The Plot Christmas Forgot

It's that time of year, the one where you decorate your house, bake fabulous goodies and sip hot cocoa while watching a holiday movie. The other night, I had tucked in the littles and did what every parent does after they tucked in their littles, promptly plopped on the couch and let out a huge sigh of relief. Tim and I wanted to veg and turn on a good Christmas flick, and that's when I came to this staggering conclusion: Christmas movies are all the same. Sure there are the classics, like It's a Wonderful Life and White Christmas, and, of course, Home Alone. But I stay away from anything made from The Hallmark Channel, the Family Channel, or any other spiritual Television Network for one reason. Because every storyline from these heartwarming movies, always seem to fall under a short list of tired plots and even more "tired" actors.

Faulty Christmas Plotlines:
 * The main character has to go back to the small town that they grew up in against their will or better judgement, but eventually ends up falling in love with/saving the town.

* There is a failed relationship between the character and their ailing father, mother, sister or brother that a new relationship/ a kid ends up fixing.

*Somebody gets dumped on or before Christmas and hires someone to play their boyfriend/girlfriend and eventually falls in love with them.

*A kid's mother/father is dead and all they ask Santa for is a new parent, which, of course, the kid ends up getting.

*A groundhog day scenario where a person is forced to re-live Christmas day over and over again until their heart is in the right place again.

*A scrooge scenario where the character is a really bad person and eventually ends up being good.

*A wedding is planned for Christmas day, but ends up getting foiled with off the wall things. But eventually someone has a wedding and it ends with the camera panning out while everyone looks at the falling snow.

*A Grumpy old man befriends a kid and ends up not being AS grumpy anymore. 

*Santa Claus goes missing and an average Joe has to save Christmas

*Someone who didn't know they were related to Santa Claus ends up taking his place and changing their "evil ways" to become the new Santa.   


Try it next time you're wanting to sit down and watch a Christmas flick. It's really quite entertaining. Heck, some of them even have 2 or 3 of the plotlines listed. All I'm saying is, be original people. This kind of thing gets old and boring and I have better things to do than waste my time watching something I've watched one hundred times before. Got any plotlines to add to the list? Send them to me, or comment away!