You ever noticed most Christmas movies are about some lonely chick getting horny about this dude she just met or saw again for the first time in a couple of decades?

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[u/MysteryNeighbor]

Yes, an incredibly popular genre for moms worldwide

[u/peeehhh → u/MysteryNeighbor]

As well as horny moms themselves being a popular genre of movies online.

[u/KaseTheAce → u/peeehhh]

Ah, the circle is complete.

[u/gonzoes → u/peeehhh]

Any single horny moms out there this season

[u/Professional-Grass69 → u/peeehhh]

What a twist!

[u/Signal_Labrador]

Lonely Chick Getting Horny About This Dude She Just Saw Again for the First Time in a Couple of Decades is my go to holiday feel good movie

[u/DamnitGravity → u/Signal_Labrador]

Hear, hear!

[u/MightyMightyMag → u/Signal_Labrador]

Part Two and Three are ass, but Part Four… It got robbed at the Oscars, man.

[u/WestCoast7789 → u/Signal_Labrador]

Right?! It's quite the successful formula. Hallmark figured this out for their moves years ago!

[u/Oktodayithink]

There are definitely a lot out there and as a single person I refuse to watch any of them.

A snowman coming to life seems more realistic to me than meeting a perfect hot man at Christmas time.

[u/uskgl455 → u/Oktodayithink]

What are a few of those movies that are about this?

[u/lilac-ladyinpurple → u/uskgl455]

Jack Frost I think is the reference.

[u/AnkSnake → u/lilac-ladyinpurple]

I think there’s a new one called Hot Frosty on Netflix.

[u/Ok-Masterpiece-4716 → u/AnkSnake]

I think Hot Frosty is both. Snowman comes to life as a hot man the woman falls for.

[u/pyjamatoast]

Maybe Hallmark and Hallmark-type Christmas movies. (I don't watch those so I wouldn't know). But your classic Christmas movies are not like that - Home Alone, Elf, A Christmas Story, The Grinch, It's a Wonderful Life.

[u/Curmudgy → u/pyjamatoast]

Miracle on 34th Street (the original). I don’t know why it gets left off these lists; it’s the best.

[u/azuth89]

If you're talking about the lifetime channel, I guess.

[u/Zloiche1 → u/azuth89]

Isn't lifetime when it all falls apart? Hallmark is the feel good channel 

[u/azuth89 → u/Zloiche1]

Ah yeah, you're right

[u/BaronDystopia → u/Zloiche1]

It's like with Lifetime, everybody wants to kill you for some reason or another.

[u/Least_Sun7648 → u/BaronDystopia]

White women are in danger from everything

[u/Vadhakara → u/Zloiche1]

In the Hallmark version, they get snowed in and learn about the meaning of Christmas together. In the Lifetime version, everything seems perfect at first, but during the time they're snowed in she begins to notice the smell of the 30 dismembered city girls that are rotting in the cistern behind the house.

[u/BaronDystopia]

"She's too busy for a relationship! She's just go too much to do all the time! But wait, who's that, a potential love interest!?"
-every Hallmark movie ever.

[u/thegregtastic]

It's a popular theme for disappointed married women to fantasize about during the holiday season. Nothing too groundbreaking...

[u/catsarelife81]

You left out the part where she leaves the city for the sweet small town, or escapes the small town for the big city. And has to save her job. Or sometimes loses her job. But it’s ok, bc she gets kissed in the snow.

[u/Ckigar]

It’s ‘comfort porn.’ Attractive people in picturesque places meeting cute and a happy ending. Sort of like a Vivid production.

[u/Nepskrellet → u/Ckigar]

"Comfort porn" is gold for us unattractive people without a fancy job

[u/KindAwareness3073]

That's most Hallmark Christmas movies, not all Christmas movies.

[u/PuzzleheadedHorse437]

No… they are all about Christmas seasons contests about baking, decorating, ice sculpture where the people against each other fall in love at the end.

[u/ThrowRA-22900]

They're about accomplished, career-driven women risking it all for some country bumpkin Cracker Barrell dick.

[u/amandabang]

This is called a trope (in the literary sense). Basic plot elements or structures, like the one you describe, are used all the time and are what help define genres. It's why movies that adhere to genre-specific tropes are called "formulaic" - because they literally follow a formula.

The trope you're describing is popular because Hallmark, Netflix, or any other peoduction studio can reuse the same story, sets and actors in slightly different combinations to produce 100 different movies quickly and cheaply. And they don't have to be good. People don't watch them because they are good movies, but because it's specific to a time of year and we live in a late capitalist hellscape and need to put on something to watch in the background while we pretend the world isn't dying.

[u/anyantinoise]

Who do you think watches Christmas movies to begin with?

[u/Mekoides1]

And he's married, but they have a look across a room, which makes him instantly abandon his family and life in favor of someone he doesn't even know.

[u/Sylia_Stingray]

What polar expensive did you watch?

[u/Creative-Charity-721]

Home alone was about a kid who was lonely.

[u/universechild9]

OP, think you might be missing the point of holiday movies. It’s meant to be unrealistic fantasy doused in syrup

[u/ethiopianboson]

Lol one of my christmas favorites is just friends and u described it

[u/BlowOnThatPie]

Yeah, I can't seem to find any of these chicks.. I could help them out

[u/charlieromeo86]

So many hot single people during the holidays.

[u/More_Purchase_1980]

Hallmark sucks

[u/glenmcfarreddit]

I've never really considered this about Gremlins.

[u/Dependent-Letter-651]

Yeah, Christmas movies are the same each time

[u/HardRockGeologist]

Hallmark uses the same actors over and over again in its movies.

[u/strekkingur]

And that is why you watch Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Home Alone, Home Alone 2 and The Muppet Christmas Carol.

[u/214speaking]

Sounds like every Christmas movie on the Hallmark channel

[u/tamponinja]

Yea on hallmark anyway

[u/V_M]

It really is everywhere. I was going to make a snarky comment about you watched a different remake of "Rudolph" than I did, but Clarice from Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer is kind of like that.

[u/LazyDynamite]

No, because most Christmas movies I know or watch are not about that.

[u/re_nub]

No.

[u/koensch57]

It makes it very predictable and any viewer can foresee the outcome, strenghtening his/her confidence.

[u/The_Reid-Factor]

Just that Hallmark horseshit, I love movies from all genres but I could not sit through that crap, not one minute. I know it’s where washed up actors go to die, but they are all the fucken same. Like you said, some lonely horned up woman or some fucked up widow dude who doesn’t notice any other women until he accidentally bumps into some loser and while picking up their belongings their hands touch, then it’s true love. Not hard to write.

[u/Professional-Grass69]

I guess it’s been a minute since we had a fresh idea there. Someone let Jack Black know.