Ranking Every 2026 Hallmark Movie: Quarter 2

[00:00:03] This is a Bramble Jam Podcast Hi, I'm Bran. I love ranking episodes. I'm Brian. I like ranking episodes. I'm Dan and I despise our quarterly ranking episodes. And this is the Deck The Hallmark. Deck The Hallmark, it's his podcast. Friend's host is podcast.

[00:00:29] Follow the holly podcast. Well, hello everybody. Oh boy. The big question on everyone's mind is will we get a new theme song before season nine? That's the big question. Ooh, that is the people are talking. I was also- Or do we save it for season 10? We're a month into quarter three right now, right? Yes. Sure are. A month and a quarter three. We were supposed to do this rank.

[00:00:58] You guys give me a hard time about when we do things sometimes. What? Rightfully so. This one, absolutely I deserve a hard time about. We were going to do the ranking before Christmas in July, but- Got away from us. There was too much on the docket. Too much going on. Then Christmas in July was jam-packed every single day of the week. Yes. And so this is our first, the first day that was open and available for us to do it. And the only reason it was open and available for us to do it is because we were originally going to do a lifetime Christmas movie, our final Christmas movie.

[00:01:28] It is July 31st. But Patrick and I discovered that the movie we were going to do was the third part of the Christmas Shoes franchise. So cool. And it didn't seem right. No, that isn't right. So we ought to bolt. We're doing this this week. Patrick's coming back next week for Killer Clown, which is premiering this weekend on that time. So it all comes down to watch, but we're excited to be here today. It all comes down to watch. So I can take these down? We good here? Oh, I don't know. Pop them down? Yeah, go ahead. We need this for- Oh, we're done? Yeah.

[00:01:58] Keep going, Brian. We are talking about our rankings today. We are getting to all the movies through the end of June. That's right. Through the end of June. So this is making me sadder than me. Oh. I don't like it. Christmas is over. Anyway, we do have to remind ourselves about what we had to begin with. This is from- There we go. That's better. There we go.

[00:02:27] Oh, I put you away right as I did that. There you are. There we go. Nice and festive. By the way, this episode is going to be better watched than listened to. You can still listen. No one's going to stop you. No one's going to pull you over. But if you want to watch it, you can go over to our YouTube channel and watch it. That way- You should wear that for when we host the Mardi Gras thing. Yeah. I do like that. Okay. So here's what we had after our quarter one. Yeah. After Q1. Yeah, yeah.

[00:02:56] Quarter one. That's right. Here's what we had from last to best. Okay. Starting in our dumpster fire tier. We have Romance at Hope Ranch. It's the worst movie of the year so far. Will it be bested? It can't be. Or worsted. I don't know. However you would say it. It will be bested in many times. A royal setting. Oof. Sugar and Vice, a Hannah Swenson movie. Up to the bad, bad, bad, bad, bad tier with Love on the Amazon, The Stars Between Us, and a Melbourne match. Melbourne.

[00:03:25] I think Melbourne match might move up based off of the movies we have in this category. Anyway, Standard Feels. We have Caught by Love, Because of Cupid, and 2-4-T. Big Fun Maybe 6, we have Lost in Paradise and Missing the Boat. And then Real Movie Territory, we have Nellie Knows Mysteries. Wow, that's higher than I thought. And then The Way To You, which is our current number one movie of the year. We have what?

[00:03:51] 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13 movies to add to this list. No more than three per segment or section. But we already have... How many total? There's 13 down there. Right, and then how many up here? 3, 6, 9, 11, 13 plus 13, 26. 26. So the most any one can have in it is 6, but the rest should have 5, right? 4, 5's and 1, 6. 1, 6. I think it might be a dumpster fire. Well, I think it will be dumpster fire, yes.

[00:04:20] Now, guys... I also think that those two movies in Big Fun 86, we can probably start this broadcast by moving those up to real movie territory. A reminder of what we can do. Of course, movies that are currently tiered can move up or down a tier depending on the movies that we are adding to the tier. What they can't do is move up or down from the movies that they're currently around. Does that all make sense, what I just said?

[00:04:45] They can't move ahead of anything already ranked ahead of it, but they can move up a tier and they can move ahead of movies that we've not ranked yet. That's exactly right. Yeah. All right, shall we get started? Let's do it. What's that first one, Brandon? A Season to Blossom. Is this the Carlo Marks joint? Oh, yeah. A Season to Blossom, Emily Tennant, Carlo Marks. Dude. I gotta be honest, I don't remember much. Dan, can you look it up? Same. You don't remember much? I don't remember much about this movie.

[00:05:15] Hearing about the movie will help because the picture's currently not doing a little trigger. Go to About up there, About movie. About. Here we go. Read that for me, shall you? A drifting, aspiring writer. Okay. Both drifting and aspiring. I remember. Returns to sell her late grandmother's bookstore, but it's traditions and her childhood's crush helps her rediscover her voice, her roots, and a love worth staying for it. This is when all of the cider is ruined. Yeah. Brandon, they pull the blossoms.

[00:05:45] What a specific type of, yeah, it's the blossoms, the cider blossom. They make a cider, a blossom cider. Right. Like any sense. Which is something he wanted to do, but his dad didn't want to do. Put his foot down. I can tell you that it is, I do think, it is bad, bad territory for me. I like Emily Tennant. The rest of this movie was really bad. Okay. Okay. I would maybe put it behind, I would probably take Love on the Amazon over this. Oh. I don't know.

[00:06:14] I didn't like this more than I expected to. I remember that much. Great. There's a book club element of it. And I think she... It's your guy, Carlo Marks. It's my guy, Carlo. They didn't prepare the fields though. Remember they had years to get ready for the storm. Yeah, that's right. If I remember right, her book... The cider of it all was tough. The book was fun. Does she add the book to book club? Do they read it for that or something? I don't remember. Is that ringing any bells? It's not. Let's just throw it in bad, bad, bad for now. Put it there and we'll see what happens. Where would you put it, guy? What's the size?

[00:06:44] Standard, I think. Where? Just tell me the exact spot. Yeah, the end of Standard Fields, I think, but... Okay, so your sign like I shot your dog over three movies? I don't want it, but... One of which is an astronomy movie? It's disrespectful to Cop I Love, so we should keep it there. Okay. Yeah, of course. Just leave it right here? Okay. A little park music. Oh, this is the gazebo movie. I remember it being fun and more memorable, obviously, because we knew exactly what it was.

[00:07:11] The gazebo wasn't as magical as we thought it was. This is Lacey J. Mailey, who is... She's great. She's gonna be in the Heinz movie of this? Yeah, the time loop. Which got announced? Yeah, it's a time loop movie. I did see that. Which is... Written by Russell Hayland, I believe. That's right. So hard to be hard to... I would have this at the top of Standard Fields. That's where I'd have it. Not good. I would put it in Big Fun Movie 6, right at the end of it. Really? Above 2 for T. I would definitely have it above 2 for T. Oh my god.

[00:07:41] Let's put it right... Can we just throw it there for now? Just to kind of fill it out a little bit? Okay, to Philly with Love... Dumpster Fire. This is Rebecca Dalton. He's at the Historical Society. Historical Society. And they're not talking about any of the... And she finds the documents behind the fake brick. Absolutely one of the more embarrassing movies I've ever seen in my life. I still feel like... It's not Romance Ranch bad, but I would have it ahead of royal setting as well. It was bad. That's where I'd have it right there. I think that's right. Yeah, that's real bad. I think that's right.

[00:08:11] All right, I'll be seeing you. The Tyler Hines movie, Stacey Farber. Yeah, yeah. The heart glasses that have become notorious with this movie. Fun road trip element to it. Bri guy, I feel like you and I are higher than it on it than Dan is. Yeah, it sounds like it. I will say this. In the crop of movies that we have currently, it's just not as good as that top 4. And I hope you guys are with me.

[00:08:41] It's not Lost in Paradise or the Palaha Uluru travel movie or Nelly or Way to You. It's not those 4. I agree with that. I actually have it here. Okay. I have it right... I love Tyler. Yeah, of course. And I will re-watch any Tyler Hines movie by and large. This movie is not very good. But if it was between watching Little Park music or I'll be seeing you again, I'd pick Little Park music personally. I'm a toss up with those 2.

[00:09:09] I don't ever want to see either one of them, but I'm a toss up there. I mean, I could be convinced otherwise, but I have a few. I would watch the I'll be seeing you, the cool van, Stacy and Tyler together. Sure. I feel like I would watch that over a little part of the park music. You might be the tiebreaker there, Dan. But let's just leave it there for now and then we'll come back to it. All right. Let's do one more and then take a break. I love that. Sound good? Kentucky Roses. Oh, man. We got our shirts. We got our Andrew Walker shirts. The horse race.

[00:09:36] By the way, if you all are following. I don't know why you're listening to this show. If you're not following Andrew Walker on Instagram, I can't imagine that person exists. But if you're not, he's posted really fun stuff from the little tour that they're on right now. And Jonathan Benner doing fun stuff. And those are fun videos to watch if you're a fan. Still tickets left for this week too. There you go. Kentucky Roses. This is tough because Andrew Walker is just a full dapper man in his Kentucky Derby outfits.

[00:10:07] This movie is not great. I do think it's better than the bottom eight though. I was going to say right here. I would have it one more. I'd take it one more. I could be talked into that. Right there. That's where I'd have it. What do you think, Brian? No. The Cop I Love was the spy one. But it's not the love heist. No, it's yes. The love heist is the better of those movies. This is the really boring. I do think it belongs under 2 for T.

[00:10:37] And because of Cupid is not ringing any bells for me, but I'm going to trust that we have that. It's the potion. Oh, the potion. Yes. Cupid is not a cop. Right. He has to tell us that too. I have that ahead of 2 for T personally. And they're doing the mocktails. That's right. That's right. And we just didn't like the Cupid of it. They messed up Cupid. Yeah, that Kentucky is pretty good there. Pretty good there. Right in the middle of the pack. All right. Let's take a break. We'll come back on the other side of it.

[00:11:05] We'll start with Love and Mahjong and go from there. Here on. Deck the Hallmark. Hello, everybody. Welcome back. We are ranking things, folks. We're ranking things. So far, no big fights. No big fights. Yeah. All right. Let's get to Love and Mahjong. Didn't you miss this movie? I don't remember why you missed it.

[00:11:35] I was golfing. We suspended him, I think. Oh, yes. You had a golf tournament. I got suspended and I took that suspension well and I went golfing. You know what I mean? That's exactly right. You weren't supposed to have fun on your suspension. I did anyway. And I watched the first 20 minutes of this movie and I'm thankful I was golfing. We've learned to add parameters behind suspension. 100%. You won't be golfing in the future. That's right. But you got one around us. I got one around you.

[00:12:04] Pulled one over on you even. Love and Mahjong. A round over through. This was one day. Love and Mahjong? Yeah. Well, this reminded me of when I said it. Are you watching at the country store down there? This reminded me of when we were doing the best of recordings. I messed this title up and we had a good time. So, yeah. I remember that. All right. Love and Mahjong. What are your thoughts, bright guy? Because I do remember liking this movie. Quite a bit. I remember liking it more than I anticipated. Yeah. I really liked the four friends.

[00:12:34] We got Melissa Peterman. Melissa Peterman. Heck yeah. Of course, which is always going to amplify a movie. What do you think? Yeah. I remember it surprising me quite a bit because we were really hard on it during the preview and then caught me off guard. I mean, in our defense, it does say Mahjong and we have the two widest people who were all in the government. So, what were we supposed to do? Yeah. Our hands were a little bit tied there. And it worked out for the better though, I feel like, because we did come in with such low expectations and it really delivered for me and for you.

[00:13:04] And I mean, big fun, maybe six for sure for me. For sure. I mean, that's where I think I'd like to see this up here. How high would you have it, Bram? I would have it in between two for T and because of Cuban. Okay. Standard. And you would have it where? Ahead of two for T. I do think I would watch this. I would probably put this. I don't want to say.

[00:13:32] You guys aren't going to like this. What this episode is, is you are specifically here to say. I said no fights yet. It turns out the reason why no fights is. You guys want to get into? I would actually probably put this right above Lost in Paradise. Is it Lost in Paradise? All right. Well, that's. Or right after Lost in Paradise. Okay. I mean, I only saw it. So what you're saying is it is your favorite movie so far of this crop. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. I, if we're doing this right now, if we're really doing this, I watched 20 minutes of it.

[00:13:59] I don't get to technically break a tie, but I, my vote should count a little, I guess. It cannot be ahead of Lost in Paradise. It, after the first 20 minutes, it can't be. I don't like I. I'm fine with whatever you guys decide. I think that both of those movies, Little Park Music and I'll Be Seeing You are better than this movie. All right. Put it at the, well, but I'm just one. How about this? Put it at the back end of Big Fun Maybe 6. Okay.

[00:14:23] That, that kind of is a good compromise with you two because I honestly believe with all of my heart that those two movies at the front of Big Fun Maybe 6 are moving up to the next tier and we're going to have room in Big Fun Maybe 6. I think that's true. I think that's true. Your whole heart believes that. Because we got one more movie that's going to belong up there, maybe two and that's it. But one more really that we're all going to, that we're all going to put up there. We're going to fight about where it belongs, but we're all going to put it up there. Yeah. All right. Well, let's get to Best Served Colds, which is Hannah Swinson.

[00:14:51] I don't remember this one. Yeah. There is a Hannah Swinson. Can you look it up, Dan? Do you mind? Sure. Best Served Colds, Hannah Swinson Mystery. We already had one Hannah Swinson on the list and they begin to blur together. My thought on this is that it's at that party. You remember that one? Oh, the locked room one? It says when a suspect in a forgery case is murdered and the prosecutor goes missing, Hannah

[00:15:17] and Chad must uncover how the two cases are connected and solve them in time for the trial. Yes, I remember this. This is the one where at the court, at the court, she remember Vic realized that the person put nuts in it or whatever. Yeah, and she's actually on the stand. That's right. Yeah, this is better than sugar and vice. I agree with that. That's my one thing I'll say. Yeah. 100%. I'm fine right there.

[00:15:46] I'm sure I'm trying to move it up, but it's not, so I'll have to do it this way. That's fair. Oh, no. Oh, boy. No, we're good. Here we go. All right. For those of you listening, we put it in dumpster fire just ahead of sugar and vice. Yeah. So that's where we're going. All right. True justice, the second of the two. You guys both said, because I missed the first one of these three years ago, but you guys both said that it was not as good as the first one.

[00:16:14] But I recall, so I don't know if my viewing of this movie is clouded by the fact that I didn't see the first one, but I really liked the movie. I liked the dynamic of the group, and I thought it was fun, and we got to talk to our boy, Markian. Oh, yeah. After this, which was a lot of fun. So I would probably throw it in standard feels. I mean, I would rather watch this again over anything but the top four.

[00:16:44] Having said that, I get it. All those movies, for me, a little park music to Because of Cupid are all basically the same movie. I don't really care there. So I would watch this over all those, but if you put it anywhere in there, I think we're fine. What do you? I think it's better than Kentucky Roses. That's kind of my... Okay. Bri? Yeah, I think so. I think we had a big problem with the middle of this movie, but we did have some... I mean, they did the wigs in this one, and I think that was a fun time.

[00:17:12] But yeah, I do think that it belongs to standard feels. Do you think it's better than Because of Cupid? I don't know. That one was pretty cool. I think it's better, but Because of Cupid is so unique. Yeah. So... Give it the unique bump. Unique bump. Yeah. All right, let's give it the unique bump for right now. Yeah. Because so, Tree Dissage is in between because of Cupid and Kentucky Roses. Can we just go ahead, ahead of what we're about to do, and put Caught by Love down a peg? Just pop it down to bad, bad, bad, bad. Where is it at? Sorry. Oh, here? Yeah. Okay, sure. Right there. You can't do that. You can't do that.

[00:17:42] But I gotta do this thing. Yep. There we go. So it's all... And then should I go ahead and... I would move those two up. You think so? I would... I think just... It doesn't change the order, it just gives us room. We're out of room there. We're missing the boat up. Lost in Paradise. Up to room of the territory. Here we go. Okay, now we're cooking. Yeah. Because all are gonna have five, one's gonna have six. That's right. So we're full up at Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad, and Dumpster Fire, aside from one movie. Oh no. No. No.

[00:18:09] The Haunted Harmony, Key to the Castle, that was the movies being made at the... Yeah. Or the ghost hunting shows being filmed. Yeah. Someone dies, there's the trap door, hidden door, all that stuff. This is one of the... You know, I... With a lot of these mystery wheels, at a certain point, I'm just... Like, even the really good ones, I'm just like, okay, yeah. It's... Like, this is a good mystery wheel. Sister's sister's solid in it. Yeah. Good gang around them. Mm-hmm.

[00:18:37] So I don't really know what to do with it, to be honest with you, because I don't think about it much, but when I'm reminded of them, I'm like, oh yeah, that's fun. Yeah. It's fun. It is. I got it right next to True Justice. I think they're both in the same boat. You read my mind here. Really? Wow. Both ahead of Good Ducky Rose. Yeah. Okay. All right. It was a really good one, I remember. It was a cool mystery. All right. Four movies left, and our bottom three, we only have one movie that can go down there, which is tough, because... Oh, the Greek one? Yeah. Snacks. Yeah, the Greek Isle is not good. Snacks. It's not a good movie. Put your white balls in my hand, remember that part? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:19:06] I do. And then he showed up with Fertility Notch. But it's just hard for me to even wrap my mind around a Nicky movie not being better than the source material. I have it. Like, Nicky just elevates everything. I would put it there by two... I would put it ahead of Two for T. You would put it ahead of Two for T. Oh, boy. Really? But I mean, like, I don't think it's... I mean, the problem is, is that we gotta move something up to Big Fun Maybe 6, because that Sandcastle movie ain't living up there. And so we...

[00:19:36] So in my mind, Greek Isle is bumping decks with... That's the phrase that I'm working on. Yeah, just keep working on it, man. Bumping decks with Kentucky Roses. Okay. Yeah. I agree with that. Two Hallmark staples with Nicky and Andrew. Give me the Greek Isle over Kentucky Roses. Ooh. Interesting. That's my personal take. Interesting. But maybe I'm... You disagree. Yeah. I don't like to use my passport, so I would stay stateside.

[00:20:04] And then, Bran, you're the tiebreaker. I'm the tiebreaker here. Yeah. Some dramatic music and heavy breathing, please. Thank you. I... A little lighter on the breathing. Think... Man, this is a really hard one. Um... I'm gonna go with... I like Kentucky Roses a hair more. Okay. Than Greek. So should we move Greek Isle down to Bababat, or should we move 2 for T up to Big Fun? Big T. It doesn't matter. You can have six in one.

[00:20:34] Two for T. You can have six in one category, Bran. Just to kind of level it out a little bit more. Yeah. Let's move 2 for T up to Big Fun. Because that's probably what's gonna happen. Bumping decks over here. Bumping decks. Okay. Texas Two Step. Uh-huh. This is real movie for me. I think it... Yeah. For me, it's fifth. I would have it fifth. Yeah. Yeah. This is the... Might be... I mean, I know, Dan, that you were not completely sold. I wasn't. The direction was great.

[00:21:04] On the Brendan Penny of it all. Or the Texas of it all. Or the Texas of it all. But, like, it's... There are some... There's some great scenes in this movie. Some steamy, steamy. Yeah. A couple of lifts. Yeah. Yeah. You got Brendan Penny with his shirt lifted off. Very well... Really, like, well-directed movie. Very well. Very well. All right. Two more. Love Heist. I thought Love Heist was pretty solid. Love Heist. It's a love heist. It's a love heist. It's a love heist. It's a love heist. It's a love heist. I would probably put love heist at the top end of Big Fun. I have... See, I think I'd probably have love heist ahead of Texas Two Steps. Oh, really?

[00:21:34] What? No, I would. But I know that nobody's with me there. And that's fine. I was lower on it. Yeah. It was... If the love heist had more heist... That's the thing. We were missing a lot of heist. And by more heist, I mean any heist at all. And those two were great. They were great. They were great. Big Fun Movie 6? Yeah, put it at the top of it. That's fine. At the top of it? So now we've got our... We can put this next movie wherever we want to. Any place. That's right. Castle. Hmm. Interesting. How about we sit on it? How about we take a break? How about we take a break? We should sit on it. We should bump deck. Sit on it.

[00:22:04] We're gonna sit on it. We're gonna sit on it. We're gonna come back. Not the bread. We'll put Castle... I think Love Heist is getting screwed here. I gotta be honest. Well, we can talk about it on the other side. We're gonna bump decks during the break and we'll come back and we'll... Deck the hole. Deck the hole. Deck the hole. That's why it's bumping deck. Deck the hole. All right, everybody. We've got one more movie left. We can put it anywhere we want to because...

[00:22:31] The chat is really with me and I've realized that... Maybe it's all for naught because you guys can outvote me, but I like Love Heist more than Texas Two-Step. I like it more than Lost in Paradise and I think I like it more than Missing the Boat. I might like it more than Nelly Knows Mysteries. Really? I like... Love Heist is... Those two are great. They are. The... There's enough fashion in it and then there's enough heist in it. It was hardly any heist. Man. It wasn't.

[00:23:01] I'm just saying could we re-bump the decks just to see? Can you do... Can that be done? Can I propose this? I would love to hear it. I usually do that before you bump decks, but okay. I am okay with Love Heist moving ahead of Texas Two-Step. Okay. My proposal would be that Lost in Paradise moves below both of them. So Lost in Paradise would move down to Big Fun Movie 6. Love Heist and Texas Two-Step would be in the real movie territory.

[00:23:31] That's my proposal to the stand. And we also do need to still do something with Castle. Sure. Can I just show you what it looks like? Yeah. Can I show you what it looks like? The problem is I wanted to make a deal, but I can't because we can't switch movies that are... Like we can do this because... Yeah. How does that look to you? I mean, that looks way better to me. You want it ahead of Missing the Boat? I want it. Love Heist ahead of Missing the Boat? I want it. I might...

[00:24:01] Yeah, I think Love Heist... I like this. I like it. Let's deal with Castle and then I'm willing to come back. Let's deal with Castle, which is somewhere in... I know we love Brennan. I know we love Brennan. We do. Guys, this is a real bad movie. This is tough. It's a real bad movie. I mean, it's not maybe that bottom part. They made a triangle. They made a triangle. I mean... And they decided on what they're going to make for their thing an hour beforehand. Yeah. It's a tough movie. Yeah. All right. Let me ask you this. I would have it ahead of season to blossom.

[00:24:31] That's what I was going to ask. I was thinking the same thing actually. So we can... Our boy Brennan can escape the dumpster fire. We can put six down there where it belongs. Yes. Six down at dumpster fire. Yeah. Okay. So that's not bad. Okay. Let's deal... So we're all in agreement on dumpster fire? I think so. Okay. Which is romance at Hope Ranch, still the last, then a royal setting, a Philly to Philly with love. A Philly with love. A Philly cheesesteak with love. A Philly with love. Sugar and vice, and then best served cold, both Hannah Swinson's back to back. Yeah.

[00:25:01] Where they belong. It looks like we really have it out for what's her name? Hannah Swinson? No. Allison Sweetie. How am I? She's half of the dumpster fire. Oh, no. I mean, good luck convincing me otherwise. Just saying. And then a... What is it? A Season to Blossom? A Season to Blossom. Okay. All right. I like that, I think. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

[00:25:31] I... Yeah, I don't really want Two for Tea in the Top Ten or Love and Mahjong, but... Can I just... I'm sorry. These movies are really bad. So I... Can I just ask one thing really quick? Please do. Before we move on from Dumpster Fire. Yeah. I keep looking at Love on the Amazon, and I wonder if it should be in Dumpster Fire. I mean... I wonder if Castle of Our Own and A Season to Blossom should move ahead of it. Oh, that's interesting. No, everything...

[00:25:58] Everything in the bottom two categories should be in Dumpster Fire. I like... What you're saying is Castle should move ahead of Love on the Amazon? And Season to Blossom. No. Okay. I would be fine with Castle moving ahead of Love on the Amazon, yes. Season to Blossom, no. The Dump Bloomsider is the worst, worst. Oh my goodness, it's bad. But I could do a flop there. I'll flop it. Let's just see how... Yeah, let's say, let's bump these decks. Yeah, let's bump the decks.

[00:26:27] Okay, so that leaves a star... I can't believe you guys have that Stars movie as you have it. I would have that last in that category. That's a fun time. Yeah, but we can't anymore. We can't. There's nothing we can have. I can move Castle one more. Yeah, sure. Now we're talking. Really? You're the only one that liked that movie. You're literally the only reason that movie... You just keep wincing. That movie should be down there with the ranch, and you know it. Oh man, I don't know. I want to go back and listen. What did Brian do to get the Stars Between Us ahead of Love on the Amazon?

[00:26:56] I probably made a real weird deal. Because you loved... You have Stars Between Us high. Yeah. It was like number one on your list. Yeah, you loved that movie. Something crazy like that. And so we threw you a bone. The news hits were funny. They were nerding out. It was good writing. Oh, he's got his notes. It wasn't good. I want to go back to the ranking episode though. Everything you said was a long one. Just because you said it doesn't make it true. I want to go back and listen to... They were not funny. They weren't funny. I want to go back and listen to the ranking episode

[00:27:25] and try to figure out how you did this. I think this is as good as we're going to get here. Because if the rules weren't the rules, I would move the Stars Between Us down, blossom up, but leave Love on the Amazon where it is, but the rules are what they are. That astronomy movie somehow got... The only thing I can hope is that the next batch of movies are good and that moves that down to dumpster fire. Sure. Because we can still... If the next batch of movies are really good... Yeah, for those of you that are wondering, the Christmas and July movies will be included in the Christmas ranking episode. Duh.

[00:27:54] And we talked long and hard about that. Yeah, we did. The committee had a full... But if the movies are really good, then 2 for T gets out of the top 10, Love and Mahjong gets out of the top 10, and then Stars Between Us and Love on the Amazon go to dumpster fire. So that would be my best case. And I will say this. There's some people in the chat talking about how Nellie's too high, Lost in Paralless is too low. So for me, you know, after the Subway movie, Nellie, Missing the Boat, Love Heist, Texas Two-Step, Lost in Paradise are all kind of in the mix there.

[00:28:24] I don't really care. They're all in the mix to me to where I don't... Those five movies all rank the same to me. But I thought Nellie Knows Mysteries was a solid mystery, and I can't remember. I just thought it was really, really good. Yeah. All right, let's tackle Standard Feels real quick. Currently we have it with The Greek Isle, then Kentucky Roses, then whatever that is called, The Haunted Harmony Mystery, The True Justice Two, and then Because of Cupid. I feel... This is all new movies aside from Because of Cupid. Right.

[00:28:54] I feel good about this, I think. Yeah. I mean, if I did anything, I would put Because of Cupid in the middle and move the two mysteries up. But I tend to like those a little bit more. But I... What did we say it was? The novelty bump? Yeah, unique bump. Unique bump. And if The Cupid was better, then that movie... 100%. It's a top thought. It's such a great idea for a movie. But that's where casting comes into play. Like, not that the guy did a bad job,

[00:29:21] but it wasn't like what we needed out of a Cupid, I don't think. No. So are we okay leaving this? I'm good. I'm good there. Okay, big fun movie six. We have two for tea. Love and Mahjong. I'll be seeing you. A little piano music. And Lost in Paradise is what we have right now. I mean, I... That's as good as we're gonna get. I'm fine with it in that order. There are some real bad ones this year, man. Holy cow. So the chat is mad that Love and Paradise moved down? Is that what I'm hearing? Lost in Paradise. Well, the chat... Yeah, thank you. I mean, it could just be one or two people,

[00:29:50] but like, I think there's a lot of love for Love Heist, and there's a lot of love for Texas Two-Step, and a lot of love for Lost in Paradise, and not as much for Nellie Knows Mysteries. One last chomp. Right into the mic. One last chomp. Okay. We're gonna teach them how to salt and pry, salt and pry. Fine, let's play with this. Let's just see how we feel about it. Let's play with Love Heist moving up and Texas Two-Step moving up,

[00:30:19] so now the top three is the way to you, Love Heist and Texas Two-Step. We had Nellie Knows Mysteries, too, for a reason, though. I... Here's what I will say is... It was a good mystery. Is those are the three best... And their chemistry. Air quote, Hallmark movies. But Nellie Knows Mysteries, there's something about what they did, and the whodunit, like, any time the mystery... They double back on the butler. The fact that I remember that whole plot, and then the sun actually, like... Yeah.

[00:30:47] Like, you just don't get mysteries that good on the Hallmark channel, typically. Yeah. So, like, I think for those who are not mystery fans, I see, like... Mm-hmm. The three best air quote Hallmark movies are those three that we have at the top right now. The way to you love them. I think Nellie Knows Mysteries is a better... I enjoyed it, personally, and I think it's a better movie than those two movies. And I think Brian's with me, so I think you need to move it back. Mm-hmm. All right. I do think so. It deserves it.

[00:31:17] My problem is that I think Lost in Paradise should be bumped up. Because those six movies, I just think there's a clear delineation. But then we've got to bump up everything else one. Or we've got to make it even somewhere else. Because then we've got to take it out of Dumpster Fire, and so we don't need to do that because there needs to be six in Dumpster Fire. I think that's right. Yeah. All right. Although, you know what, though? I will say that there, to me, there is a separation between

[00:31:46] Church and State and the Hannah Swenson movies. Mm-hmm. I could potentially see Hannah Swenson starting Dumpster Fire, moving Blossom up to bad, then moving Caught by Love up. and then I move Because of Cupid up? Yeah. No. Okay. You won't? No. I can't have Because of Cupid in the big fun maybe six category, especially when Season of Blossom's a bad movie. This is what we, I think what we have to do, personally. Okay.

[00:32:16] All right. Are we locking it in? Is it locked in? All right. I'm thrilled, Brian. You're not, you didn't say lock. Right. You didn't say lock. So, sadly, we're not locked. Lost in Paradise ahead of Missing the Boat is still in my mind, but... Well, we can't do that. I know. Can't do it. It's a problem. That's locked from the previous one. We can't bump ducks on that one. We threw that key away. Yeah. I swallowed it. The other thing is that you want Lost in Paradise in real movie territory. I think so. You might get there. Yeah, we might get there eventually. You might get there, depending on the batch of movies

[00:32:46] that we get. Might be bumping decks soon. Stay tuned. We still got August, September, and a couple of hours of October. So, we still got plenty of movies ahead of us. Lock it. And so, there's still a world where Lost in Paradise moves up into real movie territory. Gotta have hope. So, here's what we have from worst to best. Here we go. Romance at Hope Ranch, royal setting, to Philly with love, sugar and vice, best served cold, a season to blossom. What a bottom six. Oof.

[00:33:16] Love on the Amazon, stars between us, castle of our own, a Melbourne match, and caught by love. The Greek Isle, Kentucky Roses, Haunted Harmony, True Justice to Deuce, and Because of Cupid. Two for Tea, Love and Mahjong, I'll Be Seeing You, A Little Park Music, and Love. Lost in Paradise. I keep wanting to say love. It's a homework movie. It should be love.

[00:33:43] And then, in real movie territory, our top five movies of the year so far, Missing the Boat, Texas Two-Step, The Love Heist, Nelly Knows Mysteries, and The Way to You. The Way to You. Pretty good list. Yeah. I like this. Yeah. Good list. I feel good about this. Bad movies, good list. Bad movies, good list. I'm going to save it. Save it. I'm going to save it, and then we will do this again right before the holiday season starts. And we will do it. We will do it. We will do it. 100%. We will do it. We'll be done.

[00:34:13] We will either do it right before the holiday season or that first week where it's slow. Or we come back to the new year. No, no, no. I want to say last year we did it the week after the first movie because it was slow going to start the season. Yeah, that's right. We will get it done. We should just do it during the marathon. We should. We should just do it during the marathon. We should just do it during the marathon. Every time we say that, it just takes forever. We did a preview episode that never ended. We literally stopped it. It was going so long. It never ended. I don't know. One last job. All right.

[00:34:42] We, the three of us are going to be back on Saturday with our preview show. Yeah, man. Five movies, two themes. Two themes, one preview show. One preview show. All of it right here. Until then, it'll be the first one. You want to be the first one. Very good. Dead coming. Dead coming. What happened? I'm out of practice. I was starting to deck the hallmark. Ow! And I just hit my finger on the tack. Deck the hallmark is the brand. Deck the hallmark.com. Add deck the hallmark on the socials. Five star rating. Brand with jam plus dot com.

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