Woot, a nice Christmas movie again! The one time of year when Hollywood stuff is happy and family and romantic, just like we like it.
It’s on Netflix, should be available everywhere in the world, and I have already seen it and am very excited to see it again.
At 8am Chicago time, I will put up an “and PLAY” comment on this post and we will comment along from there.
dontcallitbollywood 
Kiss kisss kisssssssssssss
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Their initial kiss was a great kiss!
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Maybe Nick and James should get together!
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I feel like they’re both too good for Peter
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Awwwwwwwwwww, this happy kiss ending is almost winning me back over to Peter. Also, I want to go to the nice plant store run by the nice gay couple with the dog.
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What happened to Nick’s family 😦
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There was a tossed off comment about his Mom dying early in the film. But I also read that exchange as a very subtle indication that his family rejected him for being gay.
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AWWWW NOOOOO 😥 Now I’m so happy he gets to be closer to Peter’s family!
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YES! And have love and support and everything he didn’t have before.
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Lol he already wrote the book!!!???
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While shirtless! In bed! Like you do.
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I gotta admit I was teary like the mom for that final scene.
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And, END CREDITS SONG!!!! Because this is secretly an Indian movie.
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Hehe I feel there would be a lot more drama and plot twists.. maybe even a bar fight
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Oh man, Nick fighting to defend Peter would be aWESOME!!! Like in Humpty Sharma, where the sensible choice isn’t as passionate about defending him as his secret True Love.
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It’s a great end credit song!
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OMG, it’s the title song. I just got it.
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So great to see a non-angsty ending to a film about gay men! FINALLY, Thanks for sharing this one!
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Yes! Last year there was a Lesbian holiday movie, but my friend watched it and said it was all angsty and miserable. Versus this one, which is PERFECT and HAPPY.
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Ahhhhhh. That was sooooooooooooooo nice. And now I am going to finish sewing presents, and then go on errands and mail them.
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The Kevin title song singer is the Mom’s real life husband! https://ew.com/movies/how-dan-finnerty-ended-up-single-all-the-way/
Thanks for the belated watch-a-long
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Awwwwwww!!!! So, theoretically, he would be available for the sequel to be James’ love interest?
On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 7:05 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Love in a small town is rough, especially gay love. EXCEPT, I have a lesbian friend of 50ish age, whose long term partner dumped her when she moved up here. ANd she immediately got into relationship with woman. ANd it was a terrible relationship (she wasn’t herself around her), I was so happy when they broke up. Though it was interesting, as they both had gray hair and were lesbians everyone meeting them assumed they were a long term married couple. The assumptions we make. She then declared she was going to be single for a while, and it lasted like two months. She’s in another relationship with another woman, who I haven’t met, yet. So I guess gay love is hard in small towns for everyone but her!
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Have you noticed there are people who are just always in a relationship? Like Paul McCartney? Or my uncle? there’s like a radar about them, no matter how unlikely the circumstances, they WILL find a new partner within months of losing the old one.
On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 9:23 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Yes, but I’m not actually sure that’s healthy. I wish my friend had stayed single longer.
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White Christmas Trees are a retro-cool thing – people post pictures of theirs on social media, and if they are super cool they recreate a whole early sixties living room and post pictures of themselves in retro clothes in front of their retro trees in their retro living rooms. People just love to post pictures of themselves and their trees:
Tree post: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10227643094651468&set=gm.4981995508477467&type=3
Modern person in front of tree trying to look old:
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=4921808767880413&set=p.4921808767880413&opaqueCursor=AbrriXye36cY87-x1TCQ0zIKbYH7SvG5Nv6_wtJ4zw1OPt0gYU3pGgQadANus2KSLglSokyxYRXyc3e7TUcqaO2MxolVQ-Q2mf_EkbFVnR9pqtSAO7T9FGrO3SS5aQZHSlvqrcIE0mvj85PIYLOyUeYAY-EtSjBsm-TGFbIRYPR4myz7_LjgRNJIFLc1Y89PcBSFg2XQk14cttQqGskwWQ18b7nd5IiYAJPcnWdxvkbfIDGlzxjZjLSVKLv5S2nERs27eYFMedoPEms6shKYt1WB4heBQhbuF-UD70k6FpGlQRk8ikM7DA1EnIackRKDqU5UkxCsAd4_HgKC7ynVkGWIAcFJyyCdIRp6qvPBo64EvoP9EUdSZXZWF1q_DxwRDiXVmSZ9BSN-vAehAzGI0pPHbwWaxVotRolrW4n7sMM8LlPIkXqHNNzxwnbEH0kvw8UAFvzn6JiNmrD_P8HzpQl3ers-w8UZINV2hq7wbqst9TzSArl9odcRtt-p77QRq-Jt3FE6aXcLDJ8eVA7okqGGDGqijebBcQoKKQtc6zdlBQ7lTY5FqGnZO6qhBqEo2MrL2Fq1kODN4aFiEe_squhP
Where to buy the cool trees:
https://www.atomic-ranch.com/home-decor/seasonal/10-mcm-faux-christmas-trees/
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There is a pink Christmas tree just sitting out in a yard, unlit, right on a main street near me. Soooooooooooo tempted to jut still it one night. Clearly I love it more than they do!
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 12:46 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Baby had a super long nap the other day, and I used it to watch most of this movie. Just finished and definitely don’t regret it. Somehow stereotypical gay culture with its love of camp and musical theater fits very well with our tastes here. Though I want to commend the film for the fact that most of the over-the-top highlights were actually not courtesy of the gays.
Do we think that someone on the staff was familiar with Indian film?
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Yes! It’s the simplest thing ever, it’s a family love triangle that happens to be gay and you don’t need drama and angst, just do it “straight” as it were. With very dramatic mothers and aunts.
Did you ever finish What’s Cooking? I just watched if for a film discussion group I am leading, and it is SO good.
On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 2:23 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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We watched it all through the terrible scary ending where the film takes ages to show us that the worst didn’t happen. So is that how you managed to be done with Christmas? Reminding yourself that if you deal with stress by preparing the perfect holiday, you’ll just get a broken table for your troubles?
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So glad you finished it! And yes, that ending is way WAY too scary. Also, obviously, the lesson of the film is that if you just work even HARDER on making the perfect holiday, none of those bad things would have happened.
On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 11:07 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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And your film group obviously agrees with you on this.
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Actually, my film group (made up of grumpy old ladies from church) decided the message was that families are awful and we should all avoid them.
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Well, I can see how the film might at least reinforce that notion.
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