The Christmas Classic (Paramount+ - 2023) ft. Alonso Duralde

[00:00:00] Hi, I'm Brandon. I love Showtime Christmas movies. I'm Dan and I despise Showtime Christmas movies. I'm Alonso and some movies put the minus in Paramount Plus and this. Deck The Hallmark Podcast Deck The Hallmark, it's his podcast. All along, my friend toast his podcast.

[00:00:24] All along, we hope you like this jolly podcast. Wow, hello everybody. We're still waiting on the long cut of all of Alonso's intros, but that's one of the classics. I mean, just in all time.

[00:00:43] Great to be here another Monday, another Christmas movie that we didn't get to in 2013. How was the cruise? Could you, ten words or less, tell me about the cruise. I did not throw up and had a good time.

[00:01:02] I think we lost an end in there, but it's okay. I did not throw up. No, you're right. You're right. You're right. Had a good time. Great. Man, stop selling. I know. Yeah. Clearly not sunburned either. So if we go back next year, I'm coming.

[00:01:15] You've heard it here first. Wow. If we go back next year, I will be there on the boats on the boat on a boat. That would be a lot of fun. A lot of fun. Yeah. Alonso, how are you? How are things out in California?

[00:01:29] No, don't call it that. Here we go. Don't call it that. Here in Cali, things are great. No, no, it's good. It's good. You know, January is not my favorite month of the year, but these little weekly sojourns into holiday movies, you know.

[00:01:47] Sure about that though now, huh? Well, the discussing with you guys. In general. Holiday movies. General. Not necessarily the movies themselves, but this fellowship that we're having. You also get to see movies in the theater like Night Swim. You know, which was not terrible. Really? Yeah.

[00:02:05] Dude, I'm happy to do that. My biggest concern with Night Swim is that it's PG-13. Yeah, that needs to be all right. When I saw the trailer, I'm like, yeah, let's go. And then I see PG-13 and I'm like, no. Yeah. You know what?

[00:02:18] I'll tell you, I really, I most admire like the first 30 to 45 minutes because it's almost like somebody asked the director, how scary can you make a pool with nothing but like lighting and editing and music and you know, like, like no sort of special effects or whatever.

[00:02:35] And it's pretty scary. There's a chance I hyperventilate while watching. Oh man, yeah, brain is a light water and he went on a cruise. So that's impressive. I know. I did not Night Swim though. I'll tell you that one.

[00:02:45] We also, Alonzo, I got to see the cover of your book. Like you posted it on the socials. Hollywood Pride. It looks amazing. Can't wait. And you can pre-order that now from what I understand. You absolutely can. Yeah. Coming out May 14th from TCM and running press.

[00:03:02] I'm very excited about it. And yeah, I'm sure you'll be hearing more about it from me as the year goes on. Oh for sure. And right around your birthday there. That's a nice little bit. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, my birthday week. It's very nice.

[00:03:14] I had a birthday too guys. It was a lot of fun. I was on the. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. You want a cruise? I sent you something to the cruise and you know that. The captain came down to the dinner.

[00:03:26] You're acting like the captain of the ship left the vessel. He was manning and he walked to your table. He took his hands off the giant wheel. There was a freaking sparkling champagne bottle. You're acting like I did nothing. No, you're right. This is unbelievable. You're right.

[00:03:44] You're right. You only turned 12 once. That's the end of your brand. That's exactly right. Speaking of really quickly, we're about to talk about the Christmas Classic. And if you do want a dose of Christmas, homework is doing it all year. Movies and mysteries every Thursday,

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[00:04:31] I think we've put it off. You had long enough coming out. Not available on phylo and that's a selling point. That's true. That's exactly right. Oh my gosh. The Christmas Classic originally aired on a guest showtime. November 5th is what I'm seeing. I don't know man.

[00:04:47] It originally did that and here we go. The movie kicks off with a cartoon of someone drunkenly singing Christmas karaoke. Turns out it's Elizabeth and the video of the incident has gone viral. She is heading to her hometown to try and buy a local ski lodge.

[00:05:08] She is hoping for a quick sale so that she doesn't have to run into her family. But Randy who is running the place now makes it pretty clear that he is not interested in selling especially if it's going to stay private.

[00:05:20] That's when she says what if it doesn't stay private? What if it's semi-private? And that's when he's like, oh think about it. And join me as I cut down trees and think about it. She is bummed to bump into her sister but acts like this was the plan.

[00:05:39] Came to surprise you and the entire family. And she is actually going to stay for Christmas. So I guess she's committed now. And everyone is excited to see her until her sister sees the video of the viral karaoke.

[00:05:55] Apparently at one point in the video talks about how crazy her sister is. Well that doesn't go well but everyone else in the family seems to love this video. They think it's a hoot and a holler.

[00:06:06] While she's there, she wants to beat her sister in the Christmas classic. We all know it, we all love it. It is a series of ski slope related games that ends in a 1v1 race.

[00:06:23] And Randy wants her to win too because apparently her sister has won nine straight years. And so that's two men and offers to help Elizabeth train. Elizabeth, the fiancee has a fiancee, they're in business together. He's the one that's really pushing for this sale.

[00:06:41] He ends up showing up and he is the worst. Especially as Elizabeth starts to thaw to all the weirdness of the town and of her family. Just before the final competition, Randy tells Elizabeth that he thinks her fiance should kick rocks.

[00:07:00] Then her sister says that she doesn't want to try to fix their relationship since Elizabeth is just going to leave again. Like she always does. Her sister does end up winning the competition and no one is happy about it because she's just bragging and going,

[00:07:16] I did it, I did it! And that is when her husband freaks out on her and one of the meanest freak outs I've ever heard on television just absolutely goes off on her.

[00:07:29] Then Elizabeth breaks up with her fiancee and in the process of doing that, he outs her. She does what? Outs, outs, there it is. I thought you said he outs her. Outs, good gosh.

[00:07:44] Her about the reason why she's actually there and that's when everybody realizes that she didn't even want to see the family.

[00:07:51] She admits that all of this is true but after being home for a week, she fell back in love with home and in a twist has fallen in love with Randy.

[00:08:01] The next morning Randy shows up but I guess he's down with this plan of love and sings an I Love You 2 version of Jingle Bells and they kiss. Then the entire family dances and makes up I guess cut to 10 years previous.

[00:08:20] 10 years ago for no reason and now my friends was the Christmas classic. We did it, no, no, Brandon not explained that last part right.

[00:08:31] To the naked eye would appear that there's no reason but if you do literally all the legwork for them, there is a reason for that flashback and it still sucks. But there is a reason. What is the reason?

[00:08:44] The way I understand it, that is the first viral video. So she went viral again and the first one was her running into her family and then ruining Christmas. It's the payoff to the joke about the ski accident that happened to her earlier in life.

[00:09:03] It's air quotes if you're not watching on Philo there, yes. Or what I like to call a better start to the movie. If you just start with that, that's probably better but we don't want to get ahead of ourselves. Maybe we all loved it.

[00:09:19] We'll find out on the other side of the break here at Deck the Hallmark. Welcome back everybody. Excited to be here talking about the Christmas classic. Showtime, Paramount Plus, that weird combo. Let's break it down. Alonzo, Christmas Classic. Is it a Christmas classic in your hearts?

[00:09:47] Oh my gosh. Well let me just start off with Island Christmas. Hey goodness, I had just gotten it out of my head. Yes, I know. Welcome back. Oh my goodness. This movie, I don't even know where to begin.

[00:10:04] People think, oh anybody could write one of these movies and no, no you can't. As it turns out, there is actually some craft involved in this. And what's really depressing about this is that I think Mel and Ackerman and Ryan Hansen are both really talented.

[00:10:20] I really enjoyed them. And other things, she was on Billions, he was on Party Down and Veronica Mars. Party Down, Veronica Mars, yeah, absolutely. You know, and they have now perpetrated two of the worst holiday movies I've ever seen.

[00:10:33] They did a dreadfully unfunny comedy called Friends Giving a couple years ago. Oh I'm not seeing that. Oh don't. Wow. And now this, and this movie is so painfully terrible and shoddily thrown together and feels so cynically like,

[00:10:52] well they're buying these Christmas movies, I guess we'll just do this. And it feels like it has no regard for how these can be good. It just feels like, well, we have to have the city girl who's mean and then she comes to the small town,

[00:11:08] love the guy, and bada bada bing. Those yokels will eat this right up. And it's just hot garbage. This movie is terrible, terrible, terrible. I was reminded of the first episode of Christmas Morning of 2024 where Scott told a terrible joke

[00:11:25] and his glass half full was like, well they gotta get better from here. So all I can think is like these Mondays have to get better from here. They have to. They have to. This is the movie I'm gonna show to people that are like,

[00:11:40] Hallmark movies are just so squeaky clean. They're just, it's just not, no. Just because you add cursing and people being mean to each other for seemingly no reason doesn't make it better. This movie, I actively disliked it.

[00:11:58] In fact, I started this movie, I didn't know anything about it. I thought it would just be another, you know, like a unicorn Christmas. I started with my kids in the room and I quickly realized all my steak has been baked.

[00:12:09] This movie, it boned me out for a couple reasons. One, just not a good Christmas movie. But two, I just, I don't like, why? I didn't like the way that they just interacted with each other. I don't like the way that they talked to each other.

[00:12:28] Having somebody, no matter like to me, like no matter how, like if Dan and I's working relationship was so toxic and one day I just blow up on him. If it was. If it was. It would, you know, we get along great.

[00:12:45] There is like a way to stand up to somebody that is like good and empowering and then there's just downright being nasty. This guy freaking out on his wife after she won the 10th thing was quite the freak out and everyone's around and it just bummed me out.

[00:13:03] Like I just. That's like of all the things in this movie. There's a lot. I, the character, I disagree with how he handled it, but the character motivation there was as clear probably for me. No, I'm fine. Like again, I'm fine.

[00:13:16] Like that's a conversation needs to be had. I just that, but that's not home. The whole movie is just people being mean to each other. And that's just not a fun bit to me. That actor co-wrote this movie. So he gave himself that moment.

[00:13:28] I just, I just left bummed out. I was just bummed out and I'm glad I didn't see it at Christmas time. Yeah.

[00:13:36] Dana, you know, we last Tuesday, we reviewed a movie called Love on the Right Course, which I think I have an admiration and love and respect for a lot of people involved in that film. I thought it was one of the worst things Hallmarks ever made.

[00:13:51] And that movie is Citizen Kane compared to this movie. This movie broke me. There's a character named Akeem that looks at our leading lady, Maylan Ackerman and says, you're better than this guys. Yes, you are all better than this. Maylan Ackerman and Ryan Hansen.

[00:14:11] I have thoroughly enjoyed both things you are both in. I saw Amy Smart. Amy Smart. Yes. This movie, I thought it was a satire. The first 20 minutes, I'm like, oh they did the meat, they're making fun of a meat cute. They're making fun of buying a lodge.

[00:14:31] They're making fun of all of these things that we see all the time. I'm sure that's going to become evident and clear. It isn't. Hey guys, there's a character named Dick Mountain in this movie. He has 30 minutes of screen time. Brandon mentioned it in his synopsis.

[00:14:48] He didn't mention Dick Mountain. Dick Mountain may have more lines of dialogue than anyone else in the film. Don't worry man, I got a mountain of Dick Mountains in my weight. What? Don't you worry.

[00:15:00] There's a character named Dick Mountain that probably I would wager has more lines in this movie than any other character. It's possible. And I don't know if it's supposed to be a joke or supposed to be a joke about a joke. Either way, it's a failure.

[00:15:15] You didn't win there. This movie is absolutely a disaster. One of the worst I've ever seen. And yeah, just throwing in some B words and A words doesn't make it any better. And that doesn't necessarily mean it makes it worse. It just, that isn't fixed.

[00:15:35] The underlying problem which is this is a bad movie. It was really terrible. Some of all feels. So we're talking about one of the movie games feels Alonzo. There was real snow. There was. Yeah. I'll give him that. Not enough of it actually. Yeah, only in the slopes.

[00:15:55] Yeah, yeah. Also, I liked, I was amused by the fact that Amy Smart's character makes everything so hot pink and bedazzled that her daughters are all like, goth girls who like, you know, keep drawing pictures of bloody decapitated snowmen and make like, you know, crime scene gingerbread men.

[00:16:20] That made me laugh. That was it. Alonzo, you mentioned Island Christmas and there's a lot that we could talk about with Island Christmas. Sure that we will. I will say there is something about it that grew on me. Stop it. Oh, man. You are indefensible.

[00:16:43] Daniel, he went on a cruise, you know, it's an island spirit. The idea of waking up early, dancing to a Christmas song. I'm not against it entirely. My feels is that I don't think I think our work relationship is becoming talk.

[00:17:02] And this movie has broken both of us in very different ways. Island Christmas. Oh, that song, that God forsaken song was just living rent free in my head.

[00:17:17] And like so many, so many terrible things in this movie like, like running gags, you hate it at the first time and then they just keep repeating it. And you never, they never go hard enough to make it funny or go light enough to make it endearing.

[00:17:30] It just kind of sits there. Oh no, absolutely not. Island Christmas. Let's say cruise break. We'll come back and we'll get to the way of life and our business choices. Hey, what's up? How are you? I'm having a good time. Super cool.

[00:17:56] There's no white what's in this movie. Oh, but let's see what we can scrounge up. It's time for the way what's and I'll start with you Alonzo. Well, one thing I discovered early on is that sincere is not really in Ryan Hansen's wheelhouse.

[00:18:10] Like he does a lot of things very well as a comedic actor, but no, not not sincerity. Um, okay. So Island Christmas involves dancing in the yard, blaring music, which I'm sure the neighbors love at 5am. That's right.

[00:18:29] It's 5am in December and the sun is at least a little bit out. It's the brightest. The sun is high in the sky. The sun's not a little out. The sun's all the way out. It should be like pitch black, you know, so like that that was okay.

[00:18:43] Sure. Um, Dan to your point about I thought this was a satire when her fiance from the big city shows up a he has a pony tail. Yeah, classic. Which is like what decade are we dealing with here?

[00:18:57] Big city C kind of guy and and B doesn't want her to work after they get married when they both work for his dad. Like again, like what are we even doing here? Yeah.

[00:19:14] Um, the whole movie makes this big deal about oh, the Christmas classic, the Christmas classic, you know, I win every year. It's a major thing. Dick Mountain is televising this entire thing. There are three competitions with two contestants. Yeah.

[00:19:30] Like, you know, they already mentioned to the very end that their sisters, but it's like literally where is everyone else? I literally just have down what is this competition? They literally don't explain it. They explain as they go along.

[00:19:45] What I love about it is they could have easily made this just a ski race, just a ski race. And instead of what they do is it's not that at all. It is a get speed and hit down the snowmen. And that's that's the big competition.

[00:20:02] Also a lights competition. There's also a sledding part, but it doesn't count. But we're doing it like competition sneaks up on you that it's part of it. I didn't know that it was. I mean, Dick Mountain was there. Of course. Dick Mountain is there. No, the Christmas classic.

[00:20:19] I mean, yeah, so many questions like why is if the ski lodge owner is going to make her win the thing if he's even going to sell? Why is he then also the judge? Like there's just so much unpacking that has to be done there.

[00:20:34] At one point when when Island Christmas happens and she and the fiance are sleeping on the couch, he's like, I can't believe there isn't a hotel around here. Why would you want to buy a ski resort in an area that has no hotels? That's a great question.

[00:20:51] Yeah, yeah. That's a throwaway line, but it's like it's a real bit. It opens up a real pit of despair. What are we doing here? The romance between Mal and Ackerman and Ryan Hansen is so out of nowhere.

[00:21:04] Like they're barely business partners by the end of this movie, much less like the love of each other's life that has not been established at all. It is worse than whatever the Blue Ridge Mountain movie remember? Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas. Yes, and Benjamin Ayers. Yeah, like what?

[00:21:23] Y'all are in love now? Where did that come from? What scenes were that left on the floor? Yeah, and then all the big emotional confrontations at the end seem to come out of nowhere because they drop early on her whole thing of like, I'm not even bringing luggage.

[00:21:38] I'm in and out. I don't want to see anybody. I want to deal with anybody, but they drop it so fast and she seems so genuinely like pleased to see like her parents and stuff that when they bring it back in act three or like, oh, right.

[00:21:51] I forgot that was a thing where she didn't want to. Yeah, this movie is like, is that even a hot mess? It is a tepid mess. That's right. I got a few.

[00:22:01] One is just a little one, but the family with the kids they have a schedule that is very laid out and apparently it's always on a sheet of paper. And they say it's normally laminated. Why is why?

[00:22:22] Why but also why is this one not laminating something every night? You're not eliminating all the night, but why not this time? I don't know. But whatever. It gets you too busy training for Christmas classic.

[00:22:34] I cannot imagine a world where I would share a literal couch, not a pull out. No, not a little couch, a literal couch with another person. I cannot. I would yes all night. I would sleep on the floor. I would rather die. I would sleep outside.

[00:22:54] I'd rather die. I barely fit on a couch by myself. I don't like sleeping on Queens. Wait a minute, there's got to be a better way to say that. Mattresses. We just made Alonzo's year. Let's just cut and print it. I have a new ringtone.

[00:23:12] You don't have to be so homophobic. Come on. Gosh, I would. Unbelievable. The two is so perfect. We've got it. Lee Hoda, where are you at? Alonzo is here to shred. He's here to shred. You've got to shred and I don't sleep on Queens. He's got to.

[00:23:31] It's your weight. What I agree with 100%. I barely fit on a couch by myself. No one is sharing the couch with me. This is not a new couch. This is not a new couch. This couch is from somebody's grandma's living room miserable.

[00:23:45] They're not even head to footing it. They are spooning it. Full spoons. No way. Erin hasn't seen the movie and she's over here mad. She can't believe it. This movie ends, well, it ends with this 10 years earlier bit, whatever, throw that away.

[00:24:01] Before, I was like, I'm going to be a big fan of this movie. 10 years earlier bit, whatever, throw that away before it actually ends with after the freak out they end up dancing all together Island Christmas and the sister comes out.

[00:24:19] They hug and one of them says best Christmas ever. That's a big one. Insane. I've seen it. We've all seen it. We've seen this Christmas. This Christmas is so. No way. No way was the best Christmas ever. Last but not least, I mean, obviously, Dick Mountain.

[00:24:40] So Dick Mountain, this bit starts and I go, I can't believe they did that. Yeah. This bit continues and by the end I said, I cannot believe they did that. The amount of Dick Mountain jokes in this movie is insane.

[00:25:00] Even middle schoolers by the individual are like, okay. All right. I'm not. You wore that one out. I could not believe it. You are right. I do think per line red, Dick Mountain is the leader in this movie.

[00:25:17] He's he talks so much and there's a famous LA weatherman named Johnny Mounted. But clearly this is the do go for it. That was a joke here. And they go for it and they go for it and they go for it. Wild, wild.

[00:25:30] And I said it as somebody who has a podcast that has, you know, a handful of reviews that say that we're middle schoolers. We had the humor middle schoolers and I would like to say, you say we're the human middle school.

[00:25:42] No, we have the humor of you were okay. Yeah, which is like fair. But we were out on the even we were out by by the, I don't know, doesn't pun. I was out. Yeah. You guys have taken a lot of big ones.

[00:25:58] There's a few that you did leave on the table. First of all, the mom in this movie was on set for maybe a day. She disappears for long stretches of this movie so long. I thought she was dead. She is never dancing at Island Christmas.

[00:26:17] She doesn't come out there. She couldn't make it that day. And then she gives this big speech at the end where maybe if you were around more mom, this wouldn't have been a problem. I couldn't believe it. This mom is absentee.

[00:26:29] We never get any reason why she's gone viral again. It's just like, well, she's done it again. She's gone viral. Oh, you mean tell me she's the only that's the only video you can find of drunk karaoke singing at Christmas time. What?

[00:26:45] That what people are famously sober when they karaoke. It's not like she's Mr. Beast. She was going to record this so I can go viral. Like this is some grainy video in a bar of her being drunk and singing Christmas carols.

[00:27:06] Maybe it was an actual cartoon like in the credits. Yeah. I just, I couldn't believe it. There's this a small one. They show a weather man in this movie on TV who is predicting snow. And I did not take this to the tape, but by my visual

[00:27:20] memory, the future cast of predicting snow, all of the temperatures are even in between 36 and 41 degrees. I don't know read a meteorology book just once in your life. I don't know. Um, I, you know, we do a lot. Occasionally we'll get to mention a movie in

[00:27:39] comparison to another movie. And it always is so great to be like how'd Citizen Kane get brought up or how blah, blah, blah. I have always held that Rocky for has the most amount of screen time devoted to montages of any

[00:27:53] movie that I've ever seen in my life. It's they do montages from other movies. They're like, remember what happened in Rocky three when they ran on the beach? We're going to do a montage of that in Rocky four, but we may have a new winner in the clubhouse.

[00:28:08] There are two dancing montages in this movie not scenes where they're dancing. There's a hundred of those. There are two times where they show a montage together of different people dancing and then Christmas. There is a training montage and there is a

[00:28:29] where Malin Ackerman takes her nieces out for a day montage and that one lasts exceedingly too long by every standard of montage. It is, there's a solid 10 to 12 minutes here that are just we don't have anything to do. Let's just follow Malin Ackerman down the ski

[00:28:47] slope with a GoPro. Yeah, yeah. Just the entire or Malin Ackerman stunt double probably. But like it is just one long uninterrupted shot like okay, we're skiing now. Yeah. And lastly, I have not I have not seen any evidence to support why this event

[00:29:04] would be televised even locally. None. None. This is a televised event at least locally. And I just the play the city doesn't even have any hotels. It has its own TV station. Get out of here. No way. So Christmas classic Christmas classes. The rules are clear as crystal.

[00:29:23] That's right. It's time for show. What show what time showtime showtime showtime no time like showtime is where we wonder what could be paramounting questions. Okay, that's good. Alonzo any questions that you're still wondering about? No, because I don't ever want to think about this again.

[00:29:44] But I will to repeat what we've kind of touched on earlier in the episode. Literally if somebody says like hallmark movies are thrown together or anybody could write one of these or there you just you just stick the change the names and it's the same old

[00:30:00] formula every time show them this thing. And I think you come away with a renewed appreciation of the actual difficulty of getting one of these more so than even like Christmas in Carolina. Like this is just so bananas and inept that I was just appalled on

[00:30:18] behalf of everyone who made it and everyone who had to watch it. I would love to see a side by side comparison of the budget of Christmas in Carolina Christmas classic. I would wager it's 10 times. Yeah, probably I would wager it's absurd. It's exponentially more for this move.

[00:30:36] And here's the crazy thing. I could have seen this in a theater in Los Angeles. It played here for like two or three days. Seeing it on fanningo like do I and that it's going to be on TV somewhere you can just help from the poster. Can't imagine.

[00:30:49] I have a couple one the dad Randy and son-in-law are having a conversation and they go to dad. You were really on top of your roof just shoes bug naked and he goes yep and they all laugh. You know more of that story because

[00:31:10] dad doesn't that's an interesting guy in this movie. He's like he's a southern train transport. The most interesting character by a mile. He's in a different move. He's in a different movie because he's nice. And so just that story would love to hear more about that and I'd

[00:31:27] also just like from a film making perspective why animates the beginning of this great question. Why do that's because the whole thing is it's just one. I just don't get it but to the whole thing is it's a viral video. That's right. Why not show us the video.

[00:31:47] Why do an animated version of a real viral video. Why not just show us the thing didn't get that at all this whole thing. I'm like was that like what is this. It's just a little effect to work of having a male and Ackerman

[00:32:02] perform karaoke was just far too complicated. That show a brief clip of it live later in the movie. But that animated opening cost more than Christmas in Carolina. Yeah. It probably did for no reason. Dan can't wait for a sequel really.

[00:32:19] I mean I think we're all in the same boat there. I know I have no absolutely nothing to I don't want to have this movie with any sort of like questions about any character. Yeah. We did everybody congratulations next week a movie that started on Plex.

[00:32:37] OK and is now gone and is everywhere. It's gone viral. It is on all sources streamers and there's a reason why we are covering it and we'll get to that next week. It is coupled up for Christmas starring Marcus Rosner. Oh yeah. Sorry Marcus Rosner.

[00:32:55] I'm excited about that. For Plex. We'll be back next week with that one until then maybe the first to wish you a Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Deck the Hallmark is a Brable Jam podcast is produced by Aaron Shea. What? For more information on Deck

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