe that's why I'm still single. The last time a random stranger invited me to his house, I declined.
when i was in college once i was on the bus talking to some rando student who initiated comversation, and when they mentioned they didnt have any shampoo for specific hair dye, i invited them to get off with me to my dorm so i could give them my extra. i gave them the shampoo at my dorm, they asked if i did weed, i said no, and then they bid an ambivalent farewell with a "were probably never going to see each other again"
I have a baby so like if I really needed a napkin to take care of her I would probably ask a neighbor or something. We don't know each other, we've never seen each other, we're strangers.
Right she could’ve got one from the coffee shop at that point cause just imagine the long walk to his house 😭💀
As a former special education teacher, I think the least believable thing about her being a special Ed teacher is that the kids were all sitting quietly in an organized circle 😂
That's what she teaches them, How to sit in a circle.
It's how she got the job.
Her C.V says "Experienced with Circles"
Yeah none of those kids were SEN kids, they were just some kids from a random classroom.
I don’t teach but my son is autistic and I have volunteered in the class before. I couldn’t imagine anything harder than teaching special ed. in a foreign speaking country.
Exactly
I can’t believe that she’s been left alone in there. At my school there are about as many adults in the special ed class as there are kids 😂
"I'm upset because I lost my great grandmother's necklace my mom passed down to me the Christmas before she DlED" has the same energy as "BECAUSE MUSIC KlLLED MY GRANDMA OKAY" and caught me so off guard I laughed
There’s always one actually funny moment in the better Hallmark movies, it keeps us watchers on the hook and allows them to call their movies “romantic comedies” (which they do, btw)
EDIT: no one is more cynical about the Hallmark audience than… Hallmark
Ooh see I got big " He Was in the Amazon With My Mom When She Was Researching Spiders Right Before She Died " vibes lol
@@shannonceleste5557 i was just gonna say this !!
Peter from narnia being the love interest was the last thing I thought I would see
I had a full brain reset when I realised omg
OHHHHHHHHH
HOLY SHIT
It's insane. I'm like, I recognize this dude and then realized it. Bro I always had a crush on him
Oh no
pre-special educator here, the idea of traveling the world comes up a lot simply because the savior is complex is hard to escape when it’s taught that we are “superheroes” and “make a difference”. the best quality a special educator can have is knowing how to remove yourself from the situation entirely and make no assumptions. students are students, no matter their location, so a special educator should let them come as they are. the idea that they have “less than” is a really harmful stereotype, that also not far from the reality of a lot of special educators, unfortunately.
i have a lot of teachers like this ( former special education student now just regular disabled person who is grown up ), i never knew that the travelling thing was real, i thought it was made up for the movie cause i had never heard of it but i see this attitude a lot in the way a lot of my teachers treated me, i also hope they actually teach people how to deal with certain things now 😭😭😭 cause even when i was in high school in 2020, they were acting like my anxiety attacks where i literally couldn't breathe were just me misbehaving on purpose but they were all mostly older women
@@draculaura_keyblade thank you so much for sharing your experience with me, and i’m sorry that you went through that. i would love to reply and say of course its getting better, but it’s not really, unfortunately - especially with the department of education potentially getting defunded. though it doesn’t mean that there aren’t good teachers in the field now or that will be joining the field soon. it really varies.
The way special need teachers are underpaid and treated I honestly wouldn't recommend any teacher to join the field.
@ I am well aware of those factors but it doesn’t change my desire to help students. There are so many ways to be a special educator and that isn’t always in the classroom!
I always invite random people I meet back to my parents flat. Where else would we go?
i too invite random people back to your parents flat
@@BigBlueBugGaming and it wasn't even a flat it was a fucking mansion
@@jamieregan you don’t accompany them either, you just give them an address and send them off
@@jamieregan ah yes i think ive seen you around his parents house.
Isn't his father dead?
"Its her first serious relationship and theyve only been dating 8 months, why is she expecting a proposal??"
*laughs in Utah
Yep same
WHAT?! They think 8 months is longterm? 😅😅😅😂😂😂 You have to make it over a year to be even considered serious.
i moved to Idaho. had a roommate who got engaged. decided to make small talk, asked “how long have you guys been together?”
“a month now!”
i stopped. naively thought ‘ok, maybe they’ve just known each other a long time’. “oh, so how long have you known each other?”
“it’s coming up on two months now!”
gobsmacked. horrified. it’s been 4 years, I wonder how they’re doing now.
"you may be wondering why I'm not mentioning her name, and it's because I forgot it and I'm waiting till they say it."
"Ahh, her names Georgia. Like the, ah, country."
Icon.
it is a country tho?
@goldensloth7 yes in Europe I think
@@goldensloth7yes
@@deadlydoodles3721 you're half right 😅.
Some if it's in Europe and Some of it's in Asia.
It sits on the Borderlands between Europe and Asia.
ISNT IT A STATE IN THE US TOO??
1) Spills hot cocoa on him because she's clumbsy/quirky
2) Married by the end - yes
3) big problem - he's retiring and can't find a small coffee shop to own
edit - Merry Christmas!
You get a B just for the 3rd guess
You got your first gues backwards
Also note the hot cocoa that the actors “don’t drink” 😂 (my hubby always comments on it 🙄)
i was also typing a story where they meet initiated by a spill but it was cider and he works at the cider mill. but the cider mill is closing and they end up working together to save the family business. haahh i am not sure but i guess youd kind of have to marry the person who helped save your family business. XD
you see he gets her number offering to pay for the sweater.
So, the sister has been dating the brother of a super famous soccer player for 8 months and she didn't mention it to her sister? Or she did mention it but Georgia was like "yeah whatever" and didn't look him up? lmao Hallmark, man... I love these stupid movies
Or mention that he had a brother named Graham, even??
Yeah, thought the same thing 🤔🤔🤔
tbh my sibling has been dating their gf for over a year and i’ve even met the gf’s sister once and i forget her name. when my sibling tells stories, it’s always “gf’s sister” not her actual name. of course, i would probably remember that she was a famous athlete
it's a hallmark movie, side characters only exist in the world when they're in frame with the main characters
Also I find it hard to believe that the sister hasn’t mentioned herself in paparazzi photos because if I know anything about paparazzi they tend to also show you their family if they can’t give you the actual famous person
If she were in London, that necklace WOULD NOT be coming back lmao. That's like the most obvious thing about any big, famous city. If you lose something like jewelry, it's good as stolen - probably taken to the nearest Cash Converters before she knew it was lost.
when the character disappears (like when she did off his doorstep) I like to imagine them just absolutely olympic sprinting to wherever they went lmao
She's secretly Batgirl
Hallmark Christmas movies are probably my husband’s and my favorite holiday tradition. Sitting on the couch, drinking cocoa, inserting our own X-rated commentary to the storyline. Freaking hilarious.
yeah I really hate the movies... but I really love watching them with my friends so we can snark about it the whole time.
My husband and I played a drinking game while watching the last movie before Christmas. He lost! And the next day I felt like a loser too!😂🎄
Also, if you're an American in a foreign country, and you meet some guy who seems surprised you don't know who he is, and the longer you hang out with him the more clear it becomes that every rando on the street DOES know who he is... would it not occur to you that he might be famous? Or does Georgia think that countries outside of America don't have celebrities.
Right! She just truly believed random strangers were taking pics of him walking down the sidewalk?
Though 30 Rock had a similar storyline with Liz and Jon Hamm playing her bf lol
IS THAT NARNIA BOY ???
It is!
That's Narnia King 👑!
He needs a new agent he is in bad stuff.
I was thinking the same thing😂
I keep thinking how sad it is that the soccer player can't promote sunglasses because any ads he has on sunglasses would make him unrecognizable.
1. They meet at a bus stop
2. They bump into each other
3. No
4. Job troubles keep them apart
Predictions: Someone gets sent to the hospital, Santa makes an appearance, somebody spills a drink or something
B+ and I refuse to elaborate why.
"and you chose investment banker?" *INCORRECT BUZZER SOUND*
I paused this video to go to the living room and my mom was watching this exact movie 💀
That’s hilarious!! 😂😂
All I hear is Peter Pevensie saying "He said he knows the faun," "No, you're trying to be smart, as usual," "Well done, Ed!" Due to this ingrained nostalgia, I can't take him seriously as a male lead, much less as a so called "Hallmark Hunk."
Well he was also magnificent in the “royals”, I really liked it. First 2 seasons especially.
I actually willingly sat down to watch this movie about a week ago and could not believe how bad it was. It literally made Hot Frosty feel like high brow cinema.
I do think that Hot Frosty was a deliberate parody of Hallmark movies except Hallmark movies now have budgets big enough to film on location so the restrained budget makes it look sincere
Not even kidding, Hot Frosty is one of the most original (romcom?) christmas movies ive watched in a loooong time, such a silly concept and funny execution
@@Coffeelover-aalas It's definitely a movie that felt like it was in on the joke, asking you to laugh along with it rather than at it.
During the writer's strike in 2007 (I believe) the Hallmark head honcho decided to stop hiring writers who were members of the Guild (the writer's union) and use, well, a template and non-union writers with little experience.
I'm a mother of two kids with Autism. Their teachers work VERY hard, and I can't imagine trying to do their job with language and cultural barriers.
It seems that this movie is trying to ride the coattails of "Ted Lasso". With a nod (ha!) to "Notting Hill". And the quality of neither.
Instead of quality scripts, they just make everyone’s names Christmas related (so many female leads named Holly) and think a Christmas tree will do it for a plot.
The more I learn about Hallmark, the less I like them.
EDIT: also all their movies are guilty of plagiarism in the script and I usually recognize what romantic comedies they’re shamelessly ripping off. It’s not just “Notting Hill” or “Ted Lasso”, the dialogue is stolen from movies I’ve seen before.
Graham is played by William Mosely, who played Peter Pevensey in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
1. They meet at a pub
2. He notices she’s American and thinks its quirky
3. They will be engaged but not married
4. His ex gets in the way
Bonus:
5. She trips and falls into his arms
6. They accidentally find themselves under mistletoe
7. Someone quotes Dickens
edit: I was way off so I guess I have to write this movie now
Yes go write the movie 🎥❤
I'll watch it! 🤣❤️
Someone quotes dickens 😭
i was a special education student in school ( i am graduated now, so obviously not anymore but now i live off disability ) but the idea of someone travelling the world to teach special education and only care about the travel aspect kinda feels weird to me, i mean its great if teachers get that opportunity ( i don't know about it, again i only have the pov of a student who's been in these programs since i started school due to my disability ) because obviously students everywhere deserve to learn and people to actually take the time to understand and make it more accessible to do so, i just get major icks from the teacher in this movie
also not many of my own teachers were exactly trained to deal with me considering my behaviour would be written off as having a bad attitude / throwing a fit or not wanting to do something
Even now the US literally tortures autistic kids. Being a late diagnosed autistic kid, I’m a little relieved that I never had to go into the special education program because of the abuse. I could have used help for sure, more so in grad school and now as an adult struggling with constant discrimination. We should learn better ways from other countries
They just met! They met like 3 days ago. The fights, the cheating, the lies...the drama!
Cheating???
@@elsie8757 Yeah...he didn't tell her who he was in the 5 hours after they met, can you believe this? how can she even trust him anymore?? how are their kids going to grow up after this? they better file for divorce right now.
In the sequel Georgia's Dad and Graham's Mom hook up, then in the third in the series Georgia's Grandma hooks up with Graham's Grandpa.
British people don't say non- profit, it's charity.
Both are used
Working in special education is already rough in countries that pretend to care about disabled people and only some get hidden from society.
I would assume the teachers don't go to those countries.
Like the US. They electroshock autistic kids to make them more “neurotypical”. It’s insane that they still are allowed to torture people for being different.
Why when I heard his dad and her mom were both dead, did I think “oh so they can get married too!”? 😂 this movie is a hallmark hell
the scream i let out when i realised THEE William Moseley is playing the male lead. PETER PEVENSIE WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE
1. Grocery Store
2. Bumping into eachother
3. Yes
4. Miscommunication / Bad communication
Bonus: (1) They’re going to have a very loud fight in public fight, (2) They’re going to take a short break from the relationship, (3) A lover from the past will try to reconnect.
This was so entertaining!! My sister and I watched Mingle all the way and predicted the entire plot accidentally before it started. We laughed SO hard when we were completely right. Thanks, Hallmark
The double in law thing doesn't bother me at all, honestly. But my husband's parents are first cousins so I've raised my standards of weird to blood relations
Girl you can't drop some tea (hot chocolate, if you will) like that and not gives us the deets!
yeah my childhood friend's parents were in-laws and their older siblings who were married were also much older than them (like 15+ years)... which they don't seem to find weird at all but definitely feels weirder since they would have been in-laws long before they were dating. this at least - where the two couples form a connection before they know their siblings are also dating - is unusual but doesn't seem AS odd or uncomfortable (even if of course it still would be for some people, and if they break up that could get messy and awkward still being in-laws)
My family and I watched this together today. The main characters have almost no chemistry and there were some baffling moments in terms of the writing. This movie was followed by “Everything Christmas” where the two main characters have TOO MUCH chemistry.
3:56 OMG THANK YOU I HATE ICELAND AIR! they cancelled my flight last minute and gave me a voucher instead of refunding me, which is STUPID
Sorry, did this guy seriously go “hey let’s go on a little adventure. Do you prefer long boat rides or short plane rides? Yeah, we’re going to Ireland.”
The way I predicted "they're going to literally bump into each other at a Christmas market/shop" at the beginning of the video and then it actually happened-- I guess I shouldn't be surprised, these movies really are all the exact same. 💀
Their siblings get married only 8 months is crazy.
6:33 yea my mom is a assistant teacher for special Ed and she comes home exhausted and overwhelmed
I was looking for this comment. My fiancé works special ed too and it is not a walk in the park
They've been dating way longer than I thought
Same. My guess was two months.
@@myeeeeeh My guess was six months
@@elsie8757 Mine was three!
Right? The way he was talking about it, I was expecting it to be a few weeks.
That actually didn't feel weird, I felt like it was more odd that she was so bitter at her sisters happiness. She made lots of comments like the one where she says our younger siblings getting married that made her sound really upset that she wasn't also getting married.
One which I added in before you even started. “What important object will there be?” I actually guessed “an heirloom ring!” And I was right!
4:35 a posh footballer? Who got injured and can’t play? How is he not the most hated man in London right now?
the fact that she opened a taxi door with his face on it and then met him and didn’t at least think he looked familiar is insane lmao
Are people really supposed to recognize a face that easily by barely seeing it?!?
Damn...
I have prosopagnosia I can't even recognize myself :-/
@sophielegay4104 someone might not fully recognize from a quick glance, but they would still have something in the back of their mind at least, usually. Like, they'd see the person who's face was on the taxi and think "Oh, that guy looks a little familiar, wonder why"
definitely thought you would have more subs, cause the quality of this video is so good! Glad to be one of the first 5k!
There's nothing weird about two sisters marrying two brothers. As long as they don't share DNA with anyone they're marrying, it's fine. It's not, like, incest or something.
This. The insistence on it being extremely weird was weirder than... two sets of adults meeting well into adulthood and hitting it off?
Hallmark needs to stop pushing Christmas proposals. Nobody wants that.
What an insane ending, literally all it is, is “look, they’re still together a year later!” Okay??? It’s Hallmark, they’re obviously not gonna break up!
my 3 random predictions:
1: she's mad he didn’t tell her who he was (bonus: "i can't be in a relationship that started in a lie") edit: 14:27
2: she's "quirky" and/or teases him about the differences between America and England
3: first kiss on Christmas day | edit: 20:10 dang it
You really should have watched Notting Hill (or at least some clips!) to get some of the references...like the spill, and the question about how far the flat is 😝
As someone who has worked with kids + has siblings that are on special ed, it is NOT easy…Idk what was the need to glamorize that for 😭
I am a Massachusetts special education teacher and I have taught abroad in England. Everything you said correct and I didn't like this movie for this reason. 1 it glamorized the job. Special education is incredibly demanding and emotionally draining. Students are often hyped up and nervous about going home a long time right before vacation. There's often huge behavior concerns and a lot of emotional regulation training. Since you're often case manager for very difficult, high needs students, your training the classroom teacher in how to teach them. Parents can at times be extremely difficult to work with and make the job extremely stressful. I have had a lot of sleepless nights riddled with worry about students and belligerent parents.
2 there is a lot of paperwork involved in special education. I'm on Christmas vacation and at some point this week I have to write a diagnostic report that will be used to decide if a student is legally eligible for special education. I also have 3 ieps to write. These are generally 15 page legally binding contracts used to mandate what the child needs to access school. Each iep takes 4-10 hours of work.
3 special education is a highly legalistic job. Everything you do, say and write has a legal undertone that is tied to federal and state laws. It's my job to uphold and protect all of my students civil rights within very tight red tape. Its very rewarding and also very emotionally demanding. In that respect, different countries have different cultures and laws around special education. You can't just go into any country and expect to go right in and teach. Unless it's at international schools where there's specific programs designed to teach teachers. Also, many countries don't have civil rights for children with disabilities. They just don't go to "normal" school. Most European countries offer special education but many Asian and South American countries do not. Also if she did this is it paid? What happens to her current job? Given the current shortage, the district probably wouldn't be able to hold her job for a year. It would fall on her coworkers to pick up the slack while she's gone which adds a lot more stress.
Can you and others help protest torturing autistic kids please? MA uses electroshock to torture kids. They still ABA as well. It’s crazy. They banned gay conversion therapy so why are they stilll autistic conversion therapy. It’s gross.
And as an autistic person, there’s nothing more stressful than knowing neurotypicals constantly discriminate against you and want you gone. It’s like having a target on your back. I don’t feel bad for any teachers . Unless you are autistic or help fight stigma with no help from others.
The US currently doesn’t treat those with disabilities as equals and they discriminate against us all the time with no consequences. So we are definitely not on the good list.
This is the first time I’ve seen one of your videos and I have no idea why it was recommended to me, but I was thoroughly entertained! You are a very funny young man. 😂
You don't know very many Mormons. 8 months before a proposal is pretty long.
As a half Brit myself I also love saying the funny words and poking fun at my dad for it
Not the soccer/football team logo being the Hallmark crown... 👑
Me British it's always so funny how Americans think thanks is how we speak 😂🤦😂
Honestly at this point I'm thinking Hallmark Christmas movies are just the US answer to Britain's winter panto tradition 🤨🤦♂️
Christmas movies all have an incredibly ridiculous magical premise or so much unnecessary manufactured conflict 😂🎄
This is the first video of yours I've seen. You are super talented! Do more! 😁
My fiancée and I have been dating for 10 years and engaged for 3 of those years. 8 months is wild.
Ima hold your hand when I say this…
what are you waiting for though?
Ten 😮😮😮😮
No marriage 😮😮
@@Impshood😅 I think two is max
As a former Hallmark connoisseur, here we go:
1. They're going to meet in the middle of the road.
2. Her car broke down and he helps her.
3. They'll only be married if there's a time jump, but my answer is no, they will not be married.
4. Something to do with him being famous for sure. Having to choose between her and his career.
Random predictions:
1. There will be a scene of them making cookies together.
2. They will only kiss twice in the entire movie. One when they first fall in love and the second when they get back together after the Big Thing™️ that breaks them up.
3. They will dislike each other when they first meet.
Edit: Noooo I had predicted in my head that the big conflict would be surrounding paparazzi but I didn't write it down!
Bet she wore a red dress before the end and there was a “wow…you look… 🥺” from him
1. Family owned/small town business
2. He’s hiding from fans while she’s shopping there
3. Maybe not married, just ends with a kiss
4. Big problem is he gets a contract to play soccer somewhere else
How’d I do?
Edit: dang I suck at this
1. some popular town public space
2. girl is good friends with guy's parents, parents introduce them
3. no, but it ends with a kiss
4. there is a kid's christmas program but it doesn't have enough funding
why are you annemarie forcinos twin brother
he IS like a cute boy version of her, isn't he?
Fuck, I knew he looked familiar lmao. He really does look like her
I knew I couldn't be the only one who saw it
2:18 I hope this is foreshadowing that Harry Styles will be in this
“She doesn’t know who you are and she doesn’t watch SOCCER”
💀
As you can see from him writhing on the ground in pain... he is a soccer player and just fine
Never in my life have I heard a footballer with that accent 😂 that’s the most unbelievable bit of the whole film
My prediction, although being late to the christmas party: 1) they meet in front of a christmas tree or a cozy little coffee shop / bakery. Something whimsical. 2) They run into each other, dropping coffee or presents. 3) of course they are 4) the biggest problem is the "evil" girlfriend of the dude.
Random predictions: he moves to the town, he saves the school, he makes a really good eggnog everyone loves
They have a reality show called “Finding Mr. Christmas” now. It’s so much worse than any Hallmark movie. I could only stand to watch 8 min of the first episode.
My predictions
1. The guys old school (he went back to kick the ball around on his home pitch)
2. Teacher gets beamed in the head by a soccer ball that the guy kicked
3. Engaged but not married
4.media won’t leave soccer guy alone and make a hate article about the teacher
Bonus
1. Teacher tried to kick a soccer ball and completely whiffs
2. There’s an annoying nephew
3. Jamie makes a reference to Wimbledon
I’m an idiot, it was so much less creative than I thought
My parents' younger siblings married each other so it seems normal to me but I think my mum was weirded out by it for a while
I know twin brothers , who married sisters . Tons of local folks were weirded out by that. I thought it made sense . Twins are gonna have similar interests . Both couples are still together after decades . They are also neighbors . 😁
So did I . Lol
yeah, i dont get why its weird. there was no opportunity for them to build a sibling like relationship before and proximity plus how often people see each other is a huge factor in relationships. as far as i knew, it's pretty normal, lol
Nope, siblings marrying each other will never be normal.
@boopdoop2251 they're not siblings, they're in laws (and in the movie not even that cause no ones married yet) 🤣
I think not enough people talk about how her sister ditches her multiple times throughout the movie to do work, leaving her alone somewhere in an unfamiliar place. And as soon as shes left alone she goes to a strange mans house.
My mom was a special education teacher. Seemed to be a very difficult but rewarding job. She liked it enough to get her masters in it. She started the community based education program in our county. Her students would have jobs at various places such as Walmart, pizza parlors, etc to help prepare them for life after school. One of her Down syndrome students actually saved his dad’s life by driving him to the hospital when he had a heart attack. My mom was so awesome. RIP
Just a little insight to the Christmas movie making business - in college I interned for a production company that exclusively worked on Christmas movies, all year around. They developed scripts, shopped them around to the big companies like Lifetime and Hallmark, and if those companies picked the scripts up and financed them, the production company I was at would further develop it and film it. If the scripts for these movies seem uninspired, it’s because they aren’t. They would either have a team of interns come up with script ideas and treatments while we were there, or they would workshop scripts that random people sent in. While I was there, they were working on a script that had gone through tons of changes, made by the writer themselves (freelance), writers at the production company and, yep, random interns. I’ve seen scripts go from having nothing to do with Christmas, to being awkwardly stuffed with Christmas locations and activities. And sometimes those changes aren’t very well made and you get weird, awkward, unrealistic scenes.
I’m sure there are dozens of other production companies like these. They’re just churning out scripts on a conveyor belt, hoping Lifetime will like one of them, and give them money.
Little known fact this movie is based on a true story
😂
1) if she's a teacher, he totally has a neice or nephew in her class. That's how they meet. She has to talk to the family about their Christmas program.
4) He is deciding whether to pursue a new contract, and it ends with both of them moving to the US.
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It IS weird that she manages to get 6 coats and at least 4 pairs of shoes (of which 2 are knee-high boots) in that suitcase with all the other stuff she needs, so there's that... I mean, seriously, Hallmark loves coats. The star has a new coat in every scene, and most Hallmark movies are about them traveling, in winter, so the coats are thick and take up a huge amount of space in the suitcase, and they are out about a week or so - and usually they have a cute suitcase, like a cabin bag, or something, not the traveling trunks they'd need for all those coats...
I don't think it's that weird to date/marry the in-law of your sibling. It happens all the time.
1. A Christmas tree farm
2. He offers to cut down her tree
3. Engaged
4. His fans are crazy
im certain this is the exact plot of a hallmark movie, just not this one unfortunately
This is the first video I’ve ever watched of yours and you’ve got a new follower! I laughed so damn much. I watched this movie a month ago and it was easily one of the worst things I’ve ever subjected myself to, yet here I am rewatching it because you’re hilarious. Cheers!
Holy cow! That’s King Peter of Narnia
that haircut is not doing high king peter any sort of favors
1. Bus ❌️
2. Bump into physically/picking up the same thing at the same time ✔️
3. Yes ❌️
4. Living in different countries⁉️
Okay I'm actually gonna do the predictions cause it's fun 😼
1. At a Christmas market
2. The literally run into each other, like he runs, she's like carrying stuff, she falls, he helps her up yadda yadda yadda
3. Engaged at the family Christmas dinner
4. They can't communicate god dammit like some stupid misunderstanding that can be fixed by a 2 min conversation
Bonus:
• There's a golden retriever anywhere in the movie
• Somebody says to either character "Follow your heart"
• When she tells her family that she talked/met him nobody believes her
Ok, I’m a Brit, so I can tell you, 8:40 “like the cracker” would mean mostly nothing to most Brits. We have digestive biscuits, not Graham crackers. And unless that footballer has played in the States or watches a lot of American cooking shows, he has NO idea what she means. A cracker has cheese on it, or is pulled at Christmas. Oh, wait… that would have been funnier! We pull crackers at Christmas, Graham! 😂
I mean when a British exchange student cane to my school I called him a cracker (long silly humiliating story) and he seemed to know what I was comparing him too
And then there are “Florida Crackers.”
Once a king of Narnia, always a king of Narnia
Happy holidays, Jamie :)
Thanks for the many laughs
1. Small town market
2. They bump into each other
3. Yes
4. They don't have enough money for a Christmas party at school
5. He wins her a gift, She's not into sports, and he accidentally hits her in the head with a ball
Edit- dang
"Who are you?"
*points at bus*
"You're a bus?"
Or
"Who are you"
*points at picture on bus*
"You're a Stock image model for busses?"
It was at that point they realised the famous football player was a serial killer who kidnapped woman in the streets by inviting themselves off.
That's Peter from Narnia! 💛💙❤
Airport, lost luggage, him needing to leave for work
I know it's because Americans think every English person sounds like that, but are there any posh football players?!
Not Peter from narnia
The only acceptable way to watch a Christmas movie these days is to have someone else watch it for you and then create a whole UA-cam video explaining to you why it’s so terrible and you shouldn’t watch it. Thanks dude.