Ornery Owl's Mini Movie Reviews: The Christmas Secret

 

Genre:

Holiday Romance

Rating:

TV 7+ (PG)

Buy Link:

https://amzn.to/3zfUCQH

Blurb:

Christine Eisley is a single mom of two struggling to keep her family afloat during Christmas. As the holidays progress, she comes to find her struggles are replaced by good fortune.

Ornery Owl's Mini Review:

I normally have a heart like a cash register when it comes to sappy movies. I enjoy them for what they are but they always seem contrived. Occasionally, one will cause me to tear up a little. By the end of this one, I had tears streaming down my face and had to take off my glasses because I couldn't see through them. This is a beautiful and moving movie. Five of five stars.

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Ornery Movie Reviews: Yellowstone Romance

 Genre: Romantic Comedy

Rating: Three out of Five Stars

Buy link: https://amzn.to/3SUzZB9

Disclosures:

The following is a duplicate of my review for this movie on Amazon. 

I will receive a small commission from Amazon for any products purchased through the buy link.

Review

Not the greatest movie I've seen, but not nearly as bad as most of the ratings make it out to be. I didn't understand what many of the reviewers meant when they said that Justin "had an agenda." I thought it was Olivia who had the agenda. In fact, I found her a rather unpleasant character because of her agenda, which was sabotaging her best friend's engagement.

Then I realized that most of the people who gave the movie a low rating have an agenda. They are intolerant and bigoted. They disliked Justin's flamboyance. 

I will never understand how people can believe in a God who created everyone and then believe said God hates approximately a quarter of the population simply for being same-sex attracted. Fortunately, I don't believe in such a God. Such a God sounds terribly mean-spirited.

I didn't give the movie a higher rating because the characters were all big paper dolls. The acting wasn't bad but everyone was a trope.

Ornery Owl's Reel Reviews: Dear Santa

Genre: Holiday Romance

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟

Ornery Owl's Review

Tropes, tropes everywhere! Not the worst movie of its kind but too many tropes are a turn-off. 

Bratty mean-girl antagonists for the child character, check. 

Shallow clothes horses sniping at one another's fashion sense, check. 

A hero who feels beholden to the conniving female antagonist because reasons, check. 

I did like the redemption arc for Crystal, who started off as a two-dimensional cardboard cutout of a poor little rich girl and grew a personality along the way, and I'm a bit of a sucker for the sassy gay friend.

This one is hardly a must-see but it didn't make me see red. Watch it or not. It's an okay way to pass the time, not a life-changer by any stretch of the imagination.

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Ornery Owl's Reel Stinkers: Christmas is Canceled

 

Genre: Holiday, Comedy

Rating: One of Five Stars (A Reel Stinker)

The only slightly likable character in this mess was the female protagonist's best friend. Everyone else was a horrid, self-absorbed narcissist with few to no redeeming qualities. 

I'm far from prudish about salty language, but what passes for humor in this film is pouty jerks slinging potty-mouthed insults at each other. 

The father character, who is around my age, is an embarrassment to parenthood. No matter how good the sex might be, if a guy I was dating ever referred to my son as a "human lump of pus," he would be lucky to survive long enough to run away. But Dad puts up with his hoochie mama girlfriend directing insults like this at his daughter.

This was a dreadful film and I think I need to assess what is wrong with me for sitting through it. Don't waste your time on this stinker. It is the cinematic equivalent of finding horse manure in your Christmas stocking.

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