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Dec. 29th, 2018

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Grace Garland (yes, really) is a Marine just off active duty in Afghanistan who's going to be an engineer of some sort in Cincinnati. She misses her search-and-rescue (and also explosive detection? sure.) dog. Named Christmas.

Joe Petersen is a small-town judge who lives on a farm with his dog, Justice. She crashes her new-used car into his fence because something on the car broke. Again, sure. Whatever. Non-threateningly handsome.

If this were airing on Lifetime, it would fully be a coin flip whether the dude whose farm she crashes into is going to be the love of her life or a serial killer. I get that you're a badass marine and also have just conked your head, lady, but yikes.

I would have had more to say about movies before actual Christmas if I hadn't been cringe-watching this one in 8 minute increments for the past week. What we have here is two people plus extended family who talk to everyone with depth and openness in a way that is probably great for maintaining healthy relationships, but personally makes me want to flee.

this one's short )

I fully only stuck with this because once I realized where it was going, I hoped the last 20 minutes would be good. The last 20 minutes were good! I genuinely believe that all these very nice characters will be very happy for the rest of their fictional lives.
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I still have very many christmas movies wholly unwatched on my DVR. And three watched ones saved as private entries because I'm still looking at whether I care about finding a consistent review format or voice. They replay so often that, had I actually posted any of them in a timely manner, some of y'all could have caught a replay of a good one. Maybe next year, if I keep poking at it.

My annual new years cold, the one I catch from everyone bringing fun new germs to town for Christmas, arrived a little early, so I was out flat with it yesterday, but will probably be fine tomorrow.

I read one Yuletide story - Mathnet! - on Christmas day and it was great, and I haven't been back to the archive since. Whoops.